American History

Midterm Review

Early US

History

Civil War

Recon. The West

Industrial Age

Gilded Age

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Early U.S. History

$100 Question

Developed in 1793 by Eli Whitney

Define:

What is…

Cotton Gin

$200 Question

This left the determination of

slavery to be voted on by the state’s

settlers

What is…

Popular Sovereignty

$300 Question

Draws the Mason Dixon line (36, 30) – states above this line are

free states, states below are slave states

What is…

Missouri Compromise

$400 Question

US foreign policy regarding Latin American countries that stated that further efforts by European

nations to colonize lands in North and South American would be taken as acts of aggression, requiring US intervention

What is…

Monroe Doctrine

$500 Question

Supreme Court Case; position was appointed by Adams but refused by Jefferson; ruling states Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional; establishes

judicial review

What is…

Marbury vs. Madison

Civil War

$100 Question

This was a Supreme Court case in 1857 that declared slaves

were “private property”

What is…

Dred Scott Decision

$200 Question

This is the site in which the first

shots of the war were fired

Who are…

Fort Sumter

$300 Question

This man’s actions at Harper’s Ferry were one of the main causes of the

Civil War

What is…

John Brown

$400 Question

The site where Lee and Grant settled the terms regarding the end of the Civil War

Who is…

Appomattox Court House,

Virginia

$500 Question

The Civil War saw the implementation of two

new forms of legislation that had never been part

of the U.S. before

Who is…

Conscription and National Income

Tax

Reconstruction

$100 Question

He was the first African American to serve in the

U.S. Senate

What is…

Hiram Revels

$200 Question

Sherman promised this to freedmen who

moved to vacant lands on the east coast

What is…

40 Acres and a Mule

$300 Question

The election of this man brought the end

of Reconstruction.

Who is…

Rutherford B. Hayes

$400 Question

Which plan said 50% of the people need to pledge loyalty before

re-entering the Union?

What is…

The Radical Republican’s Plan

$500 Question

What law split 10 southern states into 5 military

monitored districts and got rid of any state government that had not ratified the 14th

Amendment?

Who is…

The Reconstruction

Act of 1867

The West

$100 Question

This crop was to the West as cotton was

to the South

What is…

Wheat

$200 Question

160 acres of Reservation land

awarded to the head of household

What is…

Dawes Act

$300 Question

A ritual that celebrated the hope for a day of reckoning

when the white settlers would disappear, buffalo

return, and ancestors rise from the dead

Who is…

Ghost Dance

$400 Question

What well known Native American said the well-known quote, “I will fight no more,

forever”

What is…

Chief Joseph

$500 Question

Name the 3 minerals found in the West that served the needs

of industries in the East

Who is…

Gold, silver, and copper

Industrialization

$100 Question

This is when a company controls all of the

businesses that go into making a product

What is…

Vertical Integration

$200 Question

This was the famous fire that killed over 140 women in NYC

Who is…

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Fire

$300 Question

This person gave away a lot of his money. In fact,

he used his money to found the University of

Chicago

Who is…

John D. Rockefeller

$400 Question

This is what you call it when two or more

companies join together to end

competition

What is…

A Trust

$500 Question

What was the first industry to be industrialized?

What is…

Textiles

Gilded Age

$100 Question

He was a corrupt political boss who led Tammany Hall

What is…

William “Boss” Tweed

$200 Question

What was the name of the book published by Jacob Riis, and what

was the book’s purpose?

What is…

How the Other Half Lives – to help the urban poor by exposing problems of child

labor, homelessness, poverty, crime, etc.

$300 Question

To search for and expose corruption, scandal, and

crime as a means for reform

What is…

Muckraker

$400 Question

What were 3 parts of the Populist Party

Platform?

What is…• Graduated Income Tax• Gov’t ownership of railroads• 12 Hour Workday• Initiative and Referendum• Secret Ballots• Free Silver• Limits on Immigration• Direct Election of US Senators• Civil Service Exams• End Corporate Subsidies

$500 Question

Movement that taught religion and human

dignity would help the poor overcome

problems of industrialization

What is…

Social Gospel Movement

Final Jeopardy

In 1456, Scottish King James II banned people from

playing what two increasingly popular sports,

because they were distracting people from

training in archery?

What is…

Soccer (football) / Golf