Midterm Review

Sectionalism means:

ANSWER: Excessive concern or interest for one region over anotherto the extent it harms the whole

The first and last capitals of Arizona are

ANSWER: Prescott – firstPhoenix - last

The motto for Arizona is:

ANSWER: Ditat Deus (God Enriches)

The most famous “conductor” on the Underground Railroad was:

ANSWER:

Harriett Tubman

Who wrote the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”?

ANSWER:

Harriett Beecher Stowe

BONUS QUESTION

1.Maine became a free state

2.Missouri became a slave state

3.No states or territories above the 36.30 parallel (except Missouri) could have slaves.

What 3 things happened because of the Missouri

Compromise?

What branch of government decided slaves were only property AND what was the name of the case?

ANSWER:

Supreme Court in the Dred

Scott decision

Who gets the credit for inventing the light bulb?

ANSWER: Thomas Edison

Who published the abolitionist newspaper “The Liberator”?

ANSWER:

William Lloyd Garrison

Once the cities got too crowded, how did buildings change?

ANSWER: Vertical

construction of skyscrapers

What did Henry Ford invent that made it easier to make products for the public?

ANSWER: Moving assembly

line

California was admitted as a free state because of what compromise?

ANSWER:

Compromise of 1850

What did Abraham Lincoln feel was the highest priority in the civil war?

ANSWER:

Saving the Union

What was the battle that started the civil war?

ANSWER:

Fort Sumter

What was the first state to secede from the union?

ANSWER:

South Carolina

During the Civil War, the North was known as the ___________ and the South was known as the ___________.

ANSWER:

Union, Confederacy

What was the “March to the Sea”?

ANSWER: A plan by Gen’l

William T Sherman to march thousands of

troops through Georgia and take the city of

Savannah

The first ground battle at Bull Run was significant because

ANSWER: It revealed this was

an actual war and not just simple

disagreement

The climate in southern Arizona is:

ANSWER:

Arid

The Northern hero of the Fall of New Orleans was:

ANSWER:

Admiral David Farragut

The head general of the South was _______________ and of the North was ______________.

ANSWER: Robert E. Lee /

Ulysses S. Grant

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied …by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” This is the:

ANSWER:

15th Amendment

Which amendment defined citizenship and gave equal rights to all men in America?

ANSWER:

14th Amendment

What were black codes/Jim Crow Laws?

ANSWER:

Local laws designed to keep blacks under the control of whites

What did the 13th Amendment accomplish?

ANSWER:

Overturned slavery

The group which used violence to intimidate African-Americans was:

ANSWER:

The KKK

What kind of warfare did General Sherman use in his campaign through the South?

ANSWER: Total War

Why did General Lee surrender his troops to General Grant?

ANSWER: They were

surrounded by Union forces (at

Petersburg)

What was the name of the town where General Lee surrendered the Southern army to General Grant?

ANSWER: Appomattox Court

House

What is the date when Arizona became a state?

ANSWER: February 14, 1912

Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?

ANSWER:

John Wilkes Booth

What is cotton diplomacy?

ANSWER: The belief that Great Britain would help the South in the war because they needed the cotton.

Which battle had the bloodiest day in the Civil War?

ANSWER: The Battle of Antietam (or Sharpsburg)

BONUS QUESTION

ANSWER: Constitutional protection from unlawful imprisonment

What is habeas corpus?

What are copperheads?

ANSWER: People in the North who objected to the war

What speech did Lincoln give that inspired equality and liberty for all ?

ANSWER:

The Gettysburg Address

What was the name of the African-American infantry who fought so bravely at Fort Wagner?

ANSWER: The 54th

Massachusetts

What is the name of the president of the Confederate states of America?

ANSWER:

Jefferson Davis

What was the emancipation proclamation and what did it do?

ANSWER: An executive order by Lincoln that set slaves free in the rebel states.

What city did Sherman offer Lincoln as a “Christmas Present,” meaning he had defeated it?

ANSWER:

Savannah, Georgia

What was the result of Plessy v. Ferguson?

ANSWER:

Segregation became legal

What is segregation?

ANSWER: Segregation is

separating groups of people by race or ethnic groups

The process in which a person would pay the rent on his land by giving up 1/3 of his crops was:

ANSWER:

Sharecropping

The problem with sharecropping was:

ANSWER:

It kept the sharecroppers poor

and often in the same conditions as

slavery.

What were black codes/Jim Crow Laws?

ANSWER:

Local laws designed to keep blacks under the control of whites

Who invented the telephone?ANSWER:

Alexander Graham Bell

What is a labor union?

ANSWER: An organization

(usually made up of workers) working to

improve wages & working conditions.

Why were Labor Unions difficult to create? ANSWER:

Employers didn’t like them and resisted

them

What is the difference between “New” and “Old” immigrants?ANSWER: New immigrants (late

1800’s) were culturally deferent than the old

immigrants (mid 1800’s)

Why did Labor Unions oppose immigration? ANSWER:

They feared immigrants would take

all the jobs from the current Americans

Why was the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 passed?

ANSWER: Many Americans

worried that Chinese immigrants

were hurting the economy.

What is horizontal integration?

ANSWER: Owning all the businesses in a

certain field

BONUS QUESTION

ANSWER: A process of negotiating where employees work together with their labor unions to get what they want from their employer.

What is collective

bargaining?

What is vertical integration?

ANSWER: Owning all the

steps in the production process

What is the process called that purifies steel?

ANSWER: Bessemer Process

How did the labor force change during the Industrial Revolution?

ANSWER: Skilled workers were replaced by unskilled

workers

What industry grew rapidly because steel could be mass-produced?

ANSWER: Railroads

Who discovered a way to mass-produce steel?

ANSWER: Andrew Carnegie

Who became the richest man in America after owning 90% of the oil industry?

ANSWER:

John D. Rockefeller

What are tenements?

ANSWER: Small, cheaply built

apartment buildings where

many immigrants lived.

What was the leading cause of death among soldiers in the war?

ANSWER:

Disease

The name of the processing center where 2/3 of all immigrants were processed was:

ANSWER:

Ellis Island