US History Review
Unit 2: The New Nation (1789-1820):
______________________________ 1. What law created the federal district courts and circuit courts?
2. Of the following ideas which were supported by the Federalists or
Anti-Federalists
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strong central gov’t
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Bill of Rights
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strong states
3. Which amendments do the following:
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guarantee speedy and public trial
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freedom of religion
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freedom of speech
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freedom from unwarranted search and seizure
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right to bears arms
______________________________ 4. Who was the 1st Secretary of Treasury?
______________________________ 5. What French term means non-interference in the free market?
______________________________ 6. What 1794 event gave the federal gov’t its 1st test of power to
to enforce order?
______________________________ 7. Jefferson argued that nowhere in the Constitution did it give the
Federal gov’t the right to create a bank. What kind of interpretation
of the Constitution is this?
______________________________ 8. Hamilton’s loose interpretation of the Constitution led the creation
creation of what kind of powers?
9. These disagreements led to the formation of the 1st two political
parties which were:
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led by Jefferson and his supporters and
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led by Hamilton.
______________________________ 10. What laws designed to hurt the Democratic-Republicans were
passed by the Federalists in 1798?
______________________________ 11. To protest the Alien and Sedition Acts Jefferson and Madison
wrote what two resolutions?
______________________________ 12. These resolution suggested that state had what right?
______________________________ 13. What Supreme Court case established the courts right to declare
a law unconstitutional?
______________________________ 14. What is this power called?
_____________________________ 15. In order to secure the port of New Orleans, what did Jefferson do?
______________________________ 16. From whom did the US purchase the Louisiana Territory?
____________ 17. True/False By the end of the 1820’s all white adult American citizens could vote.
____________ 18. True/False By the early 19th century most women could not
own property separate from their husbands.
______________________________ 19. What 1795 treaty forced Native Americans to give up most of
their land in Ohio?
______________________________ 20. For the purposes of taxation and representation, how much did
slaves count?
______________________________ 21. What in relation to slavery was outlawed in the U.S. in 1808?
____________ 22. True/False The North gradually outlawed slavery changing it from a national to a
regional institution.
____________ 23. True/false By the mid-1820’s almost all slaves were west of the Mississippi River.
______________________________ 24. What invention greatly increased the profit one could make
growing cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
______________________________ 25. What is the alternate term for “Anti-Slavery”?
______________________________ 26. What did President Washington issue to avoid war with Great
Britain and France?
______________________________ 27. What was the British practice of “kidnapping” sailors from
American ships called?
______________________________ 28. What law did Jefferson sign using “peaceful coercion” to avoid
war with Britain and France?
______________________________ 29. Impressment, shipping rights (freedom of the seas), and the desire
to expand to the west, were all causes of what war?
______________________________ 30. What were members of Congress who wanted war called?
______________________________ 31. Name two prominent men who wanted war with Great Britain?
______________________________ 32. What treaty ended the War of 1812?
______________________________ 33. What famous battle was fought after the treaty was signed?
______________________________ 34. Who won the War of 1812?
Unit 3: Expansion and Reform (1801-1850):
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1. President Jefferson hired Lewis and Clark to explore what area?
2. List four specific economic reasons people moved west.
3. What were the forty-niners looking for in California?
4. What political party was formed in 1854 specifically to oppose
the expansion of slavery in the west?
5. What 1820 compromise temporarily settled differences between
North and South over slavery?
6. Who founded the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, in 1831?
7. What former slave became an influential abolitionist leader in the
19th century, even meeting with President Lincoln?
8. Whose 1830 rebellion led southern legislatures to impose stricter
controls on slaves?
9. Because he tries to resolve conflicts between the North and South
what was Henry Clay called?
10. Henry Clay’s American System was an economic development
program that included what three things?
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_____________________________ 12. Henry Clay’s support of John Q. Adams in the 1824 election and his
subsequent appointment as Secretary of State became known, by
Jackson supporters, as what?
_____________________________ 13. What was the phrase for the belief that all adult white males
should be allowed to vote?
_____________________________ 14. Jackson replaced officials with his political allies without regard
to their qualifications, a practice that became known as what?
_____________________________ 15. What issue caused calls for nullification in the 1820s and 1830s?
_____________________________ 16. What state threaten to nullify a federal law in 1832?
_____________________________ 17. Like Jefferson, Jackson thought the BUS was what?
_____________________________ 18. Jackson’s handling of the BUS was disastrous for the economy
and led what 1837 event?
_____________________________ 19. Jackson viewed Native Americans as an obstacle to what?
_____________________________ 20. What great Cherokee leader created an alphabet so that they could
read treaties with the white man?
_____________________________ 21. The forced removal of the Cherokee to Indian Territory in 1838,
became known as what?
_____________________________ 22. What party was formed in 1834 in opposition to Jackson’s
Democratic Party policies?
_____________________________ 23. What NC-born candidate supported Texas annexation and was
elected president in 1844?
_____________________________ 24. Polk believed, like many Americans, that western expansion was
ordained by God. What was this belief called?
_____________________________ 25. One of Polk’s slogans was “Fifty-four forty or fight”. This
referred to the boundary of what territory?
_____________________________ 26. Who invented the telegraph?
_____________________________ 27. Who invented a better steel plow?
_____________________________ 28. What did Cyrus McCormick invent?
_____________________________ 29. Who designed the 1st efficient steamboat in the U.S.?
_____________________________ 30. What artificial waterway became the chief artery for traffic
between the Northeast and the West?
_____________________________ 31. What artificial waterway links Albemarle Sound & Chesapeake Bay?
_____________________________ 32. What is the term for Americans who opposed the presence of
foreigners and immigrants particularly in the cities?
_____________________________ 33. What odd-named political party was formed in the 1840’s opposed
to immigrants and Roman Catholics?
_____________________________ 34. What was the 1st women’s rights convention called?
_____________________________ 35. Who was the former slave who also became important in the
women’s right movement?
_____________________________ 36. Who were the founders of the National Women’s Suffrage
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Association?
_____________________________ 37. Who became the champion for reform in the treatment of the
mentally ill, including in Raleigh, NC, in the 1840s?
_____________________________ 38. What movement sought to end slavery in America?
_____________________________ 39. Who were the famous South Carolina sisters who became
influential abolitionists?
_____________________________ 40. Who was the escaped slavery who was instrumental in the
Underground Railroad?
Unit 3: Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction (1848-1877):
_____________________________ 1. In 1850 the territory gained from what war brought the issue of
slavery into debate again?
_____________________________ 2. Who was primarily responsible for the Compromise of 1850?
_____________________________ 3. What state joined the union as a free state under this agreement?
_____________________________ 4. Supported by the South, what was the most controversial part of the
Compromise of 1850?
_____________________________ 5. Stephen Douglas suggested that will of the people should determine
whether a state was slave or free. This was called what?
_____________________________ 6. What was Lincoln position on the expansion of slavery?
_____________________________ 7. What new party was formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
_____________________________ 8. Who attacked Harpers Ferry in 1859 to arm slaves for a revolt?
_____________________________ 9. What 1852 novel showed inhumanity of slavery? Who wrote it?
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_____________________________ 10. Southern states chose to secede after who was elected president?
_____________________________ 11. Who was president of the Confederates States of America?
_____________________________ 12 At what federal fort in the South did the Civil War begin?
_____________________________ 13. What was the term for northern democrats who wanted to
compromise with the Confederates and criticized the war?
_____________________________ 14. What constitutional right did Lincoln suspend during the Civil War?
_____________________________ 15. What was the name of the union’s strategy and who developed it?
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_____________________________ 16. What was the 1st major battle of the Civil War?
_____________________________ 17. What did Lincoln sign in January 1863 that increased northern
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morale and prevented for Britain or France from helping the
Confederacy? And what did it do?
_____________________________ 18. Who was the commander of the Union army?
_____________________________ 19. There were two battles that were turning points in the Civil War.
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Which one gave the Union control of the Mississippi River and
which one was a Confederate defeat in Pennsylvania?
_____________________________ 20. Sherman’s “march to the sea” went through what state?
_____________________________ 21. Where did Confederate commander Robert E. Lee surrender?
_____________________________ 22. Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
_____________________________ 23. What abolished slavery in the US in 1865?
_____________________________ 24. Radical Republicans were angered by southern laws that restricted
civil rights of former slaves. What were these laws called?
_____________________________ 25. What government agency was established after the Civil War to
assist former slaves with food, jobs and particularly education?
_____________________________ 26. What NC-born POTUS was impeached for breaking the Tenure of
Office Act?
_____________________________ 27. Which amendment defined citizenship and granted equal
protection to all persons?
_____________________________ 28. The Radical Republicans reconstruction plan divided the South
into five district governed by what?
_____________________________ 29. What amendment effectively gave black men the right to vote?
_____________________________ 30. Northerners who came south to help with Reconstruction, some
were corrupt some not, were called what?
_____________________________ 31. Southerners, mostly Republicans, who cooperated with
Reconstruction were called what?
_____________________________ 32. What farm tenant system developed in the South after the Civil War?
_____________________________ 33. What industry moved from the North to the South after the Civil War?
_____________________________ 34. The South became known as the “Solid South” because it
consistently voted for which party?
____________________________ 35. What was the name of the laws in the South that segregated the
races and prevented blacks from voting?
____________________________ 36. What Supreme Court case found these laws constitutional?
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Unit 5: Industrialization and Its Effects on American Society (1870s-1940)
____________________________ 1. What was completed at Promontory Point, Utah in 1869?
____________________________ 2. After they helped build the railroads Congress virtually banned
immigration from what country?
____________________________ 3. What law was 1st regulate the railroads and outlawed excessive rates?
____________________________ 4. What Irish immigrant monopolized the steel industry?
____________________________ 5. What New Yorker moved west and monopolized the oil industry?
____________________________ 6. In the late 1800’s various farmers groups and other formed a new
political party, the people’s party better known as what?
____________________________ 7. What 1890 law outlawed business monopolies for stifling competition?
____________________________ 8. Many Americans thought that the money supply should include
gold and silver coins. This idea was called what?
____________________________ 9. Who made the famous “Cross of Gold Speech” accusing Republicans
of “crucifying” the people with the gold standard?
____________________________ 10. What is the name of the famous port of entry fro immigrants in
NY City which opened in 1892?
____________________________ 11. What was the term for the idea that immigrants should give up
their ethnic identity and blend into one American identity?
____________________________ 12. Herbert Spencer argued that humans socially evolve using natural
selection. This idea justified class differences and was called what?
____________________________ 13. Who became president in 1901 and was one of the most vigorous
advocates of overseas expansion?
____________________________ 14. Imperialism had economic causes in that industrial nations needed
what two things for manufacturing?
____________________________ 15. As a result __ became independent, and __, __, and ___ were
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ceded to the US by Spain?
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____________________________ 16. What was the name of Progressive reformers who wrote books,
magazines and newspapers to promote their cause?
____________________________ 17. What was the most sensational muckraking book of all (hint:
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about meatpacking) and who wrote it?
_____________________________ 18. What law did this book (#17) lead to?
_____________________________ 19. What amendment provided for direct election of US Senators?
_____________________________ 20. What 1919 amendment gave women the right to vote?
____________________________ 21. Warren G. Harding was elected president in 1920 promising what?
____________________________ 22. The 20’s was known for a new kind of music called what?
____________________________ 23. What new mass media (not movies) developed in the 1920’s?
____________________________ 24. What outlawed the production, sale and consumption of alcoholic
beverages in 1919?
____________________________ 25. What were the hidden nightclubs where people could hear Jazz and
buy drinks called?
____________________________ 26. What was the name of the trial pitting evolution against creationism?
____________________________ 27. Women mostly in the cities who boldly flaunted social norms were
called what?
____________________________ 28. James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, and Langston Hughes
were leaders in what cultural movement in the 1920’s?
____________________________ 29. President Coolidge vetoed several bills intended to help what group?
____________________________ 30. Another danger signal in the 1920’s was the vast expansion of
what brought on by installment buying?
____________________________ 31. Another calamity in1930’s was a drought that turned the bread
basket into what was called the ___.
____________________________ 32. What was the depression era novel by John Steinbeck about the
“Okies” moving from California to look for work?
____________________________ 33. How did Margaret Burke-White, Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange
document the hardships of sharecroppers and the homeless?
____________________________ 34. What did the homeless sarcastically call their communities?
____________________________ 35. FDR used radio to talk to Americans in what became known as what?
____________________________ 36. What did FDR call his program to reform and restore the economy?
____________________________ 37. One of FDR’s 1st acts was to close what temporally?
38. What was created to insure people’s bank deposits?
39. What agency was created to regulate the stock market?
40. The AAA provided incentives for farmers to restrict what?
41. What program provided jobs for young men to plant trees and
building small dams?
____________________________ 42. In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled what 2 New Deal programs
unconstitutional?
____________________________ 43. What did the REA help provide which FDR believed was a
necessity for all American households?
____________________________ 44. What landmark New Deal program provided unemployment
insurance and a pension for the elderly?
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Unit 6: World War I, World War II and the Cold War (1914-1968):
_____________________________ 1. What was Wilson’s WWI plan for peace called?
_____________________________ 2. Although Europeans leaders did no buy into Wilson’s “peace without
victory” philosophy they did accept what part of the 14 Points?
____________________________ 3. The Treaty of Versailles of 1919 is in part responsible the what
future war?
____________________________ 4. Who had the title “Fuhrer of the Third Reich”?
____________________________ 5. Who founded the Fascist Party in Italy in 1921?
____________________________ 6. Giving in to Hitler by GB and France to avoid war was called what?
____________________________ 7. What Asian nation did Japan try to conquer beginning in 1931?
____________________________ 8. What British Prime Minister harshly criticized appeasement in 1940?
____________________________ 9. On Sept. 1, 1939, WWII started when Germany invaded what country?
____________________________ 10. Who was POTUS at the start of WWII?
____________________________ 11. The US entered WWII in 1941 when what country attacked us
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where?
____________________________ 12. In 1941 Hitler invaded what country violating a pact signed in 1939?
____________________________ 13. What was the name of the Allied plan to open a second front in
France to drive out the Germans?
____________________________ 14. This plan was carried out on June 6, 1944, better known as what?
____________________________ 15. The massacre of 12 million people by the Nazis became known as
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what? What group made up at least half of these people?
____________________________ 16. Many German war criminals were put on trial where?
____________________________ 17. What president decided to use the atomic bomb on Japan?
____________________________ 18. What was the nickname of the women on the poster representing the
work of American women in the factories during WWII?
____________________________ 19. What did the gov’t do to reduce consumers’ use of gasoline, butter,
sugar, coffee, cigarettes, and meat?
____________________________ 20. What group was put into “internment camps” out of fear that they
would be disloyal?
____________________________ 21. What 1944 law gave veterans a package of benefits including
low-interest home loans and aid for college?
____________________________ 22. The 30 million American born between 1946-1964 are referred to
as the what generation?
____________________________ 23. In 1946 Winston Churchill declared that the East and West were
divided by what?
____________________________ 24. The Truman Doctrine was committed to preventing the further
expansion of communism. This idea became known as what?
____________________________ 25. What was the plan to aid war-torn Europe between 1948 and 1951?
____________________________ 26. In 1949 Truman ordered an airlift to aid what German city cut off by
the Soviets?
____________________________ 27. In 1949, the USSR tested an atomic bomb and what Asian country
became communist?
____________________________ 28. In 1950, what police action (undeclared war) started in Asia?
____________________________ 29. Who led a communist revolution in Cuba in 1959?
____________________________ 30. In 1962 JFK successfully forced the USSR to remove missile base
from what country?
____________________________ 31. What new Middle Eastern country was created after WWII by the
Zionist movement?
____________________________ 32. In 1949 Canada, the US, and western Europe formed what alliance?
____________________________ 33. What major program of Kennedy’s involved sending volunteers to
foreign countries for two years?
_____________________________ 34. Brown v. Board of Education overturned what Supreme Court case?
____________________________ 35. The Brown decision ruled what doctrine to be unconstitutional?
____________________________ 36. What kind of protest occurred in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955
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Whose actions led to this protest?
____________________________ 37. To what southern city did Eisenhower send troops in 1957 to
enforce integration?
____________________________ 38. What method specifically did SNCC use to integrate lunch counters?
____________________________ 39. Who was the leader of the non-violent approach to civil rights
protest in the 50’s and 60’s?
____________________________ 40. What was the name of King’s organization?
____________________________ 41. Who was the Nation of Islam figure who was assassinated in 1965?
____________________________ 42. In what two areas did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ban discrimination?
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____________________________ 43. What amendment abolished the poll tax?
____________________________ 44. What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 abolish?
____________________________ 45. Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists?
____________________________ 46. South Vietnamese communist were called what?
____________________________ 47. In 1964, Congress gave LBJ a virtual declaration of war by passing
what resolution?
____________________________ 48. Agent Orange was a chemical spray to kill what in Vietnam?
____________________________ 49. What 1963 book inspired many women to demand greater
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opportunity? Who wrote it?
____________________________ 50. LBJ’s domestic agenda was called what?
____________________________ 51. One of Johnson’s most successful programs provided preschool
program for low-income families called what?
____________________________ 52. What two healthcare program were part of the Great Society
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that provided aid to the poor and elderly respectively?
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____________________________ 53. Johnson appointed the 1 black man to the Supreme Court.
What was his name?
____________________________ 54. Who was elected POTUS in 1968?
____________________________ 55. What constitutional amendment lowered the voting age to 18?
___________________________ 56. What NC case in the US Supreme Court gave courts broad powers
to end segregation in public schools?
____________________________ 57. What happened in January 1968 that led many American to believe
that we would never be able to win in Vietnam?
Unit 7: Contemporary America
____________________________ 1. In 1969 Nixon began a secret war in what country?
____________________________ 2. What Supreme Court case ruled women have a right to an abortion in
the 1st three months of pregnancy?
____________________________ 3. Title IX of the Education Amendments Act outlawed gender
discrimination where?
____________________________ 4. Who was the leading labor organizer for migrant workers, many of
whom were Hispanic?
____________________________ 5. Congress repealed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and passed what
law declaring that president could only commit troops to a
foreign war for 60 days before seeking approval by Congress?
____________________________ 6. What chemical turned out to be as harmful to humans as plants?
____________________________ 7. What newspaper continuously published reports about Watergate
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exposing much wrongdoing? Who were the reporters?
____________________________ 8. Who was the name of the Chairman of the Senate committee
investigating Watergate?
____________________________ 9. Nixon resigned to avoid what?
____________________________ 10. The combination of inflation and unemployment (slowdown) during
the 1970’s became known as what?
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____________________________ 11. Jimmy Carter was the 1 POTUS to speak out against South
Africa’s policy of forced racial segregation, called what?
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____________________________ 12. What former political prisoner became the 1 black president
of South Africa in 1993?
____________________________ 13. OPEC is an economic cartel that controls what commodity?
____________________________ 14. What agreement led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt?
____________________________ 15. In 1979 who seized power in Iran?
____________________________ 16. Who won a majority in the three-way election of 1980?
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____________________________ 17. Reagan named the 1 women to the Supreme Court. Who was she?
____________________________ 18. What was Reagan’s controversial missile defense project?
____________________________ 19. Who became the leader of the USSR in 1985?
____________________________ 20. What were names of Gorbachev’s economic reform program and
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plan more openness?
____________________________ 21. During the 1970s and 80s most immigrants came from what two
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parts of the world?
____________________________ 22. What law required that voting materials be printed in various
languages not just English?
____________________________ 23. In 1991 the UN and the US drove what country out of Kuwait?
____________________________ 24. What was the name of the law that made job discrimination against
a disabled person illegal?
____________________________ 25. What economic agreement was signed by Canada, the U.S., and
Mexico during Bill Clinton’s presidency?
____________________________ 26. What laws gave workers up to 12 weeks per year of unpaid leave for
birth or adoption of a child.
____________________________ 27. In 1998 US embassies in what two countries were bombed?
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____________________________ 28. What new cabinet level office was created after September 11, 2001?
____________________________ 29. What fundamentalists group governing Afghanistan allied with
hiding Osama bin Laden?
____________________________ 30. Who was the leader of Iraq ousted by the US in 2003?
____________________________ 31. Who was the first black man elected POTUS?