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U. S. History Mid-Term Exam
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In what year did the Boston Tea Party take place?
In what year did the defeat of the Spanish Armada take place?
In what year did the founding of James Town take place?
In what year did the founding of the Republic Party take place?
In what year did the Louisiana Purchase take place?
In what year was the Monroe Doctrine established?
In what year did the French and Indian War begin?
In what year did the Mexican War begin?
In what year did the Treaty of Paris take place?
Who was the leader of the Scrooby congregation?
One of the founders of New Jersey?
Who was the best-known missionary to the Native Americans during the First Great Awakening?
Who explored the southern half of the Louisiana Territory?
Who debated for states' rights against Daniel Webster?
Who helped found the American Board?
Who invented the telegraph?
Who was the general at the Battle of Buena Vista?
Who published The Liberator?
Daniel Boone discovered the South Pass in the Appalachian Mountains.
The Battle of Trenton was the turning point of the American War for Independence.
Strict construction did not allow for Congress to create a national bank.
Napoleon I used the Non-Intercourse Act to manipulate the United States into war with Great Britain.
The Tariff of 1816 was supported by John C. Calhoun, who would later become an opponent of protective tariffs.Â
The first white women to journey west of the Rocky Mountains were Narcissa Whitman and Harriet Tubman.
The Battle of Hampton Roads involved two ironclads known as USS Merrimack and CSS Virginia.
For the election of 1864, the Republican Party renamed itself the Constitutional Union Party to attract unionist Democrats.
Under President Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction, states were to be permitted to reestablish state governments once 15 percent of voters registered in 1860 had taken a loyalty oath.Â
Ulysses S. Grant succeeded Andrew Johnson as president.
What kind of system does the following quotation describe? "Those who tried to live without working soon found that they must also try that harder thing -- to live without eating."
What economic theory is the belief that a nation's colonies exist solely for the good of the mother country?
What aspect of the Union's strategy most significantly prevented the Confederacy from gaining war supplies?
If the states of the Confederacy had legally seceded, what part of the government would constitutionally be in control of Reconstruction?
Who gained control of Reconstruction immediately after Lincoln's assassination?
What law was designed to bring about impeachment charges against President Johnson?
What act restored the political rights of most Confederate cooperators?
What was the major difference between Parliament and the lower houses of colonial assemblies?
Why did Great Britain reject the idea that the colonists were being unfairly taxed without representation?
Why was it important for the British to leave New York City?
Gibbons v. Ogden defined what principle of constitutional government?
How did the American System differ from the Bonus Bill?
How did the end of the national bank affect the economy of the Unites States?
Why was the British industry able to hold off American competitors for so long after American independence?
Why was popular sovereignty a failure?
What portion of the Dred Scott v. Sanford decision was the most influential in the outbreak of the Civil War?
Why was the confederacy unable to gain recognition from France?
How did the Thirteenth Amendment differ from the Emancipation Proclamation?
What was Booker T. Washington's view of Reconstruction?
Prince Henry the Navigator helped the nation of ______ lead the way in the Age of Exploration.
In the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the country of _______ lost Florida.
To defend against the French, Benjamin Franklin proposed the ______________ for union of the colonies.
Before allowing American missionaries to evangelize Hawaii, ______ ordered them to teach Christianity to him first.
Ralph Waldo Emerson believed that Unitarianism neglected emotion, which led him to found _____?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's book _________ encouraged abolitionism by describing slave life.
The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and _______ did not attempt to secede from the Union.
The turning point of the Civil War ws the Battle of ______?
The _______ Amendment guaranteed voting rights to former slaves.
During Reconstruction, Southerners referred to Northern politicians in the South as _______?
What was America's first privately published newspaper?
Who preached "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"?
What battle secured British control of the St. Lawrence River during the French and Indian War?
Who became the royal governor of Massachusetts before the War for Independence began?
What Supreme Court case upheld the doctrine of implied powers?
What was the statement made my Stephen A. Douglas that suggested that territorial governments could ban slavery by local legislation?
What Confederate Commander failed to stop General Sherman's March to the Sea?
What British steamer was illegally detained by the U. S. Navy, nearly triggering British recognition of the Confederacy?
What organization was established by Congress to aid former slaves during Reconstruction?
What legislation divided the Southern states into military districts?
Who captured Fort Sumter for the Confederacy?
Who was the Union general at the First Battle of Bull Run?
Who captured Mobile Bay?
Who earned the nickname "stonewall"?
Who led the Peninsular Campaign?
Who is considered the rock of Chickamauga?
Who was the general that led the March to the Sea
Who was the Union general who later founded Hampton University?
Who was the Radical Republican leader?
Who was the secretary of war who undermined President Johnson?
Who founded the American Red Cross?
Who agreed to the Compromise of 1877?
Who was the Confederate general and ordained minister who returned to pastoring after the Civil War?