ABeka History 11 - Semester Review

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What year was the Spanish Armada defeated?: 1588
What year was the Stamp Act passed.: 1765
What year was Jamestown founded?: 1607
What year was the House of Burgesses founded?: 1619
What year did the California Gold Rush begin?: 1849
What year was the Kansas-Nebraska Act passed?: 1854
What year did the Confederates surrender at Appomattox, ending the Civil War?: 1865
What year was the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signed?: 1848
Who is considered the "Father of the Constitution"?: James Madison
a Portuguese explorer: Vasco da Gama
Who conquered the Aztecs?: Hernando Cortes
Who was elected President in 1800?: Thomas Jefferson
a leading Baptist minister: Isaac Backus
Who captured the Hessians at Trenton?: George Washington
Who lost the battle at Saratoga?: John Burgoyne
Who was the victor at the Battle of Fallen Timbers?: Anthony Wayne
Who established the colony of Rhode Island?: William Brewster
Who helped establish the first national bank?: Alexander Hamilton
Who lost the battle of Yorktown?: General Cornwallis
What French thinker wrote "Democracy in America"?: Alexis de Tocqueville
Who introduced the spoils system to the federal government?: President Andrew Jackson
What territory did Lewis and Clark explore for President Jefferson?: the Louisiana Purchase
Who was the best-known hero of the Tripolitan War?: Stephen Decatur
Who was defeated at the Battle of San Jacinto?: the Mexican Dictator Santa Anna
Who adopted the slogan "fifty-four forty or fight"?: President James K. Polk
Commodore Matthew Perry negotiated a trade agreement with whom?: Japan
Who wrote "Commentaries on the Laws of England"? a. Isaac Backus b. William Blackstone c. John Dickinson d. Edmund Burke: b. William Blackstone
Who wrote "Common Sense"? a. Phillis Wheatley b. Thomas Paine c. Thomas Jefferson d. David Brainerd: b. Thomas Paine
Who was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court? a. John Marshall b. John Jay c. James Madison d. Roger Taney: b. John Jay
Who wrote the "Blue-Backed Speller" and a dictionary? a. John Locke b. Noah Webster c. Francis Marion d. John Adams: b. Noah Webster
Who led the American army in the War for Independence? a. Nathanael Herkimer b. John Paul Jones c. George Washington d. Benedict Arnold: c. George Washington
When did the "favorite sons" election take place? a. 1820 b. 1824 c. 1828 d. 1832: b. 1824
Which ship was called "Old Ironsides"? a. the Chesapeake b. the Merrimac c. the Constitution d. the Leopard: c. the Constitution
Who was Andrew Jackson's second Vice President? a. John C. Calhoun b. John Tyler c. Martin Van Buren d. Daniel Webster: c. Martin Van Buren
Which compromise temporarily settled the slave issue in 1820? a. Great Compromise b. Connecticut c. Missouri d. New Jersey: c. Missouri
The Battle of New Orleans was fought in what year? a. 1812 b. 1813 c. 1814 d. 1815: d. 1815
Who was the editor of "The Liberator"?a. Horace Greeley b. Cyrus McCormick c. Nat Turner d. William Lloyd Garrison: d. William Lloyd Garrison
Which college was the first to admit women? a. Oberlin b. Wesleyan c. Princeton d. Yale: a. Oberlin
Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"? a. Harriet Beecher Stowe b. Hinton Rowan Helper c. Andrew Jackson d. Stephen Douglas: a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who became President upon the death of Zachary Taylor in 1850? a. Franklin Pierce b. Millard Fillmore c. James Buchanan d. James K. Polk: b. Millard Fillmore
Who was the first president of the "Lone Star Republic"? a. Stephen Austin b. William Barret Travis c. Sam Houston d. Marcus Whitman: c. Sam Houston
What are the dates of the Reconstruction Era? a. 1860-1870 b. 1865-1885 c. 1865-1877 d. 1860-1877: c. 1865-1877
Name the organization established to meet the needs of the freed slaves. a. Freedmen's Bureau b. Red Cross c. Salvation Army d. Wade-Davis Bill: a. Freedmen's Bureau
Who wrote "Up From Slavery"? a. Booker T. Washington b. George Washington Carver c. Andrew Johnson d. Harriet Tubman: a. Booker T. Washington
Which President removed federal troops from the South? a. Abraham Lincoln b. Ulysses S. Grant c. Andrew Johnson d. Rutherford B. Hayes: d. Rutherford B. Hayes
What name was given to northern politicians who went south after the Civil War? a. radicals b. scalawags c. carpetbaggers d. freedmen: c. carpetbaggers
What was the first permanent settlement in Virginia?: Jamestown
What were the Englishmen who settled the colony of Plymouth seeking?: religious freedom
What Portuguese sailor led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world?: Ferdinand Magellan
Who wrote "History of Plymouth Planation," America's first history book?: William Bradford
What Italian sailor was the New World named for?: Amerigo Vespucci
Who invented the first practical steamboat?: Robert Fulton
Who invented the cotton gin?: Eli Whitney
What invention did Elias Howe greatly improve?: the sewing machine
Who laid the first transatlantic telegraph cable?: Cyrus Field
Who invented the steel plow?: John Deere
Who was the president of the Confederacy?: Jefferson Davis
Who was the first Republican candidate?: John C. Fremont
Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Bill?: Stephen Douglas
Who was the subject of a Supreme Court decision on slavery?: Dred Scott
Who founded the American Red Cross?: Clara Barton
Who was the commander of the Confederate Army?: Robert E. Lee
Who was killed at Chancellorsville?: Stonewall Jackson
Who was the Union's winning general?: Ulysses S. Grant
Who marched to the sea?: William T. Sherman
Who was Lincoln's second Vice President?: Andrew Johnson
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?: John Wilkes Booth
Who founded Tuskegee Institute?: Booker T. Washington
What name did the Republican Party temporarily take in 1864?: Union Party
Which former Vice President helped form the Free-Soil Party?: Martin Van Buren
What colonel routed John Brown's men at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?: Robert E. Lee
What phrase did Secretary of the Treasury Salmon Chase have minted on U.S. coins?: "In God We Trust"
Who wrote the Emancipation Proclamation?: Abraham Lincoln
Who is remembered as the "Father of American Missions"?: Adoniram Judson
What treaty settled the Maine/Canada border dispute?: Webster-Ashburton
Who won the election in 1856?: James Buchanan
Which amendment abolished slavery?: Thirteenth Amendment
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?: Gettysburg

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