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
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Who wrote "Commentaries on the Laws of England"?
a. Isaac Backus
b. William Blackstone
c. John Dickinson
d. Edmund Burke - b. William Blackstone
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Who wrote "Common Sense"?
a. Phillis Wheatley
b. Thomas Paine
c. Thomas Jefferson
d. David Brainerd - b. Thomas Paine
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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
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Who wrote the "Blue-Backed Speller" and a dictionary?
a. John Locke
b. Noah Webster
c. Francis Marion
d. John Adams - b. Noah Webster
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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
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When did the "favorite sons" election take place?
a. 1820
b. 1824
c. 1828
d. 1832 - b. 1824
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Which ship was called "Old Ironsides"?
a. the Chesapeake
b. the Merrimac
c. the Constitution
d. the Leopard - c. the Constitution
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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
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Which compromise temporarily settled the slave issue in 1820?
a. Great Compromise
b. Connecticut
c. Missouri
d. New Jersey - c. Missouri
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The Battle of New Orleans was fought in what year?
a. 1812
b. 1813
c. 1814
d. 1815 - d. 1815
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Who was the editor of "The Liberator"?a. Horace Greeley
b. Cyrus McCormick
c. Nat Turner
d. William Lloyd Garrison - d. William Lloyd Garrison
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Which college was the first to admit women?
a. Oberlin
b. Wesleyan
c. Princeton
d. Yale - a. Oberlin
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Who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
b. Hinton Rowan Helper
c. Andrew Jackson
d. Stephen Douglas - a. Harriet Beecher Stowe
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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
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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
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What are the dates of the Reconstruction Era?
a. 1860-1870
b. 1865-1885
c. 1865-1877
d. 1860-1877 - c. 1865-1877
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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
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Who wrote "Up From Slavery"?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. George Washington Carver
c. Andrew Johnson
d. Harriet Tubman - a. Booker T. Washington
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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
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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