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SECOND SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW

1. What was the name for the first system of national government used in the United States?

2. Why did this government eventually fail?

3. Which ordinance was passed in order to define how territories could become states?

List the steps to becoming a state.

4. The problem of how to count slaves for representation in Congress was solved by the
___________________________________________.

5. The problem of how each state would have fair representation in Congress was solved by
the _____________________________ Compromise.

6. The Constitutional delegates agreed that the ____________________ would have two
representatives per state.

7. The President is chosen by the _______________________ ______________________.

Why did the Constitutional delegates establish this?

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8. Fill out the following table about Americas first political parties.

Federalists Issue Democratic Republicans

Leaders

Federal Government

Interpret Constitution

National Bank

Economy

Foreign Ally

Area of Support

9. Loose constructionists based their arguments on the "___________________ Clause."

Define "loose construction."

10. How do tariffs encourage the purchase of American-made goods?

11. Explain what the Alien and Sedition Acts were.

12. Who signed the Alien and Sedition Acts into law?

13. What happened for the first time during the election of 1800?

14. What court case did John Marshall use to strengthen the federal government?

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15. What power did Marshall establish with the case from #14?

16. How did Jefferson increase the size of the U.S?

17. Who explored the new territory from #16?

18. What was the Monroe Doctrine?

19. Who was the Monroe Doctrine directed toward?

20. How did the War of 1812 help spur the Industrial Revolution?

21. Define industrialization.

22. Define urbanization.

23. List 3 inventions from the Industrial Revolution.

24. Who invented the cotton gin?

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25. What effect did the cotton gin have on Southern agriculture?

26. What political party was formed to support Jackson for president?

27. What was the Trail of Tears?

28. What was the Doctrine of Nullification?

29. List two parts of the Missouri Compromise. Who proposed it?

30. What Indian nation went to the Supreme Court over land claims in Georgia?

What were the results of the trial?

31. What was South Carolina's response to increased tariffs in the 1830s?

32. Define Manifest Destiny. What year was this achieved?

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33. What were the two main parts of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

34. What war did this treaty end?

35. What happened in California in 1849 that led to its statehood just a year later?

For questions 36-40 describe each individual.

36. William Lloyd Garrison

37. Harriet Tubman

38. Susan B. Anthony

39. Sojourner Truth

40. Frederick Douglass

41. List four points of the Compromise of 1850.

42. What demand was made by the Fugitive Slave Law?

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43. What novel, published in 1852, strengthened abolition support? Who wrote the novel?

44. The Kansas-Nebraska Act said settlers would use _________________________

______________________ to determine if their territory would be slave or free.

45. What was meant by "Bleeding Kansas?"

46. What political party was formed in 1854? What was its main goal?

47. What did the Supreme Court rule In the Dred Scott case?

48. In 1859, why did John Brown attack Harper's Ferry? What was the result?

49. What did the Southern states believe that Lincoln would do that caused them to secede?

50. What happened on April 12, 1861?

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51. List three advantages the North had in the Civil War.

52. List three advantages the South had in the Civil War.

For 53-56, describe each persons role in the Civil War.

53. Abraham Lincoln

54. Ulysses S. Grant

55. Jefferson Davis

56. Robert E. Lee

57. What was important about the Battle of Antietam?

58. What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?

59. What 1863 battle gave the Union complete control of the Mississippi River?

60. Which 3-day battle was a turning point in the Civil War?

61. What were the combined casualty numbers from the battle in #60?

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62. Where did Lee and Grant arrange terms of surrender in 1865?

63. Abraham Lincoln Assassination: when, where, and by whom?

64. Who became president after Lincoln was assassinated?

65. What is the name of the time period immediately following the Civil War?

66. Who were the Radical Republicans?

67. What was the Freedmens Bureau?

68. What were black codes?

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Describe the freedoms or rights given by the following amendments.

1st

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

6th

7th

8th

9th

10th

13th

14th

15th
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Describe the following Principles of the Constitution.

Popular Sovereignty

Republicanism

Federalism

Limited Government

Separatation of Powers

Checks and Balances

Individual Rights

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