HIUS 221 DR. JONES FINAL EXAM
GUIDE QUESTIONS & VALID PASSED
ANSWERS RATED 100% CORRECT
David Wilmot and his Proviso - Correct Answer ✔✔ ...congressman with a bill that
preceded the Compromise of 1850 that would ban slavery prior to the Mexican-
American war
Ironies of the Civil War - Correct Answer ✔✔ ...blacks fought for the South
lasted longer than it should have
Lincoln sort of broke it just to preserve the Union, (held Maryland captive so they
couldn't succeed)
American vs. American (brother vs. brother)
Results of the 1831 Slave Insurrection in VA - Correct Answer ✔✔
William Sherman's impact - Correct Answer ✔✔
Causes for divisions in Andrew Jackson's Cabinet - Correct Answer ✔✔ Jackson hired
people who were "yes men" and fired all other cabinet members
Radical Abolitionist beliefs - Correct Answer ✔✔ William Lloyd Garrison
no slaves should be in bondage. Do whatever it takes to get rid of slavery ASAP
Dred Scott decision and results - Correct Answer ✔✔
Oberlin College - Correct Answer ✔✔ first to allow women
John Wilkes Booth - Correct Answer ✔✔ assassinated Abraham Lincoln
actor and pro-southerner from Maryland, "good-looking"
shoots president in back of the head with revolver, and jumps off balcony onto the stage
escaped to Maryland
Brooks-Sumner Affair - Correct Answer ✔✔ an altercation w/ a wooden cane
, he was okay but doctor put him on a three-year hiatus.
John Brown - Correct Answer ✔✔ "Crazy John is Back!" He led a rebellion in Harper's
Ferry, holding people hostage and raiding civilians at a railroad depot and stole guns.
He lead a slave insurrection, IN THE WRONG CITY.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Correct Answer ✔✔ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
her book was allowed in most southern states
story about Kentucky slave who was sold three times
Daniel Webster - Correct Answer ✔✔ Senator of Massachusetts; famous American
politician & orator; advocated renewal & opposed the financial policy of Jackson; many
of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal
Reserve System; later pushed for a strong union.
New weapons of the Civil War - Correct Answer ✔✔ ironclad ships
the South used the first working metallic "submarine"
long ranged canons
hot-air balloons
repeating rifle
gattling gun (gat)---> the North would use these
Harpers Ferry - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Brown's scheme to invade the South with
armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal;
Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was
hanged
Susan B. Anthony - Correct Answer ✔✔ Key leader of woman suffrage movement,
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an
abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Western wagon trains - Correct Answer ✔✔
Canals - Correct Answer ✔✔ Artificial waterways that were built because waterways
were the cheapest way to transport goods
GUIDE QUESTIONS & VALID PASSED
ANSWERS RATED 100% CORRECT
David Wilmot and his Proviso - Correct Answer ✔✔ ...congressman with a bill that
preceded the Compromise of 1850 that would ban slavery prior to the Mexican-
American war
Ironies of the Civil War - Correct Answer ✔✔ ...blacks fought for the South
lasted longer than it should have
Lincoln sort of broke it just to preserve the Union, (held Maryland captive so they
couldn't succeed)
American vs. American (brother vs. brother)
Results of the 1831 Slave Insurrection in VA - Correct Answer ✔✔
William Sherman's impact - Correct Answer ✔✔
Causes for divisions in Andrew Jackson's Cabinet - Correct Answer ✔✔ Jackson hired
people who were "yes men" and fired all other cabinet members
Radical Abolitionist beliefs - Correct Answer ✔✔ William Lloyd Garrison
no slaves should be in bondage. Do whatever it takes to get rid of slavery ASAP
Dred Scott decision and results - Correct Answer ✔✔
Oberlin College - Correct Answer ✔✔ first to allow women
John Wilkes Booth - Correct Answer ✔✔ assassinated Abraham Lincoln
actor and pro-southerner from Maryland, "good-looking"
shoots president in back of the head with revolver, and jumps off balcony onto the stage
escaped to Maryland
Brooks-Sumner Affair - Correct Answer ✔✔ an altercation w/ a wooden cane
, he was okay but doctor put him on a three-year hiatus.
John Brown - Correct Answer ✔✔ "Crazy John is Back!" He led a rebellion in Harper's
Ferry, holding people hostage and raiding civilians at a railroad depot and stole guns.
He lead a slave insurrection, IN THE WRONG CITY.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Correct Answer ✔✔ written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
her book was allowed in most southern states
story about Kentucky slave who was sold three times
Daniel Webster - Correct Answer ✔✔ Senator of Massachusetts; famous American
politician & orator; advocated renewal & opposed the financial policy of Jackson; many
of the principles of finance he spoke about were later incorporated in the Federal
Reserve System; later pushed for a strong union.
New weapons of the Civil War - Correct Answer ✔✔ ironclad ships
the South used the first working metallic "submarine"
long ranged canons
hot-air balloons
repeating rifle
gattling gun (gat)---> the North would use these
Harpers Ferry - Correct Answer ✔✔ John Brown's scheme to invade the South with
armed slaves, backed by sponsoring, northern abolitionists; seized the federal arsenal;
Brown and remnants were caught by Robert E. Lee and the US Marines; Brown was
hanged
Susan B. Anthony - Correct Answer ✔✔ Key leader of woman suffrage movement,
social reformer who campaigned for womens rights, the temperance, and was an
abolitionist, helped form the National Woman Suffrage Assosiation
Western wagon trains - Correct Answer ✔✔
Canals - Correct Answer ✔✔ Artificial waterways that were built because waterways
were the cheapest way to transport goods
