US History Crash Course Final
_______ took over as the second President of the United States - answerJohn Adams
What were Thomas Jefferson's main ideas for government? - answerMake it smaller,
lower taxes, shrink the military, enable agrarian utopia
The War of 1812 was the first time the United States _______ anybody. -
answerDeclared war
What is "Manifest Destiny?" - answerthe idea that it was a God-given right to Americans
to spread out over the North American Continent
___________ dominated the South, shaping it both economically culturally. -
answerSlavery
Andrew Jackson won the Presidency in 1828 by running as a "Champion" for the
______________. - answerCommon man
What are some ways in which the Abolition movement started to take shape and gain
support in the 19th Century. - answerColonizationists had the idea to shop all former
slaves back to Africa, radical abolitionism started to become a movement, "Slavery is a
sin" started to become a message in the North, the movement was also equality
What reform movements were open to Women in the 19th Century? - answerDorthea
Dix reformed mental institutions, Carry Nation attacked bars with a hatchet and sobered
men in America, Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Why did the US government originally ignore Texas' request to join the Union? -
answerTexas wanted to be a slave state and that would have disrupted the equilibrium
of slave and free states in the Union
Why did the "Know Nothings" have the name that they did? - answerWhen asked about
their politics, they would say they know nothing
The "Official" beginning of the Civil War happened on April 12, 1861, when Southern
troops _____________. - answerFired upon the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in
Charleston Harbor
What are some important details about the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863? -
answerThe Union won, it featured Pickett's famous charge, was the end of Lee's
_______ took over as the second President of the United States - answerJohn Adams
What were Thomas Jefferson's main ideas for government? - answerMake it smaller,
lower taxes, shrink the military, enable agrarian utopia
The War of 1812 was the first time the United States _______ anybody. -
answerDeclared war
What is "Manifest Destiny?" - answerthe idea that it was a God-given right to Americans
to spread out over the North American Continent
___________ dominated the South, shaping it both economically culturally. -
answerSlavery
Andrew Jackson won the Presidency in 1828 by running as a "Champion" for the
______________. - answerCommon man
What are some ways in which the Abolition movement started to take shape and gain
support in the 19th Century. - answerColonizationists had the idea to shop all former
slaves back to Africa, radical abolitionism started to become a movement, "Slavery is a
sin" started to become a message in the North, the movement was also equality
What reform movements were open to Women in the 19th Century? - answerDorthea
Dix reformed mental institutions, Carry Nation attacked bars with a hatchet and sobered
men in America, Frances Willard founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union,
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Why did the US government originally ignore Texas' request to join the Union? -
answerTexas wanted to be a slave state and that would have disrupted the equilibrium
of slave and free states in the Union
Why did the "Know Nothings" have the name that they did? - answerWhen asked about
their politics, they would say they know nothing
The "Official" beginning of the Civil War happened on April 12, 1861, when Southern
troops _____________. - answerFired upon the Union garrison at Fort Sumter in
Charleston Harbor
What are some important details about the Battle of Gettysburg in July, 1863? -
answerThe Union won, it featured Pickett's famous charge, was the end of Lee's
