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Question and Answer Samples and Techniques

Match the device to what it measures:

Stop Watch

Scale

Thermometer

Speedometer

Odometer

Distance

Temperature

Elapsed Time

Weight

Rate of Travel

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Which of the following is NOT one of the agreements in the Missouri Compromise?

Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state

Maine would join as a free state.

Slavery would be prohibited anywhere north of 36° 30’ latitude

The balance of slave a free states would be balanced

Indians in the territory would be moved west onto reservations

The subject of protective tariff’s greatly divided northerners and southerners. Why?

Southerners had to pay higher prices for goods and this made their economy weaker so they blamed the North for voting for these tariffs.

A group of opponents to Jackson

Cherokee who developed a writing

Supported Andrew Jackson

senator against nullification

Senator for nullification

John C. Calhoun

Democratic party

Whig party

Sequoyah

Daniel Webster

Match the term with the best option

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Who was the Supreme Court justice whose ruling established the principle of judicial review?

James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

Albert Gallatin

William Marbury

John Marshall

What kind of stories were popular American Culture during the time period of the early 1800’s

–TALES OF THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA

–STORIES OF THE AMERICAN FRONTIER & INDIANS

–THE EXPERIENCES OF EARLY AMERICAN SETTLERS

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

During the early 1800’s many countries followed in the footsteps of the U.S. by fighting for independence and liberty. What effect did this have on U.S. foreign policy?

The Congress strengthened the military to keep them from taking U.S. territories

The Native Americans were taken off their land

Jackson vetoed many laws because he acted like a “king”

Nationalism sparked wars around the world

The Monroe Doctrine was created

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

What is inertia?

All of the above

The speed at which an object falls

Measurement of electrical resistance

A ratio between mass and velocity

Resistance to motion or change

with Canada on the 49°

No European colonies in N/S America

system using family labor

System using unmarried girls

high protective tariffs of 1828

Abominations

Rhode Island

Convention of 1818

Monroe Doctrine

Lowell

The belief that federal authority is strictly limited by the Constitution; therefore state government’s have more authority to make decisions for the people who live in their state

STATES’ RIGHTS

This issue made SC want to secede in the 1830’s as well as in the 1860’s.

Cause of the Civil War

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

 The practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs

Cabinet positions

Nullification crisis

Democratic Party

Tariff of Abominations

Spoils system

Dispute between the federal and state governments over constitutional powers

Nullification crisis

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

The Supreme Court decided in Gibbons v. Ogden that Federal licenses are valid over state licenses.

This affirmed the idea that the federal government has authority over the states.

&

The federal government could regulate interstate commerce and transportation.

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

The steam engine made people and goods travel cheaper, quicker, and easier.

False. Not until it was used in steamboats and railroads.

Why did workers organize trade unions?

TO MAKE WORKING CONDITIONS BETTER

Designed a steel blade for plowing

Designed a system of communicating

1st steamboat

Designed a sewing machine

1st locomotive in US

Tom Thumb

Clermont

John Deere

Samuel Morse

Isaac Singer

Match the term with the best option.

What is the relationship between mass production and interchangeable parts?

IP - Pieces that are the exact same shape and size

Mass Production – making large quantities of something

You cannot mass produce interchangeable parts without

machines.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

A slave from Virginia, who believed God had called him to end slavery

Meriwether Lewis

Yeoman

Mark Twain

Jean Etienne Bore

Nat Turner

separates cotton seeds

region that grows most cotton

Crop brokers

Formed to improve pay of workers

Communication machine

telegraph

Factors

Cotton gin

Cotton belt

trade unions

Match the term with the best option

The only large southern factory able to make iron products

TREDEGAR IRON WORKS

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

What caused cotton production to increase in the 1800’s?

Small land owning farmers liked to grow their own cotton

Everyone needed cotton for clothing

Slavery was increasing because it was a cash crop

India and Egypt began producing cotton

The invention of the cotton gin and textile mills

What caused slavery to decline after the American Revolutionary War?

SLAVERY WAS AGAINST THE IDEAL OF LIBERTY, & CASH CROPS LIKE Indigo & Rice

WERE IN LOW DEMANDThis meant that slave owners could

not afford to keep slaves and run a successful business.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

What did “king cotton” mean?

A nickname for wealthy plantation owners

A story to explain slavery to children

Iron and lumber were not important

It ruled the northern textile mills

The south’s economy was based on this cash crop

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

Nat Turner’s Rebellion set out on an August night to kill slaveholders and their families.

What kind of factories could you find if you traveled in a time-machine back to the 1800’s south?

Textile mills

The Missouri Compromise

Allowed Missouri & Maine into the Union

Set the latitude 36’30 for slavery

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

It is necessary to rotate different crop plantings in a single field to stop soil erosion.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Which of the following is NOT a type of discrimination that free African Americans faced in the south?

Most could vote

Travel freely

Unlimited rights

Conduct business freely

Most could not vote

Match the term with the best option

People who oppose immigration

freed from constraint

To end slavery

limit the drinking of alcohol

rise above the material things in life

Abolition

Temperance

Emancipation

Transcendentalism

Nativists

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Why did many Irish and German immigrants come to America in the mid- 1800’s?

To start farms in the south

Searching for freedom of religion

To form Utopias

To end slavery

Fleeing economic or political troubles

Match the term with the best option

Utopia

2nd Great Awakening

Prison reform

Richard Arkwright

Short-staple cotton

Christian Renewal

waterframe

Perfect society on Earth

Children & mentally-ill

popular in South

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

What problems were created as cities began to grow from immigration and rural migration?

They needed a fire department

A new police system

Under population, economic growth, and public services

Lack of schooling and limited rights

Overcrowding, social class conflicts, and disease

At the beginning of the 1800’s Spain, Russia, Britain, the U.S.A., and Indian tribes all claimed ownership of

Oregon

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

The first agent contracted to bring settlers to Texas was Stephen F. Austin.

False. It was his father Moses Austin.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

In the Battle of the Alamo

Mexican general Santa Anna was captured.

Texans surrendered because they were severely outnumbered.

Texas rebels were fighting for the legalization of slavery

The Mexican Army had poor defenses and no way to maneuver

Mexican soldiers overwhelmed Texans, killing Travis, Bowie, and Crockett.

Match the term with the best option

Joseph Smith

gold seekers in CA

Secession

Manifest Destiny

Brigham Young

Formal withdrawal

Westward expansion

Forty-niners

Mormon Trail

Mormons

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Why was Kansas bloody?

Many abolitionists were killing Confederate rebels

Many Confederates were killing Union Yankees

Slaves were killing their masters

Many slave owners were killing slaves

Many abolitionists and slave owners were killing each other

TRUE or FALSE?TRUE or FALSE?

The Supreme Court case about Dred Scott decided that Congress could not ban slavery in any federal territory.

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

Republican who wanted to prevent the spread of slavery

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

Ulysses S. Grant

Henry Clay

Abraham Lincoln

Match the term with the best option

General who won the War between the States

General over all the Union

President of the Confederacy

General of the Army of the Confederacy

President of the Union

Jefferson Davis

Robert E. Lee

Winfield Scott

Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln

• Name the Presidents in order 1-16• Know the amendments• Identify important countries and bodies of water• Essay question 3 paragraphs (8 sentences each –using

the structure we have practiced in class) Also found on the next slide

• Essay topics will include– Constitution– Amendments– Industrial Revolution– Compromises over slavery– Reform movements– Civil War

The rest of the Exam will consist of

2 sentences each following your details/evidence

2nd 5th and 8th sentences

1st sentenceTopic Sentence

Thesis

Concrete detail or supportive evidence

Commentary that connects

the detail/evidence

back to your topic sentence.

Commentary that connects

the detail/evidence

back to your topic sentence.

Concrete detail or supportive evidence

Commentary that connects

the detail/evidence

back to your topic sentence.

Commentary that connects

the detail/evidence

back to your topic sentence.

Make sure your essay actually answers the question

Conclusion sentence