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AH Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was another name for Pilgrims? | Separatist |
| What was the early Representative Democracy in the USA? | House Of Burgesses |
| What was the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania known as? | Mason Dixon Line |
| Why did the English establish Roanoke? | Wanted more people to trade and to buy english goods |
| Which Spanish Explorer found the Mississippi? | Hernando de soto |
| Who was the first European to see the Pacific? | Vasco Nunez |
| What was the largest city in the world in the 1200s? | Hung jo china |
| Which Portuguese explorer passed the Southern tip of Africa first? | Bartolomeu Dias |
| he Magna Carta was the first document to establish a what? | as a peace treaty between the king and the rebels. |
| Whose trial helped establish freedom of press? | Peter Zenger |
| Who wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac? | Benjamin Franklin |
| in 1765 Parliament passed the Stamp Act, which required colonists to do what? | Tax for every piece of paper bought |
| Which side fired the first shot of the American Revolution? | no body knows |
| Which country was the first to sign a treaty of alliance with the US? | France |
| The Declaration of Independence is divided into a preamble and three main sections. The first main section states ideas about what? | General ideas of society and government |
| How did the Bill of Rights become part of the Constitution? | Added through the amendment process |
| What did most state constitutions have that the original United States Constitution did not have | The bill of rights |
| How is the president of the United States get elected? | People vote |
| A new bill may be introduced which body? The Senate or Congress? | Both Senate and congress |
| How was the French Revolution like the American Revolution? | Both gained freedom |
| Which event forced Native Americans to give up their land in present-day Ohio? | Battle of fallen timbers |
| What was a result of the Lewis and Clark expedition? | hat was a result of the Lewis and Clark expedition? |
| Why Thomas Jefferson was uneasy about buying the Louisiana Territory? | Unconstitutional |
| Suffrage is | the right to vote |
| The Industrial Revolution began in what industry? | textile |
| What did Horace Mann believe was essential for a democracy to work? | Public schools and education |
| Some Northern workers were against abolition because they thought free slaves would take what from them? | Their Jobs |
| Why did American settlers in Texas come into conflict with Mexico in the 1830s? | No representation in mexican legislature |
| What is the importance of the siege at the Alamo? | When texas fought independence from mexico |
| California’s call to join the Union in 1850 would have given free states what in the Legislative branch? | More power than the south because they had more free than slave states. And trouble in the home lands |
| In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Abraham Lincoln insisted that the territories be kept free from what? | Slavery |
| During the Civil War prices of goods in both the North and the South did what? | Rose because needed more funds |
| What document banned slaves in areas fighting the Union? | Emancipation proclamation |
| When Reconstruction began, Abraham Lincoln’s main goal was to do what? | Rebuild the Union |
| The Battle of Wounded Knee signaled the end to what wars? | End of the indian wars |
| A land rush in 1889 brought tens of thousands of settlers to which Western territory? | Oklahoma |
| What aided in the growth of newspapers in the late 1800s? | More people and it started being more entertaining |
| Why did states improve public education after the Civil War? | They needed more skilled people for better/more special tasks |
| Members of the temperance movement wanted to outlaw what? | Alcohol |
| Name a leader of the Gilded Age? | John d rockefeller |
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