51. Who was called “Old Rough and Ready” and fought in northern Mexico?
Zachary Taylor
58. Which Supreme Court case declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional?
Dred Scott v. Sandford
92. What labor union, led by Samuel Gompers, focused on skilled workers and practical goals?
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
56. What novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced Northern views on slavery?
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
90. What 1890 law made monopolistic trusts illegal?
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Chapter 11 — The Growth of American Society (13 questions) 27. Who built the first successful English-style textile mill in the U.S.?
Samuel Slater
24. What party formed in opposition to Jackson and his policies?
Whig Party
30. Who perfected the steel-edged plow for western farming?
John Deere
73. Who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
54. What controversial law strengthened fugitive slave return procedures?
Fugitive Slave Act (part of Compromise of 1850)
21. What name was given to state banks where federal deposits were placed?
Pet banks
Chapter 14 — The Civil War (12 questions) 63. What strategy, devised by Winfield Scott, aimed to defeat the Confederacy by blockade and controlling the Mississippi?
Anaconda Plan
78. Which amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
Thirteenth Amendment
65. Which ironclad battle signaled the end of wooden warships?
Monitor vs. Merrimack (CSS Virginia)
85. What 1877 compromise ended Reconstruction by withdrawing federal troops from the South?
Compromise of 1877
48. Which treaty ended the Mexican War and ceded California and New Mexico?
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
34. Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel F. B. Morse
Which case ruled that the national government’s delegated powers could not be limited by state boundaries?
Gibbons v. Ogden
37. Who led the abolitionist newspaper the Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
57. What term described violent conflict in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery forces?
Bleeding Kansas
69. What 1863 Union victory split the Confederacy and gave control of the Mississippi?
Capture/Siege of Vicksburg
43. What 1836 event secured Texas independence from Mexico?
Battle of San Jacinto
38. Name two famous former-slave abolitionists.
Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass
36. Which author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Chapter 15 — Reconstruction (13 questions) 75. What was Lincoln’s plan requiring 10% of voters to take an oath for readmission called?
Ten Percent Plan
97. Who invented the telephone in 1876?
Alexander Graham Bell
55. Which 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and used popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who led the U.S. forces at Fallen Timbers?
Mad Anthony Wayne
81. What act (1867) divided the South into military districts and required new state constitutions?
Reconstruction Act of 1867
96. What movement organized farmers to fight railroad abuses and later helped form the Populist Party?
The Grange / Farmers' Alliance / Populist movement
99. What demographic shift after 1865 brought large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe?
New Immigration (late 19th century)
17. What was the 1828 high tariff dubbed by its opponents?
Tariff of Abominations
64. What was the first major battle of the Civil War with spectators and a Confederate victory?
First Battle of Bull Run (Manassas)
50. What purchase in the 1850s paid Mexico for land finalizing continental U.S. boundaries?
Gadsden Purchase
100. Which evangelist led widespread urban evangelism in the late 19th century?
Dwight L. Moody
35. Who led the movement for public-school reform in Massachusetts?
Horace Mann
45. Which 1846 treaty set the U.S.-British boundary at the 49th parallel to the Pacific?
Treaty settling the Oregon question (1846)
Chapter 16 — The Gilded Age (13 questions) 87. Who built a steel empire using vertical integration?
Andrew Carnegie
59. Who led the violent Pottawatomie Massacre in Kansas?
John Brown
91. What 1883 law created an independent Civil Service Commission to curb patronage?
Pendleton Act
44. Which mission-fort fell and became a rallying cry "Remember the Alamo!"?
The Alamo
Which case upheld implied powers and denied a state the right to tax the national bank?
McCulloch v. Maryland
98. Who is associated with the incandescent light bulb and many inventions?
Thomas Alva Edison
95. Which campaign in 1896 contrasted Bryan’s whistle-stop tour with McKinley’s front-porch campaign?
1896 presidential campaign (William Jennings Bryan vs. William McKinley)
61. Who ran as the Republican candidate in 1856?
John C. Frémont
41. Which trail led settlers to Oregon?
Oregon Trail
26. Who won the 1840 "Log Cabin" presidential election?
William Henry Harrison
Chapter 12 — Manifest Destiny (12 questions) 40. What term described the belief that the U.S. was destined to expand across the continent?
Manifest Destiny
71. What 1863 speech by Lincoln honored the dead at Gettysburg?
Gettysburg Address
76. What congressional bill demanded a majority oath and harsher terms than Lincoln’s plan?
Wade-Davis Bill
62. In the election of 1860, who was the Republican winner?
Abraham Lincoln
What group did Jefferson believe should be the basis of the country?
Farmers
Which conflict opened the Northwest Territory to white settlement?
Battle of Fallen Timbers
33. What was the first economically successful U.S. railroad?
Baltimore & Ohio (B & O) Railroad
What landmark Supreme Court case established judicial review?
Marbury v. Madison
19. What crisis nearly led to confrontation between Jackson and South Carolina?
Nullification Crisis
89. Who was the leading investment banker who formed United States Steel?
J. P. Morgan
46. Which president set four goals including acquiring California and settling Oregon?
James K. Polk
49. Who led the campaign that captured Mexico City for the U.S.?
General Winfield Scott
Which expedition leader discovered Pikes Peak?
Zebulon Pike
16. What system did Jackson use to reward supporters with government jobs?
The spoils system
29. Who developed interchangeable parts and advanced American manufacturing?
Eli Whitney
84. What farming system replaced slavery and often trapped workers in debt?
Sharecropping
39. What major religious revival movement occurred ca. 1800–1825?
The Second Great Awakening
Who led the expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory?
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
83. What secret terrorist organization used violence to oppose Reconstruction and black civil rights?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
79. Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law?
Fourteenth Amendment
Who became president on March 4, 1801?
Thomas Jefferson
77. What agency was established to help former slaves with food, education, and hospitals?
Freedmen’s Bureau
25. Which panic happened in 1837 after Jackson’s presidency?
Panic of 1837
68. Which Union general accepted Lee’s surrender at Appomattox Court House?
Ulysses S. Grant
47. What war (1846–48) resulted from disputes over Texas and U.S. expansion?
Mexican War (Mexican-American War)
93. Name a major labor conflict in 1886 that ended in violence in Chicago.
Haymarket Riot
53. Which compromise admitted California as a free state in 1850?
Compromise of 1850
32. What water route connected New York City to the Great Lakes and spurred inland trade?
Erie Canal
Which amendment allowed electors to cast separate ballots for president and vice president?
Twelfth Amendment
70. Who led Sherman’s destructive “March to the Sea”?
William Tecumseh Sherman
31. Who patented a reaping machine in 1834, revolutionizing harvests?
Cyrus McCormick
80. Which amendment prohibited denying a citizen the vote based on race?
Fifteenth Amendment
15. What protective tariff passed in 1816 aimed to shield U.S. manufactures?
Tariff of 1816
22. Which 1830 law authorized removal of Native tribes west of the Mississippi?
Indian Removal Act of 1830
66. Who earned the nickname "Stonewall" at First Bull Run?
Thomas J. ("Stonewall") Jackson
67. What battle was the single bloodiest day in American history and led Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
Battle of Antietam
18. Who led the nullification theory and resigned as vice president?
John C. Calhoun
What 1803 land purchase more than doubled the size of the U.S.?
Louisiana Purchase
What political era covers Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe's administrations?
Jeffersonian Republicanism (1801–1825)
82. Which president was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate during Reconstruction?
Andrew Johnson
72. Which event in April 1865 ended the Civil War in Virginia?
Surrender at Appomattox Court House
60. What series of debates gave Abraham Lincoln national attention?
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
Chapter 10 — The Age of Jackson (13 questions) 14. Which period is often named for Andrew Jackson?
The Age of Jackson (roughly 1820–1840)
74. Approximately how many men died in the Civil War?
Over 600,000
42. Who led American settlers into Texas beginning in 1821?
Stephen F. Austin
88. Who created Standard Oil and dominated the oil industry through horizontal integration?
John D. Rockefeller
20. What institution did Jackson veto the renewal of, leading to its end in 1836?
Bank of the United States
23. What forced Cherokee relocation is known as?
Trail of Tears
Chapter 13 — A House Dividing (12 questions) 52. What proposed amendment would have banned slavery in territory from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
Who led the Indian confederacy opposing American expansion in the Northwest?
Tecumseh
94. What 1892 strike involved railroad cars and the U.S. mail and was led by Eugene V. Debs?
Pullman Strike
28. What invention by Eli Whitney revitalized cotton production?
The cotton gin
86. Who became president after the disputed 1876 election?
Rutherford B. Hayes
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