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Study Guide for US History 8th Hour
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8th Grade
05/08/2011

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Discrimination
Definition
Treating someone based on the group or class that they are in
Term
emigrate
Definition
to LEAVE one's country
Term
ethnocentrism
Definition
believing your culture is superior to another
Term
prejudice
Definition
preconceived judgements
Term
stereotype
Definition
a simplified and standardized concept of a person or a group
Term
persecute
Definition
harass or oppress someone because of religion, race, or belief
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scapegoat
Definition
someone who has to take the blame for someone else
Term
Which three religious groups cam to America between 1600-1900, only to be mistreated?
Definition
Baptist, Quakers, and Irish Catholics
Term
Why did the Irish come to America in the 1840's
Definition
To escape the Irish Potato Famine
Term
What happened to Japanese Americans when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941?
Definition
The were forced from their homes and business and placed in internment camps.
Term
What happened to Felix Longoria?
Definition
The military refused to give him a burial because he was Mexican.
Term
Where and when did the Constitutional Convention begin?
Definition
May 14 to September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Term
What is a constitution?
Definition
A framework of government; the rules for the government to make rules.
Term
How many branches are in the US government?
Definition
Three
Term
What are the 1st ten amendments to the Constitution called?
Definition
The Bill of Rights
Term
What is the main job of the Legislative Branch?
Definition
Make laws, taxes, trade, declare war
Term
Which groups/individuals are in the Legislative Branch?
Definition
Senate and House of Representatives (Senate and House Committees)
Term
What is the main job of the Executive Branch?
Definition
Carries out the laws
Term
Which groups/individuals are in the Executive branch?
Definition
President and Cabinet Department
Term
What is the main job of the Judicial Branch?
Definition
Interprets laws
Term
Which groups/individuals are in the Judicial Branch?
Definition
Supreme court and lower federal courts
Term
List one way that the Executive branch has power over the Judicial Branch.
Definition
Appoints judges
Term
List one way that the Judicial Branch has power over the Legislative Branch.
Definition
Rules laws from legislative branch unconstitutional.
Term
List one way that the Legislative Branch has power over the Executive Branch.
Definition
override veto
Term
What are the 5 freedoms included in the First Amendment?
Definition
Speech, religion, assembly, press, petition
Term
Where and when was George Washington inaugurated?
Definition
April 30, 1789, in New York City
Term
Which 4 people were in Washington's first Cabinet?
Definition
(Sec.State) Thomas Jefferson; (Sec.Treasury) Alexander Hamilton;(Sec. War) Henry Knox; and (Attorney General) Edmund Randolph
Term
Who does Alexander Hamilton (Federalists) feel should have the most power? state or central government?
Definition
Central government
Term
How does Alexander Hamilton think America will succeed agriculture or industry?
Definition
Industry
Term
Who does Thomas Jefferson (Democratic-Republicans) feel should have the most power? state or central government
Definition
States
Term
How does Thomas Jefferson think America will succeed? agriculture or industry
Definition
agriculture
Term
Who did the US get the Louisiana purchase from?
Definition
Napoleon Bonaparte (France)
Term
When did the US purchase the Louisiana Territory?
Definition
1803
Term
Why did Thomas Jefferson want to buy the Louisiana Territory?
Definition
To protect US interests for shipping in New Orleans
Term
What did Thomas Jefferson instruct Lewis and Clark to do on their expedition?
Definition
Establish trade and US sovereignty, find the Northwest Passage, claim to Northwest territory, document plants and animals
Term
Where and when did Lewis and Clark begin their journey?
Definition
May 14, 1804 from St. Louis, MO
Term
What role did Sacagawea play on the Lewis and Clark Expedition?
Definition
Guided them nearly 4000 miles and helped translate.
Term
Why did the War of 1812 begin?
Definition
desire for expansion into the Northwest Territory, trade restrictions because of Britain's ongoing war with France, impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, British support of American Indian tribes against American expansion
Term
Who was fighting in the War of 1812?
Definition
The US and Britain
Term
Who won the War of 1812
Definition
There was no clear winner- it was a tie
Term
Which president was in office from 1789-1797? List one event from this era.
Definition
George Washington, Whiskey Rebellion
Term
Which president was in office from 1797-1801? List one event from this era.
Definition
John Adams, XYZ Affair
Term
Which president was in office from 1801-1809? List one event from this era.
Definition
Thomas Jefferson, Louisiana Purchase
Term
Which president was in office from 1809-1817? List one event from this era.
Definition
James Madison, War of 1812
Term
Which president was in office from 1829-1837? List one event from this era.
Definition
Andrew Jackson, Indian Removal Act of 1830
Term
Why did Americans move to Texas in the 1920's?
Definition
Offered very low prices for land
Term
Who led the Americans to Texas?
Definition
Stephen F. Austin
Term
What laws did the Texicans agree to follow from the Mexican Government?
Definition
learn Spanish, become Mexican citizens, convert to Catholicism, follow Mexican laws.
Term
Where did a large Mexican Army defeat about 180 Texicans?
Definition
The Alamo
Term
Where did the Texicans gain their independence with Santa Anna surrendering?
Definition
San Jacinto
Term
Who was the US president during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848)?
Definition
James K. Polk
Term
What did both the US and Mexico want control of, that caused the war to begin?
Definition
New Mexico and California; the Texas border
Term
Who won the Mexican-American War?
Definition
The US
Term
What did the winners get in the peace treaty (Guadalupe-Hildago)?
Definition
Mexico gave Texas to the US with the border at the Rio Grande River, the US got New Mexico and California for $15 million.
Term
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Definition
Missouri entered the Union as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and no slavery in the Louisiana purchase above 36'30 latitude.
Term
What 3 main things did the Compromise of 1850 decide?
Definition
California entered as a free state and new territories had no restriction of slavery, the slave trade but not slavery was banned in Washington DC, stronger fugitive slave laws were enacted.
Term
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Definition
It allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska the right to decide for themselves whether to be slave or free states (it overrode the Missouri Compromise by allowing slavery north of the line)
Term
What was "Uncle Tom's Cabin?"
Definition
A novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe dramatizing the cruelties of slavery--very influential among abolitionists.
Term
What role did John Brown play in causing the Civil War?
Definition
He believed his mission was to end slavery and he killed 5 pro-slavery people in Kansas leading to a civil war in Kansas known as Bleeding Kansas. He was hanged.
Term
What effect did the election of Abraham Lincoln as the president have on the Civil War?
Definition
It led to the South seceding from the Union.
Term
How many states and people were in the Confederate States of America?
Definition
11 states and 9 million people (3.5 million slaves)
Term
How many states and people were in the United States during the Civil War?
Definition
22 million people and 23 states
Term
What are three advantages that the Confederacy had during the Civil War?
Definition
Noble cause, defending homeland, superior military leadership
Term
What are three disadvantages that the Confederacy had during the Civil War?
Definition
Little industrial development, fewer railroads, large slave population and fewer resources.
Term
What are three advantages that the United States had during the Civil War?
Definition
Larger population, larger industry, larger resources
Term
What are three disadvantages that the United States had during the Civil War?
Definition
Poor military leadership, fighting in unfamiliar territory, less clear sense of purpose (especially with immigrants).
Term
List three improved technologies that made the Civil War America's first "modern" war?
Definition
repeating rifles, ironclad ships, trench warfare.
Term
Who was the main army general of the Confederate States of America?
Definition
General Robert E. Lee
Term
Who was the main army general of the United States of America by the end of the Civil War?
Definition
General Ulysses S. Grant
Term
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Definition
Jefferson Davis
Term
What made up a typical soldier's diet in the Civil War?
Definition
salted pork or beef, corn meal, coffee, hardtack
Term
Which side in the Civil War had more industry?
Definition
The North
Term
What was the capital of the Confederate States of America?
Definition
Richmond, Virginia
Term
Where was the capital of the United States of America in the Civil War?
Definition
Washington, DC
Term
Who were Matthew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan?
Definition
Took pictures of the war
Term
Who was Rose O'Neal Greenhow?
Definition
a Confederate spy
Term
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Definition
A nurse during the war (helped the mentally ill)
Term
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Definition
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Term
What was at Andersonville?
Definition
The worst Civil War prison camp.
Term
Which side was fighting to defend its homeland in the Civil War?
Definition
The South
Term
Which side was fighting to preserve the Union?
Definition
The North
Term
Who sued for his for his freedom, but the Supreme Court said he was just property?
Definition
Dred Scott
Term
What happened at Fort Sumter?
Definition
4:30 am on April 12, 1861 the Federal Arsenal at Fort Sumter was fired on by Southern Artillery. The north surrendered it and the Civil War began.
Term
Who assassinated President Lincoln
Definition
John Wilkes Booth
Term
What date did President Lincoln died?
Definition
April 14, 1865
Term
Battle of Bull Run (Manassas Junction)
When? City and State? Main US general? Main Confederate Generals (2)? one other fact? who won?
Definition
July 21, 1861; Manassas Junction, Virginia, North Gen-Irvin McDowell, South Gens-PJT Beauregard/Joseph E Johnston, General Thomas Jackson held firm and was nicknamed Stonewall Jackson, Confederates won
Term
Battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg)When? City and State? Main US general, main Confederate generals (2), one other fact, who won?
Definition
Sept. 17, 1862, Sharpsburg, Maryland, US Gen-George McClellan, South gen-Robert E. Lee and A.P. Hill, is actually 3 battles, confederate lines held
Term
Battle of Gettysburg? When? City and State? Main US General, Main Confederate General? one other fact? Who won?
Definition
July 1-2, 1863, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, North Gen- George G. Meade, Southern Gen- Robert E. Lee, More than 51,000 casualties, North won.
Term
Sherman's March to the Sea? When? City and state began and ended, Main US general, 3 goals, basic story of what troops did?
Definition
Nov. 15-Dec. 10 1864, Atlanta to Savannah Georgia, US gen-William T. Sherman, Purpose-to split the south, destroy vital supply lines, bring death and fear to the civilians; forcefully took supplies from the people, burned supplies, wrecked 200 miles of railroad, burned houses, looted homes/businesses, $100 million in damage.
Term
Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse? When? City and State? Main US General, Main Confederate General, Why did Lee Surrender? What were the conditions of Surrender that Grant offered Lee?
Definition
April 9, 1965, Appomattox Court House, Virginia, North- Grant, South- Lee, No supplies and surrounded, south relinquish weapons, give word won't fight again, go home. Can keep horses and personal arms and given 25000 rations.
Term
What were the working conditions for the Chinese  while building the railroad?
Definition
The railroads were dangerous because they used explosives. 15%-18% of the laborers either died or were wounded.
Term
What happened to the Lakota Sioux?
Definition
The US army was moving the Lakota Sioux to a reservation but while they were being moved, the army shot and kill 400 of the Native Americans.
Term
What had the Japanese become successful with in America in the early 1900's.
Definition
They were successful in the farming and agricultural business.
Term
Why did the Chinese leave their country in the 1850's?
Definition
To escape a famine in China and to get rich in the California Gold Rush.
Term
What were the 2 main jobs that the Chinese found when arriving in America?
Definition
Gold mines and railroads.
Term
Who was Chief Joseph? What
happened to him?
Definition
Chief of Nez Perce natives. His tribe was
stopped by U.S. army when trying to escape
into Canada. They were put into reservations.
“I will fight no more forever.”
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