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US History Final
Histroy Midterm
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History
11th Grade
01/07/2012

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Great Britain vs. France
Definition
Who fought in the French and Indian War?
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Stamp Acts
Quartering Acts
Townsend Acts
Definition
Name the Acts passed by the British to tax to colonists?
Term
"No taxation without representation"
Definition
What was the famous quote chanted by the colonist rebels?
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Boston Massacre
Definition
What was the event where 5 colonist rebels were shot and killed for allegedly just throwing snow balls?
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Boston Tea Party
Definition
What was the event that were colonist dumped barrels of tea into the Boston Harbor in protest of the taxes?
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Thomas Payne
Definition
Who wrote Common Sense?
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Treaty of Paris
Definition
What was the name of the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War?
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270
Definition
What is the number of electoral votes necessary to become President in the US?
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1789
Definition
In what year did the government under the Consituion start to function?
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Bill of Rights
Definition
What are the first 10 ammendments?
Term
Revise the Articles of Confederation
Definition
Why was the Constituional Convention called?
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Philladelphia
Definition
Where was the Constituion written?
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Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Definition
Who was John Marshall?
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Fort McHenry
Definition
What Battle was the Star-Spangled Banner written after?
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Marbury vs. Madison
Definition
Which Supreme Court case was used to establish the Court's right of Judicial Review?
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Strengthing of Central Government
Definition
What was the major contribution of the Federalist Party?
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Jackson
Definition
Who was the hero of the Battle of New Orleans?
Term
Cherokee Indians
Definition
Who did the Trail of Tears involve?
Term
Pennsylvania
Definition
Where was the Constituional Convention held?
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Ulysees S Grant
Definition
Whose presidentcy was marked by politcal scandal?
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Carpetbaggers
Definition
What were Northerns who moved to South called?
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Scalawags
Definition
What were Southerners who didnt support war called?
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Hayes
Definition
The Reconstruction Era ended with the election of what President?
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Meade
Definition
Who was the victorious general at the Battle of Gettysburg?
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Slavery
Definition
What does the term "peculiar instituion" refer to?
Term
Jefferson Davis
Definition
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Term
Rough and Ready
Definition
What was Zachary Taylor's nickname?
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Massachusettes
Definition
Where did the Boston Tea Party take place?
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Georgia
Definition
Where did the Trail of Tears begin?
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Texas
Definition
Where did the battles of the Alamo and San Jacinto take place?
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Pennyslvania
Definition
What state did the Battle of Gettysburg take place?
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Illinois
Definition
Where did Lincoln and Douglas engage in a series of debates while running for Senate?
Term
Lousiana
Definition
Where did the Battle of New Orleans take place?
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South Carolina
Definition
What was the first state to suceed?
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Thadius Stevens
Definition
Who was the Leader of the Radical Republicans during Reconstruction?
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Jefferson
Definition
Who wrote the Declaration of Independance?
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Jackson
Definition
Who was "King Veto"?
Term
John Adams
Definition
Who was our second president?
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Harriet Beacher Stowe
Definition
Who was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Term
John Brown
Definition
Who was a radical abolitionist who lead a rade with his sons in the south?
Term
Stephen Douglas
Definition
Who debated Lincoln many times?
Term
Robert E Lee
Definition
Who was the Confederate General at the Battle of Antietam?
Term
Appotamax Courthouse
Definition
Where did the South surrender?
Term
14th Ammendment
Definition
What Ammendment gave natural born American's citizenship and granted due process of law?
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Charles Sumner
Definition
Who was beaten over the head with a cane?
Term
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Definition
What case established seperate but equal is ok?
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Edmund G Ross
Definition
Who kept Johnshon from being impeached?
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Eli Whitney
Definition
Who invented the cotton gin?
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