History Final

John Deere designed which of the following?

Cyrus McCormick developed which of the following?

Elias Howe patented which of the following?

Who made up the small elite group of the wealthy upper class?

Who made up the middle class?

Due to what invention, did the South become known as the Cotton Kingdom?

What groups of people helped with the Underground Railroad?

Why did mill owners from Waltham and Lowell usually hire young single women from New England farms?

When the National Trades Union was founded in 1834, what did it work to get?

Nearly half of the 260,000 free African Americans lived where?

Following Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner's uprisings, some southern states passed stricter laws called what?

Poor neighborhoods were plagued by which of the following?

Immigrants coming into the United States wanted which of the following?

What required a great deal of labor?

To justify slavery, many white southerners interpreted the Bible to mean what?

Nat Turner believed that God chose him to do what?

The Irish came to the United States for which of the following reasons?

Why were many women drawn to the temperance movement?

Prison reformers also worked to solve problems for all the following EXCEPT

Why did reformers believe that the nation needed free public education?

The distribution of water, land, food, and timber were _____ matters and individuals were _____, according to Mormon communities.

White solving various social ills, female reformers met with opposition. This resistance made these reformers realize that they needed to secure which of the following rights if they were to participate fully in public life?

Who was NOT one of the women who were activists for both abolition and women's rights?

Who was the first secretary of education?

Who fought for institutions for the mentally ill?

What state established a model for free public elementary education?

Why did free African Americans object to the American Colonization Society plan?

Garrison's call for what, troubled many moderates?

Up until rehabilitation in the early 1800s, what types of treatment were the common way of punishing criminals?

Why did Protestant churches attract new members during the Second Great Awakening?

Where was the nation's first public high school?

What were the three main issues that women fought for?

Why were many southerners suspicious of northern educational reformers?

Why did the Mormons move west?

What two groups created the Free Soil Party?

How many black slaves lived in the South when the Civil War began?

What state was the first state to secede from the Union?

The Senator who proposed, along with Lewis Cass, the concept of popular sovereignty was

The Representative who introduced the amendment that would ban slavery in all lands that would be acquired from Mexico was

Which of the following was not a key way that the new constitution for the Confederate States of American differed from the U.S. Constitution?

Which of the following is NOT part of Clay's proposal to satisfy antislavery interest?

Who believed that a state could refuse to obey a law it did not like?

Not everyone opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act solely on abolitionist grounds. Some critics had which of the following motives?

Which abolitionist led an attack on Harper's Ferry and called for a slave rebellion?

What did southerners view the newly elected president's victory as?

Who was the Republican who won the bid for U.S. President in the election of 1860?

Who was the presidential candidate for the southern Democrats in the election of 1860?

Who was the presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union Party in the election of 1860?

Who was the presidential candidate for the northern Democrats in the election of 1860?

The elder statesman from the South who advocated a duel presidency was

Black soldiers captured by the Confederacy were treated as outlaws, where they could face which of the following?

Where did the Confederacy claim their capital to be?

Where did Grant and Lee meet to discuss terms for ending the Civil War?

While Grant slowly pushed his way toward Richmond, Sherman under took a campaign to do what?

The defeat of the South at the Battle of Antietam

Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to

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Which of the following was NOT a reason why neither France nor Great Britain came to the aid of the South as the South had strategized?

What were the terms of surrender?

After Lincoln became president, one fort that was very important to the South- Fort Sumter- remained under whose control?

Women worked as clerks in what department as the government's first female office workers?

The bloodiest single battle in all of U.S. Military history?

When Grant was promoted to general in chief, commander of all Union forces, Grant understood better than previous commanders how to what?

Grant knew that gaining full control of what required taking Vicksburg?

What was/were the most important consequences of the First Battle of Bull Run

In July 1862, Republicans pushed legislation through Congress that authorized who to serve in the military?

Which of the following was NOT part of Lincoln and his military advisers' three-part strategy?

Until when did President Lincoln keep his plan, the Emancipation Proclamation, a secret?

The Battle of Antietam proved that who could be defeated?