Csun History 370 Final Multiple Choice

Front 1

Who first coined the phrase Manifest Destiny in 1845—

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John L. O’Sullivan

Front 2

The ______ was a law signed by Andrew Jackson to deal with the so called Indian Problems—

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The Indian Removal Act

Front 3

_______ led a revolt in 1831 where slaves killed anywhere from 55-65 people

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Nat Turner

Front 4

_______ was the man who led fellow Mormons West in search of a promise land in the mid 19th century. He thought polygamy was a pretty neat idea—

Back 4

Brigham Young

Front 5

The Battle of ________ in the Summer of 1863 cut off the Mississippi supply line permanently for the Confederacy—

Back 5

Vicksburg

Front 6

______ was an 1830s Doctrine that was first inspired by the Virginia and Kentucky Resolve—

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Nullification

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____ was President in the 1840s. Also known for beginning the Mexican American War. Largely for expansion purposes—

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James K. Polk

Front 8

The ______ were a tribe of Native Americans who successfully hid in Florida from state troops for trying to forcibly send them West away from their homeland

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Seminole

Front 9

The _____ were men who went to California in search of gold and easy wealth

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The 49ers

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_______ were wealthy Latinos who fought with Anglos against Mexico in the war of Texan Independence

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Tejamos

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_____ were a political party who advocated protected tariffs, national banking, and infrastructure

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The Wigs

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The _____ and the ______ were two laws passed by the Republican Congress during 1866 and 1867 as a way to limit the authority of President Andrew Johnson

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Tenure of Office Act

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The _____ was last and most inflammatory part of the compromise of 1850

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Fugitive Slave Act

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_____ was the Union General who led the infamous march to the sea in 1864

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General Sherman

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_______ was responsible for the evil and nefarious Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

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Stephan Douglas

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The _____ was a system of political corruption whereby favors and monies were regularly given out to congressman and senators and other job seekers in the American government

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The Spoil System

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_____ was the bloodless opening to the Civil War in 1861

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Fort Sumter

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________ was the author of Uncle Tom

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Harriet Beacher Stowe

Front 19

______ was the inventor of Mormonism

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Joseph Smith

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_____ is a legal term that meant an owner had freed his slave

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Manumission

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The ______ senatorial debates of 1858 oddly became national news because they were all about the hot button issue of slavery

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The Lincoln Douglas Debates

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The first women’s rights convention in America was held here

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Seneca Falls

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_______ was the inventor of the cotton Gin

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Eli Whitney

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______ was found hiding in the Vatican guard in the aftermath of the Lincoln assassination. Later expedited to the United States for murder of president

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John Surratt

Front 25

________ was the author of South Carolina of Exposition and Protest

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John C. Calhoun

Front 26

______ commanded the main regiment at Little Roundtop at Gettysburg in July of 1863

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Colonel Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

Front 27

_____ is an economic process where transactions between private parties are free from government restrictions, tariffs, and subsidies. Only enough regulations to protect property rights

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Laissez Faire

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General ______ was the union man responsible for the crippling losses at the Battle of ________ in 1862. Although a union victory, he was later removed from command of the army of the Potomac

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McClellan | Battle of Antino

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Chief Justice of the US Supreme court who presided over the case in the late 1850s that helped create the conditions for secession in the south. His name

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Roger B. Taney

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The Treaty of ____ was the document that ended the Mexican-American war

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Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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Lincoln signed the _____ in 1863 as a wartime measure

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Emancipation Proclamation

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_____ was the man who with his sons attacked and killed 5 pro-slavery activists at Potawatomie Creek, Kansas in 1854

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John Brown

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New strategy for US Grant for winning the war after 1863 was called

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Scorched Earth

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____ was an Anglo who headed the American Abolitionist movement from the 1830s on

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William Lloyd Garrison

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_____ was one of the only mechanism whereby escaped slaves could try to make their way to freedom in the antebellum era

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Underground Railroad

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____ was the man who wrote the emmigrants guide to California in 1845

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Lance Ford Hastings

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____ was the union general responsible for first properly training the army of the Potomac in the early years of the civil war

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General McClellan

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_____ was the inventor of the so called American system

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Henry Clay

Front 39

What would you call a northern democrat intent on peace with the south during the civil war?

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Copperhead

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Stonewall Jackson met his death at the battle of _____ in 1863

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Chancellorsville

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The Republic Congress passed the ____ as a way to finance transcontinental railroad during the civil war

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Pacific Railroad Act

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The ____ was the first political deal to alleviate problems occurring when a new territory from the Louisiana Purchase wished to enter the union as a slave state

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Missouri Compromise

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___ was the Union general commanding the army of the Potomac at Gettysburg

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Major General George Gordon Meade

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What was the name of the legislation that precipitated the nullification crisis?

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Tariffs of Abomination