FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT US

HISTORY FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: Indian Wars between 1860-1890

Answer:

The American Indian Wars (or Indian Wars) is the collective name for the various armed conflicts fought by European governments and colonists, and later the United States government and American settlers, against various American Indian tribes.

Question 2: Why did the South secede from the Union?

Answer:

Confederates opposed states rights, the right of Northern states not to support slavery. At South Carolina's secession convention made a "Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union."

Question 3: Homestead Act of 1862

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The Homestead Acts were several laws in the United States by which an applicant could acquire ownership of government land or the public domain, typically called a "homestead."

Question 4: Treaty of Versailles

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The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers. It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand which directly led to World War I.

Question 5: Result of the Civil War

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The American Civil War, 1861-1865, resulted from long-standing sectional differences and questions not fully resolved when the United States Constitution was ratified in 1789, primarily the issue of slavery and states rights.

Question 6: Compromise of 1850

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The Compromise of 1850 was a package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850, which defused a four-year political confrontation between slave and free states.

Question 7: Lusitania sinking

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The sinking of the Cunard ocean liner RMS Lusitania occurred on Friday, 7 May 1915 during the First World War, as Germany waged submarine warfare against the United Kingdom which had implemented a naval blockade of Germany.

Question 8: Zimmermann Telegram

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The Zimmermann Telegram (or Zimmermann Note or Zimmerman Cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico.

Question 9: Why could Lincoln not carry out his plan of Reconstruction?

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President Abraham Lincoln offers his conciliatory plan for the South, and some states were ready to have their governments rebuilt. to enact plans to deal with the freed slaves so long as their freedom was not.

Question 10: Transcontinental Railroad

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The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,912-mile continuous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 that connected the existing eastern U.S. rail network at Omaha, Nebraska/Council Bluffs, Iowa with the Pacific coast on San Francisco Bay.

Question 11: Missouri Compromise of 1820

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The Missouri Compromise was the legislation that provided for the admission of Maine to the United States as a free state along with Missouri as a slave state, thus maintaining the balance of power between North and South in the United States Senate.

Question 12: Lincoln's goal in the Civil War

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Lincoln's decision to fight rather than to let the Southern states secede was not based on his feelings towards slavery. Rather, he felt it was his sacred duty as President of the United States to preserve the Union at all costs.

Question 13: Declaration of Independence

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The United States Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776.

Question 14: Black Codes

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The Black Codes were laws passed by Southern states in 1865 and 1866 in the United States after the American Civil War with the intent of restricting African Americans' freedom, and making them work in a labor economy based on low wages or debt.Question 15: Why was the North worried about Great Britain during the Civil War?

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itish public opinion was divided on the American Civil War. His international concerns were centred in Europe, where he had to watch both Napoleon III's. They care neither for the South nor the North.

Question 16: Economic differences of the North and South prior to the Civil War

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The economy of the North was based on manufacturing. Many immigrants from Europe began working in factories and producing goods used by people in the North

Question 17: Native Americans

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Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii.

Question 18: Impressments

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Impressment, colloquially "the press" or the "press gang", is the taking of men into a military or naval force by compulsion, with or without notice. Navies of several nations used forced recruitment by various means.

Question 19: Reasons why American Colonists settled where they did

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The soil in these colonies were great for farming but most of the jobs in this region were for industrial building.Question 20: Who had great job opportunities during WWI when they did not before the war?

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large numbers of women were recruited into jobs vacated by men who had gone to fight in the war.

Question 21: Louisiana Purchase

Answer:

The Louisiana Purchase (1803) was a land deal between the United States and France, in which the U.S. acquired approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million.

Question 22: Thomas Paine and Common Sense

Answer:

Common Sense was a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine in 1775-76 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.