Fifth Grade History And Geography
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Unit 4 Section 1 1.1-1.7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Andrew Jacksons nickname | Old Hickory |
| Where did he put money when he destroyed National Bank | Pet Banks |
| What system replaced government workers | Spoils System |
| What did he do more than all 6 presidents added up before him | veto laws |
| Swearing in ceremony | inaugaration |
| After Jackson what was requirement for president | an ordinary person |
| Jackson vetoed it after congress tried to rechharter it | National Bank |
| Was corrupt | Nicholas Biddle[Head of National Bank] |
Unit 4 Section 1 1.8-1.19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| men who argued over federal goverment's power over tarrifs | Daniel Webster and Robert Hayne |
| that states could refuse to accept a federal law | nullification |
| said "Liberty And Union, now and forever, one and inseperable." | Daniel Webster |
| who nullified tarrif in 1832 | South Carolina |
| the compromise over the Nullification Crisis was by | Henry Clay |
| when the indians were forced to move west | Trail of Tears |
| used force to collect tarrifs in south Carolina | Andrew Jackson |
| led Winsconsin and Illinois Indians to stay on thier land | Black Hawk |
| Indians who also fought to stay on thier land | the Seminole Indians in Flordia |
| President who orded indians to move west | Andrew Jackson |
| what did did the congress and south Carolina agree to do in the compromise | C-reduce tariffs SC- End nullification |
| what was the debate in 1830 called over tarriffs and power of federal goverment | Webster-Hayne Debate |
Unit 4 Section 1 1.20-1.31
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A whig first vice president to become president after president dying Whigs didn't like him | John Tyler |
| Shortest Presidency won as "Log cabin and hard cider" canidate and slogan "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" | William Henry Harrison |
| President during panic of 1837 Jackson's vice president | Martin Van Buren |
| Democrat believed in Manifest destiny added more land than any other president Jackson supported him | James K. Polk |
Unit 4 Section 2 2.1-2.12
Edit the text in this box to contribute! Sample table| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Nickaname for Republic of Texas | Lone Star Republic |
| Dictator of Mexico | Santa Anna |
| Mission defended by Texans | Alamo |
| battle where Texans deafeated Mexican army | San Jacinto |
| Man who settled 300 families in Texas | Stephen Austin |
| Commander of Texan Army, President of Texas, senator from the state of Texas | Sam Houston |
| famous frontiersman | Davy Crockett |
| Alamo defender who fought from bed | Jim Bowie |
| year Texas joined Union | 1845 |
| Why did Texans think it was important to "Remember the Alamo" | They were mad at Mexico for destroying the Alamo |
| what were two reasons Texas didn't become a state | North didn't want so much slave territory, Mexico threatened to go to war if they added it |
| When was Texas annexed | Polk made a campaign issue on it and when he became president he annexed it |
Unit 4 Section 2 2.13-2.23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What when from Northen California to the bottom edge of Alaska | Oregon Country |
| How long was the Oregon Trail | 2,000 Miles |
| Who went with his wife to Oregon to prove that families could go to | Marcus Whitman |
| Another name for the Great Plains | "Great American Desert" |
| How long did it take to get to Oregon | 5-6 months |
| what did Britain and America agree to do with Oregon Country | rule it together |
| what did people say who wanted all of Oregon | "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" |
| What did Polk do about it | spilt it at 49 degrees (in half) |
Unit 4 Section 2 2.24-2.37
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President who started a war with Mexico in 1846 | James Polk |
| General sent to the Rio Grande to get Mexicans to attack and captured Matamoros and Monterey | Zachary Taylor |
| U.S General who captured Santa Fe | Stephen Kearny |
| U.S. General who captured Mexico City | Winfield Scott |
| Mexican dictator | Santa Anna |
| Taylors Nickname | "Old Rough and Ready" |
| Winfield Scott's nickname | "Old Fuss and Feathers" |
| Land bought for $10,000,000 for railroad from Mexico in 1853 | Gadsen Purchase |
| Land given to America by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo | Mexican Cession |
| Amount paid for land from the Mexican War | $15,000,000 |
| According to Mexicans this was the border of Texas before the war | Nueces River |
| According to Texans what was the border of Texas | Rio Grande River |
| Two day battle when Taylor's army deafeated a much larger Mexican army in 1837 | Buena Vista |
Unit 4 Section 2.38-2.50
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who invented the telegraph | Samuel Morse |
| Who invented the steel plow | John Deere |
| Who invented the mechanical reaper | Cyrus McCormick |
| What code was used by the telegraph | Morse |
| What was the first telegraph message | What hath God wrought |
| what 2 countries had a lot of immigrants coming to America | Germany, Ireland |
| what important telegraph line ws laid in 1866 | it went throgh the Atlantic ocean |
| what was the result of the race between the Tom Thumb and and a horse | the horse won |
| what was the great revival of the early 1800's | the Second Great Awakening |
| what was the most important reform movement out of the Second Great Awakening | to stop slavery |
| what did the North, South, and West produce | N-Manufactured goods S-cotton W-food |
| why did so many Irish come to America in the 1840's and 1850's | the Potato Famine |
| what were large gatherings to hear preaching in the frontier called | camp meetings |
| why was the railroad important | the west cold go where there were no rivers or canals to sell thier food |
| how many miles of railroad did they have in 1830 and in 1860 | 1830-13 miles 1860-30,000 miles |
Unit 4 Section 3.1-3.310
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the two parts to the Compromisie of 1850 | California would be a free state and the fugitive slave act would be passed |
| Who came up with the compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay |
| Where was gold discovered in California | Sutter's Mill |
| What was the name of the group of people who helped slaves to freedom | Underground Railroad |
| Who was the most famous conducter | Harriet Tubman |
| Why was the Fugitive slave act un fair to black people in court | they couldn't speak for themselves |
| What were men callled who came to the gold rush | forty-niners |
| what happened to people whohelped slaves under the fugitive slave act | fined or put in jail |
| how did CA become a state so quickly | after the gold rush people stayed there instead of going back |
| what did the south lose when CA became a state | there were more free states than slave |
Unit 4 Section 3.11-3.19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the most important abolitionist book | Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| What was the Missuori Compromise broken by | Kansas-Nebraska Act |
| What were people who were against slavery | abolitionists |
| What was the fighting in Kansas called over slavery | Bleeding Kansas |
| what was Uncle Tom's Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe |
| Who wrote the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator | William Garrison |
| What new party was against slavery | Rebuplican party |
| Why did Tom obey his master | He loved God |
Unit 4 Section 3.20-3.33
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was the abolitionist martyr that raided Harper's Ferry | John Brown |
| Who was the slave who sued for his freedom because he had lived in a free state | Dred Scott |
| What was Lincoln's Nickname | Honest Abe |
| What debate made Lincoln famous | Lincoln-Douglas Debate |
| What did the Dred Scott desicion say about Slavery in America | the constitution allowed slavery in America |
| Where was Lincoln born | Kentucky |
| Where did Lincoln grow up | Indiana |
Unit 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How and when did the Civil war start | the south attacked Fort Sumter in 1861 |
| What advantages did the Union Have | it had more men, factories, railroads, and a navy |
| Who was the confederate commander of the civil war | Robert E. Lee |
| What was Lincoln's order to end slavery | Emancipation Proclamation |
| What was Lincoln's most famous speech | Gettysburg Address |
| Where did general Lee surrender | Appomattox Courthouse |
| What battle was the turning point of the civil war | Gettysburg |
| What was the name of General Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah | Sherman's march to the Sea |
| Who did Lincoln put in charge of the Union Army in 1864 | Ulysses S. Grant |
| What were scalawags | southerners who were for reconstruction |
| Who was Lincoln assasinated by | John Wilkes Booth |
| What were congressmen who wanted punish the south | Radical Republicans |
| What Amendment ended Slavery in America | the Thirteenth Amendment |
| What did the 15th amendment do | let black men vote |
| Radical Republican leader in Reconstruction | Thaddeus Stevens |
| Which president was did congress try to impeach | Andrew Johnson |
| What are trusts | monoplies |
| What law controlled railroads | Interstate Commerce Act |
| Seward's Icebox | Alaska |
| Gave a citizen 160 acres of land for living on it five years | Homestead Act |
| Amount U.S. paid for Alaska | $7.2 million |
| Who was the most famous man in the steel industry | Andrew Carnegie |
| Who controlled the oil industry | John D. Rockfeller |
| Who invented the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell |
| Who invented the phonograph and the electric light bulb | Thomas Edison |
| Where did most of the immigrants come from after 1880 | east and southern Europe |
| What were trusts | a company that owned all of one good |
| What was the Pendleton Act for | civil service reform |
| Who wanted tariffs and who didn't | rich American industrialists and farmers |
| Were reforms succesful during the Gilded Age | no |
