Midterm
Exam
Format of
test 74 multiple
choice questions (74 points)
1
essay (26 points)
Material
Chapters 5,
6, 7, 8 and 9
This Study
Guide will be
your Lewis & Clark to find out what is on the midterm. Good Luck!
Chapter 5 section 1
1.
Who were William Clark and Meriwether Lewis? Where were they
sent? By whom?
2.
Why did President Jefferson want to purchase the
3.
Why was Napoleon willing to sell
4.
Who were Tecumsuh and Tenskwatawa? Explain what their program was for Native
American’s?
5.
What did the Cherokee nation to in order to protect their
interests in 1827?
Chapter 5 section 2
6.
What did most American’s do for a living in 1800?
7.
Why did President Jefferson sign the Embargo Act of 1807?
8.
Why did Fancis Cabot Lowell build his
factory on a river?
9.
What were the reasons for the success of railroads in the
10.
Name some examples of regional specialization that developed as a
result of the transportation and industrial revolutions.
Chapter 5 section 3
11.
In the early 1800s, who was permitted to vote in many Eastern and
Western states
12.
Explain President Jackson’s feelings toward the Bank of the
13.
Who was Charles Grandison Finney and
what message did he preach?
14.
Why did the temperance movement become one of the first organized
movements in the
15.
By 1804, was the end of slavery provided for in which region of
the nation?
Chapter 6 section 1
16.
Who was Dred Scott? Why did
he hope that the Supreme Court would set him free?
17.
Why didn’t the northern economy in
the mid 1800s NOT rely on slavery?
18.
What was the Missouri Compromise ( name ALL of its parts)
19.
Why did Northerners oppose the admission of
20.
Why did the Kansas Nebraska Act end hopes for a sectional peace?
Chapter 6 section 2
21.
List the advantages and disadvantages of both the North and the
South
22.
What did people realize after the battle of
23.
What was President Lincoln’s major goal in signing the
Emancipation Proclamation was what?
24.
List the major contributions made by women during the Civil War.
25.
Why did
Chapter 6 section 3
26.
In reference to its decision on the Reconstruction Acts, what did
the Supreme Court uphold?
27.
What were the aims of the legislation (laws) passed by the Radical
Republicans during Reconstruction?
28.
What was the goal of the white supremacist organizations that
popped up after the Civil War?
29.
How did Republicans attempt to regain control in the South AFTER
Grant’s Presidency?
30.
What did the Republican’s do in order to get enough votes to make
Rutherford B Hayes win the Presidency?
Chapter 7 section 1
31.
How did the Homestead Act of 1862 affect westward expansion?
32.
Why did the cattle and cowhands prosper (do so well) on the
33.
What became
34.
What was the most serious obstacle to building a transcontinental
railroad?
35.
What did sending Native Americans to boarding school run by the
government do to Native American culture?
36.
Where did the labor come from to complete the transcontinental
railroads?
37.
Who were the vaqueros?
38.
What states were cattle found on the open range? (list them)
39.
Name the minerals found in large quantities in the West.
40.
List the results of sending Native Americans to government run
boarding schools.
Chapter 7 section 2
41.
Why were processed and consumer goods cheaper and more available
by the late 1800s?
42.
List the things that contributed to the rise of the meatpacking
industry in the late 1800.
43.
How did the McCormack Harvesting Machine Company create a national
market?
44.
What was one way to solve the problem of business instability?
45.
How
did Andrew Carnegie vertically integrate the steel industry?
Chapter 7 section 3
46.
What did the Populist party grow out of?
What movement?
47.
Who were the
Grangers? How did the Grangers ease the
farmers' plight?
48.
What major problem stuck
the
49.
Most early labor unions
were short-lived because of what reason?
50.
Why did workers hold a
strike at the McCormick Harvester reaper factory in
Chapter 7 section 4
51.
What was President James
Monroe's message to the European powers in 1823? (hint:
it became known as the Monroe Doctrine?)
52.
Where did the
53.
Why did William Seward's
purchase of
54.
List the reasons why
many Americans supported the Cuban fight for independence from
55.
What impact did freeing
the
Chapter 8 section 1
56.
What reshaped American
government in the Progressive era?
57.
Why did factories have
to be built near rivers before the mid 1800s?
58.
Before 1890 where did
most immigrants come from?
59.
Describe how Congregationlist minister Josiah Strong (and many that
agreed with him) felt about the growth of American cities in the late 1800s.
60.
Compare the growth of
the
Chapter 8 section 3
61.
Describe the typical progressive
of the early years of the 20th century.
62.
List the problems faced
by African Americans living in urban
63.
As a result of the
progressives in the late 1800s and early 1900s, what happened to the number of
people protesting the government to make reforms?
64.
What happened to the
college enrollment numbers in the
Chapter 8 section 3
65.
How did Wisconsin
Governor Robert LaFollette fight the railroad tycoons’
grip on state government?
66.
How did power shift as a
result of the direct primary?
67.
How did the evidence
collected by Josephine Goldmark in the case of Muller
v.
68.
Why did NY City pass a
strict building code (after what famous incident)?
69.
Where were women given
FULL voting rights by 1890? (name the two states)
Chapter 9 section 1
70.
List the background of Teddy
Roosevelt ( in terms of education and positions held).
71.
Why is Teddy Roosevelt
considered to be the first modern president?
72.
What happened to Teddy
Roosevelt’s reputation as a result of the ruling that the Northern Securities Company
had violated the Sherman Anti trust Act?
73.
What were the results of
the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
74.
List President Taft’s
progressive achievements.
ESSAY
THIS IS THE
ACTUAL ESSAY THAT YOU WILL HAVE TO ANSWER ON THE EXAM.
ESSAY Use
a separate sheet of paper to write a 5 paragraph essay on the following topic.
Choose the
event that you feel was most significant in American history between the years
of 1800 and 1920. The event can be
either very broad (like a war) or very specific in nature (like the election of
a president or a particular law.) You
must then provide three reasons (each must be thoroughly explained in a full
paragraph) why you think that it is so significant. Finally you must sum up your answer with a
conclusion paragraph. (This essay is
worth 26 points.)