History Study Guide Alabama High School Graduation Exam

1. History Study Guide Alabama High School Graduation Exam

2. Who was the director of the Seneca Falls Convention and a women’s rights advocate? Elizabeth Cady Stanton

3. Who is known for her work in women’s rights, esp. the suffrage movement?(She was once on a $1 coin) Susan B.Anthony

4. Who was the woman who tried to get poor women to use birth control? Margaret Sanger

5. Who was the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court during the formative years? John Marshall

6. Who wrote our National Anthem, “The Star Spangled Banner?” Francis Scott Key

7. What U.S. President was elected by the Common Man (1828) and moved Indians to reservations? Andrew Jackson

8. Who raided the army arsenal at Harpers Ferry to get weapons to kill slave owners? John Brown

9. Who was the President of the U.S. during the Civil War? (he wanted no extension of slavery) Abraham Lincoln

10. Who was the commander of the SOUTHERN Army during the Civil War? Robert E. Lee

11. Who was the 1st and only President of the Confederacy (during the Civil War)? Jefferson Davis

12. Who was the leader of the Union Army (NORTH) during the Civil War? (he was a weak President later) Ulysses S. Grant

13. Who created the idea of Social Darwinism?“Survival of the Fittest” Charles Darwin

14. What rich American owned most of the oil rights in the United States? John D. Rockefeller

15. Who founded the Niagara Movement which became the NAACP?(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) William E. B. Dubois

16. Who was the founder of the Tuskegee Institute (an Alabama flight school for blacks)? Booker T. Washington

17. Who invented peanut butter and developed over 300 products from peanuts? George Washington Carver

18. What U.S. President was one of the “Rough Riders” during the Spanish-American War? Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt

19. What U.S. President created the League of Nations after World War I, but the U.S. didn’t join it? Woodrow Wilson

20. Whose assassination started World War I? Archduke Francis Ferdinand

21. Who was the leader of Germany who killed Jews during WWII? Hitler

22. Who made the first non-stop flight from U.S. to Paris?(His plane was named The Spirit of St. Louis) Charles Lindberg

23. Which U.S. President who was blamed for the Great Depression? Herbert Hoover

24. Who was the U.S. President during the Great Depression and WWII?(he created TVA and alphabet agencies) Franklin D. Roosevelt

25. Who was the leader of Russia (Soviet Union) during World War II? Joseph Stalin

26. Who was the leader of the British forces (England) during World War II? Winston Churchill

27. Who was the leader of Italy during World War II? Benito Mussolini

28. Who was the U.S. Supreme Commander of World War II? General Dwight D. Eisenhower

29. Who was the first person to warn the colonists that the British soldiers were headed to Lexington and Concord? Paul Revere

30. What is the name of England’s Bill of Rights? (It was signed in 1215 by King John) Magna Carta

31. What was the Constitutional Convention’s decision to apportion representation in Congress Called? Senate (2 people) and House of Representatives (based on population) Great Compromise

32. When deciding how to apportion representation, what was the Constitutional Convention’s decision to count 5 slaves as 3 people? 3/5 Compromise

33. Which Branch of the U.S. Government makes the laws? Legislative Branch

34. Which Branch of the U.S. Government enforces the law? Executive Branch

35. Which Branch of the U.S. government interprets the law? Judicial Branch

36. What states we can change or add laws as times change, or as necessary? Elastic Clause

37. What was the name of the laws which separated blacks and whites? Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws)

38. Which treaty ended the French and Indian War?(England got all land east of Mississippi) Treaty of 1763

39. What treaty gave the U.S. all the land east of the Mississippi River?(it ended the American Revolution) Treaty of Paris 1783

40. What was the process of kidnapping British Navy men and forcing them into military service? Impressments

41. What is a government order prohibiting the movement of merchant ships into or out of its ports? embargo

42. What is the surrounding and blockading of a city, town, or fortress by an army attempting to capture it called? siege

43. What document describes how to become a state? Northwest Ordinance

44. The ______________________ established that new states above 36o 30’ North would be free, and those below could decide. Missouri Compromise

45. The movement attempting to end the legal sale of alcohol temperance

46. What is the movement to end slavery called? Abolition

47. What is the term which means “pride in one’s country?” nationalism

48. What was the high tax on imported goods, designed to help American factories by causing import prices to be higher? Protective Tariff

49. Which court case stated “once a slave, always a slave?” Dred Scott Decision

50. Which law stated the North had to return runaway slaves to Southern slave owners? Fugitive Slave Act