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Campbell 4th Six Weeks Test Review
4th Six Weeks Test Review
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8th Grade
02/29/2012

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Andrew Jackson
Definition
Who received the most votes for President in 1824, but lost the election?
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Martin Van Buren
Definition
Who was elected President in 1836 inheriting problems with a depression?
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William Henry Harrison
Definition
What war hero and Indian fighter was elected in 1840, yet died a few months later?
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Henry Clay
Definition
What Speaker of the House was a "favorite son" from Kentucky?
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Five Civilized Tribes
Definition
What were the Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Chickasaw and Choctaw Indians called?
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Indian Removal Act
Definition
Approved by Jackson in 1830, what law forced the Indians to move West?
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John Quincey Adams
Definition
What son of a former President won the election of 1824 with Clay's help?
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Indian Territory
Definition
What was created by Congress as a land for the Indians in 1834?
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Cherokee
Definition
What tribe was victimized alon the Trail of Tears?
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James Polk
Definition
Who was elected President in 1844 with the promise to bring Texas into the Union?
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Sarah G. Bagley
Definition
Who tried to organize a woman's trade union, but failed to make any gains?
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Know-Nothing Party
Definition
The anti-immigration American Party was best known by what nickname?
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Famine
Definition
Mainly due to a potato blight, what forced many in Ireland to come to America?
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Joseph Reid Anderson
Definition
Who took overthe Tredegar Iron Works helping it become a major Southern factory?
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Meteoyer Family
Definition
What free black family from Louisiana owned over 400 slaves?
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Underground Railroad
Definition
What was the network of safe-houses aiding the escape of slaves to the North?
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Domestic
Definition
What type of slaves worked in and around the house?
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Skilled Slaves
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What type of slaves worked as blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, etc.?
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Field Hands
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Which was the most common type of slave workers?
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Hariet Tubman
Definition
Who aided more than 300 slaves to freedom in the North?
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Horace Mann
Definition
Who was an early leader in public education from Massachusetts?
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Oberlin College
Definition
What college was the first to accept women and blacks?
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Temperance Movement
Definition
What movement called for laws to be passed to limit or ban the use of alcohol?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
Which early women's rights leader helped organize the 1st major convention?
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2nd Great Awakening
Definition
What do we call the wave of religious fervor during the 1800's?
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Suffrage
Definition
What is a term which refers to the right to vote?
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Wyoming
Definition
What was the first state to allow women the right to vote?
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Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Definition
Sisters that were wealthy ex-slave owners that became abolitionists?
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Utopias
Definition
Communities based on a vision of a perfect society.
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Normal Schools
Definition
Trained high school graduates to become teachers.
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Liberia
Definition
What country was formed by ex-slaves who were taken back to Africa?
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Frederick Douglas
Definition
Who was the most famous ex-slave/public speaker/abolitionist/author?
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Definition
Who became the most well=-known leader of the women's rights movement?
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Revivals
Definition
What was the frontier camp meetings of regligious groups called?
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Seneca Falls, NY
Definition
What was the site of the 1st and greatest women's rights convention in July, 1848?
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Dorothea Dix
Definition
Advanced education for mentally ill and prisoners.
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Sojourner Truth
Definition
Ex-slave abolitionist/women's rights leader
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Thomas Gaulladet
Definition
Developed methods to teach the hearing impaird.
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Lucretia Mott
Definition
Quaker/early women's/civil rights leader.
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Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe
Definition
Developed raised lettered books for the blind.
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