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TK FINAL SOCIAL STUDIES EXAM
Thornapple Kellogg Social Studies Exam Flashcards
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History
8th Grade
06/06/2010

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Term
The ________ system of government is one that divides the power between the states and national government.
Definition
Federal
Term
Each branch of the federal government has responsibilities and powers not delegated to others to keep any one branch from becoming too powerful is called the Core Democratic Value of _________ of __________.
Definition
Seperation of Powers
Term
_________ in elections is a duty of citizens that is encouraged but not required.
Definition
Voting
Term
Congress is the _____________ branch of government which writes the nations laws
Definition
Legislative
Term
The president can check the power of the legislative branch by __________ the law
Definition
Vetoing
Term
The ______________ branch of government interprets the law.
Definition
Judicial
Term
Name the 3 branches of government
Definition
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Term
Representitives in the House of Representitives are determined by ____________.
Definition
Population
Term
Representation in the Senate is ______ and each state get _____ senators.
Definition
Equal, 2
Term
Body of delegates from each state that casts deciding votes for president
Definition
Electoral College
Term
Americans supported Latin American struggles for independence in the early 1820's because it reminded them of _____ ____ ________ __________.
Definition
Their own American Revolution
Term
The official statement released by the president in 1822 that warned European powers not to interfere with the Americas was called the _____________ _________.
Definition
Monroe Doctrine
Term
The ___________ _________ maintained a balance of free and slave states by entering Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Definition
Missouri Compromise
Term
When politicians diagree over the interests of different regions.
Definition
Sectionalism
Term
Feelings of pride or loyalty to a nation
Definition
Nationalism or Patriotism
Term
Practice of rewarding political jobs to supporters
Definition
Spoils System
Term
_________ supported tariffs because it helped them compete with british manufacturers.
Definition
Northerners
Term
Forced 800 mile march Cherokee Indians made in their remocal from Georgia
Definition
Trail of Tears
Term
Indian territory following Indian Removal is what is now the state of __________.
Definition
Oklahoma
Term
Before Jacksonian Democracy power was in the hands of few _____,______ individuals.
Definition
Wealthy, Elite
Term
The idea that obvious fate of the United States to expand to the Pacific Ocean was ________ __________.
Definition
Manifest Destiny
Term
What was the practice that caused Mormons to be persecuted in the 1850's?
Definition
Polygamy - Having more than one wife
Term
As the result of the _______ explosion of the "gold- fever" years, California became eligible for statehood.
Definition
Population
Term
As a result of the ____________ _______ War the United States recieved what is now part of California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico
Definition
Mexican American
Term
The ______________ __________ is best defined as a period of rapid growth during which machinery became essential to industry.
Definition
Industrial Revolution
Term
More textile mills were built in the North because the north had more _____ to produce power.
Definition
Rivers
Term
Working conditions in the mills were bad and workers sufferes from ______ problems.
Definition
Health
Term
Trade ____ were organizations of workers who tried to improve pay and working conditions for members.
Definition
Unions
Term
The invention of the _______ enabled people to send news quickly from coast to coast.
Definition
Telegraph
Term
The Transportation Revolution enabled goods to travel quickly across the ______.
Definition
Country
Term
Name the 2 types of transportation invented during the Transportation Revolution.
Definition
Steamboat, Railroads
Term
The ______ _____ was an area stretching from South Carolina to Texas that grew most of the countries cotton crop.
Definition
Cotton Belt
Term
This person invented the Cotton Gin.
Definition
Eli Whitney
Term
How did most planters encourage slave obedience?
Definition
Physical Punishment
Term
Why were slaves uneducated?
Definition
It was illegal to teach a slave to read and write.
Term
__ ____ were strict laws that controlled the actions of slaves
Definition
Slave Codes
Term
What was the most violent slave uprising?
Definition
Nat Turners Rebellion
Term
The _____ blight led to the flood of Irish Immigrants entering the US in the mid 1840's/
Definition
Potato
Term
The _______ movement was a reform effort to urge people to use self-discipline to stop drinking hard liquor.
Definition
Temperance
Term
The __________ ________ Convention in 1848 was significant because it marked the official beginning of the womens rights movement.
Definition
Seneca Falls
Term
___________ _________ spoke of the harsh conditions in prisons inspired the building of seperate facilities for the mentally ill.
Definition
Dorothea Dix
Term
The reform movement that was organized to put a complete end to slavery in this country.
Definition
Abolition
Term
Belief that people could rise above the material things in life and live simply.
Definition
Transcendentalism
Term
The idea that power rests with the people.
Definition
Popular Sovereignty
Term
The balance between the free and slave states ended in the Union with the addition of California as a part of the ______ of _______
Definition
Compromise Of 1858
Term
__________ ______ ______ exposed the harsh realities of slave life.
Definition
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Term
Allowing for the possibility of slavery in the territories previously banned under the Missour Compromise, the _____ ______ Act led to the return of the slavery issue between the North and South.
Definition
Fugitive-Slave
Term
The _______ Party was formed to stop slavery in the West.
Definition
Republican
Term
In the case _____ _____ the Supreme Court ruled it was Unconstitutional for Congress to ban slavery in territories.
Definition
Dred Scott
Term
In leading an armed resistance in Virginia in 1859 _____ ______ was attempting to steal weapons and bring them to local slaves.
Definition
John Brown
Term
The Southern states secceded from the Union after the election of 1860 because they felt their _______ and way of life would be destroyes.
Definition
Economy
Term
NAME THE 4 BORDER STATES THAT DECIDED NOT TO SECCEDE FROM THE UNION.
Definition
Kentucky, Missouri, Maryland, Delaware
Term
The ______ _________ was an order from Lincoln calling for all Confederate slaves to be free.
Definition
Emancipation Proclamation
Term
The purpose of Lincolns __________ _______ was to remind Americans of the reasons the Civil War was being fought.
Definition
Ghettysburg Address
Term
The Battle Of _________ was the turning point of the Civil War because it was the last time Lee's troops launched an attack on the North.
Definition
Ghettysburg
Term
The strategy of destroying civilian and military resources practiced by General Sherman is known as __________ _______
Definition
Total Warfare
Term
The Union Navy found it difficult to maintain a _______ of southern ports because they had to patrol thousands of miles of coastline.
Definition
Blockade
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