U.S. History Florida EOC Review EXAM (2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUE
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
1. John Brown's Abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
Raid hoping to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would destroy slavery in the
south. It failed.
2. Missouri Com- 1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and main
promise as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of
the 36*30' latitude.
3. Compromise of Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by
1850 allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave
law.
4. Dred Scott Deci- A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the north-
sion ern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise
had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in
federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
5. Kansas Nebraska 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory in Kansas and Nebraska giving each
Act territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
6. Bleeding Kansas Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery
supporters in Kansas.
7. Anaconda Plan Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and
controlling the Mississippi River.
8. Emancipation Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate
Proclamation states still in rebellion.
9. Reconstruction Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to
repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern
states to the Union.
, U.S. History Florida EOC Review EXAM (2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUE
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
10. 14th Amend- Rights of Citizens (Equal Protection)
ment
11. 13th Amend- Freed all Slaves
ment
12. 15th Amend- African Americans have the right to vote and Congress and enforce it by passing
ment laws.
13. Radical Republi- Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along
cans with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South.
14. Scalawag Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party after the
Civil War.
15. Freedman's Bu- Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the South
reau after the Civil War.
16. Carpetbagger Negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
17. Sharecropping System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share
of the crop.
18. Debt Peonage A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the
employer.
19. Ku Klux Klan Organization that promoted hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and
religious groups.
20. Black Codes Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities.
21. Jim Crow Laws Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
22.
, U.S. History Florida EOC Review EXAM (2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUE
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
Plessy v. Fergu- A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long
son as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
23. Reservation Sys- The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American
tem tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act
of 1887. Within these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than
owned individually. The U.S. government encouraged and sometimes violently
coerced Native Americans to stay on the reservations at all times.
24. Transcontinental Rail link between the eastern and the western United States.
Railroad
25. Pull Factor Factors that attract people to a new location.
26. Americanization Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more
loyal citizens.
27. Federal Indian Meant to clothe, feed, and supply the Indians, they were corrupt and often
Agents pocketed funds.
28. Dawes Act (1887) Permitted Indians to claim private plots of land from the tribal reservations.
29. Homestead Act Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five
of 1862 years.
30. Pacific Railway 1862 legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad,
Act connecting the West to industries in the Northeast (Union Pacific and Central
Pacific RR)
31. Patent System Official rights given by the government to an inventor for the exclusive right to
develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
32. Thomas Edison Invented the first practical light bulb.
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
1. John Brown's Abolitionist John Brown seized the federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia,
Raid hoping to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would destroy slavery in the
south. It failed.
2. Missouri Com- 1820 agreement calling for the admission of Missouri as a slave state and main
promise as a free state and banning slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of
the 36*30' latitude.
3. Compromise of Political agreement that allowed California to be admitted as a free state by
1850 allowing popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave
law.
4. Dred Scott Deci- A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the north-
sion ern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise
had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in
federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
5. Kansas Nebraska 1854 law that divided the Nebraska Territory in Kansas and Nebraska giving each
Act territory the right to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
6. Bleeding Kansas Term used to describe the 1854-1856 violence between proslavery and antislavery
supporters in Kansas.
7. Anaconda Plan Northern Civil War strategy to starve the South by blockading seaports and
controlling the Mississippi River.
8. Emancipation Decree by President Lincoln that freed enslaved people living in Confederate
Proclamation states still in rebellion.
9. Reconstruction Program implemented by the federal government between 1865 and 1877 to
repair damage to the South caused by the Civil War and restore the southern
states to the Union.
, U.S. History Florida EOC Review EXAM (2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUE
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
10. 14th Amend- Rights of Citizens (Equal Protection)
ment
11. 13th Amend- Freed all Slaves
ment
12. 15th Amend- African Americans have the right to vote and Congress and enforce it by passing
ment laws.
13. Radical Republi- Congressmen who advocated full citizenship rights for African Americans along
cans with a harsh Reconstruction policy toward the South.
14. Scalawag Negative term for a southern white who supported the Republican Party after the
Civil War.
15. Freedman's Bu- Federal agency designed to aid freed slaves and poor white farmers in the South
reau after the Civil War.
16. Carpetbagger Negative term for Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War.
17. Sharecropping System in which a farmer tended a portion of a planter's land in return for a share
of the crop.
18. Debt Peonage A system that bound laborers into slavery in order to work off a debt to the
employer.
19. Ku Klux Klan Organization that promoted hatred and discrimination against specific ethnic and
religious groups.
20. Black Codes Laws that restricted African Americans' rights and opportunities.
21. Jim Crow Laws Segregation laws enacted in the South after Reconstruction.
22.
, U.S. History Florida EOC Review EXAM (2025/2026) Updated: EXAM QUE
TIONS WITH ACCURATE ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
Plessy v. Fergu- A 1896 Supreme Court decision which legalized state ordered segregation so long
son as the facilities for blacks and whites were equal
23. Reservation Sys- The system that allotted land with designated boundaries to Native American
tem tribes in the west, beginning in the 1850s and ending with the Dawes Severalty Act
of 1887. Within these reservations, most land was used communally, rather than
owned individually. The U.S. government encouraged and sometimes violently
coerced Native Americans to stay on the reservations at all times.
24. Transcontinental Rail link between the eastern and the western United States.
Railroad
25. Pull Factor Factors that attract people to a new location.
26. Americanization Belief that assimilating immigrants into American society would make them more
loyal citizens.
27. Federal Indian Meant to clothe, feed, and supply the Indians, they were corrupt and often
Agents pocketed funds.
28. Dawes Act (1887) Permitted Indians to claim private plots of land from the tribal reservations.
29. Homestead Act Law that gave 160 acres of land to citizens willing to live on and cultivate it for five
of 1862 years.
30. Pacific Railway 1862 legislation to encourage the construction of a transcontinental railroad,
Act connecting the West to industries in the Northeast (Union Pacific and Central
Pacific RR)
31. Patent System Official rights given by the government to an inventor for the exclusive right to
develop, use, and sell an invention for a set period of time.
32. Thomas Edison Invented the first practical light bulb.
