Hist 2300 Texas Tech Final Exam and
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
4 historical principles - Answer -What happens in the old-world matters in the new world
-Sugar is evil
-Your third-grade teachers were wrong
-What you see depends on where you are standing
Capture of Fort Detroit - Answer During War of 1812:
American general William Hill surrenders his army to the British without a fight. Didn't think
they could fight them off.
Treaty of Ghent - Answer Peace treaty:
-Ended War of 1812 between the US and UK + Ireland
-signed Dec. 24th 1812
Hartford Convention - Answer Dec. 15th 1814
-delegates met in secret at the Old State House in Hartford
-met for 3 weeks to draft a formal protest against the Federal Government's continued
involvement in the War of 1812
-united US and France against Britain
Missouri Compromise 1820 - Answer Banned Slavery (36-30)
-Nebraska territory was split into Nebraska and Kansas
-Made slave & non-slave states equal
Lowell Mill System - Answer invented by Francis Cabot Lowell
-labor production model in Massachusetts (19th century)
-Every part of manufacturing was done under one roof
-Preformed by single, young, adult women
Steamboats - Answer origionally invented by John Fitch
-many were too expensive = unsuccessful
-first successful: Clermont built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807
, Second Great Awakening - Answer 2nd religious fever that swept the nation
-more successful at converting than the first
-focused a lot on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and
moral reasoning against slavery
-DIRECT CONNECTION WITH GOD
Shakers - Answer founder Ann Lee
-1758 she joined a group that had left the Quakers
-shakings of the body and motions of the head and arms, they came to be called "Shaking
Quakers" which was shortened to Shakers
Joseph Smith - Answer American religious leader
-sixth president of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints
-creator of Mormonism
-wrote the Book of Mormon
Transcendentalism - Answer developed my Immanuel Kent
- idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in
reaction to rationalism
-It arose as a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at
the time
-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Rachel Jackson - Answer Andrew Jacksons wife
-never served as first lady (died days after his election)
1828 presidential election - Answer 11th presidential election
-rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
Bank War - Answer Jackson wanted to limit economic power of the Bank of the United States
-stopped funding the bank with federal funds & gave those funds to various state banks
-Jackson won
Eaton Affair/ Petticoat Affair - Answer US scandal involving Jackson's cabinet & their wives
-the wives socially ostracized Jahn Eaton, the secretary of war, & his wife Peggy
All Correct Answers 2025-2026
Updated.
4 historical principles - Answer -What happens in the old-world matters in the new world
-Sugar is evil
-Your third-grade teachers were wrong
-What you see depends on where you are standing
Capture of Fort Detroit - Answer During War of 1812:
American general William Hill surrenders his army to the British without a fight. Didn't think
they could fight them off.
Treaty of Ghent - Answer Peace treaty:
-Ended War of 1812 between the US and UK + Ireland
-signed Dec. 24th 1812
Hartford Convention - Answer Dec. 15th 1814
-delegates met in secret at the Old State House in Hartford
-met for 3 weeks to draft a formal protest against the Federal Government's continued
involvement in the War of 1812
-united US and France against Britain
Missouri Compromise 1820 - Answer Banned Slavery (36-30)
-Nebraska territory was split into Nebraska and Kansas
-Made slave & non-slave states equal
Lowell Mill System - Answer invented by Francis Cabot Lowell
-labor production model in Massachusetts (19th century)
-Every part of manufacturing was done under one roof
-Preformed by single, young, adult women
Steamboats - Answer origionally invented by John Fitch
-many were too expensive = unsuccessful
-first successful: Clermont built by American inventor Robert Fulton in 1807
, Second Great Awakening - Answer 2nd religious fever that swept the nation
-more successful at converting than the first
-focused a lot on moral movements such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and
moral reasoning against slavery
-DIRECT CONNECTION WITH GOD
Shakers - Answer founder Ann Lee
-1758 she joined a group that had left the Quakers
-shakings of the body and motions of the head and arms, they came to be called "Shaking
Quakers" which was shortened to Shakers
Joseph Smith - Answer American religious leader
-sixth president of the Church of Jesus-Christ of Latter Day Saints
-creator of Mormonism
-wrote the Book of Mormon
Transcendentalism - Answer developed my Immanuel Kent
- idealistic philosophical and social movement that developed in New England around 1836 in
reaction to rationalism
-It arose as a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality at
the time
-Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
Rachel Jackson - Answer Andrew Jacksons wife
-never served as first lady (died days after his election)
1828 presidential election - Answer 11th presidential election
-rematch between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson
Bank War - Answer Jackson wanted to limit economic power of the Bank of the United States
-stopped funding the bank with federal funds & gave those funds to various state banks
-Jackson won
Eaton Affair/ Petticoat Affair - Answer US scandal involving Jackson's cabinet & their wives
-the wives socially ostracized Jahn Eaton, the secretary of war, & his wife Peggy
