HISTORY 2111 CORRECT FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Elizabeth Cady Stanton - ✔✔An American social activist, abolitionist, and leading
figure of the early women's rights movement. She was one of the women to organize
the landmark Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
✔✔Sharecropping - ✔✔An agricultural system in which a landowner allows a tenant to
use the land in return for a share of the crop that they produce on the land
✔✔KKK - ✔✔An extremist group advocating for white supremacy and white nationalism
that first started after the Civil War. Members are most known for wearing white robes,
pointed hats, and masks.
✔✔Ralph Waldo - ✔✔Essayist and lecturer who became the most prominent
transcendentalist.
✔✔Martin Van Buren - ✔✔New York politician who was instrumental in creating the
Democratic Party.
✔✔Middle Passage - ✔✔The difficult journey slaves endured in crossing the Atlantic
Ocean to the Americas.
✔✔Transcendentalism - ✔✔A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the
1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and
Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind
goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and
each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted
individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized
emotions..
, ✔✔Henry David Thoreau - ✔✔A transcendentalist and friend of Emerson. He lived
alone on Walden Pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in
Walden. In his essay, "On Civil Disobedience," he inspired social and political reformers
because he had refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican-
American War, and had spent a night in jail. He was an extreme individualist and
advised people to protest by not obeying laws (passive resistance).
✔✔Grimke Sisters (Angelina & Sarah) - ✔✔They wrote and lectured vigorously on
reform causes such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and the abolitionist
movement.
✔✔General Tecumseh Sherman - ✔✔Union general who was entrusted with the
conquest of Georgia. He captured and burned Atlanta in late 1864, then marched his
sixty thousand troops through Georgia, burning and destroying everything in their path.
✔✔Field Order #15 - ✔✔Military orders issued on January 16, 1865, by Major General
Tecumseh, commander of the military division of the Mississippi of the US army. They
provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) of land along the Atlantic
coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into 40-acre (0.16
km2) parcels, on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families
and other blacks then living in the area.
✔✔Thomas Jefferson - ✔✔A prominent statesman, he became George Washington's
first secretary of state. Along with James Madison, he took up the cause of strict
constructionists and the Republican Party, advocating limited federal government. As
the nation's third president from 1801 to 1809, he doubled the size of the nation, and
struggled to maintain American neutrality.
✔✔Thomas "Daddy" Rice - ✔✔A White performer who blackened his face and
performed "jump Jim Crow" in 1820.
✔✔Sojourner Truth - ✔✔Abolitionist & fought for women's rights. She was an escaped
slave that traveled the country speaking for the abolition of slavery, and is most famous
for her, "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
✔✔Abraham Lincoln - ✔✔Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at 56
✔✔Confederate States - ✔✔Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Alabama,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia
✔✔Who was left out of the constitution? - ✔✔Minorities and White Women
✔✔Share Tenecy - ✔✔Freed people who had little money to invest. Landowners
provided housing but tenants chose the crops, provided their own seeds, and set their
own schedules.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Elizabeth Cady Stanton - ✔✔An American social activist, abolitionist, and leading
figure of the early women's rights movement. She was one of the women to organize
the landmark Seneca Falls Convention in 1848.
✔✔Sharecropping - ✔✔An agricultural system in which a landowner allows a tenant to
use the land in return for a share of the crop that they produce on the land
✔✔KKK - ✔✔An extremist group advocating for white supremacy and white nationalism
that first started after the Civil War. Members are most known for wearing white robes,
pointed hats, and masks.
✔✔Ralph Waldo - ✔✔Essayist and lecturer who became the most prominent
transcendentalist.
✔✔Martin Van Buren - ✔✔New York politician who was instrumental in creating the
Democratic Party.
✔✔Middle Passage - ✔✔The difficult journey slaves endured in crossing the Atlantic
Ocean to the Americas.
✔✔Transcendentalism - ✔✔A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the
1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and
Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind
goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and
each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted
individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized
emotions..
, ✔✔Henry David Thoreau - ✔✔A transcendentalist and friend of Emerson. He lived
alone on Walden Pond with only $8 a year from 1845-1847 and wrote about it in
Walden. In his essay, "On Civil Disobedience," he inspired social and political reformers
because he had refused to pay a poll tax in protest of slavery and the Mexican-
American War, and had spent a night in jail. He was an extreme individualist and
advised people to protest by not obeying laws (passive resistance).
✔✔Grimke Sisters (Angelina & Sarah) - ✔✔They wrote and lectured vigorously on
reform causes such as prison reform, the temperance movement, and the abolitionist
movement.
✔✔General Tecumseh Sherman - ✔✔Union general who was entrusted with the
conquest of Georgia. He captured and burned Atlanta in late 1864, then marched his
sixty thousand troops through Georgia, burning and destroying everything in their path.
✔✔Field Order #15 - ✔✔Military orders issued on January 16, 1865, by Major General
Tecumseh, commander of the military division of the Mississippi of the US army. They
provided for the confiscation of 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) of land along the Atlantic
coast of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida and the dividing of it into 40-acre (0.16
km2) parcels, on which were to be settled approximately 18,000 freed slave families
and other blacks then living in the area.
✔✔Thomas Jefferson - ✔✔A prominent statesman, he became George Washington's
first secretary of state. Along with James Madison, he took up the cause of strict
constructionists and the Republican Party, advocating limited federal government. As
the nation's third president from 1801 to 1809, he doubled the size of the nation, and
struggled to maintain American neutrality.
✔✔Thomas "Daddy" Rice - ✔✔A White performer who blackened his face and
performed "jump Jim Crow" in 1820.
✔✔Sojourner Truth - ✔✔Abolitionist & fought for women's rights. She was an escaped
slave that traveled the country speaking for the abolition of slavery, and is most famous
for her, "Ain't I a Woman" speech.
✔✔Abraham Lincoln - ✔✔Assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth at 56
✔✔Confederate States - ✔✔Florida, Georgia, S. Carolina, N. Carolina, Alabama,
Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Virginia
✔✔Who was left out of the constitution? - ✔✔Minorities and White Women
✔✔Share Tenecy - ✔✔Freed people who had little money to invest. Landowners
provided housing but tenants chose the crops, provided their own seeds, and set their
own schedules.
