Coach Lill’s

1. Coach Lill’s Alabama Graduation Exam Preparation

2. What is the Bessemer Process?

3. Valley Forge Place where General George Washington trained the American forces during the Revolutionary War. The troops had to endure a long, cold winter.

4. What is the significance of 1819 in Alabama history? 1819 was the year Alabama became a state

5. What is mercantilism?

6. Who was Edgar Allen Poe? American author, wrote The Raven and Tell Tale Heart

7. Who was a writer in the roaring twenties?

8. What is the Roanoke colony? The first English colony. It was NOT successful.

9. Who is Horace Mann? The “Father of Education” He believed that everyone should have access to a free public education.

10. Who was Martin Luther? He began the Protestant Reformation

11. Describe the Crusades. series of wars fought in the Middle Ages by Christians to conquer the Holy Land from Muslims When Europeans fought the Muslims in the Holy Land, the Europeans discovered new spices and cloth that they wanted. Because trading over land for these products was very costly, sailors looked for sea routes to Asia. Columbus found the New World while searching for a new sea route to Asia

12. What is an example of yellow journalism? Yellow journalism is sensational writing with disregard for the truth

13. What is Habeas Corpus? a guarantee of no imprisonment without appearing in court

14. Who started the Massachusetts Bay Colony? The Puritans

15. What are the Black Codes? a series of laws passed in the South restricting the rights of blacks after the Civil War

16. What was the Sherman Antitrust Acts?

17. What were the Clayton Antitrust Acts?

18. What was the Louisiana Purchase? Land within the continental United States that was purchased from the French in 1803- with this purchase the United States extended west of the Mississippi River and almost doubled its land area

19. Describe the Triangular Trade Route colonial trade routes between the Caribbean, New England, and Africa

20. What is the TVA? Tennessee Valley Authority: governmentorganization designed to provide jobs and electricity to lower Appalachia

21. Who is W.C. Handy? Born in Florence, Alabama he is considered the “Father of the Blues”

22. What is a mechanical reaper?

23. What were the Federalist Papers? newspaper articles written to persuade the people of New York State to support the Constitution.

24. What was the significance of Winston County in Alabama during the Civil War? They resisted against succeeding from the Union. They were not members of Confederate States.

25. Who was Paul Revere? rode from Boston to Concord to warn the Patriots that the British were coming

26. Who was Patrick Henry? delivered passionate “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech in House of Burgesses

27. What were the Writs of Assistance? legal documents that allowed British customs officers to search for illegal goods with an owner’s permission

28. What was the Boston Tea Party? In protest to the new British tax on tea, the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians boarded the ships carrying tea in Boston Harbor and dumped the tea into the harbor

29. What was being exchanged during the Columbian Exchange? The Columbian Exchange was an exchange of goods, ideas, and customs from Europe to the New World and vice versa

30. Who was Susan B. Anthony?

31. What was the Sineca Falls Convention?

32. Who was Ida Tarbell? She was a muckraker. She wrote History of Standard Oil Company

33. Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald? He was a 1920’s writer. He wrote The Great Gatsby

34. What was Auschwitz? One of the concentration camps used by Adolf Hitler to accomplish his “Final Solution,” which main goal was to eliminate Jews in Europe