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Semester Exam Review
Questions, Questions, and Questions
• Legislative Branch:
• Makes laws, Congress
• Executive Branch:
• Enforces laws, President
• Judicial Branch:
• Interprets laws, Supreme Court
Court Cases
• Marbury v. Madison—established judicial review
• Dred Scott v. Sanford—established that slavery
was legal in all parts of the U.S.—overturned by
13th amendment
• Plessy v. Ferguson—established that segregation
was legal as long as it was separate and equal—
overturned by the Brown case in 1954
• First Shots: Rev—Lexington
Civil War—Fort Sumter
• Turning Points: Rev.—Saratoga
Civil War—Gettysburg
• Final events: Rev.—Yorktown
Civil War--Appomattox
Multiple Choice
• Which colony was most known for religious
toleration and introduced the idea of separation of
church and state?
a)Massachusetts
b)Virginia
c)Maryland
d)Rhode Island *
e)Georgia
• The most important point in the Gettysburg
Address is that:
• a)the Civil War validated states rights
• b)that the democratic government of the U.S.
shall not perish *
• c)”A house divided cannot stand”
• d)that the dead cannot rest until slavery ends
• Why did England lean toward supporting the
South in the Civil War?
• a)they liked slavery
• b)they bought Southern cotton *
• c)they wanted to build factories in the South
• How did the Mexican War lead to the Civil
War?
• a)issue of Spanish-speaking people
• b)issue of slavery in the Western territories *
• c)issue of North and South fighting over
mining rights
• What most led to development of farming in
the West?
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a)gold rush
b)reservations
C)Homestead Act *
D)barbed wire
• Wrote that the American Western experience
defines our character and that the frontier
closed in 1890:
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a)Webster
B)Alexis de Tocqueville
C)Frederick Turner *
D)Horace Greely
• What French historian from the Jackson
period wrote about Democracy in America?
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a)Genet
b)Alexis de Tocqueville *
c)Napoleon Bonaparte
d)Marquis de Montcalm
• Henry Clay’s solution to balancing number of
slave and free states in 1820:
• a)Kansas-Nebraska Act
• B) Missouri Compromise *
• C)American System
• Which is NOT associated with American
literature?
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A)Washington Irving
B)Longfellow
C)Poe
D)James Fenimore Cooper
E)James Buchanan *
• Most famous colonial citizen before the
Revolution:
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A)Hamilton
B)Franklin *
C)Adams
D)Dolly Madison
• First Republican President:
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A)Jackson
B)Polk
C)Lincoln *
D)A. Johnson
• Louisiana Purchase and Embargo Act:
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A)Washington
B)Adams
C)Jefferson *
D)Madison
• Underground RR:
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A)Sojourner Truth
B)Harriet Tubman *
C)Frederick Douglass
D)Nat Turner
• Founder of Federalist Party and Secretary of
Treasury and founder of National Bank:
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A)Hamilton *
B)Adams
C)Burr
D)Washington
• These Indians were killed at Mystic:
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A)Pequot *
B)Iroquois
C)Algonquin
D)Huron
• Northern advantages in the Civil War do NOT
include:
a)Population
b)Best generals*
c)Offensive war
d)Railroads
e)Factories and money
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions nullified:
a)
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Fugitive slave law
Alien and sedition acts*
XYZ affair
Tariff of Abominations
13th amendment
• Traditional person who is slow to change:
a)Moderate
b)Liberal
c)Conservative*
d)Radical
e)reactionary
• First ten amendments:
a)Constitution
b)Bill of Rights*
c)Declaration of Independence
d)Magna Carta
• Segregation after Reconstruction:
a)Black Codes
b)Slave Codes
c)Jim Crow*
• Which group would be most likely to advocate
abolitionism?
a)Puritans
b)Quakers *
c)Dutch settlers
d)Whigs
e)Anti-Federalists
• An important result of the French and Indian
War:
a)British control of North America
b)Taxes on colonists
c)End of Salutary neglect
d)Military experience for Americans
e)All of these*
• Which does NOT belong as a primary cause for
the War of 1812?
a)freedom of the seas
b)impressments
c)settlement rights in the Ohio Valley
d)ambition of U.S. to take over Canada*
e)ambition of England to retake the U.S.
• Virtual representation was Parliament’s answer
to which quoted idea?
a) “Give me liberty or give me death”
b) “Join or die”
c) “I only regret that I have just one life to give to
my country
d) “No taxation without representation”*
e) “We hold these truths to be self-evident….”
• What most led to the French aiding the
colonies in the war for independence?
a)Victory at Saratoga*
b)Albany Plan of Union
c)Second Continental Congress
d)Jefferson’s plea
• What led the founding fathers to write a
constitution to replace the Articles of
Confederation?
a)Shays’ Rebellion
b)No army
c)No executive branch
d)Lack of a strong government to regulate trade
e)All of these*
• What is NOT an important feature of
Washington’s Presidency?
a)Established cabinet
b)Paid state debts
c)Put down Whiskey Rebellion
d)Established diplomatic ties with England and
France
e)Purchased Louisiana*
• Which president is incorrectly paired?
a)Jefferson—Revolution of 1800
b)Madison—War of 1812
c)Monroe—Era of Good Feeling
d)John Q. Adams—democracy for the common
man*
e)Jackson—kitchen cabinet
• Most known for transcendentalism and
passive resistance:
a)Frederick Douglass
b)Henry David Thoreau*
c)William Lloyd Garrison
d)Harriet Beecher Stowe
e)Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Which state presented the nullification crisis
over the Tariff of Abominations?
a)Georgia
b)North Carolina
c)South Carolina *
d)Florida
e)Tennessee
• This led to a nullification crisis during the
Jackson Administration:
a)Indian Removal Act
b)Tariff of Abominations*
c)Trail of Tears
d)Veto of bank renewal
e)Godey’s Lady’s Book
• What led to the demise of the Federalist
Party?
a)Election of J.Q. Adams
b)Hartford Convention*
c)War of 1812
d)Democratic party
e)Whigs
• State and national government share and
divide powers:
a)Democracy
b)Federalism*
c)Republicanism
d)Nationalism
e)Greco-Roman influences
• Trail of Tears involved this tribe:
a)Kiowa
b)Cherokee*
c)Huron
d)Shoshone
e)Iroquois
• President who did not win the popular vote
but the electoral vote:
a)J.Q. Adams
b)R. B. Hayes
c)George W. Bush—2000
d)All of these*
• Lincoln’s reaction to the Wade-Davis Civil
Rights bill:
a)Veto
b)Pocket veto*
c)Signed into law
d)Assassination
e)impeachment
• Northern strategy in Civil War did NOT
include:
a)Blockade of gulf and coast
b)Attacking capital
c)Controlling Miss river
d)Sacrificing thousands of lives*
e)Splitting supply lines
• Who was against the National Bank?
a)Jackson
b)Jefferson
c)Democratic-Republicans
d)Democrats
e)All of these*
• American Party:
a)Democrats
b)Republicans
c)Federalists
d)Know-nothings*
• Rule of the people:
a)Democracy*
b)Federalism
c)Checks and balances
d)Separation of powers
• The South practiced de jure segregation. What
does this mean?
a)By fact or tradition
B)By law*
c)By the writ of habeas corpus
• The KKK was:
a)Liberal
b)Conservative
c)Reactionary*
d)Radical
e)moderate
• First federal program designed to help people:
a)Alien and Sedition acts
b)Freedmen’s Bureau*
c)Enforcement Acts
• The cycle of poverty during and after
Reconstruction in the South is due to:
a)New factories
b)Sharecropping*
c)Tenant farming
d)Solid South
• Election of 1824 is called ___ because Henry
Clay gave his votes to John Quincy Adams to
defeat Jackson:
a)Great Compromise
b)Corrupt Bargain*
c)National Bank Crisis
d)Brooks-Sumner incident
• What prevented Black men from practicing
their suffrage?
a)Poll tax
b)Literacy test
c)Grandfather clause
d)Intimidation by the KKK
e)All of these*
• Father of the Constitution:
a)Hamilton
b)Jefferson
c)Madison*
d)Washington
• American System involved all except:
a)Building of roads
b)Building of canals
c)Development of railroad
d)Immigration from Western Europe
e)Development of a strong navy*
• Republican Motherhood is identified with:
a)Raising good citizens
b)The cult of domesticity
c)Lack of legal equality with men
d)All of these*
• This document of 1823 told Europe to stay out
of Latin America:
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a)American system
b)Missouri compromise
c)McColluch v. Maryland
d)Monroe Doctrine*
• Seneca Falls Convention:
a)women’s rights *
b)Immigration
c)Temperance
d)education
• Which suspended the writ of habeas corpus in
certain cases?
a)Alien and Sedition Acts
b)Lincoln’s executive order
c)Patriot Act
d)All of these*
• Author of The Declaration of Independence:
a)Jefferson*
b)Adams
c)Franklin
d)Washington
• Tea Tax led to:
a)Boston Massacre
b)Gaspee Affair
c)Boston Tea Party*
d)Shots at Lexington
• Boston Tea Party led to:
a)Intolerable Acts
b)Quebec Act
c)Closing of Boston Harbor
d)Suspension of Mass. Legislature
e)All of these*
• Republican Party Platform:
a)Abolition of slavery
b)End spread of slavery into territories*
c)Full civil rights for blacks and women
• Emancipation Proclamation:
a)Issued after battle of Antietam
b)Issued to occupied seceded Southern states
c)Had a limited effect
d)Was replaced by the 13th amendment
e)All of these*
• “Millions for defense but not one cent for
tribute” was the response of Adams to:
a)XYZ Affair*
b)Whiskey Rebellion
c)Barbary Wars
• The Constitution was written in:
• Ratified in:
• Bill of Rights added in:
a)1776
b)1781 c)1787 * d)1789* e)1791*
• Confederates fought for states rights. They
are:
a)Right to slavery
b)Right to spread slavery into West
c)Right to secede
d)Right to nullify federal law
e)All of these*
• Worked for racial equality during
Reconstruction:
a)KKK
b)Radical Republicans*
c)Carpetbaggers
d)Freedmen
e)All of these?
• Invented interchangeable parts and cotton
gin:
a)Eli Whitney*
b)Morse
c)Bell
d)Edison
• Americans won this battle:
• Americans lost this battle:
a)Little Big Horn
b)Wounded Knee
• Wanted statehood in West:
a)Farmers*
b)Cattlemen
c)Miners
d)Chinese laborers
• Which is NOT associated with the antebellum
(before Civil War) years:
a)John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry
b)Dred Scott Case
c)Uncle Tom’s Cabin
d)Freedmen’s Bureau*
e)Bleeding Kansas
• Explored Louisiana Territory:
a)Clay and Webster
b)Travis and Bowie
c)Jackson and Houston
d)Boone and Crocket
e)Lewis and Clark*
• Named Washington as commander in chief of
troops:
a)Second Continental Congress*
b)Stamp Act Congress
c)Albany Plan of Union
d)Constitutional Convention
• Wrote Common Sense and The Crisis:
a)Sam Adams
b)Paul Revere
c)Thomas Paine*
• Reconstruction by the sword refers to:
a)Military occupation of South by Northern
army*
b)Oath of allegiance
c)Rise of Republican Party
d)Solid South
• Founder of the Democratic-Republican Party:
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a)Washington
b)Jefferson *
c)Madison
d)Adams
• The Whiskey Rebellion was caused by:
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a)development of the federal courts
b)excise tax *
c)Washington’s Farewell speech
d)party politics
• The flexibility of the interpretation of the
Constitution, according to Hamilton:
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a)separation of powers
b)checks and balances
c)popular sovereignty
d)elastic clause *
e)habeas corpus
• The Navigation Acts were most connected to
the ideas of:
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a)Parliamentary taxation
b)Boston Massacre
c)mercantilism *
d)proprietary colonies
e)Jamestown