 Membership
in the ___ is based on
population, while membership in the
___ has equal representation.
 House
of Representatives; Senate
 The
First Amendment to the Bill of
Rights was influenced by this
document written by Thomas Jefferson
of Virginia.
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
 The
Monroe Doctrine established an
imaginary boundary line around the
Americas. The purpose of the line was
to
 ban
further European colonization
inside the line
 How
did the Kansas-Nebraska Act
resolve the issue of slavery in the
territories?
 Popular
sovereignty would be
permitted in the territories.
 The
Compromise of 1877
accomplished THIS?
 Agreement
reached to allow Rep.
Rutherford B. Hayes to become
president
 The
forced journey of slaves from
Africa to the New World was called
 What
was affirmed in the Supreme
Court case of Marbury v. Madison?
 The
right of the Supreme Court to
declare an act of Congress
unconstitutional
 The
by:
Missouri Compromise is described
 Maine
admitted as a free state,
Missouri as a slave state, line of 36 30’
drawn through the Louisiana Territory
 After
the surrender at Appomattox
Court House, what did Robert E. Lee
encourage Southerners to do?
 Admit
defeat and rejoin the Union
 The
growth of the “cotton kingdom”
resulted from
 Eli
Whitney’s invention of the cotton
gin

a result of Nat Turner’s rebellion
 whites
used their fear of rebellion to
justify stricter enforcement of the
Slave Codes
 The
founder of the influential antislavery newspaper, The Liberator, was
William
Lloyd
Garrison
of popular sovereignty
believed that
 Supporters
 residents
of a territory should decide
the issue of slavery
 “Bloody
Kansas” was the result of the
the repeal of the conditions
established by the Missouri
Compromise
the controversial Dred Scott
decision, the Supreme Court declared
that
 In
 because
slaves were not citizens of the
United States, they had no rights
 The
term “nativism” means
 disliking
immigrants
 What
anti-immigrant law was passed
in the 1800s?
 the
Chinese Exclusion Act
 The
following contributed to the
growth of cities:
 improvements
in transportation,
construction of skyscrapers, large
amounts of immigrants
 How
were immigrant children affected
by the creation of a public school
system?.
 They
were given help to assimilate into
American society
 The
term “suffrage” refers to
 the
right to vote
 Where
were immigrants in the late
Nineteenth century most likely to
settle?
 In
large cities in the Northeast or
Midwest
 What
balance were the Missouri
Compromise and the Compromise of
1850 designed to maintain?
 representation
in Congress
of slave and free states
 During
the late 1800s and early
1900s, immigration laws discriminated
the most against
 the
Chinese
 One
of the reasons for the American
victory in the American Revolutionary
War was
 Benjamin
Franklin negotiated an
alliance with France
 Which
Supreme Court decision rejected
efforts to limit the spread of slavery?
 The
publication of what book inflamed
anti-slavery feelings in the North?
 Uncle
Tom’s Cabin
 The
as
Great Awakening is best described
a
series of religious revivals
 The
Revolutionary War began with the
 Battles
of Lexington and Concord
 What
event formally ended slavery in
the United States?
 the
passage of the 13th Amendment
to the Constitution
 Andrew
Jackson’s presidency was
known as the Age of
 Democracy
 The
Emancipation Proclamation, issued
after the battle at Antietam
 freed
the slaves of all states in
rebellion
 The
Fourteenth Amendment
guaranteed
 all
citizens equality before the law
 The
purchase of the Louisiana
Territory
 doubled
the sized of the United States.
 The
Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution gave male citizens the
right to vote regardless of race, color,
or former status as a slave. Later
methods of depriving citizens of their
15th Amendment rights included
 poll
taxes and literacy tests
 Which
state was the site of Robert E.
Lee’s surrender?
 Virginia
 The
Articles of Confederation proved
to be ineffective because they
 created
a weak national government
 President
Lincoln’s view of secession is
best expressed by
 states
did not have the constitutional
right to leave the Union

 What
was the most important result of
the Mexican War?
 The
US gained control of a vast
amount of territory in the Southwest.
 The
Preamble illustrates the
constitutional principle that people
 are
the true source of political power
 The
first political parties in the United
States were
 Federalists
and DemocraticRepublicans
 Who
is associated with the abolitionist
movement as an escaped slave?
 Frederick
Douglass
 Lincoln’s
Second Inaugural Address
remarks were meant to serve as a
guide for what event?
 Reconstruction
 “It
is our God-given right to spread
our democracy and culture across the
continent.”

 Manifest
Destiny
 The
territories of Oregon and Florida
were acquired by America after the
 War
of 1812
 Why
did seven states seceded from the
Union in 1860 and 1861?
 to
protest the election of Abraham
Lincoln as President
 What
was the event that actually
started the Civil War?
 the
bombing of Ft. Sumter
 Abolitionists
believed that
 the
institution of slavery should
immediately cease
 The
women’s suffrage movement
began with the
 Seneca
Falls Declaration
 Which
region’s states seceded from
the union as a result of the Election of
1860?
 South
 The
chief guide for Lewis and Clark’s
exploration of the Louisiana Territory
was
 Sacajawea
 Fifty-five
delegates from twelve states
convened in Philadelphia in 1787 for
the Constitutional Convention,
choosing ___ to preside over the
convention:

 George
Washington
 He
was a Northern Army general in
the Civil War:
 Ulysses
S. Grant
 Who
directly influenced Abraham
Lincoln to allow freed slaves to fight in
the Civil War?

 Frederick
Douglass
 What
were the greatest advantages for
the North during the Civil War?
 the
large population and diversified
industrial base
 The
Emancipation Proclamation
changed the goal of the Civil War for
the North to
 ending
the institution of slavery
 What
result did the Civil War have on
the South?
 The
economy was ruined, and a large
class of poor tenant farmers
developed.
 “Jacksonian
Democracy” illustrates:
 That
Jackson’s presidency was a
reaction against aristocracy; that
power should not only be in the hands
of the wealthy.
 Which
statement best described the
relationship between Eli Whitney’s
invention of the cotton gin and
slavery?
 Increased
cotton production
necessitated an increase in the number
of slaves.
 Alexander
Hamilton and Thomas
Jefferson disagreed over the issue of
a
strong vs. weak national government
and the type of economy
 Abraham
Lincoln’s assassination
impacted the South in what way?
 It
led the way to Radical
Reconstruction,
which was harsher than Lincoln’s
moderate plans for Reconstruction.
 Most
settlement houses in the late
1800s offered poor city dwellers
 social
services
 In
the 1890s, immigration patterns
shifted dramatically with most
immigrants coming from
 southern

and eastern Europe
 What
was the federal policy regarding
Native (First) Americans in the 1830s?
 Relocation.
 The
First Continental Congress was the
first example of
 the
colonies coming together for a
common cause
 Practice
called whereby successful
politicians reward their supporters by
appointing them to office?
 The
spoils system
 After
the Civil War who became the
leading spokesman for African
Americans?
 Frederick
Douglass
 American
immigration patterns
between 1890 and 1914 showed that
most immigrants came from
 southern
and eastern Europe
 The
main purpose of the Jim Crow laws
was to
 discriminate
South
against blacks in the
 Those
who supported ratifying the
Constitution promised to add a Bill of
Rights in order to
 persuade
the Anti-Federalists to sign
the Constitution
 What
document written by George
Mason established the premise of
basic human rights which cannot be
violated by governments?
 Virginia
Declaration of Rights
 Which
statement best describes
British-American relations after the
French and Indian War?

 The
colonists began to question British
authority.
 GOOD
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