RHHS USH Exam Review Semester 1 2022

Question 1

Popular Sovereignty meant the people of a territory should decide whether slavery should exist there

Accepted Answer

True

Question 2

This economic policy was followed by the government in the late 1800's, but changed by Progressives like Teddy Roosevelt

Accepted Answer

Laissez Faire Capitalism

Question 3

Southern landowners didn't have to depend on urban centers of commerce and trade as much as New Englanders did

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, and Kansas - Nebraska Act were attempts to solve the slavery conflict

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

Which Constitutional compromise helped gain the support of smaller states?

Accepted Answer

Great Compromise

Question 6

The Emancipation Proclamation

Accepted Answer

Made ending slavery a goal of the fighting

Question 7

One of the main impacts of the Articles of Confederation was that it convinced American colonists to fight

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

The term "robber baron" described America&#x27;s industrial leaders as ruthless competitors who exploited their workers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

The American colonists declared that only their elected representatives should have the power to tax them

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The Sherman Anti - Trust Act, Pure Food and Drug Act and Sixteenth Amendment were all laws passed by Progressives

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Mechanization of agriculture led to an increase in production and falling crop prices

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which early political party believed in a strong national government and weak states?

Accepted Answer

Federalists

Question 13

What law broke up tribes, forced Native Americans to be farmers, and led them to lose their land?

Accepted Answer

Dawes Act

Question 14

The elastic clause, amendments, and judicial review allow for the government to be flexible and change with the times

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Holding companies, Pools, and mergers were ways to create monopolies that reduced competition and raised prices

Accepted Answer

True

Question 16

This court case said slaves were property and couldn't sue, and that Congress couldn't limit slavery in territories

Accepted Answer

Dred Scott v Sandford

Question 17

Which amendment made people born in the US citizens and guaranteed Constitutional rights in both states and the nation?

Accepted Answer

14th

Question 18

Federalists believed in states' rights, wanted the Bill of Rights, and favored small farmers and strict constructionism

Accepted Answer

False

Question 19

How did the Carlisle School handle Native American education?

Accepted Answer

By taking kids from their parents and making them practice white culture

Question 20

Manifest Destiny meant that the US wanted to expand to the Pacific. This resulted in a war with what country?

Accepted Answer

Mexico

Question 21

____ __ _____ means separation of power into three branches to keep any one from becoming too powerful

Accepted Answer

Checks and balances

Question 22

All of these were efforts to restrict the civil rights of Black southerners after the Civil War except

Accepted Answer

The 13th Amendment

Question 23

Free silver meant that farmers wanted more money in circulation to raise crop prices so they could pay back their loans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The authors, journalists, and activists who pressed for Progressive change in the early 20th century were known as

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 25

The phrase "deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed" means that the people are the source of power

Accepted Answer

True

Question 26

Which state threatened to secede from the Union in 1832 because it felt tariff policies violated its rights?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina

Question 27

Government and the Courts tended to support labor unions in their conflict with big business in the late 1800's

Accepted Answer

False

Question 28

This theory said that states had the right to ignore an act of Congress if they found it violated the Constitution

Accepted Answer

States' rights theory

Question 29

What famous speech by William Jennings Bryan supported bimetallism, or free coinage of gold AND silver?

Accepted Answer

"Cross of Gold" speech

Question 30

The government&#x27;s policy of not interfering in the economy during the late 1800&#x27;s was known as

Accepted Answer

Laissez faire capitalism

Question 31

Jim Crow laws protected the rights of Black Americans that had been guaranteed by the 14th Amendment

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

What mode of transportation was most important to the settlement of the West and the Industrial Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Railroad

Question 33

What document said that if government denies its people certain basic rights that it can be overthrown?

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Question 34

The abolitionist movement impacted society through speeches, literature, and acts of heroism

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

What system was created to help unify the nation through transportation improvements to facilitate trade?

Accepted Answer

American System

Question 36

John Marshall was a Federalist who believed in strengthening states&#x27; rights

Accepted Answer

False

Question 37

Manifest Destiny meant that the United States wanted to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

Sectional conflict between North, South, and West developed because of regional economic differences

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

The House of Burgesses and New England town hall meetings are both examples of

Accepted Answer

Representative government

Question 40

Theodore Roosevelt believed that John D Rockefeller's Standard Oil was a "good" monopoly because it helped society

Accepted Answer

False

Question 41

Progressives opposed the abuses of big business

Accepted Answer

True

Question 42

Voter participation increased in 1828, helping Andrew Jackson win the presidential election, because

Accepted Answer

States ended property ownership requirements for white men to vote

Question 43

Many women were banned from abolitionist meetings leading to the ____ Convention

Accepted Answer

Seneca Falls

Question 44

Farmers supported free silver because it would help them repay their loans

Accepted Answer

True

Question 45

What US policy was designed to end European colonization in Latin America and the Caribbean?

Accepted Answer

Monroe Doctrine

Question 46

Living conditions for the immigrants in the inner city tenements were generally uncrowded and sanitary

Accepted Answer

False

Question 47

Granger laws were created to regulate the cost of shipping crops by railroad

Accepted Answer

True

Question 48

Checks and balances and Federalism, or division of power between state and nation, lead to "limited government"

Accepted Answer

True

Question 49

Settlers in New England were Puritans because they wanted to "purify" the Church of England

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

What English policy caused American colonists to begin creating representative governments like the House of Burgesses?

Accepted Answer

Salutary Neglect

Question 51

Which immigrant groups played the largest role in building the transcontinental railroad?

Accepted Answer

Irish and Chinese

Question 52

After the Civil War, ____ provided cheap farm labor and kept freed slaves in debt and economically dependent

Accepted Answer

Sharecropping

Question 53

Marbury v Madison, the Supreme Court decision that established Judicial Review, was made under Chief Justice

Accepted Answer

John Marshall

Question 54

The South had more money, railroads, and manufacturing at the beginning of the Civil War

Accepted Answer

False

Question 55

Most immigrants during the Industrial Revolution settled in cities because there were many factory jobs there

Accepted Answer

True

Question 56

What early governing document reflected Americans' distrust of strong central government?

Accepted Answer

Articles of Confederation

Question 57

Two important goals achieved by the Populist movement were

Accepted Answer

Graduated income tax and direct election of Senators

Question 58

The Gibbons v Ogden decision allowed the Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional

Accepted Answer

False

Question 59

The Plessy v Ferguson decision in 1896 made segregation legal in the United States

Accepted Answer

True

Question 60

Goals achieved by Progressives in the early 20th century included all of the following exxcept:

Accepted Answer

Passing a Civil Rights Act to end segregation

Question 61

Protective tariffs encouraged the growth of American industry but made products more expensive for consumers

Accepted Answer

True

Question 62

Hamilton's National Bank led to the debate between a strict or loose interpretation of the Constitution

Accepted Answer

True

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