Semester Two Final

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

The practice of rewarding political supporters with with government jobs. 

Which style of music was the creation of African American Slaves?

A land grant made by the Mexican government, used mostly for raising cattle and crops.

What was an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

What was the impact of the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Which of these was one legacy of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

How did the U.S. government entice railroad companies to take on the transcontinental railroad project?

Which opinion was expressed by those who opposed the expansion of the United States?

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act nullify the Missouri Compromise?

An economic system in which farms and businesses are privately owned and operated for profit.  

How did Catherine Sedgwick contribute to American culture?

Which poet wrote about America's growing importance to the world?

What was the significance of the 36˚30' parallel?

In the early 1800's, where did most Americans live?

Which of these was the model for the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments?

All of these were an effect of the Homestead Act except:

Which of these describes the economic policy known as laissez-faire?

Which of these contributed to the flood of new colonists in the West?

The geography of the South supported the growing of cash crops in all of these ways EXCEPT

Which reformer worked toward bettering the education system?

Who would agree with the following statement: "Being tied to one spot on Earth would be like being in jail."  

Which of these was a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Which of these was an obstacle to unity in the United States in the early 1800s?

A Supreme Court decision in 1857 that held that African Americans could never be citizens of the United States.

How did Frederick Douglass spread his message of freedom for all people?

How did the invention of the cotton gin impact the cotton crop in South?

All of these characterize John Marshall’s Supreme Court decisions in the early 1800s except

How was Mexico affected by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Secret network of free black and white people who helped thousands of enslaved people escape to free states and Canada. 

The United States acquired land in all of these ways except

In which way were the lives of enslaved people and women similar?

The name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across North America?

Which of these led to the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?

In what way did the Compromise of 1850 appease the South?

A change to the Constitution, ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery in the United States. 

Why did General Lee join the Confederate military?

Which group was focused on eliminating slavery?

In the early 1800s, all of these were American symbols except

The belief that it was America's right and duty to spread the nation across the North American continent.

A company that controls all production and sales of a particular product or service.

How did mining change the West?

How did the Louisiana Purchase affect the United States?

According to Henry Clay, what role did government have in encouraging economic growth?

An area of land set aside by the federal government for the use of an Indigenous nation. 

What forced the Indigenous groups of the Plains to finally move to reservations?

Issued by President Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring people enslaved in the Confederate States to be free. 

Which of these contributed to the start of the Mexican-American War?

What was typically the last step in this sequence? First gold discovered, next mining camps, then boomtowns, and finally

Dorothea Dix dedicated her life to

Which of these was an incentive for settlers to travel to Oregon Country?

What economic system, based on private ownership, did Henry Clay promote?

What gave early American art its individual identity?

Which of these was an obstacle for women who were working to end slavery in the United States?   

Which of these is an important aspect of industrialization?

What was an effect of the high tariffs that Congress placed on imported goods after the Civil War?

What was gained through the Gadsden Purchase of 1853?

Which event turned the secession crisis into a civil war?

Which of these was a Northern advantage at the start of the Civil War?

Which of these describes Henry David Thoreau’s approach to individualism?