Which document stresses Locke's ideas that rulers gain power through consent of the governed

The Declaration of Independence

Which two things did Eli Whitney create?

The Cotton Gin & Interchangeable Parts

What was the original purpose for creating Georgia?

To be a buffer b/w the British Colonies and the Spanish

What was the first set of written laws in America?

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

What was popular sovereignty?

voting to decide slavery in new states

What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee?

300 unarmed Sioux Indians were slaughtered

The XYZ affair was between which two world powers

The United States and the French

What was the purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?

It offered 160 acres of land to Western Settlers

The belief that your country is superior to all others

What did Andrew Jackson infamously do with the Native Americans?

He forcibly moved them out West

What event made Sherman famous during the Civil War, as a part of his Total War strategy

Burnt down Atlanta on his march to Savannah

John Brown was the man who...

Tried to lead a slave uprising during Bleeding Kansas

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1
Which document stresses Locke's ideas that rulers gain power through consent of the governed
The Constitution
The Articles of the Confederation
The Declaration of Independence
The Mayflower Compact
2
New York gained prominence as an important United States city when what was completed?
The Grand Canyon
The Statue of Liberty
The Empire State Building
The Eerie Canal
3
Why did Lincoln suspend the writ of Habeas Corpus during the Civil War?
to excuse runaway slaves from the Fugitive Slave Act
to break the Souths' will to fight
to stop stifle opposition
to help keep slavery intact
4
Which two things did Eli Whitney create?
The Cotton Gin & Interchangeable Parts
The Printing Press & The Lightbulb
The Automobile & The Cotton Gin
Interchangeable Parts & The Lightbulb
5
The political group who advocated punishing the south after the Civil War were the...
Presidents Lincoln and Johnson
Social Democrats
Freedmens Bureau
Radical Republicans
6
This leader of the American Great Awakening gave a Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God speech
Roger Sherman
Floyd Mayweather
Pope Benedict
Jonathan Edwards
7
What was the original purpose for creating Georgia?
To grow an abundance of cotton for the British
It was established to offer colonists religious freedom
To be a buffer b/w the British Colonies and the Spanish
To be a center for British Colonial train tracks
8
What was the first set of written laws in America?
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Articles of the Confederation
The Mayflower Compact
The 10 Commandments
9
What was popular sovereignty?
voting to decide slavery in new states
A states right to ignore unconstitutional national laws
electing your local politicians to office
The Supreme Court decides a laws' Constitutionality
10
What happened at the Battle of Wounded Knee?
Chief Metacom was finally defeated by American troops
The Wampanoag Tribe attacked US Colonists
General Custer made his last stand?
300 unarmed Sioux Indians were slaughtered
11
The XYZ affair was between which two world powers
The United States and Britain
The French and the Germans
The United States and the French
The British and the French
12
What was the purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862?
It offered 160 acres of land to Western Settlers
It helped to assemble Workers Unions and strikes
It offered to help end workers strikes
It helped fund the intercontinental railroad
13
Most early American cities and colonies were founded near what to promote trade?
Railroads
Gold Mines
Large Bodies of Water
Native American capitals
14
Lincoln was able to issue the Emancipation Proclamation after the Union victory at...
Gettysburg
Antietam
Appomatox
Vicksburg
15
What is nationalism?
Valuing your local culture over the country's
Having more money than other countries
The belief that your country is superior to all others
Washington D.C.'s baseball team
16
Suburbs were able to grow for the first time during the Gilded Age because of what?
Telephones
The Printing Press
Automobiles
Indoor Plumbing
17
Which important industry did Rockefeller control in the late 1800s?
Oil
Steel
Banks
Railroads
18
What did Andrew Jackson infamously do with the Native Americans?
He attempted to have them all killed
He Hunger Gamesed them
He forcibly moved them out West
He gave them permission to build casinos in Georgia & S.C.
19
What event made Sherman famous during the Civil War, as a part of his Total War strategy
Surrendered at Appomatox Courthouse
Attacked Gettysburg
Burnt down Atlanta on his march to Savannah
Led the Confederates at Antietam, the bloodiest single day
20
The Dutch had originally settled in what modern day US State?
Virginia
Massachussetts
Maine
New York
21
John Brown was the man who...
The Great Compromiser
The South Carolina governor who led the secession movement
The President who fought nullification
Tried to lead a slave uprising during Bleeding Kansas
22
The first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution are called the:
Bill of Rights
Articles of the Confederation
Antitrust Act
Mayflower Compact

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