STAAR Review

When geographic feature allowed the Mid-Atlantic colonies to have a longer growing season than the New England colonies?

Mild Climate

This excerpt is from a president's annual message to Congress. Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise. - President Thomas Jefferson, first annual message, December 8, 1801 Which economic principle is President Jefferson showing support for in this excerpt?

Minimal government regulation

During the colonial period, what was one difference between slave labor in the North and slave labor in the South?

More slaves in the North worked in trade-related jobs

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

By keeping renters in debt to landlords

Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

"And that claim is by the right...to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us..."

Which human geographic factor helped the Union win the Civil War?

A network of railroads in the North allowed Union soldiers to be moved quickly over long distances

Which situation violates the Eighth Amendment protections regarding criminal punishment?

A person is sentenced to life in prison for shoplifting.

What was one effect of the Fifteenth Amendment?

Black voters helped bring the Republican Party to power in the South

Which condition did both slaves and free blacks in the United States experience in the antebellum period?

Both groups were denied citizenship rights

How did the free enterprise system MOST benefit industrial development in the first half of the 1800's

By allowing entrepreneurs to raise money and invest in companies

How did American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?

By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance.

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. - Declaration of Independence How was this grievance addressed by the Founding Fathers?

By making the president the commander in chief of the armed forces

How did the introduction of barbed-wire fences benefit farmers?

By protecting crops from damage caused by animals

How did immigrants MOST contribute to the rapid industrialization of the United States during early-to-mid 1800's

By serving as an inexpensive source of labor

This list below shows a sequence of events in colonial history *The Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock instead of Virginia. *The colonists realized they were outside the area covered by the original charter. *The colonists signed the Mayflower Compact. Why is this sequence of events important?

Colonists established a tradition of self-government.

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. I am now convinced, beyond a doubt that unless some great and capital change suddenly takes place... this Army must inevitable by reduced to one or other of these three things. Starve, dissolve, or disperse, in order to obtain subsistence in the best manner they can' rest assured Sir this in not an exaggerated picture... - General George Washington, letter to the Continental Congress, December 23, 1777 Which of the following prompted General Washington to write this letter?

Concern for the Continental troops during the winter at Valley Forge

Which constitutional issue contributed to sectional conflict before the Civil War?

Debate over the expansion of slavery into the West

I found, near Boston, in the jails and asylums for the poor, a numerous class brought into unsuitable connection with criminals and the general mass of paupers. I refer to..... insane persons, dwelling in circumstances not only adverse to their own physical and moral improvement, but productive of extreme disadvantages to all other persons brought into association with them. - Memorial to the Legislature of Massachusetts, 1843 Which woman fought to create legislation to help the people described in this excerpt?

Dorothea Dix

Which statement describes one result of the War of 1812?

Great Britain stopped the practice of impressment

____________________________ guarantees, speedy and public trial, impartial jury, legal counsel

Due Process

Which group helped establish the colony of Maryland in the 1630's?

English Catholics seeking religious freedom

Which historical action was protected by the First Amendment guarantee regarding religion?

Evangelists led revivals in New England

What was one effect of the cotton gin in the United States?

Expansion of the plantations system

Which president established these traditions for the executive branch? *First to appoint cabinet members *Recommended the title "Mr. President" *First to serve two terms

George Washington

Which description is an example of an unalienable right from the Declaration of Independence?

Happiness - people can do lawful things that they enjoy

Which breakthrough did Hiram Rhodes Revels accomplish during Reconstruction?

He became the first African American to win a seat in the U.S. Congress

Why is Thomas Jefferson's writing of the Declaration of Independence considered to be one of his greatest contributions to American history?

He helped define rights that would defeat tyranny.

Why did President Andrew Jackson oppose the Second Bank of the United States?

He thought it was unconstitutional and favored the wealthy

Why did President Thomas Jefferson approve the negotiations that led to the Louisiana Purchase?

He wanted to take control of the Mississippi River

Why is John Paul Jones remembered as the "Father of the American Navy"?

He won naval victories against the British during the Revolutionary War

Study the list and answer the question that follows. 1. Colonial production of cash crops 2. Use of slavery in agriculture. 3.? 4. Expansion of the transatlantic slave trade Which phrase BEST completes the missing one?

Increased profits for plantation owners

Whitney's world provided a time for innovation in manufacturing systems. His factory would change the precision craft of gun making into routine. The machines would change the role of the worker and the meaning of skill. With a limited American labor supply, his system favored the use of small numbers of unskilled workers. What is being described in the excerpt?

Interchangeable parts and mass production

Which statement describes how the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 increased sectionalism?

It allowed slavery to expand into the territories.

What is the significance of the Pilgrims' arrival in America?

It led to an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.

This political slogan is from the mid-1800's. American Platform of Principles, 1857 Americans must rule America! What motivated some people to support this nativist slogan?

Large-scale immigration to cities and the belief that immigrants stole jobs from native-born citizens

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. The declared purpose of the compact of Union from which we have withdrawn was "to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity;", and when, in the judgment of the sovereign States now composing this Confederacy, it had....... ceased to answer the ends for which it was established, a peaceful appeal to the ballot-box declared that so far as they were concerned, the government created by that compact should cease to exist. - President Jefferson Davis, inaugural address, February 18, 1861 How did President Abraham Lincoln react to the idea expressed in Jefferson Davis's inaugural address?

Lincoln stated that the argument by the South to leave the Union was unjustified.

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. - Thirteenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution What was an IMMEDIATE effect of this amendment?

Many former slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living.

In which court case was the U.S. principle of judicial review established?

Marbury v. Madison

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited U.S. society?

Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients

*Some factories offer housing for workers with families *Factories offer jobs for people Which title best completes these statements?

Reasons for Urbanization

Which era involved legislation enacted by the Radical Republicans?

Reconstruction

What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

Self-government developed in the colonies

What do these events have in common? *Kentucky Passes Resolution: Declares Alien and Sedition Acts, violate constitution. *Federalists Held Secret Convention in Hartford: Wanted to amend Constitution. *South Carolina Declares Tariffs Null and Void: Threatens to secede from Union.

States' rights

Which event was one cause of the U.S. - Mexican War?

U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought over disputed territory north of the Rio Grande

Which statement BEST describes the importance of the Battle of Vicksburg?

The Confederacy lost control of the Mississippi River

Why did many farmers, artisans, and former Anti-Federalist support the Democratic-Republican Party?

The Democratic-Republicans favored states' rights and the rights of the common man.

Which historic document had the greatest influence on the first ten amendments to the U.S .Constitution?

The English Bill of Rights

Why did Alexander Hamilton think a national bank would strengthen the central government?

The bank would help provide stability for the U.S. economy.

Why was the Third Amendment prohibiting the quartering of troops added to the U.S. Constitution?

To address colonial treatment by the British military

Which statement explains an effect of the Missouri Compromise?

The compromise maintained the balance between the number of free states and slave states in the Senate.

Read the passage and answer the question that follows. In the early 1800's, Great Britain was in a conflict with France. Both countries tried to prevent the United States from trading with the other country. As a result of British impressment of U.S. sailors, Congress passed the Embargo Act in 1807. This act closed U.S. ports to exports and placed restrictions on British imports. In 1809 Congress repealed this act and replaced it with a law that specifically prohibited trade with Great Britain and France. What was one effect of these action of the United States?

The expansion of manufacturing

Which issue was debated in Gibbons v. Ogden

The regulation of interstate commerce by federal or state laws.

What was the issue in Worcester v. Georgia?

The sovereignty of the Cherokee nation

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. In accordance with our promise on our departure from Sweden we are sending you a few lines to tell you how and where we are situated at present... We decided to settle in Iowa...It has an abundance of water power, contains metals, marble, and several other natural resources, and only a very small part of this extensive territory is settled...If only half of the work expended on the soil in the fatherland were utilized here, the yield would reach the wildest imagination... - Peter Cassel, letter to his father in Sweden, February 9, 1446 Which reason BEST explains why many Swedish people settled in the American Midwest?

The wanted to find fertile farmland

Selected U.S. Religious Groups *Catholics *Southern Baptists *Seventh-day Adventists Which statement below explains how the First Amendment has affected these groups?

These groups are allowed to share and promote their beliefs

Which statement describes the roles of George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War?

They were Union generals who commanded the Army of the Potomac.

Which statement describes BOTH the Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-1800's

They were against the expansion of slavery into the western territories

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows. The most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the.... most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still... While I enjoy the friendship of the seasons I trust that nothing can make life a burden to me. -Henry David Thoreau, Walden 1854

Thoreau focuses on the relationship between humans and the natural world.

The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible. - President George Washington, Farewell Address 1796 Why did President Washington give this advice about the future of U.S. foreign policy?

To avoid being drawn into European Wars

Why did European explorers search for the Northwest Passage?

To discover a new sea route to Asia

What was the INITIAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

To find new trade routes to Asia

Read the passage and answer the question that follows. In 1867 Congress passed the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. These acts temporarily divided the South into five military districts, outlined how governments based on universal male suffrage would be organized, and required southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. Which of the following expresses a goal of the Reconstruction Acts of 1867?

To protect the rights of African Americans in the South

Why did the Constitutional Convention agree to the Three-Fifths Compromise?

To settle debates over the issue of counting the enslaved population for representation.

An immigrant sails to North America in the early 1700s hoping to start a tobacco farm. He has done some research on the best environment for tobacco farming. Where is the immigrant most likely to settle?

Virginia

Settlers in Maryland struggled to resolve various disputes in the early days of the colony. The Maryland Assembly resolved many of those disputes in 1649 by passing a law that.......

allowed all Christians to worship freely

Boston, Massachusetts, and San Francisco, California, are geographically similar in that they BOTH -

are located on a coast

The Great Compromise addressed disagreements over federal representations by -

creating a bicameral legislature

Thomas Hooker's Fundamental Orders of Connecticut is important in U.S. political history because it was an early colonial document that -

provided for the election of representatives

Read the list and answer the question that follows. *Harriet Tubman *Elizabeth Cady Stanton *William Lloyd Garrison The people on this list are similar because their actions -

showed commitment to rights and freedoms

Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. - Samuel Adams, 1772 In the early days of the colonies, a belief in these rights helped lead to -

the growth of representative government