REGENTS 2

Read the quotation below and answer the question: "Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could easily defeat us." In the US, the danger identified in this statement was the greatest during the

Civil War

Base your answer to the question on this excerpt from a resolution adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and on your knowledge of social studies. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." Which document served as the most direct model for this resolution?

Declaration of Independence

Which statement best explains why candidates for President of the US are nominated during nominating conventions?

It is part of the US political tradition

Base your answer to the question below on the quotation and on your knowledge of social studies. "How can an industrialized Northeast, a plantation South, and a small farms West peacefully share the same nation?" This quotation best describes the US during which time period?

Pre-Civil War (1820-1860)

Which argument did President Abraham Lincoln use against the secession of the southern states?

The government was a union of people not of states

Base your answer to the question on your knowledge of social studies and on the quotation below, from a speech made by a US Senator in 1847. "What is the territory, Mr. President, which you propose to wrest from Mexico? It is consecrated to the heart of the Mexican by many a well-fought battle with his old Castilian master. His Bunker Hills, and Saratogas, and Yorktowns are there and shall he surrender that consecrated home of his affection to the Anglo-Saxon invaders? What do we want with it? The Senator from Michigan says he must have this. Why, my Christian brother, on what principle of justice?" With which position would the speaker must likely have agreed?

The pursuit of a policy of manifest destiny is unfair.

In US History, which characteristic was common to the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the Spanish-American War?

Their aim was the expansion of US self-interest

Which was most characteristic of the early factory systems in the United States?

Unsafe working conditions were common.

Laws requiring individuals to pass civil service examinations to obtain government jobs were enacted to

eliminated patronage and corruption in government hiring.

Base your answer to this question on the cartoon below and on your knowledge of social studies. Andrew Jackson The cartoonist is most clearly accusing President Jackson of which behavior?

exceeding the constitutional limits of his authority

"Compromise Enables Maine and Missouri to Enter Union" (1820) "California Admitted to Union as Free State" (1850) "Kansas-Nebraska Act Sets up Popular Sovereignty" (1854) Which issue is reflected in these headlines?

extension of slavery

A major result of the Civil War was that the

federal government's power over the states was strengthened

Base your answer to the question on your knowledge of social studies and on the quotation below, from a speech made by a US Senator in 1847. "What is the territory, Mr. President, which you propose to wrest from Mexico? It is consecrated to the heart of the Mexican by many a well-fought battle with his old Castilian master. His Bunker Hills, and Saratogas, and Yorktowns are there and shall he surrender that consecrated home of his affection to the Anglo-Saxon invaders? What do we want with it? The Senator from Michigan says he must have this. Why, my Christian brother, on what principle of justice?" The parallel between the US and Mexico which the Senator indicated in his speech was that both

had a revolutionary heritage.

In the US, the belief in manifest destiny was most similar to later demands for

imperialistic expansion at the end of the 19th century

Base your answer to the question on this excerpt from a resolution adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848 and on your knowledge of social studies. "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness..." The philosophy stated in this resolution was based on the

natural rights theory

The main goal of the Seneca Falls Convention (1848) was to

obtain equal rights for women

The reason for ending the importation of enslaved persons in the United States after 1807 was the

passage of legislation that forbid the practice

Read the quotation below and answer the question: "To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives in Congress Assembled: We, the undersigned, citizens of the United States, but deprived of some of the privileges and immunities of citizens, among which is the right to vote, beg leave to submit the following Resolution:..." --Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stantion (1873) This statement is an example of a citizen's constitutional right to

petition for a redress of grievances

Base your answer to the question below on the quotation and on your knowledge of social studies. "How can an industrialized Northeast, a plantation South, and a small farms West peacefully share the same nation?" Which term can be most accurately applied to the situation in the quotation?

sectionalism

During the period from 1800 to 1865, the issues of states rights, tariffs, and slavery led most directly to the growth of

sectionalism

The activities of Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey in the US indicated that

slave revolts occurred in the South

A similarity between the pre-Civil War abolitionist movement and the Progressive movement is that both

sought to improve the conditions of poor or oppressed peoples

The United States Supreme Court decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) was important because it

strengthened the determination of abolitionists to achieve their goals

Read the quotation below and answer the question: "You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to 'preserve, protect, and defend' it." --Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, 1861

take strong action to maintain the Union

Which event was the immediate cause of the secession of several southern states from the Union in 1860?

the election of President Abraham Lincoln, who opposed the spread of slavery into the territories

In the US during the 1800s, the growth of industrialization resulted in

the rising influence of the middle class

Read the quotation below and answer the question. "By the 1850s the Constitution, originally framed as an instrument of national unity, had become a source of national discord." This quotation suggests that

vast differences of opinion existed over the issue of States rights

During the 19th century, the expansion of the population of the United States affected the lives of the Native Americans in that most Indians

were forced to move westward