MIDTERM REVIEW VA./U.S HISTORY

1. MIDTERM REVIEWVA./U.S HISTORY

2. Membership in the ___ is based on population, while membership in the ___ has equal representation.

3. House of Representatives; Senate

4. The First Amendment to the Bill of Rights was influenced by this document written by Thomas Jefferson of Virginia.

5. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom

6. The Monroe Doctrine established an imaginary boundary line around the Americas. The purpose of the line was to

7. ban further European colonization inside the line

8. How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act resolve the issue of slavery in the territories?

9. Popular sovereignty would be permitted in the territories.

10. The Compromise of 1877 accomplished THIS?

11. Agreement reached to allow Rep. Rutherford B. Hayes to become president

12. The forced journey of slaves from Africa to the New World was called

13. the Middle Passage

14. What was affirmed in the Supreme Court case of Marbury v. Madison?

15. The right of the Supreme Court to declare an act of Congress unconstitutional

16. The Missouri Compromise is described by:

17. Maine admitted as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, line of 36 30’ drawn through the Louisiana Territory

18. After the surrender at Appomattox Court House, what did Robert E. Lee encourage Southerners to do?

19. Admit defeat and rejoin the Union

20. The growth of the “cotton kingdom” resulted from

21. Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin

22. a result of Nat Turner’s rebellion

23. whites used their fear of rebellion to justify stricter enforcement of the Slave Codes

24. The founder of the influential anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator, was

25. William Lloyd Garrison

26. Supporters of popular sovereignty believed that

27. residents of a territory should decide the issue of slavery

28. “Bloody Kansas” was the result of the the repeal of the conditions established by the Missouri Compromise

29. In the controversial Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court declared that

30. because slaves were not citizens of the United States, they had no rights

31. The term “nativism” means

32. disliking immigrants

33. What anti-immigrant law was passed in the 1800s?

34. the Chinese Exclusion Act

35. The following contributed to the growth of cities:

36. improvements in transportation, construction of skyscrapers, large amounts of immigrants

37. How were immigrant children affected by the creation of a public school system?.

38. They were given help to assimilate into American society

39. The term “suffrage” refers to

40. the right to vote

41. Where were immigrants in the late Nineteenth century most likely to settle?

42. In large cities in the Northeast or Midwest

43. What balance were the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 designed to maintain?

44. representation of slave and free states in Congress

45. During the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigration laws discriminated the most against

46. the Chinese

47. One of the reasons for the American victory in the American Revolutionary War was

48. Benjamin Franklin negotiated an alliance with France

49. Which Supreme Court decision rejected efforts to limit the spread of slavery?

50. The publication of what book inflamed anti-slavery feelings in the North?