Category: Documents - Press Play for the first question!
Category: Documents - Press Play for the first question!
Question 1 of 12.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending the Mexican-American War led to great territorial gains for the United States, however a heated debate began shortly thereafter about what important issue?
1. Expansion of slavery into the new territory
2. Texas Independence
3. California’s southern border
4. Native American rights in the new territory
Question 2 of 12.
The Declaration of Sentiments adopted at the Seneca Falls Convention famously modeled itself after which founding document
1. US Constitution
2. The Virginia Declaration of Rights
3. The Declaration of Independence
4. Mayflower Compact
Question 3 of 12.
Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Point plan hoped to accomplish all of the following at the conclusion of World War I except:
1. Improved international relations
2. Restoration of territories
3. Restriction of military strength
4. Impose reparations on Germany
Question 4 of 12.
The passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was an early attempt by Congress to limit the power of monopolies, however the vague wording of the law and court rulings made the law ineffective in its early years. Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to effectively use the law in 1904 to break up what monopoly?
1. American Sugar Refining Company
2. Northern Securities Corporation
3. Standard Oil
4. US Steel
Question 5 of 12.
What was the first consumer protection law passed in the early 20th century?
1. Pure Food and Drug Act
2. Social Security Act
3. Meat Inspection Act
4. Federal Reserve Act
Question 6 of 12.
All of the following are true of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 except:
1. Attempted to negotiate treaties with Indians living East of the Mississippi for their relocation West
2. Signed into law by Andrew Jackson
3. Resulted in the death of many natives on what became known as the Trail of Tears
4. Most natives relocated by the Act settled in Kansas Territory
Question 7 of 12.
The South Carolina Exposition and Protest written by John C. Calhoun argued for the nullification of the 1828 “Tariff of Abomination”. Calhoun justified his argument for nullification by borrowing from all the following documents except:
1. Virginia Resolution
2. Tenth Amendment
3. Kentucky Resolution
4. Sedition Act
Question 8 of 12.
Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws had great influence over the establishment of which following Constitutional principle?
1. Federalism
2. Popular Sovereignty
3. Separation of Powers
4. Limited Government
Question 9 of 12.
In Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists he asserted the following idea that has greatly influenced American history:
1. A state has the right to nullify unjust laws
2. Speaking or publishing seditious ideas were in violation of the law because they endanger American security.
3. A nation has the right to alter or abolish an unjust government
4. The First Amendment has built a wall of separation between church and state
Question 10 of 12.
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.” – Abraham Lincoln Lincoln stated the above quote in which of the following speech or document:
1. First Inaugural Address
2. Second Inaugural Address
3. Emancipation Proclamation
4. Gettysburg Address
Question 11 of 12.
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania are largely believed to be written by who and about what topic?
1. Benjamin Rush, who supported British taxation as a proper means of revenue collection by the British Empire
2. John Dickinson, who urged resistance from England but also settlement and reconciliation
3. Benjamin Franklin, who argued for independence from Britain
4. John Hancock, who urged revolution as a means to assert colonial independence
Question 12 of 12.
What document from the founding period presented the idea of term limits?
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
3. Massachusetts Body of Liberties
4. Mayflower Compact
All 12 questions completed!