U.S. History Review #4

Front

What keeps any one branch of the U.S. government from gaining too much power? Options: Vetoeing, Checks and Balances, The Executive Branch, Voting on a Bill

Back

Checks and Balances

Front

What organization was a network of people who arranged transportation and hiding places for fugitives and escaped slaves?

Back

Underground Railroad

Front

What territory did the United States buy from France in 1803 (which is considered by many to be the greatest real estate deal of all time)?

Back

The Louisiana Territory

Front

By 1860, the Midwest and East were united by a network of ____________________.

Back

railroads

Front

Pioneer families tended to settle in communities that were _____________.

Back

along the rivers

Front

The main topic of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates was _______________________.

Back

slavery

Front

The revolution in the late 1700s and early 1800s that changed the way that people worked was the ___________________.

Back

Industrial Revolution

Front

On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the __________________, which was a decree freeing all enslaved people in "rebel territory".

Back

Emancipation Proclamation

Front

Some Southerners wanted to break away from the United States, or to ____________________.

Back

secede

Front

Name the U.S. war between the North and the South.

Back

Civil War