NCFE 8th Grade Social Studies SET-7

Which factor most influenced the economic development of the colonial South?

• plentiful forests
• warm and wet growing seasons
• rich deposits of iron ore and coal
• abundant water power for manufacturing

Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton supported the creation of the Bank of the United States because it would

• increase the power of state banks
• raise revenue to reduce the need for tariffs
• help ensure the economic stability of the new nation
• provide low-cost loans to farmers

President George Washington’s leadership during the Whiskey Rebellion (1794) was important because it

• showed the ability of the new government to enforce federal law
• helped assure his reelection to a third term
•  forced frontier farmers to limit grain production
• halted British fort construction in the Northwest

In the 1830s, President Andrew Jackson supported the Indian removal policy because

• he sought complete control of Texas by the United States
• Native American Indians were attacking southern cities
•  he wanted to punish Native American Indians for their political opposition
• white settlers desired the land on which Native American Indians lived

Which point of view is being conveyed by the artist?

• encouragement of industrial development
• praise for Manifest Destiny
• opposition to the end of slavery
• opposition to the purchase of Alaska

Black Codes were established in the South immediately after the Civil War in an effort to

• integrate freedmen into American society
•  enforce the Emancipation Proclamation
• expand educational opportunities
•  limit the rights of newly freed African Americans

A major cause of antagonism toward the “new immigrants” who came to the United States after1880 was the belief that they

• were better educated than native-born Americans
• had a higher standard of living than most Americans
• adapted easily to American culture
• competed with Americans for jobs asunskilled laborers

One major goal of the Progressive movementwas to

• provide unemployment insurance to workers
• limit direct citizen control over government
• pass laws to help solve economic and social problems
• balance the federal budget by decreasing spending

One foreign policy goal of President Theodore Roosevelt was to

• create future states by annexing Pacific island territories
•  restrict European intervention in the Western Hemisphere
• limit United States investment in Latin America
• encourage independence movements in Africa

The Great Migration during World War I refers to the movement of

• factory workers from the Northeast to the Sun Belt
• communists deported to Russia as undesirable aliens
• African Americans to northern cities to find work
•  refugees fleeing from eastern Europe to the United States