US History Mega Review

Use this table to answer the question.
U.S. Immigration, 1860–1890

Year                    Number of Immigrants
                            Entering the United States
 1860                             154,000
 1870                              387,000
 1880                              457,000
 1890                              560,000

 What directly resulted from the increase shown in the table? 

• the establishment of Ellis Island
• the growth of trusts and monopolies
• the expansion of southern agriculture
• the rise of the American Federation of Labor

Use this list of events during the 1800s to answer the question.
 • the full pardon of former Confederate citizens
• resistance to the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment
 • the removal of a cabinet member without the approval of Congress
The actions described in the list directly resulted in  

• the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln
• the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
• the landslide election of President James Buchanan
• the congressional opposition to President Ulysses Grant

Several southern states adopted Jim Crow laws in the late 1800s to te

• enforce legal segregation
• deny women the right to vote
• protect the freedom of speech
• preserve the separation of church and state

The United States responded to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare during the early 1900s by 

• withdrawing military forces from Europe
• suspending trade with Britain
• signing a treaty with Austria-Hungary
• entering World War  One

The growth of communism in the United States during the early 1900s directly led to 

• a restriction of immigration
• a reform of labor laws
• an extreme decline in nationalism
• an increased public support of unions

What did the Louisana Purchase do for the United States?

• Tripled its size
• Doubled its size
• decreased its size
• Divided it by pi

Four laws passed by the Federalist Congress and signed by President Adams in 1798: the Naturalization Act, which increased the waiting period for an immigrant to become a citizen from 5 to 14 years; the Alien Act, which empowered the president to arrest and deport dangerous aliens; the Alien Enemy Act, which allowed for the arrest and deportation of citizens of countries at was with the US; and the Sedition Act, which made it illegal to publish defamatory statements about the federal government or its officials.
The Sedition Act was an attempt to stifle Democratic-Republican opposition, what were the first three Acts in response to?
These

• Royal Affair
• Tea Pot Scandal
• XYZ Affair
• Clinton Affair

Which of the following was a major cause for the War of 1812?

• Federalism
• firing of soldiers
• consignment of sailors
• Impressment of sailors

The ____________ was a series of laws passed by the Congress of the United States between the years 1806-1808, during the second term of President Thomas Jefferson that forbade American trading ships from leaving the U.S., was meant to force Britain and France to change their policies towards neutral vessels by depriving them of American trade; difficult to enforce because it was opposed by merchants and everyone else whose livelihood depended upon international trade, hurt the national economy, so the Non-Intercourse Act replaced it. It was designed to force Britain to rescind its restrictions on American trade, but failed, and was repealed in early 1809.

• Sedition Act
• Embargo Act
• Alien Act
• First Act

Which was an effect of the War of 1812?

• Assination
• increased alliances
• Bill of Rights
• increased nationalism