APUSH - Antebellum America

What was the effect of the cotton gin on slavery in the South?

• It reduced the need for slaves on plantations.
• It increased the demand for slaves to produce more cotton.
• It helped improve the slaves' work conditions.
• It had no significant effect on slaves or slavery.

Who was Nat Turner?

• The inventor of the cotton gin
• The man who led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
• The man who led one of the bloodiest slave revolts
• The man who introduced Christianity to the slaves

How did Southern states respond to slave rebellions?

• They gave slaves some freedom.
• They passed even stricter slave codes.
• They began to udnerstand that slavery was wrong.
• They refused to take slaves back when they were captured. 

This man was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write.  He became an influential player in the abolitionist movement?

• Stephen Douglass
• Solomon Northup
• Frederick Douglass
• Harry Tubman

Compromise that made Maine a free state and Missouri a slave state.

• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Dred Scott Decision

What was the significance of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?

• It defined the scope of Congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.
• It limited the power of the President to veto acts of Congress.
• It placed restrictions on Congressional power under the "elastic" clause of the U.S. Constitution.
• It established the right of the U.S. Supreme Court to declare a law unconstitutional.

What was the Embargo Act?

• Forbid trade with Spain
• Made turtles illegal
• Close American trade with Britain  and France
• Encouraged trade with all foreign nations

Who was hired by Thomas Jefferson to travel west after the Louisiana Purchase. They were to map the land all the way to the Pacific Ocean?

• Andrew Jackson
• War Hawks
• Sacagawea
• Lewis and Clark

Which cause of the War of 1812 is this image showing?

• War Hawks
• Impressment
• British inciting Native Americans
• Justin Bieber

Which cause of the War of 1812 is this image showing?

• British sending One Direction to America
• British inciting Native American violence
• British impressing American sailors
• Justin Bieber