STAAR Quiz #14

What was the year the U.S. bought the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, because the French needed money to fight the British?

• 1803
• 1787
• 1861

What were the years of the Civil War between the North and South?

• 1861-1865
• 1787-1789
• 1803-1810

What year was the Constitutional Convention that began the writing of a new Constitution?

• 1787
• 1861
• 1803

What was one of the successes of the Articles of Confederation, where they made a plan on how to admit new states into the U.S. from its newly acquired territory?

• Northwest Ordinance
• Magna Carta
• Treaty of Ghent

Who wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense" trying to persuade the colonists to support independence?

• Henry David Thoreau
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Thomas Paine

Who was the French noble who came to help the colonists in their fight with the British?

• Henry David Thoreau
• Marquis de Lafayette
• Frederick Douglas

What was the gradual move of people from the country to cities? This movement is mostly credited to an increase in jobs made available by the Industrial Revolution.

• Era of Good Feelings
• Tariff
• Urbanization 

What is a tax on imported goods designed to protect a nations industry? These taxes increased the price of goods and were welcomed by the North and hated by the South.

• Tariff
• Era of Good Feelings
• Northwest Ordinance

What was the writer that urged his readers to live as simple a life as possible and pioneered the idea of "Civil Disobedience?" The belief that people have a right to disobey unjust laws.

• Frederick Douglass
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Henry David Thoreau

What was the term used to describe the years where "everyone felt good about the shape of our nations economy" and there was only one political party?

• Era of Good Feelings
• Urbanization
• Tariff