Causes of the Civil War

How did each of the acts impact the spread of slavery within the United States?

• Each act limited slavery to places where it already existed.
• Each act left the decision regarding the spread of slavery to the individual states.
• Each act helped to maintain a balance between free and slave states.
• Each act was an attempt to balance the demands of northern and southern states.

What conclusion can be drawn about the federal government's role in Indian Removal?

• The federal government gave states power to remove Cherokee tribes.
• The federal government refused to protect Cherokee lands from white settlers.
• The legislature supported Cherokee leaders' lawsuits against the state of Georgia.
• The legislature continued supporting a policy of Cherokee assimilation.

What one topic is common to all of the events listed?

• the spread of slavery
• the rights of women
• the relocation of Native Americans
• the extension of suffrage to fee blacks

Based upon the comments of President Andrew Jackson, what was the primary purpose of the Indian Removal Act of 1830?

• to secure land in southern states for white settlement
• to eliminate the possibility of Native Americans uniting with the French
• to relocate tribes to more prosperous land settlements in the West
• to place tribes under control of southern states

"No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has the right to say to his country: this far you should go and no further."        The author of this statement would most likely have supported the United States policy of 

• containment
• manifest destiny
• sectionalism
• isolationism

In the mid-1800's, the growth of the populations of California and the western territories was mainly a result of the 

• discovery of gold and silver
• opening of the Panama Canal
• migration of freedmen after the Civil War
• secession of the Southern states

As a result of President Andrew Jackson's policies, Native American Indians were

• relocated to reservations in Mexico
• forcibly removed to areas west of the Mississippi River
• gradually allowed to return to their ancestral lands
• given United States citizenship

The Mississippi River system was an important economic resource during the first half of the 1800's because it was used to

• irrigate desert lands
• transport farm goods to market
• move immigrants to the Northeast
• produce hydroelectric power

A major reason President Thomas Jefferson authorized the Lewis and Clark expedition was to 

• claim California for the United States
• explore a route to the Pacific Ocean
• remove British outposts from United States land
• establish settlements in the Southwest

Which president was responsible for the territorial acquisition indicated by the darker shaded area on the map?

• George Washington
• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison