US History Mid-Term Review (2018)

The time period in which England let the colonies govern themselves as long as the colonies made money for England.

• The Great Awakening

• The House of Burgesses

• Salutary Neglect

• Popular Sovereignty

Series of 85 essays written to encourage states to ratify the Constitution.

• The Federalist Papers

• Common Sense

• Leviathan

• The Spirit of Laws

Colonists were forbidden from settling land west of the Appalachian Mountains to prevent conflicts with American Indians in which document listed below?

• Declaration of Independence

• Proclamation of 1763

• Emancipation Proclamation

• The Constitution

On which part of the Trans-Atlantic trade system were African slaves transported from Africa to the Americas?

• Northwest Passage

• Panama Canal

• American Passage

• Middle Passage

The federal government should raise tariffs to pay for new infrastructure such as roads and canals according to

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

• Henry Clay

• John C. Calhoun

The seizing of American citizens for service in the English Navy was a main factor in the cause of the War of 1812. What was this practice called?

• hazing

• initiation

• impressment

• tar & feather

What law caused many people to oppose John Adams' Presidential reelection in 1800 because it placed restrictions on freedom of speech?

• The Patriot Act

• Prohibition

• The Proclamation of 1763

• The Sedition Act

Because of the agriculture economy there, slaves were more plentiful in the

• North

• Mid-west

• South

• West

Which amendment defines citizenship and protects due process of law?

• 14th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

Supreme Court case that denied that slaves were citizens of the U.S.

• Gideon v Wainwright

• Marbury v Madison

• Dred Scott v Sandford

• McCulloch v Maryland