U.S. History EOC Review Quiz

What did the Intolerable Acts seek to do?

• Tax colonists in order to pay off British debt

• Punish Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party

• Require colonists to pay for British military supplies

• Stop all settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions . . .

—From John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, 1690

How were the ideas in this passage influential?

• They were used to justify independence from Great Britain.

• They were used to justify the colonization of North America.

• They were used to justify the enslavement of African people.

• They were used to justify a military campaign against Mexico.

Use this list to answer the question .

• Molasses

• Sugar

• Rum

• Enslaved people

• Iron

• Tobacco

• Indigo

The elements in the list were all vital to___________________.

• the Middle Passage

• the Great Awakening

• the trans-Atlantic trade

• the New England economy

Between 1800 and 1860, the United States more than doubled in size and the number of states expanded from 16 to 33. There were three primary motivations for America’s westward growth. Pick all that apply.

• the desire of most Americans to own their own land

• to spread religious ideals

• the discovery of gold and other valuable resources

• the belief that the United States was destined to stretch across North America (Manifest Destiny).

What MAIN issue did the Missouri Compromise attempt to settle?

• where to allow slavery

• how to admit new states

• whether to amend the Constitution

• why the United States should go to war

Which technology MOST aided in the settlement of the West during the period immediately following the Civil War?

• the light bulb

• the cotton gin

• the automobile

• the railroad

Use this list to answer the question.

• Voter initiatives

• Recall of elected officials

• Referenda

• Direct election of senators

• Changes to labor laws

• Measures to address poverty

What do the elements in the list have in common?

• constitutional amendments

• sectional differences

• Progressive reforms

• strike demands

Many reforms came about after journalists investigated and exposed political corruption, child labor, slum conditions, and other social issues. These journalists were called _____________.

• progressives

• muckrakers

• conservationist

• American Rights journalist

This U.S. Supreme Court case upheld the constitutionality of Jim Crow laws. The “separate but equal” doctrine.

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Jim Crow v. NAACP

• Gideon v. Wainwright

• Plessy v. Ferguson

In 1898, the United States went to war with Cuba after the French refused to grant independence to rebels fighting a revolutionary.

• True

• False