EOC REVIEW

The Louisiana Purchase of 1803

• Was a major cause of the Spanish-American War

• Pushed the Spanish below the Rio Grande in North America.

• Resulted in increased conflict between the U.S. and France.

• Almost doubled the area of the U.S. and gave it control of the Mississippi River.

The Sedition Act made it Illegal to “print, utter, or publish any false, scandalous, and malicious writing” about the America government. How did this law affect the election of 1800?

• Support for the law led to a landslide victory for John Adams

• New immigrants were no longer allowed to vote in federal elections.

• Criticism of the law contributed to the defeat of the Federalist party

• Enforcement of the law encouraged election fraud as a form of protest.

President Jefferson sent Robert Livingston and James Monroe to France to inquire about buying New Orleans for the United States in order to create a permanent port on the Mississippi River. Napoleon, seeing an opportunity to finance his on‐going conflicts in Europe and a way to keep the British from expanding in North America, agreed to sell the United States the entire region for $15 million. The deal doubled the size of the United States. This deal is known as

• Northwest Ordinance

• Louisiana Purchase

• Lewis and Clark Expedition

• Alien and Sedition Acts

In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned future Americans about the problems that could result from

• immigration quotas for foreign nations

• passing high protective tariffs to control foreign imports.

• becoming allied with foreign powers.

• expanding westward into lands claimed by others

What was one reason the United States government gave subsidies and land grants to railroad companies in the 1800s?

• to prevent railroads from going bankrupt

• to help create well paying jobs for more people

• to convince banks that railroads were good investments

• to create railroad networks that spanned the entire country

This method of communication became vitally important by the end of the nineteenth century because of its use in coordinating rail travel.

• telegraph

• telephone

• television

• pony express

During the last quarter of the 19th century, large numbers of immigrants were admitted to the US primarily because of the economy's need for more

• skilled craftsmen

• unskilled factory workers

• educated professionals

• scientists and technicians

Standard Oil, the most famous big business of the progressive era, was founded by?

• Andrew Carnegie

• John D. Rockefeller

• Samuel Gompers

• George Pullman

By means of a ____________, Rockefeller came to own more than 90% of America’s oil industry. Standard Oil thus became a monopoly––a single company that controlled virtually all the U.S. oil production and distribution

• recall

• trust

• initiative

• referendum

In the 1860s, a railroad was built connecting the East Coast of the United States with the West Coast. What was one important effect of this?

• it took longer to travel from San Francisco to New York

• People did not use any other form of transportation

• it became quicker to travel form San Francisco to New York

• People could now fly by airplane to get to places more quickly