STAAR Master Review

Who wrote the Star Spangled Banner?

• Francis Scott Key

• Henry David Thoreau

• Thomas Paine

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

During which war was our national anthem, the Star Spangled Banner, penned?

• American Revolution

• War of 1812

• Mexican-American War

• Civil War

Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

• Francis Scott Key

• Henry David Thoreau

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who wrote the abolitionist newspaper, the North Starr?

• Francis Scott Key

• Henry David Thoreau

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who wrote the Civil Disobedience and refused to pay his taxes during the Mexican American War?

• Francis Scott Key

• Henry David Thoreau

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What publication tried to persuade colonists that it was time to break from Britain?

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Federalist Papers

• Civil Disobedience

• Common Sense

Who wrote Common Sense

• Frederick Douglass

• Henry David Thoreau

• Thomas Paine

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

What led to the Mexican-American War?

• the Gadsden Purchase

• the Alamo

• the United States' annexation of Texas

• the Missouri Compromise

Who was known for initiating the "spoils system?"

• Andrew Johnson

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Monroe

• Andrew Jackson

Laws passed in Southern states to restrict the rights of slaves

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Black Codes

• Civil War Amendments