USVA Unit 2 Review

What is the spoils system?

• rewarding supporters by giving them government positions after winning elections

• the process for dealing with corrupt politicians

• lowering taxes for states that support the president’s policies

• process whereby political parties get more money if their candidate wins an election

Monroe Doctrine:

• No colonization of the American continent

• Europe should stay out of American Affairs

• America will stay out of European affairs

• All of the Above

True/False: British restrictions on American trade & British support of Native Americans in territorial disputes were the causes of the War of 1812

• True

• False

Which of the following terms describes the map above?

• Louisiana Purchase

• Trail of Tears

  Proclamation Line of 1882

• Territory won in the War of 1812

The statements in the box above most accurately describe which of the following:

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Monroe

• Andrew Jackson

• James K. Polk

• The Louisiana Purchase

• The Texas Revolution

• The War of 1812

• The Trail of Tears

The map above best illustrates which of the following events:

• Battles in the war of 1812

• Battles in the Nullification Crisis of 1832

• The journey of Native Americans during the Trail of Tears

• Journey of Lewis and Clark’s expedition

Allowed Maine to be a free state, but Missouri a slave state. No slavery in 36'30' parallel

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

US won this war and expanded into these territories: California, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico,

• Mexican War

• Revolutionary War

• World War II

• Spanish-American War

Which of the responses below are provisions of the Compromise of 1850?

• California becomes a free state

• New Mexico & Utah territory decide by voting on slavery (popular sovereignty)

• slave trade banned in DC

• Fugitive Slave Act strengthened