USH Regents - Midterm Review

During the debate over ratification of the United States Constitution, Antifederalists argued that a bill of rights should be added to

• preserve the interests of slaveholders

• list the responsibilities of citizens

• protect individual liberties

• ensure federal supremacy

Which heading best completes the partial outline below?

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A. National government unable to levy direct taxes

B. No single national currency

C. Lack of an elected chief executive

• Weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation

• Strengths of the Continental Congress

• Provisions of the United States Constitution

• Influence of Treaties with European Governments

Colonists protest the Stamp Act.

Sons of Liberty groups are formed.

Crates of tea are thrown into Boston Harbor.

Parliament passes Coercive Acts.

These events helped lead to the

• French and Indian War

• Civil War

• Revolutionary War

• War of 1812

Which United States foreign policy stated that European powers should no longer expect to establish colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

• Monroe Doctrine

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Good Neighbor Policy

• Alliance for Progress

Abraham Lincoln’s 1858 warning that “a house divided against itself cannot stand” referred to sectional differences over the

• treatment of Native American Indians

• issue of slavery

• funding for internal improvements

• treaties with European nations

During the 1790s, the primary goal of United States foreign policy was to

• preserve the nation’s neutrality during European conflicts

• increase the nation’s trade with Asia

• expand westward by signing new military alliances

• make the nation into a major colonial power

The power of judicial review was established when

• the original United States Constitution was adopted

• an amendment was added to the United States Constitution

• President Thomas Jefferson established the power in an executive order

• the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Based on the United States Constitution, the census helps to determine the number of

• presidential candidates

• number of Supreme Court justices from each state

• representatives each state receives in the House of Representatives

• senators from each state

What was a result of the Great Compromise during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• creating a two-house legislature

• banning slavery in Southern states

• requiring that the president have a cabinet

• giving the Supreme Court the power to hear cases involving states

One weakness of the Articles of Confederation was the inability of the central government to

• establish a postal system

• collect adequate taxes from the states

• control western lands

• admit new states to the Union