Module 2 - US History Regents

What was the name of the system President Andrew Jackson used to reward his supporters?

• Presidential Cabinet

• Worcester V. Georgia

• Spoils System

• Reward System

President Andrew Jackson's in the Indian Removal Act resulting in the Trail of Tears demonstrated him

• Going beyond his Constitutional Power

• Legally removing Native Americans from Georgia

• Going against the Supreme Court

• Becoming "the common man" president

What legislation created the 36'30' line?

• Kansas- Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

What document was the Declaration of Sentiments (1848) modeled after?

• US Constitution

• John Locke's Natural Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Northwest Ordinance of 1787

What was the purpose of the Declaration of Sentiments?

• To show all people, specifically African Americans were created equal

• To show all people, specifically women were created equal

• To show all people, specifically white men were created equal

• To officially and legally establish women's suffrage

William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth all were leading figures in what movement?

• Women's Rights Movement

• Abolition Movement

• Worker's Rights Movement

• Rights of Freedmen

What process was used under the Kansas- Nebraska act to determine if the territory became free or slave?

• Popular Sovereignty

• Congress decided

• Territories were admitted as free or slave to keep balance

• State legislatures cast votes

Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas- Nebraska Act were passed in an attempt to

• Avoid conflict between the North and South

• Avoid the problem of slavery that plagued the country

• Keep a balance between free and slave states

• Prohibit Manifest Destiny

What was a major direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Prosecution of John Brown

• Bleeding Kansas

• Passage of the Missouri Compromise

What did the Dred Scott v. Sandford case decide?

• Separate but equal

• Once a slave, always a slave

• Segregation was illegal

• The Native Americans of Georgia had a right to that land