STAAR Practice

what impact did the telegraph have on daily life?

• increased regional differences

• became a major method of long-distance communication

• allowed people to sign legal documents from other places

• government's only way to negotiat treaties

how did southerners respond to the ratification of the 15th amendment?

• by creating a segregated public education system

• by shutting down all remaining offices of Freedman's Bureau

• by imposing requirements designed to deny African Americans the right to vote

• by forcing African Americans to work as tenant farmers and sharecroppers

which phrase best represents the principle of republicanism

• creation of Congress to carry out the will of the people

• establishment of courts to interpret laws and government actions

• division of power between a federal and a state governments

• the power of a court to declare a law unconstitutional

which action is a part of path to citizenship?

• attending college in US

• being employed in US

• passing US Civics exam

• working for US government

which inference about the Know-Nothing party is supported by excerpt?

• its members blamed Irish immigrants for taking away jobs

• the party encouraged western migration of settlers

• its members opposed enforcement of Fugitive Slave Act in NE

• the party was in favor of universal suffrage

what is the "great act" referred to by Sen. Summer?

• Senate's readmission of last Confederate state

• the addition of Hiram Rhodes Revels to the US Senate

• Senate's acquittal of President Andrew Johnson

• the election of the 1st woman in US Senate

which Kentucky legislator earned the nickname "The Great Compromisor"?

• Daniel Webster

• Henry Clay

• John C Calhoun

• Andrew Jackson

what group likely benefitted from the election of Andrew Jackson

• elites

• Northerners

• Southerners

• agerage man

Andrew Jackson was the leader of which party?

• Whig

• Know-Nothing

• Free Soil

• Democrats

what was Jackson's actions when he denied the charter of the 2nd Bank of the US

• transferred money to Pet Banks

• allowed state banks to lend money

• established local banks to accept the transfers

• Reinstituted the charters for all banks