EOC Practice

What was the significance of the Dred-Scott decision?

• The Supreme Court overruled attempts by Congress to limit the spread of slavery.

• The Supreme Court held that the practice of slavery was unconstitutional.

• While Lincoln objected to the decision, Stephen Douglas supported it.

• Dred Scott and his wife spent the rest of their lives in slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act concerned which issue?

• the expansions of slavery into new territories

• the sale of federal lands to slave owners

• the right of Northerners to own slaves

• the return of slaves who had escaped from the South

This time period in US History consisted of the Civil War and the struggle to end slavery.

• 1845-1890

• 1765-1776

• 1865-1877

• 1861-1865

This time period in U.S History consisted of the struggle to end racism in the United States.

• Civil Rights Era

• Civil War Era

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction Era

The invention of the by Henry Ford allowed manufacturing production to be more efficient allowing for different factories to produce more profits.

• Car

• Assembly Line

• Bessemer Process

• Combustible Engine

Which event most directly contributed to the growth of New York City as the nation’s leading trade center?

• use of steamboats on the Mississippi River

• opening of the Erie Canal

• construction of the National Road

• passage of the Pacific Railway Act

One way the “new immigrants” of the late 1800s differed from the “old immigrants” of the early 1800s was that the “new immigrants”

• were generally better educated

• settled on Midwestern farms

• came from southern and eastern Europe

• adopted American culture more quicklu

One major goal of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918) was to

• collect war reparations for the United States

• maintain United States naval superiority

• punish the nations that started World War I

• create a League of Nations to prevent future wars

Base your answer to question 8 on the photograph below and on your knowledge of social studies:

The conditions shown in this 1936 photograph were caused mainly by

• periods of widespread flooding

• deforestation and overgrazing

• global warming

• drought and poor farming techniques

The US Constitution replaced which plan of government for the United States?

• Articles of Confederation
• Declaration of Independence
• Federalist Papers
• Northwest Ordinance