VUS SOL Review

VUS.5 Which Supreme Court case established Judicial Review

• Marbury v. Madison

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Cohen v. Virginia

VUS.8 What did the Supreme Court rule in the Plessy v. Ferguson case?

• that labor strikes that interrupted trade were unconstitutional

• that separate facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional

• American Indians were not technically citizens

• that Congress' taxes were unconstitutional

VUS.5 Federalists and Anti-Federalists argued the most about...

• how to admit new states into the union

• how much power the president and Congress got

• the electoral college

• how much power the national and state governments got

VUS.8 What law gave people up to 160 acres of land at a low cost if they agreed to live on it for 5 years?

• The Free Land Act

• The Home on the Range Act

• The Homestead Act

• The Government Land Act

VUS.6 Which of these Civil War compromises admitted 1 slave state, 1 free state and made a line dividing north and south at the 36th Parallel?

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Election of Lincoln

VUS.7 This battle was the turning point of the Civil War.

• the Battle of Bull Run

• the Battle of Gettysburg

• the Battle of Cold Harbor

• the Battle of Fort Donelson

VUS.8 The ___________ was when African Americans left the south for the North and Midwest in search of jobs and better treatment?

• Exodus

• Great Leap Forward

• Northwest Passage

• Great Migration

VUS.4 The Declaration of Independence states that...

• the king has the power to make all decisions

• a council has the right to make all decisions

• the people have ultimate power to make all decisions

• the military has the power to overrule any decisions

VUS.9 What effect did the Panama Canal have on the western hemisphere?

• it linked the Caribbean Sea with the Atlantic Ocean

• it made the trip from the Atlantic to the Pacific longer

• it linked the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

• it opened Cuba to the rest of the world

VUS.8 Where on the east coast were immigrants processed when they arrived to America?

• Staten Island

• Liberty Island

• Ellis Island

• Angel Island