Social Studies 3CA Review

_________________ are people who live in a country in which they were not born.

• Pioneers

• Immigrants

• Merchants

• Native Americans

The belief that the United states had a right to expand its borders from sea to sea and claim new land is known as what?

• Trail of Tears

• Manifest Destiny

• Discrimination

• Industrial Revolution

The "Trail of Tears" was a nickname for what event?

• The First Seminole War

• The Indian Removal Act

• The journey of the Cherokee from their homes to the Indian Territory.

• The creation of the Cumberland Gap.

What was the purpose of the Indian Removal act?

• To force settlers from Native American lands

• To relocate Native Americans to the Indian Territory.

• To force President Jackson to leave his home and move west.

• To remove Native Americans from the United States.

Why did river travel improve during the 1800's?

• Because of the invention of the steam engine

• Because of the invention of the stagecoaches

• Because the invention of the reaper

• Because rivers were getting faster every year

How did the cotton gin change cotton production in the South?

• Cotton was made faster

• Cotton became the most important cas crop in the US

• It could clean more cotton in minutes than a whole group of workers could clean in a day

• All of the answers correct

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• George Washington

• Eli Whitney

Who wrote the "Start Spangled Banner"?

• Meriwether Lewis

• William Clark

• Francis Scott Key

• James Madison

What happened to the White House and the Capitol building in 1814?

• The buildings were renovated

• The buildings were attacked by the French

• The buildings were the camp for the British soldiers

• The buildings were set on fire by British soldiers

The war of 1812 was also known as...

• Mr. Madison's War

• Mr. Jefferson's War

• Mr. Lewis's War

• King George's War