Social Studies SIM Review

These innovations had the following effect on life in the United States -

• Irrigation became easier

• Crop production became more efficient

• Growing season lasted longer

The first amendment affected these groups by -

• allowing them to share & promote their beliefs

• preventing them from having worship services in public places

• allowing them in join together to form a national religion

The following situation violates the 8th amendment-

• A person is sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery & assault

• A protester is jailed for violent acts at a protest

• A person is sentenced to life in prison for shoplifting

Distance and slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies by -

• decreasing the smuggling of goods in the colonies

• uniting the colonies for trade & defense

• developing self- government in the colonies

In the book, Walden

Henry David Thoreau showed that Transcendentalism is -

• the study of the role of science in changing the natural world

• the relationship between humans and the natural world

• using reason to explain natural events that happen in the world

The Free Enterprise System most benefited the industrial development of the U.S. in the early 1800s by -

• allowing entrepreneurs to raise money and invest in companies

• encouraging the government to put taxes on businesses

• providing safe working conditions for factory workers

Because of the 13th Amendment -

• plantation owners were forced to give land to former slaves

• many former slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living

• plantation owners attempted to recapture former slaves

Colonial production of cash crops combined with slave labor led to -

• development of labor unions

• production of roads and canals

• increased profit for plantation owners

This photograph was taken during during the -

• Early Republic Era

• Age of Jackson Era

• Civil War Era

The American Colonists responded to the 1774 Intolerable Acts by -

• adopting the Bill of Rights

• sending a list of grievances to King George III

• adopting the Articles of Confederation