STAAR REVIEW 1

How did the introduction of barbed-wire fences benefit farmers?

• A By making irrigation of the land more effective

• B By helping to break up the soil before plowing

• C By making the harvesting of cotton more efficient

• D By protecting crops from damage caused by animals

3 What was one way slow communication with the British government affected the American colonies?

• A The colonies united for trade and defense

• C Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.

• B Self-government developed in the colonies.

Read the excerpt and answer the question that follows

. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. —Thirteenth Amendment, U.S. Constitution

What was an IMMEDIATE effect of this amendment?

• A Many plantation owners attempted to recapture former slaves.

• Many plantation owners were forced to give land to former slaves

• Many former slaves became sharecroppers to earn a living.

• Many former slaves were awarded money by former Confederate leaders.

In which court case was the U.S. principle of judicial review established?

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• Marbury v. Madison

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

Why did many farmers, artisans, and former Anti-Federalists support the Democratic-Republican Party?

• The Democratic-Republicans favored the expansion of a strong national government.

• The Democratic-Republicans supported strict restrictions on immigration

• The Democratic-Republicans supported the use of tariffs.

• The Democratic-Republicans favored states’ rights and the rights of the common man. S

The Democratic-Republicans favored states’ rights and the rights of the common man. Society?

• Mental-health facilities were opened to treat patients.

• Doctors were required to get federal licenses to practice medicine.

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals.

• States passed laws giving harsher sentences to criminals.

Which statement explains one of the motivations behind Manifest Destiny?

• “These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country.

• “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free. . . .

• “And that claim is by the right . . . to overspread and to possess the whole of the continent which Providence has given us. . .

• “That it is the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves their sacred right to the elective franchise.”

How did sharecropping affect farmers in the South during Reconstruction?

• By introducing new technology for growing food

• By expanding the region’s dependence on corn production

• By making landowners buy supplies from the government

• By keeping renters in debt to landlord

Why did Alexander Hamilton think a national bank would strengthen the central government?

• The bank would help provide stability for the U.S. economy.

• The bank would create a monopoly that would eliminate state banks.

• The bank would encourage foreign competition for manufactured goods.

• The bank would have the power to regulate interstate commerce.

What is the significance of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America?

• A It led to an alliance between the British and the French.

• It led to an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.

• It caused Puritans to separate from the Church of England.

• It introduced the slave trade to the Atlantic colonies.