STAAR Review pt. 4

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

• The colonies united for trade and defense.

• Self-government developed in the colonies.

• Smuggling of goods in the colonies decreased.

• The colonies petitioned the government to establish a navy.

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.

Which statement explains how the work of Dorothea Dix benefited U.S. 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

• The government distributed land to poor people.

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.”

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?

• 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.

Which statement describes BOTH the Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-1800s?

• They supported actions to stop escaped slaves from entering the North.

• They supported enacting safety regulations to protect factory workers.

• They were against the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

• They were against the establishment of American Indian reservations.

What was one effect of the cotton gin in the United States?

• Improved soil fertility

• Expansion of mercantilism

• Increased efficiency of crop irrigation

• Expansion of the plantation system

What was the issue in Worcester v. Georgia?

• The taxation of Cherokee lands

• The use of subsistence farming by the Cherokee people

• The sovereignty of the Cherokee nation

• The abandonment of the Cherokee culture by its people