APUSH 2 review quiz

Which of the following is a correct statement about women in United States society in the years 1790–1810 ?

• They attained suffrage in all states.

• They were considered critical to educating good republican citizens.

• They became increasingly prominent as entrepreneurs.

• They owned a large share of the nation’s property.

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson challenged the authority of which of the following?

• Anglican clergy

• Puritan magistrates and ministers

• Catholic priests and bishops

• all of these

Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?

• They believed that it was controlled by leaders of the Whig Party.

• They believed that it was controlled by southern plantation owners.

• They believed that it was controlled by a commercial elite.

• It refused to exchange bank notes for gold.

A major consequence of the French and Indian War of 1754–1763 was the

• legal settlement of the trans-Appalachian frontier by British colonists

• imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies

• shrinking of Spanish territorial claims in North America

• removal of British troops from the thirteen colonies

The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

• prohibit slavery above Missouri’s southern border

• assure that Congress had a constitutional right to establish or abolish slavery in new territories

• allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

• admit Kansas as a slave state and Nebraska as a free state

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

• higher protective tariffs

• government subsidies for a transcontinental railroad

• the exclusion of slavery from United States territorial possessions

• the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

The government under the Articles of Confederation consisted of

• only a unicameral legislature

• only executive and judicial branches

• only legislative and judicial branches

• only a bicameral legislature

The measure that admitted Missouri as a slave state, and Maine as a free state, is known as

• the Northwest Ordinance.

• the Maine Compromise.

• the Missouri Compromise.

• the Maine and Missouri Compromise

Who formed the Republican Party in 1854?

• supporters of the Fugitive Slave Law

• Free-Soilers against the Kansas-Nebraska Act

• creators of the Compromise of 1850

• advocates of the Dred Scott Decision

What was the Supreme Court decision in the 1856 case, Scott v. Sandford?

• The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.

• Giving Dred Scott freedom would violate property rights.

• Dred Scott did not have the right to bring a suit to federal court.

• all of these