Final Exam Review

Under the Articles of Confederation (1781-1789), which of the following had more power?

• The Federal Government

• The States

What law helped southern slaveholders get their runaway slaves back?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• 2nd Amendment

• The Free Slave Act

What did the Federalists believe?

• The government should be bigger

• The government should be smaller

In the Declaration of Independence, what is the government's main job?

• To establish and create schools

• To create taxes

• To protect our rights

What does “Manifest Destiny” mean?

• To create your own destiny

• God given right to expand

• Destined to create a new country

 Which event showed the weakness of the Articles of Confederation?

• Shay's Rebellion

• Nat Turner's Rebellion

• Succession of southern states

Why was reconstruction necessary?

• Newly freed African Americans needed assistance coming into society

• The south needed to be re-entered into the union

• Both of these

A direct effect of the Compromise of 1877 was

• removal of federal troops from the South

• end of federal funding for Reconstruction

• Creation of a new taxes in the South

Why was the opportunity for education so important for African Americans?

• They wanted to read bathroom signs

• They needed to be able to read to vote

• They liked to learn stuff at school

How did the Thirteenth Amendment change the Constitution?

• It gave women the right to vote in the United States

• It abolished slavery in the United States

• It officially brought the Southern states back into the Union