USH 8 Quarter 2 Benchmark

What does this image symbolize?

• Liberalism

• Manifest Destiny

• Democracy

• Communism

What was the main effect of the Monroe Doctrine?

• It prevented the United States from establishing colonies abroad.

• It established the United States as the dominant power in the Eastern Hemisphere.

• It established the United States as the dominant power in the Western Hemisphere.

• It began period when the United States established colonies abroad.

What is Manifest Destiny?

• Divine right of the United States to expand westward.

• U.S. didn't want to expand.

• Diplomatic message to the world that the U.S. is in control of the western hemisphere.

Land purchased from France in 1803 when Thomas Jefferson was president that doubled the U.S size. 

• Texas Annexation 
• Louisiana Purchase
• Northwest Territory
• Mexican Cession

The man credited with creating the Erie Canal.

• David McCullough.
• Dewitt Clinton.
• Cornelius Vanderbilt.
• Andrew Carnegie.

The 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution...

• Gave African Americans citizenship
• Gave African Americans the right to vote
• Freed the slaves
• Gave landowners the right to sharecrop

What amendment abolished slavery?

• 13th
• 14th
• 15th
• 16th

Which of the following was not a goal of Reconstruction?

• Reunite the North and the South

• Rebuild the South

• Develop the system of sharecropping

• Determine what to do with African Americans

The issue of enslaved people for the purpose of representation was the main issue of -

• Great Compromise
• One-Third Compromise
• Three-Fifths Compromise
• Slave Compromise

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Thomas Jefferson
• James Madison
• George Washington
• Eli Whitney