STAAR Review II (new questions)

After the XYZ Affair of 1797, Americans' fear of immigrants increased. Many European immigrants supported the ideals of the French Revolution. When war with France loomed in 1798, Federalists in Congress passed harsh laws to protect national security against traitors, especially immigrant traitors. These laws were called​ (a)  

• Alien and Sedition Acts
• Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
• Nullification Act
• Monroe Doctrine
• Barbary Pirates

Match the following

• End the U.S.-Mexican War

• Treaty of Paris 1783

• Ended American Revolution

• Treaty of Ghent

• Ended French and Indian War

• Treaty of Paris 1763

• Ended War of 1812

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

The Supreme Court case, ​ (a)   in 1824 greatly affected all the movement of goods and products across state lines (interstate commerce).

• Gibbons vs Ogden
• Marbury vs Madison
• Dred Scott vs Sandford
• McCulloch vs Maryland

Innovations such as interchangeable parts, the cotton gin, the spinning jenny, and the steam engine brought rapid industrialization because-

• Congress passed lower tariffs to protect American goods

• new markets opened along the Pacific Coast

• the manufacturing process became faster and easier, and the profits rose higher

• farmers were able to produce more food for factory workers

The ​ (a)   of 1862 granted 160 acres of government land free of charge to any person who would farm it for five years. The ​ (b)   of the same year offered large tracts of federal land to states that would establish agricultural and mechanical colleges.

• Homestead Act
• Morrill Act
• Dawes Act

The Irish and the ​ (a)   immigrant groups helped build and complete the ​ Transcontinental Railroad (completed in 1869).

• Chinese
• Germans
• Welsh
• Swedes
• Italians
• Hispanics
• Norwegians

Match the following

• favored strong state governments

• Democratic-Republican

• leaders of the Democratic-Republican Party

• Federalist

• leaders of the Federalist Party

• Alexander Hamilton/John Adams

• favored a strong central government

• Thomas Jefferson/

  James Madison

The ​ (a)   argued against the ratification of the Constitution before any amendments were added, while the ​ (b)   approved the constitution without the Bill of Rights.

• Anti-Federalists
• Federalists
• Democratic-Republicans
• Whigs
• Nativists

The seige of ​ (a)   by Northern troops under General Ulysses S. Grant ended July 4, 1863 and gave the ​ (b)   control of the Mississippi River.

• Vicksburg
• Union
• Gettysburg
• Fort Sumter
• Appomattox Courthouse
• Bull Run
• Confederacy

Who was the American naval hero of the Revolutionary War that stated "I have not yet become to fight"?