Spring Benchmark Review

Which of the following is true about the Missouri Compromise?

• The Compromise made it so there were the same number of slave and free states.
• The Compromise upset the balance of power between free states and slave states in the Senate.
• The Compromise was liked by Northerners, but not Southerners.
• The Compromise solved all future issues regarding new states.

Why did Jackson oppose the Bank of the United States?

• He thought its president was inexperienced and poorly educated.
• He thought it loaned too much money to farmers and workers.
• He thought it was unconstitutional and that it favored the rich.
• He thought it benefited western business owners over those in the east.

The movement of people from rural areas to cities where facrories were located is called

• reconstruction

• nativism

• urbanization

• mercantilism

Which amendment gave African-Americans the right to vote? They mostly voted for the Republican Party.

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

Only Congress Can Regulate Interstate Commerce

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

Interchangeable Parts, Cotton Gin

• Samuel Morse
• Francis Cabot Lowell
• Cyrus McCormick
• Eli Whitney

Which type of economy encourages competition and minimal government involvement?

• Mixed Economy

• Command Economy

• Traditional Economy

• Free Market Economy

Which of the following is an example of impressment?

• French using their navy to block ships from entering or leaving a New Orleans

• British kidnapping sailors from American ships and forcing them into service

• Forcefully persuading congress and the president to go to war

• America restricting trade with other European nations

True or False: The Battle of Antietam was the bloodiest single-day battle in the Union in American History.

• True

• False

Under the Northwest Ordinance, when a territory gained _______ free adult people, it could write a Constitution and apply to the U.S. government to become a state.

• 5,000

• 50,000

• 60,000

• Any number of