2. New Country - A Country Divided

What was the first government that the US had after becoming independent?

• The Declaration of Independence

• The Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Federalist Papers

What was the significance of Shay's Rebellion in regards to the government of the U.S.?

• It showed citizens and state leaders that a stronger federal government was needed.

• It made George Washington a famous military leader and later the first president.

• It allowed George Washington to use federal power for the first time.

• It create a bicameral legislature with equal representation and based on population.

The Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820. What did this act of Congress do?

• Divided the nation between slave and free states at the 36 30 parallel(line of latitude)

• Made Missouri the only state to have cities with slaves and cities without slaves - It was an experiment by Congress.

• It divided the US between states that believe in nullification and Even though 2,500 troops died, the British had lost 3,000. that believed in the sovereignty of the federal government.

What does the phrase Jacksonian Democracy describe?

• A time when America almost changed from a democracy to a socialist nation

• A period when the government expanded and became more democratic

• A place when people go to vote and learn about politics

What was the Liberator?

• A mythical character sent by the gods to end slavery

• A catchphrase for women fighting for suffrage

• An anti-slavery newspaper produced by William Lloyd Garrison

• Andrew Jackson, war hero and President

What effect did the Louisiana Purchase have on the geography of the United States?

• It made the US look the same way that it does today

• It doubled the size of the country

• It tripled the size of the country and gave us two coastlines

Why were the Alien & Sedition Acts so unpopular?

• Because they seemed to open the door for more government limitations on rights

• Because Americans did not want so many immigrants coming to the new nation yet

• The people did not like anything that John Adams did.

What was the "last straw" for the south that leads many states to secede?

• Lincoln was elected president in 1860

• John Brown's executive for crimes at Harper's Ferry

• The north's refusal to acknowledge the Fugitive Slave Law

• The Emancipation Proclamation

What was the term used to describe the division between the North & South?

• Secession

• Nationalism

• Sectionalism

• Imperialism

Why was the election of 1876 the end of Reconstruction?

• Because a Democrat won the presidency and legalized black codes in the South and forces troops to abandon their southern posts

• Because the election was a tie and the Compromise of 1877 that gave the win to Republican Rutherford B Hayes also removed all troops from the south, leaving blacks unprotected from Southern Democrats.

• Because Johnson had been impeached & Congress wouldn't allow another moderate Republican or Democrat into office & this took attention away from the south & placed it on Washington DC politics.