8 SS Q 1 Vocabulary Quiz

Which act provided for the distribution of 160 acres of public land to settlers, on the condition that they live on and cultivate the land?

• Missouri Compromise

• Homestead Act

• Indian Removal Act

• Emancipation Proclamation

The term for the economic and political differences between different regions of a country is ________________.

• regionalism

• sectionalism

• populism

• nationalism

What was the name of the strategy used by the Union to blockade Southern ports and rivers during the Civil War?

• Scorched Earth

• Attrition Warfare

• Guerrilla Warfare

• Anaconda Plan

Famine, or the lack of food, was a significant _______ factor that led to Irish immigrants moving to the United States.

• push

• pull

• neutral

• hidden

What was the name given to the South during the Civl War?

• The Union

• The Saints

• The Confederacy

• Scalawags

Which event nearly doubled the territory of the United States in 1803?

• War of 1812

• Missouri Compromise

• Louisiana Purchase

• Adams-Onis Treaty

The concept that justified the westward expansion of the United States in the 19th century.

• Gold Rush

• Manifest Destiny

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Industrial Revolution

In this U.S. Supreme Court decision, the court ruled that African Americans were property, not citizens of the United States.

• Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education

• Dred Scott vs. Sanford

• Plessy vs. Ferguson

• Roe vs. Wade

President Andrew Jackson signed the _________________ into law, which resulted in the forced displacement of Native Americans, a historical event referred to as the Trail of Tears.

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Indian Removal Act

• Homestead Act

• Missouri Compromise

The discovery of gold in California in 1949 was a major __________ factor that attracted many people from the east to the west in search of wealth.

• repelling

• push

• pull

• political