Midterm Review Constitution/Expansion

True or False: 10 of 13 states needed to ratify the Constitution for it to become official law.

• True
• False

Explain how slavery was a hot issue even during the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

• whether or not slaves should be considered as people in the population count.
• how to guarantee the slave trade continues in America.
• whether or not free the slaves in the New America.
• None of the Above

territory in the western United States purchased from France in 1803 for $15 million

• Louisiana Purchase
• Oregon Trail
• Annexation of Texas
• Mexican American War

pioneer trail that began in Missouri and crossed the great plains into the Oregon country

• Oregon Trail
• California Gold Rush
• Lousiana Purchase
• Missouri Compromis

an expedition sent by Thomas Jefferson to explore the northwestern territories of the United States

• Lewis and Clark
• Missouri Compromise
• California Gold Rush
• Oregon Trail

President Polk declared war over the dispute of land in Texas. At the end, America ended up with 55% of Mexico's land

• Mexican American War
• Oregon Trail
• Missouri Compromise
• California Gold Rush

What explains the core difference between Federalists and Anti Federalists?

• Federalists wanted big government, Anti-Federalists wanted small government
• Federalists wanted small government, Anti-Federalists wanted no government
• Federalists wanted a Bill of Rights, Anti-Federalists wanted no Bill of Rights
• Federalists wanted a King, Anti-Federalists wanted a President

Which piece of legislation allowed the forced retrieval of runaway slaves from the North back to the South

• Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
• Missouri Compromise of 1820
• Compromise of 1850
• Kansas and Nebraska Act of 1854

Which two states were created in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Missouri and Maine
• Missouri and Louisiana
• Missouri and Kansas
• Missouri and California

Why would the addition of new states to the United States of America be so controversial?

• adding states could upset the balance between Slave and Free States
• adding states would lead to people leaving the existing states
• adding states was a complicated and long process
• each new state wanted to add amendments to the constitution