Benchmark Part 1 VUS

What was Monroe trying to convey to Congress through the Monroe Doctrine?

• Europe should stay out of the Western Hemisphere
• European countries can expand territories to Latin America
• The US will support European colonization.
• European powers could no longer financially support overseas colonies.

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." According to the quote from the Gettysburg Address, what was Lincoln hoping to preserve in the United States?

• Democracy
• Freedom of Religion
• Freedom of the press
• Confederacy

"...with malice towards none, with charity for all ... to bind up the nation's wounds." Based on this quote by Lincoln, how did he believe the South should be treated after it was defeated?

• Allow the South to rejoin the nation without being punished.
• Give the South a large sum of money to get back on its feet.
• Forbid the South from ever having equal representation in Congress.
• Force the South to pay damages to those injured during the war.

"Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows up the soul! And yet, oh my country! these things are done under the shadow of they laws! O, Christ! thy church sees them, almost in silence!" --Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin According to this excerpt, who is the author criticizing for allowing slavery to occur?

• Plantation owners
• The United States
• Slaves
• Great Britain

How did the South's view of nationhood differ from Lincoln's beliefs that America was not a collection of sovereign states?

• Southerners believed they should join with Mexico and form a new nation.
• Southerners opposed State's rights of nullification and secession.
• Southerners opposed disallowing the expansion of slavery as the nation grew.
• Southerners believed they had freely joined and could therefore leave the Union.

Which choice best describes powers held by the national government under the Articles of Confederation?

• Provided for a weak judicial system and more power resided with the federation.
• Congress has the power to levy taxes, enforce laws, and coin money.
• Congress has no power to levy tax, enforce laws, and coin money.
• Provided for a strong national government with an effective economic system.

Which colonial region developed major seaport and commercial economies in cities such as New York and Philadelphia?

• Southern colonies
• New England colonies
• Middle colonies
• Mid-Western colonies

Under Mercantilism, Virginia and other Southern colonies developed economies based on cash crops for export to --

• Europe
• Mid-Atlantic
• Latin America
• New England

To which region of the English Colonies were the first Africans involuntarily brought?

• 1
• 4
• 2
• 3

What is the correct order of the sequence below: 1. Election of Abraham Lincoln 2. Battle of Gettysburg 3. Emancipation Proclamation 4. Confederate attack on Fort Sumter

• 4, 2, 1, 3
• 2, 1, 3, 4
• 1, 4, 3, 2
• 1, 2, 3, 4