USH Unit 4 Test Review

Who invented the telegraph in 1837, allowing instant communication between US cities?

• Eli Whitney

• Robert Fulton

• Samuel F.B. Morse

• John C. Fremont

What amendment to the treaty with Mexico proposed that slavery be prohibited in any new territories added to the U.S. by the war?

• Wilmot Proviso

• Force Bill

• Gadsden Purchase

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A _______________ is a group that claims to be Christian but deviates from orthodox doctrine

Which former slave and conductor of the Underground Railroad made at least 13 trips to the South, leading around 70 slaves to freedom?

• Harriet Tubman

• Fredrick Douglas

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Nat Turner

The ​ (a)   authorized the president to use the military against South Carolina to prevent them from nullifying the ​ (b)  

• Force Bill
• “Tariff of Abominations”
• Tariff of 1833
• Indian Removal Act

Who developed a written language for the Cherokee, allowing them to write newspapers and translate books?

• Tecumseh

• Osceola

• Sequoyah

• The Prophet

What was Eli Whitney’s contribution to the growth of New England manufacturing and the South’s slave-based economy?

In what Supreme Court case did Chief Justice John Marshall side with the Cherokee, urging president Jackson to intervene before they could be removed from their lands?

• Sandford v. Dred Scott

• Worcester v. Georgia

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• McCulloch v. Maryland

A ________________________________ is congressional action that requires only a simple majority in both Houses, rather than the normally required two-thirds majority

Match the following presidents:

• Martin Van Buren

• co-founder of the Democratic Party whose presidency was crippled almost as soon as it started by the Panic of 1837

• John Quincy Adams

• hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe who died less than a month into his presidency

• William Henry Harrison

• vowed to serve one term as president and made four campaign promises, successfully keeping all of them

• James K. Polk

• Jackson’s supporters claimed that he won the election of 1824 in a “corrupt bargain”

• John Tyler

• the first vice-president to assume the responsibilities and duties of the president after the untimely death of his predecessor