ACP Review - High Leverage TEKS

Which era in U.S. history correctly replaces the question mark for the title of this diagram?

• Reconstruction

• Sectionalism

• The Revolutionary Period

• The Early Republic

Which events in U.S. history are directly associated with this cartoon?

• Passage of the Northwest Ordinance

• Passage of the Navigation Acts

• Boston Tea Party

• Great Awakening

• Shays’s Rebellion

How did the American colonies react to enforcement of the Intolerable Acts?

• By collecting funds to pay for the tea destroyed in Boston Harbor

• By sending ambassadors to France to request military aid

• By placing a tax on all goods imported from Great Britain

• By holding the First Continental Congress to discuss unified resistance

Why was the victory at Saratoga a turning point in U.S. history?

• It convinced France to support the American cause.

• The battle led to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

• The battle represented the end of the American Revolution.

• It marked a major change in the leadership of the Continental Army.

How did the Three-Fifths Compromise support slavery?

• It established that enslaved people were not equal to free people when determining representation.

• It confirmed that the federal government would be the authority on issues relating to slavery.

• It allowed states to lower their tax rate by adding up the total of all persons living in the state.

• It determined that enslaved people could not be taxed by the states.

Based on the excerpt, how did the Great Compromise help create this governmental structure?

• By settling the issues over voting rights in the North

• By settling the issues between Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• By settling the issues over taxation

• By settling the issues between large and small states

Why did the Constitutional Convention agree to the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• To settle debates over the issue of counting the enslaved population for representation

• To settle debates over the issue of abolishing the importation of enslaved people

• To create a government based on the principle of federalism

• To create a government with a bicameral legislature

Which principle in the U.S. Constitution is MOST closely related to the rights in the English Bill of Rights list?

• Separation of governmental powers

• Justice through judicial review

• Funding of government through tariffs

• Protection of individual liberties

Which historic document had the greatest influence on the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?

• The English Bill of Rights

• The Mayflower Compact

• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• The Articles of Confederation

Which weaknesses are associated with the Articles of Confederation?

• All states had to approve amendments.

• The central government held too much power.

• States coined their own money.

• Slavery was banned in the Northwest Territory.