History Semester One Study Guide- Part 2

What is the Great Compromise?

• A treaty ending the Revolutionary War

• A plan combining the Virginia and New Jersey plans to create a two-house Congress

• An agreement giving slaves the right to vote

• A compromise with Britain over territorial disputes

What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• A decision that slaves would count as three-fifths of a person for taxation and representation

• A rule allowing three out of five states to veto federal laws

• A compromise on the length of presidential terms

• A treaty dividing land among the colonies

What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

• Laws making it easier for immigrants to become citizens

• Acts restricting free speech and targeting immigrants critical of the government

• Laws expanding states’ rights over federal authority

• Treaties with foreign nations

What was the Louisiana Purchase?

• A treaty granting land to Native Americans

• The acquisition of territory from France, doubling the size of the U.S.

• A trade deal with Spain for Florida

• The establishment of colonies in the West

Who were the War Hawks?

• Politicians who wanted to avoid war with Britain

• Those advocating for war against Britain leading up to the War of 1812

• Advocates for peace treaties with Native Americans

• Federalists opposing the Louisiana Purchase

What was the Monroe Doctrine?

• A policy limiting trade with European nations

• A declaration warning European powers against colonization in the Americas

• A treaty dividing land with Canada

• A statement supporting European alliances

What was the Missouri Compromise?

• A treaty with Spain over Florida

• An agreement admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state

• A ban on slavery in all western territories

• A tax on cotton exported from slave states

What was the Trail of Tears?

• A series of victories in the War of 1812

• The forced relocation of Native Americans to lands west of the Mississippi

• A migration of freed slaves to the North

• A route taken by settlers heading west

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• An abolitionist and former slave who became a prominent writer and speaker

• A Union general during the Civil War

• A politician supporting the Fugitive Slave Act

• A leader of the War Hawks

What was the purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation?

• To end all forms of servitude in the U.S.

• To free slaves in Confederate states during the Civil War

• To grant voting rights to African Americans

• To provide compensation to slave owners