Unit 4 Vocabulary

Information created by someone who was not present at an event, after an event happened

• Primary Source

• Pioneers

• Secondary Source

• Immigration

What was a major result of the Missouri Compromise?

• It increased the number of immigrants settling in northern states.

• It provided financing for canal construction.

• It rapidly expanded railroad construction in southern states.

• It temporarily relieved sectional tensions.

Answer explanation

The Missouri Compromise established the boundary of the 36 30 parallel. Slavery was prohibited above the line, and allowed below. This was an attempt to relieve tensions over the issue of slavery.

Which treaty ended the American Revolutionary War?

• Treaty of Virginia

• Treaty of Paris in 1783

• Treaty of San Lorenzo

• Treaty of Louisiana

What is cultural diffusion?

• Multiple cultures in an area.

• All the parts that make up your culture.

• When culture spreads from one place to another.

Which of the following correctly describes the Three-Fifths Compromise?

• A portion of the slave population was counted for legislative representation.

• A federal law enforcing the return of fugitive slaves was passed.

• The census bureau was established to help apportion representation.

• The election of senators was delegated to state legislatures.

Answer explanation

The Three-Fifths Compromise was where slaves would count as 3/5ths of the population. This would affect representation in the House of Representation, where there are a set number of elected representatives based on state population.

Someone who is first to settle a region or enter into an project

• Manifest Destiny

• Frontier

• Pioneers

• Immigration

That if any person shall write any false, scadalous and malicious writings against the government of the United States, or stir up sedition within the United States then such person shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two year. Which constitutional guarantee did this act violate?

• Freedom of assembly

• The right to due process

• Freedom of the press

• The right to a jury by trial

Choose the best definition of the vocabulary term: Key People/Groups

• Information about an individual (or groups) that had a big impact on a historic event

• Related to a group's shared system of beliefs and traditions

• Related to a group's shared system of beliefs and traditions

• Related to the way that people in groups or societies create laws and rules

Written by Thomas Jefferson, this document cut ties between America and Great Britain and listed the numerous reasons justifying doing so.

• Declaration of Independence

• House of Burgesses

• Constitution of the United States

• Mayflower Compact

A region with very few people living in it or new field of study or exploration

• Manifest Destiny

• Expansion

• Pioneers

• Frontier