STAAR History

A social or economic system built on manufacturing industries

• Abolitionism

• Confederation

• Mercantilism

• Industrialism

What was the result of Worcester v Georgia?

• the Cherokee Nation was a country and could not be governed by another country (United States)

• all Cherokee lands must be given to the U.S.

• Worcester must sign an oath to Georgia or be arrested

• Worcester must sign an oath to the Cherokee or be arrested

A notion held by nineteenth-century Americans that the United States was destined to rule the continent, from the Atlantic the Pacific

• Confederation

• Civil Disobedience

• Great Compromise

• Manifest Destiny

Which of these correctly describes an effect of the Compromise of 1850 on escaped slaves and freedmen?

• Members of both groups were captured under the Fugitive Slave law

• Unlike freedmen, escaped slaves were welcome in the gold mines of California

• Members of both groups could be sold in Washington D.C. slave market

• Unlike escaped slaves, freedmen could vote in the territories of the Mexican cession

Which of the following best completes this excerpt?

• equal pay

• own property

• a public education

• vote

According to Oglethorpe, the Savannah and the Altamaha rivers were a perfect barrier between

• Canada and the US

• US and Mexico

• British Colonies and Spanish land claims

• Florida and the US

_______________ was the turning point in the American Revolution because this victory is what convinced the French to ally with American troops to help win the war.

• Yorktown

• Treaty of Paris

• Saratoga

• Oglethorpe

Which of the following best completes this excerpt?

• Saratoga

• Concord

• Trenton

• Yorktown

In the excerpt above, what does "the interest" refer to?

• F

• G

• H

• J

What outcome best completes this diagram?

• American Revolution

• Popular Sovereignty

• Manifest Destiny

• Civil War