Final Exam 2025

Which principle requires people to follow both state and federal laws because power is shared between them?

• Republicanism

• Limited Government

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

What does the government have to follow when it comes to punishments and people’s rights?

• The President’s orders

• The Constitution

• State laws only

• International law

Which principle is demonstrated when only the Senate and House of Representatives can make laws?

• Federalism

• Separation of Powers

• Limited Government

• Republicanism

What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow voters in new territories to decide?

• Whether to join the Union

• Whether to be a free or slave state

• Whether to pay taxes

• Whether to elect a president

Which law required Northerners to return runaway slaves and increased calls for abolition?

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Did the acts discussed increase or decrease sectionalism in the long term?

• Decrease

• Stay the same

• Increase

• Eliminate

What caused the triangle trade shown in the diagram, and what did Europeans want Africans to do in the New World?

• The search for gold; build cities

• The profitability of cash crops agriculture

• The need for spices; work in factories

• The spread of religion; teach languages

What did the Freedmen’s Bureau provide to help former slaves overcome illiteracy?

• Land for farming

• Jobs in factories

• Education for former slaves

• Money for travel

Which historical figure was the author of "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" and brought the brutality of slavery to everyone’s attention?

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• John Brown

• Dred Scott

What was the Supreme Court’s decision in the Dred Scott case?

• Slaves could sue for their freedom.

• Slaves were considered citizens.

• Slaves could not sue because they were not citizens.

• Slavery was abolished.