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VUS SOL 6

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 18mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The belief that it was America's duty & right to stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific was?

a)

White privilege

b)

The Mexican American War

c)

The Commercial Revolution

d)

Manifest Destiny

2.

Indians were relocated to ______________ when the Europeans moved west

a)

Reservations

b)

Concentration camps

c)

Internment camps

d)

Deserts

3.

What was bought from France in 1803 & doubled the size of the United States?

a)

The Mississippi River

b)

The Louisiana Purchase

c)

Mexico

d)

California

4.

Who explored the Louisiana Territory with the help of Sacajawea?

a)

The Aztecs

b)

Democratic Republicans

c)

Lewis and Clark

d)

Hessians

5.

What war gave America Oregon and Florida?

a)

War of 1812

b)

Revolutionary War

c)

Civil War

d)

Mexican American War

6.

What document issued in 1823 prohibited future colonization of western hemisphere by Europe?

a)

Roosevelt Corollary

b)

Truman Doctrine

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Monroe Doctrine

7.

What intensified the westward movement of settlers and helped the economy in the times before the Civil War?

a)

All weather roads

b)

A high number of horses and cattle

c)

Railroads and canals

d)

The interstate system

8.

Who invented the cotton gin that led to the spread of slavery in the deep south?

a)

James Hargreaves

b)

Oscar Wild

c)

Eli Whitney

d)

James Watt

9.

What war gave America California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and parts of Colorado and New Mexico?

a)

War of 1812

b)

Spanish American War

c)

Mexican American War

d)

Civil War

10.

What was it called when several tribes were relocated from the Atlantic coast to Oklahoma?

a)

Boston Massacre

b)

3/5 Compromise

c)

Wounded Knee Massacre

d)

Trail of Tears

11.

Regional self interests divided the nation during the war of 1812 against who?

a)

Britain

b)

France

c)

Italy

d)

Mexico

12.

True or False? A cause of the War of 1812 was British interference with American shipping (impressment)

a)

True

b)

False

13.

Who opposed James Madison's war resolution to declare war on Britain in 1812?

a)

Bankers

b)

Federalists

c)

Democratic Republicans

d)

Farmers

14.

Who personified the age of the common man?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

George Washington

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Woodrow Wilson

15.

When land ownership no longer was a prerequisite to vote, the common man voted for who?

a)

Theodore Roosevelt

b)

Andrew Johnson

c)

Andrew Jackson

d)

Thomas Jefferson

16.

What was it called when Andrew Jackson rewarded friend and family with public office?

a)

Democratic auction

b)

Manifest Destiny

c)

The Trail of Tears

d)

Spoils System

17.

After the War of 1812 the Federalist Party was replaced by Whigs & _______________ to oppose the Democrats

a)

Know-Nothings

b)

Republicans

c)

Scalawags

d)

Patriots

18.

Who favored high tariffs?

a)

South

b)

North

19.

Who opposed high tariffs?

a)

South

b)

North

20.

What drew east-west line through Louisiana Purchase regarding slavery in the west?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Proclamation of 1763

d)

Missouri Compromise

21.

What allowed California to enter as a free state while SW territories from Mexico got to vote?

a)

Compromise of 1850

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Missouri Compromise

22.

What repealed the Missouri Compromise and gave people in Kansas and Nebraska the right to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery (popular sovereignty)

a)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

Compromise of 1850

c)

Manifest Destiny

23.

What is the name of the problem that arose when the South decided to nullify federal law?

a)

Bacon's Rebellion

b)

Nullification crisis

c)

3/5 Compromise

d)

Fugitive Slave Law

24.

Nat Turner and Gabriel Prosser led what?

a)

Black troops in the War of 1812

b)

Slave rebellions in VA

c)

The Freedmen's Bureau

25.

Who was the publisher of the northern abolitionists newspaper called The Liberator?

a)

Frederick Douglas

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

26.

What was the first ever women's rights convention?

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

1st Annual Women's Rights Forum

c)

Seneca Falls Convention

d)

Constitutional Convention

27.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton & _____________ lead the women's rights movement.

a)

Clara Barton

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Martha Washington

28.

What president ran on a Manifest Destiny platform?

a)

James K. Polk

b)

John Tyler

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

Andrew Jackson

29.

Who did we acquire the Oregon Territory from?

a)

Spain

b)

Britain

c)

France

d)

Canada

30.

What political party was created to oppose the spread of slavery?

a)

Whig

b)

Know - Nothing

c)

Republican

d)

Democrat

31.

Thousand of __________ fought for the British in the War of 1812

a)

Indentured servants

b)

Women

c)

Stink bugs

d)

Enslaved Africans

32.

Fort Monroe and many other forts were built along the Atlantic Coast to protect America after the War of 1812.

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Ture

d)

Rtue

33.

What emerged after the War of 1812 that meant people buying things instead of making them?

a)

Market Revolution

b)

Industrial Revolution

c)

Communist Revolution

d)

AIDS

34.

Many of the nation's improvements were funded by _________ through the American System

a)

Tariffs

b)

Pumpkins

c)

Political problems

d)

FRAAANNNKKKKK

35.

The American System was rooted in the "American School" ideas of _________

a)

Buster Posey

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

Thomas Jefferson

d)

John Adams