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WorksheetsUS History 7th Grade Semester 2 Exam #1
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
The excerpt below is from the Supreme Court's decision in Worcester v. Georgia (1832)
"The Cherokee nation . . . is a distinct community, occupying its own territory . . . which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter but with the assent [agreement] of the Cherokee themselves"
What did the ruling initially do?
Georgia had already given their lands away to white settlers
It meant Georgia couldn't make laws for the Native Americans on Cherokee land.
Use the list below to answer the question:
ACTIONS BY PRESIDENT JACKSON
- vetoes bank bill
- insists on Cherokee removal
- replaces government workers with his own supporters (spoils system)
- threatens to send troops to South Carolina over nullification
Jackson expanded the role of the President in domestic affairs
Jackson believed congress should have more power than the president
Which idea was promoted by Henry Thoreau that encouraged people to not obey laws they found immoral?
suffrage (to vote)
temperance (anti-drinking)
civil disobedience
Nullification refers to the idea that a state could nullify, or cancel a federal law within its borders, if the state thought it was unconstitutional? How did this concept of nullification become a problem during Jackson's presidency?
States could leave the union at any time
South Carolina tried to nullify a federal law
What was the final result of the Cherokee people trying to hold on to their land during the territorial period despite some legal victories like Worcester v. Georgia?
The Cherokee ended up in legal and physical disputes with other Native Americans
The US Army forced the removal of the Cherokee westward on the "Trail of Tears"
What country owned Florida before the Adam-Onis Treaty of 1813
Spain
Britain
France
The Monroe Doctrine was a bold declaration by the United States that it would somewhat protect the Western Hemisphere (North, Central and South America from future colonization. What did this mean?
Any attempt at colonizing the western hemisphere would be seen as an unfriendly act by the United States.
The United States would not get involved in further colonization by European Powers.
The quote below is from Article I, (Legislative Branch), Section 8 of the US Constitution:
"The Congress shall have Power ... To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers . . ."
Which landmark Supreme Court case was decided on the basis of this excerpt that later would be called the "necessary and proper" or elastic clause?
Marbury v. Madison
McCulloch v. Maryland
What Supreme Court decision established Judicial Review?
Marbury v. Madison
Gibbons v. Ogden
What was the central issue of Missouri Compromise?
How states would be added to the union based on whether slavery would be allowed there.
How economic power in the Southern states would be balanced with power in the North.
The following ideas were based on what American policy in the mid 1800's ___________________.
1 - economic motivation
2 - Religious motivation - God's Will
3 - Humanitarian - help the Native Americas
Manifest Destiny
Era of Good Feelings
When Florida prepared for statehood in required a state constitution (becoming a state - no longer being a territory). What did Florida's state constitution need to include?
Bill of Rights & how it's government would be set up
Treaty with Spain
What was the consequence of increasing conflict over territory between Seminoles and white settlers?
Three separate wars and the relocation of most of the Seminoles
Florida was united by a treaty with other nearby Spanish territories
Which court case firmly established separate but equal (segregation) in the United States?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
What was the term used to describe Northerners who came to the exploit the Southerners including freedmen, during Reconstruction?
Carpetbaggers
Scalawag
Former slaves, who are know freedmen in the south, became ___________________ in order to provide an income (economic / job).
sharecropper
carpetbagger
The statement below is from Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address" (November 1863).
"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain---that this nation, under God, shall have new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish (disappear, be destroyed) from the earth.
What principle is expressed in this statement?
popular sovereignty - by the people
this nation, under God
The North had the advantage of the railroad and industry at the beginning of the Civil War - what did the South have as an advantage?
talented military commanders
better relations with foreign powers
What was an effect of the Emancipation Proclamation (Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves)?
Lincoln's policy was so popular he won the presidential election that year
enslaved persons except in border states were set free
What was the combined effect of the following Amendments to the US Constitution?
- 19th Amendment
16th Amendment
- 26th Amendment
Expanding voting rights
Established taxes on income and property
