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US Unit 3 Review

Total questions: 17

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 create more opposition to slavery?

a)

It allowed for the possibility of slavery in territories where it had been prohibited

b)

It abolished slavery in Kansas and Nebraska

c)

It established popular sovereignty in all territories

d)

It promoted the trade of enslaved people

2.

What was the outcome of the violence in Kansas known as 'Bleeding Kansas'?

a)

Pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces engaged in violent acts against each other

b)

There was no violence in Kansas during this time

c)

Kansas became a free state without any conflict

d)

Kansas became a slave state without any conflict

3.

What did the Dred Scott v. Sandford case decide?

a)

That black people, whether free or enslaved, could not be U.S. citizens

b)

That black people, whether free or enslaved, had the right to sue in federal courts

c)

That enslaved people were property and could not be taken to free territories

d)

That enslaved people were entitled to their freedom

4.

Which government decision divided America with an imaginary line that suggested above the line would be free states and below the line would be slave states?

a)

Popular sovereignty

b)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

c)

Missouri Compromise

5.

What term refers to a period before a war and which, in U.S. history, has commonly been used to describe the pre-Civil War period?

a)

industrialization

b)

cult of honor

c)

antebellum

d)

nativism

6.

Name the method of manufacturing involving powered machinery, usually run by water, that allowed the use of unskilled labor and greater output than in the artisan tradition:

a)

apprenticeship system

b)

factory system

c)

American system

d)

Lowell system

7.

Which term refers to the process of a society changing from predominantly agricultural production to a society based on factory production?

a)

commodification

b)

commercialization

c)

globalization

d)

industrialization

8.
What is the name given to the belief that the United States had the right and duty to expand across the North American continent?
a)

Manifest destiny 

b)

 Monroe Doctrine 

c)

 Great Awakening 

d)

Louisiana Purchase

9.
What act allowed the national government to require Native Americans to give up their land?
a)

Indian Removal Act

b)

Civilization Act 

c)

Manifest Destiny Act

d)

Indian Territory Act

10.

The following map depicts the relocation of Native American tribes during the --

a)

Great Migration

b)

Trail of Tears

c)

Westward Migration

d)

Manifest Destiny

11.

What did the Indian Removal Act give the government the ability to do?

a)

Give Indians new territory in South Carolina

b)

Give Indians new territory out west in exchange for their territory in the land east of the Mississippi River

c)

Force out all Native Americans immediately

d)

Give colonists new territory in Oklahoma

12.
The nullification crisis occurred when
a)
the Supreme Court declared the tariff laws null and void.
b)
Congress refused Jackson's request to repeal the tariff laws.
c)
South Carolina threatened to secede if the tariff laws were enforced.
d)
Jackson threatened to make South Carolina leave the Union by force.
13.
Once he became president, Jackson fired many federal employees and replaced them with his political supporters and friends.
a)
True
b)
False
14.

What was President Jackson's response to the nullification crisis?

a)

He admitted that the Union was a "compact" of the states

b)

He offered to raise tariffs to keep South Carolina in the Union

c)

He conceded South Carolina's right to secede

d)

He threatened to use force against South Carolina if it did not repeal its nullification policies

15.
Why did Jackson veto the bank bill?
a)
it was unconstitutional and it favored the rich
b)
it was led by Henry Clay
c)
he just loved vetoing bills
d)
the bank was failing
16.

The belief that slavery should be made illegal (abolish)

a)

Sectionalism

b)

Reform

c)

Abolition

d)

Suffrage

17.

Inspired by the Second Great Awakening, the ______________ sought to reshape American society.

a)

Reform Era

b)

temperance movement

c)

transcendentalist movement

d)

Change movement