What was the federal policy regarding Native (First) Americans in the 1830s?

Relocation

Practice called whereby successful politicians reward their supporters by appointing them to office?

The spoils system

President during much of Reconstruction, Ulysses S President during much of Reconstruction, Ulysses S. Grant advocated for ________treatment for the South

fair

After the Civil War who became the leading spokesman for African Americans?

Frederick Douglass

American immigration patterns between 1890 and 1914 showed that most immigrants came from

southern and eastern Europe.

How were immigrant children affected by the creation of a public school system?

They were given help to assimilate into American society.

The term “nativism” means disliking

immigrants

What anti-immigrant law was passed in the 1800s?

the Chinese Exclusion Act

The following contributed to the growth of cities: improvements in transportation, construction of skyscrapers, large amounts of immigrants

During the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigration laws discriminated the most against the

Chinese

Most settlement houses in the late 1800s offered poor city dwellers

social services

Social characteristic of Puritan society in New England: a desire to live free from religious persecution

Maryland, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania were Colonies formed to escape religious persecution

The Virginia colony survived and grew economically because the English colonists began growing ______for sale

tobacco

Which of the following of Thomas Jefferson’s actions represented a vast departure from his philosophy of strict construction?

the Louisiana Purchase

Who directly influenced Abraham Lincoln to allow freed slaves to fight in the Civil War?

Frederick Douglass

The largest and most active group of colonists who supported independence from Britain:

the Patriots

Which Supreme Court ruling asserted the supremacy of federal law over state law, helping to clarify the role of states in the Union?

McCulloch v. Maryland

The first slaves introduced to the American colonies arrived in which colony in 1619?

Virginia

England prized its North American colonies because

they supplied England with food and raw materials and bought English goods

Why did many colonists protest the Stamp Act?

The colonists viewed the act as taxation without representation

The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 dealt with ________in Congress

representation

“The power to tax is the power to destroy” was a key decision from which Supreme Court cases?

McCulloch v. Maryland

How did slavery in the U. S How did slavery in the U.S. after 1808 reshape the lives of African families trapped in this institution?

Slavery broke up families as members were sold to different owners

The first elected assembly in the North American colonies was the

Virginia House of Burgesses

Which of the following groups would have benefited the most from the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Southern States