1. Benchmark Review

3. Excerpt from: Objections to the Constitution
“There is no declaration of rights; and , the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states, the declaration of rights in the separate states are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law, which stands here upon no foundation than its having been adopted by the respective acts forming the constitutions of the several states…”
“…This government will commence in a moderate aristocracy: it is at present impossible to forsee whether it will, in its operation, produce a monarchy or a corrupt oppressive aristocracy; it will most probably vibrate some years between the two, and then terminate in the one or the other.”

4. Question
Why did George Mason object to the ratification of the US Constitution?

5. Answer
Mason believed that the Constitution did not specifically protect the rights of the people.

6. Question
What was George Mason’s goal in writing his objections to the ratification of the US Constitution?

7. Answer
To prevent the government from becoming a monarchy or an aristocracy that is doomed to fail.

8. Question
What does the phrase “the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states” mean?

9. Answer
That the laws of the federal government will be considered superior to those of the states.

10. Question
Why did Federalists feel that a Bill of Rights was not necessary in the US Constitution?

11. Question
Why did Federalists feel that a Bill of Rights was not necessary in the US Constitution?

12. Answer
Federalists thought that rights were protected by states.

13. Question
Why did Anti Federalists oppose a new Constitution?

14. Answer
Anti Federalists favored strong state governments rather than a strong central government.

15. Question
What did Federalists and Anti-Federalists agree upon?

16. Answer
People should have a voice in government.

17. Question
Which physical feature probably has the greatest positive effect on transportation in colonial North Carolina?

18. Answer
Rivers

19. Question
Why would the people of North Carolina relocate their capital from New Bern to Raleigh?

20. Answer
Raleigh was centrally located between western and eastern NC

21. Question
What was the major industry in the coastal plain?

22. Answer
Large scale agriculture

23. Question
What did the US state to Europe in the Monroe Doctrine?

24. Answer
Colonization in the western hemisphere would be considered a sign of aggression?

25. Question
Why was the Monroe Doctrine an important policy?

26. Answer
It stated a new policy for European countries creating colonies.

27. Question
What is an example of the enforcement of the Monroe Doctrine?

28. Answer
Removing the Spanish from Cuba in the Spanish-American war.

29. Question
What was the impact of tariffs passed in 1828 and 1832?

30. Answer
SC created an Ordinance of Nullification to void the tariffs.

31. Question
Why would the tariffs impact the South more than the North?

32. Answer
The South relied more on manufactured imports.

33. Question
Why was the South so upset about the passages of the tariffs?

34. Answer
It thought that Congress was favoring the North.

35. Question
Which is the best definition of the word nullify?

36. Answer
Void

37. Questions
What describes the distribution of railroads in 1860?

38. Answer
Most railroads were located in the Northern part of the US.

39. Question
Why were so many railroads built along the coast of the US?

40. Answer
To give farmers and manufacturers access to seaports and trade routes.

41. Question
As the country entered a period of Civil War, how would having more railroads be helpful to one side?

42. Answer
Move troops faster
Transport supplies faster
Trade will prosper

43. Question
Based on the image, what was the purpose of the Anaconda Plan?

44. Answer
To surround the Southern states and cut off trade.

45. Question
How would farmers in NC be affected by the Anaconda Plan?

46. Answer
The plan would prevent farmers from shipping goods overseas.

47. Question
What was the only major disagreement between the North and the South?

48. Answer
Whether or not new territories should be open to slavery.

49. Question
Why did the south secede from the Union?

50. Answer
People in the Southern States were being denied their rights.

51. Question
Lincoln compares the country to a married couple getting divorced for what purpose?

52. Answer
To show how much more difficult it would be to split and separate a country.

53. Question
Jefferson Davis states, that by leaving the Union, the South “illustrates the American idea that the government rests upon the consent of the governed…” What is he suggesting?

54. Answer
He suggests that it is the right of the people to change the government when they no longer agree on how it is operating.

55. Question
Who is Lincoln referring to when he says “dissatisfied countrymen”?

56. Answer
Citizens in the South

57. Question
What was Jefferson Davis’s major goal?

58. Answer
TO continue to build the south as a new country.