1. American History

2.  Multiple Choice Questions  You can NOT use notes or handouts  98% of the questions are on this review sheet.

3.  This statement is found in what document? “We hold these truths to be self-evident: That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed… Declaration of Independence Written in 1776

4.  Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? Thomas Jefferson Third President

5.  Who is he in this statement from the Declaration of Independence? “History of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world…. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.” George III, King of England

6.  This song was used as a code to let slaves know that someone was there from the…  Wade in the water, wade in the water, children, Wade in the water, God’s gon’ trouble the water. Underground Railroad Maybe Harriet

7.  What laws make it illegal to criticize the President of government in speeches or in print? Sedition Acts Passed with Alien Acts

8.  by increasing the residency requirement for American citizenship from five to fourteen years in the Alien and Sedition Acts the _________ party was able to keep in power longer because most immigrants joined the opposing party Federalist Supported Constitution

9.  What amendment to the constitution is this? “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” 1 st Amendment In the Bill of Rights

10.  What amendment to the constitution is this? “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime …. nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice …. nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. 5 th Amendment Take the ___th

11.  The Bill of Rights guarantees all of the following rights: 2 nd : The right of the people to keep and bear ____________. 4 th : The right of the people to secure in their persons, houses, and papers, against unreasonable _______________; 7 th : The right of __________ by jury. arms searches trial

12.  This image is about what historical event? Trail of Tears The Cherokee

13.  The Indian Removal Act was pushed through Congress under the leadership of President… Andrew Jackson 1 st Western President

14.  In what Supreme Court ruling did John Marshall say that the state of Georgia had no right to force the Cherokee off their land. Worcester v. Georgia W v G

15.  The Mexican-American War was caused by a dispute over the border of __________ between the U.S. and Mexico, American belief in ____________ ____________, and U.S. desire to purchase _______________ from Mexico. Texas Manifest Destiny California

16.  This document is from John Burnett’s Story of what event? “On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th, 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. … Trail of Tears After Indian Removal Act

17.  In order to settle the Mexican province of Texas, Stephen Austin and American settlers agreed to all of the following: To become _______________ citizens, to convert to the _______________ faith, and to own no _______________. Mexican Catholic slaves

18.  Who was president during the Mexican-American War? James K. Polk Jimmy K. Folk

19.  “Other nations have undertaken … hostile interference against us … hampering our power, limiting our greatness and checking the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence ( God ) for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.” The phrase “Manifest Destiny” was coined by… John O’Sullivan Irish-American Journalist

20.  “Fellow-citizens, above your national, tumultuous joy, I hear the mournful wail of millions! whose chains, heavy and grievous yesterday, are, to-day, rendered more intolerable by the jubilee shouts that reach them. If I do forget, if I do not faithfully remember those bleeding children of sorrow this day … would be treason most scandalous and shocking, and would make me a reproach before God and the world. My subject, then, fellow-citizens, is American slavery. I shall see this day and its popular characteristics from the slave's point of view… the conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July!” The above Fourth of July speech from 1852 was given by… Frederick Douglass

21.  What Abolitionist chose to use violence to try to end slavery? John Brown Started Killing in Kansas

22.  The 5 Southern tribes (Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek) were considered ____ because they lived exactly like their white neighbors. Civilized Not savage

23.  What event is depicted in this painting? Bleeding Kansas Mural is in Topeka

24.  The Abolitionist leader of the Underground Railroad, known as “Moses” who freed over 300 slaves was Harriet Tubman Not Sojourner

25.  The Federal arsenal in Virginia where John Brown attempted to get weapons to arm the slaves in 1858 was Harpers Ferry Musicians Boat

26.  In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not people, had no rights. This overturned the Missouri Compromise and protected slave owners property in all U.S. territory. What was this ruling? Dred Scot v. Sanford Anxious Brit v. S

27.  The 19 th century doctrine that westward expansion of the United States was not only inevitable but a God given right was… Manifest Destiny Evident Fate

28.  President of the United States from 1801-1809, he wrote the Declaration of Independence and purchased the Louisiana Territory. He was… Thomas Jefferson TJ

29.  What event would cause this advertisement to be put in a newspaper? Underground Railroad

30.  When Lincoln issued this it said that on Jan. 1, 1863; all slaves living in states in Rebellion were forever free. Emancipation Proclamation Free Anouncement

31.  From 1787-1789, representatives from every state met in Philadelphia to reshape the American government at the Constitutional Convention Blueprint Meeting

32.  The Publisher of the Liberator and organizer of the American Abolitionist movement in 1820 was William Lloyd Garrison Bill L. Command Post

33.  The American Artist & writer who lived among Indians west of Mississippi 1820-1850; recording & painting about their lives; providing the only detailed record of the Native American life west of Mississippi before white settlers was George Catlin Not Feorge Doglin

34.  The Civil War was the 1 st war to be photographed. The leading Civil War Photographer was Mathew Brady M.B.

35.  “A current of emigration soon followed from the United States. Slaveholders crossed the Sabine (river between Louisiana and Texas) with their slaves, … Certainly Mexico might justly charge our citizens with disgraceful robbery, while, in seeking extension of slavery, the great truths of American freedom…” by Charles Sumner, 1847. What is Sumner’s position on War with Mexico?

37.  Analyze the photograph to the right by describing what you see and explaining the historical significance of the photo:

39.  Pick two of the events below to write about this topic. You must  express an opinion on each event,  show its significance to the struggle to fulfill the American Promise and  use factual details (people, places, dates, events, ideas) to support your thoughts.  You can also quote from the documents you have (Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, etc):

40.  The Passage of the Alien & Sedition Acts and the 1 st Amendment  Andrew Jackson & the Indian Removal Act  Manifest Destiny and the Mexican War  Slavery & the Abolitionist Movement  The American Civil War