Transcript Question # 5

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3 TYPES OF QUESTIONS
MULTIPLE CHOICE
SKILL BASED
READING
Question #1
What is the difference between a primary and
secondary source?
Question #2
How do historians deal with historical bias?
Question #3
Explain the Columbian Exchange.
The widespread
transfer of animals,
plants, culture, human
populations,
technology and ideas
between the eastern
and western
hemispheres
Question #4
What were the most important causes and effects
of the Age of Exploration?
Question # 5
Describe the land of the New England colonies.
Question # 5
Describe the Middle Colonies.
Question # 5
Describe the land of the Southern Colonies.
Question #6
Describe representative government.
Question #6
Give examples of representative governments in
the English Colonies.
Question #7
What was the MAIN reason for the French and
Indian War?
Question #8
Why did Britain pass a series of tax laws in the
English Colonies after the French and Indian War?
Question #9
Why did the British establish the Proclamation of
1763?
Question #10
Explain the phrase, “no taxation without
representation”.
Question #11
Give a couple examples of how the British punished
Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
Question #12
What were the most effective forms of colonial
protest to the new taxes?
Question #13
What was the purpose of Thomas Paine’s
pamphlet, Common Sense?
Question #14
A major argument for American Independence
found in the Declaration of Independence was
that the British …
Question #15
Which battle prompted the French to aid the
American cause during the Revolutionary War?
Question #16
List advantages of the Patriots entering the
Revolutionary War.
Question #17
What belief about central government did many
writers of the Articles of Confederation share?
Question #18
Why did many people call for changes to the
Articles of Confederation?
Question #19
Why did Antifederalists want a bill of rights added
to the U.S. Constitution?
Question #20
List the freedoms of Americans protected under the
Bill of Rights
Question #21
What purpose does the Preamble serve in the
Constitution?
Question #22
Explain the idea of federalism in the U.S.
Constitution.
Question #23
The use of Implied powers, the amending process,
and the Supreme Court interpretations have allowed
our Constitution the ability to?
Question #24
Legislative, Executive, Judicial
Question #25
What does President George Washington say about
foreign policy in his Farewell Address?
Question #26
Give a few examples of how President Washington
strengthened the federal government.
Question #27
Identify what Alexander Hamilton did to help the
nation’s economy
Question #27 - extension
Hamilton’s view on the power of the federal
government :
Question #28
What is the MAIN reason for the formation of the
first two political parties in America in the 1790’s?
Question #29
Describe how Republicans responded to the
Alien and Sedition Acts.
Question #30
What power did the Supreme Court establish in
Marbury v. Madison?
Question #31
Give a few examples of Thomas Jefferson’s democratic
style demonstrated during his time as President.
Question #32
Why was the Louisiana Purchase from France
significant? How was purchase legal?
Question #33
What was the impact of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition?
Question #34
Describe the main effects of the War of 1812.
Question #35
Since no candidate won a majority in the Presidential
Election of 1824, how was the winner determined?
Question #36
Describe the principle of “Jacksonian Democracy”.
Question #37
Why did Jackson’s critics refer to him as KING
ANDREW?
Question #38
Describe how the spoils system worked.
Question #39
Describe Andrew Jackson’s feelings towards the
Bank of the United States.
Question #40
What was the purpose of a protective tariff?
Question #41
What caused South Carolina to pass the
Nullification Act?
Question #42
Identify examples of why the Oregon territory
appealed to settlers.
Question #43
What caused Americans living in Texas to go to
war with Mexico?
Question #44
What did the Texans’ defeat at the Alamo
encourage?
Question #45
Describe a few challenges of the Lone Star
Republic.
Question #46
Identify a few results of the Mexican War.
Question #47
Explain the idea of the Manifest Destiny.
Question #48
Why did the Mormons move to Utah?
Question #49
What effect did the discovery of gold in California
in 1849 have on westward expansion?
Question #50
As industry in the U.S. grew during the early 1800s,
what role did immigrants play in the economy?
Question #51
Why were sectional differences developing in the
United States?
Question #52
Explain the connection between cotton and
Slavery.
Question #52
Why did slavery expand in the South and not the
North?
Question #53
What was the purpose of the “Slave Codes”?
Question #54
How did enslaved African Americans resist and fight
back against slavery?
Question #55
What was the SENECA FALLS CONVENTION
concerned with?
Question #56
Identify 3 of the major areas of reform in the mid1800s.
Question #57
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Question #58
Who was SOJOURNER TRUTH?
Question #59
Why is Harriet Tubman significant to the abolitionist
movement?
Question #60
How were the goals of the Free Soil Party and the
Republican Party alike?
No slavery
Question #61
Some people wanted the slavery issue to be
decided in the new territories by “Popular
Sovereignty”, which would mean what?
Question #62
What were the details of 1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
Question #63
What popular book was written in response to the
1850 Fugitive Slave Act?
Question #64
Why did Kansas get the nickname “Bleeding
Kansas”?
Question #65
What decision did the Supreme Court reach in the Dred
Scott case AND how did this decision impact Congress’s
ability to decide the slavery issue out West?
Question #66
Why were the Lincoln-Douglas debates important
for Lincoln?
Question #67
In his “House Divided” speech, what does Abe
Lincoln suggest?
Question #68
Entering the Civil War, Abe Lincoln makes his
primary goal as president clear – what is it?
Question #69
Which occurs first: Abe Lincoln’s election OR Civil
War?
1
THEN…
2
Question #70
What arguments does Lincoln use against secession?
1. Physically the states cannot separate.
2. Secession is unlawful.
3. A government that allows secession will
disintegrate into anarchy.
4. That Americans are not enemies, but
friends.
5. Secession would destroy the world's
only existing democracy, and prove for all
time, to future Americans and to the
world, that a government of the people
cannot survive
.
Question #71
Identify CONFEDERATE Strengths during the Civil
War.
Question #72
Identify UNION Strengths
Question #73
How did the Civil War benefit the Northern
economy?
Question #74
Why was the Union victory at Vicksburg so
important?
Captures the
Miss. River
Question #75
What do many historians consider the turning
point for the Union of the Civil War?
Question #76
What is Ulysses S. Grant’s plan to end the Civil
War?