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According to many anthropologists, a land bridge during the Ice Age allowed migration between which two continents?
Asia and North America
The first ten amendments were added to the constitution to...
protect citizen rights
One result of the War of 1812 was that the United States...
maintained its independence
Many Americans justified westward expansion based on...
manifest destiny
Which abolitionist leader was a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Which cash crop is credited with helping the Jamestown colony to survive?
tobacco
At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, conflicts between states with large populations and states with small populations resulted in the creation of...
a bicameral legislature
Which project, completed in 1825, resulted from Governor DeWitt Clinton's plan to link the Hudson River to the midwest?
The Underground Railroad was developed in order to...
help runaway slaves escape to freedom
Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
The purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to explore land gained through the...
Louisiana Purchase
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman were all 19th century leaders in the movement to....
abolish slavery
President Andrew Jackson defended the spoils system as a benefit to democracy because it...
filled government jobs with common citizens
Which document guarantees freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, and protection from illegal search and seizure?
Bill of Rights
The Supreme Court decision in Marbury vs. Madison established the principle of....
judicial review
A major goal of the Seneca Falls Convention was to...
publicize the need for women's rights
In the 1820s New York City was connected to the Great Lakes region by the...
Erie Canal
Which feature of the constitution prevents one branch of the national government from becoming too powerful?
checks and balances
A major reason President Jefferson supported buying the Louisiana Territory was because the purchase acquired what city?
New Orleans
During the 1840s Americans used the idea of Manifest Destiny to justify...
acquiring new territories
Before 1820 most factories and mills in the United States were powered by...
water