Government
True or False: At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, the 3/5 Compromise counted 3/5 of the total slave population for the purposes of determining representation in Congress and taxes.
What is True?
True or False: Andrew Carnegie was a muckraker
What is False? Carnegie was a wealthy business leader in the steel industry.
True or false: one major difference between the North and South before the Civil War was that the South had more railroads.
What is False? The North was more industrialized and had more railroads.
True or False: The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson led to the establishment of the "separate but equal" rule
What is True?
True or False: Most immigrants who came to the US during the Industrial Revolution were from Latin America
What is False? Most were from Eastern Europe
In writing the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson was influenced most by John Locke’s idea of:
A) due process of law
B) natural rights
C) the rights of the accused
D) the right to privacy
What is B) natural rights
One way in which Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Sojourner Truth are similar is that they all supported the:
A) abolitionist movement
B) passage of Black Codes
C) nullification theory of States rights
D) plantation system in the South
What is A) abolitionist movement
During the early 1800s, which factor contributed the most to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?
A) a restriction on European immigration
B) the end of the slave labor system
C) an abundance of natural resources
D) the availability of electricity
What is C) an abundance of natural resources?
After this 1676 event, more laws were enforced that separated enslaved black people from lower-class whites to prevent them from rebelling again.
A) Constitutional Convention
B) Bacon's Rebellion
C) Emancipation Proclamation
D) Shay's Rebellion
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Which of these is not a reason that the English immigrated to America when the first colonies were formed?
A) Gold
B) Religious persecution
C) To gain wealth
D) Trade opportunities
What is A) Gold
A particular body of government that consists of two legislative houses or chambers (like the House of Burgesses).
What is a bicameral legislature?
This steel mill strike resulted in armed conflict that left 9 people dead and minimal change in workers' pay and rights.
What is the Homestead Strike?
A significant contribution to the industrialization of the United States was Henry Ford’s development of
What is the assembly line?
This constitutional amendment formally ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is a belief that God has created Americans as a superior people and government and that it is their duty to expand westward
What is manifest destiny?
The main problem with the Article of Confederation
What is they set up a weak federal government?
Look at the cartoon. This muckraker book published in 1906 resulted in the inspection depicted in this cartoon.
What is The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
The increase in demand for slaves in the South is one major effect of this 1793 invention
What is the cotton gin?
The Industrial Revolution marked a change in the way production occurs. Production methods changed from ___________ to _________________
What is hand-made goods & machine-made goods (or something related)
President Andrew Jackson ignored the Supreme Court's decision in _____________ v ____________ when he forced Cherokee Indians to migrate over 2,200 miles on what is known as the _________ __ _________.
What is Worcester v. Georgia & Trail of Tears
Look at the political cartoon about Standard Oil. What is the author's message about the Standard Oil company and the government?
What is that Standard Oil is a monopoly that has an unfair influence over government decisions (or related response)
Look at this cartoon. The method of gaining more rights for workers that this cartoon represents.
What is unionizing?
The first quick and inexpensive process of converting raw iron into steel, which sped up industrialization.
What is the Bessemer Steel Process?
Name two Progressive Reform Movement Laws:
This 1890 law banned the creation of monopolies and the competition-eliminating practices like price fixing during the Industrial Revolution
This 1906 law created regulations for inspecting the quality of meat in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
What is the Sherman Antitrust Act & the Meat Inspection Act?
The 1882 law that this cartoon depicts and criticizes.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act?