What document was included in the U.S. Constitution to ensure that individual civil rights would be protected from the federal government?
What is The Bill of Rights
100
What was the final reason the south separated from the Union?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln.
100
Manifest Destiny was used to justify an American desire to
What is expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean.
100
In the early 1900s, the muckrakers provided a
service to the American public by
What is exposing abuses in government and industry
100
In passing the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890),
Congress intended to
What is prevent large corporations from eliminating
their competition
200
Why was the government created by the Articles of Confederation unsuccessful at solving many major problems?
What is weak central (federal) government.
200
The Supreme Court ruling in Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) helped to increase sectional conflict because the decision
What is denied Congress the power to regulate slavery in the territories
200
In his Farewell Address, President George Washington warned against
What is foreign alliances or forming political parties.
200
The Progressive movement supported the idea
that the federal government should
What is regulate big business
200
The “clear and present danger” doctrine
established in Schenck v. United States (1919)
concerned the issue of
What is freedom of speech
300
This conflict was resolved during the Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
What is representation in Congress.
300
In the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to
What is allow settlers in new territories to vote on the issue of slavery
300
What was the United States foreign policy before World War I?
What is neutrality.
300
What major trend related to population occurred
during the industrialization boom of the late
1800s?
What is Urbanization increased.
300
What was one outcome of the Supreme Court
decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
What is the principle of judicial review was established.
400
What principle of the United States Constitution is intended to ensure that no one branch of government has more power than another branch?
What is checks and balances
400
Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses
were adopted in Southern States primarily to
What is keep African Americans from exercising their
right to vote
400
Which event most influenced President Woodrow Wilson's decision to enter World War I?
What is unrestricted submarine warfare by Germany.
400
Which major population shift in the late 1800s
occurred as a result of industrialization?
What is rural residents to urban areas
400
In the 1850s, the phrase “Bleeding Kansas” was
used to describe clashes between
What is proslavery and antislavery groups
500
Federalism is a term used to define the division of power between the
What is the state and the national government.
500
The Radical Republicans in Congress opposed
President Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction
because Lincoln
What is rejected the idea of harsh punishments for
the South
500
Which policy of the United States was designed to prevent new colonization of the Western Hemisphere?
What is the Monroe Doctrine.
500
In the early 1900s, Progressive Era reformers
sought to increase citizen participation in
government by supporting the
What is direct election of senators
500
The development of the Marshall Plan and the
formation of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) were part of President
Harry Truman’s effort to
What is limit the spread of communism (containment)