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Jackson lost the election of 1824, but won the election of 1828 because of which one of the following?
a) Votes were cast by secret ballot.
b) Property qualifications for voting were strengthened.
c) Poll taxes were reduced.
d) Voter participation increased.

Which of these prompted Congress to propose the Fourteenth Amendment?
a) The popular sovereignty provision in the Kansas-Nebraska Act
b) The positions taken in the Know-Nothing Party platform
c) The Black Codes enacted by southern states after the Civil War
d) The opposition by southern states to the Emancipation Proclamation

How did Great Britain react to the Boston Tea Party?
a) Parliament repeals the Stamp and Sugar Acts.
b) King George III allows colonists to petition Parliament for tax relief.
c) Parliament passes the Intolerable Acts that shut down Boston.
d) King George III appoints colonial representatives to Parliament.

Which group was among the first to call for an end to slavery?
a) American Indians, because they viewed the plight of slaves as similar to their own
b) Quakers, because slavery contradicted their religious beliefs
c) British loyalists, because Great Britain had ended the slave trade
d) Puritans, because the New England economy did not rely on slavery

What was the final battle of the American Revolution?
a) Saratoga
b) Concord
c) Trenton
d) Yorktown

What was one long-term consequence of the sharecropping system?
a) Agricultural workers organized labor unions.
b) Many former slaves became trapped in a cycle of debt.
c) Many agricultural workers moved to cities to start small businesses.
d) Landowners sold property to pay wages to former slaves.

Boston and New Orleans were both founded as —
a) port cities
b) farming communities
c) industrial centers
d) military outposts

Which of the following is part of the Fifth Amendment?
a) Freedom of assembly
b) The right to due process
c) Freedom of the press
d) The right to a jury trial

What was one major effect of the Second Great Awakening?
a) Churches turned away from public politics and focused on internal religious issues.
b) People were inspired to join reform movements to address social problems.
c) Religious leaders petitioned legislatures to extend suffrage to women.
d) Politicians were encouraged to promote states’ rights rather than federal unity.

Why did U.S. manufacturing increase during the War of 1812?
a) The supply of British goods decreases.
b) Congress ends the European embargo.
c) Exports to Great Britain increase.
d) Congress reduces tariffs.

Which excerpt from the Declaration of Independence best explains why colonists were unhappy about their lack of representation in the British parliament?
a) “He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people.”
b) “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.”
c) “He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”
d) “For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences.”

The abolitionist movement achieved its goal with the passage of which amendment?
a) Twelfth Amendment
b) Thirteenth Amendment
c) Fourteenth Amendment
d) Fifteenth Amendment

Cheaper prices and faster manufacturing occurred as a result of increased —
a) industrialization
b) westward migration
c) expansion of U.S. territory
d) government regulation of business

The Puritans held town meetings to deal with community issues.
a) The Puritans allowed women to participate in government.
b) The Puritans refused to obey the appointed governor.
c) The Puritans outlawed slavery in Massachusetts.
d) The Puritans developed a form of representative self-government.

Which of these occurred as a result of the Fifteenth Amendment?
a) African American families divided by slavery were reunited.
b) Newly free men and women moved west to claim land.
c) African American men voted in the 1872 presidential election.
d) Newly free men and women were allowed to apply for U.S. citizenship.

I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can’t say—I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.
a) Harriet Beecher Stowe
b) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c) Harriet Tubman
d) Phillis Wheatley

During the Constitutional Convention of 1787, George Mason argued —
a) against increased power for the national government
b) for the dissolution of state governments
c) against the passage of a bill of rights
d) for the creation of a strong executive branch

What was one result of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
a) Great Britain recognized the United States as an independent country.
b) Competing Seminole and Spanish claims in West Florida were resolved.
c) The British navy agreed to stop pressing American sailors into service.
d) British territory in eastern Canada was ceded to France.

Which of the following was an argument made against slavery in the Thirteen Colonies?
a) Manufacturers argued that slavery discouraged the development of industry.
b) Farmers argued that using slave labor was expensive and inefficient.
c) Quakers argued that slavery violated Christian principles.
d) Puritans argued that the slave trade encouraged materialism.

How did the cotton gin contribute to the expansion of the plantation system?
a) By reducing the number of slaves needed for growing cotton
b) By increasing the time needed to cultivate cotton
c) By increasing the profitability of slavery
d) By reducing the demand for raw cotton

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