Gave individuals 160 acres of land for free if they would go west and farm it for five years (1862).
Morril Land Grant Act
Pacific Railway Act
Homestead Act
EPA
2. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Federal ban on slavery in a specific area.
Land Ordinance of 1785
Northwest Ordinance of 1787
Bill of Rights
Constitution
3. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
1st system of government, created in 1781 (although it functioned during the Revolutionary War)
Bill of Rights
Constitution
Articles of Confederation
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
4. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Wealth of Nations - 1776 - no government intervention in the marketplace (lassiez faire)
John Locke
Adam Smith
Jean Jaques Rosseau
Thoams Jefferson
5. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
abolitionist publication - The North Star
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Harreit Beecher Stowe
6. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
abolitionist publication - The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Egyptian (Anwar Sadat) recognition of Israel (Menachem Begin) as negotiated by Presdient Carter in 1979.
SALT
Helsinki Accords
Camp David Accords
Tripartite Agreement
8. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Communist - USSR and Eastern European allies
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
NATO
Axis Powers
9. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
bulwark of anti communism - the United States and its western European allies
SEATO
Warsaw Pact
Camp David Accords
NATO
10. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
In what decade was the building of the Berlin Wall?
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
11. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
In what decade wwere the Berlin Blockade and Berlin Airlift?
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
12. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
belief that God had ordained a small number of people to be very wealthy and that it was the obligation of these people to live prudently and give their wealth back to society
Social Gospel
Gospel of Wealth
Welfare Capitalism
Toussaint Louverture
13. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Book - Silent Spring - beginning of the late 20th century environmentaqlist movement
Phyllis Schlafly
Betty Friedan
Rachel Carson
Norman Lear
14. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
belief that God had ordained a small number of people to be very wealthy and that it was the obligation of these people to live prudently and give their wealth back to society
Herbert Spencer
John D. Rockefeller
James Madison
Andrew Carnegie
15. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Land given to each state to establish a university focusing on the agricultural, mechanical, and home making arts (ISU)
Homestead Act
Pacific Railway Act
Freeze-Notice Act
Morril Land Grant Act
16. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
judicial review - the Supreme Court can declare federal laws unconstitutional (John Marshal)
McCulloch v. Maryland
Marbury v. Madison
en re Gaut
Scott v. Sanford
17. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
What was the fastest and most common means of transportation in the period 1820-1840
railroads
canals
horseback
canoe
18. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
forcing China to trade with the United States and Western European nations
Boxer Rebellion
Open Door Policy
Treaty of Wanghia
Treaty of Nanking
19. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Slaves were taxed as property and 5 slaves were counted as 3 for determining population for determiniig representation in the House of Representatives
Missouri Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Great Compromise
Atlanta Compromise
20. Multiple Choice
3 minutes
1 pt
Each state has the same number of Senators but representation in the House of Represntatives is based on population