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- President ____ passed a bill that raised tariffs an average of 49.5% and gave significant power to the president handling foreign trade; took steps to improve voting rights for Black Americans, and created the national forest system
- The Square Deal was proposed by President ______
- How did the transcendental movement influence U.S. society during the mid to late 1800s?
- Which answer best describes the relationship between the South firing on Fort Sumter and the Civil War?
- Which invention most promoted expansion in the Midwest in the early to mid 1800s?
- John Brown was to armed insurrection as ___________ was to helping slaves escape?Which best completes the analogy?
- Alexis de Toqueville was to Democracy in America as Henry David Thoreau was to _______.Which best completes the analogy?
- James Fenimore Cooper was to Natty Bumppo as Washington Irving was to ____________.Which best completes the analogy?
- "There is not a country in the world where a man more confidently takes charge of the future, or where he feels with more pride that he can fashion the universe to please himself." Which term would Alexis de Tocqueville most likely use to sum up his reaction to American self-reliance and independence?
- The switch from muscle to machine power in the 1800s is known as the:
- "The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let the facts be submitted to a candid world."Which best explains why the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments echoes the words of the Declaration of Independence?
- Which answer best describes the following: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott?
- What was the most important reason for the founding of the Republican Party in the 1850s?
- Democracy in America "While society in the United States gives the example of the most extended liberty, the prisons of the same country offer the spectacle of the most complete [dictatorship]. Beaumont and A. de Tocqueville 1831Which nineteenth-century reformer most likely agreed with de Tocqueville?
- What principle of state's rights was upheld by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
- What was the most controversial aspect of the Compromise of 1850?
- To whom did Abraham Lincoln refer as " the little lady who started the big war?"
- Which of the following best explains the results of both Gibbons v. Ogden and McCulloch v. Maryland?
- Which best explains why the South was known as the "Cotton Kingdom" in the period before the Civil War?
- Robert Fulton was to the steamboat as ____________was to the telegraph. Which Best completes the analogy?