NY Regents US History and Government Module 2 expansion, reform and Civil War overview quiz quiz

It roughly doubled the size of the United States and secured New Orleans and the Mississippi

It ended slavery in the territories

It granted statehood to California

It was land taken from Mexico after a war

The belief that the United States was destined to expand across the continent to the Pacific

A Supreme Court decision

A law banning slavery

A plan to free enslaved people

Slavery was abolished

Most states dropped property requirements, extending the vote to nearly all white men

Voting was restricted to landowners only

Women gained the right to vote

A battle of the Civil War

A canal built for trade

A route on the Underground Railroad

The forced relocation of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi, during which thousands died

That Native Americans had no rights

That the Court can enforce its own rulings

That the states are supreme over the federal government

That the Court depends on the executive branch to carry out its decisions

Equal rights for women, including the right to vote

Free public education

The abolition of slavery

The prohibition of alcohol

The Enlightenment

The Second Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening

The Harlem Renaissance

A border dispute with Mexico

A disagreement about the national bank

The conflict over slavery, especially its expansion into the territories

A dispute over tariffs only

They had no effect on sectional tension

They immediately abolished slavery

They only postponed the conflict, which expansion and events like Dred Scott reignited

They were never actually passed

It freed all enslaved people

It denied African American citizenship and ruled Congress could not ban slavery in the territories, enraging the North

It granted citizenship to all African Americans

It was accepted by both North and South

The Compromise of 1877

The end of the Mexican-American War

The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment

The election of Abraham Lincoln, an antislavery Republican

Both sides equally

Neither side had advantages

The South, with more industry

The North, with a larger population, more industry and railroads, and a navy

It ended the Civil War

It freed all enslaved people in the United States immediately

It made ending slavery an explicit war aim and discouraged European support for the Confederacy

It granted citizenship to formerly enslaved people

The tension between national security and civil liberties

Cooperation between nations

Environmental impact

Scarcity of resources

Freedom of the press

The abolition of slavery

Citizenship and equal protection of the laws to all born in the United States

The right to vote regardless of race

Black Codes, Klan violence, and the Compromise of 1877 ended federal protection of Black rights, allowing Jim Crow

African Americans gained full equality immediately

The South abolished slavery on its own

The amendments were repealed

Implied powers

Separate but equal, which gave constitutional cover to segregation

Judicial review

One person, one vote