1. power granted to the President to make treaties
2. President’s power as Commander in Chief
3. authority of Congress to declare war
4. Senate’s duty to approve the appointment of ambassadors

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation: Thomas Jefferson used the presidential power of treaty making to make the Louisiana Purchase from France. This action was considered a loose interpretation of the Constitution, which does not provide for the presidential acquisition of territory. While Jefferson was ideologically for a strict interpretation of the Constitution, the excellent opportunity offered by the Louisiana Purchase was too good to pass up.

1. enactment of protective tariffs
2. extension of slavery
3. voting rights for minorities
4. universal public education

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation: All three examples listed were compromises or agreements reached in order to preserve the balance of power in national government between free and slave states as the United States expanded westward in the 1800’s, fulfilling Manifest Destiny.

1. reduced British control of North America
2. focused the United States on westward expansion
3. extended United States control over Mexico
4. decreased tensions with Native American Indians

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation:

1. steps in the growth of American industry
2. methods used to expand the territory of the United States
3. major parts of President Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points
4. causes of the United States entry into the Korean War

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation:

1. the Constitution should be strictly interpreted
2. the federal government should limit individual rights
3. adding territory would lead to regional rivalries
4. commercial development was the main goal of the federal government

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation:

1. the Constitution did not allow restrictions
2. labor unions welcomed the new workers
3. southern landowners needed additional workers
4. the industrial economy was creating new jobs

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

1. allowing states to secede from the Union
2. permitting voters to nullify federal laws
3. deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state
4. overturning unpopular decisions of the Supreme Court

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

1. warm-water ports on the Atlantic coast
2. rich fishing areas in the Great Lakes
3. full control of the Mississippi River
4. vast coal reserves in the region west of Pennsylvania

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

1. need for schools and colleges
2. failure to conserve natural resources
3. expansion of slavery
4. construction of transcontinental railroads

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

1. ending slavery in all the states
2. reducing consumption of alcoholic beverages
3. improving treatment of the mentally ill
4. expanding women’s rights

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

Which heading best completes the partial outline?

1. Foreign Policies of the United States
2. Government Policies Toward Native American Indians
3. Consequences of Manifest Destiny
4. Causes of Sectional Conflict

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation:

1. achieve Northern victory in the Civil War
2. develop the Midwest and western parts of the country
3. improve the lives of freed slaves
4. expand overseas markets to Asia and Europe

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation: The Homestead Act gave free mid-western and western lands to homesteaders who agreed to farm the acreage for five years, the Pacific Railway Act subsidized the construction of transcontinental railroad lines, thereby making the settlement of the west more possible and economically viable as western farmers had access to rail lines for transport of goods and shipment of crops to market.

1. lead to war with Great Britain
2. bankrupt the new nation
3. force Native American Indians off their lands
4. violate his strict constructionist view of the Constitution

Correct Answer Number: 4

Explanation: A strict constructionalist such as Thomas Jefferson would seek to limit the powers of the federal government by allowing only those powers specifically granted in the document. The president is not specifically authorized by the Constitution to acquire territory or expand the nation, as such the purchase would later be re-approved as a treaty negotiated by Jefferson, keeping the acquisition constitutionally acceptable.

1. the start of the Civil War
2. the adoption of the Compromise of 1850
3. increased trade through the Panama Canal
4. control of the United States Senate by the slave states

Correct Answer Number: 2

Explanation: The discovery of gold in Sutter's Mill, California and other precious mineral strikes out west, sparked a gold rush and population boom out west that led to California's growth to statehood in 1850. In the agreement that followed the Compromise of 1850 created California as a free state, enacted a harsh Fugitive Slave Act and introduced popular sovereignty to the western territories.

1. limit the number of immigrants entering the country
2. control the area located east of the Appalachian Mountains
3. expand the United States to the Pacific Ocean
4. warn European countries against colonizing Latin America

Correct Answer Number: 3

Explanation:

1. proslavery and antislavery groups
2. Spanish landowners and new American settlers
3. Chinese and Irish railroad workers
4. Native American Indians and white settlers

Correct Answer Number: 1

Explanation: