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What are Anti-federalists?
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The Anti-Federalists did not support the consitution
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What were the federalists?
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The federalists were for teh consitution.
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According to the Federalists, What were the reasons for the Problems in the Nation?
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Problems with the Nation were linked to a weak confederation
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who were some of the Main Federalists?
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Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Marshall
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Who were the federalists supported by?
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Washington and Franklin
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Why didin't the Anti-Federalists like the Constitution?
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They viewed the Constitution as a radically centralizing document that would destry American Liberty
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Were the Anti-federalists for or against a strong central government?
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Against
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Who were the major Anti-federalists?
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Henry, Monroe, Hancock, Adams
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Which wanted a Bill of Rights?
_Anti-Federalists _Federalists |
Anti-Federalists
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What is Sattire?
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Making fun of Society with the hopes of bringing about change or realism
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Who Bought the Louisiana Purchase?
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Thomas Jefferson from Napolean
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Who did France recieve Louisiana from?
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Spain
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How much was Louisiana Bought for?
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15 mil. dollars
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what were the states that were formed from the Louisiana Purchase?
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Lousisana, Arkansas, Misouri, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana
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What were the conditions of the Missouri Compromise?
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Main becomes a Free State and Missouri becomes a Slave state. Also an Arbitrary line dividing slavery between North and SOuth (not including Missouri)
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Before the Louisiana Purchase, how many free and slave states were there?
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11
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who negociated the Treaty for Flordia?
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john Adams
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Which were the MOST influincial part of the westward expansion?
Canals Railroads Major Rivers |
Railroads
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Was Walt Whitman a Transendintalist?
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No
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Who is credited with inventing Free-Verse?
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Walt Whitman
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Who was the founder of the Transindentalists club?
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Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller
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Did the Transindentalists believe in following laws?
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Yes and NO, They believed in questioning authortiy
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What is an Aphorism?
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a breif statement that exoresses a principal or truth about life
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What did the Transindentalists believe in?
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they believed in "questioning authority", that "things are because they are" that "Truth exists beyond reason" and that every indavidual is capable of discovering the higher truth through intuition
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Did the Transindintalists believe in slavery?
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NO
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What was Henry David Threau famous for?
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Removing himself form society & becoming compleatly self-reliant. He considered societie's values materialistic
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What is a paradox?
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a statement that seems to contridict itself
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Why did Texas remove itself from Mexico?
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because the Mexican Government wanted to remove slavery
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Why did the North not want Texas to join the union?
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because Texas supported slavery and it was a large amount of land so many slave states could come from that land makeing slvery have the higher numbers
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What brought about the Compromise of 1850?
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the Mexican American War, The Calefornia Gold Rush, and Oregonm County
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What were the conditions of the compromise of 1850?
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_Free state
_NM territory created _Utah Territory created _Utah and NM could decided the slve issue by popular sovrenty _Slavery abolished in Washinton _The fugative Slave laws |
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What is the definition of Romanticism?
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A movement in the arts were writers glorified nature and celebrated individuality and the supernatural
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Why is Washinton Irving an inportant writer of his time?
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he put America on the Literary Map by pioneering humorous writing and short stories as a literary form
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Why did publishers refuse to publish Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass"
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because it was too raunchy
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Why did Frederick Douglass Write his Auto-Biography?
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Because people did not believe that such an educated man could have ever been a slave
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Which of the following statements concerning the Nissouri Compromise is NOT valid?
A- The Missouri Compromise permanently settled the issue of slavery in new states B- The Missouri Compromise was unlike the compromises made at the Consitutional convention. C-The Missouri Compromise maintained the North-South balance of power in the senate. D- Thomas Jefferson was critical of the Compromise |
A
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How did the United States purchase Flordia?
A- the result of a war B- purchased from Spain C- Purchased from England D-Part of the Loisiana Purcahse |
B
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Which was NOT a provision of the Missouri Compromise?
A- Missouri was admitted to the Union as a slave state B- Slavery was forbidden North of 36 degrees 30 minutes, except Missouri C- For each slave state admitted to the Union, in the future, a free state had to be admitted D- Maine was to be admitted into the Union as a free state |
C
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Whicg of the following expanded the instiution of slavery?
A- Moral objections B- the decline in the price of tobacco C- the invention of the cotton gin D- outlawinf of slavery in the Norh |
C
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The cheif significance of the Louisiana Purcahse was that it
A- cost so little B-assured american control of the mississippi C- made war with France unneccary D- stregnthened the federalists party |
B
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The Louisiana Purcahse
A- doubled the size of America B- forced Jefferson to reverse his interpretation of the consitution C- was strongly supported by the fed. party D- both A & B |
D
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Lewis and Clark reached the rockies by following the
A-oregon trail B-Colorado river C- Missouri river D- Platt River |
C
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Which political Party was formed to oppose the extention of slavery?
A-Republican B-Democrat C-Know-Nothings D- Whig |
A
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Which political party was formed to oppose the growing political power of immagrants?
A-Republcan B-Democrate C-Know-nothings D-Whig |
C
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Which was NOT a point made in the Dred Scott decision?
A- The missouri Compromise was Void B-Slaves were not citizens C- Congress could not restrict slvery in the territories D- A slave taken into a free state becaome free |
D
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