Review Benchmark

Abolotionist Harriet B. Stowe wrote a book on the horrors of Slavery and affected the North by

• Help southerners keep their slaves

• Saw it beneficial to continue slavery

• seeing it wrong and wanting to abolish slavery

Congress has the power to create laws on?

• Taxes

• Marriage laws

• Establishing schools

First Continental Congress met to discusss what?

• Stamp Act duty

• Unfairness of the Intolerable Acts

• Lexington and Concord began

• Nothing

President enforces the laws (executive branch)

Congress Creates the laws (legislative branch)

Supreme Court Interprets the laws (judiciary branch)

Each of these is an example of what principle?

• Republicanism

• Seperation of Powers

• Limited government

In 1803 Thomas Jefferson buys land that doubles the size of the U.S., which is called?

• Northwest Territory

• Oklahoma

• Oregon Territory

• Louisiana Purchase

Fifth amendment allows for right to remain silent, against double jeopardy, and????????

• Government can buy your property and build something that goes back to the community

• Reducing political power of Christians

• Government can tax farm land for more revenue

The State of South Carolina wanted to nullify a FEDERAL LAW, it was practicing what?

• Popular Soverignty

• States Rights

• Taxation without Representation

3/5 Compromise dealt with?

• Counting enslaved people for population and taxes

• Abolishing Slavery

• Federalsim

• Creating bicameral legislature

Keeping English traditions created what in the U.S. Constitution?

• Declaration of Indpendence

• BIll of Rights

• Farewell Address

Who was a reformer for Jails and asylums (mental health)?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Dorthea Dix

• Harriet B.Stowe