When a single company achieves control of an entire market, it is known as

The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they ____ for five years.

The Comstock Lode was a rich deposit of

The French nobleman who became an important member of General Washington’s staff was

General Burgoyne’s plan at the Battle of Saratoga failed because

Who led a military expedition to secure the Illinois Country?

Who is the author of Common Sense?

After the Revolutionary War, the United States was granted

During which battle did Washington cross the Delaware?

The Loyalists were also known as

Who was chosen to command the Continental Army?

The battle that effectively ended the war was

Who did most of the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence?

All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles EXCEPT

Which of the following powers is NOT given to the national government by the Constitution?

Which of the following helped cause the depression that started in 1784?

Which of the following powers is NOT given to the states by the Constitution?

The Virginia Plan

The most powerful restriction on presidential authority is the legal process of

Which of the following is an example of a concurrent power?

Which of the following statements applies to the Great Compromise?

Which one of these people was NOT a Federalist?

Federal judges

Since 1789 the Constitution has been amended

The judicial branch has the power to

During the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing shifted from hand tools to

Cities grew in the United States during industrialization because

A cotton gin

John Quincy Adams won the presidency in 1824 because

After the 1824 election, supporters of Jackson labeled themselves as Democrats, while Clay and his supporters formed a new party called the

In the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819, Spain

What transportation project from Albany to Buffalo was completed in 1825?

The laws for establishing corporations passed by states beginning in the 1830s

In the 1800s, workers in New England’s textile mills

Which class made up most of the white population in the South?

In his inaugural address, President Andrew Jackson declared his intention to

President Jackson supported the spoils system because he believed that it

At the time President Jackson took office, the Second Bank of the United States played an important role in

While most Irish immigrants arriving in the United States between 1815 and 1860 had no money and few marketable skills, immigrants from Germany generally

The new revivalism of the early 1800s rejected the idea that

As a result of the efforts of Dorothea Dix and other reformers, more than a dozen states enacted sweeping prison reforms during the 1840s and created special institutions for

The set of ideas known as “true womanhood” evolved from the belief that women should be homemakers and should take responsibility for

In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement drew strength from the Second Great Awakening because abolitionists saw slavery as

Abolitionists argued that enslaved African Americans should be freed

Many Southerners saw abolitionism as an attack on their way of life and defended the institution of slavery because they

First used in 1845, the term “Manifest Destiny” referred to the idea that God had given the continent to Americans and that

In the 1830s, inventions such as the mechanical reaper and a plow with sharp-edged steel blades that cut cleanly through sod allowed settlers in the Midwest to

Early travelers emigrating to the West feared attacks by Native American warriors, but in fact Native Americans

For the far northern territories of California, New Mexico, and Texas, Mexico’s independence from Spain in 1821 was followed by

After Mexican independence, American influence in the borderlands

Under the National Colonization Act, Mexico gave 26 empresarios large grants of Texas land in exchange for a promise to

Mexico closed its borders to further immigration by Americans in 1830, a move that angered settlers in Texas because

The Battle of ____________________ in April 1836 marked the end of Texas’s War for Independence.

In the 1844 presidential race, winning candidate James K. Polk promised to

In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Mexico ceded about 500,000 square miles of territory to the United States, and the United States agreed to

To receive a pardon under Lincoln’s Reconstruction plan, Southerners had to take an oath of loyalty to the United States and

President Johnson challenged the Tenure of Office Act by

Originally, the goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to

Democrats charged that using “sin taxes” to pay off bonds favored the rich because

Reconstruction ended when

The ____________ was a secret society, started in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866 by former Confederate soldiers that rapidly spread throughout the South.

By late 1870, all of the former Confederate states had rejoined the Union under the

Many scalawags who did not want the wealthy planters to regain power were owners of small

What was the overall purpose of black codes passed by the new Southern legislatures?

The “long drive” was when:

What effect did the use of barbed wire to fence off land on the open range have on cattle ranching?

After ore deposits near the surface dwindled, mining corporations began using

People using the phrase “Pikes Peak or Bust!” were

Which of the following was a hardship faced by settlers on the Great Plains?

Before the Sand Creek Massacre, the Cheyenne had come to Fort Lyon to

The confrontation at Wounded Knee occurred because the chief’s followers

Many Mexican Americans lost their lands in the West because