Questions for The Midterm

Question 1

How were the AoC weak?

Answer 1

too weak to enforce their own laws and couldnt pay back the debt

Question 2

Federalist & Anti-Federalists

Answer 2

favored a strong central government & anti-federalists supported a weak gov’t.

Question 3

Dread Scott v Sanford

Answer 3

Court held that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens.

Question 4

How did the Judicial Review come to be?

Answer 4

Marbury v Madison

Question 5

13th Amendment

Answer 5

Abolished Slavery

Question 6

14th Amendment

Answer 6

granted citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” which included former slaves recently freed.

Question 7

15th Amendment

Answer 7

Gave Blacks the right to vote

Question 8

18th Amendment

Answer 8

Prohibited Alcohol

Question 9

19th Amendment

Answer 9

Gave Women the right to vote

Question 10

21st Amendment

Answer 10

Repealed the 18th amendment; alcohol was legal

Question 11

Census

Answer 11

determines the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives, mandated in the constitution

Question 12

Tariff of 1828

Answer 12

Designed to protect the Industry in the Northern States