Unit 7 Assessment

Question 1

The following words (strategy, guide, plan, course of action) are similar in meaning to this term

Answer 1

Policy

Question 2

Which trend is evident concerning the number of enslaved people within the U.S. in the decades prior to the Civil War?

Answer 2

The number steadily increases over time.

Question 3

This is how the issue of slavery was handled during the era of the Age of Jackson

Answer 3

As the slave population continued to expand, southern states grew more economically dependent on slavery and acted silent to criticism.

Question 4

How was the South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification of 1832 a defense of states’ rights?

Answer 4

Federal taxes