Quiz Me! - All Categories Test your knowledge about all categories in all eras. 1 / 10 What was the main goal of the temperance movement? To ensure ensure equal rights for women including the vote To protect lands from being taken from indigenous tribes To protect prisoners who suffered from mental illness To prevent the effects alcohol abuse by banning alcohol 2 / 10 Why did Jackson veto the recharter of the Second Bank of the United States? Many of his supporters owned state banks. He wanted to show his authority over Congress. He hated the bank and wanted to destroy it. He believed U.S. citizens wanted the bank shut down. 3 / 10 He was a physician who treated John and Abigail Adams for yellow fever. Upon hearing about his death in 1813, John Adams reflected, “I know of no character living or dead who has done more real good for his country.” Benjamin Rush Thomas Paine John Dickenson Samuel Adams 4 / 10 Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a political philosopher who argued that man was essentially good, but degraded into cruelty without laws. This was referred to as being a what? A human A noble savage A caveman An aristocrat 5 / 10 What was the purpose of the letters from a farmer in Pennsylvania? To gain support or new farming policies in the colonies. To urge the colonists to declare independence from England. To document how the American Revolution was going in Pennsylvania. To urge the colonists to resist the economic policies of England and to work towards reconciliation through petitions. 6 / 10 Why was the removal of Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Choctaw tribes called the Trail of Tears? The tribes fought amongst themselves over territory. The tribes were forced from their lands in the middle of winter. The tribes were given blankets infected with smallpox. Thousands of their people died moving from Oklahoma to Utah. 7 / 10 Which explains how Abraham Lincoln won the presidential election of 1860? Abraham Lincoln had won over a majority of the people’s votes by his eloquent campaign speeches. Abraham Lincoln outlined a logical plan to gradually end slavery in the United States. Americans were ready to end take the steps necessary to end slavery in the United States. The Democrats split their votes between two candidates-one from the North and another from the South. 8 / 10 In Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address, he asserted that… The south was trying to cause a civil war to settle the issue of slavery Slavery should be abolished Congress had the authority to control slavery in new territories, but not the power to free slaves in states where it already existed Republicans would not attempt to impose abolitionist policies in the expanding territories 9 / 10 The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were passed in response to which law? Bill of Rights The Judiciary Act The Whiskey Tax The Sedition Act 10 / 10 Who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act and later ran and won reelection to his Senate seat against Abraham Lincoln? Daniel Webster Stephen Douglas Henry Clay John C. Calhoun Your score is Restart quiz
