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American History EOC Test Review
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1. What slogan was used by Patriots to show their anger with King George III?

2. What branch of government interprets the laws?

3. Before the Civil War, what was the main cash crop grown in the South?

4. What land acquisition, bought in 1803, nearly doubled the size of the United States?

5. What event exposed the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation?

6. Who was the American president during the Civil War?

7. What agreement set the boundary between free and slave states at the 36 degree 30 minute parallel?

8. What agreement resulted from the debate about state populations in the US Constitution

9. What part of the government serves 6 year terms with 1/3 being elected every 2 years?

10. The 49th parallel divided what territory between the US and Britain?

11. In what battle did the British surrender to the Patriots to end the Revolutionary War?

12. What area of the United States relied mostly on cash crops for its economy?

13. What were colonists who sided with the British during the Revolutionary War called?

14. What early explorer was the first to land in the West Indies at San Salvador?

15. What happened to most of the Native American groups that fought the Spanish Conquistadors?

16. What was the primary reason the British government began taxing American colonists?

17. How does the government primarily raise money for its use?

18. The Missouri Compromise preserved the balance between free and slave states with the admission of what two states?

19. What is a tax on imports called?

20. What branch of government enforces the laws?

21. Because of differences in state laws, many early American leaders wanted to shift power from the states to what?

22. What Supreme Court power was acknowledged in the court's decision of Marbury v. Madison?

23. Reconstruction is sometimes considered unsuccessful because Southern states enacted what laws to control African American lives?

24. Why did the Emancipation Proclamation not free all of the slaves?

25. The Bill of Rights follows what part of the US Constitution?