AMERICAN HERITAGE EXAM #2 UPDATED ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Dred Scott
Answer:
Slave who ran away to the northern free states after his master died
Sued the gvt for his freedom and lost; Taney ruled against him and claimed that all
slaves are property not people in an effort to answer the slavery question once
and for all
Supreme court case Scott vs Sandford
Question:
2. "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Answer:
Fredrick Douglas
Question:
3. John Bell
Answer:
Candidate for Presidential election of 1860 that took no stance of the issue or
slavery
Question:
4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Answer:
Commander of the 20 Maine Unit in the Union Army
20 ME unit pushes Confederates back down the hill with bayonets to win the
crucial Battle of Gettysburg
Prime example of how a pivotal moment in history hinges on the bravery and
valor of a few men
Question:
5. William Patterson
Answer:
Proposed the New Jersey Plan
,Question:
6. Roger Sherman
Answer:
Author and proposer of the Great Compromise of the Connecticut Compromise
(seeing as he was from Connecticut)
Question:
7. James McPherson
Answer:
"Why the Civil War Still Matters Today"
Creator of the terms negative and positive liberty
Question:
8. Stephen A Douglas
Answer:
Candidate for Presidential Election of 1860 that wanted to let the issue of slavery
be decided by popular sovereignty
Question:
9. Samuel Adams
Answer:
Opposed to strong federal government
Concerned with the Constitutional government being too aristocratic/removed
from the people
Question:
10. John C. Breckenridge
Answer:
Pro slavery candidate for Presidential election of 1860 from Kentucky
Question:
11. Schattschneider
Answer:
Modern democracy created by political parties
Question:
12. John C. Calhoun
Answer:
Slavery was the basis for free institutions
, Question:
13. George Fitzhugh
Answer:
Pro slavery
Free slaves in the north are "slaves without the rights of slaves"
Interests of labor and capital brought together with slavery
Masters grow to love their slaves because they live so closely together/bring
them profit
Claims that all men aren't equal and that the Declaration of Independence is
therefore wrong
Question:
14. John Adams
Answer:
We need better structure and institutions
Bicameral legislature
Don't depend on legislator
Massachusetts constitution
Agrees with Antifederalists; a Bill of Rights is necessary
Marbury vs. Madison (Judicial Review)
Federalist party
Question:
15. James Madison
Answer:
Believed state government could pose as a threat
Believed that it is the people who are and cause the problems
Says that the states don't cooperate together or respect the national government
Says that we need coercion in the government of confederacy
Disagrees with Anti-Federalists; says that large republic is better and diversity is
good (wants a large republic)
Wrote Federalists 10 and 51
Believes that conflicts control factions- focuses on institutional structure
Believes that we should change our institutional structure, the branches of
government, so that people don't only act on self-interest
Question:
16. Problems with states
Answer:
Multiplicity of laws
Mutability of laws
Injustice of laws
Impotence of laws
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Dred Scott
Answer:
Slave who ran away to the northern free states after his master died
Sued the gvt for his freedom and lost; Taney ruled against him and claimed that all
slaves are property not people in an effort to answer the slavery question once
and for all
Supreme court case Scott vs Sandford
Question:
2. "What to a Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Answer:
Fredrick Douglas
Question:
3. John Bell
Answer:
Candidate for Presidential election of 1860 that took no stance of the issue or
slavery
Question:
4. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Answer:
Commander of the 20 Maine Unit in the Union Army
20 ME unit pushes Confederates back down the hill with bayonets to win the
crucial Battle of Gettysburg
Prime example of how a pivotal moment in history hinges on the bravery and
valor of a few men
Question:
5. William Patterson
Answer:
Proposed the New Jersey Plan
,Question:
6. Roger Sherman
Answer:
Author and proposer of the Great Compromise of the Connecticut Compromise
(seeing as he was from Connecticut)
Question:
7. James McPherson
Answer:
"Why the Civil War Still Matters Today"
Creator of the terms negative and positive liberty
Question:
8. Stephen A Douglas
Answer:
Candidate for Presidential Election of 1860 that wanted to let the issue of slavery
be decided by popular sovereignty
Question:
9. Samuel Adams
Answer:
Opposed to strong federal government
Concerned with the Constitutional government being too aristocratic/removed
from the people
Question:
10. John C. Breckenridge
Answer:
Pro slavery candidate for Presidential election of 1860 from Kentucky
Question:
11. Schattschneider
Answer:
Modern democracy created by political parties
Question:
12. John C. Calhoun
Answer:
Slavery was the basis for free institutions
, Question:
13. George Fitzhugh
Answer:
Pro slavery
Free slaves in the north are "slaves without the rights of slaves"
Interests of labor and capital brought together with slavery
Masters grow to love their slaves because they live so closely together/bring
them profit
Claims that all men aren't equal and that the Declaration of Independence is
therefore wrong
Question:
14. John Adams
Answer:
We need better structure and institutions
Bicameral legislature
Don't depend on legislator
Massachusetts constitution
Agrees with Antifederalists; a Bill of Rights is necessary
Marbury vs. Madison (Judicial Review)
Federalist party
Question:
15. James Madison
Answer:
Believed state government could pose as a threat
Believed that it is the people who are and cause the problems
Says that the states don't cooperate together or respect the national government
Says that we need coercion in the government of confederacy
Disagrees with Anti-Federalists; says that large republic is better and diversity is
good (wants a large republic)
Wrote Federalists 10 and 51
Believes that conflicts control factions- focuses on institutional structure
Believes that we should change our institutional structure, the branches of
government, so that people don't only act on self-interest
Question:
16. Problems with states
Answer:
Multiplicity of laws
Mutability of laws
Injustice of laws
Impotence of laws
