CLEP US History 1 Exam Questions with Correct Answers

CLEP US History 1 Exam Questions with Correct Answers The Line of Demarcation - Answer-The line by the Pope to dived the world in half. Giving one half to Spain and the other the Portugal. The Spanish convinced to Pope to do this because both countries wanted to colonize but Portugal was the super power of the sea. Treaty of Tordesillas - Answer-A 1494 agreement between portugal and spain, moving the Line of Demarcation farther west. Henry Clay - Answer-Engineered the Missouri Compromise The Missouri Compromise of 1820 - Answer-This maintained the balance of slave and free states by bringing in Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It sought to diffuse slavery as an issue in westward expansion by prohibiting slavery north of latitude 36°30', but it said nothing about popular sovereignty south of that line. "We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists." Was said by? - Answer-Thomas Jefferson, following the heated elections of 1800. The Treaty of Paris 1783 (four main parts) - Answer-Britain recognizes independence of the U.S.; boundaries of the new nation are established; American ships are given unlimited fishing rights; creditors of either side would be unimpeded in the collection of lawful debts; the U.S. would compensate loyalists whose property had been confiscated Freeport Doctrine - Answer-In a Douglas vs. Lincoln debate, this was Stephen Douglas's said that slavery could be prevented from any territory by the refusal of the people living in that territory to pass laws favorable to slavery. Likewise, if the people of the territory supported slavery, legislation would provide for its continued existence. He didn't want to go against the Supreme Court and say it couldn't be continued into the territories but he also didn't want to anger southerners.