“The great and leading principle is, that the General Government emanated from the people of the several states, forming distinct political communities, and acting in their separate and sovereign capacity, and not from all the people forming one aggregate political community; that the Constitution of the United States is, in fact, a compact, to which each state is a Party, . . . and that the several states, or parties, have the right to judge of its infractions. . .I conceive to be the fundamental principle of our system, resting on facts as certain as our revolution itself, . . . and I firmly believe that on its recognition depend the stability and safety of our political institutions.”                                                                         John C. Calhoun, Address to the Southern States, 1831 Which of the following groups would have been most likely to applaud the sentiments expressed by Calhoun?  

  The Manhattan Project

Most Progressives saw World War I as a golden opportunity because 

  By the end of the nineteenth century, African American men in the South

“The existence of chattel slavery in a nation that claimed to be Christian, and the use of Christianity to justify enslavement, confronted black Evangelicals [Protestants] with a basic dilemma, which may be most clearly formulated in two questions: What meaning did Christianity, if it were a white man’s religion, as it seemed, have for blacks; and, why did the Christian God, if he were just as claimed, permit blacks to suffer so?  In struggling to answer these questions, a significant number of Afro-Americans developed a distinctive evangelical tradition in which they established meaning and identity for themselves as individuals and as people.  Simultaneously, they made an indispensable contribution to the development of American Evangelicalism.”                                             Albert J. Raboteau, historian, African American Religion, 1997   The development described by Raboteau most directly illustrates which of the following trends in US history?  

As the West grew increasingly integrated with the national economy, the lives of Plains Indians permanently changed. How did the government respond to the conflict that arose from Indians who resisted these changes? 

  Which of the following is true about the Red Scare of 1919–1920?

President Johnson’s The Great Society

“A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection.”                                                                                                                                                                                                               Alexander Hamilton “I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people.”                                                                                                                                       Thomas Jefferson   Which of the following developments most strongly contradicted the ideas expressed in Jefferson’s statement?

“A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection.”                                                                                                                                                                                                               Alexander Hamilton “I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people.”                                                                                                                                       Thomas Jefferson   Which of the following was the most direct result of the ideas expressed in the quotes above?