APUSH Semester 1 Review

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The exchange of good, crops, and diseases between the Americas (New World) and Europe and Africa (Old World).

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Columbian Exchange

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An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.

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Mercantilism

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Which example best supports Adams’ claim that the revolution was in the minds of the people and not just the war? Options: The Battle of Lexington & Concord because the Revolution only broke out after the colonies had won the war. The Stamp Act because it helped unite the colonies. Shay’s Rebellion because it helped inspire the Constitution. The Boston Tea Party because it forced King George to sign the Declaration of Independence.

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The Stamp Act because it helped unite the colonies.

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Shays' Rebellion

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convinced some political leaders of the necessity of giving more power to the central government.

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Alexander Hamilton's financial plan would most likely benefit... southern planters, urban mercantile interests, French fur traders, western farmers

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urban mercantile interests

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Under the Articles of Confederation the central government had no power to...

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levy taxes

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According to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, who has the power to declare national laws unconstitutional? Options: Congress, the President, States, The Supreme Court

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States

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Women gained more rights during the Second Great Awakening through all of the following except: being admitted to colleges and having all female colleges such as Mt. Holyoke and Troy Female Seminary, gaining notice as reformers in the areas of penal reform and abolitionism, being elected to political office to allow them to advocate for more rights and privileges, being more involved in the religious fervor sweeping the nation at the time, which gave them more of a role in the church hierarchy.

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being elected to political office to allow them to advocate for more rights and privileges

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"Manifest Destiny" represented the widespread American belief that

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God had destined the United States to spread across the whole North American continent

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The immediate cause of the Mexican War was: American refusal to pay Mexican claims for damage to its citizens, Mexican refusal to sell California and a dispute over the Texas boundary, Mexican support for the antislavery movement in Texas, American determination to establish democracy in northern Mexico.

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Mexican refusal to sell California and a dispute over the Texas boundary