Va/US History Exam (goals: 1 through 15)

What drove the increase in the number of enslaved Africans coming to the Americas during the 1600s?

• The promise of freedom
• The increasing need for workers on plantations
• The decreasing use of labor in Europe
• Industrialization

Enslaved African Americans became a foundation of the agricultural economy in the —

• Southern colonies
• middle colonies
• Southern and middle colonies
•  New England colonies

The Great Awakening of the mid-1700s led to —

• laws that protected individual rights
• a movement to increase public education
• an increase in the number of evangelical religions
• the Salem witch trials

The taking of the Philippines does not violate the principles of the Declaration of Independence, but will spread them among a people who have never known liberty and who in a few years will be unwilling to leave the shelter of the American flag. …The form of government natural to the Asiatic has always been despotism. … [T]o abandon those islands is to leave them to anarchy, [and] to short-lived military dictatorships. …— Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, March 1900
I wanted the American eagle to go screaming into the Pacific. It seemed tiresome and tame for it to content itself with the Rockies. Why not spread its wings over the Philippines, I asked myself? And I thought it would be a real good thing to do. … But I have thought some more, since then, and I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. … And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.— Mark Twain, October 1900
Lodge and Twain disagreed about ??—

•  the nature of Asian governments
• whether the United States should annex the Philippines
• the treaty of Paris
•  whether to free the Filipino population

Which of the following conclusions about the Mexican-American War does the map support?

• Mexican forces won several battles on U.S. soil during the war.
• U.S. forces advanced deep inside Mexican territory during the war.
• The war lasted for several years and produced no clear winner.
• Most of the fighting in the war occurred within the borders of Texas.

How did the economy of the New England colonies differ from those of the middle and Southern colonies?

• It was based on very small-scale farming.
• Only artisans were successful.
• It did not prosper.
• There was no subsistence farming.

Thomas Paine was the author of

• The Social Contract
• the Declaration of Independence
• Common Sense
• "Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death"

Which event happened first? (after the French and Indian War)

• The First Continental Congress
• Publication of Common Sense
• The Boston Tea Party
• Increased taxation

How did John Locke influence the American Revolution?

• His ideas were used in the Declaration of Independence to justify revolution.
• His ideas were used to govern the First Continental Congress.
• His ideas were used to justify higher taxes after the French and Indian War.
• His ideas were used to write the Articles of Confederation.

Which of the following prevented settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains following the French and Indian war?

• The Treaty of Paris
• The Proclamation of 1763
• The Treaty of Alliance
• The Battle of Kaskaskia