APUSH Review

The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most important for the future United States was

• Santa Fe

• Quebec

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Jamestown

The financial means for England’s first permanent colonization in America were provided by

• a joint-stock company.

• a royal proprietor.

• Queen Elizabeth II.

• the law of primogeniture.

Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because

• they had neither weapons nor fishing gear.

• their fear of Indians prevented them from venturing too far from the town.

• they wasted time looking for gold.

• they lacked leaders to organize efficient hunting and fishing parties.

For blacks, emancipation meant all of the following except

• that large numbers would move north.

• the opportunity to form their own churches.

• the right to get married.

• e ability to search for lost family

The greatest achievements of the Freedmen’s Bureau were in

• its distribution of land.

• education.

• the provision of food and clothing.

• helping people to find employment.

The white South viewed the Freedmen’s Bureau as

• a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.

• an agency acceptable only because it also helped poor whites

• a valued partner in rebuilding the South.

• a threat to state social service agencies.

In President Andrew Johnson’s view, the Freedmen’s Bureau was

• a valuable agency.

• acceptable only because it also helped poor whites.

• a potential source of Republican patronage jobs

• an agency that should be killed.

The main purpose of the Black Codes was to

• guarantee freedom for the blacks

• ensure a stable labor supply.

• allow blacks to marry.

• prevent blacks from becoming sharecroppers.

The nomination of James K. Polk as the Democrats’ 1844 presidential candidate was secured by

• expansionists.

• anti-Texas southerners.

• Henry Clay.

• proslavery forces.

The most important outcome of the Revolution for white women was that they

• permanently gained the right to vote.

• were allowed to serve in the national legislature.

• were elevated to a newly prestigious role as special keepers of the nation’s conscience.

• finally gained fully equal status with white males.