Unit 3 and Unit Four Practice Quiz

Describe the life that Anglo(white) women had about the time of the American Revolution. What could they do, what expectation were placed on them?

Was Andrew Jackson a good president or a bad one? Take a position and back it up with evidence.

What was the life like as a slave? How were you treated and how did you act? What kinds of work systems did you live under?

What did the Proclamation of 1763 do(mark all that apply)

• Forbid the American colonists for claiming land west of the Appalachian mountains

• Made any treaties with Native Americans have a royal representative present

• Split the American colonies into a North and South

• Forbid slavery throughout the American colonies

• made the colonies start paying taxes to help pay for the war

Having studied accounts of the event at Lexington Green which of the following statements are true(mark all that apply)

• The Americans are to blame for firing first

• The British are to blame for firing first

• Nobody knows who fired first

• The diary account of John Barker is most likely the best since he has little reason to lie.

• The testimony of Emma Frye was the best because she got the account from her husband

A women lost her legal identity when she got married. This was called:

• Matrilineal

• Marrying the village idiot

• Dowry

• Coverture

• The Right of Husband and Society

What was the effect of the cotton gin?(mark all that apply)

• Increased the desire for more land in the South

• Increased the need for more railroads in the North

• Decreased the need for more slaves

• Increased the desire for more slaves

• Decreased the export of manufactured good to England

What philosophy drove the US into a conflict with Mexico

• Finding the Northwest Passage

• Puritanism

• Manifest Destiny

• Bringing civilization to lesser people

• The Gold Rush of 1848

What percentage of slaves who were captured in Africa, would make it alive to the New World?

• 20 percent

• 30 percent

• 40 percent

• 50 percent

• 60 percent

What was the impact of the California gold rush?(mark all that apply)

• It brought thousands of men from all over the world quickly into California

• It helped to lead to a genocide of Native Americans living in California

• It started a war with Mexico

• It led to a ecological disaster that we still live with today

• It helped to fund the industrial expansion of the North