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Which of the following were native to North America before Columbus arrived?
Horses and pumpkins
Maize and squash
Dandelions and clover
Oranges and sweet potatoes
Rice and potatoes
During the Age of Exploration most super power countries in Europe searched for gold and silver in the Americas and what from Asia?
Cotton and Materials
Copper and Whiskey
Silk and Spices
Technology for Better Mapping
Bronze and Weapons
Which of the following is true of White women in the British North American colonies?
They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage.
They were considered politically and socially equal to their husbands.
They were eligible to run for political office.
They were allowed to be ordained as ministers.
They were eligible to work as teachers in public schools.
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening in the American colonies during the mid-eighteenth century?
More accessible, democratized piety caused separatism and secession from established churches
The growth of institutions of higher learning to fill the need for more ministers to spread the gospel
Heightened interest in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft
More intensive religious devotion caused the missionary spirit to flourish
The lessening of doctrinal rigor and a concomitant appreciation for more direct experiences of faith
In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the following to England?
Cattle
Tobacco
Tea
Cotton
Coffee
Seventeenth-century Puritans and Quakers differed primarily over the
divinity of Jesus
importance of charity work
notion of predestination
celebration of Christmas
consumption of alcohol
Which of the following best describes the American Colonization Society?
It helped provide jobs for African Americans building the Panama Canal.
Militant abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass supported it.
Large numbers of African Americans in the 1850s and 1860s supported it.
It promoted the settling of free African Americans from the United States to Africa
It developed the concept of Manifest Destiny in the 1830s and 1840s.
Anne Hutchinson and her followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because
Hutchinson had been convicted of adultery
they attempted to overthrow the colony’s elected government
their advocacy of the banning of alcohol put them at odds with the rest of the colonists
their support of the English monarchy made them enemies with the Revolutionary leaders in Boston
Hutchinson’s religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church
Why was it possible for England to establish successful colonies by 1700s?
Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals
Because the Indians assisted them without resistance
Because the British had imposed their currency in the colonies
Because they owned more slaves during that time period
None of the above
American Mercantilism in the mid-seventeenth century was the idea of the…
British
French
Native Americans
Spanish
Portuguese
John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as “a city upon a hill.” But first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the Puritans’
reaction to unsuccessful socialist experiments in the Netherlands
acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks
intention to vest political power exclusively in the ministers
desire to better themselves economically through means that included the institution of slavery
desire to better themselves economically through means that included the institution of slavery
The French and Indian War led Great Britain to
encourage manufacturing in its North American colonies
impose revenue taxes on its North American colonies
restrict emigration to North America
ignore its North American colonies
grant increased self-government to its North American colonies
Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia?
(A) It was forced on reluctant White Virginians by profit-minded English merchants and the mercantilist officials of the Crown.
(B) It was the first time Europeans enslaved African people.
(C) It fulfilled the original plans of the Virginia Company.
(E) It spread rapidly in the late-seventeenth century, as enslaved Africans replaced European indentured
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were written to
(A) record the soil, climate, and profitable crops in the Pennsylvania colony
(B) chronicle the history of William Penn’s colonization efforts
(C) argue against the power of Parliament to tax the colonists without representation correct
(D) petition King George III for colonial representation in Parliament
“No Person or Persons, inhabiting in this Province or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; . . . shall be in any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or their conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or their Mind.”
The excerpt above is from the charter of which of the following English colonies?
Plymouth
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Bay
Jamestown
All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families EXCEPT?
a hierarchical institution in which the father represented the source of authority
a place that sheltered men from the workplace
a social institution that cared for the needy and the poor
a social institution that provided vocational training
a basic farming unit
Under the Articles of Confederation, which of the following was true about the national government?
(A) It had the power to conduct foreign affairs. correct
(B) It had the power to regulate commerce.
(C) It had a bicameral legislature.
(D) It had an independent executive branch.
During the Colonial Period, which of the following was the staple crop in Virginia?
Sugar
Corn
Cotton
Tobacco
Roger Williams defended liberty of conscience on the grounds that
all religions were equal in the eyes of the Creator
the institutions of political democracy would be jeopardized without it
Puritan ideas about sin and salvation were outmoded
theological truths would emerge from the clash of ideas
the state should not interfere in church matters
Which of the following was a renowned African American poet in New England in the late-eighteenth century?
Benjamin Banneker
Lemuel Haynes
Phillis Wheatley
Gabriel Prosser
Sojourner Truth
What was the main focus of The Great Awakening?
Freedom
Land Ownership
Employment
Religion
This put an important spin in the society, America’s religious communities during this time were divided from the Old believers to the New:
The Great Awakening correct
The Gilded Age
The Renaissance
The Enlightenment
What time era did the Salem Witch trail take place
1543-1564
1693-1696
1692-1697
1000-Present day
1712-1718
What decades did the Great Awakening happen?
1780-1800
1750-1770
1690-1710
1720-1740
What treaty was between Spain and Portugal sating that Portugal will geta land to the west
Treaty of Quesadillas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Portugal
Treaty of land west
What was the treaty of Paris(1763) for?
To end the hostilities between England and France
To Start a war between the Native Americans and England
To start a war between England and France
To start a war between France and the Native Americans
Who was the first European explorer to see the Pacific ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
Christopher Columbus
King Phillip
Charles Rivers
John Hancock
What two companies from England traded with Russia, the Middle East, and sometimes Africa.
Charles River, James Stryker company
Virginia company of London, Virginia Company of Plymouth
St Lawrence company, Up John
Walmarte, Taco Bellair
what was Spain's army called
They had no army
The Spaniards
The Conquistadors
The Spanish infantry
What was the Heirarchy ranking
The worst possible way of death
how they ranked prisoners
Ranking in a family based on authority
Ranking based on your job
Which of the following best describes the United States position in the world economy during the period 1790–1860?
It relied heavily on European capital for its economic expansion.
It was the leading producer of finished and manufactured goods for export.
It had an inadequate merchant marine and depended largely on foreign vessels to carry its trade.
It was strengthened by the acquisition of overseas colonies.
It was severely hampered by its reliance on slave labor.
By the time of the American Revolution, many American colonists had generally come to believe that the creation of a republic would solve the problems of monarchical rule because a republic would establish
a highly centralized government led by a social elite
a strong chief executive
a small, limited government responsible to the people correct
unlimited male suffrage
a society in which there were no differences of rank and status
Under the Articles of Confederation, which of the following was true about the national government?
(A) It had the power to conduct foreign affairs.
(B) It had the power to regulate commerce.
(C) It had a bicameral legislature.
(D) It had an independent executive branch.
Which of the following is NOT part of the Treaty of Paris of 1783:
The United States was recognized as an independent nation by the major European powers, including Britain
France would provide aid to the United States to form a government
Britain would retain Canada but has to surrender Florida to Spain
The western boundary would be set by the Mississippi River
Private British creditors would be free to collect any debts owed by US citizens
Which of the following is a correct statement regarding Benjamin Franklin?
He founded the Bank of the United States
He authored the Articles of Confederation.
He authored the Bill of Rights.
He helped to negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783.
Which of the following is true about the American victory at Saratoga in October 1777 during the Revolutionary War?
It enabled George Washington to recapture New York City.
It led Congress to declare independence.
It caused the British to evacuate Boston.
It helped convince France to enter the war.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. —That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,—That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”
The Declaration of Independence
The author of the passage above was influenced by the writings of
John Locke’s Second Treatise on Government
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
David Hume’s Of Civil Liberty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract
Pierre-Joseph Proundhon’s An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government
Before it was called the US Constitution, the original name of the document was known as
Articles of Confederation correct
The Bill of Rights
Parliamentary Procedures
Acts of Parliament
Articles of New Government
Why did Congress feel that the Articles of Confederation was a weak document?
Because it was missing taxation clause
Because it did not illustrate federal powers but more state sovereignty
Because it did not have a judicial branch
Because it did not focus on foreign affairs
The present King of Great Britain . . . has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws.
The protest that the king had “combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution” referred to George III’s
alliance with the king of France
use of Hessian mercenaries
reliance on his representatives in the colonies
approval of parliamentary laws impinging on colonial self-government
approval of parliamentary laws impinging on colonial self-government
Which of the following amendment that prohibits slavery or involuntary servitude?
The 5th Amendment
The 1st Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 14th Amendment
The 13th Amendment
The Federalist Party’s political perspective was characterized by which of the following beliefs about the central government?
It should have very few powers over the states.
It should pursue closer relations with France rather than with Britain.
It should provide aid to western farmers.
It should encourage economic development.
The issue of constitutionality figured most prominently in the consideration of which of the following?
(A) Tariff of 1789
(B) First Bank of the United States
(C) Funding of the national debt
(D) Assumption of state debts
(E) Excise tax on whiskey
The disagreement between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson regarding the economic policy of the United States can best be summarized as a contrast between
alignment with the French colonial system and remaining part of the British commonwealth
a centralized system based on trade and manufacturing and a system that relied on independent farmers and agriculture
a proslavery economic system and one in which slavery would eventually be abolished
a system in which workers own the principal means of industrial production and one in which an aristocracy controls economic policy
Which of the following was a key component of Alexander Hamilton’s plan for the economic development of the United States?
(A) Establishment of a national bank that would stabilize paper currency and extend credit
(B) Termination of all trade with European countries in order to bolster the United States economy
(C) Establishment of trade agreements with European colonies in the Western Hemisphere
(D) Eradication of the national debt in order to create a small federal government
(E) Reliance on the free market, with no government involvement in the economy
In his Farewell Address, George Washington advocated that the United States should develop which of the following policies?
(A) Using its moral standing as a democratic nation to intervene in foreign affairs
(B) Annexing neighboring territories that were under Spanish colonial authority
(C) Adopting an isolationist position by avoiding engaging in alliances with European states
(D) Creating lasting alliances with newly independent states in the Western Hemisphere
(E) Preventing European nations from interfering in the political stability of the Western Hemisphere
Which of the following best describes the significance of Shays’ Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion?
They were early examples of colonial opposition to the British taxes imposed after the French and Indian War.
They were precipitated by burdensome tax policies
They led to the meeting of the Constitutional Convention.
Alexander Hamilton led the armed forces that suppressed both rebellions.
They were caused by the inability of farmers to pay their debts.
Which Presidential Administration took the matter in hands with the French after their outcry of the “High Class Federalists” in America?
George Washington
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
The Louisiana Purchase was significant because it
eliminated Spain from the North American continent
gave the United States control of the Mississippi River
eased tensions between western settlers and Native Americans
forced the British to evacuate their posts in the Northwest
Which of the following most directly led to a more democratic political system in the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century?
Most states extended the right to vote to women and free African Americans.
Judicial review was established, limiting the power of the Supreme Court over the decisions of Congress.
Presidential elections started being determined by a combination of the electoral college and popular vote.
Many states reduced or eliminated property qualifications for voting.
New territories were not admitted as states unless they guaranteed the right to vote for all men over the age of twenty-one.
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?
(A) It severely damaged American manufacturing.
(B) It enriched many cotton plantation owners.
(C) It severely damaged American shipping.
(D) It was ruinous to subsistence farmers.
(E) It had little economic impact.
During the early stages of manufacturing, the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, primarily employed
native-born, single White men who had lost their farms
native-born, single White women from rural areas
White males from debtors’ prisons
recent immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
The idea of Manifest Destiny was probably expressed most clearly in which of the following actions?
The creation of the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia
The founding of Harvard College in colonial Massachusetts
The addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution
The declaration of war against Mexico in 1846
Deists of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries believed that
natural laws, designed by the Creator, govern the operation of the universe
prayer has the power to make significant changes in a person’s life
the idea of God is merely the creation of people’s minds
the universe was created by a natural, spontaneous combining of elements
intuition rather than reason leads people to an awareness of the divine
All of the following resulted from the War of 1812 EXCEPT
(A) the decline of the Federalist Party
(B) increased domestic manufacturing
(C) the loss of Florida to the British
(D) the emergence of Andrew Jackson as a war hero
(E) heightened patriotism
The economic growth of the Great Lakes region in the early 19th century was most facilitated by the
completion of the Erie Canal
blockade of Eastern ports by the British
discovery of gold in the Northwest Territories
improvements brought by the transcontinental railroad
The Mason-Dixon Line, surveyed in the 1760s, was important for which of the following reasons?
It became the basis for the boundary between the United States and Canada.
It carved out the territory that later became the District of Columbia.
It marked the westernmost limit of settlement for European colonists after the French and Indian War.
It referred to the line where British troops assembled in their efforts to turn back the colonists’ rebellion.
It was used as the dividing line between free and slave states in the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Which of the following is the main reason for the outbreak of the War of 1812?
(A) the violation of the Whiskey Tax
(B) the attacks of Indians at Chesapeake Bay
(C) the violation of American Shipping Rights
(D) the invasion of the Louisiana Territory
(E) the disagreement on slavery in the South
Which of the following best describes the financial crisis brought on by sharply falling cotton prices, declining demand for American exports, and reckless western land speculation?
(A) Manifest Destiny
(B) Land Ordinance of 1785
(C) The Great Depression
(D) The Panic of 1819
(E) The Great Awakening
Jacksonian banking policies did which of the following
Removed banking issues from national politics.
Encouraged the expansion of credit and speculation.
Stalled the westward expansion.
Ended foreign investment in the United States.
Abolished state banks.
What was the main authorization of the Jacksonian Indian Policy?
To give Indians the rights to vote
The relocation of eastern Indians to federal lands west of Mississippi River
To provide Indians a safe zone in the colonies
To execute all Indians who disagreed with the British
The diverse coalition making up the Whigs Party was clustered around the National Republican Party of
(A) Abraham Lincoln
(B) Ulysses S. Grant
(C) Alexander Hamilton
(D) John Quincy Adams
(E) Thomas Jefferson
Between the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and the outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the most important aspect of United States foreign policy was
(A) securing access to Canadian fisheries
(B) reopening the British West Indies to direct trade with the United States
(C) securing international recognition
(D) expanding the nation’s boundaries
(E) responding to Cuban independence
The presidential election of 1840 is often considered the first “modern” election because
the slavery issue was first raised in this campaign
it was the first election in which women voted
voting patterns were similar to those later established in the 1890s
for the first time, both parties widely campaigned among all the eligible voters
The 1848 women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, was a protest against
the use of women workers in textile factories
the use of women workers in textile factories
state restrictions that prevented women from joining labor unions
the failure of the Democratic Party to endorse a woman suffrage amendment
customs and laws that gave women a status inferior to that of men
The Great Famine of Ireland in the 1840s affected the United States in which of the following ways?
(A) It led to a massive wave of Irish immigrants to the United States.
(B) It forced Americans to abandon imports of the potato and look for other sources of food.
(C) It led to a decline in the in uence of the Roman Catholic Church.
(D) Intermarriage between Irish immigrants and native-born US citizens declined.
(E) It led American scientists to pool their skills in ending a cure for the potato blight.
Which of the following was opposed by both the Free Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-nineteenth century?
Internal improvement in the West
(B) Extension of slavery into the territories
Growth of textile manufacturing in New England
Unrestricted immigration from Ireland
The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following EXCEPT the belief that
commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base
the use of land for settled agriculture was preferable to its use for nomadic hunting
westward expansion was both inevitable and beneficial
) the Creator selected America as a chosen land populated by a chosen people
Which of the following groups was most likely to adopt the Free Soil ideology?
(A) Free African Americans
(B) Northern capitalists
(C) Western frontier settlers
(D) Southern yeoman farmers
California was admitted as a state to the Union
as part of the Compromise of 1850
with the passage of the Wilmot Proviso
during the Mexican-American War
with the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787
This party supported and demanded the exclusion of immigrants and Catholics from public office
The Know Nothing Party
The Republic Party
The Democratic Party
The Federalist Party
The People’s Party
“Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither the plaintiff himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory; even if they had been carried there by the owner, with the intention of becoming a permanent resident.”
The congressional act referred to in the passage above was the
(A) Kansas-Nebraska Act
(B) Missouri Compromise
(D) Compromise of 1850
(E) Fugitive Slave Act
The United States completed the Gadsden Purchase in 1853 in order to
obtain Oregon
build a transcontinental railroad
relieve population pressures
obtain additional grazing lands
The Compromise of 1850 outraged abolitionists because one of the following was included at the time
Free-Soil Coalition Act
Alien and Sedition Acts
The Fugitive Slave Act
Navigation Act
Stamp Act
Which of the following did NOT occur during the transportation revolution in the nineteenth century?
State and federal governments subsidized the construction of roads and canals.
The cost of shipping goods declined precipitously.
The postal service grew rapidly.
The Supreme Court enforced monopolies on steamboat travel and bridge construction
In the pre–Civil War era, the railroads’ most important impact on the economy was that they
(A) created a huge new market for railway equipment
(B) created the basis for greater cooperation between southern planters and northern textile manufacturers
(C) generated new employment opportunities for unskilled urban workers
(E) provided midwestern farmers accessibility to eastern urban markets
Why did the railroad system become more famous than others during the transportation revolution?
Because of its speed, capacity, and reliability
Because it was a cheaper infrastructure to build
Because it provided nautical services
Because it was
None of the above
Which of the following was NOT an element of the Compromise of 1850?
(A) Stronger fugitive slave law
(B) Abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
(C) Admittance of California as a free state
(D) Organization of the Kansas Territory without slavery
Which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the United States in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?
Demands of southern textile manufacturers for cotton
Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers
Abolition of indentured servitude
Expanded use of the cotton gin
In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme Court decided that
(A) enslaved people could not be freed by virtue of their residence in a free state
(B) the Compromise of 1850 was supported by the Constitution
(C) Dred and Harriet Scott deserved their freedom
(D) the principle of popular sovereignty could be applied in new territories
Which of the following was directly involved in helping slaves escape via the Underground Railroad?
William Lloyd Garrison
Harriet Tubman
Harriet Beecher Stowe
John Quincy Adams
Roger Taney
Which of the following individual took over the presidency of the Confederate States?
(A) Ulysses S. Grant
(B) Joseph E. Johnson
(C) Jefferson Davis
(D) William T. Sherman
(E) Robert E. Lee
Which of the following was acknowledged as a clear advantage held by the Union over the Confederacy during the U.S Civil War?
A better understanding of the terrain on which the majority of the battles were fought
An industrial capacity that allowed the Union to produce most of what it needed for the war
Control over the Mississippi River from end to end from the outset of the war
A more highly trained and experienced military leadership
A sense of purpose in the con ict that uni ed all Northerners
During the war, the Confederate States had an geographic advantage because
The land was protected by a compromise between the North and the South
Most of the war was fought in the Southern lands, in that they were fighting to defend their own land
The South had the slaves fighting as members of the Confederate Military
All of the Above
After the Civil War, the majority of freed people found work in the South as
(A) factory workers
(B) railroad employees
(C) independent craftsmen
(D) tenant farmers
Which of the following agency provided services to the slaves during the Reconstruction?
The Department of State
The Freedmen’s Bureau
The Treasury Department
The Office of Reconstruction
Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan allowed for Southern states to be readmitted into the Union on the condition that they
revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment
prohibit the use of the Black Codes
guarantee suffrage for all citizens, regardless of race
give land grants to freed people
punish ex-Confederates refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the United States
The disputed election of 1876 was significant because it
led to the growth of third parties
led to the expansion of executive power
demonstrated the power of big business
resulted in the end of Reconstruction in the South
Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction included which of the following?
(A) Establishment of five military districts to prepare seceded regions for readmission as states
(B) Punishment of Confederates through land confiscation and high property taxes
(C) Restoration of property to White Southerners who would swear a loyalty oath to the United States
(D) Reestablishment of state government after 10 percent of the voters in a state pledged their allegiance to the United States
All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT
(A) provision of 40 acres to each freedman household
(B) enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment
(C) military occupation of the South
(D) punishment of the Confederate leaders
(E) restrictions on the power of the president
