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Columbus’s travels to the Americas created conflict between which two countries?
Spain
America
Britian
Portugal
What did the Treaty of Torsadillias do?
Declared America's independence
Declared war between Britian and France
Divided the new world between Spain and Portugal
None of the above
The Colombian exchange had deadly affects on who?
Spaniards
Colonizers
Native Americans
Mexicans
What type of document gave English settlers permission to start a colony?
Constituion
Form
Charter
None of the above
What happened to the Roanoke colony after the summer of 1587?
It thrived
It dissapeared
It grew larger
It shrunk
Why did the Dutch settlers practice religious toleration?
They felt like it
It made them feel better
New place new you
Because the Netherlands had gained independence from Spain over both political and religious issues
List two ways enslaved Africans try to cope with life in the Americas?
They didnt
They sung songs to each other in the fields
They became friends with their owners
They cooked and created recipes with what they had
Who proposed the Toleration Act of 1649, and why?
Cecil Calvert, to stop discrimination against Trinitarian Christians
Thomas Jefferson, to help American gain independence
Christopher Columbus, to help Spain gain all of the land in the Americas
None of the above
Why did the Pilgrims migrate to America?
They didnt
They wanted to be able to grow more food
For religious freedom
To meet the Native Americans
In European nations, the practice of carefully controlling trade to create and maintain wealth was called __________
Dictatorship
Mercantilism
Worship
Monarchy
What event marked the start of the French and Indian War?
The French coming to the Americas
The battle of Yorktown
The Battle of Jumonville, Glen
None of the above
Why was the Stamp Act of 1765 particularly upsetting to the colonists?
They used stamps a lot
It added a high tax for shipping goods and they had to ship a lot of goods because they were so far away from Britain.
They wanted to use a lot of stamps and this made the stamps look ugly
They liked the stamp act
What event directly sparked the Boston Massacre?
Throwing tea in the river
A British soldier hit a colonist after an argument
A colonist yelled at a British soldier
It was a planned fight
What did colonists call the Coercive Acts?
The stupid acts
The acts we wont follow
The intolerable acts
None of the above
The goal of the First Continental Congress was to _________________________________
Start war with Britian
Write a constitution
Find a good way to approach the British
To make Britian more upset
What was the main issue debated during the Second Continental Congress?
What to write in the constituion
How our government should be shaped
How we should fight Britian
Whether to try to reconcile with the British or declare independence
In Common Sense Thomas Paine argued that laws should be made by ______________________
The monarch
The president
The people
The dictator
How was France’s interest in the Revolution financially important?
They didn't do anything
They fought against America
The aided America in the war
None of the above
The winter at Valley Forge was a difficult time for the Continental Army because the army
Didn't have food
Didn't have shelter
Didn't have organization
All of the above
Why did Congress decide to pass the Land Ordinance of 1785, which divided western lands into townships?
To make the map look prettier
To organize it and set up a system for surveying
To make it easier to beat the British
To make it easier to own slaves
The states contributed to rising inflation following the Revolutionary War by
Buying a lot
Buying British goods
Printing a lot of paper money
Printing no money
What is interstate commerce?
The transferring of goods across continents
The transferring of goods across countries
The transferring of goods across states
The transferring of goods across cities
The main cause of Shays’s Rebellion was the
Tax on corn
Tax on whiskey
Tax on property
None of the above
What were the key points of the New Jersey Plan presented at the Constitutional Convention?
No government
A unicameral legislature
A bicameral legislature
A tricameral legislature
The framers of the Constitution created a system of checks and balances to
Make the government look better to the people
Make it so one branch was more powerful
Make it so the branches evened each other out
None of the above
The framers of the Constitution granted legislative power to which group?
Congress
The supreme court
The president
The people
What is federalism?
Being against the constitution
Being for the constitution
Wanting the states to have more power
Wanting the states to have less power
What problem did Anti Federalists have with the Constitution?
They wanted the president to have more power
They wanted the states to have more power
They thought it threatened individual liberties
All of the above
What position did Federalists hold toward the new constitution?
They supported it
They were against it
The Bill of Rights is the document that _______________________________________________
Was created so federalists would support the constitution
Was created so anti-federalists would support the constitution
To protect individual liberties
To make the government more powerful
True or false an amendment to the Constitution is a change to the constitution
True
False
The federal government is divided into separate branches to ensure
The people have all the power
The monarch stays in charge
One branch of government doesn't become too powerful
None of the above
George Washington’s statement that America would not take sides in disputes between warring European countries was called the _______________________________________________
Agreement to help
Help proclimation
Neutrality proclamation
None of the above
How did the Whiskey Rebellion end?
The rebels won
American collapsed
The government stopped the rebels
None of the above
Explain the significance of Marbury v. Madison:
It freed slaves
It made conditions for slaves worse
It established the principal of judicial review
It didn't do anything
The Louisiana Purchase was significant to the United States because it
Helped our relationship with spain
Put us into war with britian
Won us the space race
Doubled the size of our nation
How did Britain’s military forces gain strength in April of 1814?
They fought America
They won the war of 1812
They won their war with france
None of the above
What did the Treaty of Ghent accomplish?
It certified the lousiana purchase
It ended the war with britian and france
It ended the war of 1812
None of the above
The Convention of 1818 affected the boundaries of the United States by
Giving us access to California
Giving us access to Canada
Drawing a line between us and Canada
None of the above
What settlement did the United States and Spain reach in the Adams-Onís Treaty?
The united states gained control of California
The united states gained control of Texas
The united states gained control of Florida
The united states gained control of Kansas
What finally convinced Spanish leaders to settle disputes with the United States over Florida in 1819?
They didn't care anymore
They had other things to deal with
Andrew Jackson’s presence in Florida
All of the above
The Monroe Doctrine affected the United States’ relationship with Latin America by
Making their relationship worse
It helped the united states relationship with Latin america because the Monroe doctrine was the just the United States asking Europe to leave them alone so it allowed the US to help them
What was a consequence of the Missouri Compromise?
It gave the US access to Missouri
It ended slavery
It equaled the number of Slave and Free states but spread slavery north
None of the above
The winner in the presidential election of 1824 was chosen by
Winning the popular vote
Being favored Congress
The supreme court
Gaining more votes in the house of representatives
What effect did the Tariff of Abominations have on Andrew Jackson’s America?
It worsened the relationship between the north and south
It bettered the relationship between the north and south
During Andrew Jackson’s presidency westerners supported policies that
Helped manifest destiny
Supported agriculture
Supported slavery
None of the above
What was Andrew Jackson’s view on the Second Bank of the United States?
He supported the bank because it gave him money
He supported the bank because it gave him more power
He didn't like the bank because it gave him less money
He didn't like the bank because it didn't have enough money to fuel the expansion west.
What was the Bureau of Indian Affairs?
Something that started the trail of tears
Something that worsened our relationship with Native Americans
It was instilled in the government to help protect the lives of Native Americans
None of the above
What was Sequoya’s role in Native American history?
He fought the americans
He lead the trail of tears
He created a written form of the cherokee language which helped them communicate with the americans
He fought against brittian
What was the consequence of the Worcester v. Georgia decision?
It didn't allow people in the states to tread on native american land and that limited manifest destiny
It allowed the people in the americas to tread on native american land
It allowed americans to kill native americans
None of the above
Texan settlers disobeyed Mexican laws in the 1820s by
Growing crops in texas
Travelling to texas
Bringing slaves with them
Fighting the mexican natives
True or False? Houston's army surprise Mexico’s army with a surprise attack helped the Texans gain victory in the Battle of San Jacinto?
True
False
Who were the Californios?
People who came to California during the gold rush
American settlers in California
A term for Hispanic Californians
None of the above
What happened during the Bear Flag Revolt?
Mexican and American soldiers fought
Americans ruined native buildings
A small group of american settlers rebelled against the mexican government
None of the above
How did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed in 1848, affect the United States?
It let mexico take some of our land
It allowed us a lot of mexicos land
It declared war between us and mexico
All of the above
Why did a growing number of Americans travel the California Trail from the 1830s to the 1840s?
The land was pretty
They wanted to meet the native americans
Gold was found
They could raid the Mexicans old buldings
Who were the group of people known as “forty-niners”?
People who liked california
People who were against the gold rush
People who participated in the gold rush
People who found gold
The Industrial Revolution is best defined as a __________________________________________________
Large growth in agriculture
A large amount of fighting
The united states using slaves more
A rapid growth of technological advancement in the United States
Who was the man responsible for bringing new textile machines to the United States?
Tom Sawyer
Samuel Slater
Eli Whitney
Uncle Tom
Why were more American textile mills built in the North than in the South?
Textile mills didn't require slavery
The north was more willing to build machinery
The south relied more on agriculture
All of the above
What was Eli Whitney’s influence on American manufacturing?
He invented the steamboat
He invented the lightbulb
He invented the cotton gin
He invented trains
What did textile manufacturers do to keep the costs of running a mill low?
They hired very little workers
They did the work themselevs
They used slaves
They did not give their workers enough pay and forced them work long hours
Robert Fulton’s first full-sized commercial steamboat was called the _____________________________
Andromeda the great
The beauty of the sea
The great blue
North River Steamboat of Clermont
True or false? The telegraph was significant because it allowed for faster communication
True
False
What was the “cotton belt”?
An invention that helped grow cotton
An invention that separated cotton from its seed
A region of the south where cotton was a prominent prompt
None of the above
What was the effect of Nat Turner’s rebellion of 1831?
Made people more pro-slavery and limited education and other things slaves had access to
It helped slaves and lead to a large amount of freed slaves
It killed a lot of slave owners
All of the above
The majority of German immigrants who came to the United States in the late 1840s came because the United States had
Pretty land
A monarch
Religious freedom
None of the above
What led to the emergence of the middle class during the 1800s?
Railroads
Steam boats
Slavery
Factories
To spread the abolitionist message throughout the United States in the mid-1800s William Lloyd Garrison
Published a movie
Wrote a book
Created a newpaper
Painted
What did Harriet Beecher Stowe do to influence the debate over slavery?
She wrote uncle toms cabin
She lead protests
She fought slave owners
She helped lead the underground railroad
What did Generals McClellan, Burnside, and Hooker have in common?
They listened to abraham lincoln
They fought for the south
They never invaded richmond
None of the above
