Final Exam Day 1

The excerpt above from John Locke has the most in common with which of the following documents?

Declaration of Independence

The map above would BEST serve as evidence of which of the following?**

Economic interdependence.

Jackson took which of the following actions in an attempt to make the national banking system more responsive to the people?

He moved federal funds from the Bank of the United States to state banks.

Antebellum developments that gave rise to the market revolution

Henry Clay's proposal of the "American System", the rise of the factory system, agricultural developments like the mechanical reaper and cotton gin

Whiskey Rebellion

In 1794, farmers in Pennsylvania rebelled against Hamilton's excise tax on whiskey, and several federal officers were killed in the riots caused by their attempts to serve arrest warrants on the offenders. In October, 1794, the army, led by Washington, put down the rebellion. The incident showed that the new government under the Constitution could react swiftly and effectively to such a problem, in contrast to the inability of the government under the Articles of Confederation to deal with Shay's Rebellion.

Contrary to the private role expected of women in the excerpt, which of the following colonial-era communities encouraged women to have an active, public role?

Iroquois Confederacy

Missouri Compromise of 1820 To what extent was the compromise described in the excerpt successful in quelling tensions over the expansion of slavery?

It was effective for a few decades until it was overturned by later compromises and court rulings.

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Which of the following would MOST agree with Jefferson's quote?

John Brown

The Middle Colonies and Southern Colonies didn't share the grievance:

Low prices for tobacco crops

McCulloch v. Maryland

Maryland was trying to tax the national bank and Supreme Court ruled that federal law was stronger than the state law

Which of the following landmark Supreme Court cases challenged Jefferson's legal view of the Bank?

McCulloch v. Maryland

Which of the following areas of the map above witnessed the development of the most complex civilizations based around maize cultivation in the pre-Columbian era (before 1402)?**

Present-day Meixco

Colonist feelings after the French and Indian War were most similar to which other group and respective time period?

Supporters of 54 40' or Fight! in the 1840s.

Which act of Parliament increased anger towards the British government by allowing French Canadians access to the Ohio River Valley while colonists were prevented by the Proclamation of 1763 to settle there?

The Declaratory Act, 1766

The debate over the tariff outlined by Clay in the except eventually manifested in which of the following events?

The Nullification Crisis of 1832

Which of the following actions did Congress take in response to Jackson's veto of the bank?

The Senate censured President Jackson

Which of the following groups would MOST LIKELY have supported the point of view expressed in the image above?**

The Sons and Daughters of Liberty

Considering that these charts represent a larger trend throughout the colonies, which event was MOST directly a result of this trend?**

The Stono Rebellion

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Which of the following events had a similar motive as the event Jefferson refers to above?

The Whiskey Rebellion

Sarah and Angelina Grimke were also strong advocates of which of the following?

The abolitionist movement

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Which of the following exemplifies Jefferson's reasoning in this letter?

The creation of the Constitution

Which of the following events during the Marshall Court's tenure proved the limits of the Supreme Court's power to overturn laws that it declared "unconstitutional?"

The decision of the Court that the Cherokee could remain on their land

How did Andrew Jackson's veto of the National Bank impact the American economy?

The national economy went into a depression which plagued the next president.

New complaints of colonists directed towards the Townshend Acts were most likely the result of which of the following?

The revenue from the Townshend Acts was being used to pay British Royal Governors, taking that authority and power away from the colonial assemblies.

-Navigation Act of 1660 -Navigation Act of 1696 What effect did the above laws have on the economy of the colonies?

These laws led to a growth in the New England shipbuilding industry.

Which of the following resulted most directly from the decision of the Marshall Court, such as Marbury v. Madison?

This decision, along with future John Marshall rulings, increased the power of the federal government

The beliefs of Transcendentalists expressed in the excerpt most directly influenced which of the following acts of civil disobedience by Thoreau?

Thoreau refused to pay his taxes and went to jail as a statement against the war with Mexico

The policy invoked by President Monroe above was explicitly or implicitly invoked for all of the following incidents in subsequent U.S. history EXCEPT

U.S. annexation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War

The situation depicted in the map above was most likely the result of which of the following?**

Violent uprising by Native Americans in the Ohio River Valley.

Geological and geopolitical factors forced Native Americans to adapt to new climates. When the Iroquois were eventually forced to respond to the threat of European settlement, they did this by

forming a five-nation alliance known as the Iroquois Confederacy

The First Great Awakening, which began in the 1730's,

incited religious division between old traditionalists and new revivalists.

Sermons delivered during the First Great Awakening stressed

submission to religious authority

All of the following had similar effects on colonial sentiment as the image EXCEPT**

the Proclamation of 1763

Abolitionist Movement

the movement concentrated on ending slavery in the United States

antebellum transportation innovations

turnpikes, canals, steamships

Jefferson's opposition to the issues Hamilton mentions was based on the

view of strict constructionism

The Feminine Mystique

written by Betty Friedan, journalist and mother of three children; described the problems of middle-class American women and the fact that women were being denied equality with men; said that women were kept from reaching their full human capacities

Which of the following documents represents the earliest challenge to the relegation of women to the domestic sphere encouraged by "Republican Motherhood?"

"The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan

Bacon's Rebellion

1676 - Nathaniel Bacon and other western Virginia settlers were angry at Virginia Governor Berkley for trying to appease the Doeg Indians after the Doegs attacked the western settlements. The frontiersmen formed an army, with Bacon as its leader, which defeated the Indians and then marched on Jamestown and burned the city. The rebellion ended suddenly when Bacon died of an illness.

John Marshall, Opinion, Marbury v. Madison Which of the following events sparked the opinion in this case?

A "lame duck" president tried to increase the number of Federalist judges

Which of the following would best support the author's assertion regarding the relationship between people and government?

A civil society is formed when people leave the state of nature and choose to form a government.

Colonists support of the French and Indian (seven years) war was most likely the result of which of the following

A desire to control the Ohio River Valley, allowing westward expansion.

What was the most direct cause of the French and Indian War?

A dispute over control of the Ohio River Valley.

Transcendentalism

A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's, in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature, and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter, intuition is valuable, that each soul is part of the Great Spirit, and each person is part of a reality where only the invisible is truly real. Promoted individualism, self-reliance, and freedom from social constraints, and emphasized emotions.

Proclamation of 1763

A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east. Settlers ignored this

Townshend Acts

A tax that the British Parliament passed in 1767 that was placed on leads, glass, paint and tea

Declaratory Act

Act passed in 1766 after the repeal of the stamp act; stated that Parliament had authority over the the colonies and the right to tax and pass legislation "in all cases whatsoever."

Robert Livingston

American minister to Paris who joined James Monroe in making a magnificent real estate deal

Which historical figure would NOT support "capitalist hegemony?"

Andrew Jackson

James Madison to Robert Livingston Why did Madison write this letter to Livingston?

As Secretary of State, he supported the negotiation Livingston was doing in France

Which of the following factors revealed in the passage BEST describe the tensions that led to Bacon's Rebellion in colonial Virginia?

Average Virginians could not earn enough income from the tobacco they farmed, and were not helped by the economic policies of the Crown or the Indians who inhabited land they wanted.

The roots of Shays' Rebellion can be found in the ideas and responses of which colonial city?

Boston

Given the following outcomes of the French and Indian War, which one most closely triggered events leading to an American Revolution?

British war debts forced a reassessment of the Salutary Neglect policy.

Which of the following pieces of evidence would reinforce the argument that a woman's role was in the private sphere?

Consumer advertisements from the 1950s

Corn had which of the following effects on Native Americans during the 1400's

Corn was often grown with other crops like beans and squash prior to the European arrival