All Chapters for History 17 Quiz Answers

The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement written primarily in response to:

revolution in Latin America.

In the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln referred to a date "four score and seven years ago," referencing the year

1176-- the year the Declaration of Independence was written.

Historians argue the Market Revolution drastically transformed American society. Which of the following was not a major consequence of the growing national market economy in the early 19th century?

A greater number of men working at home.

South Carolina became the first state to secede from the Union shortly after

Abraham Lincoln's election as president in 1860.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 established

American acquisition of the Mexican Cession.

Historians argue that the American victory over the British in the American Revolution was one of the greatest upsets in military history. Which of the following was not a significant factor in the British loss?

American experience and superiority in traditional, open-field warfare.

Which US president issued the Indian Removal Act and later pushed the Cherokee out of their homeland?

Andrew Jackson

With over 22,000 combined casualties, the Battle of _____________ (1862) repelled the Southern invasion of the North and is considered the bloodiest day in American history.

Antietman

the first natives Columbus and his crew met in the Bahamas were members of the:

Arawak

Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first migrant to the Americas came from:

Asia

American Indian raids and general dissatisfaction with Virginia's colonial government under William Berkeley led to _____________, the first rebellion in English America.

Bacon's Rebellion

The biological and cultural exchange between the Old and New Worlds was known as the:

Columbian Exchange

Thomas Paine's best-selling pamphlet _____________ made the first persuasive argument for American independence.

Common Sense

The cotton gin, invented by ___________, revolutionized the cotton industry and led to a dramatic increase in slavery during the early 19th century.

Eli Whitney

The quotation above is often cited as evidence of developing political conflicts between the first two political parties in the United States, the:

Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.

At the start of the American Revolution, the Second Continental Congress appointed _____________ head of the Continental Army.

George Washington

The Supreme Court case Worcester v. Georgia held:

Indian tribes should be considered sovereign nations by the federal government.

Before the French & Indian War, the most powerful tribal group in the Northeast was the _____________ Confederacy.

Iroquois

The English established their first permanent North American colony in:

Jamestown

Passed after the end of Reconstruction, _______________ laws formally enforced racial segregation in the South and legally supported political and economic inequality.

Jim Crow

The concept of predestination, which drove daily life for New England Puritans, was introduced by:

John Calvin

Unalienable or "natural" rights are original and attributed to Enlightenment thinker:

John Locke

Founded as a secret society for Confederate veterans in Tennessee, the __________________ spread to all Southern states and terrorized African Americans and their political allies.

Ku Klux Klan

The first shot of the American Revolution, known as the "Shot Heard Round the World" were fired at:

Lexington/Concord

The Missouri Compromise settled the balance between free and slave sates, admitting Missouri as a slave state, ____________ as a free state, and prohibiting slavery above the 36-90' line in the Louisiana Territory.

Maine

The 19th century belief that American settlers were destined to expand to the Pacific was known as

Manifest Destiny

All of the following 19th century authors are associated with American Romanticism EXCEPT

Mark Twain

The _____________ was the first agreement for self-government created in colonial America.

Mayflower Compact

Brigham Young led the _______________ migration to Utah, one of the largest single-group migrations in American history.

Mormon

_____________ became the best known of all the American colonies among Europeans, and also the most cosmopolitan and prosperous.

Pennsylvania

The _____________ were a Separatist group who established England's Plymouth settlement in 1620.

Pilgrims

Which of the following is not included in the Bill of Rights?

The abolition of slavery or involuntary servitude.

The Nullification Crisis primarily developed from the issues associated with:

protective tariffs.

New England towns were typically settled by:

Puritan separatists

On April 9, 1865, _____________________ surrendered at ______________________, Virginia effectively ending the American Civil War.

Robert E. Lee, Appomattox Court House

During the America's War for Independence, American victory at the Battle of __________ compelled France to begin fully aiding the colonists with soldiers, supplies, loans, and naval support.

Saratoga

In George Washington's presidential cabinet, Alexander Hamilton served as:

Secretary of the Treasury

California's original Grizzly Bear Flag was raised for the first time during the Bear Flag Revolt in ______________ (1846).

Sonoma

All of the following groups opposed the Mexican-American war EXCEPT

Southern Democrats who supported the extension of southern-slave territories.

Historian argue the ___________ represented the first organized colonial response to British policies.

Stamp Act

During Reconstruction, all of the following patterns led to the dominance of the Republican Party in the South EXCEPT

The absence of federal troops to enforce federal laws and supervise elections.

Civil War historians argue that the Union had tactical advantages due to ____________, whereas the Confederates held the advantage in__________________.

railroad transportation networks; military leadership.

President Andrew Johnson became the first president to be impeached after

removing a member of his Cabinet without Congressional approval.

The plantation economy of the British West Indies revolved around the production of:

Sugar

Shawnee warrior and chief ___________ became the main leader of a tribal confederacy opposing the spread of American settlers onto tribal lands in the Old Northwest.

Tecumseh

The last stand at the Battle of the Alamo became a pivotal turning point and symbol of independence during the _________________ Revolution (1836).

Texas

Which of the following statements about Nat Turner's rebellion is inaccurate?

The rebellion spread throughout the South and continued for several years.

The excerpts above are associated with which of the following intellectual movements?

Transcendentalism

Harriet Beecher Stowe's best-selling novel ________________ humanized the slave experience, helped reinforce support for abolition, and, according to historians, laid groundwork for the Civil War.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

In 1619, the arrival of a Dutch ship carrying twenty African slaves to the colony of _____________ represents the beginning of slavery in the English colonies.

Virginia

The ____________ was the first test of federal authority under George Washington and demonstrated the new government's power under the Constitution.

Whiskey Rebellion

The Civil War was fought mainly to

preserve the Union and protect national territory.

The United States went to war with Great Britain in 1812 for all of the following except to:

prevent Napoleon from recapturing the Louisiana Territory.

The Federalist papers were written in order to:

promote ratification of the Constitution.

The Salem Witch Trials(1692) reflected changes to colonial system, including all of the following except:

a community founded on the principles of inclusion and religious toleration.

The "Great Compromise" at the Constitutional Convention established:

a two-house legislature consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

19th century social reformers primarily used slave narratives like the one above to support

abolition

In the 17th century, England's earliest southern colonies were settled primarily to:

acquire new resources and profit economically.

A major consequence of the French & Indian war was the:

addition of new taxes on the colonies in English America.

In his newspaper The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison

advocated for the immediate abolition of slavery.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) instituted a policy of popular sovereignty to

allow voters in the territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted.

The excerpt above was written directly in response to:

an attack on Baltimore Harbor by the British Navy.

The California Gold Rush led to all of the following EXCEPT

an increase in Native American influence and population.

The Mexican-American War developed primarily from issues related to

armed conflicts along the Texas-Mexican border.

The Regulator Movement (1766-1771) involved:

backcountry farmers organized against corrupt British officials in North Carolina.

The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was largely due to:

diseases the Spanish transmitted to Native Americans.

The Northwest Ordinance (1787):

established procedures by which new territories could become states.

Under Chief Justice John Marshall, the Marbury v. Madison case:

established the principle of judicial review.

The Lewis and Clark expedition was commissioned primarily to:

explore and map the newly-acquired Louisiana Territory.

The symbolic end of Reconstruction occurred in 1877 when

federal troops withdrew from the South.

The spoils system refers to:

giving jobs to political supporters.

The government under the Articles of Confederation:

had no president or executive authority to enforce laws.

The Declaration of Sentiments (1848), issued at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, called for

increased rights for women.

Influenced by Romanticism, the artists in the Hudson River School were best known for paintings of

landscapes

The Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

legalized segregation in public facilities.

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions involved a defense of:

states' rights

The Second Great Awakening led to:

support for abolition groups and reform movements.

As part of the Triangular Trade system, most slaves were transported from West Africa to:

the Caribbean

The quotation above contains rhetoric and ideas associated with:

the Great Awakening

The most successful and longest-lasting Indian rebellion in colonial North America was:

the Pueblo Revolt

Mercantilism was based on the central assumption that:

the amount of resources in the world was limited.

Historians have argued that all of the following were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

the decline of the Republican Party and the rebirth of the party system.

England's first attempts at colonizing the Chesapeake region succeeded due to:

the introduction of tobacco crops.

The Whig Party of the United States emerged primarily over conflicts with:

the presidency of Andrew Jackson.

In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson referenced Enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes and his idea that governments "[derive] their just powers from the consent of the governed." This political concept is known as:

the social contract