DCUSH Winter 1301 Final
Obtain their land
Congress summoned the Iroquois to Fort Stanwix in 1784 to
As dangerous to the Puritan faith and social order
How did Puritans view Quakers?
It was a struggle to preserve the Union
How did northerners view the Civil War once it began?
They used intimidation tactics to silence critics
How did powerful whites defend slavery from attacks by critics?
Each state had a single vote in Congress
How did the Articles of Confederation incorporate the power of the states?
It divided the nation based on the issue of slavery in the territories
How did the Mexican-American War affect American politics?
By campaigning like a Democrat
How did the Whig candidate William Henry Harrison win the election of 1840?
They devised the Electoral College
How did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention create a presidency out of the reach of direct democracy?
Whites were unified around race rather than divided by social class
How did the institution of slavery affect social relations in the South?
Ended up as president and vice president
In the 1796 presidential election, opponents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
Free people who were servants only temporarily
Indentured servants in the Chesapeake viewed themselves as
Anglican / Church of England
With which established church did most Chesapeake colonists identify?
Three French agents sent to meet with American commissioners
X, Y, and Z were the code names for which of the following?
Through a joint resolution of Congress
President John Tyler obtained approval for the annexation of Texas
Plymouth
Puritan separatists, better known as Pilgrims, were responsible for creating which northern colony?
Preserve rheir own freedom
The goal of most free blacks in the South was to
Older women
The majority of accused witches came from which segment of the population?
Field hands
The majority of plantation slaves worked as P
Made sure all slaves worked hard
The rarest job on the plantation for slaves was that of driver, the person who
An exercise tax on Whiskey
To meet the interest payments on the national debt under his consolidation plan, Hamilton convinced Congress to pass
Lawyers
Two-thirds of the Constitutional Convention's delegates came from which segment of the population?
Local Burgesses
Under royal government in Virginia, the colony's inhabitants could vote for
The Headright System
What "program" sponsored by the Virginia Company (and later the Royal Government) allowed free men to receive 50 acres of land if they paid for their trip to Virginia?
Sedition Act
What 1798 Act made it illegal to defame the president or congress?
Four candidates sought the support of one political party
What complicated the presidential election of 1824?
A personal relationship with God
What did English Puritans emphasize instead of Catholic rituals?
Americans had the God-given right to expand their civilization across the continent
What did New York journalist and armchair expansionist John L. O'Sullivan mean when he coined the term manifest destiny in 1845?
It prohibited trade with England and France and their colonies
What did the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 do?
Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States
What did the Supreme Court rule in its 1857 Dred Scott decision?
Slavery would be prohibited throughout the entire area ceded by Mexico
What did the Wilmot Proviso of 1846 propose?
He had demonstrated superior political skills over a lengthy career
What earned Martin Van Buren the nickname ""The Little Magician""?
It indicated that abolitionists would use violence to overthrow slavery
What effect did John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry have on the South?
Confederates firing on Fort Sumter
What event marked the official beginning of armed hostilities between the North and South in April 1861?
Huge war debts it could not afford to pay
What financial problem did the confederation government face after the war?
Christian Missionaries
What group of Spaniards were attracted to Florida and New Mexico during the seventeenth century?
Catholics feuded with the Protestant majority
What happened in Maryland, Lord Baltimore's planned refuge for Catholics?
The movement of Americans from farms to cities
What helped fuel economic growth in the United States during the mid-1800s?
One whose small plot of land is worked by himself and his family
What is a yeoman farmer?
Money
What item became more important when New England no longer gave land to settlers and subsistence farming was more difficult?
Fire-eaters
What nickname was given to the Southern Democrat politicians who urged the separation of southern states into a new nation?
Quakers
What religious group was responsible for the founding of Pennsylvania?
The Great Awakening
What term did historians give to the wave of revivals that spread through the colonies in the mid 18th century and sought to emphasize religious faith through the use of large, open-air meetings hosted by itinerant preachers?
To win a battle or two and force Mexico to sue for peace
What was President Polk's strategy to win the Mexican-American War?
All citizens were expected to assist officials in apprehending runaway slaves
What was a requirement of the Fugitive Slave Act, part of the Compromise of 1850?
They worked tirelessly
What was the experience of most women settlers in Oregon?
Rice
What was the first profitable export crop grown in Carolina?
A 1,200-mile forced march of Cherokees who were expelled from their land
What was the infamous Trail of Tears?
Hartford Convention
What was the name of the secret meeting held in Connecticut by Federalists during the War of 1812?
Quasi-War
What was the name of the undeclared conflict between France and the U.S. from 1789-1800?
Midnight Jugdes
What was the nickname given to the judges appointed by John Adams in the final weeks of his presidency?
Lincoln became nationally known
What was the result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Representation based on population in both houses
What was the smaller states' major objection to the Virginia Plan at the Constitutional Convention?
He doubted his power to tamper with the "domestic institutions" of any state
Why did President Lincoln choose not to make the Civil War a struggle over slavery?
It wanted a buffer zone between its holdings in northern Mexico and the Americans
Why did Spain return its trans-Mississippi territory to France in 1800?
Some northerners believed that women should not instruct men
Why did antislavery activists Angelina Grimké, Sarah Grimké, and Maria Stewart encounter hostility in the North?
They hoped to find gold
Why did massive numbers of immigrants pour into California in the late 1840s and early 1850s?
It forced American planters to repay debts to the British
Why did most Americans oppose the Jay Treaty?
They believed Christianity would make slaves more obedient
Why did planters promote Christianity in the slave quarters?
New Englanders had been steadily encroaching on land the Indians needed to survive
Why did the Wampanoag Indians attack New England settlements in 1675?
The colony increased its dependence on slave labor
Why did the social and political distance between planters and small farmers decrease between 1660 and 1700?
Mexico was plagued by civil war and could not defend its northern provinces
Why were Mexico's northern borderlands vulnerable to American expansionists?
Heavily armed whites outnumbered blacks two to one by 1860
Why were open slave revolts uncommon in the South?
Philadelphia
Before the federal government settled into its permanent home in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital had most recently been located in what city?
A government that promoted economic development of America
As president, Andrew Jackson favored
Virginia Plan
At the Constitutional Convention, the proposal to create a two-chamber legislature—with representation in both houses based on each state's population—was known as the
People and societies can shape their own destinies
A hallmark of the Jacksonian era was the common belief among Americans that
Cotton production expanded to the West
After 1820, what caused slavery to become more profitable, which in turn increased the South's political power?
That the lower house would be apportioned by population of the states
As a part of the Great Compromise, delegates at the Philadelphia convention agreed
Habeas corpus
Latin for "you have the body", this court order (known as a writ) commands a government official or institution who has restrained another to produce the prisoner at a designated time and place so that the court can determine the legality of custody and decide whether to order the prisoner's release.
A military necessity
Lincoln justified the Emancipation Proclamation as
Germans
Mistakenly called the Pennsylvania Dutch, who made up the largest contingent of migrants from the European continent to the middle colonies?
Were caught and returned
Most runaway slaves
People who settled the territories to decide whether or not they wanted slavery
Senator Lewis Cass of Michigan proposed the doctrine of popular sovereignty, a measure that would allow
Women's suffrage
The 1848 convention at Seneca Falls advocated
Antietam Creek, Maryland
The bloodiest day of the Civil War occurred September 17, 1862, at
The Middle Colonies
Where was the breadbasket of Colonial America?
James I
Which English monarch supported the Virginia Company's efforts to establish a North American colony?
France
Which European power was England's major adversary in North America in the late seventeenth century?
Marbury v. Madison
Which Supreme Court case gave the court the right to disallow a law on the grounds that it was unconstitutional?
Rhode Island
Which colony attracted dissenters through the protection of "Liberty of Conscience"?
Falling cotton prices prevented southern farmers from paying off northern creditors
Which factor contributed to the Panic of 1837?
Young women who hoped to gain more autonomy
Which group made up the bulk of the workforce in New England textile mills until the 1840s?
Indians
Which group suffered the greatest losses in the War of 1812?
Liquor
Which item offered to the Indians under the Treaty of Greenville devastated many tribes?
Most whites did not own slaves
Which statement characterizes white southerners in the antebellum South?
They did not monopolize travel because lines were too short
Which statement describes the effects of the first railroad lines in the United States?
Florida
Which territory did the United States obtain from Spain in the Adams-Onís Treaty?
Natural increase
While the Atlantic Slave Trade directly resulted in a growing population in the south, what caused the population increase in New England?
John Adams
Who became the Nation's vice president in 1789 after receiving half as many electoral votes as George Washington?
Jefferson Davis
Who became the president of the new Confederate States of America?
Henry Hudson
Who did the Dutch East India Company dispatch to find the Northwest Passage?
Brigham Young
Who led the Mormon exodus to the Great Salt Lake?
Anne Hutchinson
Who was excommunicated and banished from Massachusetts in 1638 after being found guilty of the heresy of prophecy?
Not Maria Stewart
Who was the leading exemplar of the Second Great Awakening?
Thomas Jefferson
Who won the presidential election of 1800?
John Quincy Adams
Who won the presidential election of 1824?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
James Madison
Who, along with Alexander Hamilton, was instrumental in calling for the Philadelphia meeting in May 1787 to discuss the Articles of Confederation?
Texas would come to the Union as a slave state
Why did Congress initially refuse to annex Texas into the Union?
Burr had angered Hamilton by challenging him to a duel
Why did Federalist Alexander Hamilton support Jefferson over Aaron Burr as the presidential election of 1800 played out in the House of Representatives?
