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Which of the following would most likely have opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

A New England abolitionist

New England Puritans sought primarily to create which of the following in Massachusetts?

A model community promoting government by strict religious principles

William Lloyd first issue of abolitionist: The excerpt was likely to have found the most support among which of the following groups?

Advocates for women's rights

William Lloyd Garrison and the American Anti-Slavery Society were known for

Advocating immediate and uncompensated emancipation

Andrew Jackson Political Cartoon: Which of the following events could best be interpreted as reflecting the exercise of power depicted in the image?

American Indian removal despite the Supreme Court ruling in Worchester v. Georgia

Which of the following factors most directly contributed to the change between the two periods shown in the graph?

An expansion of political democracy for White men

Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first people who colonized the Americas came from

Asia

The dissatisfaction of Virginia farmers with the colonial governor who failed to protect them against American Indian raids led to

Bacon's Rebellion

Which of the following was a reason the United States government believed it necessary to negotiate a treaty with Great Britain following the American Revolution?

British activities and landholdings in North America were in an impediment to western settlement and peace along the frontier.

The excerpts were written in response to the

British government's attempt to assert greater control over the North American colonies

First peoples: a documentary The excerpt describes effects of the

Columbian Exchange

The excerpt best reflects which of the following?

Conflicts over how the Constitution should be implemented and interpreted

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the perception of many White Southerners that antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?

Congress voted to end the interstate slave trade

Which of the following primary sources would most likely support Berlin's argument in the excerpt?

Dairy entries from a slaveholder discussing plantation life

Which of the following pieces of historical evidence from the United States census could best be used to support the argument in the excerpt?

Data showing changes in the number of textile mills

In the decade following the publication of the image, which of the following groups expressed the most opposition to the exercise of power by the national government?

Democratic-Republicans

Which of the following was a significant cause of the trend from 1843 to 1854 shown in the graph?

Economic and political difficulties in Germany and Ireland

Which of the following contributed most to the increasing use of African slave labor in North America during 1600s and 1700s?

European demand for agricultural products grown in the colonies

The Monroe Doctrine maintained that

European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas

Which of the following was the most direct effect of the changes shown in the graph?

European settlers were able to gain control over Native American lands

Colonists from which of the following European nations generally had the most cooperative relations with American Indians?

France

The conflict described in the excerpt led primarily to which of the following changes in Spanish colonial policy?

Greater accommodation to Native American cultures

The excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

Growing challenges by dissenters to civil authorities

Before 1800, which of the following European imports had the greatest impact on the lives of the Plains Indians?

Horses

The issuing of documents such as the proclamation generally had which of the following effects?

Increasing the visibility of organized opposition to slavery

Which of the following was a core belief of the transcendentalists of the early nineteenth century?

Individual conduct should be guided by truths found in the individual conscience

What did the Northwest Ordinance accomplish?

It established procedures by which territories could become states

Andrew Jackson Political Cartoon: The creator of the image would most likely agree with which of the following statements?

Jackson's political actions were unconstitutional

Which of the following was true of colonial New England?

Life was centered in clustered villages

In the mid-nineteenth century, the process shown in the map was advocated by support of which of the following ideologies?

Manifest Destiny

Which of the following ideas contributed most directly to the territorial changes shown in the map?

Manifest Destiny

Someone who favored GW approach to foreign policy would be most likely to object to which of the following US policies?

Membership in the north american treaty organization

Which of the following characterizes the relationship between church and state for the Puritan who settled the Mass Bay Colony in the 17th c?

Ministers held most elected offices

Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT:

Most White families owned slaves

In highlighting "the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated," Jefferson was referring most directly to

Passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts

The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?

Possession of California and most of the Southwest

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson challenged the authority of which of the following?

Puritain magistrates and ministers

The quote above is an example of the rhetoric from the

Puritan migration of the 1630s

The emphasis on personal salvation, which Anne Hutchinson articulated in the 1630s, was lost strongly echoed in which late movement?

Second Great Awakening in the 1830s

Which of the following was an important consequence of the debate over the Jay Treaty?

Strong disagreements over policy promoted the development of political parties

Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?

Supporters of the 15th amendment

The graph most strongly supports which of the following arguments

The American Revolution resulted in increased political power for men of less wealth

Which of the following was a major contrast between New England colonies and the colonies of France?

The New England colonies were based on both agriculture and commerce

The migrants represented by the graph most typically settled in which of the following regions of the United States?

The Northeast

Which of the following conflicts resulted in the successful expulsion of Europeans from the upper Rio Grande region of North America for nearly a decade?

The Pueblo Revolt

William Lloyd first issue of abolitionist: The type of views expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from which of the following trends?

The Second Great Awakening

Which of the following most directly resulted from the change in the Native American population described by Las Casas?

The Spanish imported African as a new source of labor

The Supreme Court established which of the following by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison?

The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts

Which of the following most directly addressed reservations about the process depicted in the image?

The addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution

The ideas expressed in the excerpts have the most in common with which of the following?

The antislavery movements of the 1840s, when women asserted their right to speak on the behalf of the cause

Which of the following was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?

The belief in White cultural and political superiority

Which of the following best describes Deism?

The beliefs that God created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature

Which of the following statements best explains the change over time in the composition of legislature depicted in the graph?

The concept of republican self-government encouraged individual talent

Which of the following issues of the period was Jefferson most likely concerned with in the excerpt?

The creation of political parties

Which of the following most shaped the events described in the excerpt?

The demands of the encomienda system in the Spanish Colonies

Established Population of the Southern Colonies in British North America, 1670-1790 The population trend for African Americans depicted on the graph resulted most directly from which of the following?

The development of an economy based on growing crops for export

Which of the following was the most direct catalyst for secession of South Carolina?

The election of 1860

Emerson's remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?

The emergence of a national culture

Which of the following historical developments contributed most directly to the market revolution?

The emergence of new forms of transportation

Which of the following cultural and social shifts resulted most directly from trends described in the excerpt?

The emergence of new ideas about the proper roles of husband and wives

Which of the following developments best represents logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The expansion of participatory democracy in the Progressive Era

The proclamation most clearly provides evidence for which of the following?

The failure of the Compromise of 1850 to lessen sectional tension

Which of the following factors contributed most directly to the views expressed in the excerpt?

The fear of excessive centralized authority

Which of the following most profoundly transformed the lives of slaves in the mid-1700s?

The growth of a native-born African American population

The ideas about government expressed by Paine and Jefferson are most consistent with which of the following?

The ideas of the Enlightenment

David Porter, The impending crisis: America before the Civil War Which of the following historical developments during the 19th c. best supports Potter's argument about the underlying cause of sectional conflict?

The increase of economic opportunities in the west

Which of the following contributed most to the changes shown in the graph?

The introduction of new diseases

Which of the following most directly contributed to the decision by the US to fight the Mexican-American War?

The manifest Destiny

Which of the following was a primary feature of social relations established in the Spanish colonies in the Western Hemisphere?

The mergence of racially mixed populations mingling European settlers, Native American, and Africans

American Indian Population Destiny in 1500 Which of the following statements about the population of North America at the time of Christopher Columbus' voyage is support by the map above?

The most densely populated regions of North America would eventually become part of New Spain

David Porter, The impending crisis: America before the Civil War Which of the following most directly helped maintain the "balance between the northern and souther parts of the US" before the Mexican-American War referenced in the excerpt?

The passage of the Missouri Compromise

The trends described by Taylor most directly illustrate which of the following major historical developments in the Atlantic world?

The phenomenon known as the Columbian Exchange

The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of the following developments?

The population decline in North American societies

Montezuma's statement that the Mexica "were not the aborigines of the country" most likely refer to which of the following developments?

The presence of different and complex societies before European contact

The principles expressed by Paine and Jefferson best account for which of the following features of the United States during and immediately after the American Revolution?

The relatively limited powers of the Articles of Confederation

Many Americans were suspicious of the Second Bank of the United States for which of the following reasons?

They believed it was controlled by a commercial elite

Which of the following is true of the Virginia and New Jersey plans that were presented at the Constitutional Convention?

They illustrated the struggle between states for representation and power in the creation of the new government

Which of the following best characterizes rural women in the New England colonies?

They performed a large amount of farm labor and produced goods for their families

Which of the following is a correct statement about women in United States society in the years 1790-1810?

They were considered critical to educating good republican citizens

The early success of the Penn Colony was due in large part of which of the following?

William Penn's careful planning and his policy of selling land to settlers

The picture above best expressed which of the following middle-class news about women in the mid-nineteenth century?

Woman were the moral and spiritual strength of the family

The image most directly reflects the belief held by many in 1788 that

a stringer central government was a positive step

The Great Compromise of 1787 resulted in

a system of political representation for the states in the federal government

First peoples: a documentary American Indian societies most commonly reacted to the changes described in the excerpt by

adapting European material goods while attempting to preserve cultural autonomy

Andrew Jackson Political Cartoon: All of the following groups would have been likely to agree with the image's depiction of Andrew Jackson EXCEPT

advocates of federally funded internal improvement projects

The 1845 Kansas-Nebraska Act instituted popular sovereignty to

allow people living in a territory to determine whether slavery should be permitted there

The Quakers were unique among the religious groups that settled in North America during the seventeenth century because they

allowed women to speak publicly in their religious meetings and to be missionaries

The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about

allowing slavery in the new territories

The opinion expressed in the excerpt would most likely have been held by

an Anti-Federalist

In 1735 the New York City trial of editor John Peter Zenger helped establish the principle that

an editor could not be punished for seditious libel if the editor's words were accurate

The Federalist papers were written in order to

attain ratification go the Constitution

The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation 1830s by

banning discussion og antislavery petitions

The concept of republican motherhood includes the idea that women should

be educated to raise their children to be good citizens

Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1637 because she

challenged the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders

During the American Revolution, many women contributed to the cause of independence by

collecting money, medicine, and food to supply the constitutional army

Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

The sentiments expressed in the proclamation would have been most widely condemned by White residents of

costal South Carolina

Established Population of the Southern Colonies in British North America, 1670-1790 By 1790, the population trend depicted on the graph led to

creation of new settlements on the western edge of territory occupied by European Americans

The US went to war in 1812 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

deal with conflicts between settlers and American Indians in the Northwest Territory

The Labor Problem at Jamestown in the first half of the 1600s, American Indian in Virginia and Maryland most typically responded to the English colonization described in the excerpt by

defending their territories against the English

The interaction between Cortes and Moctezuma most strongly demonstrate Cortes'

desire for increased power and statues

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT:

determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights

A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to

develop a national economy by improving transportation

President George Washington's Farewell Address set a course for the nation by

discouraging permanent alliances with foreign nations

During the late nineteenth century, members of which of the following groups were most likely to advocate settlement houses as a mean of social reform?

educated middle-class women

The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it

enclosed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery

An implication of Las Casas' argument is that a major cause of the decline of the native populations in the Americas after 1492 was the

epidemic brought to the Americas by Europeans

Politics in the antebellum US changed dramatically because

expanded White males suffrage broadened participation in elections

In the period 1650-1750 all of the following contributed to British North American colonists' sense of identity as British subjects EXCEPT the

expansion of the colonies into western frontier regions

Alexander Hamilton's domestic and foreign policies were directed primarily toward strengthening the federal government by

favoring the interests of the propertied and monied class

By passing the Navigation Act in the 1600s and 1700, the British government intended to

guarantee that the British government would have a financial share of all colonial exports

Members of the American (Know-Nothing) Party if the 1850s typically supported

homesteads in the western territories

William Lloyd first issue of abolitionist: A person who agreed with Garrison's views expressed in the excerpt would most likely have advocated

immediate emancipation of enslaved people

A major consequence of the French and Indian war of 1745-1763 was the

imposition of new taxes on the British North American colonies

The export of New World crops to the Old World transformed European society mostly by

improving diets and thereby stimulating population growth

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

increased rights for women

Established Population of the Southern Colonies in British North America, 1670-1790 The trend in total population from 1670 to 1700 depicted on the graph is best explained by

increases in life expectancy

A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the

increasing readership of newspapers

A majority of the early English migrants to the Chesapeake Bay area were

indentured servants

The Proclamation Line of 1763 was designed to

limit western expansion of colonial settlement

The Labor Problem at Jamestown Compared to New England, early English settlement in Virginia and Maryland was characterized by

lower life expectancy, a larger population of indentured servants, and a greater gender imbalance

English colonization patterns in North America differed most from Spanish colonization in that the English

more often settled as families and rarely intermarried with Native Americans

Those who supported the War if 1812 advanced all of the following rationales for their positions EXCEPT the

obligation to protect Native Americans

During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the "burned-over district" because

of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening

In their colonization of the Americas, the Spanish used the encomienda system to

organize and regulate Native American labor

All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the

passage of the Wilmot Proviso

The Louisiana Purchase proved politically troubling for TJ because of his

previous support for a struct interpretation of the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander Hamilton's economic plan because he feared that it would

promote urban mercantile interests at the expense of agricultural interests

Hamilton's speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787 Based on the excerpt, Hamilton would likely support

property qualifications for voting

The Nullification Crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of

protective tariffs

The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to

provide for statehood for western territories

Hamilton's speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787 In the decade following the ratification of the constitution, divisons emerged between Hamilton's political party, the Federalist, and their rivals, the Democratic-Republican, over all of the following issues EXCEPT the

relationship between religion and the federal government

Established Population of the Southern Colonies in British North America, 1670-1790 By the 1860s, the long-term effects of the population trends depicted on the graph most directly contributed to the

relocation of the remaining American Indian groups to reservations in the Dakotas

David Porter, The impending crisis: America before the Civil War The "acquisition of a new empire" referenced in the excerpt most directly fostered sectional division through the

renewed debate over the expansion of slavery

The role of women expressed in the cult of domesticity had its roots in

republican motherhood

The most important factor in Andrew Jackson's successful bid for the presidency in 1828 was his

reputation as a hero of the War of 1812

After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to

require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire's administrative expenses

First peoples: a documentary The process described in the excerpt most affected Europeans through

significant population growth and economic development in many parts of Europe

William Lloyd first issue of abolitionist: Opponents of Garrison's ideas expressed in the excerpt would most likely have argued that

slavery was a postitive social institution and should not be changed

Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of the Constitution only after

slavery was allowed to continue without federal interference

George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

slaves lived better than northern factory workers

British colonists in North American objected the Stamp Act primarily because it

taxed them without their consent

Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676?

tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed

The quote above contains ideas typical of

the Great Awakening

The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region go the map most directly resulted from

the Mexican-American War

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected president on a Republican platform that advocated all of the following EXCEPT

the abolition of slavery throughout the United States

The views expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to

the addition of the Bill of Rights shortly after the Constitution was adopted

The Regulator movement of the 1770s, Shay's Rebellion in 1786, and the Whiskey Rebellion of the early 1790s were all expression of the hostility of frontier settlers to

the dominance of eastern interests in government

Hamilton's speech at the Constitutional Convention, 1787 Hamilton's views expressed in the excerpt most directly supported which of the following?

the establishment of the Supreme Court

The preaching described in the excerpt is an example of which of the following developments in the 1700s?

the expansion of Protestant evangelism

Which of the following developments in the second half of the nineteenth century best represented the continuation of the ideas expressed in the declaration?

the formation of voluntary organizations and reform efforts

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

the growing power of poor Southern Whites who resisted planter dominance and sought to abolish slavery

Thomas Jefferson's reaction to the Jay Treaty as expressed in the letter was most directly a reflection of ongoing debates in the United States over

the impact of the French Revolution

In the seventeenth century, the earliest British colonies in Virginia were saved from economic ruin by

the introduction of tobacco cultivation

In the eighteenth century, British colonist wishing to settle west of the Appalachian were principally motivated by

the low price and easy availability of land

The Labor Problem at Jamestown Which of the following was a long-term result of the situation in Jamestown described in the excerpt?

the rise of the plantation system and the use of African slaves

The excerpt would be most useful to historians as a source of information about which of the following?

the role that appeals and advertising played in encouraging men and women to participate in colonization efforts

One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

the separation of economic production from the home and family life

Fredrick Jackson Turner's story emphasized the significance of the frontier for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the western territories had land that could be distributed to former slaves

What was the purpose behind the publication of the 1840 illustration above?

to portray William Henry Harrison as a common man

Whitefield's impact suggests that religious culture among British North American colonists in the 1700s was most directly shaped by

trans-Atlantic exchanges

The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends?

transcendentalism

Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in

urban areas of the North

The introduction of tobacco during the early 1600s in the Virginia Colony led to the

use of indentured servants and later enslaved Africans for agricultural labor

First peoples: a documentary Europeans most typically explained the process described in the excerpt in which of the following ways?

viewing it as a proof of the higher level of civilization among European

The American colonists' slogan "No taxation without representation" was a rejection of

virtual representation

France decided to aid the North American Colonies in their war for independence primarily because France

wanted to weaken the British empire

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most directly challenged the prevailing ideal in the early nineteenth century that

women should focus on the home and domestic sphere

During the 1800s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

working slowly and breaking tools