HIST 1301 Exam 2 Review

(Q031) Which of the following is a correct pairing of inventor and invention?

steel plow and John Deere

(Q056) Charles Willson Peale painted portraits of the founding fathers.

true

(Q008) Which of the following was a key principle embedded in the Bill of Rights?

freedom of speech

(Q003) The Treaty of Paris marked a change in which the balance of power

in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.

(Q019) The Daughters of Liberty were

women who spun and wove cloth during the Townshend Duties boycott.

(Q020) "Manifest destiny" was

the belief that the United States had a divinely appointed mission to expand westward.

(Q021) The "Revolution of 1800" was

the peaceful transfer of the office of the presidency between political parties.

(Q020) Federalism refers to

the relationship between the national government and the states

(Q025) With the Louisiana Purchase,

the size of the nation was doubled.

(Q006) As a result of the three-fifths clause,

the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.

(Q027) Which of the following defines republican motherhood?

training sons to be future citizens

(Q006) The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?

Concord

(Q041) Adam Smith's work, The Wealth of Nations, argued that the "invisible hand" of the free market did not direct economic life more effectively and fairly than governmental intervention.

FAlse

(Q044) The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.

False

(Q050) In consequence of the December 1814 Hartford Convention, the Federalist Party grew in strength and vigor.

False

(Q056) In eighteenth-century America, the idea of "companionate" marriage included the notion that men and women would marry voluntarily and live in a female-dominated relationship.

False

(Q028) What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?

France and Spain

(Q018) In the XYZ affair of 1797,

French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.

(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper chronological sequence?

Paine's The Rights of Man; Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Gabriel's Rebellion

(Q032) Which two states voted against ratification of the Constitution?

Rhode Island and North Carolina

(Q022) The eighty-five essays published by "Publius" and gathered into a book in 1788 was entitled

The Federalist.

(Q005) Which statement is true regarding the Republican Party under Madison and Jefferson?

The party had more faith in a democratic form of self-government.

(Q031) The War of 1812 was ended by what treaty?

Treaty of Ghent

(Q036) The Declaration of Independence elevated the principle of equality to a central place in the American conception of freedom.

True

(Q048) Free blacks were largely denied access to the new economic opportunities generated by the market revolution.

True

(Q061) Lucy Knox, the wife of General Henry Knox, wrote to her husband during the war that when he returned home he should not consider himself, "commander in chief of your own house, but be convinced that there is such a thing as equal command."

True

(Q067) The American Revolution inspired the French Revolution.

True

(Q006) The Hartford Convention

affirmed the right of a state to interpose its authority if the federal government violated the Constitution.

(Q005) The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated

an end to fighting between France and the United States.

(Q012) "Impressment" as practiced by the British was

kidnapping sailors

(Q039) Examples of the symbol "liberty" appeared in

outdoor meeting places in the colonies.

(Q015) Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as

passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.

(Q044) The Bill of Rights was a concession offered by the Federalists to overcome widespread fears of a despotic national government.

true

(Q011) When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by

virtual representation.

(Q009) Abigail Adams wrote in a famous letter to her husband to

"remember the ladies."

(Q019) The court case in which it was held that workers' unions are constitutionally legal was

Commonwealth v. Hunt.

(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence

(Q032) Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?

Crispus Attucks

(Q047) What happened to the Iroquois Confederacy during the American Revolutionary War?

Its members fought for both England and America.

(Q033) Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?

James Otis

(Q037) New York City and Philadelphia experienced what type of violent events in the 1840s and 1850s?

anti-immigrant riots

(Q022) The Second Great Awakening was

a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.

(Q022) Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as

a published poet and slave of African origins.

(Q025) Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?

a transcendentalist

(Q024) Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that

democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.

(Q038) To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to

black sailors

(Q012) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?

cotton gin

(Q014) Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of

debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.

(Q001) Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to

declare war

(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

work begun on National Road; Fulton's steamboat, Clermont navigated the Hudson River; work begun on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad