US History

How did western expansion affect the slave trade in the United States

it created a greater demand for slaves by expanding the plantation system

The American System was the brainchild of

Henry Clay

Which statement gives one justification for the United States' declaring war in Great Britain in the War of 1812

The British encouraged Native American tribes to rebel against the Americans

The final Missouri Compromise

kept the number of slave and free states equal

In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine made which radical assertion?

that monarchy was an illegitimate form of government

After the American revolution, the United States' westward expansion began with the early exploration of which region?

the Ohio River Valley

As a result of the French and Indian War, England believed (_______) should play an increasing part in paying off their national debt.

the colonists

Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?

the law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother

THe Bill of Rights includes how many amendments to the constitution?

10

What did John Winthrop want his colony to be?

A city on a hill

The first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War was provoked by what acr?

A raid by British Soldiers on the colonial weapons arsenal

Which American leader was a chief Federalist?

Alexander Hamilton

Where in the colonies did the British military concentrate their attacks?

Along the Atlantic coast

How did Great Britain respond to the colonial boycotts that followed the Stamp Act?

By sending soldiers and occupying Boston and New York City

The dominant religion in Europe in the 15th century was?

Catholicism

What posted the biggest threat to the early peoples of the American Southwest prior to the year 1300?

Environmental Changes

The Wilmot Proviso concerned the legality of slavery in which of the following?

In territories acquired from Mexico

What idea of the European Enlightenment were most influential to the American colonists?

Inalienable rights

What contract did a poor person enter into to come to the new world if they couldn't pay their own way?

Indentured Servitute

Which country's emigrants made up the largest foreign group in the United States' urban population in the mid-1800s?

Ireland

What was the importance of the U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison in determining the role of the Supreme Court in American government

It established the Supreme Court's authority to declare laws unconstitutional

Why was the presidential election of 1800 particularly important?

It marked the end of the Federalist influence

The Missouri Compromise involved slavery in Missouri and which other newly formed state? (Outcome #8, Paired item #1) (DOK1)

Maine

In 1626, Peter Minuit became the director of the first Dutch colony in the Americas, which was located in which modern-day location

Manhattan

Which European's travels first provoked the Western European curiosity for exploration and expansion

Marco Polo

WHat person started the Protestant Revolution by nailing a document to the church door?

Martin Luther

In which state were the most battles fought between the Continental and British forces in the Revolutionary War?

Massachusetts

President James K. Polk stated that the immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was

Mexico's invasion of American territory

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced most members of the Cherokee nation to relocate to which current U.S. state?

Oklahoma

Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World

Potatoes

What issue was resolved with the Great Compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?

Representation in the two legislative houses

What event caused the leaders of the states to determine the the Articles of Confederation should be changed?

Shay Rebellion

What occurred as a direct result of the canal construction in the eastern United States in the mid-1800s

Shipping costs between major cities dropped sharply

What was the first European colony established in North America

St. Augustine

What was a major concern for the group known as the Antti-Federalists?

That a federal government would take away states' rights

What belief did the Quakers hold that other Protestant groups did not?

That war and aggression were wrong under all circumstances

Which Southwestern tribe was first to build multi-room and -story dwellings from adobe?

The Anasazi

Which extensive tribe provoked the Western European curiosity for exploration and expansion

The Iroquios

Where did the Treaty of Paris set the boundary of the United States?

The Mississippi River

The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War was

The Treaty of Guadalupe HIdalgo

Which of the following statements regarding the Adams-Onis Treaty (Transcontinental Treaty) is correct?

The United States received Florida from the Adams-Onis Treaty

What was the justification for replacing the Articles of Confederation with a different document?

The central government it created was weak and had little power

What evidence suggests that the American colonies' declaration of independence against Great Britain was bound to happen decades before it did?

The colonies had developed their own economic structures independently from Great Britain

Why did the Spanish crown continue to finance the Florida colony even after the explorers failed to find a passage to Asia?

The colony had become an important base for missionaries

The battle of Saratoga was particularly significant because

it resulted in an alliance between the Americans and the French

Which statement best describes the cause of the economic transformation the United States experienced in the early nineteenth century?

The invention of new methods of transportation made it cheaper to ship freight

Which of the following ceased to be a right of individual states after the U.S. Constitution was ratified?

The right to issue and print currency

Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?

The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture

Why did most Americans view the French Revolution Differently than they did the American Revolution

They believed that that its was unnecessarily violent and brutal

Why was finding an oceanic route to Asia important to the Europeans?

They wanted to circumvent the Arabic merchants

Why were West Africans preferred over the native people of the Americas for enslaved labor?

They were able to resist diseases that had affected the native people

Why did the French first begin exploring the Great Lakes region?

They were looking for a direct sea route

Which U.S. President negotiated the sale of the French Louisiana with Napoleon Bonaparte?

Thomas Jefferson

What was the purpose of adding the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution?

To secure individual rights against possible government intrusion

What crop became a staple of the Virginia Colony?

Tobacco

Which Revolutionary War battle ended with the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington

Yorktown

The Battle of the Alamo in Texas was

a defeat for the Texans

What caused the deaths of most of the native population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s?

an epidemic of smallpox

Why was Jamestown originally founded?

as a center for economic opportunity

Which crop produced the greatest profits for American farmers in the nineteenth century?

cotton

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

could be used to punish those who helped runaway slaves

General Howe, the British commander, believed he could defeat the Americans by

defeating Washington and his troops in a single decisive battle

Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory

doubled the size of the United States and caused a constitutional dilemma

Horace Mann advocated which reform for the children of the United States?

free public education for all children

What was the primary cause of the population growth in the American colonies in the early 1700s?

immigration to the Americas from Europe

The belief that a state could decide if a federal law was enforced within the borders was known as

nullification

As a result of the Boston Massacre, England

replaced the Townshend duties except on tea

Which crop became popular with Europeans after slaves brought it from Africa and began growing it on southern plantations

rice

Which of the following characterized the post-Archaic phase in North America?

sedentary village life