Give Me Liberty Ch 1-15
82.Who was sentenced to death in a controversial criminal trial in the early 1920s?
Sacco-Vanzetti case where two italian immigrants were arrested and executed for robbery/murder.
17.What did the 18th amendment prohibit?
Sale, consumption, or distribution of alcohol?
Who was not a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?
Samuel Adams
8.Anti-Federalists included
Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry.
All of the following were Captains of Industry except:
Samuel Gompers.
America's first successful factory was established in 1790 by
Samuel Slater at Pawtucket
In 1608
Samuel de Champlain founded:
59.What was the red scare?
Scare of communism in the U.S period of political intolerance, riots, mass arrests of immigrants.
Which of the following was not a significant feature of Gold Rush California?
In the absence of a stable legal system
Which of the following was not a regional pattern of colonial slavery?
In the colonial back country
Which is not true regarding King Phillip and King Phillip's War?
Indian tribes fought together under the unified leadership of Metacom.
Handsome Lake of the Seneca
Indian who believed that Indians could regain their autonomy without directly challenging whites or repudiating all white ways
Colonial America was a hierarchical society in which some European colonists were indentured servants
Indians were held in forced labor
Which of the following was not a major reason for the decline and subjugation of the American Indian?
Indifference to the advantages of guns and horses weakened Indian resistance to U.S. military power.
Which was not a characteristic of Robert Owen's early nineteenth-century utopian communities?
Individualism and anarchy were watchwords at New Harmony.
Penny press
Inexpensive newspapers
"The Haitian Revolution"
Inspired hopes for freedom among slaves in the US.
Sugar Act
Introduced in 1764 by Prime Minister George Grenville
As a group
Irish immigrants were one of the biggest supporters of the temperance movement.
Which of the following was not a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?
Ironically
82.What was the name of the vibrant community of former slaves freed by Virginian Richard Randolph?
Israel Hill
Following the Dred Scott decision by the United States Supreme Court
Scott and his wife were immediately emancipated.
22.How did emancipation affect the structure of the black family?
It became more like that of the typical white family, with men as the breadwinners and women as the homemakers.
25.How did the Civil War influence the definition of freedom?
It consolidated the Northern understanding of freedom as meaning that everyone was entitled to the fruits of his labor.
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 that so vexed the colonists do to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?
It decreased it.
Which was not an element of the Second Great Awakening?
It emphasized predestination and the importance of each soul as being in the hands of an angry God.
What did Jefferson's Embargo do?
It enforced a ban on ships going to foreign ports. Results were that it devastated economies of American port cities with NO affect on Britain or France.
Which was not true of Brook Farm?
It functioned as a vibrant community for a half-century.
Which of the following is a true statement about the Atlantic slave trade's effect in West Africa?
It helped lead to the rise of militarized states in West Africa
94.What did the Constitution say about slavery?
It never mentioned the word but protected several aspects of the institution.
Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?
It proposed a two-house legislature
127.Which of the following was true of the Virginia Plan?
It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house.
Which was not part of the Glorious Revolution?
It secured the Catholic succession to the throne of England.
What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?
It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—an amazing use of federal power
71.What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?
It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president supposedly dedicated to a weak central government.
108.What was unusual about the Embargo Act of 1807?
It stopped all American vessels from sailing to foreign ports—an amazing use of federal power, especially by a president who wanted to avoid that and foreign entanglements.
Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following EXCEPT:
It was common sense that in the struggle for independence the slaves to whom Lord Dunmore offered freedom ought to be freed.
Who won the War of 1812?
It was essentially a military draw even though our country's capital was burned by the Brits
84.Which of the following is true of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794?
It was the only time in U.S. history that the president commanded an army in the field.
Which of the following is NOT true of the Great Awakening?
Its more subdued style of preaching appealed to a wider audience than the older
The proper chronological order for presidents from 1817 forward is: Monroe
J.Q. Adams
New York was named after King Charles II's brother
James
Henry Clay lost the 1844 election because:
James G. Birney
In the 1844 presidential election:
James K. Polk
130.Which president came to believe that a constitutional amendment was necessary for the government to build roads and canals?
James Madison
137.Who is often called the Father of the Constitution?
James Madison
20.George Washington's government included all of the following revolutionary leaders except
James Madison.
6.All of the following men held a high executive or judicial office during George Washington's presidency EXCEPT
James Madison.
83.The Virginia Plan was largely the work of
James Madison.
129.Which presidency saw the absence of two-party competition?
James Monroe's
Which of the founding fathers argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis.
86.Which of the following led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed to the Federalist Party?
Jay's Treaty
91.What can be argued led directly to the formation of an organized political opposition party against the Federalist Party?
Jay's Treaty
Which of the following led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed to the Federalist Party?
Jay's Treaty
122.Which of the following is true of the Louisiana Purchase?
Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism.
83.Which of the following is true of the Louisiana Purchase?
Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism.
Which of the following is true of the Louisiana Purchase?
Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism.
Who was elected the president in 1797 after George Washington resigned from office?
John Adams
Who were the presidential candidates in the election of 1796?
John Adams and Thomas Pinckney (Federalists) vs. Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr (Republicans)
Which was not part of the Boston Tea Party?
John Adams was sent to prison on December 17
136.Who emerged as the most prominent spokesman for state sovereignty and the right of nullification?
John Calhoun
76.Which commanding Union leader of forces in Mississippi decreed the freedom of its slaves in 1861, well before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
John Fremont
95.Which Union general in Missouri decreed freedom to that state's slaves in 1861, a year before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
John Frémont
What sharpened political divisions in the US and led directly to the formation of an organized opposition party?
John Jay's Treaty
In the election of 1824
John Quincy Adams won the popular vote
His accidency
John Tyler in office because Harrison dies, mostly dem views
88.Who were the main antagonists in the scopes trial of 1925?
John scopes and charles darwin, fight between christianity and science.
84.Which statement about Andrew Johnson is false?
Johnson campaigned for the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, against his party's wishes.
89.Why was Andrew Johnson acquitted on charges of impeachment?
Johnson's lawyers assured moderate Republicans that he would behave for the rest of his term, and they voted to acquit him.
What contributions to the newly forming Republican party did John Burke
Joseph Gales and Thomas Paine make?
The founder and earliest leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1820 was:
Joseph Smith.
Author of "On Equality of the Sexes" written in 1779 that insisted that women had as much right as men to exercise all their talents and should be allowed equal educational opportunities to allow them to do so.
Judith Murray
During the mid-1850s
Kansas witnessed a series of bloody conflicts between pro- and antislavery groups.
29.Jefferson Davis's strategy to win the war was based on
King Cotton diplomacy.
26.What happened at the Haymarket affair?
Labor strike, someone threw a bomb into the crowd, police officer died, police open fired, eight anarchists arrested and tried.
64.what was the sit down strike?
Laborers would sit down in their place of employment so they could not be simply fired and replaced, forced companies to meet their demands.
72.What was not an accomplishment of the Republicans in the South during Reconstruction?
Land reform
Which of the following was not a feature of Native American civilization prior to the voyages of Columbus?
Large cities were unknown to the Americas.
The Black Codes
Laws in the south that tried to control the lives of former slaves
Republicans
Led by Madison and Jefferson
Which was not an element in Leisler's Rebellion (1689)?
Leisler's success meant French domination of New York.
Invoking the extraordinary dangers of the moment
Lincoln called for a suspension of regular elections for the duration of the war.
Border state issue
Lincoln had to keep these states due to their location, population, and transportation advantages. Did not want to be too rash to lose border states.
139.Who was defeated at the Battle of Fallen Timbers?
Little Turtle
Purchase that doubled the size of the US and ended French presence in North America.
Louisiana Purchase
Federalists
Made up of mostly rich folk like bankers
114.Which of the following did not contribute to the United States going to war in 1812?
Madison refusing to restore the ban on trade with Great Britain
Overseer
Managed slaves in the field
Which was not the case for blacks on South Carolina and Georgia rice plantations?
Many were free blacks.
Which were not a part of the Salem witchcraft trials?
Many were tried on charges of witchcraft
82.Which of the following is true of the American response to Toussaint L'Ouverture's slave uprising, which led to the establishment of Haiti as an independent nation in 1804?
Many white Americans considered L'Ouverture's uprising to be evidence of blacks' unfitness for republican freedom.
What important court case established Judicial Review?
Marbury v. Madison
Which is not an element of Chief Justice John Marshall's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)?
Marshall found that contracts between states and private citizens could not be abridged.
In the presidential election of 1848:
Martin Van Buren ran for president as candidate of the Free Soil Party.
Because of the harsh cruelties she witnessed during the war
Mary Livermore believe the extension of suffrage to anyone other than white men was to blame. For the rest of her life
In 1792
Mary Wollstonecraft published A Vindication of the Rights of Women in response to Thomas Paine's Rights of Man.
Lord Baltimore
Maryland proprietor who restricted the right to vote to only those with 50+ acres of land; Protestant uprising against him failed
In Commonwealth v. Hunt
Massachusetts chief justice Lemuel Shaw decreed that there was nothing inherently illegal in workers organizing a union or a strike.
In 1691
Massachusetts was transformed when a new charter
Henry Knox - 2
Secretary of War; hoped for minimal warfare with Indians
74.Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?
Methodist
78.Which denominations had the largest followings among blacks after the Civil War?
Methodists and Baptists
73.The term "Californios" referred in the 1830s and 1840s to __________ in California.
Mexican cattle ranchers
Alexander Hamilton
Secretary of the Treasury in 1790 and 1791 who developed a controversial financial plan. He was considered a Federalist long with George Washington
Missouri Compromise
Missou as state in 1819, Tallmadge's ammendment, no ammendment, Maine, 36 30' line
Border States
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia (1863)
Tallmadge's proposal
Missouri, if made a state, should introduce no new slaves and release existing slaves at age 25 not a popular proposal 1820
What enabled ordinary citizens to become more involved in the politics of the day?
More and more citizens attended political meetings and read pamphlets and newspapers. More post offices were established and the American press experienced rapid growth
117.Which of the following does not describe those who attended the Constitutional Convention?
Most had earned their wealth after rising from humble origins.
32.What occurred during the second industrial revolution?
Most rapid economic revolution ever including explosive economic growth, abundance of natural resources, growing jobs, expanding market for goods, availability of capital for investment.
"The Age of Prophecy" among Indians
Movements for the revitalization of Indian life
70.What were newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement known as?
Muckrakers
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Munn v. Illinois; Wabash v. Illinois; Interstate Commerce Act; Lochner v. New York
15.Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the
National Woman Suffrage Association.
At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans
Native Americans had not developed
At the time of first contact between Europeans and Native Americans
Native Americans had not developed:
Before Europeans arrived in the New World
Native Americans were without extensive trading networks
During Pontiac's Rebellion
Neolin
American industrialization first took off in
New England.
48.The Erie Canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the Northwest?
New York
Slaves killed nine whites in a 1712 slave uprising in
New York City
By 1860
New York City had become the nation's financial
Of the following projects
New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to
Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664
New York was:
112.Which Indian tribe significantly resisted the forced removal west, fighting from 1835-1842?
Seminole
65.what was the ultimate result of the watergate scandal?
Nixons resignation as president.
96.What disadvantages did the new nation of the United States face as it became independent?
No republic had ever been established over so vast a territory.
What was the America first committee?
Non-interventionst party opposed to us entry in ww2
103.What qualifications did the Constitution ratified in 1787 impose for voting?
None; it left voting rules to the states.
Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves
North and South
finances to fund the war (north)
North enacted tariffs (high) the first income tax, borrowing from chartered banks
emancipation proclamation
North will assist and maintain freedom of slaves in rebelling states January 1 1863 rebelling states do not have representatives in congress
Freedom in different regions
North- each man enjoys product of his labor South- freedom to their slave culture
Battle of Antietam
September 17, 1862 4,300 killed even battle north claimed victory because lee retreated, led to pre-emancipation proclamation McLellan over Lee
What was Andrew Jackson's nickname?
Old Hickory
Boston Tea Party
On December 16
writs of assistance
One of the colonies' main complaints against Britain
Which of the following was not a prominent cultural belief among Indian societies of North America?
Only holders of property should take part in tribal governance.
"fifty-four forty or fight" referred to demands for American control of
Oregon
Which was not true of the Middle Passage?
Seventy percent of slaves were destined for North America.
Sons of Liberty
Organizations formed by Samuel Adams
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Organized the Seneca Falls convention
Liberalism
Originally
Pontiac
Ottawa chief
Thirteenth Amendment
Outlawed slavery
Which one of the following statements about Spanish America is true?
Over time
79.Which of the following best describes General George McClellan's character as a commander?
Overestimated the enemy and stalled for time
The number of voluntary reform communities established in the decades before the Civil War that historians often call "utopian" communities—such as the Oneidan
Owenite
As they were committed to the separation of the sexes
Shaker communities admitted only men.
73.What were greenbacks?
Paper money
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever."
Following the Boston Tea Party
Parliament imposed restrictions on Massachusetts that included closing the port of Boston
97.What event demonstrated the need for a more central government to ensure private liberty?
Shays's Rebellion
Alexander Hamilton and James Madison were nation builders. What event greatly strengthened the nationalists' cause?
Shays's Rebellion
Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre which became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?
Paul Revere.
The colony founded by a leader who hoped women and blacks would be given equality along with all persons was:
Pennsylvania
Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?
People in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders.
Assimilation
People of different cultures come to realize they are a part of a larger national family. It is when a group of people is integrated into a bigger group or society
Minstrels
Performers in racist theatrical shows
Creoles
Persons born in the New World of European ancestry.
81.Who was one of the loudest opponents of the equal rights amendment?
Phyllis Schlafly
What was the cause of the Barbary Wars?
Pirates from the Barbary states on the northern coast of Africa captured American ships and held sailors captive for ransom. Jefferson refused to continue paying. The Pasha of Tripoli declared war on the US. The US won with a victory at Tripoli harbor
Why would the 1790s be described as an "age of passion" as one historian put it?
Political parties developed due to sharp divisions in ideas about how the country should be governed and political rhetoric became inflamed with one party criticizing the other parties' loyalties to the ideals that brought on the American Revolution.
American System
Political program for economic development
Republicanism
Political theory in eighteenth-century England and America that celebrated active participation in public life by economically independent citizens as central to freedom.
"waving the bloody shirt"
Politicians referencing blood of heroes to criticize opponents
Which of the following questions was not a key focus of political controversy during the Jackson years?
Should women have the right to vote?
49.What was the focus of "In how the other half lives"?
Showed accounts of living conditions in urban/poor areas with photographs
What settlement in Africa did the British establish for former slaves from the United States?
Sierra Leone
Which of the following was not a significant effect of the Seven Years' War?
Pontiac's Rebellion
Silent sabotage
Poor work and breakage of tools
In 1537
Pope Paul III decreed Indian slavery ended
In the term "popular sovereignty
" define "sovereignty":
The English word "slave" derives from the word "Slav
" that is
British woman who's writing
"A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" made it's way to the US and contributed to the beginnings of a women's movement.
Bradwell v. Illinois
"A decision rebuffing the claim that the written legal code and Constitution gave women equal rights."
Slaughterhouse Cases
"A decision that rejected the claim by butchers that their right to equality before the law had been violated."
Literacy tests
"A method used to exclude uneducated blacks from voting."
''swing around the circle''
"A speaking tour of the North taken by Andrew Johnson to urge voters to elect members of Congress committed to his own Reconstruction program."
''waving the bloody shirt''
"A tactic of Republicans whereby they identified their opponents with secession and treason."
Civil Rights Bill of 1866
"Along with the Fourteenth Amendment- guaranteed the rights of citizenship to former slaves."
The Freedman's Bureau
"An agency established by Congress in March 1865 to establish schools- provide aid to the poor and aged- settle disputes between whites and blacks and secure for former slaves and white Unionists equal treatment before the courts."
Nathanial Bacon
"Bacon's Rebellion" against Berkley; wanted Indians out of colony; burned down Jamestown
Redeemers
"Conservative white Democrats many of them planters or businessmen who reclaimed control of the South following the end of Reconstruction."
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is:
"Cooperative commonwealth."
Carpetbaggers and scalawags
"Derisive term for northern emigrants who participated in the Republican governments of the Reconstruction South- Southern white Republicans some former Unionists who supported Reconstruction governments."
Fourteenth Amendment
"Guaranteed rights of citizenship to former slaves- in words similar to those of the Civil Rights Act of 1866."
What Indian chief said
"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them all and even chance to live and grow"?
Bargain of 1877
"In the aftermath of a close presidential election an Electoral Commission declared Rutherford B. Hayes president contingent a variety of compromises and agreements upon his taking office."
Black Codes
"Laws passed in southern states to restrict the rights of former slaves- to nullify the codes- Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment."
Hector St. John Crevecoeur - 2
"Letters from an American Farmer" (illustrated process of black exclusion): popularized "melting pot"
Crop-lien system
"Merchants extended credit to tenants based on their future crops but high interest rates and the uncertainties of farming often led to inescapable debts."
Black families
"Once freed
Civil Rights Act of 1875
"Outlawed racial discrimination in places of public accommodation like hotels and theaters."
Fifteenth Amendment
"Prohibited states from denying citizens the right to vote because of race."
In the sentence
"Suffrage was the "the first mark of liberty
Which president reflected the views of the Federalists when he said
"The government
When Thomas Jefferson wrote
"This momentous question
Enforcement Acts
"Three acts outlawing terrorist societies and allowing the president to use the army against them."
Sharecropping
"Type of farm tenancy that developed after the Civil War in which landless worker"often former slaves farmed land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop."
British governance of colonial America during the first half of the eighteenth century was shaped by a policy of
"salutary neglect."
How much was the Louisiana territory purchased for?
$15 million
Which of the following is not true of the utopian communities of the 1820s
'30s
During the 1830s
'40s
Which was not a consequence of the 1765 Stamp Act?
Postal service was restricted to only those willing to obey the law.
Why were many people (led by Jefferson and Madison mainly) alarmed by Hamilton's proposal?
*They felt it was too much like Britain who we just won our independence from.
Second Middle Passage
Slave trade within the United States
Despite his reputation for stubbornness
President Jackson proved timid and conciliatory during the Nullification Crisis and the Bank War.
Which of the following was not a significant development during the decade following Jackson's presidency?
President Van Buren shifted vast amounts of federal funds to state banks.
spoils system
President can put people he wants in his cabinet
Lord North
Prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
The book in which Henry George proposed a "single tax" on real estate that would replace all other taxes:
Progress and Poverty
Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibited governments to not allow someone to vote because of their race
50.What was the Freedman's Bureau's greatest achievement
Provided practical aid to 4,000,000 newly freed African Americans in their transition from slavery to freedom.
98.What had replaced class as the boundary that separated those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom from those who were not?
Race
85.Who claimed to have converted the white South from corruption, misgovernment, and northern and black control?
Redeemers
What were some of Jefferson's main goals he spoke of in his inaugural address when he took office in 1801?
Reduce the federal government
Which one of the following is true of religion in seventeenth-century Europe?
Religious uniformity was thought to be essential to public order.
What contributed to the coming of the War of 1812?
Reports that the British were encouraging Tecumseh's efforts
62.The main target of the Sedition Act was
Republican presses.
Compromise of 1877
Republicans agreed that Democrats control the south and Democrats agreed not to dispute Hayes's right to office
"Waving the bloody shirt" referred to
Republicans associating Democrats with secession and treason.
During Reconstruction some 2
000 African-Americans held public office
What were the 5 parts to Hamilton's proposed program?
1) Bonds to be bought by individuals (loan money to gov't) and this money used to pay off federal and state war debts
What were the results of the Jefferson-Hamilton Bargain (as brokered by Jefferson)?
1) No subsidies provided to manufacturers (extra monies)
What were some of the issues that the Federalists had with John Jay's Treaty?
1) the Brits never had to make any concessions about messing with our sailors (impressment)
4 goals of lee at antietam
1. bring in border states 2. have Britain and France acknowledge the confederacy and help them 3. affect the upcoming northern election 4. capture d.c. total failure
What percentage of the populations of New York and New Jersey in the 1770s were made up of slaves?
10 percent
32.Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction was based on
10 percent of the 1860 electorate taking an oath of allegiance to the Union.
61.What was the result of the triangle shirtwaist fire?
146 girls dead. Changed Labor laws and Labor Union laws. Made government more involved in regulating labor.
The reconquista happened in
1492.
The first African slaves were transported to the New World in what year?
1502
Which was not part of the Boston Massacre on March 5
1770?
On October 17
1777
Fugitive Slave Law
1793 law providing for federal and state judges and local officials to facilitate the return of escaped slaves.
Johnson Vs. McIntosh
1823 N.A. do not own land they just have a right to exist there
Monroe Doctrine
1823, no European colonization, U.S. would not participate in Euro wars, not interference with new S.A. countries
Indian Removal act
1830 money to remove 5 civilized tribes (choctaw, cherokee, seminole, chickasaw, creek)
75.When did Great Britain abolish slavery in its empire?
1830s
83.When did Great Britain abolish slavery in its empire?
1830s
Cherokee Nation vs. Georgia
1831 N.A. are wards of fed Govt and have no rights
Worcester vs. Georgia
1832 N.A. are politically separate and should be dealt with only by fed gov
bank war
1832, recharter by clay, Biddle vs. Jackson, Jackson vetoes then takes all money from the bank into pet banks, destroys it.
Trail of Tears
1838, Cherokees are forced extralegally to move to Oklahoma by federal Government
The Dorr war
1841 Rhode Island Government made an extralegal constitution w/o fed consent, federal army stopped it.
Which census revealed for the first time that there were more non-farming jobs than farming jobs in the United States?
1880
Approximately how many free Americans remained loyal to the British during the war?
20 to 25 percent
population
22 mil. in north, 9 mil. in south
12.Approximately how many Union and Confederate soldiers died during the Civil War?
620,000
11.By 1840, approximately _____ percent of adult white men were eligible to vote.
90
23.During the 1850s, 80 percent of the world's gold came from two places that experienced gold rushes at about the same time, California and
: Australia
7.America's first commercial railroad was the
: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
65.The last nation in the Western Hemisphere to abolish slavery was
: Brazil
39.The "German triangle" in the mid-nineteenth century referred to
: Cincinnati, St. Louis, and Milwaukee—cities with large German populations.
40.Lincoln spoke of "a new birth of freedom" for the nation in his
: Gettysburg Address.
62.The War Hawks in Congress included
: Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
21.In Gibbons v. Ogden, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
: New York could not grant a monopoly on steamboat navigation between New York and New Jersey.
66.The major Confederate army in the East, commanded by Robert E. Lee, was called the Army of
: Northern Virginia.
40.The 1796 election pitted John Adams and Thomas Pinckney against
: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
69.The organized abolitionist movement split into two wings in 1840, largely over
: a dispute concerning the proper role of women in antislavery work.
3.According to John O'Sullivan, the "manifest destiny" of the United States to occupy North America could be traced to
: a divine mission.
32.Sacajawea was
: a guide and interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition.
31.Sacajawea was
: a guide and interpreter for the lewis and clark expedition
4.A major part of the Anaconda Plan was
: a naval blockade of the South.
21.Clement Vallandigham was
: a northern politician banished to the Confederacy.
53.The 54th Massachusetts Volunteer regiment is best known as
: a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
64.The key holding of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Ex parte Milligan was that
: accused persons must be tried before civil courts where there were open rather than military tribunals.
55.The caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks
: actually helped the new republican party
26.During the early days of the war, the U.S. Congress adopted a resolution proposed by Senator John Crittenden of Kentucky that
: affirmed that the Union had no intention of interfering with slavery.
29.Opponents of Hamilton's economic plan
: agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South.
16.Bennet Barrow's advice to slaveowners on slave discipline (based on rules for slaves at his highland plantation in Louisiana) included all of the following EXCEPT
: allow slaves to grow some of their own food to cut down on costs
52.task labor
: allowed slaves to take on daily jobs, set their own pace, and work on their own when they were done
25.John Jacob Astor, who seemed to exemplify the "self-made man"
: became wealthy trading goods between the United States and China.
20.Captains of industry like steel magnate Andrew Carnegie and oil man John D. Rockefeller
: began creating or consolidating their fortunes during the Civil War.
25.During the Civil War, northern white women
: began obtaining jobs as government clerks.
24.Jefferson's Embargo Act
: caused economic depression within the United States.
50.slave religion
: combined african traditions and christian beliefs
10.Edmond Genet was a French diplomat who
: commissioned American ships to fight the British.
71.The Seneca Falls Convention's Declaration of Sentiments
: condemned the entire structure of inequality between men and women
68.The oneida community
: controlled which of its members would be allowed to reproduce
46.The Democratic-Republican Societies of the 1790s
: criticized the Washington administration.
11.Angelina and Sarah Grimke
: critiqued the prevailing notion of separate spheres for men and women
16.Gabriel's Rebellion
: demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else.
30.Pierre Charles L'Enfant is well known for
: designing Washington, D.C.
57.The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863
: did not apply to the border slave states that had not seceded.
58.The transcendentalist movement
: emphasized individual judgment, not tradition.
33.Samuel Slater
: established America's first factory.
22.In its decision in the case of Fletcher v. Peck, the U.S. Supreme Court
: exercised the authority to overturn a state law that the Court considered in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
41.Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he
: feared losing the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.
9.All of the following are examples of technological changes that helped to make the Civil War a modern war, EXCEPT for the
: field telephone.
3."King Cotton diplomacy" led Great Britain to
: find new supplies of cotton outside the South.
55.the role of a white middle-class woman in antebellum america was primarily to
: focus her energies on the home and children
30.fugitive slaves
: generally understood that the north star led to freedom
61.The frontispiece of the 1848 edition of David Walker's book depicts a black figure receiving "liberty" and "justice" from
: heaven
24.During the Civil War, black soldiers
: helped inspire Republicans to believe that emancipation also demanded equal rights before the law.
58.the end of slavery in most latin american nations
: involved gradual emancipation accompanied by recognition of owner's legal rights to slave property
45.Monitor and Merrimac were
: ironclad ships.
10.Among the Confederacy's advantages during the Civil War was
: its large size, which made it more difficult for the Union to conquer.
84.When Mexico won its independence from Spain in 1821
: its native american population was relatively large compared to its non-Indian population
57.The Sedition Act of 1798
: led Jefferson to argue that states, not the federal government, could punish seditious speech.
45.The cult of domesticity
: led to a decline in birthrates.
70.The republican free labor ideology
: led to the argument by Abraham Lincoln and William Seward that free labor and slave labor were essentially incompatible.
5.Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to
: make the United States a major commercial and military power.
28.Frederick Douglass viewed the abolition of slavery as
: not the end of the nation's work, but the beginning of a new phase of it.
38.The "American system of manufactures"
: owed a great deal to Eli Terry's development of interchangeable parts in clockmaking.
29.free blacks in the south were allowed to
: own property
"Greenback" was a Civil War-era nickname for
: paper money.
62.The gag rule
: prevented Congress from hearing antislavery petitions.
74.The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy
: proved essential for the success of Grant's attrition strategy.
72.When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he
: recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that white recruits received.
59.The treaty that ended the War of 1812
: restored the prewar status quo.
15.Fries's Rebellion
: resulted in a loss of support for Federalists in southeastern Pennsylvania.
54.The California gold rush
: resulted in laws that discriminated against "foreign miners."
78.Utopian communities were unlikely to attract much support because most Americans
: saw property as key to economic independence, but nearly all the utopian communities insisted members give up their property
37.squatters
: set up farms on unoccupied land
36.Squatters
: set up farms on unoccupied land.
63.The women who protested during the Shoemakers' Strike in Lynn, compared their condition to that of
: slaves
14.At the first Battle of Bull Run
: spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch.
43.the american railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century
: stimulated the coal mining industry
42.The American railroad industry in the first half of the nineteenth century
: stimulated the coal mining industry.
99.William Lloyd garrison
: suggested that the North dissolve the Union to free itself of any connection to slavery
53.The official seals of New Jersey (1821) and Arkansas (1836) both reflected the widespread identification of freedom with
: technological progress and material prosperity.
50.The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was
: textiles
61.The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to
: the Alien and Sedition Acts.
37.In the May and June 1864 battles in Virginia (between the armies of Grant and Lee)
: the Union army, despite high casualties, pressed forward in its campaign.
27.Economically, the Civil War led to
: the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development.
2."strict constructionists" believed
: the federal government could only exercise powers specifically listed in the constitution
49.Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that
: the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.
13.At Antietam
: the nation suffered more casualties than on any other day in its history.
48.Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren rejected adding Texas to the United States because
: the presence of slaves there would reignite the issue of slavery, and they preferred to avoid it.
59.The example of German immigrant Marcus Spiegel demonstrated that
: the views of average Americans evolved considerably during the course of the Civil War.
49.The Erie Canal
: was far longer than any other canal in the United States at that time.
42.Lincoln's vision during the Civil War
: was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.
31.General George McClellan did all of the following EXCEPT
: win major victories at Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in Tennessee.
Neolin
A Delaware religious prophet whose teachings contributed to Pontiac's Rebellion.
Thaddeus Stevens
A Leader of the Radical Republicans, who tried to help others gain equality
Civil Rights Bill, 1866
A bill that let all people born in the U.S., no matter their race, be citizens
Which of the following was not true of the second industrial revolution?
A boom in automobile manufacture spurred the rise of oil
American Enlightenment
Revolution in thought in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason and science over the authority of traditional religion.
Father Junipero Serra
A controversial figure who founded the first California mission in San Diego in 1769.
134.Which two states voted against ratification of the Constitution?
Rhode Island and North Carolina
Which was not a characteristic view of merchantilism?
A country's imports should exceed its exports.
Seditious libel
A crime that included defaming government officials in published works.
''virtual representation''
A doctrine which stated that the House of Commons represented all residents of the British empire
Benedict Arnold
A former commander under George Washington that defected and almost succeeded in turning over to the British the important fort at West Point on the Hudson River and served valiantly in victories at Fort Ticonderoga and Saratoga.
The Freedmen's Bureau
A government experiment where they tried to help blacks in the south
Loyal Nine
A group of merchants and craftsmen who had taken the lead in opposing the Stamp Act.
Gullah
A language that mixed various African roots that was mostly unintelligible to whites.
Crispus Attucks
A mixed Indian-African white colonist who died in the Boston Massacre and was hailed as the first martyr of the American Revolution.
Common Sense
A pamphlet that appeared in January 1776 that attacked the Constitution of England and the principles of hereditary rule and monarchical government.
''salutary neglect''
A policy adopted by British governments that left the colonies largely to govern themselves.
''Wilkes and Liberty''
A popular rallying cry in both the colonies and Britain in response to the expulsion of John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament.
92.What did Alexander Hamilton see as the solution to the problem of the weak Confederation government?
A president and senators serving life terms
Pontiac's Rebellion
A revolt against British rule in 1763 by Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes.
Suffolk Resolves
A series of resolutions passed by a convention of delegates in Massachusetts that urged Americans to refuse obedience to new laws
Which of the following was not a conviction embraced by the newly formed Republican party of the mid-1850s?
A system of slavery was tolerable
''task'' system"
A system whereby individual slaves were assigned daily jobs
Treaty of Paris
A treaty that won recognition of American independence
What were the results of the very successful Lewis and Clark expedition?
A very large amount of information about the region as well as plant and animal specimens. Also demonstrated the possiblity of overland travel to the Pacific coast. Help to strengthen idea that Amer. territory was destined to reach all the way to Pacific
John Hancock
A wealthy Boston merchant
Ku Klux Klan
A white supremacy group, mainly situated in the south
First and foremost
Abbey Kelley was a tariff reform activist.
Which one of the following is true of poverty in seventeenth-century Great Britain?
About half of the population lived at or below the poverty line by the end of the seventeenth century.
In his 1858 senate campaign against Stephen Douglas
Abraham Lincoln called for the immediate abolition of slavery.
From his first week in office as president
Abraham Lincoln sent troops into battle against the South.
Why did women lack a voice in the government of the new republic?
Actually, some women raised their voices on behalf of equality or at least some degree of rights, and they thus contributed to a growing democratization of political life.
Dorothea Dix
Advocate for the mentally ill
86.Who were frequently lynched in the late nineteenth century?
African Americans
42.What was not a part of Wilsons 14 points?
African american rights
During the early years of the republic
African-Americans:
93.What did Americans like James Madison and Thomas Jefferson believe must remain the foundation of American life?
Agriculture
142.Who wrote the majority of the 85 essays in the Federalist?
Alexander Hamilton
Democracy in America was written by
Alexis de Tocqueville.
Which was not an attribute of Alexis de Toqueville's vision of democracy?
All Americans over age 21 ought to
84.Who were affected by the quotas of the 1924 immigration act?
All of Asia and Europeans
10.Black soldiers in the Union army
All of the above
10.By 1827, the Cherokees had their own
All of the above
107.What was the significance of the election of 1800?
All of the above
14.During Jackson's presidency, Democrats
All of the above
143.Why did Jefferson find Hamilton's proposals objectionable?
All of the above
147.Why did the war hawks wish to declare war against Great Britain?
All of the above
18.General George McClellan
All of the above
25.How did leaders of the Federalist Party view freedom?
All of the above
28.In the first two years of the war, Abraham Lincoln
All of the above
30.In response to the demand for internal improvements, James Madison
All of the above
31.In the case of Fletcher v. Peck,
All of the above
34.Opposition to Reconstruction
All of the above
41.Thaddeus Stevens
All of the above
5.Alexis de Tocqueville
All of the above
51.The Articles of Confederation
All of the above
52.The Bill of Rights
All of the above
52.The fighting in 1864
All of the above
54.The Constitution allowed Congress to
All of the above
56.The Freedmen's Bureau was responsible for helping the former slaves with
All of the above
60.The New York City draft riots of 1863
All of the above
61.The passage of the Fifteenth Amendment
All of the above
65.The Monroe Doctrine stated that
All of the above
65.To African-Americans, freedom meant
All of the above
66.The national plan that President John Quincy Adams had for American development included
All of the above
89.What advantages did the new nation of the United States enjoy as it became independent?
All of the above
90.With slavery dead, which black institution strengthened after the war?
All of the above
95.What did the Second Bank of the United States do?
All of the above
35.Jackson's battle over the Second Bank of the United States
All of the above - - Whose presidential campaign portrayed him as a log-cabin-living, ciderdrinking, common man? - William Henry Harrison
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included:
All of the above. (boycotts on the importation of British goods
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included:
All of the above. (boycotts on the importation of British goods, mass demonstrations in the port towns, speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects.)
19.How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?
Almost everyone supported it at first, because the French seemed to be following in Americans' footsteps.
23.How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?
Almost everyone supported it at first, because the French seemed to be following in Americans' footsteps.
Which of the following was not a paradoxical feature of Andrew Jackson's public career?
Although suspicious of creditors and paper money
86.Who had been offered a command in the Union army, but declined, due to his devotion to his state?
Robert E. Lee
96.Who was offered a command in the Union army, but declined because of his devotion to his native state?
Robert E. Lee
77.Who and what benefited from the lend-lease act?
Roosevelt and other countries in a struggle against the axis powers, allowed shipment of food and war supplies to other countries as long as they would return them afterwards.
Which of the following was not a mounting source of concern over the effects of the market revolution?
America's failure to attract many newcomers from Europe
Which of the following was not a key episode of the "great upheaval" of 1886?
America's first nationwide railroad strike
With the Second Great Awakening
American Christianity became more hierarchical and out of touch with the common folk.
Arthur St. Clair - 1
American governor of NW territory
In the absence of a strong national government
American social and political activity was organized through voluntary associations such as churches
93.Why was the cuban missile crisis so scary?
American spy planes discovered that the soviet union was installing missiles in cuba capable of reaching the united states with nuclear weapons.
According to Alexis de Tocqueville
Americans believed that they were the only "enlightened" and "free" people in the world.
From the 1830s to the 1850s
Americans were largely a sedentary lot who lived out their lives in the locale in which they were born.
Who won the Revolutionary War?
Americans.
David Walker
An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Quebec Act
An act that extended the southern boundary of Quebec to the Ohio River and granted legal toleration to the Roman Catholic Church in Canada.
The Reconstruction Act
An attempt to make the Republican Party in the south stronger
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
An autobiography of an freed slave that gives insight into slave life and challenges many period stereotypes towards blacks.
The American Crisis
An essay by Thomas Paine read by George Washington to his troops shortly before crossing the Delaware River.
Lord Dunmore's proclamation
An offer by the British governor and military commander in Virginia for freedom to any slave who escaped to his lines and bore arms for the king.
Olive Branch Petition
An offer to George III reaffirming Americans' loyalty to the crown and hoping for a ''permanent reconciliation.''
Stono Rebellion
An uprising in South Carolina by slaves that led to a severe tightening of the slave code and the temporary imposition of a prohibitive tax on imported slaves.
entreprenuers who helped the north
Andrew Carnegie (iron and steel) John d. Rockefeller (oil) financiers Jay Gould and J.P. Morgan, Phillip D. Armour (packaged meat)
115.Which of the following did not happen during the election of 1828?
Andrew Jackson challenged Henry Clay to a duel for opposing his election after having engineered his defeat in the "corrupt bargain" of 1824.
As a boy
Andrew Jackson had almost been killed when
What were some of the results of the war for Indians?
Andrew Jackson required that Indians cede (give up) more than half their land to the federal gov't. He also killed over 800 Indians
48.what was the ellis island of the west?
Angel Island
Fort Sumter
April 12, 1861 South Carolina tried to take union infrastructure, lincoln tried to give food to fort which later surrendered with no casualties
battle of shiloh
April 6, 1863 woods battle in west victory U.S. Grant over albert sidney johnson
The view that reason alone was capable of establishing the essentials of religion and that outdated superstitions included belief in the revealed truth of the Bible and miracles was called
Arminianism.
Which of the following was not a key difference between traditional artisan production and the new factory system?
Artisans generally labored under closer supervision than did factory workers.
16.What did the 16th Amendment do?
Authorized congress to enact a graduated income tax
Describe the events of the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion.
Backcountry PA farmers sought to block collection of the new tax on distilled spirits. Pres. Washington accompanied 13
McCulloch v. Maryland
Bank of the United States was constitutional
modern liberalism
Belief in strong, active government
classical liberalism
Belief in weak, small government
140.Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the ending of slavery?
Benjamin Franklin
93.Who wrote a petition to Congress as the president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, calling for the ending of slavery?
Benjamin Franklin
What famous statesman brought the issue of slavery & emancipation before the very first Congress under the new Constitution?
Benjamin Franklin - president of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society at the time
33.What problems resulted with the passage of the 15th amendment?
Bill of rights passed without the mention of blacks, riots broke out after. Amendment prohibits each government in the US from denying a citizen the right to vote on terms of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
80.Which of the following best describes the black response to the ending of athe Civil War and the coming of freedom?
Blacks adopted different ways of testing their freedom, including moving about, seeking kin, and rejecting older forms of deferential behavior.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Boston Tea Party
John Adams
Boston lawyer and political philosopher
Samuel Adams
Boston patriot
Paul Revere
Boston silversmith and partriot
Charles Townshend
Britain's chancellor of the exchequer
As Britain's global power expanded
British patriotism actually declined.
5.How did william mckinley justify the annexation of the philippines by the US?
By saying it was americas duty to uplift and civilize them. He said they were incapable of goerning themselves and he could not return them to spain, france, or germany.
But as late as 1860
California's male population outnumbered females by nearly three to one.
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
Called Indians "wards" of the federal government
Tecumseh
Called for all Indians to unite as one people and attach American frontier settlements. He believed that the lands were rightfully theirs and criticized chiefs who sold their lands.
43.Members of which of the following groups were generally opposed to the temperance movement?
Catholics
John Marshall - 1
Chief Justice of Supreme Court
Which one of the following is true about Native Americans and material wealth?
Chiefs were expected to share some of their goods rather than hoard them.
Which was not a characteristic of "couverture"?
Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.
Which was not a characteristic of "coverture"?
Children became the property of the state upon a husband's death.
When Columbus first sailed to America in 1492
Christian Europe was entirely Catholic; twenty-five years later
64.What city was known as "porkopolis" because of its slaughterhouses that butchered and processed hundreds of thousands of pigs each year?
Cincinnati
Which of the following was not a feature of westward expansion during the early to mid-1800s?
Cities had no significant presence in the expanding West.
87.Who lobbied for the United States to endorse the First Geneva Convention of 1864?
Clara Barton
Boston Massacre
Clash between British soldiers and a Boston mob
20.How did the market revolution change the way Americans conceived of time?
Clocks increasingly regulated the separation of work and leisure time.
74.What were the black codes of the south?
Codes that prevented blacks from owning property, marrying, testifying in court, voting, holding office, serving on juries, or bearing arms.
a group of wealthy residents of the back country who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
Coercive or Intolerable Acts.
After four trips across the Atlantic
Columbus recognized he had not reached Asia.
The court case in which it was held that workers' unions are not illegal was
Commonwealth v. Hunt.
What were the results of the War of 1812 for the US?
Completed the conquest of the area east of the Mississippi
In their initial pronouncements
Confederate leaders stressed the preservation of white supremacy and slavery.
123.Which of the following was a characteristic of the Articles of Confederation?
Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.
During the Civil War
Congress made grants for up to 100 million acres to the railroads.
76.Which of the following contributed to the United States going to war in 1812?
Congressional War Hawks who pressed for territorial expansion into Florida and Canada
The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Cortes's conquest of the Aztecs; Las Casas's Destruction of the Indies; Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs-Las Casas's Destruction of the In-dies- Spanish abolition of Indian enslavement
Who was considered "the first martyr" of the American Revolution?
Crispus Attacks.
Which of the following pieces of the statue atop the Capitol Building in Washington
D. C. was part of a controversy concerning slavery?
A slave craftsman named Phillip Reed directed the assembly of the statue that adorns the top of the Capitol Building dome in Washington
D.C.
Jefferson was the first president to begin his term in Washington
D.C.
The Battle of Washington
D.C.
Which was not an aspect of cooperative Shaker settlements?
Dancing was not allowed in Shaker settlements.
135.Who argued that the people, not the states, created the Constitution?
Daniel Webster
Virtue
Defined in the eighteenth century as both a personal moral quality but also the willingness to subordinate self-interest to the pursuit of the public good.
Andrew Jackson was the standard bearer for which political party?
Democrats
The national political parties of the second American party system were
Democrats and Whigs.
What was Jefferson hoping Lewis and Clark would find and do on their expedition?
Discover a water route to the Pacific Ocean (a Northwest Passage that could facilitate commerce with Asia) and establish trading relations with western Indians
Declaration of Independence
Document adopted on July 4
56.What was the purpose of nsc-68?
Document for establishment of massive military in order to contain and combat communism.
Albany Plan of Union
Drafted by Benjamin Franklin in 1754
Which of the following is TRUE of the soldiers who fought for American independence?
During the war's later years
What did both parties accuse each other of?
Each charged the other with betraying the principles of the War of Indepence and of American freedom.
Which of the following is not a valid comparison of the eighteenth-century ideas of "republicanism" and "liberalism"?
Each condemned material inequality as incompatible with freedom.
"Corrupt bargain"
Election of 1824
At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York
Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on:
How did Richard Hakluyt explain his claim that there was a connection between freedom and colonization?
English colonization would save the New World from Spanish tyranny.
Thomas Paine
English immigrant called of American independence in his widely read pamphlet
68.What did Frederick Douglass urge Northern blacks to do during the war, after 1863?
Enlist in the Union army
53.What was the most important aspect of the fourteenth amendment?
Equality before law regardless of race
Theodore Weld
Equated slavery with sin
In the portrait of Olaudah Equiano in his book
Equiano holds a:
When the author
Eric Foner
Runaways
Escaped slaves seeking freedom from their owners.
94.Why were the espionage act and the sedition act considered dangerous?
Espionage act- first law restricting freedom of speech, prohibited spying on those not in conjunction with the draft, also making false statements that might interfere with military actions. Sedition act- forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the united states government/army/etc"
Circulating libraries
Establishments that made possible wider dissemination of knowledge
A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
"Husbandry" is defined as the property or state of being a husband
False
"Redeemers" saved the South from the corrupt ways of Reconstruction politics and redeemed the South for fair and equal treatment for all Americans.
False
46.most African-Americans enthusiastically favored the colonization idea and moving to Africa.
False
75.True or false, He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.
False
76.True or false, They convinced Lincoln to delay issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
False
A chief endeavor of black abolitionists was the call for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
False
A strong immunity to European diseases strengthened Indian resistance to the conquistadors.
False
Abolitionists did not believe so much in "moral suasion" as in the violent overthrow of the slave power and insurrection by slaves themselves.
False
Abraham Lincoln was a firm supporter of votes for black Americans prior to the Civil War.
False
Alexander Hamilton shot Aaron Burr in a hunting accident.
False
Almost all African slaves in the eighteenth century came from the same African tribe.
False
Andrew Jackson and his supporters publicly argued that the Presidential Election of 1824 had been determined in his favor by a "corrupt bargain" between some of the participants.
False
Bacon's Rebellion of 1676 was a rebellion over a tax increase on bacon
False
By the eighteenth century northern colonies were free of slavery.
False
Columbus was Spanish.
False
Cotton gin was a beverage invented by Eli Whitney.
False
Dancing was forbidden in Shaker settlements.
False
Dorothea Dix was a leading advocate of abolitionism.
False
Dueling was legal in mid-nineteenth-century America.
False
During the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century most colonial slave owners who proclaimed their Christian faith freed their slaves after concluding that blacks and whites were brothers in Christ.
False
During the course of the 1700s the colonies increasingly grew apart from the British empire.
False
Ely Whitney's invention of the cotton gin improved the lives of millions of African-Americans.
False
Europeans in the 1500s held firmly to the view that all men are created equal.
False
Free blacks gained the right to vote in every state in the Union after 1800.
False
General George B. McClellan was notorious for his military recklessness.
False
George E. Pickett's division marched across an open field toward Union forces in July 1863 at Chancellorsville.
False
George Washington made a significant statement about slavery when he freed his slaves before taking the presidential office.
False
George Washington wore the finest English clothes at his first inauguration.
False
Government involvement in the economy was diminished as a consequence of the Civil War.
False
Growing connections with Europeans lessened warfare between Indian tribes.
False
Harriet Beecher Stowe was most famous for running the Underground Railroad.
False
In 1492 the population of Europe was greater than that of the Americas.
False
In human history slaves have all been blacks
False
In the fifty years following the end of the international slave trade in 1808 the number of slaves in the United States fell by 50 percent.
False
Indians who lived in the Catholic missions established by Father Junipero Serra in California generally lived happy healthy free and long lives.
False
Jay's Treaty abandoned any American alliance with Britain by positioning the United States close to France.
False
Jefferson barely won the election of 1804.
False
John Brown was a Confederate hero martyred in his attempt to preserve what is now West Virginia as a slave state.
False
Lewis and Clark were guided by Pocahontas across the Bitterroot Mountains.
False
Lincoln waited until after the Union victory at Gettysburg to deliver the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863.
False
Little contact existed among the diverse Indian societies of North America.
False
More than 1 million northerners became abolitionists during the 1830s.
False
Most African-Americans strongly supported settlement of themselves and other blacks in Africa (as a means to escape southern slavery).
False
Most European men in the 1500s owned property and could vote.
False
Most slaves in eighteenth century British America had been born in the colonies.
False
New Netherland extended all the way down from Quebec to the lower Mississippi Valley.
False
No one was ever convicted under the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.
False
Of the ten million people who crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle in the Americas in the 328 years from 1492 to 1820 most were white Europeans.
False
Presidential Reconstruction (1865-1867) was a success.
False
Racism"--the idea that some races are inherently superior to others and entitled to rule over them--was fully developed in seventeenth-century colonial Virginia.
False
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the author of Walden.
False
Roger Williams imagined Rhode Island as a feudal domain.
False
Shakers practiced sexual polygamy as part of their religious beliefs.
False
Slavery flourished in Brazil and the West Indies in the seventeenth century because of tobacco.
False
Slaves on cotton plantations found harsher work conditions but greater autonomy than did those on rice plantations.
False
Slaves showed little inclination to challenge their enslavement in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Virginia.
False
The "Revolution of 1800" was against the French.
False
The Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed all enslaved persons in the United States.
False
The Embargo of 1807 set the stage for vast economic prosperity in the United States.
False
The Fifteenth Amendment granted the vote to white women but not black women.
False
The Free Soil party contended that the western lands should stay "free" of settlement by the United States.
False
The Haitian Revolution and Gabriel's rebellion convinced large numbers of white southerners that slavery had to go.
False
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was renounced by President Jackson.
False
The Indians' defeat in King Philip's War hastened the introduction of slavery in Carolina.
False
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions condemned state laws against seditious speech.
False
The Know-Nothing Party was founded as a crusade against compulsory public education.
False
The Ku Klux Klan sought to uphold the American ideal of equality and justice for all.
False
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was swiftly crushed by Spanish authorities.
False
The Sea Island Experiment was an experiment in the Sea Islands of South Carolina in which a large breakwater was constructed to stop massive flooding during hurricanes.
False
The Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa led the way in promoting Indian adoption of white customs.
False
The Supreme Court did little to promote the entrepreneurial agenda of the market revolution.
False
The Underground Railroad ran on steel tracks (after its iron ones were replaced) that were generally hidden in forest growth.
False
The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions put forth the idea of secession.
False
The War of 1812 was ended only after the British pledged to cease the impressment of American sailors.
False
The charter for the Bank of the United States was renewed in 1811.
False
The cities were the most rapidly growing region in North America by the mid-eighteenth century.
False
The discoveries made by Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the West persuaded Jefferson to go ahead with the Louisiana Purchase.
False
The distribution of wealth was fairly even in the nineteenth-century United States.
False
The laws of almost all southern states recognized the legality of slave marriages.
False
The main target of the Sedition Act was the British.
False
Thomas Jefferson's declaration that "all men are created equal" did not radically alter society.
False
Under the Fugitive Slave Act no slaves were ever actually returned to the South.
False
William Lloyd Garrison was most remembered for his book Uncle Tom's Cabin
False
128.Which part of the American System proved to be the most controversial?
Federal financing of improved roads and canals
90.What are the two basic political principles embodied in the Constitution?
Federalism and checks and balances
The only major party in American history to proclaim democracy and freedom dangerous in the hands of ordinary citizens
Federalists (Hamilton
Which of the following was not a feature of the emergent American feminism of the 1840s?
Feminist leaders like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott confined their focus to the quest for suffrage; for them
Great Awakening
Fervent religious revival movement in the 1720s through the 1740s that was spread throughout the colonies by ministers like New England Congregationalist Jonathan Edwards and English revivalist George Whitefield.
Patrick Henry
Fiery partriot
election of 1832
Firsts (third party, published platform, convention) Jackson, Clay(R), Floyd (R), William Wirt (anti-masonic) Jackson wins
24.How did the Civil War affect planter families?
For the first time, some of them had to do physical labor.
What impact/effect did the Haitian Revolution have on many white Americans?
Former slaveowners/whites fleeing Haiti told stories of massacres and burnings of plantations. This spread fear among whites.
A series of revolutions in Europe—in England
France
What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?
France and Spain
What two European powers allied with the Americans in the War for Independence?
France and Spain.
The French and Indian War began because some American colonists felt that:
France was encroaching on land claimed by the Ohio Company.
75.The quasi-war was a war against
France.
The country whose trading posts ringed British mainland colonies to the North and West in the eighteenth century was
France.
According to abolitionist and former slave
Frederick Douglass
Who pioneered scientific management?
Frederick Taylor
The exchange of goods among Spanish colonists
French colonists
Acadians
French residents of Nova Scotia expelled by the British.
In what ways was Puritan church membership a restrictive status?
Full membership required demonstrating that one had experienced divine grace.
Fourteenth Amendment
Gave citizenship to anyone born in the U.S. and allowed the government to protect the rights of Americans
4.How did the new deal affect government?
Gave the gov. more power and responsibilities. Increased power in the executive branch.
Freedom of expression
Generally not considered one of the ancient rights of Englishmen
Nathaniel Greene
George Washington's most skill full and knowlegdable general
Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?
George Washington.
The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was
George Whitefield.
Which of the following European countries did not have a colonial presence in seventeenth-century North America?
Germany
Spoils system
Getting a job based on party loyalty, not merit
73.The preamble to the Constitution most reflected the influence of
Gouverneur Morris.
James Bowdoin - 2
Gov. of Massachusetts; felt no sympathy for Shay's Rebellers
Committees of Safety
Groups authorized by Congress to oversee its mandates and to take action against ''enemies of American liberty
Regulators
Groups of backcountry Carolina settlers who protested colonial policies.
Committees of Correspondence
Groups that communicated with those in other colonies to encourage opposition to the Sugar and Currency acts.
What was Hamilton's long-term goal with regard to American Finance?
Hamilton wanted to make the US a major commercial and military power (modeled after Great Britain)
Election of 1876
Hayes (Republican) barely won over the democrats. Republicans agreed that Democrats control the south and Democrats agreed not to dispute Hayes's right to office
Which of the following can be associated with the death of the Knights of Labor?
Haymarket Square
24.How did Hamilton win support for his programs?
He and Jefferson negotiated an agreement that would grant the southern opponents of his plans a national capital city in return for supporting most of what he wanted.
Gabriel's Rebellion
He and his conspirators plotted to march on Richmond
21.What did W.E.B Du Bois advocate?
He believed education would help fix social problems, especially with blacks.
Which was not expressed by Bartolome de Las Casas in A Very Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indes in 1552?
He believed that Indians ought to be allowed to continue to practice their native faiths as a true sign of Christian love and toleration.
102.What made Martin Van Buren important to American history?
He believed, unlike the founding fathers, that political parties served a useful purpose.
Which was not a means by which Cortez conquered the Aztecs?
He bombarded the Aztec capital from his Spanish galleons.
What ruling did Chief Justice Marshall make with regard to Marbury v. Madison?
He declared that the Judiciary Act of 1789 requiring an executive official to deliver judge's commission NOT in keeping with the constitution. As a result Marbury did not recieve his commission--Jefferson got his way. Beginning of Judicial Review.
125.Which of the following was not a contradictory aspect of Andrew Jackson's character?
He founded the modern Democratic Party, yet he consistently criticized political parties as antithetical to the views of the founding fathers which he claimed to follow closely.
88.Which of the following is NOT true of Abraham Lincoln's slavery policy during the first two years of the war?
He proposed a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery immediately.
69.What did President Lincoln do when, in 1861, the commanding Union leader of forces in Mississippi decreed the freedom of its slaves?
He rescinded the order.
27.How did Thomas Jefferson view the Federalists while in office?
He tried to roll back almost everything they had done by cutting taxes and the size of government.
82.Which of the following is false about Andrew Johnson?
He used his economic success as a tailor to become a successful politician.
Why did Jefferson desire to purchase the Louisiana territory?
He was afraid that the French might try to interfere with American commerce and wanted unchallenged access to the port of New Orleans.
66.What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?
He was executed.
99.What happened to King Louis XVI during the French Revolution?
He was executed.
119.Which of the following is not true of John Quincy Adams?
He was popular with the public but inept at insider politics.
34.How was Ulysses Grant received in Europe during his tour in the 1870s?
He was praised as a "Hero of Freedom."
94.Which two political figures agreed to keep the issue of annexing Texas out of the 1844 presidential campaign if possible?
Henry Clay an Martin Van Buren
97.Who wrote "on civil disobedience" as a response to the U.S. war with Mexico?
Henry David Thoreau
"History exhibits truths as well as facts"
History often repeats itself
Northern congressional acts
Homestead act- january 1 1863 free or cheap land in the west. Land Grant college act- made agricultural colleges
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all
Horace Mann promoted all of the following views except that:
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all
Horace Mann promoted the idea that schools were training free individuals
As a driving force in the creation of public schools for all
Horace Mann promoted the idea that universal public education would encourage the good of society by bringing children of all economic classes together in a common learning experience.
72.What were settlement houses?
Houses for the poor and immigrants to americanize and reduce poverty
89.Which of the following puts these Civil War battles in the proper chronological order, from first to last? I. Antietam II. First Bull Run III. Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor IV. Gettysburg
II, I, IV, III
Peculiar institution
Slavery
Harriet Martineau
Society in America
How did Indians respond to demands to assimilate?
Some embraced assimilation and this infurioriated nativists who wanted to resist further white presence on Indian land.
85.Which of the following is true of women and political life in the new republic of the 1790s?
Some women contributed to a growing democratization of political life by arguing for increased rights for their sex.
Which was not part of the Irish experience on their arrival in the United States in the late 1840s and 1850s?
Soon after their arrival most Irish became strong proponents of the Republican Party.
26.How did southern states react to the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery?
South Carolina and Georgia immediately began importing increased numbers of Africans, because in twenty years, the international slave trade would be constitutionally prohibited.
The two southern colonies that did not enroll free blacks and slaves to fight were
South Carolina and Georgia.
military tactics
South wanted north to give up by military defeats, north was on attack and tried to take impossible places
88.Who, when in power, established the South's first state-supported public schools?
Southern Republicans
81.Which of the following is true of Lafayette's 1824 visit to the United States?
Southern states banned "persons of color" from ceremonies honoring him.
Scalawags
Southern whites who supported Reconstruction and the Republican party
104.What was the Hamilton-Jefferson bargain?
Southerners agreed to Hamilton's fiscal program in exchange for placing the nation's capital in Maryland-Virginia.
In which country did the reconquista occur?
Spain
What was life like for blacks in the New Orleans area prior to the Louisiana Purchase with regard to their freedom?
Spain and France made it much easier for slaves to gain their freedom and have the same rights as whites. Slaves there had many protections and slave women even the right to go to court for protection agains cruelty or rape by their owners.
To justify their colonial ventures
Spain invoked the threat of Protestantism.
77.Which of the following did NOT contribute to the American acquisition of Florida from Spain?
Spain's loss of Haiti in a slave rebellion, which rendered Florida imperially unimportant
Presidios
Spanish military outposts in Texas.
The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is
St. Augustine
The oldest site in the present-day United States to be continuously inhabited by Europeans is:
St. Augustine
The British imposed a direct tax (also called an "internal tax") for the first time on colonists with the
Stamp Act.
The British imposed a direct tax (also called an "internal tax") for the first time on colonists with the:
Stamp Act.
Which of the following was John D. Rockefeller's Company?
Standard Oil Company
138.Who was (were) among the leading Anti-Federalists?
State politicians who wanted to keep their power and feared that a stronger central government would take that away
One of the leading figures of the Democratic party in the 1850s was:
Stephen Douglas.
10.What caused the great depression?
Stock market crash on black thursday, unequal distribution of wealth, decline of european demand of american goods after recovery from the war.
Which was not an element in the Triangular Trade?
Tea and luxury goods were shipped to Britain from Asia.
Carpetbaggers
Term that southerners called northerners
105.What was the role of national identity in the new Constitution?
The "people" were white Americans; Native Americans and "other persons," meaning African-American slaves, were different.
Which was not true of the Alamo?
The Alamo was a U.S. fortress (or mission compound) on U.S. soil.
132.Which statement about the War of 1812 is false?
The American victory at the Battle of New Orleans convinced Britain to surrender.
What event marked the first US encounter with the Islamic world?
The Barbary Wars
Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?
The British public was ambivalent over a war to retain the colonies
Which of the following was not a part of the balance of power between the British and American forces during the Revolution?
The British public was ambivalent over a war to retain the colonies; the American public was united behind a war for independence.
Tocqueville on Democracy
The Citizens of the U.S. were the ones who participated in the political democracy
Which of the following was not a key difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?
The Democrats were united in opposition to paper money; the Whigs were united in support of it.
111.Which act was intended to ban all American exports, thereby crippling the British and French economies?
The Embargo Act
What political party had major support in New England?
The Federalists
124.Which of the following was not a characteristic of the early Federalist and Republican parties?
The Federalists drew a great deal of their support from small farmers who depended increasingly on market forces.
77.Which constitutional amendment gave all men the right to vote regardless of their race or previous condition of servitude?
The Fifteenth Amendment
146.Why did the United States become a one-party state following the War of 1812?
The Hartford Convention fatally damaged the Federalist Party, portraying them as treasonous.
97.Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812?
The Hartford Convention's allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist Party's reputation.
118.Which of the following is not a check against presidential power in the Constitution?
The House can remove the president from office after impeaching him.
Which of the following is NOT a check against presidential power in the Constitution?
The House can remove the president from office after impeaching him.
Which was not part of the aftermath of King Phillip's War?
The Iroquois
William L. Garrison
The Liberator
Known as Jefferson's greatest achievement.
The Louisiana Purchase
Which of the following was not a significant theme of public protest against America's war on Mexico?
The Mexican military was likely to overpower American forces; it was foolhardy to challenge Mexico.
87.Which of the following statements related to the Second Great Awakening is FALSE?
The Second Great Awakening popularized Deism.
What thrust freedom of expression to the center of dicussions of American liberty?
The Sedition Act
88.Which of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the South?
The South had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east
Which of the following was not a notable feature of sixteenth-century Spanish America?
The Spanish crown took little interest in the administration of colonial affairs.
Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?
The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.
70.What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review.
106.What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
The Supreme Court assumed the power of judicial review.
24.What event marked the turning point in the Vietnam conflict, forcing lyndon b johnson to change course and pull out of the upcoming presidential race?
The TET offensive, a series of surprise attacks by the vietcong
What was signed ending the War of 1812?
The Treaty of Ghent (1814) restored the previous status quo (made things as they were prior to the war)
144.Why did Jefferson use the U.S. Navy against African states?
The United States had stopped paying tribute to the Barbary pirates to leave its ships alone, and the ruler of Tripoli had declared war on the United States as a result.
101.What is not true about the Whigs?
The Whigs strongest support came from the lower Northwest and the southern backcountry.
Judicial Review
The act of evaluating legislation/laws to ensure that they abide by or are in keeping with the constitution.
''middle ground''
The area between European empires and Indian sovereignty that contained intermixed villages of settlers and tribes.
8.What began the great war? Why was it so devastating?
The assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand?
''deference''
The assumption among ordinary people that wealth
How was the War of 1812 a "two-front struggle?"
The battle was against the British and against the Indians
Social Darwinism
The belief that some races are superior to others, providing justification for racism.
''American exceptionalism''
The belief that the United States has a special mission to serve as a refuge from tyranny
Which was not part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
The children of slaves already in Missouri were to be freed at age twenty-five.
83.Which of the following was not an advantage for the North entering the Civil War?
The comparatively small amount of territory it needed to conquer
What enabled Jefferson to win the election in 1800 against John Adams?
The counting of slaves (3/5) in apportionment
What was the major overall result of the events of the the 1790s as far as Americans and politics are concerned?
The events demonstrated that a majority of Americans believed ordinary people had a right to play an active role in politics
131.Which statement about slavery and the Constitution is false?
The federal government could interfere with slavery within the states.
The Virginia Resolution (written by Madison) and the Kentucky Resolution (written by Jefferson) both attacked the Sedition Act claiming that it was unconstitutional and violated what Amendment?
The first Amendment--freedom of speech.
76.Which act or organization during the new deal bared commercial banks from becoming involved in the buying and selling of stocks?
The glass-steagall act
Which of the following was not a theme of Social Darwinism?
The growing gulf between the haves and the have-nots poses a dire threat to American freedom.
81.Which of the following did not cause divisions within the Confederacy?
The heavy revenue-raising taxes on planters, who resented paying all of the costs of the war
44.What was the "final solution"?
The holocaust
Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?
The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship.
What were the results in Richmond of Gabriel's rebellion (with regard to gaining freedom)?
The legislature tightened controls over the black population by making it illegal to gather on Sundays without white supervision and put restrictions on masters voluntarily freeing their slaves.
In what part of the country was most of the opposition to Hamilton's Proposal located?
The more agricultural South
93.Which statement about the Mormons, a group founded by Joseph Smith, is FALSE?
The mormons were founded in the 1840s as an offshoot of Methodism
113.Which of the following contributed to the poor American performance in the War of 1812?
The nation was deeply divided about whether to go to war.
75.Which of the following contributed to the poor American performance in the War of 1812?
The nation was deeply divided about whether to go to war.
90.Which of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton's proposals?
The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America's future.
71.What new technology used during the Civil War considerably changed the nature of combat?
The rifle
70.What initially arose as a compromise between blacks' desire for land and planters' for labor discipline?
The sharecropping system
Valley Forge
The site where Washington's army camped during the frigid winter of 1777-1778.
Atlantic slave trade
The systematic importation of African slaves from their native continent across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World
87.Who were involved in the Harlem Renaissance?
The vibrant black community that involved poetry broadway, black writers, and theaters.
Middle Passage
The voyage of slaves across the Atlantic.
When was the first time the US declared war on another country?
The war of 1812
Which was not an element in the 1841 Dorr War?
The war's bloodshed led to the deaths of more than 246 people
What were some of the causes of the end of the Federalist party?
Their anti-war stance
Which was not an aspect of Native American religious beliefs?
Their written religious text was called the Wicca.
36.In his last speech, Lincoln said what regarding postwar policy?
There should be at least limited black suffrage.
What impact did the French Revolution have on the US with regard to the formation of political parties?
There was a great divide due to disagreement as to we supported. Jefferson and his followers supported France (because they were inspired by us) while others led by Washington and Hamilton
Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?
There were four different tribes in the Americas
Which was not a characteristic of American Indians?
There were four different tribes in the Americas.
Why were Federalists upset with the Louisiana Purchase?
They argued that we paid too much money for land which we already had too much of.
Which was not a chief endeavor of black abolitionists?
They called for freed blacks to travel to Africa to live in peace and freedom.
116.Which of the following did the states not do during the period in which the Articles of Confederation governed the United States?
They called out militias to stop foreclosures on the homes of debtors.
Which did not characterize free blacks (such as Anthony Johnson) in Virginia and Maryland in the 1600s?
They could not own African slaves.
145.Why did the founding fathers create the electoral college?
They did not trust ordinary voters to choose the president and vice president directly.
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?
They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor worship.
Which of the following was a characteristic or action of the Pueblo Indians of the Southwest?
They diverted the Colorado River as part of their ritualistic ancestor-worship.
Which was not a way women became increasingly active in the public sphere during the early nineteenth century?
They exercised the suffrage after 1807.
Why were many Americans nervous about Hamilton's proposal for a "national army?"
They feared the gov't becoming too powerful.
Why did the Pilgrims flee the Netherlands?
They felt that the surrounding culture was corrupting their children.
What did the Democratic-Republican Societies ultimately do for the common man before they disappeared in 1795?
They helped to legitimize the right of anyone regardless of how much they make
What did Jefferson and Madison mean by 'extend the sphere?"
They meant that the large size of the republic made self-government possible (more land for farming--chiefly agrarian character of the US that they supported)
80.Which of the following is NOT true about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?
They never reached the Pacific coast.
What is not true about Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition?
They never reached the Pacific coast.
63.What was the senates decision on the treaty of versailles?
They rejected the treaty because it contained the league of nations which they were afraid would stifle their independence, especially to declare war on other countries.
Which of the following is not true of The Federalist?
They represented a powerful argument in favor of democracy.
121.Which of the following is true of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?
They shared with their British predecessors fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans and lacked respect for order and authority.
23.How did Southern slaves react to the Civil War?
They started calling it the freedom war long before Lincoln and the Union took any steps in the direction of ending slavery.
89.Why did senators oppose America's participation in the League Of nations?
They thought it threatened their freedom as a country.
1868 Democratic presidential ticket, Horatio Seymour and Francis Blair, Jr., had a campaign motto of
This is a White Man's Country. Let White Men Rule.
Two of the Gilded Age's leading business figures were:
Thomas A. Scott and Andrew Carnegie.
141.Who wrote that he hoped that the purchase of Louisiana would lead to the transplanting of all the Indians east of the Mississippi to the west of the Mississippi?
Thomas Jefferson
95.Who wrote that he hoped that the purchase of Louisiana would lead to the transplanting of all the Indians from east of the Mississippi to west of the Mississippi?
Thomas Jefferson
Who favored removal of American Indians from tribal lands to land west of the Mississippi?
Thomas Jefferson
Who won the presidency in 1800?
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote Notes on the State of Virginia?
Thomas Jefferson
49.The 1796 election matched John Adams and Thomas Pinckney up against
Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
133.Which two prominent men were not at the Constitutional Convention?
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams
In the Revolution of 1800
Thomas Jefferson led a coup against the administration of John Quincy Adams.
During the Adams presidency
Thomas Jefferson opposed the suppression of political dissent by federal government—but not by state government.
Which of the following is NOT true of the presidential election of 1800?
Thomas Jefferson's victory in the New England states proved to be key to his election.
74.The president responsible for the Louisiana Purchase was
Thomas Jefferson.
Who was the radical author of "Rights of Man?"
Thomas Paine
45.What was the aim of Carlisle, a boarding school for indians?
To americanize indian children with education
126.Which of the following was not one of the purposes of the Lewis and Clark expedition?
To find out the extent of French and Spanish influence in the region
Which of the following was not a theme of seventeenth-century British mercantilism?
Trade should flow freely among all lands
Andrew Johnson
Tried to reconstruct the U.S. by reuniting the South
96.Why did Jefferson use the U.S. navy against North African states?
Tripoli had declared war on the United States after Jefferson had refused demands for increased payments to the Barbary pirates.
What were some of the early problems that Adams dealt with early in his presidency?
Troubles overseas with Britain and France seizing our ships
"Perfectionism" is the view that social ills once considered unable to be cured could now be eradicated.
True
"Shakers" got their name because they were similar in their faith beliefs to Quakers but danced in a shaking manner as part of their religious services.
True
. The 1836 Specie Circular declared that the federal government would accept only specie (gold and silver) in payment for public land.
True
. The Dorr War revolved around the issue of whether propertyless white men should have the right to vote.
True
6.Abolitionists were among the first to appreciate the key role of public opinion in a mass democracy, focusing their efforts on awakening the nation to the moral evil of slavery.
True
A consequence of Bacon's Rebellion was a consolidation of power among Virginia's elite.
True
A small number of African-Americans owned slaves in the Old South.
True
Abby Kelley was one of the foremost female orators in the country during her time.
True
According to the English minister George Whitefield people could participate in their own salvation through their own actions- they were not- as predominant Protestant religions had traditionally held- unable to affect their destiny.
True
Advocates of moral reform encountered widespread indifference or opposition on the part of those they were trying to reform.
True
Africans enslaved other Africans long before the arrival of European traders.
True
America was a much less highly stratified society than Europe.
True
America's early factories drew largely upon the labor of women and children.
True
American leaders viewed the British Empire as an association of equals.
True
Among the important accomplishments of Reconstruction state governments was the establishment of the South's first state-supported public schools.
True
An irony of the 1763 British victory in the Seven Years' War is that victory ultimately contributed to Britain's loss of its mainland American colonies since in seeking to pay for the Seven Years' War the British government raised taxes on American colonists who protested taxation without representation.
True
Another name for the American Party of 1854 was the Know-Nothing Party.
True
As a consequence of British victory in the Seven Years' War Britain not only won control of Canada but also gained control of India.
True
Between 1880 and 1940 there were more white sharecroppers than black sharecroppers.
True
Black Americans continued to hold offices in the South into the 1890s.
True
Black Codes sometimes assigned black children to work for their former masters without parental consent.
True
Black soldiers played a crucial role in winning the Civil War and in defining the war's consequences.
True
Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
True
Disagreement over the role of women in antislavery campaigns contributed to a major split in the abolitionist movement.
True
During the eighteenth century British colonies diversified along ethnic and religious lines
True
Eighteenth-century liberalism drew heavily upon the thinking of the philosopher John Locke.
True
England and Scotland were united in 1707 by the Act of Union to create Great Britain.
True
English settlers in New York demanded their rights over their former Dutch rulers through the Charter of Liberties.
True
For the expanding middle class it became a badge of respectability for wives to remain at home.
True
Fourteen women and five men were hanged as witches in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.
True
Free blacks were largely denied access to the material opportunities generated by the market revolution.
True
Freedom and slavery simultaneously expanded in the course of the eighteenth century as both the idea of the freeborn Englishman grew and the Atlantic slave trade expanded.
True
Historians consider Nat Turner's rebellion to be the only large-scale slave rebellion in the South.
True
Horace Mann believed that freedom could derive only from self-discipline and self-control.
True
In eighteenth-century Britain the ideologies of "Republicanism" and "Liberalism" both underscored the importance of private property as a foundation of freedom.
True
In the Slaughterhouse Cases (1873) the Supreme Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment had not altered traditional federalism.
True
In the eighteenth century only five percent of adult men in Britain could vote but between 50 and 80 percent of adult white males in the colonies could vote.
True
Jefferson's embargo on U.S. exports proved an economic disaster for American port towns.
True
John Adams's acceptance of defeat in 1800 established the vital precedent of a peaceful transfer of power from a defeated party to its successor.
True
John Brown and his followers murdered five supporters of slavery at Pottawatomie Creek in May 1856.
True
Lincoln shared many of the racial prejudices of his day.
True
Many late-nineteenth-century "captains of industry" made their initial fortunes during the Civil War.
True
Martin Van Buren's presidency was occupied to a large degree in dealing with issues arising from the Panic of 1837.
True
Mexico won independence from Spain in 1821.
True
Millions of Americans' lives were improved by the nineteenth century market revolution.
True
More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.
True
Most African rulers took part in the Atlantic slave trade.
True
Most Indian tribes were matrilineal.
True
New Netherland never became an important or sizable colony in the Dutch empire.
True
One of Lewis and Clark's tasks was to record information about the flora and fauna they encountered.
True
Perhaps 80 million Native Americans died in the century and a half following first contact in consequence of diseases carried by Europeans.
True
Pickett's charge at Gettysburg marked "the high tide of the Confederacy."
True
President Andrew Jackson's critics called him "King Andrew."
True
Shays's Rebellion demonstrated to many leading Americans the need for a more central government to ensure private liberty.
True
Small-scale slavery in which Indians enslaved other Indians existed in Indian society.
True
Some 700 blacks sat in state legislatures during Reconstruction
True
Some free blacks in the South owned slaves.
True
Some women served as preachers in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
True
The 1828 "tariff of abominations" led to the nullification crisis.
True
The Barbary Wars were the United States' first contact with the Islamic World.
True
The Bargain of 1877 marked the formal end to Reconstruction.
True
The Civil Rights era of the 1950s and 1960s is sometimes called the Second Reconstruction.
True
The Great Awakening was a religious movement that called colonists to awaken to the truth of the divinity of Jesus Christ.
True
The Haitian Revolution renewed fears of a slave rebellion in the United States.
True
The Panic of 1819 left many Americans uneasy about the market revolution.
True
The United States Army earnestly pursued the enlistment of black soldiers following the Emancipation Proclamation.
True
The Whiskey Rebellion reinforced Federalist beliefs in the need for a strong standing army.
True
The democratic ferment of the 1790s drew much inspiration from the French Revolution and British radicalism.
True
The first income tax was enacted under the leadership of the Republican Party.
True
The leading theorist of nullification and states' rights by 1831 was the Vice President of the United States.
True
The market revolution in the nineteenth-century United States produced dynamic and expansive growth in the nation's output and in trade and a rising standard of living for millions of Americans.
True
The market revolution swept over the United States in the first half of the nineteenth century.
True
The period of Radical Reconstruction began in March 1867 with Congress's adoption of the Reconstruction Act over the president's veto and ended in 1877.
True
The rise of the corporation was crucial to the success of the market economy.
True
The second Bank of the United States held all the funds of the federal government.
True
The work of farmers' wives and daughters often spelled the difference between a family's self-sufficiency and poverty.
True
There were no banks in 1700s colonial America
True
Topic: American Enlightenment
True
Victory over Mexico in the Mexican War added more area to the United States than had the Louisiana Purchase.
True
Virginia's upper class in the 1700s was sometimes called a "cousinocracy."
True
Women provided the chief energy for northern war relief efforts.
True
30.What is sharecropping?
Type of farming in which former slaves farmed others land in exchange for farm supplies and a share of the crop.
66.Under whose administration did the scandal of the Whiskey Ring break?
Ulysses Grant
79.What book was to some extent modeled on the autobiography of fugitive slave Josiah Henson?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which of the following was not a feature of slave life in colonial America?
Under the oppressions of slavery
supplies
Union supplies better, new entreprenuers help supply union troops (armour)
The region of the United States that came to be known as the "burned-over district" as a consequence of the many religious revivals that flourished there in the early nineteenth century was:
Upstate New York and northern Ohio.
83.Who was the writer whose work encouraged the passage of the meat inspection act?
Upton Sinclair, the Jungle
57.What was the purpose of the committee on public information?
Used every medium to influence public opinion on US participation in war.
When the Mormons settled in Salt Lake City
Utah was part of Mexico.
Which was not part of the Dominion of New England (1686-88)?
Vermont
47.What was the double v campaign?
Victory in germany and japan must be accompanied by victory at home, (triumph over segregation, civil rights for blacks)
Freedom of the press
Viewed as dangerous by both American and European governments.
Thomas Jefferson
Virginia patriot and political philosopher was the primary author of the Declaration of Independance
James Madison - 5
Virginian; "Father of the Constitution"; presented the Virginia plan (two house legislature); proposed to allow congress to veto laws; presented Bill of Rights
Which of the following was not true of race relations within the abolitionist movement?
Virtually no traces of racial prejudice found their way into the movement.
38.What ultimately ended the great depression?
WW2 and the war bonds that stimulated the economy
22.Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun formed a group informally known as
War Hawks.
Toussaint L'Ouverture
Well-educated slave who organized the rebellious slaves in Haiti into an army that was able to defeat British forces and keep the French from attempting to reestablish French authority. As a result
What political party was organized to oppose President Jackson?
Whigs
61.The log cabin candidate was
William Henry Harrison.
The political "boss" of New York City in the early 1870s was:
William Marcy Tweed.
79.Who was boss tweed?
William Marcy tweed was an american politican who stole millions from new york city tax payers through political corruption.
Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Gang labor
Working in the fields side-by-side
Two Treatises of Government
Written by John Locke around 1680
69.What were journalists who worked for newspapers like William Randolph Hearst's New york journal called?
Yellow Journalists
In Jonathan Edwards's view what was a sinner's only hope?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
George Washington
a British soldier
Johannes Hanner
a German immigrant in an 18th century colony who wrote his family of his experiences
Myer Myers
a Jewish silversmith who was one of New York City's most prominent artisans
Dorthea Dix
a Massachusetts school teacher
63.The Thirteenth Amendment
a and b
85.Thomas Jefferson saw the Missouri Compromise as
a and b
Which of the following was not a significant trend in American thought during the market revolution?
a belief that one's spiritual salvation was purely a matter of chance
Robert Smalls
a black representative in the United States House of Representatives
26.Howard University is well known as
a black university in Washington, D.C.
Founded in 1727- The Junto was
a club that discussed literature-philosophy- science and politics.
Which of the following was not a distinguishing feature of the new abolitionism of the 1830s?
a conviction that if abolition was not soon achieved by "moral suasion
Which of the following was not a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
a determination to abolish slavery in Virginia
Which of the following was not a key factor behind the introduction of black slavery in the Chesapeake?
a fear that West Africans
Eric Foner writes: "The specter of a civil war among whites greatly frightened Virginia's ruling elite." Define "specter":
a ghost
The American Colonization Society called for:
a gradual end to slavery and the resettlement of blacks outside the United States.
The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were
a group of wealthy residents of the back country who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
Which of the following was not central to William Penn's vision for his Quaker colony?
a hands-off policy toward private behavior
Which of the following was not a feature of the rise of southern nationalism during the late 1850s?
a high-level conspiracy to take over the federal government through a military coup
Industrialization
a key element in the dynamic and expansive growth of the market economy
37.James Madison argued in the Federalist that
a large territory was a source of stability.
7.Andrew Jackson's inauguration was
a large, rowdy event.
Lord Cornwallis
a leading british general during the Revoltuionary War
In the nineteenth century
a married woman could not legally sign independent contracts; she could not sue someone in court in her own name; and not until after the Civil War could she
The English government in the seventeenth century was:
a mixed government in which the power of the king was restrained.
91.Which of the following was NOT part of Alexander Hamilton's financial program?
a national capital city with experimental manufacturing
43.The Anaconda Plan was
a naval blockade.
American system
a new bank, more money for trans. and more tariffs 1815 by James Madison
During Reconstruction
a number of state governments initiated civil rights legislation that made it illegal for railroads
Who was Phillis Wheatley?
a poet who wrote about how African-Americans felt about freedom
President James Madison favored a system of national economic incentives for manufacturers
a protective tariff
The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom
a refuge from tyranny
42.The 54th Massachusetts Volunteers is best known as
a regiment of free blacks who charged Fort Wagner, South Carolina.
One significant consequence of the Glorious Revolution for the American colonies was:
a renewed sense of entitlement to liberty
Margaret Garner
a slave who had escaped to Ohio
What was the annuity system involving the U.S. government and certain Indian tribes?
a system under which the federal government gave annual monetary grants to Indians
The politics of Gilded Age America was said to be:
a time of dishonesty and corruption in which corporations battled each other for special consideration by local state and federal governments.
Which of the following destroyed Henry David Thoreau's commune with nature?
a train
Ralph Waldo Emerson was which of the following?
a transcendentalist
A significant element of the American System was
a) a national bank.
The nineteenth-century view that there should be an immediate end to slavery and incorporation of the freed persons into the republic as equal citizens is called:
abolitionism.
The Liberty Bell took on its name—previously it had been known as the Old State House Bell—after:
abolitionists adopted it as a symbol of their cause of abolishing slavery.
Between 1833 and 1840
about how many northerners joined abolitionist groups?
Which of the following was not an innate characteristic of women
according to the "cult of domesticity"?
The Crittenden Compromise would have guaranteed the end to slavery in states where it existed already
after a seven-year cooling-off period.
44.Opponents of Hamilton's economic plan
agreed to a compromise that included placing the national capital in the South.
Olaudah Equiano was
all of the above (a slave who purchased his freedom-a sailor in the Royal Navy-able to read and write.)
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
all of the above.
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
all of the above.; During the 1760s
By the mid-nineteenth century (1800s)
all states had made it illegal to kill a slave except in self-defense.
8.Black Codes
allowed for the arrest on vagrancy charges of anyone who failed to sign yearly labor contracts.
Which state's constitution granted suffrage to all "inhabitants" who met a property qualification
allowing property-owning women to vote until an 1807 amendment limited suffrage to males?
By 1700
almost 2
Horatio Gates
american general was credited with the key victory at Saratoga in 1777
22.what does the term fordism refer to?
an economic system introduced by henry ford based on mass consumption and mass production
During the 1820s and 1830s
an emergent labor movement began voicing concerns about harsh working conditions
Workingmen formed political parties in the late 1820s and among the goals of these ephemeral political parties were free public education
an end to imprisonment for debt
A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was
an expansion of Africa's internal slave trade.
A significant outcome of the Portuguese arrival in West Africa was:
an expansion of Africa's internal slave trade.
Elizabeth Sprigs
an indentured servant in Maryland
Elizabeth Sprigs
an indentured servant in Maryland who wrote a letter to her father in England expressing complaints voiced by many other servants
Which of the following does not help explain the electrifying impact of Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
an insistence that America stood ready to supplant Britain as the world's supreme imperial power
Which of the following was not a defining feature of the Great Awakening?
an insistence that one's spiritual destiny—be it salvation or damnation—could not be affected by one's actions in life
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669) ended hereditary nobility
and abolished landgraves and caciques
Opposition to Reconstruction resulted from the distaste many southerners had for tax increases that were needed to fund public schools and other improvements
and also because many white southerners could not accept black Americans voting
The first federal agency intended to regulate economic activity
and ensure that railroad rates were reasonable and favoritism avoided was:
The Great Awakening principally awakened (or re-awakened) colonists to faith in Christianity
and it also
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries all European nations had established churches
and religious wars between nations (and sometimes within them) were fierce.
Slaves knew little of Christianity or the Bible
and slave masters usually withheld access to religion from their enslaved labor.
Henry David Thoreau held the view that people were being stifled by modern society
and trapped in boring
Explorers sent by Jefferson to study the Louisiana territory's plants
animal life and geography and to discover how the region could be exploited economically
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
announcement of American System program; Missouri controversy; "Tariff of Abominations"; veto of Second Bank recharter
James Lincoln - 2
anti-federalist; "what is liberty?"
In the famous brawl on the floor of Congress
anti-slavery advocate Senator Charles Sumner was beat almost to death by Representative Preston Brooks over a debate regarding the legitimacy of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
Democrats
antibanker, antimorality checks by Govt, watering down social classes
Thomas Paine's Common Sense:
argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."
74.When Congress sent Andrew Johnson the Civil Rights Bill of 1866, he
argued that it discriminated against whites.
Which was not part of Lincoln's appeal to northern voters in the 1860 election?
as an earlier candidate of the Know-Nothing Party he appealed to immigrant voters
All of the states that entered the Union after the original thirteen made property ownership a requirement of voting
at least for a time.
84.The Whig party
attracted support from the most elite merchants, industrialists, and planters.
George Mason - 1
author of Virginia's Declaration of Rights in 1776
During the 1760s
back-country protesters in the Carolinas were known as
During the 1760s
backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as:
63.The Missouri Compromise of 1820
banned slavery in the new state of Missouri.
Non-Intercourse Act
banned trade only with Britain and France but provided that if either side recinded its edicts against American shipping
In the nineteenth century
barred from schools and other facilities
Georg 3rd
became king of England at age 22
Black troops
began recrutiment in1861, 54th masachussets robert gould shaw, navy had more rights for black troops than army.
in the twentieth century
belief in an activist government promoting greater social and economic equality.
45.Settlers in Kentucky and Tennessee
believed that the government ought to give the land away for free and paid little heed to Indian land titles.
94.who wrote a petition to congress as the president of the pennsylvania abolition society, calling for the ending of slavery?
benjamin franklin
43.What was not part of the populist platform of 1892?
black rights
Under Radical Reconstruction
blacks held most of the South's top elected positions.
During the eighteenth century
both Spain and France steadily lost interest in their North American empires.
A primary reason that both women and blacks were excluded from the expansion of democracy was that
both groups were viewed as being naturally incapable and thus unfit for suffrage.
N.A. involvement
both sides involved N.A., but South used more (5 civ. tribes)
President Thomas Jefferson refused to purchase the Louisiana Territory because it was an affront to his strict constructionist view of the Constitution
but Congress overrode his veto in purchasing the Louisiana Territory.
What groups believed that political liberty meant not simply voting at elections
but constant involvement in public affairs.
Many northern women were inspired and transformed by the abolitionist message
but few played an active role in spreading it.
The Liberty Bell took its name not from eighteenth century American Revolutionaries
but instead
There was a rapid decline in the birthrate during the course of the nineteenth century such that from an average of seven children per family
by 1900 women on average had four children.
Born during George Washington's presidency
by the time James Buchanan was elected president he had served in Pennsylvania's legislature
28.How did whites depict and view African-Americans in the first half of the nineteenth century?
c and d
6.Andrew Jackson
c and d
nullification crisis in SC
calhoun, tariff of Abominations 1828, and another in 1832, force act, calhoun is a whig
formed the committees of correspondence
called the mass meeting immediately prior to the Bost Tea Party and was a delegate of the First and Second Continental Congress
67.What improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?
canals and steamboats
39.Jefferson's Embargo Act
caused economic depression within the United States.
Under British seventeenth-century Navigation Acts
certain goods produced in the colonies had to be taken in English ships and sold in ports in England.
71.What were nickelodeons?
cheap 5 cent movies
9.What cause was not widely championed by progressives?
civil rights for african americans
By 1750
colonial America had become a land of the very rich and the desperately poor; the in-between ranks of yeomen and craftsmen had all but disappeared.
In the mid-eighteenth century
colonial America's leading commercial port was:
In European exploration
conquest
18.Early in the nineteenth century, paper money
consisted of notes promising to pay the bearer on demand a specific amount of specie," meaning gold or silver.
By the 1700s the population of Spanish North America was small
consisting of a few isolated urban clusters in Florida Texas and New Mexico.
During the early- to mid-eighteenth century
consumption of manufactured goods penetrated deep into the colonial countryside.
32.In the early to mid-nineteenth century, property qualifications for voting
continued in Virginia because large slaveholders dominated the state's politics.
In the wake of the War of 1812, younger Republicans like Henry Clay and John Calhoun
continued to support agrarianism, but believed that the nation's economic independence required a manufacturing sector.
69.What was the most important export from the United States by the midnineteenth century?
cotton
What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
cotton gin
Horses
cows
29.What is Keynesian economics?
created by john maynard keynes, large scale government spending to stimulate the economy.
13.What did Nixon's administration do?
created the EPA, occupational safety and health administration, and the national transportation safety board
58.What was the purpose of the policy of massive retaliation?
declared that any soviet attack on an american ally would be countered by a nuclear attack on the soviet union itself.
54.The Fourteenth Amendment
declared that anyone born or naturalized in the United States was a citizen
The Declaration of Independence:
declared the United States independent of British rule.
King James 2
decreed religious toleration which later resulted in the Toleration Act
The Spanish justified their claim to land in the New World through all of the following EXCEPT:
defeating the English fleet in 1588.
Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context
define "duty."
46.The Civil Rights Act of 1866
defined the rights of American citizens without regard to race.
Gabriel's Rebellion:
demonstrated that the slaves were as aware of the idea of liberty as anyone else.
19.General Sherman marched through the South to the sea to
demoralize the South's civilian population.
Lincoln was hesitant to support abolition early in the war because he
did not want to lose the support of the slaveholding border states within the Union.
18.What did the 19th amendment end?
discrimination at the poles because of gender, gave women the right to vote!
Thomas Jefferson - 2
drafted the ordinance which est. stages of self-gov. for the west; "Notes on the State of Virginia" (claimed blacks lacked American loyalty)
By 1860
economic investment in the United States in slaves exceeded the total economic investment in the nation's factories
57.The Freedmen's Bureau's greatest achievements were in
education and health care.
Which of the following was not an important trend in colonial politics during the first half of the 1700s?
elimination of property qualifications for voting and officeholding
What did the Dawes act of 1887 do?
encouraged whit norms to indians, broke up indian settlement into small land portions. Very unfair indians lost a lot of land.
34.What prompted women to work in defense industries during the war?
encouragement to be apart of the defense of their country, propaganda (Rosie the riveter), opportunity to be respected and work in jobs they normally couldnt.
44.The Bargain of 1877
ended Reconstruction.
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in February 1848:
ended the Mexican War.
60.What was the result of the three mile island nuclear plant accident?
enhanced nuclear safety precautions, major decline of the use of nuclear construction in following years along with decline of public confidence in nuclear power.
15.Beginning in 1863, what did Frederick Douglass urge northern blacks to do?
enlist in the Union army
The Albany Plan of Union of 1754
envisioned a council of all the colonies for their common defense
William Penn
est. Pennsylvania; envisioned a colony for spiritual freedom; colony was a "holy experiment"; his Chain of Friendship helped him gain the trust of Indians
Captain Jacob Leisler
est. a Committee of Safety and took control over New York
88.Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to
establish national control over land to the west of the thirteen states.
39.Southern Republicans
established the South's first state-supported schools.
68.The Northwest Ordinance of 1787
established the policy that admitted the area's population as equal members of the political system.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854:
established the principal of popular sovereignty whereby the status of slavery would be determined.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
establishment of Dominion of New England; Glorious Revolution in England; Parliamentary Declaration of Rights
Tech
even technology, maybe more in the north since there is more industry
2.How did membership differ in the American Federation of Labor?
exclusion of blacks, women, and immigrants. only skilled white male workers
7.The new deal concentrated power in the hands of what branch of government?
executive
What movement did rachel carson's silent spring inspire?
exposed the environmental costs of economic growth, students for a democratic society, anti-DDT campaign
27.What happened to japanese American during internment?
expulsion of all persons of japanese descent from the west coast, 110,000 removed to internment camps, military-style living conditions, did not apply to japanese in hawaii because of need of labor.
Fletcher v. Peck
extended judicial reiew to state laws
11.Even though the days were long at New England textile factories, the girls were still allowed significant autonomy as to when they took their breaks and how long they took for lunch and dinner.
false
17.George Washington wore the finest English clothes at his first inauguration.
false
18.Henry David Thoreau celebrated the innovation of the market revolution.
false
23.Jay's Treaty abandoned any American alliance with Britain by positioning
false
27.Louisiana's slaves enjoyed far more freedom under the liberty-loving united states than under the rule of tyrannical spain
false
28.One significant way that blacks were able to enjoy economic independence was by settling in the West on federally provided public land.
false
34.Seeing the events as an extension of their own progress of liberty, white
false
35.in general, catholics supported the temperance movement.
false
39.John C. Calhoun's key contribution to the proslavery argument was the claim that slavery was a necessary evil
false
47.Nativism emerged as a major political movement in 1854, with the sudden appearance of the Liberty Party.
false
5.Abolitionists agreed with the labor movement's argument that workers were subjugated to "wage slavery"
false
54.The Revolution of 1800 was quite violent.
false
67.The Mormons under Joseph Smith strongly supported the principle of separation of church and state
false
77.unlike most previous presidents, James Polk was not a slaveholder
false
moderate republicans like Abraham lincoln supported the Dred Scott decision.
false
Which of the following was not a source of misgivings in the colonies over the prospect of a complete break with Britain?
fear that England's withdrawal from North America would leave the former colonies open to frontier conflict with the Spanish
Which of the following best describes the "Ghost Dance?"
feared by U. S. Army officials
Which of the following was not a focus of debate between Democrats and Republicans during the Gilded Age?
federal income tax levels
76.The relationship between the national government and the states is called
federalism.
During Radical Reconstruction
following ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
"David Wilmot proposed a resolution in Congress prohibiting slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico." Define "prohibiting":
forbidding
Anthony Johnson
former-slave-turned-slave-owner in Virginia
At Oneida
founded in 1848 in New York State
The Republican Party
founded in 1854:
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
founding of American Colonization Society; establishment of Liberia; William Lloyd Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization
Benjamin Banneker - 1
free black who taught himself mathematics
How did things change for blacks in Louisiana after the purchase?
free blacks suffered a steady decline in status and local legislature adopted slave codes in the South that forbid black to 'ever consider themselves the equal of whites." They were worse off as part of the "liberty-loving US"
67.What was william jennings bryan's platform in the 1896 election?
free-silver coinage platform
65.What did Noah Webster's American Dictionary define as "a state of exemption from the power or control of another"?
freedom
On the eve of colonization of the Americas
freedom in Europe was framed in hierarchical
68.What were FDRS four freedoms?
freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, freedom from fear.
For Ralph Waldo Emerson
freedom was:
Which one of the following lists these colonies in the proper chronological order by the dates they were founded
from the earliest to the latest?
For almost a decade
from the mid-1830s to 1845
35.Radical Republicans
fully embraced the expanded powers of the federal government born during the Civil War.
how to respond to secession/fort sumter
give up fort-weak reinforce- lose border states and start the war supply the fort- create war and not start it.
56.The Democratic view of power was that
government always endangered private rights.
Sir Edmund Andros
governor of New York
William Berkley
governor of Virginia for thirty years
The Quebec Act:
granted religious toleration to Catholics in Canada.
Republican motherhood encouraged:
greater educational opportunities for women.
"Slave coffles . . . became a common sight." Define "coffles":
groups chained to one another
51.The Fifteenth Amendment
guaranteed that the right to vote would not be denied on account of race.
41.Lewis and Clark
had goals that were both scientific and commercial.
17.For the former slaves, political freedom meant
having the right to vote.
When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia
he called for all EXCEPT:
5.Andrew Johnson vetoed the 1866 Civil Rights Act because
he did not believe that blacks deserved the rights of citizenship.
39.What was booker T washington's postion on segregation?
he said to accept segregation and instead focus on individual acceptance and advancement.
38.Jefferson justified his overreach of the constitution when he purchased Louisiana by citing that
he secured economic stability for his virtuous agrarian farmers.
4.after becoming president, how did Thomas Jefferson deal with the federalists?
he tried to roll back almost everything they had done by cutting taxes and the size of the government
When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans
he:
George Washington - 2
held Constitutional meetings; was presiding officer
9.Black officeholders during Reconstruction
helped ensure a degree of fairness in treatment of African-American citizens.
What inspired the 1715 uprising by the Yamasee and Creek peoples against English colonists in Carolina?
high debts incurred by the Yamasee and Creek in trade with the English settlers
election of 1824
house of reps Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and John Q. Adams. Corrupt bargain Adams wins
Between 1870 in 1920
how many immigrants arrived from overseas?
From 1840 to 1860
immigration:
13.During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place
in Virginia and Maryland.
The KKK was founded in 1866 as a social club in Tennessee and served
in effect
The Sugar Act alarmed colonists
in part because it:
Cincinnati was known as Porkopolis because of its slaughterhouses
in which hundreds of thousands of pigs were butchered each year.
The suppression of abolitionism provoked broad outrage among northerners
including many who had little compassion for the plight of slaves.
drafted by a committee of the Second Continental Congress
including principal writer Thomas Jefferson.
13.for which of the following did nativists NOT blame immigrants in the 1840s?
increased protestantism
67.Union economic policies during the war
increased the size and power of the federal government.
Cotton was the major agricultural crop of the South and
indeed
In spite of the revolutionary rhetoric of freedom
indentured servitude was still widely practiced in the northern states by 1800.
The prevalence of plantation slavery kept the South from matching northern rates of immigration
industrial development
55.The Freedmen's Bureau
initially provided 40 acres and a mule to every former slave.
The founders of Brook Farm envisioned a harmonious blend of physical labor
intellectual work
The Wade-Davis Bill
introduced in Congress in the summer of 1864
Violent social turmoil in rural areas during the 1760s:
involved events in both northern and southern colonies.
58.The Monitor and Merrimac were
ironclad battleships.
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 that so vexed the colonists do to the already existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?
it decreased it.
When California became a state in 1850:
it entered the Union as a free state.
Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued all of the following except that
it was common sense that in the struggle for independence
While corruption was almost non-existent in the North
it was rampant in the South.
Once Massachusetts became a royal colony in 1691:
it was required to abide by the English Act of Toleration
While the Fugitive Slave Act was a symbolic victory for the pro-slavery side
it was seldom enforced.
50.The Anti-Federalist James Winthrop argued that a Bill of Rights was necessary in the Constitution because
it would secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority.
All of the following are true of the Declaration of Independence EXCEPT:
its arguments made it a uniquely American document with little relevance to other nations.
When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico
its new constitution:
48.The crop-lien system
kept many sharecroppers in a state of constant debt and poverty.
42.Many anti-Jackson political cartoons portrayed him as a
king.
4.Andrew Johnson
lacked Lincoln's political skills and ability to read and influence public opinion.
59.The most ambitious, but least successful of the Radical Republican's aims was
land reform.
Both the Aztec and Inca empires were:
large
Little Turtle - 1
leader of Miami Confederacy
Anthony Wayne - 1
leader of troops who defeated Little Turtle's forces
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
leading figures in the women's rights movement
John Burgoyne
led 6
77.The Sedition Act of 1798
led Jefferson to argue that states, not the federal government, could punish seditious speech.
grassroots campaign
led by Martin Van Buren begun after 1824 local campaigning
The 1887 Dawes Act:
led to the loss of tribal lands
20.General William Tecumseh Sherman's meeting with black ministers in Georgia
led to the order that originated the phrase "40 acres and a mule."
During the first half of the eighteenth century British "salutary neglect"
left the colonies to largely govern themselves.
reducing rights
lincoln suspended habeus corpus(right to no jail without charge) twice
3.How did the American working class fare in the late 19th century?
lots of available jobs, share cropping, rise of new social classes
Which was not a central factor in the explosive economic growth in the second Industrial Revolution?
low tariffs
15.During the early years of the republic, African-Americans
made up well over 10 percent of the total population.
110.When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation's success depended on
maintaining political harmony.
73.When George Washington took office as the first president of the United States, American leaders believed that the new nation's success depended on
maintaining political harmony.
4.Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to
make the United States a major commercial and military power.
86.Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton's long-range goal was to
make the United States a major commercial and military power.
6.How was malcolm x politics different from martin luther kings?
malcolm x wanted all black control of political and economic resources and did not want to work with the whites for their betterment. king practiced the appeal to american values and working against segregation
The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called:
manifest destiny.
53.The conflict between Andrew Jackson and John C. Calhoun
manifested itself in a dispute over a woman named Peggy Eaton.
When Europeans arrived
many Native Americans:
Often
many slaves supplemented the food provided by their owners with other food items including chickens and vegetables they raised themselves.
92.which statement about Nat Turner's rebellion is true?
many southern whites were in a panic after the rebellion
53.The Fourteenth Amendment
marked the most important change in the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.
Under English law
married women held many legal rights and privileges.
Melancton Smith - 1
member of congress who warned that the Constitution would cause oppression
John Jay - 2
missed American "free air" while on a diplomatic mission in Spain; contributor for "The Federalists"
By the middle of the eighteenth century
most elections were fiercely contested throughout the American colonies.
In 1850
most slave-owning families owned five or fewer slaves.
By the 1840s
most working people outside the South toiled in large factories.
Opechancanough:
mounted a surprise attack in 1622 that wiped out one-quarter of Virginia's settlers.
28.What industry was affected by the Hayes codes?
movie industry: prohibited nudity, long kisses, and adultery. also barred scripts that showed criminal activities in a positive way.
election of 1828
mudslinging Jackson won
15.What did the 14th amendment declare?
national citizenship for all us citizens
By 1860
nearly 300
During the English political upheaval between 1640 and 1660:
new religious sects began demanding the end of public financing and special privileges for the Anglican Church.
47.the erie canal gave which city primacy over competing ports in accessing trade with the northwest
new york
Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?
newspapers.
Alexander Spotswood
next governor of Virgina; warned planters to be vigilant
62.What was the scottsboro case?
nine black men arrested for the rape of two white women in alabama with little evidence against them, prison sentences for 5 of them.
In the 1700s
ninety percent of colonists in British North America worked farms.
The Aztecs lived in a peaceful
non-violent society.
transportation
north had more railroads/better transportation
capitals
north- D.C. South- Richmond
Prior to ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment the rights guaranteed in the Bill of Rights applied only to laws made by the federal government
not to laws made by individual states.
Improvements in the slaves' living conditions were meant to strengthen slavery
not undermine it.
12.By the time of Jackson's presidency, politics
often emphasized individual politicians with mass followings and popular nicknames.
Governor Morris - 1
one of Pennsylvania's delegates who was swayed by threats
50.The Emancipation Proclamation freed
only those slaves in states still in rebellion.
Macon's Bill No. 2
opened trade with britain and france
12.Copperheads were
opponents of the war.
Women in the war
organized in groups to fund war and send aid to soldiers Sanitary fairs-raised money, Clara Barton
69.The nullification crisis
originated in South Carolina
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
outbreak of Mexican War; Compromise of 1850; "Bleeding Kansas"
The rise of black slavery in Virginia developed only gradually
over several generations.
The panic of 1837
overspeculation, bank war, loans for land, economic downturn in Britain til 1843
Panic of 1819
overspeculation, new market in Europe, land sold for loans
Vastly more people living in the colonies had far greater opportunities--to vote
own land
aftereffects of bank war
panic of 1837, Jackson is a hero for the people
Publius - 1
pen name for Hamilton
Which is not an achievement of the Indians of North America in the thousands of years before Columbus's arrival?
people in present-day Arizona constructed a large circle of red-earthen boulders.
In the mid-1700s
per capita
At the time of first contact with the Europeans
perhaps 12
Who were the Peninsulares?
persons of European birth
Who were the mestizos?
persons of mixed Spanish and Indian origin
Separated by large gaps in wealth and breeding
planters and poorer whites of the Old South seldom found anything in common.
27.In dealing with slavery during the first year of the war, Abraham Lincoln
played down the issue's importance as part of his efforts to keep the border slave states in the Union.
54.What was the policy followed by britain and france toward germany of giving concessions in hopes of avoiding war called?
policy of appeasement
How did the Republicans build their support/following?
political meetings
According to Martin Van Buren
political parties could serve to check the power of office-holders
Which of the following was not an area of public activism open to women during the 1830s and '40s?
political party conventions
29.In Federalist no. 51, James Madison argued that
political power ought to be divided.
66.What was vaudeville?
popular form of mass entertainment, comedy, short acts, dance, song, magic etc
The Second Great Awakening was:
popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.
The transatlantic flow of people and goods such as corn
potatoes
48.Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who
preached a militant message to Native Americans early in the nineteenth century.
Which of the following territories did not come to the United States as a result of its victory in the Mexican War?
present-day Arizona
64.The Missouri Compromise.
preserved the congressional balance between slave and free states.
Jefferson Davis
president of the Confederacy
The military outposts established by the Spanish in California and New Mexico were called
presidios.
3.All of the following were factors that led Lincoln to conclude emancipation was necessary except
pressure from General Grant to do so.
Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers and soldiers
priests and bureaucrats
whigs
pro american system, tariffs, bank, imrovements, government should protect morality
The 1836 "gag rule":
prohibited consideration of petitions calling for emancipation in the House of Representatives.
The Proclamation Line of 1763
prohibited further colonial settlement west of the Appalachian mountains.
13.Congress
prohibited the slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution.
71.The Panic of 1819
prompted many states to suspend debt collecting; this helped debtors but hurt the creditors who needed payments.
64.The Union's manpower advantage over the Confederacy
proved to be essential for the success of Grant's war of attrition strategy.
19.George Washington
provided a much-needed symbol of national unity.
41.What was LBJ's the great society?
provided health services to the poor and elderly in the new medicaid and medicare programs. New cabinet offices and new agencies were created.
7.according to John L. O'Sullivan's Democratic Review, what was the key to the history of nations and the rise and fall of empires?
race
40.Southern states, eager for economic growth, helped to finance
railroads.
Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to:
railroads.
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s:
raised and addressed a variety of issues
The common nineteenth-century view was that men are naturally aggressive
rational
In Puritan marriages:
reciprocal affection and companionship were the ideal.
109.When Andrew Jackson had the chance to obtain African-American help to fight the British in the Battle of New Orleans, he
recruited free men of color and promised them the same pay that white recruits received.
21.Hamilton's economic program included all of the following elements except
reducing expenditures on the military.
Black valor on the battlefield won over many northerners to a belief in equal rights before the law
regardless of race.
59.The French Revolution
reinforced the Republican's sympathy toward the French.
Because Americans were preoccupied with war
religious liberty was a rather peripheral issue in the 1770s and 1780s.
Tenskwatawa
religious prophet who called for complete separation from whites
68.what problem with cotton did eli whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?
removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive
Pennsylvania's Charter of Liberty:
required persons to affirm Jesus Christ's divinity.
45.The Black Codes of the South
resembled old slave codes and placed many restrictions on ex-slaves' freedom.
80.The treaty that ended the War of 1812
restored the previous status quo.
Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?
rice
The main crop worked by the "task" system in eighteenth-century South Carolina was
rice.
78.The Somerset case
ruled that slavery was unlawful in England.
21.Hiram Revels and Blanche Bruce were the first two black
senators.
11.What di the court declare in Plessy Vs. Ferguson (1896)?
separate but equal
73.What were the "zoot suite" riots of 1943?
series of riots that broke out during WWII between marines stationed in los angeles and young latinos recognized in zoot suites. illustrated the limits of wartime tolerance.
Black Codes denied black Americans the right to testify against whites
serve on juries or in state militias
62.The Special Field Order 15 issued by General Sherman
set aside the Sea Islands and 40-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families.
38.James Polk had four clearly define goals when he entered the White House. Which was NOT one of his goals?
settle the slavery dispute
Which was not among the institutional asylums built during the 1830s and 1840s?
settlement houses in cities
In the 1780s
settlers in western areas such as Tennessee and Kentucky:
86.which of the following is a true statement relative to the Upper South and the Deep South?
several Upper South states did not join the Confederacy at the time of the Civil War
92.Why was margaret sanger so controversial?
she advocated birth control and founded planned parenthood
The richly diverse voluntary associations that developed in early-nineteenth century United States included all of the following except societies to:
shorten the hours of labor for farmers to eight in a day.
Bartolomé de Las Casas argued that Indians:
should enjoy "all guarantees of liberty and justice" as subjects of Spain.
33.In the presidential election of 1840, the Whigs
showed that they had adopted the tactics of their opponents.
As a consequence of the expansive growth in the U.S. economy associated with the market revolution
skilled free black workers found their status and incomes rising.
Sally Hemings - 1
slave of Jefferson's
For slaves
slavery meant constant fear that their families might be destroyed by sale
In the Chesapeake region
slavery:
"Perfectionism" was (is) the view that:
social ills once considered unable to be cured could be eradicated.
Photographs of battlefields
soldiers
Spanish settlers in the New World comprised a mix of laborers
soldiers, priests, bureaucrats, craftsmen, and professionals.,True
President Andrew Jackson's inauguration was a quiet affair in which a small group of close-knit friends of the new president met at the White House for a quiet
solemn
military leaders
south had better military leaders, incompetence from northern leaders
emotion
south were more impassionate about the war because they were defending their way of life and their homes, north was passionate for union as well but not as much
By the 1840s
southern leaders were convinced that slavery must expand or die.
81.what economic effect did southern slavery have on the north?
southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the north
78.which of the following did NOT contribute to the american acquisition of florida from spain?
spain's loss of haiti in a slave rebellion, which rendered florida imperially unimportant
7.At the first Battle of Bull Run
spectators from the city came with picnic baskets to watch.
mass demonstrations in the port towns
speeches and pamphlets challenging Britain's right to tax its colonial subjects.)
nullification
states can choose to not follow federal law
60.The Kentucky Resolution had originally stated that
states could nullify laws of Congress.
Expanding networks of toll roads
steamboats
Which type of industry did Andrew Carnegie make his fortune?
steel
What effect did the Embargo of 1807 have on manufacturing in the United States?
stimulated its growth
Which of the following was a consequence of the Seven Years' War?
strengthened pride among American colonists about being part of the British empire
The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means
subservience
The freedom of a Christian man or woman meant/means:
subservience
Brook Farm was a vibrant
successful
American reform efforts during the 1820s and 1830s raised and addressed a variety of issues
such as alcoholism
During the early to mid-1800s
sugar produced in the slave South was America's leading export.
23.What economic theory was reagonomics based on?
supply- side economics, economic policies of Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. President (1981-1989), which called for widespread tax cuts, decreased social spending, increased military spending, and the deregulation of domestic markets.
George Bryan - 2
supporter of ratification; "Golden Phantom"
The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament:
symbolized the threat to liberty for many in both Britain and America.
Which was not a movement Abby Kelley was associated with?
tariff reform
Sons of Liberty (1765) were said to oppose "every limitation of trade and duty on it." In this context define "duty":
tax
By 1860
tax-supported school systems for children had been established in every state.
comparison between union and confederacy
tech, supplies, population, emotion, land, military leaders, political leaders, economy, transportation, medicine, military tactics, capitals, N.A. involvement
47.The Civil War is considered a modern war, in part because of how technology had transformed war, introducing all of the following except the
telephone for communication.
Which was not an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?
telephones
During the Revolutionary War
tensions between backcountry farmers and wealthy planters:
medicine
terrible on both sides, many soldiers died from ailness
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"
According to Viginian George Tucker what did Gabriel's Rebellion demonstrate?
that slaves possessed a love of freedom as fully as other men and that they grew to claim freedom as a righ.
"Manifest Destiny" was:
that the United States had a God-given mission to expand westward.
The portion of President James Monroe's 1823 annual message to Congress that asserted that the United States would oppose further efforts at colonization by European powers in the Americas
that the United States would stay out of European wars
James Madison
the "father of the Constitution
81.The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to
the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Beginning in 1816
the American Colonization Society:
43.McCulloch v. Maryland ruled that
the Bank of the United States was constitutional.
In the eighteenth century
the British Constitution—the unwritten groundwork of British freedom—celebrated all of the following except
In the midst of the American Antebellum Era
the British Parliament launched a program for abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire in 1831.
The Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the colonies) was fought between
the British and French.
British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because
the British raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
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
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:
In 1493
the Catholic Pope
In 1866
the Civil Rights Bill became the first major law in American history to be passed over a presidential veto.
For which three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson wish to be remembered?
the Declaration of Independence
Between Democrats and Whigs
the Democrats found greater support among Catholic immigrants
By making the Union army an agent of emancipation and joining together the goals of Union and abolition
the Emancipation Proclamation sounded the eventual death knell of slavery.
The movement that sought to apply the scientific method of careful investigation based on research and experiment to politics and social life was called
the Enlightenment.
16.During the Era of Good Feelings,
the Federalist Party died, temporarily creating one-party rule.
In consequence of the December 1814 Hartford Convention
the Federalist Party grew in strength and vigor
The 1825 completion of the 363-mile Erie Canal connected:
the Great Lakes with New York City.
In the Ohio Valley (the "middle ground")
the Iroquois were known for their ability to play the French and British empires against each other.
In the late seventeenth century
the Iroquois were known for their fierce hatred and courageous fighting against British colonists.
In the Walking Purchase of 1737
the Lenni Lanape Indians of Pennsylvania lost more land than they had anticipated when Governor James Logan hired a team of runners to mark off the land "a man could walk" in thirty-six hours.
During the 1872 elections
the Liberal Republicans argued that Reconstruction was a failure.
Acre for acre
the Louisiana Purchase was not a bargain.
James Chalmers
the Loyalist and member of Maryland's planter elite
Which of the following was not a British law forbidding colonial manufacture?
the Molasses Act of 1733
During the Civil War
the North instituted a draft
The Industrial Revolution in the United States took place principally in:
the Northeast and the Midwest.
In the late nineteenth century
the Republican Party found particularly strong support among all of the following except:
In 1860
the Republican Party platform sought to lower taxes by decreasing the tariff.
In 1860
the South as a whole produced less than 10 percent of the nation's manufactured goods.
By 1850
the South's railroad networks accounted for approximately 50 percent of the lines in the nation.
In the 1500s and 1600s
the Spanish in Central and South America relied on many of which of the following groups to work fields and mines?
In the Dred Scott decision
the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans had no rights that whites were compelled to recognize.
During the first half of the 1800s
the U.S. economy experienced explosive growth in output and trade
Over the course of the war
the Union troops had stronger morale
By 1913
the United States produced how much of the world's industrial output?
In 1798
the United States was involved in a "quasi-war" with Spain.
After 1667
the Virginia House of Burgesses held that Christians could not enslave other Christians
Following the Nat Turner rebellion
the Virginia legislature discussed the possibility of abolishing slavery within the state.
In September 1780
the able American commander ____________ turned traitor to the American cause and almost turned West Point over to the British.
The Liberator
the abolitionist journal
Over the century between 1650 and 1750
the agricultural economies of New England
The spirit of innovation contributed importantly to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century. Which of the following was not an innovation of the 1870s and 1880s?
the airplane
37.What sparked the student antiwar protests at kent state that resulted in the deaths of four students by the national guard?
the announcement of america's invasion to cambodia by nixon
With the market revolution
the artisanal workshop gave way to relentless pressure for greater output and lower wages.
40.What was Churchill speaking of when he spoke of an "iron curtain"?
the boundary across europe that separated the free west from the communist east
55.what was the program that began in 1942 that allowed experienced mexican agricultural workers to cross the border to work under the government labor contracts called?
the bracero program
79.which of the following is NOT n example of the significance of eli whitney's cotton gin?
the completion of the erie canal allowed the transportation of thousands of pounds of cotton per day
In 1873
the country was plunged into an economic depression and support among Republicans for further reforms in the South weakened.
92.Which of the following was responsible for the first large-scale American factory, which was built in Massachusetts?
the cutoff of British imports because of the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812
The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of:
the discovery of gold.
At the time of Portugal's Atlantic exploration
the economies of West Africa were organized chiefly around slavery.
economy
the economy was better in the north and more industrialized
14.Economically, the Civil War led to
the emergence of a nation-state committed to national economic development.
After a brief period of apprenticeship
the end of slavery in Britain came on August 1
The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was
the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
The chief goal of fifteenth-century Portuguese expansion was:
the establishment of a trading empire in Asia.
According to Eric Foner
the federal government contributed to the dynamic and expansive growth of the American economy in the late nineteenth century by:
9.As designed by the Constitution,
the federal judiciary were appointed, not elected by the people.
During the first half of the eighteenth century
the flow of non-English migrants to British North America was larger than that of English migrants.
The Free Soil Party's platform called for:
the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.
According to Frederick Douglass
the heritage of the American Revolution and the founding fathers had nothing to offer blacks.
80.What did the Fourth of July represent to Frederick Douglass?
the hypocrisy of a nation that proclaimed liberty but sanctioned slavery
52.What was the impact during the 1920's of prohibition?
the introduction of speakeasies and bootleggers, reduced public intoxication and drink-related illnesses. Many saw
William Penn obtained the land for his Pennsylvania colony because:
the king wanted to cancel his debt to the Penn family and bolster the English presence in North America.
In the first half of the eighteenth century low taxes
the lack of a military draft
The Panic of 1819 was caused by:
the land bubble burst and its ensuing economic panic.
Prior to 1800
the largest settled community in what is now the United States was
32.How did the abolitionist movement that arose in the 1830s differ from earlier antislavery efforts?
the later movement drew much more on the religious conviction that slavery was an unparalleled sin and needed to be destroyed immediately
36.Rehearsals for reconstruction during the Civil War demonstrated that
the main aspiration of former slaves was the ownership of their own land.
In Thoreau's view
the market revolution degraded both people's values and the natural environment.
In the 1700s
the militarily-strong West African nations of Ashanti and Dahomey refused to participate in the slave trade.
In March 1865
the month before the Civil War ended
6.At Antietam,
the nation sustained the worst casualties in its history.
14.What did republican barry goldwater fear most of american society?
the new deal welfare state which he believed stifled individual independence
Following the Texas Revolt of 1835-36
the newly formed Republic of Texas resisted annexation by the United States.
land
the north was at a disadvantage because they did not know the terrain like the south did
Political democracy
the people run the Government
47.Shays's Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated that
the present government was unable to protect property rights.
According to the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act:
the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers.
Overall
the reform movement focused on improving the moral character of Americans; it made little effort to improve their material conditions.
In consequence of the Reconstruction governments across the South
the region became a vibrant and successful hub of dynamic and expansive economic growth
Which of the following was not a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the repression of Catholicism in the colonies
What sparked a new period of colonial expansion for England in the mid seventeenth century?
the restoration of the monarchy in 1660
98.Why did southern slaves live in better conditions by the mid-nineteenth century than those in the Caribbean and South America?
the rising value of slaves made it profitable for slaveowners to take better care of them
There were thirteen state members of the Confederate States of America
the same number as stars on the Confederate flag.
Which was not an aspect of the pageantry surrounding elections in nineteenth-century American democracy?
the secret ballot
What enabled Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase to take place?
the slave rebellion of Saint Domingue weakened France's position in the US and Napoleon Bonaparte wanted money to fund his military campaigns in Europe.
In the Compromise of 1850:
the slave trade was abolished in the District of Columbia.
89.which of the following was NOT a way in which westward movement affected the south?
the south had to develop a highly effective railroad system to transport goods from west to east
91.which of the following was NOT true of the south and its economy in the period from 1800 to 1860?
the south produced nearly two-fifths of the nation's manufactured good, especially cotton textiles
72.The practice of giving a political office to someone based on loyalty to the party is called
the spoils system.
Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European coloniza-tion in the New World?
the spread of democracy to the Americas
Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind European colonization in the New World?
the spread of democracy to the Americas
In 1890 the distribution of wealth in the United States was:
the top 1 percent of Americans owned more property than the remaining 99 percent
The Columbian Exchange was:
the transatlantic flow of plants
58.The Era of Good Feelings was the name given to
the two terms of James Monroe.
Which was not a part of "Republicanism" —the central element in the British ideology of liberty—in the eighteenth century?
the view that Lockean liberalism was essential to the good society.
75.Where was asian and mexican immigration the greatest in the early 20th century?
the west
87.which of the following is an example of the political impact of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
the whig party collapsed, and many disgruntled northerners joined the new republican party
In the Dred Scott decision of 1857
the word "Dred" was used because:
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
the years from 1873 to 1897 were known as:
The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland
then in the throes of the great potato famine.
87.Under the Articles of Confederation,
there was no president.
Though women could not vote in the early nineteenth-century United States
they did circulate petitions
90.Why did the ghost dance scare whites?
they feared a general uprising when indians were singing/dancing in large groups.
As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena
they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality.
By 1912, how successful was the socialist party?
they had claimed 150,000 due paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, had support from the AFL and many elected officials.
33.how did the abolitionists link themselves to the nation's revolutionary heritage?
they seized on the preamble to the Declaration of Independence as an attack against slavery
The "Era of Good Feeling" was so-called because:
they were years of one-party government.
political leaders
though Davis was a good leader, Lincoln was more skilled strategically and politically
90.which of the following statements related to ethnicity was true in California in the 1850s?
thousands of Indian children were declared orphans and treated as slaves.
In 1860
three of four white families owned no slaves.
1775
three-fifths of the English owned no land
What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
to bring stability to the colonial frontier
91.Why was eugenics so popular in the 20th century?
to filter out "less desirable people" mentally ill, drug addicted, etc.
51.What was the goal of the march on washington?
to get the support to pass kennedy's civil rights act
Slave owners had many ways to enforce discipline among their slaves—from physical punishment
to material incentives
In the mid-1850s the Republican Party sought:
to prevent the spread of slavery.
Define "secede":
to withdraw formally from membership in
Slaves had many ways to "quietly" resist the power of the slave owners—from feigning illness
to wrecking tools
12.For middle-class women in the nineteenth century, not working was viewed as a badge of freedom.
true
14.Free trade and sailors' right were the two issues that drew the united states into the war of 1812
true
17.black christianity is best described as a blend between african traditions and christian beliefs
true
18.By 1860 the south's most populous city was new orleans
true
19.By 1860, the economic investment represented by the slave population exceeded the value of the nation's factories, railroads, and banks combined.
true
22.Despite being forbidden by law to marry, many slaves were able to create a family life on the plantation
true
26.John O'Sullivan coined the term "manifest destiny" to describe America's divinely appointed mission to settle all of North America.
true
35.Slave artisans played a prominent role in Gabriel's Rebellion.
true
41.the african methodist episcopal church allowed women to preach
true
44.The catalyst for the market revolution was a series of innovations in transportation and communication.
true
51.Slaves frequently named children after other family members to retain family continuity
true
51.the jacobin clubs of paris were an inspiration for the democratic-republican societies
true
52.the market revolution produced a new middle class
true
56.The Second Great Awakening both took advantage of the market revolution and criticized its excesses.
true
56.the city of Melbourne in Australia prospered because of a gold rush, much as San Francisco did and at about the same time
true
60.The Twelfth Amendment required electors to cast separate votes for president and vice president
true
60.The free labor ideology was based on the assumption that free labor could not compete with slave labor and so slavery's expansion had to be halted to ensure freedom for the white laborer.
true
63.The issue of Texas annexation was hotly linked to slavery and affected the nominations of presidential candidates int he 1840s
true
72.the shakers believed God had a dual personality, both male and female
true
8.As the market revolution took on steam, some critics described wage labor as the very essence of slavery.
true
85.When not in the field, slaves observed more traditional gender roles
true
9.Because an English law forbade the export of machinery blueprints, Samuel Slater memorized the plans for the power-driven spinning jenny before immigrating to America.
true
Under the Treaty of Greenville of 1795:
twelve Indian tribes ceded most of Ohio and Indiana to the federal government.
30.Lincoln stretched the reach of his constitutional powers by
twice suspending the writ of habeas corpus.
In the 1850s
two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution. These were:
The First Continental Congress met for
two months.
During the process of ratifying the Constitution:
two states
17.During the process of ratifying the Constitution,
two states, Rhode Island and North Carolina, opposed ratification.
During James Madison's presidential terms
two-party political competition completely disappeared.
57.The Election of 1824
ultimately did serious damage to Henry Clay's political hopes.
20.What did the GI bill of rights provide for veterans?
unemployment, college for vocational education, made loans for soldier to buy homes, health care
16.Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed that there could be no reconstruction of the nation until there was
universal suffrage.
As a result of the religious freedom created by the Revolution:
upstart churches began challenging the well-established churches.
46.Shays's Rebellion
used the example of the Revolution and the terminology of liberty in organizing.
The most successful colonial governors:
used their appointive powers and control of land grants to win allies in colonial legislatures.
union and nation
used union in inaugural, nation in gettysburg. shows his desire for the U.S. to be one nation again.
Daniel Shays - 2
vet from War of Independence; led crowds of debt-ridden farmers to close courts in order to save land (Shay's Rebellion)
36.What region of the world did eisenhower get involved in least?
vietnam
35.What reason did the hollywood ten give for not cooperating with the huac hearings?
violated 1st amendment rights
25.What events did the 1968 kerner report study?
violence that arose caused urban rioting, leading johnson appoint otto kerner to study the causes of the violence and riots. It blamed the violence on segregation and poverty and offered indictment of white racism.
8.after an 1831 slave rebellion, which state's legislature debated, but did not approve, a plan for gradual emancipation of slaves in that state?
virginia
79.The term "citizen" in America had become synonymous with the right to
vote.
During the 1700s
voting in the colonies was restricted to
40.John Quincy Adams
wanted the United States to play a dominant role in the Western Hemisphere.
80.Who was involved in the Teapot Dome scandal?
warren g. harding and his cabinet
36.James Madison
was Thomas Jefferson's friend and protégé.
37.Rose Greenhow
was a Confederate spy in Washington, D.C.
The Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
was a slave revolt.
The Olive Branch Petition:
was addressed to King George III and reaffirmed American loyalty to the crown.
82.The Virginia Plan
was based on proportional representation.
49.The election of 1876
was close and tainted by claims of fraud in Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
12.What did Alfred Thayer Mahan argue for in 1890?
was in favor of increasing the navy, stated that no nation could prosper without a large fleet of ships engaged in international trade, protected by a navy.
38.Sharecropping
was preferable for African-Americans to gang labor because they would be subject to less supervision.
33.Lincoln's vision during the Civil War
was that the American nation embodied a set of universal ideals rooted in political democracy and human freedom.
3.Alexander Hamilton argued that the government
was the expression of freedom.
The "American system of manufactures":
was the mass production of interchangeable parts into rapidly built
The language of British liberty:
was used by humble members of society as well as by the elite.
85.Who were andrew carnegie and john d Rockefeller?
wealthy men, carnegie created carnegie steel company which later grew into the first billion dollar industry. Rockefeller was successful in the oil industry and was the first billionaire.
The Paxton Boys
were Scotch-Irish farmers who set out to attack Indians near Philadelphia.
Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar
Committees of Correspondence in the colonies during the 1760s:
were a group of colonial elites who exchanged ideas and information about resistance to the Sugar
55.The Democratic Republican Societies of the 1790s
were criticized by George Washington after they criticized his administration.
11.Carpetbaggers and scalawags
were northern and southern Republicans who sought political office in the South.
In the period between 1820 and 1840
what two states combined saw the biggest spread (increase) in cotton cultivation?
Which of these crops did not form the basis of Native American agriculture?
wheat
In 1678
when the Lords of Trade in England queried the Massachusetts government about how well it was following the Navigation Acts
The New Jersey Plan proposed a single-house legislature
which gave each state one vote.
The trans-Atlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain
which had just achieved its own territorial unification.
The trans-Atlantic voyages of Columbus were sponsored by Spain
which had just achieved its own territorial unification.,True
During the Pueblo Revolt
which of the following names was ordered to never be spoken again?
By the mid-1700s
which was not one of the distinct well-established slave systems in Britain's mainland colonies?
On the eve of the colonization of the New World
which was not the case in Europe?
election of 1836
whigs spread forces van buren wins 4 whigs(clay, webster, W.P. mungum, Hugh L. White
election of 1840
whigs use Democrat tactics and wink, William Henry Harrison in office
Cheap imported textiles undermined traditional craft production
while guns encouraged the further growth of slavery" in Africa
Tituba
who was one of the people accused of being a witch in Salem
70.The nullification crisis of 1832 ended
with a compromised tariff.
envisioned the creation of a Grand Council composed of delegates from each colony
with the power to levy taxes and deal with Indian relations and common defense.
Early New England textile mills relied largely on the labor of:
women and children.
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers
women as well as men
Although denied the ballot
women found a voice in the public sphere during the 1820s and 1830s.
The Daughters of Liberty were:
women who spun and wove cloth at home so as not to purchase British goods during the 1768 Townshend Duties boycott.
The Daughters of Liberty were:
women who spun and wove cloth during the 1768 Townshend Duties boycott.
During the eighteenth century
women's work in the rural North grew less taxing and less rigidly defined
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
work begun on National Road; steamboat introduced on Mississippi River; work begun on Erie Canal; work begun on Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Alexander Hamilton - 2
youthful leader of nationalists from West Indies; proposed president and senate serve life terms