history final 2
Abigail Adams wrote in a famous letter to her husband to
"remember the ladies."
In 1776, the slave population of the United States was
20 percent
Confiscated property of Loyalists was returned to them following the Treaty of Paris.
False
Life in the colonies did not provide opportunities to own property for women
False
The Glorious Revolution weakened colonial belief in the concept of English liberties.
False
The ruler of Great Britain during the time of the American Revolution was
George III.
The leading promoter of the Great Awakening was
George Whitefield
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do that escalated colonial American anger regarding an existing tax on molasses imported from the French West Indies?
It strengthened courts where accused molasses smugglers could be tried without a jury.
One of the leading Federalist thinkers, known as the "father of the Constitution," was
James Madison.
In 1762, the Indians of the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes launched a revolt against British rule called
Pontiac's Rebellion
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Shays's Rebellion; Philadelphia Convention; ratification of Constitution
Which of the following is true regarding the Middle Passage?
Ship captains sometimes threw slaves overboard, especially when they were sick.
(Q011) As Lincoln withdrew forces in the West to protect areas in the East, tensions flared between the Indians and settlers, leading to
Sioux Indians killing hundreds of white farmers.
The first mainland colony to achieve a black majority population was
South Carolina
What was one impact of the Walking Purchase of 1737 in Pennsylvania?
The Lenni Lanape Indians felt that they had been abused by the Pennsylvania colony and relations between the two deteriorated.
(Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?
The leading southern commander, General Robert E. Lee, was a brilliant battlefield tactician and served as head of the Confederate army throughout the entire war.
The agreement that ended the Seven Years' War was called
The peace of Paris
(Q036) What was the meaning of the Civil War for poet Bret Harte?
The war led to the sacrifice of individual soldiers.
(Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.
True
(Q042) Lincoln was initially not concerned with the issue of slavery as his paramount concerns were to keep the border slave states in the Union and to build the broadest base of support in the North for the war effort.
True
Slaves who seldom interacted with whites, as on rice plantations, enjoyed more autonomy than elsewhere in the colonies
True
During the eighteenth century, more than half the Africans shipped to the New World as slaves were
carried on British vessels
Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of
debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.
For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant
equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.
What was one outcome of France's military assistance to the United States during the American Revolutionary War?
inclusion of Catholics in the nation after the war
Following the Proclamation of 1763,
its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs
While some 5,000 slaves fought for American independence, far more gained liberty by
obtaining sanctuary from the British.
Three months after independence was declared in 1776, Pennsylvania adopted a new state constitution with only a
one-house legislature.
Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as
passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.
(Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed
some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control
George Washington had gained considerable military experience fighting in
the Seven Years' War.
Following the Seven Years' War, what factor led to a loss of power for Native American tribes in eastern North America?
the departure of the French
As a result of the three-fifths clause,
the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted
(Q021) The Homestead Act
took effect on January 1, 1863, and offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West.
As a result of British victory in the Seven Years' War, Britain not only won control of Canada but also gained control of India
true
The Daughters of Liberty were
women who spun and wove cloth during the Townshend Duties boycott.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence
During the Great Awakening, most preachers explicitly condemned slavery.
False
The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the
French Revolution
Which of the following is in the correct time sequence?
Phillis Wheatley was bought as a slave in Boston, Vermont's state constitution banned slavery, the French Revolution broke out in Europe.
According to the English minister George Whitefield, people were not predestined for damnation and could participate in their own salvation through the confession of sin.
True
An increase in European immigrants to the colonial backcountry had a negative effect on colonial relationships with native people.
True
Olaudah Equiano was
a slave who purchased his freedom
Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between
church and state
(Q004) Which of the following groups was a major target of the New York City draft riots?
conscription officers
Which of the following was a course adopted by African-Americans to advance the cause of emancipation during the revolutionary era?
lawsuits challenging the legality of slavery
The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called
salutary neglect
By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the
tobacco plantation system
Which of the following defines republican motherhood?
training sons to be future citizens
George Washington, a British soldier, was forced to surrender at Fort Necessity in Pennsylvania after he lost a third of his men in an ill-conceived effort to fight a larger French and Indian force
true
When colonists insisted that because they were not represented in Parliament they could not be taxed by the British government, the British replied that they were represented by
virtual representation.
The 1764 Sugar Act provoked the colonists by increasing the tax on molasses imported into North America.
False
Which of the following was a part of the balance of power between British and American forces during the Revolution?
In the end, aid from Britain's rivals--especially France--was essential to American victory.
The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was
Pennsylvania
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.
An irony of 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
Britons and colonists tended to regard themselves as the freest people in the world.
True
By late 1774, colonial Committees of Safety had begun transferring effective power from established colonial governments (under British control) to grassroots bodies.
True
Every European empire in the New World utilized slave labor and battled for control of the slave trade
True
Phillis Wheatley is celebrated in American history as
a published poet and slave of African origins.
As a result of the Seven Years' War, a large number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns
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, Currency, and Stamp Acts.
(Q013) Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while the white population of the South in 1860 was
5.5 million
In one or two sentences, explain the difference between a proprietary and a royal colony.
A royal colony was owned by the king while a proprietary colony was granted to someone by the king and allowed free rights to govern as they wish.
Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against which of the following groups?
Catholics
The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?
Concord
(Q001) Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war
Copperheads
(Q053) Government involvement in the economy decreased during the Civil War.
False
The eighteenth century was the height of the Atlantic slave trade, a commerce increasingly dominated by Spanish merchants and ships.
False
Which of the following most accurately defines the Puritans' understanding of liberty?
Liberty meant that the elect had the freedom to establish churches and govern society. Liberty did not mean that individuals could challenge authority or act without restraint.
Which of the following was one outcome of the dissolution of the Dominion of New England?
Massachusetts became a royal colony, and property ownership, rather than church membership, became the base requirement for voting in elections.
In no more than two sentences, summarize the social and economic makeup of the pro-Leisler and anti-Leisler parties formed in Leisler's Rebellion in New York. Use your own words.
Pro-leiser was people who wanted to go against the British powers. they were against the catholic regiment that was still holding up in New York and opposed rich merchants who had monopolies. They didn't want the colonies to be reduced only to slavery. The anti-leisler parties was people who believed the opposite and believed in the British government
During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators.
Which of the following was absent from the Quaker Pennsylvania colony?
Religious uniformity
How did Rhode Island differ from other New England colonies?
Rhode Island had no established church and allowed Dissenters and Jews to settle there.
In Jonathan Edwards's view, what was a sinner's only hope in life?
a "new birth" in which they became devout Christians
(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,
abolished slavery throughout the Union.
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to
declare war.
(Q031) What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?
enlist in the United Sates Army
(Q045) Over the course of the war, Confederate troops were better supplied than Union troops.
false
(Q049) During the Civil War, the North instituted a draft, but the South never did.
false
Which of the following was a key principle embedded in the Bill of Rights?
freedom of speech
(Q016) The Second Confiscation Act
liberated slaves of disloyal owners in Union-occupied territory, as well as slaves who escaped to Union lines.
The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
mass demonstrations in the port towns.
(Q014) The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was one of these advances?
railroads
The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited
slavery
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"
British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because
the British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war.
The effect of the Enlightenment on religion resulted in
the adoption of the concept of deism
In the eighteenth century, the British Constitution--the unwritten groundwork of British freedom--celebrated
the right to a jury trial.
Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the suppression of town meetings and local elections
(Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory?
to use as many Union troops on the battlefield as possible in a war of attrition
(Q030) During the first two years of the Civil War, most of the fighting took place in
Virginia and Maryland
What was one major difference between the two 17th century Chesapeake colonies, Virginia and Maryland?
Virginia's leadership, and most of its settlers, were primarily Anglican. In Maryland, the colonial leadership was Catholic, as was its proprietor, Cecilius Calvert.
In one paragraph (5-7 sentences), explain why you think Bridget Bishop became a target for witchcraft accusations during the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. You may use information from the book, video, or lecture to support your answer, but you must use your own words.
Bridget Bishop was accused because of multiple reasons there biggest reason was that she was a women who owned land and that was very uncommon in this era. Another reason is she was accused is that she was married three times while she lived in a puritan village, they were very against the idea of divorcing. Her second husband was mysteriously killed so they accused her of using witchcraft on him. Samuel Parris was a minister whose daughters accused their maid of witchcraft to get the suspicion off them. in order to make sure he and his family stayed save from accusation he put his maid on trial and kept trying to get her to admit guilty. When Bridget went through the biopsy they said she had a "witch" mark that vanished somehow.
Approximately what percentage of slaves carried to the New World were destined for mainland North America?
5 percent
Which of the following statements accurately describes the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?
Anti-Federalists criticized the Constitution for lacking a Bill of Rights; Federalists did not see a need for a Bill of Rights.
In no more than two sentences, explain in your own wordswhy the monarchy decided to merge the northern colonies into the Dominion of New England.
The monarchy decided to merge in order to tighten and strengthen the British power in the colonies. This was necessary in order to protect themselves against the natives attacks.
What factors led to the Uprising of 1622, in which Powhatan Indians led by Opechancanough launched a surprise attack that killed one quarter of the English settlers in Virginia.
The successful cultivation of tobacco meant that more English were arriving in Virginia, and the English settlements there were becoming larger and more permanent
(Q005) A major hindrance during the outbreak of war included this railroad situation.
There was no national railroad gauge so trains built for one line could not run on another.
