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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

Quasi-War

Sedition Act

Andrew Jackson's invasion of Florida became known as the

Seminole War

Thomas Paine

Virginia Plan

Aaron Burr

was acquitted of the charge of treason

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

freedom of speech

The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution

gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted.

Which of the following would represent a fulfillment of what Judith Sargent Murray argues for in her essays?

girls attending college

Republican motherhood encouraged

greater educational opportunities for women.

Which of the following was a key benefit of the Treaty of Paris for the United States?

guaranteed independence from Britain

The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

had far-reaching consequences because it banned slavery in the Old Northwest.

Cornwallis was defeated at Yorktown because

he had no land or water escape route.

The Regulators were North Carolinians concerned with

high taxes

What brought an end to Washington's presidency in 1796?

his wish that the office not become a lifelong position

The national land policy established in the 1780s had the greatest benefit for

individual settlers

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase

stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?

that Parliament had the power to pass laws for all of the colonies "in all cases whatever"

Virtual representation was the idea

that each member of Britain's House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district.

"The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Frances Scott Key, commemorates what event in the War of 1812?

the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor

What Anti-Federalist idea is still part of modern political debate?

the fear that a strong central government threatens liberty is still part of modern political debate

Shays's Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated

the need for a stronger central government

(Q021) The "Revolution of 1800" was

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

With the Louisiana Purchase,

the size of the nation was doubled.

The Sons of Liberty

took the lead in enforcing the boycott of British imports in New York City

In the _________ Treaty of 1819 Spain ceded all of Florida to the US and, in return, the US gave up its claim to Texas.

Adams-Onis Treaty.

(Q010) Which of the following was a characteristic of the Articles of Confederation?

Amending the articles required unanimity of all the states

Which of the following was true of the Embargo Act of 1807?

Americans were prohibited from sending ships to foreign ports

Which of these denominations did NOT help to lead the Second Great Awakening?

Anglicans

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?

Anti-Federalist criticized the Constitution for lacking a Bill of Rights; Federalists didn't see a need for a Bill of Rights.

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.

Zebulon Pike

Articles of Confederation

In the Declaration of Independence, what justification did Thomas Jefferson provide as the basis for breaking with Britain?

Because government derived from the "consent of the governed," the governed had the right to remove that consent.

At the Battle of New Orleans,

British forces were defeated by Andrew Jackson and his troops

The underlying tension that escalated into the Boston Massacre was between

British troops stationed in Boston and the city's laborers competing for jobs

Why did Aaron Burr kill Alexander Hamilton?

Burr discovered Hamilton was involved with his mistress. Hamilton's criticisms helped defeat Burr's run for the governorship of New York

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

Concord

(Q030) The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was

Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown

Which of the following battles was among the very first of the American War of Independence?

Cowpens

The __________ was group of extreme Federalists who feared losing power with the addition of new states and advocated for the secession of New England.

Essex Junto

The relationship between the national government and the states is called

Federalism

A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was

France becoming an ally to the United States.

(Q018) In the XYZ affair of 1797,

French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes

Which of the following approaches did Thomas Paine take when writing Common Sense?

He presented the case for American independence as backed by simple facts while also passionately describing it as a chance to fight oppression

In writing the Declaration of Independence, which of Locke's natural rights did Jefferson replace, and with what?

He replaced "property" with "the pursuit of happiness."

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 government.

How did the Panic of 1819 shape American views of banks?

It fostered a major backlash of anti-bank sentiment

Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

It granted a monopoly, and the colonists opposed all forms of monopoly.

Why was the Proclamation of 1763 difficult to enforce?

It involved such a large geographical area

What is the significance of the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

It is considered the battle that started the Revolutionary War.

Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?

It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house

Why did colonists object to the Tea Act?

It raised the tax on tea so much as to make tea prohibitively expensive

(Q037) Who was a member of the American delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Paris?

John Adams

The man who was responsible for negotiating a treaty for the United States to acquire Florida from Spain, aided in an agreement with Great Britain to fix the Canadian-American border at the 49th parallel, and wrote a majority of the Monroe Doctrine was

John Quincy Adams

Marbury v. Madison

Lousiana Purchase

As part of the Missouri Compromise, what free state was admitted to the Union?

Maine

(Q024) The case that established judicial review was

Marbury v. Madison

Republicans

Missouri Compromise

Essex Junto

Monroe Doctrine

The first phase of the Revolutionary War was fought primarily in the region of

New England

Judith Sargent Murray

New Jersey Plan

This Connecticut schoolmaster and lawyer insisted on a simplified and Americanized system of spelling.

Noah Webster

Washington Irving

Northwest Ordinances

Which element of our current political system did the founding fathers generally hope to avoid?

Political parties

The republican ideology embraced by the American Revolutionaries caused them to create this style of government.

Representative Democracy

(Q013) The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the

Republicans and Federalists

Which of the following occurrences was a precursor to the War of 1812?

The British attacked American frontier settlements

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

The Federalist

What was one of the outcomes of the Stamp Act?

The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people's freedom

What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?

The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review

Which of the following did Jay's Treaty accomplish?

The United States guaranteed favored treatment of British imports

What was an important political origin of the American Revolution?

The colonists criticized their lack of representation in Parliament

Which of the following is true about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

They met Indian tribes accustomed to dealing with European traders.

This author's works included popular folk tales recounting the adventures of Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle.

Washington Irving

At the Battle of Tippecanoe,

William Henry Harrison drove the Indians out of Prophetstown and burned the settlement.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

argued that America would become the home of freedom and "an asylum for mankind."

Alexander Hamilton's long-term goal was to

make the United States a major commercial and military power.

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who

preached a militant message to Native Americans early in the nineteenth century.

The national land policy established in the 1780s had the greatest benefit for

private land companies.

Although many states endorsed the principle of _____ _____, none created a working system to provide it.

public education

The Second Great Awakening was a wave of revivalism designed to counter ______ _______.

religious rationalism

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to

the Alien and Sedition Acts

Participants in Shay's Rebellion sought to model their strategy on that of

the American Patriots

Which of the following was part of Alexander Hamilton's financial program?

the Bank of the United States, modeled on the Bank of England

The second phase of the Revolutionary War was fought primarily in

the Mid-Atlantic region

The Sedition Act targeted

the Republican press

The Sedition Act targeted

the Republican press.

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

the Treaty of Ghent.

The "Revolution of 1800" was

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

What was impressment?

the practice of kidnapping sailors and forcing them to serve in the British navy

Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820,

the remaining Louisiana Purchase territory was divided into slave and free zones

What was one of the rights named in the Bill of Rights?

the right to trial by jury

The term "Era of Good Feelings" refers to the period of American history when

there seemed to be political harmony during the Monroe administration

(Q019) The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because

they were years of one-party government

The Era of Good Feelings was so-called because

they were years of one-party government.

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?

to bring stability to the colonial frontier

Which of the following was an aim of the Lewis and Clark expedition?

to explore the economic potential of the territory acquired through the Louisiana Purchase

In 1778, the focus of the war shifted

to the South, where the British captured Savannah that year

The Olive Branch Petition

was addressed to King George III and reaffirmed American loyalty to the crown.

The New Jersey Plan

was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated states

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

The War Hawks in Congress included

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun

Noah Webster

Hessians

The final phase of the Revolutionary War was fought

In the South

Americans were not represented in the House of Commons, and therefore felt they were being taxed without their consent. What rallying cry did this lead to?

"No taxation without representation!"

What became of the Stamp Act?

A year after it was passed, Parliament repealed it and passed the Declaratory Act

(Q035) The success of the Lewis and Clark expedition helped to strengthen the American idea that

American territory was destined to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean

Abigail Adams

Battle of Saratoga

Regulators

Bill of Rights

Andrew Jackson

Boston Massacre

Frances Scott Key

Declaration of Independence

Some Americans, including Jefferson and Franklin, embraced _____ - adherents of which accepted the existence of God, but considered Him a remote being who, after having created the universe, withdrew from direct involvement with the human race.

Deism

Paul Revere

Electoral College

Federalists

Era of Good Feeling

In the 1790s, America was involved in what has been called a "quasi-war" with which nation?

France

A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was

France becoming an ally to the United States

(Q034) Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?

George Washington

Who were the Hessians?

German mercenaries who fought for Britian

What was the significance of the XYZ Affair?

It created animosity between America and France

What was one of the ways in which Paul Revere's engraving of the Boston Massacre was significant?

It distorted what had happened and stirred indignation in the colonies by depicting British soldiers firing into an unarmed crowd

What was one of the terms of the Ordinance of 1785?

It established guidelines for surveying, apportioning, and selling land

Committees of Correspondence

Republican Woman/Mother

Thomas Jefferson

Shay's Rebellion

Which of the following is true about the expedition of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark?

They brought back numerous plant and animal specimens

Lewis and Clark

Three-Fifths Compromise

George Washington

Tories

Which of the following statements accurately describes the allegiance of Native American tribes during the War for Independence?

Tribes individually decided which side to support based on which they believed more likely to support their own ideas of freedom.

Aaron Burr

Valley Forge

Seminole War

War Hawks

Adams-Ones Treaty

War of 1812

James Monroe

Whiskey Rebellion

Sons of Liberty

XYZ affair

Alexander Hamilton

Yorktown

While Lewis and Clark were on their journey, Jefferson dispatched other explorers to other parts of the Louisiana territory. Including this man, who led an expedition from St. Louis into the upper Mississippi valley in the fall of 1805 and the next year he traveled into what would become Colorado.

Zebulon Pike

What did the delegates of the Constitutional Convention agree that the Constitution should create?

a legislature, an executive, and a national judiciary

What vision of America's future guided Thomas Jefferson and James Madison?

a rural republic of independent farmers freely selling their goods to a global market

What primarily motivated the British to place a tax on tea by passing the Tea Act?

aiding the financially ailing East India Company, a giant trading monopoly

Washington had to deal with which of the following problems in the Continental Army?

all of these

Alexander Hamilton

believed that wealthy men from elite families should rule the country

The Second Bank of the United States was created

by Congress in 1816, with the support of President Madison.

The harsh winter at Valley Forge

did not stop Washington's army from training and practicing combat drills under the direction of Baron von Steuben

Tenskwatawa was a Shawnee religious prophet who

called for the revival of traditional Indian culture.

As president, George Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania by

calling up 13,000 militiamen and marching them into battle against the angry mob.

The Olive Branch Petition

convinced Thomas Paine that he had enough support to write Common Sense.

Abigail Adams

criticized the absolute power that husbands exercised over wives

What was the aim of the Townshend Acts?

raising revenue by taxing imported goods

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

debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts

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

declare war

The Monroe Doctrine

declared the Americas off-limits to further European colonization

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to

establish national control over land to the west of the thirteen states

Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?

expand westward

What did Alexander Hamilton include in his economic proposal?

federal responsibility for outstanding Revolutionary War debts.

The Boston Massacre occurred when British soldiers

fired into a mob and killed a number of Boston residents

Why was the Embargo Act of 1807 ineffective?

it caused economic mayhem in the US but did little to affect France and England

The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because

it was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies.

Thomas Paine's Common Sense

made highly original arguments in favor of independence


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