US History
How did western expansion affect the slave trade in the United States
it created a greater demand for slaves by expanding the plantation system
The American System was the brainchild of
Henry Clay
Which statement gives one justification for the United States' declaring war in Great Britain in the War of 1812
The British encouraged Native American tribes to rebel against the Americans
The final Missouri Compromise
kept the number of slave and free states equal
In his pamphlet Common Sense, Thomas Paine made which radical assertion?
that monarchy was an illegitimate form of government
After the American revolution, the United States' westward expansion began with the early exploration of which region?
the Ohio River Valley
As a result of the French and Indian War, England believed (_______) should play an increasing part in paying off their national debt.
the colonists
Which law had the greatest impact on the legal status of Africans in North America in the 1600s?
the law making slavery a hereditary condition inherited through a child's mother
THe Bill of Rights includes how many amendments to the constitution?
10
What did John Winthrop want his colony to be?
A city on a hill
The first armed conflict of the Revolutionary War was provoked by what acr?
A raid by British Soldiers on the colonial weapons arsenal
Which American leader was a chief Federalist?
Alexander Hamilton
Where in the colonies did the British military concentrate their attacks?
Along the Atlantic coast
How did Great Britain respond to the colonial boycotts that followed the Stamp Act?
By sending soldiers and occupying Boston and New York City
The dominant religion in Europe in the 15th century was?
Catholicism
What posted the biggest threat to the early peoples of the American Southwest prior to the year 1300?
Environmental Changes
The Wilmot Proviso concerned the legality of slavery in which of the following?
In territories acquired from Mexico
What idea of the European Enlightenment were most influential to the American colonists?
Inalienable rights
What contract did a poor person enter into to come to the new world if they couldn't pay their own way?
Indentured Servitute
Which country's emigrants made up the largest foreign group in the United States' urban population in the mid-1800s?
Ireland
What was the importance of the U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison in determining the role of the Supreme Court in American government
It established the Supreme Court's authority to declare laws unconstitutional
Why was the presidential election of 1800 particularly important?
It marked the end of the Federalist influence
The Missouri Compromise involved slavery in Missouri and which other newly formed state? (Outcome #8, Paired item #1) (DOK1)
Maine
In 1626, Peter Minuit became the director of the first Dutch colony in the Americas, which was located in which modern-day location
Manhattan
Which European's travels first provoked the Western European curiosity for exploration and expansion
Marco Polo
WHat person started the Protestant Revolution by nailing a document to the church door?
Martin Luther
In which state were the most battles fought between the Continental and British forces in the Revolutionary War?
Massachusetts
President James K. Polk stated that the immediate cause of the Mexican-American War was
Mexico's invasion of American territory
The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced most members of the Cherokee nation to relocate to which current U.S. state?
Oklahoma
Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World
Potatoes
What issue was resolved with the Great Compromise between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
Representation in the two legislative houses
What event caused the leaders of the states to determine the the Articles of Confederation should be changed?
Shay Rebellion
What occurred as a direct result of the canal construction in the eastern United States in the mid-1800s
Shipping costs between major cities dropped sharply
What was the first European colony established in North America
St. Augustine
What was a major concern for the group known as the Antti-Federalists?
That a federal government would take away states' rights
What belief did the Quakers hold that other Protestant groups did not?
That war and aggression were wrong under all circumstances
Which Southwestern tribe was first to build multi-room and -story dwellings from adobe?
The Anasazi
Which extensive tribe provoked the Western European curiosity for exploration and expansion
The Iroquios
Where did the Treaty of Paris set the boundary of the United States?
The Mississippi River
The treaty that ended the Mexican-American War was
The Treaty of Guadalupe HIdalgo
Which of the following statements regarding the Adams-Onis Treaty (Transcontinental Treaty) is correct?
The United States received Florida from the Adams-Onis Treaty
What was the justification for replacing the Articles of Confederation with a different document?
The central government it created was weak and had little power
What evidence suggests that the American colonies' declaration of independence against Great Britain was bound to happen decades before it did?
The colonies had developed their own economic structures independently from Great Britain
Why did the Spanish crown continue to finance the Florida colony even after the explorers failed to find a passage to Asia?
The colony had become an important base for missionaries
The battle of Saratoga was particularly significant because
it resulted in an alliance between the Americans and the French
Which statement best describes the cause of the economic transformation the United States experienced in the early nineteenth century?
The invention of new methods of transportation made it cheaper to ship freight
Which of the following ceased to be a right of individual states after the U.S. Constitution was ratified?
The right to issue and print currency
Why did slavery play a larger role in driving economic expansion in the southern colonies than those further north?
The southern colonies' economies depended more heavily on agriculture
Why did most Americans view the French Revolution Differently than they did the American Revolution
They believed that that its was unnecessarily violent and brutal
Why was finding an oceanic route to Asia important to the Europeans?
They wanted to circumvent the Arabic merchants
Why were West Africans preferred over the native people of the Americas for enslaved labor?
They were able to resist diseases that had affected the native people
Why did the French first begin exploring the Great Lakes region?
They were looking for a direct sea route
Which U.S. President negotiated the sale of the French Louisiana with Napoleon Bonaparte?
Thomas Jefferson
What was the purpose of adding the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution?
To secure individual rights against possible government intrusion
What crop became a staple of the Virginia Colony?
Tobacco
Which Revolutionary War battle ended with the surrender of General Cornwallis to General Washington
Yorktown
The Battle of the Alamo in Texas was
a defeat for the Texans
What caused the deaths of most of the native population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s?
an epidemic of smallpox
Why was Jamestown originally founded?
as a center for economic opportunity
Which crop produced the greatest profits for American farmers in the nineteenth century?
cotton
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
could be used to punish those who helped runaway slaves
General Howe, the British commander, believed he could defeat the Americans by
defeating Washington and his troops in a single decisive battle
Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana Territory
doubled the size of the United States and caused a constitutional dilemma
Horace Mann advocated which reform for the children of the United States?
free public education for all children
What was the primary cause of the population growth in the American colonies in the early 1700s?
immigration to the Americas from Europe
The belief that a state could decide if a federal law was enforced within the borders was known as
nullification
As a result of the Boston Massacre, England
replaced the Townshend duties except on tea
Which crop became popular with Europeans after slaves brought it from Africa and began growing it on southern plantations
rice
Which of the following characterized the post-Archaic phase in North America?
sedentary village life