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ParScore Quiz 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| By the seventeenth century, Spain had | reached the height of its power and begun to decline |
| Which of the following was not a religious dissenter in Massachusetts Bay? | William Bradford |
| A colony designated as a refuge for English Catholics was | Maryland |
| English people came to the New World because of | All of the above |
| The very first Americans | were nomadic wanderers |
| The creation of the Dominion of New England | increased the power of the governor of the area |
| A major effect of the Stone Rebellion was | harsher treatment of slaves in many parts of the south |
| The growth of colonial assemblies alarmed the British for all of the following reasons except: | The assemblies increased democratic tendencies in the colonies |
| For the British, the major economic role of the American colonies was | to produce crops such as tobacco and to produce raw materials such as lumber |
| What changes in the slave system of the southern colonies began in the 1730s? | More slaves began to live and work on larger plantations. |
| William Pitt was able to convince the colonies to fight in the Seven Years War by | putting the recruiting of troops in the colonies totally in the hands of the colonies themselves |
| The Stamp Act created great fury in the colonies because | this was the first time that Parliament imposed a direct tax on the colonies |
| The statement "taxation without representation is tyranny" was first proclaimed by | Samuel Adams |
| After the Seven Years War, resentment between the British and the colonists existed for all of the following reasons except | the British resented the fact that few colonists had actually helped them in the war against the French |
| Most delegates at the First Continental Congress of 1774 | felt that the colonies should firmly resist measures to tax them without their consent |
| The purpose of the Olive Branch Petition was to | ask the king to craft a solution to end the tensions between Great Britain and the colonies |
| At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, the British were extremely confident of victory because all of the following reasons except | they had outstanding generals that would be commanding British forces in the Americas |
| All of the following were contained in the Treaty of Paris of 1783 except | Quebec and the area immediately surrounding it was ceded to the Americans |
| Women were important in the war effort because they | maintained economic stability in the colonies by managing households across the colonies while men were off fighting the British |
| The weakness of the national government created by the Articles of Confederation was | raise an army |
| The Connecticut Plan presented to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 | proposal for a two-house legislature, with one house based on proportional representation |
| The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves | stated that individual states do not have to enforce laws the states consider unconstitutional |
| Many in America felt that the English and the French failed to treat the United States as a major power in this era; all of the following are evidence of that except | the Convention of 1800 |
| Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton had different views on all of the following except whether America should be a commercial or agrarian society | their belief in the power of the U.S. Constitution |
| Under the Electoral College system | voters approve electors, who elect the president of the United States and it is possible to win the popular vote and lose the election in the Electoral College |
| The Marbury v. Madison decision | established the principle of judicial review |
| As a result of the election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800, | federal excise taxes were eliminated |
| All of the following are reasons why America entered the War of 1812 except | the existence of a strong American navy ready to demonstrate its capabilities |
| The Hartford Convention demonstrated that | the concept of nullification was not exclusively a Southern one |
| The American System of Henry Clay | favored strong economic growth and a second National Bank |
| President Monroe claimed that west¬ward relocation of Native Americans would be to the advantage of the Native Americans because | they would not be bothered west of the Mississippi |
| The concept of nullification became an issue during this period when | South Carolina nullified congressional tariff bills |
| Critics of Andrew Jackson would make all of the following claims except that | he lacked experience in governmental affairs |
| The following are true about the textile mills of New England in the early nineteenth century except | they used a system called the putting-out system |
| Horace Mann is associated with | educational reform |
| Northerners approved all of the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 except | the section of the document concerning the Fugitive Slave Law |
| During the presidential election of 1860 | all of the above |
| According to the concept of manifest destiny | westward expansion was the fulfillment of America's destiny |
| American settlers first came to Mexico in the early 1830s | because they could receive a large plot of land for next to nothing |
| The political party of the era that supported nativist policies was the | Know-Nothing party |
| The North held many advantages at the beginning of the Civil War except: | the North occupied more territory than the South |
| European states did not aid the Confederacy in the Civil War because | all of the above |
| The military draft was unpopular to many in the North because | the draft allowed those drafted to hire "replacements" |
| The Battle of Vicksburg was an important victory for the Union because | it gave the Union virtual control of the Mississippi River |
| Copperheads were | Democrats in the North who opposed the war |
| Those farmers who were successful on the Great Plains | relied on the assistance of other settlers around them |
| Exodusters were | southern blacks who went west to settle |
| The Dawes Act | tried to turn Native Americans into farmers who would farm their own individual plots only |
| The organization that expressed the views of farmers to the largest national audience was | The populist party |
| The turner thesis | notes the impact of western expansion on the American character |
| The practices championed by Frederick W. Taylor that were championed by many factory owners of the era | emphasized the need for greater efficiency in factory operations |
| Many citizens became involved in the political process by actively supporting the Republican and Democratic parties for all of the reasons listed except | candidates for president for both parties in almost every race of this era were dynamic and very popular campaigners, thus energizing the forces of both parties |
| An analysis of the march on Washington by "Coxey's Army" in 1894 demonstrates that | the policies of dealing with depression in the 1890s were somewhat similar to policies championed by Herbert Hoover from 1929 to 1932 |
| The following statements are true about the new industrial city of the late nineteenth century except | the factories of the city were almost always found near a source of water, since water power was common |
| Evidence that the standard of living for the working class improved in this era could be found by carefully analyzing all of the following except | a comparison of increased wages with increased living costs. for factory workers |
| The intent of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine was | all of the above |
| Many humanitarians in the United States initially supported the Spanish-American War because | they were appalled at the Spanish policy of re-concentration in Cuba |
| The major criticism that some Americans had concerning the construction of the Panama Canal was that | the tactics that the Americans used to get the rights to build the canal were unsavory at best |
| The United States was able to annex Hawaii because | pro-American planters engineered a revolt in Hawaii |
| American missionary leaders supported imperialism in this era because | they saw imperialism as an opportunity to convert the "heathen" of newly acquired territories |
| Successful reforms initiated by the progressives included all but which of the following: | The conditions of migrant farmers improved to some degree |
| Theodore Roosevelt ran for president in 1912 because | of the Taft administration's decision to apply the Sherman Antitrust Act to United States Steel |
| American blacks were discouraged by their lack of racial progress during the Wilson administration. Which of the following is not true? | all of the above |
| Many progressives agreed with socialists that | capitalism had created massive inequality in America |
| Which of the following was least likely to be a progressive in this era? | A large stockholder in United States Steel |
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