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hist 1301 final exam
chap 15
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.The New Laws of 1542 | - abolished Indian slavery and also ended the encomienda system & commanding that Indians no longer be enslaved |
| 2.What was in the “Declaration of Josephe”? | He declared that the Spanish God was dead. |
| 3. How did the meaning of the Magna Carta change with time? | Serfdom disappeared and the rights applied to more people |
| 4.“Enumerated” goods | were colonial products, such as tobacco and sugar, that could only be sold initially in English ports. |
| 5. How did the Dutch lose New Netherland to England? | The Dutch saw New York as being on the periphery of its empire, so they didn't protect it |
| 6.Which group made up the bulk of Nathaniel Bacon’s army? | discontented men who had recently been servants |
| 7. According to New England Puritans, witchcraft | resulted from pacts that women made with the devil to obtain supernatural powers or interfere with natural processes. |
| 8.Who finally ended the Salem witch trials? | The massachusetts governor |
| 9.What area was the major producer of revenue for the British crown in the eighteenth century? | The caribbean |
| 10.What was the most significant bonding factor for the diverse groups of Africans brought to the mainland colonies? | Slavery |
| 11.Which human capability did Enlightenment thinkers consider to be of the greatest importance? | - every tradition be judged before the bar of reason - Rational understanding |
| 12. Abigail Adams | - became one of the revolutionary era's most articulate and influential women. - keen observer of public affairs - did not believe in female equality in a modern sense. |
| 13.For which three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson wish to be remembered? | The Declaration of Independence, the University of Virginia, the "Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom." |
| 14.How would one describe the men who attended the Constitutional Convention? | Most had more wealth thn the average american |
| 15.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 could be constitutionally prohibited. |
| 16. When was the principle of “birthright citizenship” established? | during the Reconstruction era following the Civil War |
| 17.Which of the following statements is true of New Orleans under Spanish rule? | Slave women had the right to go to court for protection against cruelty or rape by their owners. |
| 18. How does Sarah Bagley explain her employment in a Lowell mill in the Voice of Industry? | She is made to work there in order to provide money for her family back home. |
| 19.What motivated the actions that resulted in the Dorr War? | A desire to expand Rhode Island's voting laws to include those who didn't own property. |
| 20.Which is true of paper money in America in the early nineteenth century? | It represented a promise to pay the bearer, on demand, a specific amount of gold or silver. |
| 21.Which president’s vision for America most resembled Alexander Hamilton’s plans? | John quincy adams |
| 22.Frederick Douglass argued that | slaves were truer to the principles of the Declaration of Independence than were most white Americans. |
| 23.What was true of the South and slavery in nineteenth-century America? | They were the most powerful and largest slave society and they made up for the ban on international slave trade in 1808 |
| 24.Harriet Tubman | risked her own life by going to her state of birth to lead relatives and other slaves to freedom |
| 25.What was the source of the term “utopia” as applied to utopian communities in America in the nineteenth century? | a 16th century novel by thomas more |
| 26.Which idea did John Humphrey Noyes profess? | People could achieve a state of sinlessness. |
| 27.How did the views of William Lloyd Garrison differ from those of Frederick Douglass? | - Garrison renounced political remedies; Douglass embraced them. - Garrison described the Constitution as an evil document. |
| 28.Why did Mississippi politician Jefferson Davis object in the 1850s to the original design of the Statue of Freedom that now adorns the U.S. Capitol dome? | Its use of an ancient Roman liberty cap on "Freedom" raised a touchy matter about slaves' longing for freedom. |
| 29.Which of the following was a critic of the Mexican War? | Abraham Lincoln |
| 30.The opening of Japan to U.S. trade led to what? | Japan became a modernized military power |
| 31.The Free Soil Party | A political party dedicated to stopping the expansion of slavery. |
| 32.Which was a component of the Know-Nothing Party? | anti-Catholicism |
| 33.How did John Brown differ from other abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison? | - He was willing to take violent action to end slavery. - Brown emphasized violence in freeing slaves. |
| 34.What is one reason the Civil War is often called the first modern war? | Inudstrial tech brought deadlier weapons |
| 35.Copperheads were | Northern Democrats who opposed the Union war effort. |
| 36.The Thirteenth Amendment | - Abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. - The law that banned any form of slavery in any place under the influence of the United States |
| 37.What was ironic about the election of Andrew Johnson? | a man from a seceded state was now president |
| 38.The authors of the Reconstruction amendments gave the federal government the power to do which of the following? | enforce americans rights and act as custdian of freedom |
| 39.The idea that change comes slowly can be evidenced by what event during Reconstruction? | Women were excluded from the suffarage movement |
| 40.Why did Abby Kelley and Lucy Stone disagree with Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s opposition to the Fifteenth Amendment? | Kelley and stone believed that the fifteenth amendments ban on racial descrimination in voting was important step torward truly universal sufferage |
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