Question 1

A demand shift in the market that increases demand will __________ the equilibrium price.

Accepted Answer

Increase

Question 2

Prices effectively act as signals to producers and consumers in what instance EXCEPT?

Accepted Answer

Regulating government interaction.

Question 3

Price and demand move in the same direction for _____ goods

Accepted Answer

Complementary

Question 4

Each of the following is a supply shifter EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Change in consumer price expectations.

Question 5

A supply schedule is used to show the __________.

Accepted Answer

Supply in a given market.

Question 6

Which statement accurately compares the environments of the Inca and the Aztec

Accepted Answer

The Inca lived in a mountainous region and the Aztec lived on an island in the middle of a lake.

Question 7

What is one way in which Columbus’s explorations impacted the Americas?

Accepted Answer

Native peoples of the Americas began losing control of their lands.

Question 8

How did the Great Awakening impact colonial society?

Accepted Answer

It increased religious diversity and promoted ideas of religious freedom.

Question 9

Why did Parliament send the British army to occupy the colonies after the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

The troops were sent to keep the colonists from expanding westward.

Question 10

What did the Mayflower Compact accomplish?

Accepted Answer

It set up an organized, orderly government for Plymouth Colony.

Question 11

All of the following are characteristics of countries that practiced mercantilism typically EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

Did not allow businesses to become monopolies.

Question 12

Why did many American colonists oppose British tax laws?

Accepted Answer

There was no colonial representation in the British Parliament.

Question 13

Why did the British government send 10,000 troops to enforce the Proclamation of 1763?

Accepted Answer

To keep the peace between settlers and Native Americans by preventing settlers from moving too far west.

Question 14

What was the motivation behind Bacon’s Rebellion?

Accepted Answer

Nathaniel Bacon wanted greater access to Native American land and resources.

Question 15

Many colonists began boycotting British goods in response to the Townshend Acts of 1767. These lines from a 1767 poem ask women to stop buying British goods and instead purchase local products. If readers followed the poet’s advice, what would most likely

Accepted Answer

The profits of British manufacturers and merchants would be reduced.

Question 16

What is likely the most important reason why America won the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

The Patriots believed in their cause and were committed to outlast the British.

Question 17

Which was an advantage that the geography of the colonies gave the Patriots in the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The Patriots were fighting in places and on land that they knew well.

Question 18

How did the Constitutional Convention address the buying and selling of enslaved people?

Accepted Answer

Northern states had already banned the trade of enslaved people but agreed to postpone the issue until 1808.

Question 19

Which philosophy of government from the Declaration of Independence did delegates to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 carry forward?

Accepted Answer

Government derives its authority from the consent of those who are governed

Question 20

The above 1754 political cartoon, drawn by Benjamin Franklin, promoted the

Accepted Answer

Albany Plan of Union, which would unite the colonies against France and Native Americans.

Question 21

All of the following were effects of the Alien and Sedition Acts EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

The policy of nullification became largely discredited.

Question 22

The War of 1812 occurred in large part because of

Accepted Answer

British actions such as impressment and arming Native Amreicans in the Northwest.

Question 23

During George Washington’s presidency, Federalists and Republicans emerged as two political parties deeply divided over

Accepted Answer

What powers were granted to the federal government by the Constitution.

Question 24

What can you infer from this map showing the area of the Louisiana Purchase?

Accepted Answer

Eastern portions of the Louisiana Territory settled before western portions.

Question 25

Supreme Court rulings such as Fletcher v. Peck and McCulloch v. Maryland supported the

Accepted Answer

Powers of the national government over individual state governments.

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