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US Hist. FINAL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cahokia was a large trading center located near what present-day city? | St. Louis |
| Bacon’s Rebellion | Was a conflict between eastern and western political forces in Virginia |
| The “Triangular trade” in the Atlantic dealt with which commodity? | Rum, sugar, and slaves (all of the answers) |
| After the bible, the first widely circulated publications in colonial America were | Almanacs |
| The seventeenth-century tobacco economy of the Chesapeake region | Went through numerous boom-and-bust cycles |
| The first American college was | Harvard |
| Which of the following nations became involved in a general war against England during the American Revolution? | The Netherlands |
| The dominant figure of George Washington’s administration was | Alexander Hamilton |
| The Virginia plan called for | A two-tier national legislature |
| Techumseh | Believed the only effective means to resist white settlers was Indian trial unity |
| The political significance of Peggy Eaton on Andrew Jackson’s administration was that | The presidential aspirations of John C. Calhoun were likely ended |
| In the 1840s, John Deere introduced significant improvements to the | Plow |
| One of the most enduring of the pre-Civil War utopian colonies was | Oneida |
| John Calvin introduced the doctrine of ____________ | Predestination |
| The Spanish referred to peoples of mixed race as _________ | Mestizo |
| The pilgrims who settled at Plymouth wrote the ___________ compact | Mayflower |
| Cotton Mather promoted the use of inoculation against the disease _________ | Smallpox |
| Eli Whitney’s ___________ _______ revolutionized the American South’s economy | Cotton Gin |
| Samuel Morse invented the __________, which burst into American life in 1844 | Telegraph |
| Walt Whitman’s first book of poems was titled ________ ____ _______ | Leave of Grass |