Question | Answer |
The dominant political party during the early 1800's was the | Republican |
Francis Lowell founded the first mill in America to put spinning and weaving under on roof in this state | Location 21 Massachusetts |
The growing nationalism of the late 1810s and 1820s was reflected in all the following developments except | The crisis over the admission of Missouri |
In the case of Gibbons v Ogden in 1824, the Supreme Court | Strengthened the power of congress to regulate interstate commerce |
Under the Missouri Compromise, the entrance of Missouri as a state of the Union was paired with the admission of | Maine |
The delegation to the panama conference of 1826 was undermined when | Congress took too long in approving the mission |
This state enters the union as a free state by a compromise in 1829 | Location 19 Maine |
A representative from this state tries to end slavery in Missouri statehood bill | Location 32 Maine |
By 1820, the United States had seen significant progress in transportation in the form of significantly improved | River steamboats |
John Jacob Astor established a trading post for his American fur company in what will become this state | Location 37 Oregon |
The John Marshall court was responsible for strengthening | The interests of the propertied and commercial classes |
One immediate effect of the Monroe Doctrine was that it | Served as an important expression of emerging American nationalism |
Which happened first? | Mexico won her independence from Spain |
Before 1825, the main routes west were the | Ohio and Monongahela River |
Those who accused John Quincy Adams of a "corrupt bargain" maintained that he | traded with Henry Clay for presidency |
In the 1819 case of McCullough v Maryland, the Supreme Court decided that the | Doctrine of implied powers was valid |
The period 1817 to 1821 became known as the "era of good feelings" because there | Was only one major political party |
During the Jeffersonian era, American education exhibited all the following characteristics except | many more schools became available to the poor |
The Americans finally went to war with Britain because they were angry over | all of the answers below |
The intellectual products of the rational skepticism of the late 1700s included all the following except | The second great awakening |
During the War of 1812, the United States achieved victory at all of the following locations | Fort Dearborn |
The Second Great Awakening resulted in all of the following developments except | a renewal of belief in the idea of predestination |
Which came first? | Treaty of Ghent was signed |
During the early 1800s, the Second Great Awakening featured | all of the answers below |
James Murray founded the Universalist Church in this state. | Location 21 MASS |
During the War of 1812, the United States suffered defeats at all of the following locations except | River Thames |
Between 1785 and 1815, the Indians of the Northwest and Canada allied themselves with the British because | the British historically limited western expansion into Indian lands |
Because of opposition to the War of 1812, a movement toward secession was made by | New England Federalists |
During his long political career, Aaron Burr did all of the following things except | winning the governorship of New York in 1804 |
The steamboat Clermont first sailed in this state | Location 32 New York |
The British increased their use of impressment because they | claimed America employed British deserters in the U.S. navy |
The Second Great Awakening had a great impact on | all of the answers below |
Henry Clay was from this state. | Location 17 Kentucky |
Andrew Jackson defeated the Indians at Horseshoe Bend in what will become this state. | Location 1 Alabama |
Which came first? | Battle of Tippecanoe took place |
Tecumseh wanted to accomplish all of the following objectives except | forcing all whites back across the Appalachian Mountains |
The beginning of the American Industrial Revolution during the early 1800s resulted from all of the following developments except | monetary assistance from the federal government to new factories |
Gabriel Prosser planned a slave revolt in this state. | Location 46 Virginia |
The Republican vision of America as proposed by Thomas Jefferson included the ideal of | a society of sturdy, independent farmers |
As a result of Jefferson's troubles with the Barbary Coast of North Africa between 1801 and 1805, the United States took the action of | all of the answers below |
During Jefferson's administration, the city of Washington was best described as a | raw provincial village whose population increased steadily but slowly |
As an individual, President Thomas Jefferson | displayed excellent political skills |
Which came first? | British ship Leopard defeated United States ship Chesapeake |
The last battle of the War of 1812 was fought in this state. | Location 18 Louisiana |
During the Jeffersonian era, American education exhibited the characteristic of | private institutions dominating the educational system |
One example of dangerous medical treatment during the early 1800s was | the continued use of bleeding as a method of healing |
Many early American literary figures | glorified the virtues of American people and American culture |
The principal crop of the Southwest of the early 1800s was | cotton |
The tariff of 1828 was not popular in New England because it protected | raw materials |
When Adams refused to enforce the treaty between William McIntosh, a representative of the Creeks, and white Georgians, the governor of Georgia decided to | make plans for the removal of the Indians anyway |
Many trappers and mountain men | lived peacefully and successfully with Native Americans |
William Becknell offered Americans goods to Mexicans in this territory in 1821 | Location 31 New Mexico |
The National Road began in this state | Location 20 Georgia |
In Worcester v Georgia, the supreme court ruled that the Indians were not subject to | state laws |
In negotiating the Florida question, John Quincy Adams was able to obtain the cession of Florida when | Jackson seized the Spanish forts at St. Marks and Pensacola |
The United States gave up its claims to this future state by the Adams-Onis Treaty | Location 43 Texas |
John Quincy Adams' presidency saw all of the following events except | success in protecting Indians in Georgia |
The "era of good feelings" became a popular label for the administration of | James Monroe |
Major Stephen H Long led an 1819 and 1820 expedition that | labeled the Great Plains the "Great American Desert" |
The Monroe Doctrine was developed as a result of | all of the answers below |
The oldest political party in the United States is the | Democratic party |
Webster's main weakness as a presidential candidate for the Whigs was his | close connections with rich men and big business |
Significant conflict arose between Jackson and his cabinet over | the Eaton affair |
Which came first? | Anti-Masons held a national party nominating convention |
Andrew Jackson fit into the new concept of the political party by | removing large numbers of entrenched officeholders |
The following pairs match historians with their attitudes toward Jackson's impact on history. The correct pair is | Frederick Jackson Turner—Jackson represented the rise of the West to challenge the power of the East |
The Dorr Rebellion took place in this state | Location 39 Rhodes Island |
The philosophy of the Whig party supported | control of westward expansion |
Andrew Jackson and his followers believed that the United States needed to | challenge the power of the eastern elites |
In 1828, the only state not to choose its presidential electors by popular vote was | South Carolina |
During Andrew Jackson's presidency, the common people gained political power through all of the following means except | enfranchisement of women and free blacks |
The theory of nullification was based on the writings of | James Madison and Thomas Jefferson |
In response to South Carolina's vote to nullify the tariffs of 1828 and 1832, President Andrew Jackson took all of the following actions except | arresting John C Calhoun |
One problem the Whig party faced in the 1830s was | its failure to unify behind one of the party's able candidates |
The theory of nullification is based on the principal that | individual states may declare federal laws unconstitutional |
The Jackson administration actively promoted the rights of | none of the answers below |
Supreme Court case of Charles River Bridge v Warren Bridge came from this state. | Location 21 Mass |
Seminole tribe of this state had limited success in resisting relocation | Location 9 Florida |
This state threatened nullification of the "Tariff of Abominations." | Location 40 South Carolina |
o reduce the influence of the Bank of the United States, Roger Taney followed the policy of | gradually moving federal funds into state banks |
The Bank of the United States benefited the U.S. economy by | all of the answers below |
Which came first? | Creation of the "pet banks" |
Robert Hayne was a senator from this state | Location 40 South Carolina |
The Maysville Road Bill was for a road solely in this state | Location 17 Kentucky |
Vice-President John Tyler came from this state | Location 46 Virginia |
In Jacksonian America, the Democratic Party's philosophy was based on all of the following ideas except | the stimulation of the economy by the federal government |
Martin Van Buren led the "Buck-tails" in this state | Location 32 New York |
Before the democratization of the 1820s and 1830s, states restricted the influence of the ordinary citizen in politics by all of the following methods except | restricting voting to members of a specific church |
After the Doff Rebellion in the early 1840s, the state government of Rhode Island | Drafted a new, more democratic, constitution |
116 P.T. Barnum opened his American Museum in this state. | Location 32 New York |
In the 1840s and 1850s, labor unions typically | excluded female workers |
Popular theater activities for antebellum included Shakespearean | parodies like "Hamlett and Egglet" |
The rise of the factory began in the | textile industry in the Northeast |
The automatic reaper revolutionized farming by making | the labor of grain production much quicker |
The Erie Canal revolutionized domestic markets because it permitted the | transfer of goods from New York to New Orleans along the inland waterways |
All of the following men contributed significantly to the improvement in communications and journalism in the 1840s and 1850s except | John Stevens |
A factory system using young women, mainly farmers' daughters, was common in this state | Location 21 MASS |
Those cities along the East coast that were not able to successfully construct canals linked to the West were eventually able to | capitalize on the newly emerging railroad industry |
The Erie Canal was built in this state | Location 32 New York |
The situation of women and immigrants in the factory system was similar in that they both | were powerless to affect pay rates or working conditions |
In the mid-1800s, the social status of women included all of the following conditions except | women had much better access to education than in the 1700s |
The Jerome I Case factory in this state made threshing machines | Location 49 Michigan |
Conditions for Irish-Catholic workers in the 1840s included all of the following except | defending their rights by joining national unions |
State in which John Deere established a factory to produce steel plows | Location 13 Illinois |
Which happened first? | Water power and wood fueled the factories |
In farming communities, people were especially drawn together by | the culture of organized religion |
The city that gained the most form the success of the Erie Canal was | New York |
The economic revolution that transformed America between 1820 and 1860 brought all of the following changes except | the creation of a more united country |
All of the following statements about the lives of blacks in the North are true except | life in the North was hard, but at least there was no segregation |
One item that was not in evidence in most antebellum kitchens was | a refrigerator |
One of the first women's colleges, Mount Holyoke, was in this state | Location 21 Mass |
Home state for Cyrus McCormick | Location 46 Virginia |
Among the most popular formats of entertainment in antebellum America, as epitomized by P.T. Barnum, were | lectures |
In general, nativists believed that | immigrants were politically corrupt and took jobs away from U.S. citizens |
Between 1800 and 1860, the nature of the family changed because of the decline in the | rate of births |
In the early years of the U.S. factory system, working conditions for women and children were | better than England |
The Native American Party was formed in this state in 1845 | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
The early railroads of the 1820's and 1830s primarily served as | linkages between water routes |
Much of the population increase of the 1820s resulted from | a slow decline in the mortality rate |
The continuation of slavery resulted in the | all of the answers below |
The domestic slave trade in the period 1820-1860 | often included the separation of families |
In the 1850s, the price of a prime field hand slave was about | $1,000 |
Which happened first? | Gabriel Prosser planned his rebellion |
The slave system was characterized by | considerable variety in the conditions under which slaves lived |
Gabriel Prosser tried to start a slave revolt in this state | Location 46 Virginia |
James De Bow was a resident of this state when he published his magazine | Location 18 Louisiana |
Slaves developed their own African-American versions of all of the following cultural forms except | school |
The greatest disadvantage for crops that competed with cotton was that the other crops | were limited by soil and climate conditions |
Nat Turner started the last slave revolt in this state | Location 46 Virginia |
Denmark Vessey tried to start a slave revolt in this state | Location 40 South Carolina |
Slavery in the south exhibited all of the following characteristics except | the African slave trade grew larger each decade until the Civil War |
The southern planter class | dominated the political, economical, and social life of the region |
Preston Brooks was a congressman from this state | Location 40 South Carolina |
One effect of Nat Turner's rebellion was | the decline in the number of slaves freed in the South |
Birth state for Harriet Tubman | Location 20 Georgia |
The greatest unifying force in the south was | race |
An instrument that had its origins in Africa is the | banjo |
From 1820 to 1860 the slave population | experienced a huge increase in the lower south |
Southerners considered slavery incompatible with city life because they | feared possible slave conspiracies and insurrection |
Slaves often disliked serving as household servants on large plantations for all of the following reasons except | they were more likely to be sold to the owners of other plantations |
For dangerous tasks many plantation owners used | immigrant labor |
The percentage of white Southerners who were members of slave owning families was approximately | 25% |
Compared with white women in the North white women in the South had | less access to education |
Which happened first? | Nat Turner's rebellion took place |
Which happened first? | Economic power in the South was in the "Upper South" |
Small farmers in the south possessed all of the following characteristics except | independence from the plantation system |
The best known novels of James Fenimore Cooper featured tales of the | frontiersmen in American wilderness |
The early Mormons responded to the hostility that they encountered by | migrating to the West |
Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote scathingly of the dangers of individuality in such novels as | The scarlet letter |
This state included a "burned-over" district | Location 32 New York |
The leading Southern novelists of the 1830s and 1840s wrote | romantic eulogies of the plantation system |
In the early antislavery movement of the 1810s and 1820s the most common plan called for the | colonization of freed slaves in Africa |
The Seneca Falls convention of 1848 promoted | women's rights |
The temperance movement of the 1800s featured | all of the answers below |
The majority of Northerners regarded the abolitionists as | dangerous, fanatical revolutionaries |
The works of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Ignaz Semmelweiss began to convince some physicians that | diseases could be transmitted from one person to another |
The reformers of the 1840s and 1850s believed that the best answer for the future of Native Americans was | reservations |
Robert Owen created a utopia community of New Harmony in this state | Location 14 Indiana |
Antebellum feminists were generally | active in other reform movements as well |
The asylum movement of the 1800s incorporated the principle of | firm, yet humane, treatment to rehabilitate the criminal and insane |
Transcendentalism was centered in this state | Location 21 Mass |
Before the civil war, the United States education system had | helped to achieve one of the highest literacy rates in the world |
During the 1800s members of the temperance movement agreed almost unanimously that | abstinence should promote the moral self-improvement of individuals |
The Oneida Community became controversial because of its rejection of what it called the | demands of male lust |
Women's rights convention at Seneca Falls was held in this state | Location 32 New York |
Brook Farm was noted for its | attempt at Utopian communal living |
The cultural nationalism of American intellectuals of the 1800s generally | celebrated the uniqueness of the American democratic spirit |
The transcendentalists called for | the use of emotion and institution to go beyond the confines of |
In the North before the Civil War the majority of the population reacted to abolitionists by | treating them as a threat to society even doing them bodily harm |
Before the Civil War Northern blacks | were generally limited to the most menial jobs |
Birth state for the Grimke sisters | Location 40 South Carolina |
Antislavery sentiment underlay the formation in the 1840 of the | Liberty party |
Herman Melville created the epic tale of Captain Ahab's obsession with the pursuit of the great white whale in the novel | Moby Dick |
The Mormon Church was created in this state | Location 32 New York |
The birth state for Frederick Douglass | Location 20 Georgia |
In 1851 this state passed laws to restrict the sale and consumption of alcohol | Location 19 Maine |
Democrats held their first convention in this state | Location 40 South Carolina |
Which happened first? | The Battle of the Alamo took place |
Despite earlier efforts to settle the issue, the slavery question became a major issue in the 1840s and 1850s because the | nation was expanding to the west |
The provisions of the Compromise of 1850 included | abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia |
Gold was discovered here in 1848 at Sutter's Mill | Location 5 California |
In the 1857 case of Dred Scott v Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that | Congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the federal territories |
John Brown first comes to prominence in this territory | Location 16 Kansas |
The Lincoln-Douglas debates took place in this state | Location 13 Illinois |
President Zachary Taylor favored the | swift admission of new states from the Mexican Cession with the issue of slavery decided by the local inhabitants |
The battle of Jacinto took place in this territory | Location 43 Texas |
The proposal for popular sovereignty called for deciding the issue of slavery in the territories through | a popular vote by the residents of each territory |
From the 1820s to 1840s Americans became involved in trade with New Mexico by traveling along the | Santa Fe Trail |
From the 1830s onward the general position of white southerners on the issue of slavery | became increasingly sensitive and rigid in defense of the slave labor system |
Stephen Douglas's intention in introducing the Kansas-Nebraska bill seems to have been to | promote the construction of a Midwestern transcontinental railroad |
In the election campaign of 1844 Henry Clay | tried to avoid the issue of texas |
The turmoil over the Kansas-Nebraska Act led to the creation of the | Republican party |
A significant aspect of James Buchanan's win over John C Fremont in the election of 1856 was | Fremont's ability to gain votes in the South |
According to president Polk war with Mexico began when | Mexican troops crossed the Rio Grande and attacked American troops |
The Kansas-Nebraska act of 1854 contained all of the following except | declaring the Wilmot Proviso void |
The California Gold Rush resulted in all of the following developments except | the kidnapping of thousands of Chinese to serve as workers |
The first political party to disintegrate over the issue of slavery was the | Whig |
Popular sovereignty failed in Kansas because of | illegal voting by Missouri residents |
In the 1840s the Oregon Country's ownership remained in dispute between the United States and | Great Britain |
Franklin Pierce was from this state | Location 29 New Hampshire |
The Wilmot Proviso that prohibited slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico | passed the House but lost in the state |
By 1845, 700 Americans were in California engaged in the occupation of | all of the answers below |
Which happened first? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed |
The Lecompton Constitution was for this territory | Location 16 Kansas |
Martin Van Buren lost the 1844 Democratic party nomination for president because | he did not favor the immediate annexation of Texas |
The popularity of baseball received its greatest boost from | the American Civil War |
This state seceded from the south and was admitted as a state in 1863 | Location 48 West Virginia |
The confederacy financed its war effort primarily by | printing paper money |
During the Civil War the Northern economy changed in that the | coal industry increased production |
The Emancipation Proclamation freed | all the slaves of the south except those already under Union control |
The Emancipation Proclamation was significant in that it | all of the answers below |
The Civil War began when | the south fired on northern forces in Fort Sumter |
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln laid down all the following basic principles except | the institution of slavery would not be allowed to continue anywhere in the United States |
George McClellan's Peninsular Campaign took place in this state | Location 46 Virginia |
During the American Civil War, Great Britain adopted the policy of | remaining neutral, while permitting limited aid to the Confederates |
The first battle of Bull Run ended in | a stunning rout of the Union army |
By the end of 1862, the Union had captured large parts of | Tennessee |
By late 1860, the divisive forces that had always existed within the United States were no longer counterbalanced by | all of the answers below |
The three day battle of Gettysburg took place in this state | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
Grant's Wilderness Campaign took place in this state | Location 46 Virginia |
The battle of Antietam was | the bloodiest single day's fighting of the war |
As the commander in chief of the Union army, President Lincoln was | highly competent but not infallible |
The first major Southern city captured by Union forces was | New Orleans |
During 1863, the Union forces achieved decisive victories that effectively sealed the fate of the Confederacy in the battles of | Vicksburg and Gettysburg |
Which occurred first? | Winfield Scott commanded the Union armies |
Which occurred first? | Sherman took Atlanta |
The confederate war effort was | somewhat centralized, but greatly hampered by state governments protecting their states' rights |
The Battle of Wilson's Creek took place in this state | Location 25 Missouri |
Senator J Crittenden was from this state | Location 17 Kentucky |
In the North, the Civil War had the effect on women of | hastening the conversion of nursing into a female occupation |
During the Civil War, the largest sources of revenue for the U.S. government was | borrowing |
Lee surrendered to Grant in this state | Location 46 Virginia |
Henry VIII started the English Reformation because he | required a divorce in order to remarry |
Roanoke Island is in this modern day state | Location 33 (North Carolina) |
Prior to the arrival of Columbus, the peoples of the present United States had | less elaborate political systems than the peoples in Central and South America had |
Which came first? | Balboa crosses the isthmus of Panama |
Which came first? | Bartholomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope |
Disagreements between historians have included the topics of | all of the answers below |
Which came first? | St. Augustine is established |
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs was, in part, due to | the diseases the Spaniards had given the Indians |
Which came first? | Cortes defeats the Aztecs |
The first few British expeditions to North America resulted in | the failure to establish successful permanent settlements |
According to the principles of mercantilism, | a successful nation should export its own goods in exchange for gold and silver |
The majority of English Puritans were religious dissenters who | wished to purify Anglican forms of worship |
Before 1492, the many different Native American societies that existed in what is now the United States filled their food needs by | all of the answers below |
Over the past century, when historians have estimated the population of Indians in North America before Columbus, they | have generally increased the estimates of the native population |
Before the arrival of Columbus, all Native American tribes assigned women the tasks of | caring for children |
Before the coming of Europeans, the peoples who lived in what is now the United States had not developed | a common language |
The Dutch established their claims in North America through the efforts of the explorer | Henry Hudson |
Between 1500 and 1600, the reasons that the Spanish traveled to the Americas included all of the following motives except | destroying large English colonies in South America |
Because of their experiences in Ireland, most English colonists came to believe that they should | establish an English society separate from the native population |
All of the following statements are true of the French colonists in North America except | their numbers grew rapidly because of their success in building industries |
The first permanent English settlement in the New World was established at | Jamestown |
The first American-born child of an English settler was | Virginia Dare |
The first European country to launch long ocean voyages of exploration was | Portugal |
Which came first? | Mary rules England |
Between 1500 and 1550, exploration of the New World was dominated by the | Spanish |
John Smith helps save this colony | Location 46 Virginia |
This colony was for dissident Quakers | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
This colony has a Charter of Liberties | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
Jacob Leisler seized power in this colony | Location 32 New York |
During its first few years, Jamestown suffered from | the debilitating effects of malaria |
The first governor of Plymouth Plantation was | William Bradford |
In the early 1600s, the common characteristics of the English colonies included all of the following except | they made efforts to blend English society with native societies |
All of the following statements are true of the Maryland colony except | it was attacked early and often by neighboring Indians |
This colony brought its charter over to North America | Location 21 Massachusetts |
Which came first? | The English Civil War |
Colony with the House of Burgesses | Location 46 Virginia |
The Carolinas exhibited all of the following characteristics except | they prohibited slavery |
William Berkeley came to be seen as an autocratic ruler of Virginia when | he restricted the right to vote to wealthy landowners |
This colony was run by the Puritans | Location 21 Mass |
The Massachusetts Bay colony exhibited all of the following characteristics except | it was granted less local autonomy than other colonial experiments |
Following the Stuart Restoration, Charles II | issued charters for four new colonies in North America |
Location of Jamestown | Location 46 Virginia |
Which came first? | Navigation Acts are implemented |
The English colonization of North America | established trading centers in cities on the eastern seaboard |
This colony is given to the Calvert family | Location 20 Maryland |
Early settlers in Georgia resented the lack of | all of the answers below |
Which came first? | The Pequot War occurs |
The survival and expansion of Virginia were due, in part, to | the discovery that tobacco would grow well there |
This colony was created by Roger Williams | Location 39 Rhode Island |
The eastern region of the Virginia colony was finally saved from Indian attack after | the colonists suppressed the uprising of 1644 |
Bacon's Rebellion was significant in that it | all of the answers below |
Anne Hutchinson ran afoul of the Massachusetts clergy for all of the following dissenting views except | the church and the government should be completely separate |
In the late 1600s, life expectancy was greater in the northern colonies than in the southern colonies for all of the following reasons except | the northern colonies had fewer cities to breed epidemics |
Roughly one-fourth of indentures in the Chesapeake were | women |
During the entire time of the Atlantic slave trade, European and colonial slavers transported from Africa to the Americas about | 11 million Africans |
In the 1600s, the high sex ratio of men to women in the Chesapeake meant that | females had much latitude in the choice of husbands |
This colony has the college later called Princeton | Location 30 New Jersey |
Almanacs revealed that Americans delighted in humor that | all of the answers below |
In the 1600s, Puritan New England family structure | was more stable than that of southern colonies |
By the beginning of the eighteenth century, some Americans were growing troubled by | an apparent decline in religious piety in their society |
Medical care in early colonial America | revealed that there was little use of the scientific method |
America's most famous almanac, Poor Richard's Almanac, was published by | Benjamin Franklin |
The Puritan theologian Cotton Mather (after advice from his slave) came to believe that smallpox could be defeated by | inoculation |
The economy of the northern colonies exhibited all of the following characteristics except | they had highly successful manufacturing concerns protected by English law |
Immigrants from Europe came to the American colonies because of | all of the answers below |
During the 1600s and 1700s, the southern economy was characterized by all of the following conditions except | the development of a merchant class |
The southern agrarian economy was dominated by | wealthy landowners |
This colony was home to King's College | Location 32 New York |
The Making of New World Slavery, by Robin Blackburn stressed a theme of | economic advantages of slavery |
Colonial cities displayed all of the following characteristics except | they had residents who were roughly equal in wealth |
The American political system developed differently than the British political system because | Britain did little to exert its authority before 1760 |
The witchcraft hysteria in Salem and other New England towns was | a reflection of economic strains within the community |
The rise of commerce in the English colonies was aided by | a group of adventurous entrepreneurs |
One problem with early American industries was | there was no commonly accepted currency |
The most popular nonreligious literature in early America was | almanacs |
The first college in North America was in this colony | Location 21 MASS |
In religious matters, each of the colonies | had a variety of different churches existing side by side |
All of the following are true about the transport of African slaves except | conditions varied little from ship to ship |
The basic unit of social life in colonial New England was the | town |
The location of first significant metals industry in the colonies | Location 21 Mass |
The Great Awakening of the 1700s | came in response to a decline in religious piety |
The system of temporary servitude in the New World | included a labor force that never volunteered to come to the colonies |
During the French and Indian War, the last major occurrence in America was | the surrender of Montreal |
In response to the Coercive Acts, the colonists took all of the following actions except | passing a plan for a colonial union under British authority |
Colonial leaders based their opposition to British policies on the philosophies of | all the answers below |
Thomas Hutchinson was attacked by the Sons of Liberty in this colony. | Location 21 Mass |
Following the "Boston Massacre" of 1770, Samuel Adams stirred up public outrage and then helped to create a committee of | correspondence |
Paul Revere came from this colony. | Location 21 Mass |
By agreeing to the Peace of Paris, the French did all of the following except | gaining territory in India |
In the 1750s, the relationship between the British Empire and the American colonies was characterized by | most Americans believing that the benefits of the empire far outweigh the costs |
Location of Braddock's defeat | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
Charles Townshend closed down this colonial assembly. | Location 32 New York |
The Proclamation of 1763 was supported by | Indians |
The "shot heard round the world" took place in this colony. | Location 21 Mass |
In 1754, representatives met in this colony to negotiate a treaty with the Iroquois. | Location 32 New York |
Acadians are exiled to this location | Location 18 Louisiana |
During the reigns of George I and George II, | the prime minister and the cabinet became the true executives |
The leader of the American militia at Fort Necessity was | George Washington |
The Stamp Act crisis brought the colonies to the brink of war with the British, but the crisis subsided largely because | English merchants, hurt by the colonial boycott, asked Parliament to repeal the act |
During the Seven Years' War, the English secretary of state was | William Pitt |
Colony associated with James Otis | Location 21 Mass |
Appointments to the position of royal governor, customs collector, or naval officer were usually | made as a result of bribery or favoritism |
After 1763, the British imperial design changed from emphasizing trade to | acquiring land, population, and imperial splendor |
The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in Massachusetts at | Lexington |
This colony is associated with the Regulator Movement | Location 33 North Carolina |
During his years as chancellor of the exchequer, Charles Townshend persuaded Parliament to pass all of the following measures except | establishing new agents to enforce the Stamp Act |
Colony associated with Patrick Henry | Location 46 Virginia |
During the 1700s, the most powerful group of Native Americans in North America was the | Iroquois |
One result of the Boston massacre was | the incident became a symbol of British oppression |
Alcohol and its consumption in the American colonies in 1770 was | craved by American colonists, and drunkenness was common |
The effects of Queen Anne's War in the colonies included | the outbreak of border conflicts with both France and Spain |
During the French and Indian War, colonial forces were engaged in | protecting western settlements against Indian raids |
The wartime experiences of American women included all of the following except | momentarily gaining the right to vote in many northern states |
During the final phase of the American Revolution, General Cornwallis was surrounded and forced to surrender his entire force at | Yorktown, Virginia |
Which occurred first? | Jefferson provides for the western lands to be divided into ten districts |
In discussing the American Revolution, the basic controversy among historians involves the question: | Was the motivation for the Revolution primarily political ideology or essentially economic and social interests? |
The economic effects of the Revolutionary War included | encouraging American economic growth and diversification |
Site where Little Turtle defeated the US Army in the early 1790s | Location 35 Ohio |
This state eliminated the executive position in its state charter. | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
State that gave the right to vote to women but rescinded that right in 1807. | Location 30 New Jersey |
First state to have a constitutional convention | Location 21 Mass |
The Revolutionary War affected religious and social groups in all of the following ways except | it improved the position of the Indians because most helped the American side |
As the Revolutionary War began, most Americans believed they were fighting for | a redress of grievances against the British Empire |
Lord Cornwallis surrendered in the colony in Fall of 1781. | Location 46 Virginia |
The final phase of the American Revolution was characterized by | all of the answers below |
For the Iroquois Confederacy, the American Revolution led to | a weakening of the tribes, because the Confederacy split up, and the Americans attacked those who sided with the British |
During the early 1780s, the authority of the national government was vested in | a legislative branch |
In the second phase of the American Revolution, between early 1776 and early 1778, the fighting resulted in the British forces | achieving several important victories but failing to crush the Americans because of mistakes and blunders |
During the American Revolution, the real center of authority was | the state governments |
During the American Revolution the religious group that most improved its position was the | Catholics |
The state governments that were formed during the 1770s exhibited all of the following characteristics except | they adopted the principle of universal suffrage |
Home for Nathanael Greene | Location 39 Rhode Island |
During 1777, British General Burgoyne attempted to implement a plan for dividing the colonies by capturing the | Hudson River Valley |
The American War for Independence has been characterized in all of the following ways except | the first technological war |
Thomas Jefferson was from this colony. | Location 46 Virginia |
During the Revolution, the Americans had all of the following advantages over the British except | their troops were generally superior to the British regulars |
The American national government obtained many of the war supplies that it needed to fight the American Revolution by | receiving foreign aid and loans from countries like France |
The Land Ordinances of 1785 and 1787, which created the Northwest Territory, also | all of the answers below |
In the 1770s and 1780s, the powers of government were | concentrated in the state governments |
Which occurred first? | Battle of Saratoga occurs |
The pamphlet "Common Sense" was instrumental in gaining support for | the idea of independence from Great Britain |
General Burgoyne surrendered in this colony in the fall of 1777. | Location 32 New York |
The "Revolution of 1800" refers to | the belief of Thomas Jefferson that the Republican victory signaled a fundamental change in American politics |
The Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was significant to the distribution of power because it | reserved to the states and the people all powers not specifically delegated to the federal government |
William Paterson was from this state. | Location 30 New Jersey |
The Federalists of the 1790s believed that the United States should have | a strong central government and a well-developed economy |
The authors of The Federalist Papers wrote them for the purpose of | explaining the meaning and positive qualities of the Constitution |
The plan favoring the large states was named for this state. | Location 46 Virginia |
State associated with James Madison | Location 46 Virginia |
For the Constitutional Convention to reach agreement on the power of the federal government to regulate commerce, the members agreed that | the government would not be permitted to stop the slave trade for twenty years |
The Antifederalists argued that the Constitution had all of the following faults except | it allowed the state governments to become a threat to the lives and property of their own citizens |
When Thomas Jefferson looked to the future, he hoped that the United States would become a country dominated by | independent owners of small farms |
In response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison contended that state legislatures could declare federal laws unconstitutional. This view first appeared in | the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions |
The Federalist party enjoyed widespread support in the | commercial centers of the Northeast |
The first state to join the Union after the original 13 states | Location 45 Vermont |
The Constitutional Convention was held in this state. | Location 38 Pennsylvania |
By creating a federal system, the framers of the Constitution | created a system of divided authority among national and state governments |
Henry Knox was from this state. | Location 21 MASS |
The Pinckney brothers came from this state. | Location 40 North Carolina |
The men who wrote the Constitution resolved the question of sovereignty by deciding that in the United States political power rested ultimately with the | people |
Edmond Randolph was from this state. | Location 46 Virginia |
In response to the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794, President Washington | personally led an army of nearly 15,000 men into Pennsylvania |
Most of the people who wrote the Constitution | distrusted any concentration of political power |
Which occurred first? | Jay's Treaty is signed with England |
The start of the French Revolution caused the Republicans in the United States to | applaud the revolution as being democratic and copy French fashions and forms of address |
In the election of 1796, the man who won the presidency was | John Adams |
The event that resulted in the Quasi War between the United States and France was the | XYZ Affair |
The purpose of the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was to | prevent men from different parties from serving as president and vice president at the same time |
Which occurred first? | Alien and Sedition Acts are passed |
The Constitution failed to address an issue concerning the Native Americans that would dictate their future relationship with the whites. This issue was | tribal sovereignty over their lands |
To protect the nation from the "tyranny of the people," the original U.S. Constitution provided that the people would directly elect only one part of the national government, the | House of Representatives |