2011 Final Review
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| The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to | show 🗑
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| Which of the following statements about the American System is correct? | show 🗑
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| show | preserve the Union
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| show | The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable
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| show | Knights of Labor
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| show | women's rights
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| The principle of separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites was set down in | show 🗑
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| All of the following statements about indentured servitude in colonial America are true except | show 🗑
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| show | set a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle
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| show | French military and financial assistance
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| show | the principles of American government were above party politics
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| Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity? | show 🗑
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| show | dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering
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| show | It immediately freed all slaves living in the United States
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| The Pendleton Act was enacted in response to | show 🗑
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| show | Great Britain
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| Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era? | show 🗑
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| show | French diplomatic overtures to invoke the Franco-American alliance
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| show | New England Federalist opposition to the War of 1812
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| show | Most southern families held slaves
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| Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century? | show 🗑
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| show | The American Federation of Labor
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| show | Polk narrowly won on a platform of expansion, lower tariff, and Independent Treasury
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| The "Trail of Tears" refers to | show 🗑
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| The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not paired correctly? | show 🗑
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| Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to | show 🗑
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| Andrew Jackson supported all of the following except | show 🗑
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| show | strengthen the moral cause of the Union
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| Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor was significant because it aroused public awareness of the | show 🗑
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| The Virginia Resolves | show 🗑
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| show | creating a new Fugitive Slave Law
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| Dorothea Dix is most closely associated with which area of social reform in the first half of the nineteenth century? | show 🗑
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| show | Charles Beard
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| show | God created a universe governed by natural law
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| By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in a Republican government | show 🗑
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| show | young unmarried women from rural New England
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| The first proprietary colony was | show 🗑
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| The Sherman Anti-Trust Actor 1890 was | show 🗑
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| show | to guarantee that England alone would profit from trade with the colonies
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| show | work out trade arrangements to acquire needed products from other countries
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| show | an electoral college
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| The Dred Scott decision held that a slave | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Jefferson
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| show | An appeal to the colonies to unify against the threat from France
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| The early nineteenth century Native American leader who urged the Indian tribes in the Old Northwest Territory to unify to protect their lands was | show 🗑
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| show | Peggy Eaton
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| show | Benjamin Franklin
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| Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans began colonization? | show 🗑
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| show | The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of the century
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| show | nullification of all private debts to the states
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| Which of the following was not associated with our foreign relations with France in the 1790s? | show 🗑
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| In the antebellum period, free African Americans were | show 🗑
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| Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850s? | show 🗑
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| show | assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture
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| Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890? | show 🗑
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| The principle of freedom of the press in colonial America was established by | show 🗑
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| show | They were directed against all of the colonies
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| show | profit economically
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| show | The inability of the Bank to provide a sound currency
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| show | asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy
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| show | massive exodus of former slaves from the South
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| To Andrew Jackson, the spoils system | show 🗑
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| show | the states
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| Hamilton proposed a tariff soon after the launching of the United States government in order to | show 🗑
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| show | the base of the New England economy changed from shipping and commerce to industrial production
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| show | the existence of so much land
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| Whose ideas of an Englishman and a Frenchman strongly influenced the Founding Fathers when they wrote the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| In 1840, the American Antislavery Society split into factions because | show 🗑
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| The farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons except | show 🗑
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| D.W. Griffith's epic film, The Birth of a Nation, became controversial because of its | show 🗑
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| show | the British agreed to evacuate the Northwest post
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| show | a system for orderly settlement of the West
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| show | federal financing of secondary education
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| show | The only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi
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| show | the settlement of Puritans in Massachusetts Bay
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| The term "scalawag" was used to describe | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is a direct social change brought about by the American Revolution? | show 🗑
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| show | restrictions on immigration
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| show | the United States would intervene in the problems South American countries had with other nations
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| Which of the following events occurred last? | show 🗑
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| show | broke all ties with the Church of England
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| show | declare federal laws unconstitutional
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| Which of the following was an attempt to enlarge church membership in order to include those faithful members who had not become one of the visible saints or "elect"? | show 🗑
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| show | enactment by Parliament of the Coercive Acts
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| show | meant the end of Reconstruction
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| show | members of Parliament represented the interests of all people in the British Empire
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| Senator Stephen A. Douglas managed to engineer to Compromise of 1850 by | show 🗑
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| The outcome of the election of 1824 between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson was decided by | show 🗑
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| In addition to the Embargo Act of 1807, a significant factor in the development of American industry in the period 1800-1820 was | show 🗑
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| The South hoped to gain diplomatic recognition and active support from Great Britain because | show 🗑
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| show | John C. Calhoun
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| Which of the following was the principal target of Thomas Nast's political cartoons? | show 🗑
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| show | an early form of adult education
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| Which of the following statements about colonial politics in the eighteenth century is true? | show 🗑
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| The Battle of Saratoga resulted in | show 🗑
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| show | the corruption evident in his administration
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| show | the unlimited coinage of silver
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| "Forty acres and a mule" refers to | show 🗑
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| show | needed the approval of nine states
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| Which of the following was justified on the basis of a loose construction of the Constitution? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following states seceded from the Union first? | show 🗑
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| show | The slave trade was immediately abolished
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| show | Nothing was settled beyond a restoration of the prewar status quo
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| Thomas Paine's Common Sense | show 🗑
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| show | were significantly reduced by the transportation revolution
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| Hinton R. Helper's book, The Impending Crisis of the South, was intended as | show 🗑
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| show | State regulation of grain elevator operators and railroad rates
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| show | better military leaders
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| This passage explains which problem that farmers faced in the late nineteenth century? | show 🗑
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| show | immediate abolition of slavery without compensation to slave owners
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| The decisive factor in bringing about the resolution of the dispute with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory in 1846 was | show 🗑
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| Andrew Jackson's view of the presidency emphasized | show 🗑
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| After the Civil War, the practice of sharecropping | show 🗑
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| show | economic problems caused by debt and high taxes
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| show | Interstate Commerce Commission
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| show | were too powerful and contributed to the impoverishment of the country
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| The first federal law to restrict immigration, passed in 1882, was aimed at | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Nast
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| show | Booker T. Washington
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| show | an increase in the supply of piper money
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| Which of the following colonies was founded as a haven for Catholics? | show 🗑
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| The disappearance of slavery in the North resulted from | show 🗑
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| The injunction as a court order was often used in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century to | show 🗑
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| show | Articles of Confederation, Shays' Rebellion, Constitutional Convention, Whiskey Rebellion
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| show | American colonists began to distrust the actions of the British government
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| show | Pennsylvania
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| show | violation of the Tenure of Office Act
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| show | expand the federal government's powers
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| show | the challenge to traditional beliefs
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| From the end of Reconstruction to 1900, the position of the Supreme Court toward civil rights is best characterized as | show 🗑
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| show | United States under the Articles of Confederation
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| During the presidency of Andrew Jackson, the issue that triggered the debate over states' rights was | show 🗑
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| Which of the following sources would not be useful in understanding the military campaigns of the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| show | Ghandi and MLK
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| The first employees in the Lowell, Massachusetts, textile mills were | show 🗑
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| The most important aspect of Jacksonian democracy was | show 🗑
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| The Annapolis Convention was called because | show 🗑
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| show | trails used for the "long drive" during the Cattle Kingdom
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| show | The Gadsden Purchase
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| show | won much concession through separate bargaining with the British
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| The doctrine of popular sovereignty called for the question of slavery in a new territory to be decided by | show 🗑
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| Cotton production was made profitable by the | show 🗑
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| Gabriel's rebellion, a Virginia slave revolt in 1800, | show 🗑
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| show | Sacajawea
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| The majority of the people came to America in the colonial period for which of the following reasons? | show 🗑
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| Which of these strategic objectives did the North accomplish last during the Civil War? | show 🗑
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| Which was a true concern of the Alien and Sedition Act? | show 🗑
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| Even less information provides a clue to why back slavery was established, which of the following has not been advanced as an explanation for the development of slavery in colonial America? | show 🗑
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| show | Webster-Hayne debate
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| Designed as an attempt to secure the loyalty of the French to their new rulers, this act broke new ground in toleration and statesmanship. Unfortunately, the Americans saw only sinister designs. This act was the | show 🗑
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| show | Thomas Paine
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| The his best remembered for his writing about war, slums, and prostitution. A realist, his writings suggest that man is swept along by his environment, unable to control the forces around him. The author is | show 🗑
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| If the Populist had been transported by magic back into an earlier period of American history, they would have most likely joined | show 🗑
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| Which of the following were associated withe the Federalist Party in the 1790's? | show 🗑
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| The survival of the Jamestown colony can be most directly attributed to the | show 🗑
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| The acts of trade and navigation had all of the following consequences in the colonies except | show 🗑
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| The Great Awakening was a reaction to | show 🗑
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| The Boston Tea Party had which of the following causes? | show 🗑
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| Enlightenment philosophers believed in all of the following except | show 🗑
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