| Question | Answer |
| All of the following statements are true regarding Manifest Destiny EXCEPT... | Supporters tended to be staunch supporters of annexation |
| All of the following statements are true regarding the expansionist ideology of the United States EXCEPT... | Expansionists of the 1840s argued that expansion would lead to anarchy |
| Why did John C. Calhoun believe that federal government had no power to prohibit slavery in the Mexican Cession? | He believed that slaves were property and the Constitution protected the right to property |
| The Wilmot Proviso was a... | Stipulation that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquitted in the negotiations with Mexico |
| All of the following statements are true regarding the democratic party's role with immigrants in the mid nineteenth century EXCEPT... | Heavily involved in temperance and school reform, which aided in immigrants' transition in America |
| All of the following statements are true regarding the Irish immigrants of the mid nineteenth century EXCEPT... | Irish men most often identified with the Whig party |
| What was one of the reasons that James Polk won the presidency in 1844? | Polk convinced many northerners that annexation of Texas would be in their best interests |
| The Senate rejected the treaty annexing Texas drawn up by Secretary of State Calhoun because... | He defended annexation as a way to protect and defend slavery |
| The Whig political program in 1840 included... | Government financed internal improvements |
| All of the following statements are true regarding labor protest in the mid nineteenth century EXCEPT... | Ideology of land reform offered the most to those who were not economically self-sufficient |
| What was the cause of the increasingly tense relations between the Mexican government and the American residents in Texas after 1830? | The instability of Mexican politics; attempts by the Mexican government to prohibit importation of slaves; increasing American immigration; Santa Anna's brutality |
| By 1830 Americans migrated to Mexico for all of the following reasons EXCEPT... | To convert Catholic Mexicans to Protestantism |
| Anti-Catholic sentiment in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s was based on all of the following EXCEPT... | Native born Americans' identification of the Irish with radical abolitionist activity |
| In the case of Commonwealth v. Hunt, the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that... | Labor unions were not necessarily illegal combinations of monopolies |
| The main reason most European immigrants came to the United States between 1815 and 1860 was... | Economic advancement |
| Which of the following is not a reason why the Upper South tended to identify with the Lower South rather than with the North? | Railroads linked Upper and Lower South |
| Which of the following is true? | Southern churches were the most interracial institutions in the Old South |
| Which of the following was most important in the development of slave culture in the United States? | African-American religion and common slave language |
| Which of the following is an accurate statement about slave uprisings in the antebellum South? | There were only three, and only one resulted in white deaths |
| Which of the following was the most common form of slave resistance? | Work stoppages, arson, theft, negligence |
| Why were some slaves allowed to work in towns or cities? | The southern economy suffered from a perennial shortage of white labor |
| One of the hallmarks of the West African cultures from which many American slaves had originated was... | Broad kinship ties |
| How had the American slave population change by about 1830? | It had increased dramatically |
| Why did non-slaveholding southerners support the slave system? | Some hope to become slaveholders; they accepted the racist assumptions of slavery; they feared what freed slaves might do |
| Which of the following statements about the white folk of the pine barrens is incorrect? | They usually worked for the planters as tenant farmers, sharecroppers or overseers |
| The typical southern yeoman hoped for... | Self-sufficiency with modest profit |
| What was the largest group of southern whites in the antebellum period? | Non-slaveholding yeomen |
| By 1860 what percentage of white southern families owned slaves? | 25% |
| Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century? | Ireland |
| Southerners supported the Whig Party because... | Most southerners felt that without federal aid for internal improvements they would languish behind the North |
| Which of the following reflects the main argument posited in the South Carolina Exposition and Protest? | Aggrieved states have the right to nullify a harmful tariff |
| What was the main cause of the great increase in popular vote between 1836 and 1840 presidential election? | Higher percentage of eligible voters getting to the polls to vote |
| The Seneca Falls Declaration of sentiments called for... | Equal rights for women |
| What was one of the major reasons for the changing attitude toward poverty, crime, and insanity in the early nineteenth century? | Americans began to believe that human nature could be improved |
| What did most white abolitionists want? | Legal but not necessarily social equality |
| Which of the following did NOT contribute to the Panic of 1837? | The Bank of the United States |
| What was one of the reasons why Andrew Jackson vetoed the re-chartering of the bank of the United States? | It was a private monopoly run by privileged few |
| The tariff controversy of the early 1830s showed that... | The nation faced serious and growing sectional pressures in the years ahead |
| Which section of the country tended to strongly oppose tariffs? | Middle Atlantic |
| Why did President Jackson veto the Maysville Road Bill? | He opposed federal funding of local internal improvements |
| The Whig Party was made up of former Federalists and former Republicans who... | Believed that the national government should encourage economic development |
| Which of the following statements about the Erie Canal is correct? | It linked New York City through inland waterways to Ohio and made the city a major outlet for Midwestern produce |
| What does the intense antebellum criticism of lawyers, physicians, ministers, and other professionals indicate about America? | Deference was declining and people were beginning to question authority |
| Which of the following did not stimulate westward settlement? | Federal support of existing Indian settlements |
| Which of the following was a reason for the declining birthrate during the antebellum period? | Abstinence or abortion |
| The doctrine of "separate spheres" suggested that... | Men were superior in worldly pursuits, and women were superior for their moral influence |
| Which of the following was not one of the ways that free blacks in the antebellum North were treated? | They were encouraged to migrate to other states or cities |
| Americans drew the following conclusions from the Panic of 1819 EXCEPT that... | Speculators were the best protection against foreign competition |
| Squattors... | Exerted a restraining influence on the land speculator |
| Which of the following was most responsible for the spread of cotton growing into the Old Southwest? | Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin |
| The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT... | Federal financing of secondary education |
| In 1840 the American Antislavery Society split into factions because... | William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members |
| In the early 1830s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were... | Young unmarried women from rural New England |
| Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT... | The right of nullification |
| Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct? | It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency |
| The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was... | An expansion of credit and speculation |
| Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century women reformers were most active in the cause of... | Temperance |
| Which of the following transportation developments opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830? | Turnpikes and canals |
| Jacksonian Democracy was distinguished by the belief that... | Political participation by the common man should be increased |
| Which of the following correctly describes the situation of Native Americans in the 1770s and 1780s? | They continued to incorporate the most useful aspects of the European culture into their own-combining elements of the old and new |
| Which of the following was one of the ways the American Revolution affected African-Americans? | Northern states granted free blacks the right to vote and repealed or stoped enforcing curfews |
| Which of the following was not one of the terms of the Peace of Paris? | East and west Florida were transferred from Spain to the United States |
| The basic unit of settlement in the territory of the Ohio River was established by the... | Ordinance of 1785 |
| Robert Morris proposed to solve the nation's financial crisis by... | Levying a national import duty to finance the congressional budget and to guarantee interest payments on the war debt |
| The British justified their refusal to evacuate their military forts in the Ohio Valley after the Revolution by pointing to America's failure to... | Return or pay for loyalists' property and pay British creditors |
| Of all the political innovations of the era of the American Revolution, which can be considered the most radical? | The idea that political institutions should be judges by the standard of whether they served the public good rather than the interests of the powerful few |
| The relationship that the Constitution established between the national and state governments is known as... | Federalism |
| The proposal to create a bicameral national legislature, with representation based proportionally on each state's population, was known as the... | Virginia Plan |
| Which part of the government did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention not develop as fully as the others? | Judicial branch |
| North Carolina refused to Ratify the Constitution... | Unless a bill of rights would eventually be added |
| All the following are true regarding the Antifederalists EXCEPT... | They maintained there was no need for a bill of rights |
| Which important controversy was resolved by the Connecticut Compromise? | Represenation in Congress |
| Shay's Rebellion... | Convinced some political leaders of the necessity of giving more power to the central government |
| Which of the following was a major success of the Articles of Confederation? | They devised land policies that would allow for the systematic incorporation of new states |
| Which of the following was not an advantage the British had in their war effort to suppress the American rebellion? | Shorter supply lines |
| The greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation was its establishment of... | A system for orderly settlement of the West |
| As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for... | An electoral college |
| By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican government, sovereignty was located in... | The people |
| The Declaration of Independence did all the following EXCEPT... | Call for the abolition of the slave trade |
| Which of the following contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution? | French military and financial assistance |
| The Federalist papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteenth century when they asserted that... | A large republic offered the best protection of minority rights |
| All of the following contributed to discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army EXCEPT... | Most soldiers were draftees |
| Which of the following was trued of the United States Constitution as adopted at the Constitutional Convention? | It was built on a series of compromises |
| After the Revolution, the concept of "republican mother" suggested that... | Women would be responsible for raising their children, especially their songs, to be virtuous citizens of the young republic |
| France negotiated a treaty of alliance with the new American nation in 1778 following... | The defeat of the British General Burgoyne at Saratoga |
| Which of the following statements does not reflect the Enlightenment? | Enlightenment theories were most appealing to lower class whites and women |
| Which of the following was NOT a long-term effect of the Great Awakening? | The decline in the influence of Baptists and Methodists and the increasing importance of Quakers and Anglicans |
| Deists... | Believed in a God who had created a perfect universe and then allowed it to operate according to natural laws |
| What was the typical qualifications for holding office in eighteenth-century English colonies, outside of New England? | Property ownership of at least 1000 acres |
| Why did few colonial Americans object to the British navigation system after 1700? | The restrictions stimulated the development of an American merchant marine and American maritime industries; parliament never restricted products such as grain, livestock, fish, lumber, or rum, which accounted for 60 percent of colonial exports; tobacco growers were given a monopoly of the British market, and their income was reduced ony slightly; the regulations primarily burdened tobacco and rice exporters, whose income was reduced by less than 3 percent |
| The Navigation Acts were part of the British policy known as... | Mercantilism |
| The British Navigation Acts affected the economies of colonial America in all of the following ways EXCEPT that... | Colonial clothing manufacturers were heavily subsidized so that they could meet the demand in England |
| Which of the following statements about Georgia is not correct? | It was populated by large numbers of debtors who otherwise would have had to rot in jail |
| Which of the following resulted from King Wiliam's and Queen Anne's War? | The wars heightened Anglo-Americans' sense of British identity and made them feel dependent on the mother country for protection |
| Which of the following correctly describes the impact of the Glorious Revolution in one of the colonies? | Maryland - Protestants seize the capital, Maryland becomes a royal colony, and Catholics lose the right to vote |
| As a result of the Stono Rebellion... | A harsh new code was instituted to keep slaves under constant surveillance and ensure that masters disciplined their slaves |
| Which of the following is one of the reasons that the cultivation of rice changed South Carolina society dramatically? | Rice cultivation required the use of slaves |
| After 1660, the English... | Began a new wave of colony building |
| The only British colony on the North American mainland to have a black majority in the eighteenth century was... | South Carolina |
| What was the most important factor in France's ability to hold its vast North American domain against Spanish and English expansion? | Good relations with the Native Americans |
| Class tension in the Chesapeake lessened after 1690 because... | Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over blacks |
| Bacon's Rebellion stemmed from violent attacks of... | Poor white settlers against Native Americans |
| The economy in the Chesapeake in the second half of the seventeenth century... | Was marked by depression as tobacco prices fell |
| The Act for Religious Toleration of 1649... | Was passed to protect Puritans in Massachusetts from religious persecution and was America's first law affirming freedom of worship |
| Which of the following statements about Virginia is correct? | It was governed by an appointed royal governor and governor's council and a House of Burgesses elected by landowners |
| Most people in the British West Indies in the early 18th century were... | Black |
| During the seventeenth century the greatest extremes of inequality were found in... | The West Indies |
| A man's right to vote for governor and members of the General Court in seventeenth-century Massachusetts was based on... | Church membership |
| Conflict in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late seventeenth century arose most notably between... | Farmers and merchants |
| The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because... | Too few second- and third- generation Puritans were willing were testify publicly about their conversion experiences |
| What was the most fundamental threat to the Puritan social order? | The market economy |
| Governor John Winthrop of Massachusetts Bay colony advocated a social philosophy that emphasized... | Social reciprocity |
| Which of the following was described as "a city upon a hill"? | Massachusetts Bay colony |
| In which of the following British North American colonies was slavery legally established by the early 1700s? | All the colonies |
| The flow of immigrants to English colonies in the 17th century... | Was determined by political upheaval and economic recession |
| The group that wished to cleanse the Church of England of popish abuses was called the... | Puritans |
| After fifteen years, the Virginia colony still faced serious problems including... | Corrupt local officials who defrauded the shareholders; an exeptionally high death rate; deteriorating relations with the Native Americans; financial bankruptcy |
| In their dealings with which of the following people did the English learn important lessons and establish valuable precedents that they would later use in handling the North American Indians? | The Irish |
| Sugar production... | Was an example of the Columbian Exchange |
| Which of the following statements about Britain's Queen Elizabeth I is incorrect? | She eagerly embraced Puritanism and denounced all vestiges of Catholicism |
| Which of the following statements about West African society at the time of first contact with Europeans is correct? | Polygyny and kinship groups were the most important units holding people together |
| By the 1500s the nuclear family unit was becoming increasingly important among... | Western Europeans |
| How were the early English efforts at settlements paid for? | Through the issuance of company stock |
| What was the main problem that cripples the Roanoke colony? | The English settlers refused to work |
| Which of the following statements does not correctly portray an aspect of the "Columbian exchange"? | The Americas sent horses and sheep to Europe |
| Which of the following sixteenth-century Europeans religious groups was the most socially and politically radical? | Anabaptists |
| Europeans' attempts to preserve "reciprocity" included all the following conditions except | Converting jointly owned "commons" to private property |
| A major difference between Separatists and non-Separatist Puritans was over... | Advocacy or rejection of a state church |
| The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to... | Expand their commercial and mercantile network |
| The first permanent European settlement on future United States soil was... | Saint Augustine, Florida |
| Which of the following nations was first in the new explorations that began in the fifteenth century? | Portugal |
| When people of the sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe spoke of a "little commonwealth,' they were referring to... | The family unit and the role of fathers, mothers, and children within that unit |
| The first successful permanent British colony in North America was located at... | Jamestown, Virginia |
| What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact? | To establish a civil government, because the settlers had no legal right to be where they were |
| What was one of the purposes of the settlement that came to be known as Plymouth Plantation? | To provide lumber, furs, and fish for London merchant Thomas Weston |
| The European slavery that arose in the fifteenth century differed from other forms of European slavery because... | The 'new slavery' was a high-volume business; slaves taken under the 'new slavery' were treated harshly and were destined for exhausting, mindless labor rather than domestic surface; slaves were regarded as property rather than merely as persons of low status; the 'new slavery' was based explicitly on the blackness and cultural differences of Africans |
| In England, Puritanism's primary appeal lay among the... | Shopkeepers, yeoman farmers, and university-educated intellectuals |
| Which of the following was not true of both African and Indian religion? | Both venerated departed forebears as spiritual guardians |
| In general, European society in the sixteenth century was... | Hierarchical |
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