Practice Test: Colonization - Reconstruction

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1. The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was...
   
2. Which of the following was not one of the terms of the Peace of Paris?
   
3. The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because...
   
4. The British justified their refusal to evacuate their military forts in the Ohio Valley after the Revolution by pointing to America's failure to...
   
5. The doctrine of "separate spheres" suggested that...
   

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1. Which of the following is one of the reasons that the cultivation of rice changed South Carolina society dramatically?
   1. Hierarchical
   2. Self-sufficiency with modest profit
   3. East and west Florida were transferred from Spain to the United States
   4. Rice cultivation required the use of slaves
   5. 25%
2. Most people in the British West Indies in the early 18th century were...
   1. It had increased dramatically
   2. Polk convinced many northerners that annexation of Texas would be in their best interests
   3. She eagerly embraced Puritanism and denounced all vestiges of Catholicism
   4. Black
   5. Mercantilism
3. What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact?
   1. It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency
   2. Ideology of land reform offered the most to those who were not economically self-sufficient
   3. To establish a civil government, because the settlers had no legal right to be where they were
   4. Stipulation that slavery be prohibited in any territory acquitted in the negotiations with Mexico
   5. The decline in the influence of Baptists and Methodists and the increasing importance of Quakers and Anglicans
4. The relationship that the Constitution established between the national and state governments is known as...
   1. Federalism
   2. Represenation in Congress
   3. Federal financing of secondary education
   4. Rice cultivation required the use of slaves
5. The economy in the Chesapeake in the second half of the seventeenth century...
   1. To provide lumber, furs, and fish for London merchant Thomas Weston
   2. Was passed to protect Puritans in Massachusetts from religious persecution and was America's first law affirming freedom of worship
   3. Was marked by depression as tobacco prices fell
   4. Social reciprocity
   5. An electoral college

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1. The greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation was its establishment of...
   Poor whites shared a common interest with upper-class whites in maintaining social control over blacks

   True   False

2. Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?
   Ireland

   True   False

3. All of the following contributed to discontent among soldiers in the Continental Army EXCEPT...
   The southern economy suffered from a perennial shortage of white labor

   True   False

4. The Dutch settled New Netherland primarily to...
   They devised land policies that would allow for the systematic incorporation of new states

   True   False

5. Which of the following statements about Georgia is not correct?
   They devised land policies that would allow for the systematic incorporation of new states

   True   False