Which of the following best describes Deism?
The belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
France decided to aid the North American colonies in their war for independence primarily because France
wanted to weaken the British empire
In the eighteenth century, British colonists wishing to settle west of the Appalachians were principally motivated by
the low price and easy availability of land
British colonists in North America objected to the Stamp Act primarily because it
taxed them without their consent
President George Washington's Farewell Address set a course for the nation by
discouraging permanent alliances with foreign nations
The Supreme Court established which of the following by its ruling in Marbury v. Madison ?
The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congressional acts
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all of the following reasons EXCEPT
Most White families owned slaves
Most of the Irish immigrants who came to the United States following the potato famine of the 1840s settled in
urban areas of the North
Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?
The king of England and the principle of monarchy
Which of the following was true of colonial New England?
Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 did all of the following EXCEPT
determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
After the French and Indian War, British political leaders were determined to
require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire's administrative expenses
The concept of republican motherhood includes the idea that women should
be educated to raise their children to be good citizens
The Missouri Compromise was a victory for antislavery advocates because it
closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
During the first half of the nineteenth century, the central and western areas of New York were known as the "burned-over district" because
of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
The Monroe Doctrine maintained that
European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas
The Southern economy before the Civil War increasingly
produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
The Republican Party of the 1850s took which of the following positions on slavery?
Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.
Anne Hutchinson was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 because she
challenged the religious beliefs of the colony's leaders
The government of the Articles of Confederation was successful in resolving the problem of how to
provide for statehood for western territories
Which of the following happened as a result of Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 ?
Tensions between backcountry farmers and the tidewater gentry were exposed
All of the following contributed to Northern fear of a slave power conspiracy in the 1840s and 1850s EXCEPT the
passage of the Wilmot Proviso
A key purpose of Henry Clay's American System was to
develop a national economy by improving transportation
Alexander Hamilton's domestic and foreign policies were directed primarily toward strengthening the federal government by
favoring the interests of the propertied and monied classes
Which of the following was true of the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases and the 1883 Civil Rights cases?
They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment.
. During the Civil War, the Republican Party passed legislation promoting economic development concerning all of the following EXCEPT the
granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
After the Civil War, women reformers and former abolitionists were divided over
legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males
Shays' Rebellion reflected which of the following tensions in United States society during the 1780s?
Economic frustration of New England farmers who had trouble paying debts in hard currency
What was the primary intention of the Adams administration in enforcing the Sedition Act?
To intimidate critics of Adams' foreign policy toward France and England
The most controversial and divisive component of the Compromise of 1850 was the
passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
The Great Awakening of the 1740s led to
splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches
The slaves who participated in the Stono rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 hoped to
flee to Florida where the Spanish offered freedom
Metacom's Rebellion (King Philip's War) was
an attempt to save Indian lands and culture in New England.
Washington Irving is remembered as one of the first important writers of the newly established United States for his work
The Legend of Sleepy Hallow
Mercantilism as applied by Britain to its North American colonies meant that the British government
regulated colonial shipping and tobacco production
The major significance of the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 was that it
tested the ability of the federal government to maintain order
"....we, being willing to....secure them (the people) in the free exercise and enjoyment of all their civil and religious rights... do herby publish, grant, ordain, and declare... that no person with the said colony, at any time hereafter, shall be any wise molested, punished, disquieted, or called in question for any differences in opinion in matters of religion."
The Rhode Island colonial charter
What method did planters use in the early eighteenth century to prevent slave revolts?
They bought slaves of different ethnic backgrounds so slaves could not understand each other
The significance of the Battle of Saratoga was that it
ensured the French would join in an alliance with the Americans.
Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
Americans were forgiven their debts to British merchants
The English immigrant who became known as the "father of the factory system" because he opened the first American factory in 1790 was
A major effect of the transportation revolution was that it
forged economic ties between the North and the Midwest
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott were active workers for
the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
Which Marshall decision did Jackson refuse to implement, stating, "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it"?
Worcester v. Georgia
A problem that occurred in the election of 1824 was that
John Quincy Adams became president even though Andrew Jackson had more popular votes.
The Ordinance of Nullification was based on the belief that
states had the right to determine which congressional laws they would enforce.
As American factories and farms turned out more goods, merchants and legislators created faster and cheaper ways to get those products to consumers in what came to be known as the
Columbus's expeditions were a failure to mercantilist thinking because
he failed to find treasures of gold
"Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., was written by the transcendentalist
Henry David Thoreau
The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was
The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by
a joint-stock company
The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by
starvation, disease, and frequent Indian raids
Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all
dependent on the export of commercial agricultural crops.
Despite an abundance of fish and game, early Jamestown settlers continued to starve because
they wasted time looking for gold.
Colonies of the North and the South developed differences in all of the following areas EXCEPT
allegiance to England
The Salem witchcraft trials were
the result of unsettled social and religious conditions in rapidly evolving Massachusetts.
The roots of Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery sentiments lay in
the evangelical religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening
The Lecompton Constitution was written so that Kansas
could only apply for statehood by permitting slavery