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All of the following were early explorers of North America EXCEPT:
a. Francisco Coronado
b. Robert La Salle
c. Samuel de Champlain
d. Francisco Pizarro
e. Jacques Marquette
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d. Francisco Pizarro
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Which of the following best characterizes Southern society before the Civil War?
a. Half of the slaveowners owned five or fewer slaves.
b. Most white families owned slaves.
c. Most slaveowners owned several hundred slaves.
d. The percentage of slaveowners was consistent throughout the South.
e. Most slaveowners lived in urban areas.
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a. Half of the slaveowners owned five or fewer slaves.
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Between 1806 and 1809 nonimportation, nonintercourse, and embargo sought to
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force Great Britain to recognize American rights
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What was the first important means of transportation in the United States after independence?
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Turnpikes
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The Missouri Compromise of 1820 did all of the following EXCEPT:
a. bring Maine as a free state.
b. bring in Missouri as a slave state.
c. prohibit slavery north of latitude 36'30'.
d. maintain the balance of slave and free states.
e. establish the principle of popular sovereignty south of 36'30'.
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e. establish the principle of popular sovereignty south of 36'30'.
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The Declaration of Independence stated that
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people have the right to abolish governments destructive of their rights.
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According to the Treaty of Paris of 1783, the boundaries of the United States were
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Canada, Florida, and the Mississippi River.
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In 1858 at Freeport, Illinois, Stephen Douglas argued that
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slavery could be kept out of the territories if people in the territories failed to pass laws to protect it.
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Which of the following was NOT involved in the "triangular trade" of the colonial period?
a. Rum
b. Molasses
c. Cotton
d. Slaves
e. Tobacco
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c. Cotton
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Those who supported ratification of the Constitution were called
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Federalists
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Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses Grant at
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Appomattox
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The French and Indian War took place during
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1754 - 1763
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Colonial law generally defined slaves as chattel. This meant that slaves were considered as
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pieces of property with no rights
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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 introduced what ideas?
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Individual states could nullify or set aside federal laws with which they disagreed.
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The Judiciary Act of 1789 established
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the office of attorney general
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Alexander Hamilton's legislative program for the new republic included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. the Bank of the United States.
b. organization of the federal judiciary.
c. assumption of Confederation and state debts.
d. promotion of domestic manufacturing.
e. a system of excise taxes
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b. organization of the federal judiciary.
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The leading scientist in colonial America was
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Benjamin Franklin
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Which of the following correctly describes women's rights in mid-nineteenth century America?
a. A married woman controlled her own property.
b. Husbands were forbidden to beat their wives.
c. Women could freely enter professions such as medicine and law.
d. Women could not claim money they had earned.
e. Women had the right to vote in federal elections.
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d. Women could not claim money they had earned.
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Under Lincoln's plan of Reconstruction, Southern states could resume their part in the Union after
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10 percent of the voters as of 1860 took an oath of allegiance.
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Which of the following was NOT characteristic of pre-Civil War American cities?
a. Rapidly rising death rates
b. Increase of crime
c. Extensive sewer systems
d. Growth of slums
e. Increase of population
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c. Extensive sewer systems
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The first armed conflict in 1775 between the Americans and British soliers took place at
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Lexington-Concord
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By opening the territory north of 36'30' to slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the
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Missouri Compromise
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By February 1, 1861 which group of states had seceded from the Union?
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Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina
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In 1819 the United States obtained Florida from
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Spain
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Which of the following does NOT describe the Louisiana Purchase of 1803?
a. The United States purchased Louisiana from France for $15 million.
b. Jefferson expanded the powers of the presidency.
c. French power expanded in the Western Hemisphere.
d. The Untied States doubled in size.
e. The treaty of cession left some of the boundaries vague.
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c. French power expanded in the Western Hemisphere.
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Define "cession"
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a yielding to another
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Define "seceded"
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to withdraw from an organization (as a religious communion or political party or federation)
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What territory gained independence in 1836?
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Texas
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The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 protested
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a 25 percent tax on whiskey
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Which of the following best describes the First Bank of the United States?
a. It was solely a private business enterprise.
b. It was solely a federal government enterprise.
c. It was a join private-public enterprise.
d. It was a joint state-federal government enterprise.
e. It was a joint state-private enterprise.
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c. It was a joint private-public enterprise.
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The Puritans wanted to
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build a society based upon biblical teachings
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The Federal Constitution
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counted 3/5 of slaves for purposes of representation
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Historians believe the British trade regulations during the colonial period
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provided both advantages and disadvantages for the American colonies
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 established what precedent for new territories?
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Equality of new states with old
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The American Revolutionaries gained help from which country?
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France
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In the controversy over the lands belonging by treaty to the "Five Civilized Tribes,", the Jackson administration
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forced the Indians to be removed to the West
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Which of the following statements best describes the ethnic makeup of colonial America?
a. French Huguenots settled heavily in New England.
b. Germans concentrated in Pennsylvania.
c. The Scotch-Irish moved into the southern tidewater area.
d. Maryland was largely a Dutch-dominated colony.
e. Spanish and Portuguese Jews settled in the Appalachian backcounty.
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b. Germans concentrated in Pennsylvania.
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After what year was there little criticism of slavery within the South?
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1832
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What was a response to the Stamp Act?
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Nonimportation of British goods
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The American public protested the Jay Treaty of 1794 because it
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did nothing about British seizure of American vessels in the French West Indies.
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Which of the following served as a Union general?
a. Joseph Johnston
b. Thomas Jackson
c. William T. Sherman
d. Robert E. Lee
e. J.E.B. Stuart
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c. William T. Sherman
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The central compromise of the Constitutional Convention involved the issue of
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representation of large and small states.
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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Panic of 1837?
a. The building up of surpluses in the nation's factories
b. Destruction of the Second Bank of the United States
c. Overextension of bank credit
d. A poor wheat crop
e. The Specie Circular of 1836
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a. The building up of surpluses in the nation's factories
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What was the SPECIE CIRCULAR
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The Specie Circular issued by President Andrew Jackson and his treasury secretary, Levi Woodbury, on July 11, 1836, required payment in gold or silver for all purchases of government lands. The Jackson administration believed that the Circular would check the boom in speculative land purchases that had resulted from Jackson's "war" against the Second Bank of the United States. The president had withdrawn government deposits from the Bank and then deposited the money in numerous state "pet banks." Distribution of the deposits allowed these banks to lend more money, based on their new reserves. With easy credit available, sales of government lands skyrocketed from $2.6 million in 1832 to $24.9 million in 1836. Large speculators rather than homesteaders bought most of this land.
Many state banks, however, loaned more money than their newfound reserves could justify and were threatened with bankruptcy. Jackson, who had once lost his fortune in a bank failure, wanted to bring the situation under control by promulgating the Specie Circular. He chose a poor method. The deflationary Circular contracted the money supply too rapidly, leading in part to the panic of 1837.
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Which Supreme Court chief justice oversaw the development of the Court's power to judge the constitutionality of acts of Congress?
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John Marshall
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Who opposed rechartering the Second Bank of the United States?
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Andrew Jackson
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Under the Articles of Confederation, the Congress lacked the power to
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Tax
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In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln won
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the Northern and Midwestern states
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Which of the following groups tended to support the Federalists?
a. Small farmers
b. Small businessmen
c. Wealthy merchants
d. Baptist and Methodist ministers
e. Skilled craftsmen
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c. Wealthy merchants
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Prior to 1763 the British policy of "salutary neglect"
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Did not enforce the Navigation Acts.
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