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Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution were called
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Antifederalists
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Which of the following events is placed in the INCORRECT year?
a. 1854 - Kansas/Nebraska Act
b. 1857 - Dred Scott decision
c. 1858 - Lincoln/Douglas debates
d. 1859 - John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
e. 1861 - South Carolina secedes from the Union
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e. 1861 - South Carolina secedes from the Union
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Patroons were
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Owners of large tracts of land in New Netherlands
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The largest city in the Southern colonies was
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Charleston
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The American colonists were able to control the power of the Royal governors through what means?
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The assemblies controlled all grants of money to be spent by the colonial governments.
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"Popular sovereignty" meant that
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the states would decide themselves whether to be slave or free.
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Which of the following served as president of the Confederate States of America?
a. Robert E. Lee
b. John C. Calhoun
c. Robert Y. Hayne
d. Jefferson Davis
e. Alexander H. Stephens
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d. Jefferson Davis
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Which of the following did NOT experience a Gold Rush after 1859?
a. Nevada
b. Alaska
c. South Dakota
d. California
e. Colorado
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d. California
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What nationality group introduced the log cabin to the American colonies?
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Swedes
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The Treaty of Paris was signed in
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1783
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Describe the attitude of Lincoln and Johnson toward Reconstruction
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They saw the Civil War as a rebellion of individuals.
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According to the Constitution as passed in 1787 and ratified in 1789, a slave was equal to what fraction of a citizen for purposes of representation?
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3/5
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What Union general emerged to prominence in the Western theatre of the Civil War?
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Ulysses S. Grant
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Which of the following was NOT a prominent critic of slavery?
a. Hinton Rowan Helper
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe
c. William Lloyd Garrison
d. John C. Calhoun
e. Frederick Douglass
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d. John C. Calhoun
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The most influential of the organized religious philosphies produced by eighteenth century rationalism and humanism was
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Unitarianism
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The Alien and Sedition Acts included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. increasing the residency requirements for U.S. citzenship.
b. extended presidential powers to remove foreign residents of the United States.
c. a threat to the jury system.
d. restriction of an opposition press.
e. the curtailment of free speech in America.
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c. a threat to the jury system.
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In respons to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts by the Federalist Congress, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
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drafted the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions which supported the concept of states' rights.
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At the Hartford Convention the
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Federalists proposed a constitutional amendment which would restrict the president to a single term and would prohibit successive presidents from the same state.
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The doctrine of nullification put forth by John C. Calhoun in The South Carolina Exposition and Protest, published anonymously in 1828, held that
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if a state judged a federal law to violate the Constitution, the state could declare the law null and void within its borders.
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Which of the following authors is correctly paired with the work that he wrote?
a. Herman Melville: The Sketch Book
b. James Fenimore Cooper: conspiracy of Pontiac
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
d. Washington Irving: The Raven
e. Edgar Allen Poe: The House of the Seven Gables
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c. Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
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Gabriel Prosser, Denmark Vesey, and Nat Turner were leaders of
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Unsuccessful slave revolts in the Southern states.
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In general, most Europeans considered the Indians to be
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heathens who were inferior beings.
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The completion of the Erie Canal in 1825 resulted in all of the following EXCEPT:
a. increased profitableness of farming in the Old Northwest.
b. encouraging the emigration of European immigrants and New England farmers to the Old Northwest.
c. forcing many New Englanders either to abandon their farms or to switch to dairy, fruit, and vegetable farming.
d. a weakened political alliance between the farmers of the Old Northwest and the planters of the South.
e. strengthening the dependency of farmers in the Old Northwest on the Mississippi River system for access to markets.
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e. strengthing the dependency of farmers in the Old Northwest on the Mississippi River system for access to markets.
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Pocahontas....
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Was taken captive by an English trader and held as a hostage at Jamestown. Was converted to Christianity at her own request. Married John Rolfe, and she died in England.
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The trial of John Peter Zenger in 1735 for seditious libel
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Encouraged editors to be more critical of public officials.
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Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense introduced a new element into the debate with Britain by
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Calling for complete independence of the colonies and attacking not only King George III but also the idea of monarchy.
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New York was an English colony because the
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English conquered the area from the Dutch.
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The Scotch-Irish immigrants to the English colonies in Noth America...
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Felt little loyalty to either the English government or the Anglican church. They came in large numbers in the century due to deteriorating conditions in the Irish woolens industry. Generally settled on the frontier where they demonstrated a remarkable degree of resourcefulness, rugged individuality, and self-reliance.
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Most of the slave who came to the 13 mainland colonies in British North America
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Were considered to be property and as such could be used as collateral for loans.
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The Battle of Saratoga resulted in
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The French formally recognizing American independence and making an open treaty of alliance with the Americans
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The new state constitutions adopted during the American Revolution
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generally protected the people's civil liberties with a bill of rights.
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In responding to Senator Robert Y. Hayne's defense of the South Carolina Exposition, who rebutted: "When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time, the sun in heaven, let their last feeble glance behold the gorgeous ensign of the republic not a stripe erased nor a single star obscured, bearing for its motto, that sentiment dear to every true American heart --Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!"?
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Daniel Webster
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The Connecticut Compromise advocated by Roger Sherman proposed settling the issue of representation in Congress by
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Giving each state two senators, with the vote in the Senate to be by individuals and not states. Apportioning representation in the House of Representatives according to population.
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While Chief Justice John Marshall presided over the Supreme Court, its decisions
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laid the groundwork for a "broad" interpretation of the Constitution.
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George Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion in the western counties of Pennsylvania by
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Sending an army larger than any he had ever commanded in the Revolution to put down the revolt.
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The purchase of the Louisiana territory
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Doubled the size of the United States. Guaranteed Western farmers access to the Mississippi River as an avenue of trade. Presented Jefferson with a constitutional dilemma since he was a "strict" constructionist. Gave the United States control of the port of New Orleans.
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The Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842
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Was concerned in part with the joint Anglo-American efforts to suppress the African slave trade.
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The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
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Reopened the intense sectional controversy over the question of slavery in the territories.
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The ultimate goal of Andrew Jackson's policy toward the Indians during his presidency was to
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Remove them to lands in the trans-Mississippi West.
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Andrew Jackson defended his policy of "rotation in office" which became known as the "spoils system" by asserting that
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A man should serve a term in office then return to the status of private citizen. Men who held office too long became corrupted by a sense of power. Political appointments by newly elected officials promoted democracy.
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"For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies."
In the above passage, Thomas Jefferson indicts King George III and Parliament for the
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Quebec Act
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William Lloyd Garrison persuaded the American Anti-Slavery Society to endorse the concept of
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Immediate Emancipation
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In the presidential election of 1860,
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The Democratic party factionalized and nominated two candidates.
The election evolved into a contest between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the North, and John C. Breckinridge and John Bell in the South.
Abraham Lincoln won less than 50 percent of the popular vote.
No candidate received a majority of the popular vote.
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When the Civil War started, Abraham Lincoln's primary objective was
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To preserve the Union.
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The radical abolitionists who appeared in the early 1830s viewed slavery as
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A great moral evil.
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Both President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction and that of Congress required the former Confederate states to
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Draft new state constitutions.
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Most of the decimation of the Indian population in the Americas during the sixteenth century resulted from
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European diseases.
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All of the following were responsible for the development of Western European expansion in the fifteenth century EXCEPT:
a. the desire to break the monpoly of the Italian states on trade with Asia.
b. Advances in navigational knowledge and ship design.
c. The emergence of nation-states.
d. An ideology that claimed superiority for the Europeans and inferiority for the other peoples.
e. Thomas Malthus' theory that the population of Western Europe would eventually outstrip its food supply.
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e. Thomas Malthus' theory that the population of Western Europe would eventually outstrip its foold supply.
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The first permanent English colony in North America was
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The Jamestown colony, developed by the Virginia Company.
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The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them a direct representation in the Sentate, and leaves in their possession certain exclusive and very important portions of sovereign power.
The above passage is most likely to be found in...
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Hamilton, Madison, and Jay's "The Federalist Papers"
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