Final Exam Questions: United States History

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This instrument symbolized the re-creation of African musical instruments in African American music:

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Banjo

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During the Mexican War, northern Whigs began to characterize the war as a/an

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Part of a southern conspiracy to extend slavery

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In his first "Report on the Public Credit," Alexander Hamilton proposed

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That the federal government assume remaining state Revolutionary War debts

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Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. because

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He met defeat in the Caribbean and was in need of money for Europe

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The most basic similarity between the Union and the Confederacy when the Civil War began was that both sides

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Were unprepared for the ordeal that lay ahead

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In 1850, this percentage of all slaves were engaged in cotton growing:

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55

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As provided in the Constitution, the Congress prohibited U.S. participation in the international slave trade in

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1808

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The dominant people in the Mexican highlands in 1519 were:

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Aztec

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Most Africans were enslaved

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By cooperation between European and African traders

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Among the worst of the horrors confronting slaves during the Middle Passage was:

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Inadequate sanitation and related deadly diseases

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The Royal Proclamation of 1763

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Set aside an area west of the Appalachians as "Indian Country"

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Which one of the following was NOT a Jeffersonian concept?

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An industrially-based national economy

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The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia to

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Develop a common colonial response to the Intolerable Acts

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Which of the following was NOT an advantage enjoyed by the North as the Civil War began?

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A large well-trained army

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About half of the slaves imported to the New World between 1701 and 1810 were delivered to:

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The Caribbean Basin

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The township system created under the Northwest Ordinance

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Created a distinct "checkerboard" pattern of land ownership

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The American economy during the Revolution

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Suffered from inflation

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Much of the fighting in the War of 1812 took place

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On the American-Canadian border

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The Lewis and Clark Expedition followed this river for much of the time:

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Missouri

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In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall established the principle that

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Only the federal judiciary could decide what was constitutional

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The MOST important piece of legislation passed by the first session of Congress was the

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Judiciary Act of 1789

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Canals and railroads

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Spurred the development of towns and cities along their route

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One of the concessions made to Louisiana when acquired by the United States was the continuation of the

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French civil law

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Political supporters of Thomas Jefferson used the name Democratic Republicans to emphasize that the Federalists were

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Pro-monarchy

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Which one of the following was NOT true of Jefferson's political philosophy?

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Manufacturing and industrialization would enrich America

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Which one of the following was NOT true of the decisions of Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court?

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The court favored strict construction of the Constitution

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Patrick Henry expressed one of the results of the First Continental Congress when adjourned: "I am not a Virginian, but

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An American"

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The Cherokee, Iroquois, and Algonquian had this in common:

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Confederacy organization

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At the First Continental Congress, fifty-six elected delegates from twelve colonies met to support this colony:

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Massachusetts

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Culpeper's Rebellion is to North Carolina as Bacon's Rebellion was to:

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Virginia

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The irony of both Madison's and Hamilton's views on factions is that they

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Did the most to organize and solidify factions

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The "praying towns" were

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Centers for Indians who had converted to Christianity

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In taking the position he did in the wake of the issuance of the Newburgh address, George Washington

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Set a precedent for the subordination of the military to civil authority

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The most important export crops of the American colonial period were

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Tobacco, rice, and indigo

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In the years during and after the Revolutionary War the institution of slavery

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Was abolished in a number of northern states

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Which of the following was NOT an advantage enjoyed by the South as the Civil War began?

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The ability to mobilize its resources

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Which one of the following was NOT a provision of Jay's Treaty?

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The signing of an alliance between the United States and Great Britain

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Ulysses S. Grant is made general-in-chief of Union forces in

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1864

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The primary purpose of the Sugar Act was to

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Raise revenue to defray expenses of the Seven Years' War

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The nonimportation movement

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Relied on the threat of violence toward uncooperative importers

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The typical German immigrant in the 1840s-1860s was

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A skilled worker

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During the course of what was known as "the scramble,"

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Buyers picked slaves for purchase out of a corral

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Continentals settled into winter quarters at Valley Forge in

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1777

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The Federalist was a series of essays designed to win support for

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The ratification of the Constitution

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The placement of the national capital on the boundary of Virginia and Maryland came about in a compromise to obtain enough votes to

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Pass Hamilton's assumption plan

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The Confederate invasion of Maryland was halted by the Union at the battle of

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Antietam

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Which one of the following was NOT an author of the Federalist?

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Thomas Jefferson

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British Prime Minister William Pitt was dedicated to this goal in the French and Indian War:

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Driving the French out of North America

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The Renaissance was based in the belief that:

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Human potential is important and should be celebrated

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Beringia refers to

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The land bridge between Asia and North America

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Southern politics was largely controlled by

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The slave-owning elite

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One of the compromises at the Convention was over the slave population and was settled by the "three-fifths" rule. This meant

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Five slaves equaled three freemen in population representation

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After the secession of South Carolina, the first crisis facing Lincoln was the

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Problem of Fort Sumter

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Of the 12 million people who lived in the South in 1860, this number were slaves:

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Four million

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The term Creole is most closely related to:

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Country born

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Both enslaved and free blacks had more opportunity to do skilled occupations in the South than in the North because

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The South failed to attract much immigrant labor

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In his work Common Sense, Thomas Paine assisted the movement for independence by damning Parliament while

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Appealing to the Americans' sense of special purpose

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The Homestead Act

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Liberalized land policy by giving 160 acres to those who would live on and improve the land

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Lincoln won the election of 1864 because of

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The Union soldiers' vote

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Mulattoes were

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Free people of mixed Indian, African and European ancestry

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Lincoln accepted Kentucky's neutrality in part to

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Keep other border states in the Union

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Under the provisions of the Virginia Plan

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A bicameral legislature would be organized according to state population

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St. Augustine and Fort Caroline represent a collision of these two forces in Florida:

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French and Spanish

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Lincoln felt that his primary responsibility as president was to

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Preserve the Union

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The failure of the South to industrialize in the nineteenth century was

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Because they chose to depend upon "King Cotton"

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Under the impact of the Hamilton economic program

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The health of the United States' economy improved significantly

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The expression "not worth a Continental" referred to the

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Depreciated value of Continental currency by 1781

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The heart of New France was along this water body:

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Hudson's Bay

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Approval of the Great Compromise at Philadelphia constitutional convention guaranteed

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Representation based on population in the House and by state in the Senate

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The Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred because Lincoln challenged Douglas to them in their campaign to win nomination/election as

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United States senator from Illinois

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The first ten amendments were quickly added to the newly-ratified Constitution to

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Reassure those who feared the power of the national government to restrict citizens' rights

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The common objection of the delegates at the First Continental Congress was

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Against Parliament forcing them to accept its power

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In these two states, the enslaved African American population outnumbered the white:

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Mississippi and South Carolina

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As a result of the Missouri Compromise, this parallel marked the line between slave and free states:

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36 30'

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The Confederate draft law exempted

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Owners of 20 or more slaves

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Lee would finally surrender at Appomattox Court House in

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Virginia

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Which one of the following is NOT one of the provisions of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?

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Loyalists would not be compensated for property

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The first real career path for women was:

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School teaching

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The British strategy at the beginning of the Revolution was to cut off this area from the rest of the colonies:

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New England

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One of the basic values of the Federalists that can be inferred from their support of the Constitution was that they wanted

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A strong central government

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Which one of the following was NOT one of the first military engagements of the war that took place in or around Boston?

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Moore's Creek Bridge

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Among the MOST important contributions that the Spanish made to the New World in the continental exchange was/were

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Domesticated animals and livestock

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The Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows dates to:

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1000

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The Congress under the Articles of Confederation did not have authority to

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Tax citizens directly

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The Mingo Creek settlers were protesting

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An internal consumption tax on whiskey

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Prince Henry the Navigator's school at Sagres Point was significant for European exploration. It was located in:

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Portugal

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The region that was most resistant to calls to prohibit the slave trade was:

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The Lower South

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The Mexican-American War began over

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A border dispute

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The Louisiana Purchase more than ________ the size of the United States

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Doubled

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In 1783, the country with the largest North American Empire was

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Spain

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St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied European city in North America dating from:

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1565

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The Middle Passage was the section of the triangular trade from:

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Africa to America

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The term "Middle Passage" refers to the:

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Horrendous slave voyages from Africa to America

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Both Bacon's Rebellion and Culpeper's Rebellion showed conflict between these two communities:

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Tidewater and frontier regions of Virginia and North Carolina

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A common defense of the institution of slavery by slave owners was that

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Slaves were treated better than northern industrial workers

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The bold policy statement called the Monroe Doctrine essentially told Europeans to stay out of

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The Western Hemisphere

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The cotton gin, an invention that made cotton growing profitable and entrenched slavery, was developed in

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1793

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While slavery and slave owners dominated the South and its economic system, this number of southerners did NOT own slaves:

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Two-thirds

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The United States gained the Oregon Territory south of the 49th parallel by

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A treaty with Great Britain

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The first pitched battle of the Civil War was fought at

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First Bull Run

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The Evangelical religion which spread after the Second Great Awakening

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Was used by whites as a means of social control over the slaves

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The Intercourse Act of 1790 established the precedent in relations between the United States government and the Indian tribes of

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Using treaties to establish and maintain relations between the two

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To defend his National Bank's constitutionality, Hamilton proposed this argument

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Loose construction

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The Texas army defeated the Mexican army under the leadership of

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Sam Houston

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Battle deaths in the Civil War

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Numbered more than the combined deaths in WWI and WWII

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The Republic of Texas was not immediately annexed by the United States largely because of

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The fact that Texas would have to be admitted as a slave state

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Northern "Copperheads" were

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Democrats who favored a negotiated peace with the South

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The British experience at Lexington and Concord foreshadowed a central difficulty with which the British had to contend throughout the American Revolution. It was

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Fighting in the midst of an armed population

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Although faced with a vice-president loyal to the opposition party and a cabinet that still consulted the retired Alexander Hamilton, John Adams' presidency benefited from

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The impact of the XYZ Affair on Americans

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The period between 1800 and 1850 in the United States was characterized by

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A dramatic expansion of population to the west

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What percentage of all slaves worked as field hands?

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75

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In 1789, President Washington was inaugurated in

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New York City

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By 1590, John White returns to find this colony gone:

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Roanoke

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The horse entered the Great Plains by way of

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The Spanish Southwest

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The Royal Proclamation of 1763

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B and C above

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Which one of the following explains the majority of decline in the Indian population in the Americas?

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New diseases

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When a slave was "sold down the river," it meant that he was

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Sold to an owner in the deep South

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A crucial aspect of the new putting-out system was

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Division of labor

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The largest number of Irish came to which city:

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New York

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The majority of farmers of eighteenth century North America were interested in

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Small self-sufficient communities

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This rebellion in September 1739 was the largest slave revolt of the colonial period:

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Stono, South Carolina

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The French committed themselves to recognize American independence

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After Saratoga and fears of British conciliation

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In the pre-industrial system, a boy who wanted to learn a trade

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Entered a formal apprenticeship system

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Early Spanish observers of New World Indians:

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Proposed a migration hypothesis that suggested the Indians had come from Asia

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New Amsterdam became a part of the British empire because:

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Britain conquered it in an Anglo-Dutch war

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The most ethnically and religiously diverse English colony by the late seventeenth century was:

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New York

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The Huron were to the French as the ________ were to the Dutch

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Iroquois

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Slave states that did NOT secede from the Union were

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Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware

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The city most affected by Irish immigration during the 1840s was

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Boston

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Which of the following was NOT an important figure in the history of the Reformation?

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Christopher Columbus

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In the Treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian War

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The French lost their North American empire to the British

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A response to the problem that emerged in the election of 1800, the Twelfth Amendment

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Created separate ballots for president and vice president

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Which one of the following did NOT happen in 1774?

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Quebec Act

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Solomon Northup in his narrative, Twelve Years a Slave, illustrated this slave experience:

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Doing a variety of work, including carpentry

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Which one of the following was NOT often included as victims in witchcraft scares?

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People of economically stagnant communities

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As a slave, from which of the following states would you have had the LEAST chance of escaping?

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Alabama

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Which one of the following did NOT occur in April of 1865?

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All of these happened in April 1865

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Which of the following is NOT true of the plantation mistress?

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She ruled the plantation with an iron hand

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Encounters between the British Army and Continental Army at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey in late 1776

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Gave the Americans small victories needed to help morale

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The Spanish forts along the Florida coast were designed to protect:

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Gulf Stream sea lanes

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Which one of the following was NOT part of William Penn's "Holy Experiment?"

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Equality of sexes

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Which one of the following is NOT true of the Middle Passage?

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Slaves were treated well to get a higher price

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The Union act that freed ALL the slaves was the

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Thirteenth Amendment

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By 1860, America's largest single export was

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Cotton

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The chief subject of discussion at the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, was

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Women's rights