Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
15 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
Which of the following beliefs was central to the eighteenth-century Deism?
|
God created a universe governed by natural law
|
|
|
The Stamp Act crisis was important in the coming of the American Revolution for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
|
American patriots realized that British inflexibility made revolution virtually inevitable.
|
|
|
With "Common Sense," Thomas Paine persuaded many Americans to:
|
end their ties with the British
|
|
|
France's support for the United States during the American Revolutionary War was motivated primarily by:
|
a desire to weaken its rival, Great Britain
|
|
|
Alexander Hamilton's financial program consisted of all of the following EXCEPT:
|
payment of subsidies to farmers
|
|
|
Which of the following was the underlying cause of the other four?
|
the French Revolution
|
|
|
All of the following contributed to the U.S.decision to go to war in 1812 EXCEPT:
|
efforts to protect the land of Native Americans
|
|
|
The Erie Canal was significant because it:
|
tied the manufacturing of the East to the farming of the West
|
|
|
A major effect of John Marshall's Supreme Court decisions was to:
|
expand federal power and limit the state's power
|
|
|
In the first decades of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. was supported by the development in all of the following areas EXCEPT:
|
craft unions
|
|
|
Which of the following most accurately describes the idea of popular sovereignty?
|
the status of slavery in a territory would be determined by the voters in the territory
|
|
|
A political effect of the fighting in Kansas in 1855 and 1856 was to:
|
cause the founding of the Republican Party
|
|
|
Which of the following had the greatest impact on transportation in the 1850s?
|
the expansions of the railroads
|
|
|
Which of the following is LEAST useful in arguing that territorial expansion was motivated by a desire to spread slavery?
|
the slogan "Fifty-four Forty or FIght!"
|
|
|
In the antebellum period, free African Americans were:
|
able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
|
