Clep History Of The U.s. Part 1

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In a sermon given aboard ship on the way to America, John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as "a city upon a hill" and that therefore they should be bonded together by love. but first he explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always be in positions of authority while others would be dependent. His statement best illustrate the Puritans'

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Acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks

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The French and Indian War led Great Britain to

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impose revenue taxes on its North American

colonies

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all of the following describe the colonial family in New England EXCEPT

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A PLACE THAT SHELTERED MEN FROM THE WORK PLACE

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Which of the following is a correct statement about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia?

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It spread rapidly in the late seventeenth century, as black slaves replaced white indentured servants in the tobacco fields

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Roger Williams defended liberty of conscience on the ground that

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the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirits

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which of the following is true of white women in the British North American colonies.

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They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage

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The Great Awakening is the American colonies in the mid-eighteenth century had all of the following consequences EXCEPT

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the renewed persecution of people for witch-craft, because of the heightened interest in the supernatural

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the "constitution" referred to in the quotation above from the Declaration of Independence was

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the principles the colonists believed had traditionally regulated English government

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the protest that the king had "combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution" referred to George III's

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approval of parliamentary laws impinging on colonial self-government

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by the time of the Revolution, many American colonists had generally come to believe that the creation of a republic would solve the problems of monarchical rule because a republic would establish

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a small, limited government responsible to the people

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all stae constitutions drafted during the American Revolutionary era were significant because they

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reinforced the principle of a written frame of government

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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was written to

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argue against the power of Parliament to tax the American colonies internal trade

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under the Articles of Confederation, which of the following was true about the national government

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it had the power to conduct foregin affairs

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The concept that the ultimate sovereignty of the

federal government rests with the people is most explicitly stated in

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the Preamble to the United States Constitution

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"There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of

liberty. this within certain limits is probably true, and in governments of a monarchical cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. but in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged."

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George Washington

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Thomas Jefferson opposed some of Alexander Hamilton's programs because Jefferson believed that

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Hamilton's programs favored manufacturing and commercial interest

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The Embargo act of 1807 had which of the

following effects on the untied states

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it severely damaged American shipping

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Henry Clay's "American System" was a plan to

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foster the economic integration of the North, the west, and the south

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Deists of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries believed that

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natural laws, designed by the creator, govern the operation of the universe

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The Louisiana Purchase was significant because it

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gave the United States control of the Mississippi river

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between the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and the outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the most important aspect of United States foreign policy was

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expanding the nation's boundaries

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Jacksonian banking policies did which of the

following

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encouraged the expansion of credit and

speculation

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which of the following is true of John C. Calhoun?

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He supported the doctrine of nullification, which

declared the right of states to rule on the constitutionality of federal law

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which of the following had the greatest impact on the institution of slavery in the united states in the first quarter of the nineteenth century

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Invention of the cotton gin

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The "putting out system" that emerged in

antebellum America refers to

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production of finished goods in individual households

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which of the following was a major focus of

antebellum reform

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Temperance

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the establishment of Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States

reflected

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a belief in perfectionism

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During the early stages of manufacturing the textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, primarily employed

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native-born, single white women from rural areas

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members of the Whig party organized in the 1830's agreed most on which of the following?

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Disapproval of Andrew Jackson's policies

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the issue of constitutionality figured most

prominently in the consideration of which of the

following

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First Bank of the United states

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the presidential election of 1840 is often considered the first "modern" election because

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both parties for the first time widely campaigned among all the eligible voters

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the idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following EXCEPT the belief that

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commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base

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Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the act of congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United states north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void; and that neither the plaintiff himself, nor any of his family, were made free by being carried into this territory; even if they had been carried there by the owner, who intended to become a permanent resident.

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Missouri compromise

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moby-dick, the scarlet letter, and leaves of grass

are examples of which of the following

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American Renaissance

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Which of the following represents Williams Lloyd Garrison's attitude toward slavery

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Immediate emancipation without compensation for owners

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the drawing above illustrates the nineteenth century middle-class view of the

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home as a refuge from the world rather than as a productive unit

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which of the following groups was most likely to adopt the Free-Soil ideology?

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Western frontier settlers

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the 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, was a protest against

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customs and laws that gave women a status inferior to that of a men

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who wrote uncle tom's cabin

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Harriet Beecher Stowe

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which of the following was opposed by both the Free-Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-nineteenth century.

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Extension of slavery into the territories

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in the pre- Civil War era, the railroad's most important impact on the economy was that it

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provided Midwestern farmers accessibility to

Eastern urban markets

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which of the following was Not an element of the Compromise of 1850?

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organization of the Kansas Territory without slavery

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all of the following conditions influenced the development of American agriculture during the first half of the 19th century except

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a widespread interest in conserving soil and natural resources

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which of the following best describes the United States' Position in the world economy during the period 1790-1860

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it relied heavily on European capital for its economic expansion

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According to the cartoon, allowing the southern states to leave the Union would cause

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the Southern states to be dominated by European powers.

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the best evidence to support the cartoonist's

contention that Old Hickory (Jackson) would have acted to stop secession was Jackson's earlier

reaction to the

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South Carolina Nullification Ordinance

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After the civil War, the majority of freed slaves found work in the south as

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Sharecroppers

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Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included which of the following

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Reestablishment of state government after 10% of the voters in a state pledged their allegiance to the United States

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all of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT

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provision of 40 acres to each freedman

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Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan allowed for southern states to be readmitted into the Union on the condition that they

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revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the 13th amendment

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which of the following was a renowned Black poet in New England in the late 18th century

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Phillis Wheatley

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during the antebellum period, the Auburn System was designed to

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Reform criminals through solitary confinement

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California was admitted to the Union

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as part of the Compromise of 1850

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which of the following wrote Incidents in the Life of a slave girl

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Harriet Jacobs

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the activities of the Freedmen's Bureau included all of the following EXCEPT

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redistributing land

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The United States completed the Gadsden

Purchased in 1853 in order to

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build a transcontinental railroad