Us History Exam 1, Set 2

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The Puritans left England to settle in America in order to:

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(C) create a perfect religious utopia

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The Boston Massacre occurred after which of the following events:

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(B) the Townshend duties

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The Constitutional Convention took place in 1787 in what city?

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(B) Philadelphia

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Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Public Credit" proposed which of the following

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(D) assume the state debts

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The "Burr Conspiracy" refers to:

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(B) Burr's scheme to create a new nation from the southern territory of the United States

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All of the following were major reform movements during the 1830s EXCEPT:

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(E) labor unions

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Jackon's reason for his veto of the Second Bank of the United States included:

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(E) all of the above

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The Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico ceding all of the following territories to the United States EXCEPT:

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(E) Washington

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Northern denunciation of the compromise of 1850 was directed primarily toward:

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(B) the fugitive slave law

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In the election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln's total of the popular vote was:

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(E) 40 percent

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The "Middle Passage" refers to:

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(E) the voyage between Africa and the Americas taken by the slave traders

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The Intolerable Acts of 1774 were passed in response to:

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(A) the Boston Tea Party

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The Jay Treaty (1794)provided for:

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(E) evacuation of English troops from their posts along the Great Lakes

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Secessionist feeling during the War of 1812 was strong in:

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(B) New England

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Which of the following was the first important means of transportation in the United States after Independence:

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(B) Turnpikes

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Which of the following prevented the entrance of Texas into the Union after it gained independence in 1836:

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(A) Texas wanted to permit slavery

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Which of the followingstates provoked the nullification crisis:

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(A) South Carolina

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After 1840, the Northeast's primary economic concern was:

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(C) Manufacturing of finished products

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Because of its acceptance of the states' rights doctrine, the Confederacy most closely resembled:

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(B) the Articles of Confederation

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Under Lincoln's plan of reconstruction, southern states could resume their part in the Union after:

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(B) 10 percent of the voters as of 1860 took avote of allegiance

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Which of the following was not orginially a proprietary colony:

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(E) none of the above

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Women emerge from the American Revolution with the prescribes new responsibility of:

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(D) raising sons and daughters as good republican citizens

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At the Philadelphia Convention of 1788, the author of the Great Compromise to the U.S. Constitution was:

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(D) Roger Sherman

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Which Supreme Court Justice oversaw the development of the Court's power to judge the constitutionality of acts of Congress?

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(A) John Marshall

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The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, included which of the following:

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(C) restoration of territory taken during the war

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William Lloyd Garrison persuaded the American Anti-slavery society to endore the concept of:

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(C) immediate emancipation

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In the controversy over the lands belonging by treaty of the "Five Civilized Tribes," the Jackson Administration:

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(c) forced the Indians to be removed to the West

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What group of immigrants prior to the Civil War helped stimulate formation of the American or "Know-Nothing"

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(D) Irish

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By February 1, 1861 which group of states has seceded from the Union?

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(A) Mississippi, Flordia, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina

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Which of the following was NOT one of the middle colonies?

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(B) conneticut

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The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was best known for:

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(B) Securing America an alliance with France

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The Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) gave the United States:

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(E) Flordia

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After 1815, the Southern economy was increasingly tied to what crop?

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(E) Cotton

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The Jacksonian Era was notable for its:

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(E) rhetorical egalitarianism

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The treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) included all of the following EXCEPT:

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(B) land south of the Gila River

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Roger Williams came into conflict with the Puritan authorities for advocating that:

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(C) political leaders could have no authority over religious matters

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The Federalist Papers:

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(A) were written anonymously by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

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Which of the following best describes the First Bank of the United States:

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(C) it was a joint private-public enterprise

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The Twelfth Amendment (1804) to the Constitution:

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(A) required the electoral college to vote separately for president and vice president

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What do Gabriel Prosser, Dnmark Vesey, and Nat Turner have in common?

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(C) they organized slave rebellions

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Andrew Jackson referred to the Election of 1824 as "the corrupt bargain" because of:

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(C) the selection of Henry Clay as President John Quincy Adam's Secretary of State

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By opening territory north of 36/30 to slavery, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the:

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(D) Missouri Compromise

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The Emancipation Proclamation:

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(E) none of the above

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Which of the following is associated with early English settlement in the New World?

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(A) Joint-stock companies

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During the ratification contest, the Anti-Federalist critique of the proposed U.S. Constitution contained all of the following arguments EXCEPT:

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(C) the location of the new government in Washington D.C.

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"Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute" became the nation's rallying cry during:

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(D) the XYZ affair

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The election of 1800 has been referred to as constituting "another revolution" because:

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(D) the party in power stepped down after losing the election

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The rise of the "market economy" in the 1820s refers to the:

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(B) the rise of commercial agriculture

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After which of the followingdates was there little criticism of slavery within the South:

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(D) 1832

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Andrew Jackson's impact on the office of the presidency is characterized by reliance on:

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(E) all of the above

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The Panic of 1857 fundamentally resulted from:

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(D) excessive investments in railroads

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Prior to 1763, the British policy of "Salutory neglect"

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(A) did not enforece the Navigation Acts

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The ordinance of 1785 and 1787 established all of the following EXCEPT:

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(D) protection of slavery

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Which of the following does NOT describe the Louisiana Purchase of 1803:

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(C) French power expanded in the Western Hemisphere

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According to Alexis de Tocqueville in "Democracy in America", American individualism arose as a result of:

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(A) the absence of an aristocracy

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An important consequence of the "tariff of abominations" (1828) is that it led to the:

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(C) enunciation of the doctrine of nullification

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The Ostend Manifesto of 1854 concerned which of the following:

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(D) Cuba

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Harvard College and Yale College were established primarily to:

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(C) ensure an adequate supply of ministers

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In James Madison's "federalist paper number ten," the most dangerous threat to the constitution was presented by:

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(B) factions

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Henry Clay's "American System" called for all of the following EXCEPT:

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(C) sale of federal lands to finance higher education

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Which of the following would most likely have expressed opposition to the idea of Manifest Destiny?

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(D) Members of the Whig party in Congress during the Mexican War

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the panic of 1837:

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(A) the building up of surpluses in the nation's factories

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The direct impact of the Civil War on the economy included all of the following EXCEPT:

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(A) The emergence of the trust as a form of business organization

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The cartoon above by Benjamin Franklin offered a warning to the 13 colonies if they:

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(E) rejected the Albany Plan

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To make the new government viable, the first congress of the United States did all of the following EXCEPT:

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(D) grant subsidies to encourage industrial development

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The Pinckney Trety with Spain in 1795 gave Americans the "right of deposit: at New Orleans, this meant that:

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(A) Americans could land goods at New Orleans and ship them out again without paying taxes

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The Marbury v. Madison decision of 1803 established the principle that:

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(B) the Supreme Court had the powere to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional

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"Popular Soverignty" meant that:

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(C) the states would decide themselves whether to be slave or free

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Which of the following events occurred last?

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(E) Homestead Act

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Which of the following was a consequence of the shift to sharecropping and the crop lien system in the late nineteenth century?

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(C) a cycle of debt and depression for southern tenant farmers

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All of the following are associated with the Pilgrims EXCEPT:

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(B) Massachussetts Bay Colony

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In 1787-1789, which of the following groups was most likely to oppose ratification of the Constitution?

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(A) farmers in isolated areas

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The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 introduced which of the following ideas?

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(D) individual states could nullify or set aside federal laws with which they disagreed

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Which of the following statements about the Monroe Doctrine is accurate?

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(C) It stressed that Europe and the Western Hemisphere has essentially different political systems

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In the first half of the 19th century, Cherokee efforts to retain their tribal lands in Georgia received direct support from:

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(C) the United States Supreme Court

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Which of the following statements about the Dred Scott decision is correct?

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(B) It stated that black people were not citizens of the US

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Which of the following was not true of the South in the early months of the war?

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(B) most southerners had opposed secession and were reluctant t ofight

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The Halfway Covenant provided for which of the following:

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(A) the baptism of children of baptized but unconverted parents

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The greatest challenge facing the first Washington Administration was:

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(C) financial

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In the election of 1800, the House of Representatives selected the president because of the deadlock election between:

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(B) Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr