American History to 1877
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of American history from the period of pre-Columbian societies through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. It examines the major social, political, economic, and cultural developments that shaped the United States, including European colonization, indigenous societies, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, and the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on the diverse experiences of peoples in America and the evolving meaning of democracy, liberty, and national identity. Through primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of the foundational events and challenges that continue to influence American society.
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Revel for Learning U.S. History Semester 1 1st Edition by H. W. Brands
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Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New
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Q1) The Inca civilization developed a system of record-keeping using __________.
A) potlatches
B) quipu
C) longships
D) teepees
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following was a feature of the culture of the Pueblo Indians known as the Anasazi?
A) potlatch
B) teepee
C) mounds
D) cliff dwellings
Answer: D
Q3) Before the New and Old Worlds came together,the people in North America had not yet developed __________.
A) writing
B) agriculture
C) culture
D) religion
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) Puritans and Huguenots are both __________.
A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Moors
D) Jewish
Answer: A
Q2) Which country sponsored Columbus's voyages?
A) Portugal
B) Britain
C) France
D) Spain
Answer: D
Q3) Which country had the largest empire in the Americas in the sixteenth century?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Spain
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Which of the following correctly pairs the colony with the person who shaped its establishment or development?
A) Virginia-James Oglethorpe
B) Maryland-George Calvert
C) Georgia-John Winthrop
D) Pennsylvania-William Bradford
Answer: B
Q2) In contrast to slavery,indentured servitude was __________.
A) hereditary
B) involuntary
C) lifelong
D) contractual
Answer: D
Q3) Which of the following preoccupied England in the seventeenth century?
A) famine
B) epidemic
C) foreign invasion
D) civil war
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) The naming of colonies as New York and New Hampshire reflects the American colonists' efforts to __________.
A) sever cultural ties with England
B) re-create the English way of life
C) assert their economic independence
D) challenge royal authority
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 4.2,life expectancy was the highest in __________.
A) New England
B) England
C) the Deep South
D) the Chesapeake
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 4.1,most people left England for the American colonies because they were __________.
A) dissatisfied with the status quo
B) targeted during the witch hunts
C) hoping to enter the Anglican Church
D) seeking cures for diseases
Q4) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?
Q2) Which of the following imposed taxes that most affected the daily lives of the American colonists?
A) Stamp Act
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Proclamation of 1763
Q3) Which of the following reflects the same ideas as those expressed in Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
A) Treaty of Paris of 1763
B) Proclamation of 1763
C) Declaration of Independence
D) Declaratory Act
Q4) In her letter to John Adams in 1776,what did Abigail Adams urge her husband to do?
A) sign a secret treaty with Britain
B) oppose abolitionism and defend slavery
C) abolish slavery in all thirteen colonies
D) grant women the right to political representation
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) What did William Howe offer Americans who surrendered and pledged allegiance to Britain?
A) a pardon
B) a title
C) land
D) promotion
Q2) Which group would have been most likely to have a positive impression of the man depicted in the image?
A) Patriots
B) Loyalists
C) Rebels
D) Whigs
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 6.4,the navy of which country was crucial to the American victory?
A) France
B) Britain
C) Spain
D) United States
Q4) In what respects was the American Revolutionary War a civil war?
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 7.3,most of the people who settled the western frontier __________ the people in the eastern states.
A) had a different mind-set from B) shared much in common with C) were more complacent than D) were wealthier than
Q2) What do the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution reveal about changes in how the states saw their relationship with one another?
Q3) Under the Articles of Confederation,the Confederation Congress had the authority to
A) regulate interstate commerce
B) collect taxes from the states
C) create and maintain an army
D) pass amendments to the Articles
Q4) Which group won the debate on whether or not to ratify the Constitution?
A) delegates to the Annapolis Convention
B) delegates to the Philadelphia Convention
C) the Federalists
D) the Antifederalists
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) What advice did George Washington share in his Farewell Address?
A) honor the country's alliances
B) establish a two-party system
C) never use military force against civilians
D) avoid foreign entanglements
Q2) Who proposed that Britain would make the better ally in the war in Europe?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) Edmond Genet
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 8.3,the Republican Party of Thomas Jefferson's time is the __________ Party of today.
A) Republican
B) Democratic
C) Federalist
D) Tea
Q4) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
Q5) Compare and contrast Federalist and Republican views on the French Revolution.
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) What position did James Madison hold in Jefferson's administration?
A) vice president
B) secretary of state
C) secretary of treasury
D) chief justice
Q2) Low population density contributed to the growth of the American population by
A) exhausting the fertility of the soil
B) slowing down the spread of diseases
C) motivating people to live closer together
D) draining the dwindling food supply
Q3) Who did Thomas Jefferson choose to succeed him as president?
A) Aaron Burr
B) James Monroe
C) James Madison
D) Alexander Hamilton
Q4) Evaluate Thomas Jefferson's presidency.What were his successes? What were his failures?
Q5) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) Which of the following ended the War of 1812?
A) Battle of the Thames
B) Battle of Yorktown
C) Hartford Convention
D) Treaty of Ghent
Q2) Before the British entered Washington,D.C.,on August 24,1814,Dolley Madison ensured the safety of the portrait of which president?
A) James Madison
B) James Monroe
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) George Washington
Q3) In McCulloch v.Maryland,the Supreme Court based its decision on a broad interpretation of the __________.
A) Declaration of Independence
B) elastic clause
C) Treaty of Ghent
D) Constitution's definition of treason
Q4) The War of 1812 ended in a draw,yet Americans thought they had won the war.What gave Americans the impression that they had emerged victorious?
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) The inauguration of the president elected in which year signaled a radical departure from traditional politics?
A) 1816
B) 1820
C) 1824
D) 1828
Q2) In Memorial of the Cherokee Nation,what do the Cherokees point to as the basis for their legal claim to their ancestral land?
A) tribal agreements concluded before the Europeans arrived
B) the treaties signed with the U.S. government
C) French promises made during the French and Indian War
D) British guarantees in the Proclamation of 1763
Q3) Which of the following is pointed to as evidence of democracy in the western states in the nineteenth century?
A) extension of the right to vote to African Americans
B) election of the first woman to the House of Representatives
C) election of the first Indian to the House of Representatives
D) introduction of universal male suffrage
Q4) How did slavery influence American politics in the early nineteenth century?
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) Which political party's foreign policy showed a greater enthusiasm for expansionism in the middle of the nineteenth century?
A) Democrats
B) Federalists
C) Whigs
D) Tories
Q2) Which of the following describes a response to the Turner rebellion?
A) strengthening of abolitionism in the South
B) extension of legal protections for slaves
C) tightening of Virginia's slave code
D) deporting of freed slaves to Africa
Q3) What was George Fitzhugh's academic specialty?
A) sociology
B) psychology
C) anthropology
D) political science
Q4) In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?
Q5) How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?
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Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis
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Q1) Stephen Douglas would have agreed with the Whig Party on which of the following?
A) restrictions on the construction of transportation networks
B) ban on the use of federal funds for railroad construction
C) federal funding for internal improvements
D) state responsibility for financing highways
Q2) Which of the following weakened the Fugitive Slave Act?
A) Compromise of 1850
B) Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act of 1855
C) Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) Dred Scott v. Sandford
Q3) Who used the following quote to describe the situation in the United States in the late 1850s?: "A house divided against itself can not stand."
A) Stephen Douglas
B) Henry Clay
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) John Calhoun
Q4) How was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 weakened in the middle of the nineteenth century?
Q5) How did events in the middle of the nineteenth century push the South toward secession?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) What did Abraham Lincoln cite in his arguments against Southern secession?
A) the Declaration of Independence
B) the Constitution
C) the Gettysburg Address
D) the Emancipation Proclamation
Q2) Fighting at which of the following places started the Civil War?
A) Vicksburg
B) Bull Run
C) Antietam
D) Fort Sumter
Q3) What do the attack on Fort Sumter and the First Battle of Bull Run share in common?
A) Both were fought in the Western frontier.
B) Both were fought in the Atlantic Ocean.
C) Both ended in a victory for the North.
D) Both ended in a victory for the South.
Q4) How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
Q5) What contributed to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) The Fifteenth Amendment increased the political influence of which group?
A) Southern white men
B) Southern white women
C) African American women
D) African American men
Q2) According to the video in the introduction,the period from 1865 to 1877 is referred to as __________.
A) Redemption
B) Peace Policy
C) Reconstruction
D) The Birth of a Nation
Q3) Identify and explain the attitude toward Reconstruction expressed by the following presidents: Abraham Lincoln,Andrew Johnson,and Ulysses Grant.
Q4) Which of the following was a Radical Republican?
A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Samuel Tilden
Q5) Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.
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