Colonial and Revolutionary America
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Course Introduction
This course explores the social, political, economic, and cultural development of North America from the first waves of European colonization through the American Revolution. Students will examine the interactions between indigenous peoples, European settlers, and enslaved Africans, analyzing how these diverse groups shaped the colonies growth and daily life. The course investigates the causes and consequences of colonial conflicts, emerging regional identities, and the evolution of colonial society leading to independence. Emphasis is placed on the ideological, economic, and social forces that culminated in revolution, as well as the experiences of various groups within the colonial and revolutionary landscape.
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Q1) The Treaty of Tordesillas _____.
A)divided the territory of the New World between Spain and Portugal
B)established the pope as the arbiter of international disputes
C)ended the war in Granada in favor of Spain
D)put a halt to the Inquisition
Answer: A
Q2) The two nations that dominated exploration from 1491 to 1600 were Portugal and Spain.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of these factors contributed to increased exploration by the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
A)New developments in shipbuilding
B)Increased used of lateen sails
C)Updated versions of astrolabes
D)All of these choices.
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) Which of the following statements is false about the Spanish system of forced labor?
A)By the time the king outlawed most Native American slavery,the Arawaks of the West Indies had been destroyed.
B)The encomienda system evolved from a labor system to one that gave Indian property to colonists.
C)The Spanish turned to Africans to replace the rapidly decreasing supply of Native American labor.
D)While large numbers of Native Americans had died due to harsh working conditions and diseases,the African slaves proved immune to those factors.
Answer: D
Q2) The Columbian Exchange transformed Native American and European life profoundly.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) The mines at Potosi and Zacatecas were noted for their rich yield of gold.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Even after the French government made Quebec a royal province in the 1660s,population growth remained slow primarily because
A)only wealthy investors were welcomed.
B)Protestants were not allowed to immigrate to the province.
C)French peasants preferred the climate of Virginia.
D)Both A and B
E)Both B and C
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe early Massachusetts settlers?
A)They believed the husband was superior to the wife.
B)They accepted social inequality as the will of God.
C)They believed in using coercion to induce compliance.
D)They maintained a hierarchical social order.
E)They believed everyone had a place in the family,church,and commonwealth.
Answer: C
Q3) By 1720,blacks composed 20 percent of the population in the Chesapeake region.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) Which of the following statements regarding Sir Isaac Newton and John Locke is true?
A)They challenged traditional notions that humans had no role in determining their fate.
B)They were part of a movement known as the Enlightenment.
C)They denied the existence of God.
D)Both A and B
E)Both B and C
Q2) Which of the following took place during the French and Indian War?
A)Native Americans,for the most part,sided with the French against the British.
B)The war in the colonies became part of the European Seven Years' War.
C)The French eventually pulled their troops out of the Ohio Valley to protect Quebec and Montreal,allowing the British to take control there.
D)All of these
E)None of these
Q3) Which of the following was published first?
A)Letters from a Pennsylvania Farmer
B)Common Sense
C)The Declaration of Independence
D)Two Treatises on Civil Government
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) During the early years of the revolutionary conflict,
A)colonists loyal to Britain were forced to flee the country.
B)African American slaves were conscripted into the colonial army.
C)several hundred women actively served the colonial cause.
D)General Washington did not lack for troops because his men volunteered for the war's duration.
E)All of these
Q2) At the Constitutional Convention,the agreed-upon 3/5ths compromise called for enslaved Americans to count as 3/5ths of a free person for what purpose?
A)direct taxation.
B)apportioning representation.
C)All of these
D)None of these
Q3) Which of the following gives the correct order of states ratifying the Constitution?
A)Delaware,Maryland,Virginia,New Jersey
B)Delaware,New Jersey,Maryland,Virginia
C)Virginia,Maryland,Delaware,New Jersey
D)New Jersey,Delaware,Virginia,Maryland
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Q1) Who was most responsible for the development of the U.S.financial system?
A)Henry Knox
B)Alexander Hamilton
C)George Washington
D)Thomas Jefferson
E)John Jay
Q2) After the War of 1812,who was placed in charge of negotiating with native tribes in the Southeast?
A)Andrew Jackson
B)James Monroe
C)John C.Calhoun
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Jay
Q3) Which of the following events in Native American history occurred first?
A)Battle of Fallen Timbers is fought.
B)Treaty of Holston is signed.
C)Dragging Canoe dies.
D)Henderson's Purchase is finalized.
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Which of the following works was produced after the others?
A)The Greek Slave
B)The Birds of America,from Original Drawings,with 435 Plates Showing 1,065 Figures
C)"The Pit and the Pendulum"
D)Walden: Life in the Woods
Q2) One result of the opening of western lands to settlement was that couples married at younger ages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When completed,the Erie Canal was how much longer than any canal built prior?
A)Two times longer
B)Three times longer
C)Five times longer
D)Ten times longer
E)It was actually smaller than most canals of its day.
Q4) The most famous artistic production of the antebellum United States was the statue The Greek Slave.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) What did the American Colonization Society,which purchased land in Africa for free blacks,name the new country?
A)Ghana
B)Ivory Coast
C)Republic of the Congo
D)Cameroon
E)Liberia
Q2) White slave owners justified slavery by pointing to the Bible.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Virginia slave debates of 1831-1832 revealed which of the following?
A)Many Virginians worried about slavery's influence on whites.
B)Many Virginians openly admitted the debilitating effect of slavery.
C)Many Virginian's worried that slavery prevented the economy from developing in the same manner as it did in the North.
D)None of these
E)All of these
Q4) Eli Whitney became wealthy from his invention of the cotton gin.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) John Tyler was a member of the Whig Party,yet once he became president in 1841,he actively resisted Whig legislation in Congress.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following presidents served later than the others?
A)John Tyler
B)William Henry Harrison
C)Martin Van Buren
D)James K.Polk
Q3) During Jackson's presidency,he did all but which of the following?
A)He replaced 10 percent of officeholders during his two terms.
B)He fired partisan newspaper editors from important government posts.
C)He supported Peggy Eaton.
D)He came to rely on his informal "kitchen" cabinet.
E)He initiated the spoils system.
Q4) Southerners,especially Calhoun,referred to the 1828 tariff that favored the Northeast and the West over the South as the Tariff of Abominations.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The Ostend Manifesto proposed that the United States take Cuba from Spain by any means necessary
A)True
B)False
Q2) The U.S.Supreme Court twice ruled in favor of the Cherokees and against their removal from their lands
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following resulted from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
A)The United States received California,New Mexico,and Texas from Mexico.
B)The border between Texas and Mexico was set at the Nueces River.
C)Mexico paid the United States $15 million for U.S.losses.
D)All of these
Q4) Manifest Destiny was the term applied to the belief that the United States was destined by God to spread across the continent from sea to sea
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) According to the principle of popular sovereignty,which of the following would be allowed?
A)Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
B)The Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
C)Settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
D)Slavery would be mandated in all new territories.
E)Slavery would be excluded from all new territories.
Q2) South Carolina seceded the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following best describes the attitudes of white northerners toward African Americans in the early 1850s?
A)Rigid and paternalistic
B)Ambivalent
C)Accepting
D)Tolerant and condescending
E)Puzzled but unafraid
Q4) Conscience Whigs were Whigs who were opposed to slavery.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
A)Freed all slaves
B)Freed only northern slaves
C)Freed slaves that lived in the rebel territories
D)Freed slaves once the war ended
Q2) The Confederate Impressment Act was passed to fill vacancies in the army due to desertions.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Renegades was the nickname given to antiwar Democrats sympathetic to the South.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the capital of the Confederacy?
A)Richmond
B)Charleston
C)Atlanta
D)Savannah
E)Raleigh
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) In the segregated South,blacks were subjected to
A)segregated railroad cars and public facilities.
B)literacy test requirements designed to keep them from voting.
C)lynching and other forms of violence.
D)poll tax requirements designed to keep them from voting.
E)All of the above.
Q2) Northerners largely approved of the black codes passed by the new state governments in the South to control former slaves
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not a true statement about Congressional Reconstruction?
A)It was more lenient than Presidential Reconstruction
B)It sought to punish the South for the war
C)It advocated taking land from wealthy Confederates to give to former slaves
D)It was led by Thaddeus Stevens
Q4) In its 1896 decision in Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation
A)True
B)False
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Q1) No one was aboard the USS Maine when it exploded in the Havana Harbor in 1898.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the main purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?
A)To limit the authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
B)To return eastern land to Native American tribes
C)To provide reservation land for the tribes of the Great Plains
D)To encourage assimilation of Native Americans into white culture
Q3) In the 1890s,the name "yellow press" was used to describe newspapers that refused to publish any stories that were critical of the government.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Hawaii was annexed by the United States following a bloody civil war there. A)True
B)False
Q5) Dollar diplomacy was applied to Latin America but not to Asia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) What nineteenth-century politician and orator became famous for his "cross of gold" speech in which he said,"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns,you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"?
A)William McKinley
B)William Jennings Bryan
C)William Seward
D)William Howard Taft
Q2) New immigrants to the United States in the 1870s provided much of the unskilled labor in U.S.factories.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Samuel Gompers led the Knights of Labor,which was aimed at organizing skilled workers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Time zones were put in place by the railroad industry to help facilitate nationwide travel and transport.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What did Woodrow Wilson call his 1912 campaign platform that was based on promoting competition and enforcing antitrust laws?
A)Gilded Deal
B)New Freedom
C)New Nationalism
D)Square Deal
Q2) What was the focus of the Sixteenth Amendment?
A)It provided for separate but equal public facilities.
B)It allowed an income tax.
C)It guaranteed women the right to vote in federal elections.
D)It provided for the direct election of senators.
E)It established Prohibition.
Q3) The NAACP was founded in 1909 to end segregation and guarantee voting rights for blacks.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire spurred reform efforts in industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) The Red Scare refers to which of the following?
A)submarine warfare
B)an influenza epidemic
C)an economic recession
D)fear of communist infiltration
Q2) In return for the government's agreement to allow unions to participate in economic policy making,the American Federation of Labor promised not to strike or to press for union shops in factories.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Charles Evans Hughes was a Supreme Court justice and the Republican Party's 1916 presidential candidate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Triple Alliance consisted of which three countries?
A)Italy,Germany and France
B)Germany,Austria and England
C)Italy,Germany and Austria
D)Germany,France and England
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Q1) Immigration laws in the 1920s
A)delayed citizenship for new immigrants.
B)aligned immigration with needs of businesses for workers.
C)set quotas for the number of immigrants from various regions.
D)placed a five-year moratorium on immigration to the United States.
Q2) The first motion picture with sound was The Grapes of Wrath.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who championed the crusade against evolutionism and helped the prosecution in the Scopes trial?
A)Williams Jennings Bryan
B)Clarence Darrow
C)Florence Kelley
D)Aimee Semple McPherson
E)John T.Raulston
Q4) Who was Henry L.Mencken?
A)the founder of the NAACP
B)the founder of Time magazine
C)a writer who disparaged older values
D)a jazz musician who broke racial boundaries
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the
New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) What was considered Franklin D.Roosevelt's greatest political liability?
A)his inferior education
B)his physical disability
C)his lack of political experience
D)his connections to the Communist Party
Q2) What group wooed African American support by defending the Scottsboro boys,teens who had been wrongly accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931?
A)the Civilian Conservation Corps
B)the Communist Party
C)the Democratic Party
D)the Ku Klux Klan
Q3) Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff over President Hoover's veto.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who was the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1936 election?
A)Herbert Hoover
B)Alfred M.Landon
C)Huey P.Long
D)Robert Wagner
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Q1) On December 8,1941,Congress declared war on Japan after a very close vote.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A 1943 fight between whites and blacks sparked a race riot that left thirty-five people dead and more than seven hundred wounded in the city of
A)Atlanta.
B)Detroit.
C)Los Angeles.
D)Philadelphia.
Q3) The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The national debt increased only slightly between 1941 and 1945.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The "zoot suit riots" targeted what group?
A)African Americans
B)Japanese Americans
C)Mexican Americans
D)Jewish Americans
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
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Q1) Who was America's leading white cover artist?
A)Allen Ginsberg
B)Pat Boone
C)Elvis Presley
D)Little Richard
Q2) Eisenhower's "New Look" military program focused on the production of nuclear weapons and long-range bombers.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Why did President Truman remove General MacArthur from his command in Korea?
A)MacArthur refused to escalate the war.
B)MacArthur publicly criticized Truman's approach.
C)MacArthur was suspected of being a communist sympathizer.
D)MacArthur had not achieved the military goals that had been established.
Q4) Which best describes Elvis Presley's influence on music?
A)Music became a bonding experience for parents and teenagers.
B)Record companies began to produce more rhythm and blues music.
C)Televised shows and music videos became essential for record sales.
D)The popularity of rock 'n' roll music declined due to criticism from adults.
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In the 1972 election,Nixon carried every state except Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "Plumbers" were members of a White House unit that Nixon charged with stopping security leaks.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In response to the Cuban missile crisis,President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev established a direct telephone line between the White House and the Kremlin.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Who were the freedom riders?
A)the first military advisors in Vietnam
B)leaders of a bus boycott in and beyond Montgomery,Alabama
C)members of the Beat Generation who followed Jack Kerouac on his On the Road adventure
D)bus travelers who traveled through the South to test the Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) All of the following statements about Ronald Reagan are true except
A)he had served as governor of California
B)he had served as a state senator in Illinois
C)he had been an actor and television personality
D)he was the oldest man ever to become president
Q2) Which of the following is not a true statement about the AIDs crisis?
A)some public officials said the disease was a sign of the nation's moral decay
B)the disease first appeared in the late 1980s
C)thousands died in the U.S.within a decade
D)it originated in Africa
E)gays and lesbians protested government inaction
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding the Iran-contra affair is true?
A)Money from the sale of arms was secretly used to support Israel.
B)The House attempted to impeach President Reagan for his role in the affair.
C)The United States sold arms to the Islamic government of Iran,which had sponsored terrorism.
D)Several leaders of the affair were pardoned by President Reagan after being convicted of treason.
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Q1) Results of the close presidential election of 2000 were called into question due to irregularities in what state?
A)California
B)Florida
C)Tennessee
D)Texas
Q2) The "Don't Ask,Don't Tell" policy introduced by the Clinton administration strengthened privacy laws for medical patients.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 2003,President George W.Bush sent troops to Iraq in response to reports that Saddam Hussein
A)was preparing to attack Israel.
B)was hiding a cache of weapons of mass destruction.
C)had made terrorist threats toward the U.S.government.
D)dhad orchestrated the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Q4) In 2013,the Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
A)True
B)False
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