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Course Introduction
This course explores the development of American society from the early colonial period through the Revolutionary era, spanning the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Students will examine the diverse groups that shaped colonial North America, including Indigenous peoples, European settlers, and enslaved Africans, focusing on cultural exchanges, conflicts, and adaptations. The curriculum covers major political, economic, and social transformations, exploring the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Emphasis is placed on the evolution of colonial governments, the rise of regional identities, the impact of imperial policies, and the forging of new ideals of liberty and self-government that laid the groundwork for the formation of the United States.
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Chapter 1: The Meeting of Cultures
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Q1) In 1513, what European became the first to see the Pacific Ocean?
A)Amerigo Vespucci
B)Vasco de Balboa
C)Juan Ponce de León
D)Ferdinand Magellan
E)Hernando Cortés
Answer: B
Q2) In the late fifteenth century, the desire in Europe to look for new lands was spurred by A)significant population growth.
B)the absence of a merchant class.
C)the declining political power of many monarchs.
D)the expansion of feudalism.
E)a desire to escape the Black Death.
Answer: A
Q3) The internal African slave trade did not become prominent until the Europeans began to demand slave labor for the New World.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Transplantations and Borderland
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Q1) Quakers is a term applied to a dissenting English Protestant sect, the Society of Friends.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) In colonial North America, the "middle grounds" refers to a region in which
A)no one European or Indian group held a clear dominance.
B)Indian tribes were largely able to keep out European colonists.
C)English colonists quickly became the dominant power.
D)Spanish colonists were long the dominant power.
E)French colonists managed to hold the balance of power.
Answer: A
Q3) In the 1640s, during the English Civil War, the Cavaliers were
A)the forces of Parliament, who were largely Puritans.
B)supporters of King Charles I.
C)Scottish and Irish gentry desiring to secede from England.
D)both the forces of Parliament and supporters of King Charles I.
E)neither the forces of Parliament nor supporters of King Charles I.
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Society and Culture in Provincial America
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Q1) The most common form of resistance by enslaved Africans to their condition was A)arson.
B)destruction of crops.
C)running away.
D)subtle defiance or evasion of their masters.
E)poisoning of food.
Answer: D
Q2) In the seventeenth century, most colonial families
A)owned spinning wheels or looms.
B)were self-sufficient.
C)did not own a plow.
D)grew and processed their own grain.
E)used wagons to transfer goods to market.
Answer: C
Q3) By the late seventeenth century, European and African immigrants outnumbered natives along the Atlantic coast.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: The Empire in Transition
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Q1) The actual economic burdens of the Stamp Act were relatively light.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Colonial protests against the Townshend Duties resulted in
A)the Boston Massacre.
B)Parliament passing a second Stamp Act.
C)an increase in smuggling in port cities such as Boston.
D)many colonists joining in nonimportation agreements.
E)the Boston Tea Party.
Q3) In 1774, the First Continental Congress
A)accepted a plan for a colonial union under British authority.
B)proposed that the colonies tax themselves at Parliament's demand.
C)agreed to end colonial boycotts of British trade.
D)issued an order for the arrest of all colonists loyal to the King.
E)called for the repeal of all oppressive legislation passed since 1763.
Q4) Parliamentary legislation requiring colonists to provision and maintain the British army was called the ____________.
Q5) In 1770 Prime Minister Lord North repealed all of the _____________________ except the tax on tea.
Q6) The Virginian who took the lead in protesting the Stamp Act was
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution
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Q1) The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty was written by ______________.
Q2) The blunders of General ____________ cost the British dearly in 1777.
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding General Nathaniel Greene is FALSE?
A)He led American forces to victory in the battle at Yorktown.
B)He divided his forces into fast-moving contingents to confuse and exasperate Cornwallis.
C)He was one of the most effective commanders in the American army.
D)He replaced Horatio Gates as commander of the southern forces in the Continental army.
E)He was forced to withdraw at Guildford Court House after inflicting heavy losses.
Q4) The British military campaigns of 1777 saw
A)General William Howe stay in camp when he was supposed to have moved south.
B)General John Burgoyne suffer a major defeat at Saratoga.
C)a major American victory at Philadelphia.
D)the British surround and lay siege to George Washington's army at Valley Forge.
E)the British retake Boston and set it afire.
Q5) Characterize the debate over slavery in America immediately following the Revolution.
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Chapter 6: The Constitution and the New Republic
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Q1) On September 25, 1789, Congress approved twelve amendments, ______ of which came to comprise what we know as the Bill of Rights.
Q2) The Constitutional Convention of 1787 came close to
A)abolishing slavery.
B)granting citizenship to slaves.
C)granting suffrage for free black males.
D)abolishing slavery and granting citizenship to slaves.
E)None of the answers are correct.
Q3) Jefferson referred to his election as the "__________________ of 1800."
Q4) Alexander Hamilton recommended that the federal government raise revenue through
A)an import tax and a personal income tax.
B)a sales tax and a property tax.
C)an excise tax and an import tax.
D)an excise tax and a sales tax.
E)a sales tax and a personal income tax.
Q5) Discuss the essential differences between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians during the 1790s.
Q6) During the late 1790s, the United States fought something called a "quasi war" with ____________.
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Q7) The Constitution's most distinctive feature was its ____________________.
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Chapter 7: The Jeffersonian ERA
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Q1) The first state to be created from the Louisiana Purchase and admitted into the Union was
A)Louisiana.
B)Arkansas.
C)Missouri.
D)Iowa.
E)Kentucky.
Q2) Napoleon decided to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States because
A)the French Army on the American continent had been decimated by disease.
B)he wanted to raise money for his armies in Europe.
C)he believed the Louisiana Territory was a "great desert" unfit for habitation.
D)the French Army on the American continent had been decimated by disease, and he wanted to raise money for his armies in Europe.
E)he wanted to raise money for his armies in Europe, and he believe the Louisiana Territory was a "great desert" unfit for habitation.
Q3) During the War of 1812, the United States achieved early military successes on
Q4) The Treaty of ______________ ended the War of 1812.
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Chapter 8: Varieties of American Nationalism
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Q1) The writing of the Monroe Doctrine
A)had an immediate and dramatic effect on American policy.
B)was primarily based on the earlier writings of Thomas Jefferson.
C)was motivated by American interests in Hawaii.
D)deeply angered the European powers.
E)was an important example of American nationalism.
Q2) Shortly after becoming president, James Monroe
A)acted to limit the future influence of Federalists.
B)called for an end to political parties.
C)undertook a goodwill tour of the country.
D)became the first president to leave the country while in office.
E)called for increased manumissions in the South.
Q3) Life in the western territories in the early nineteenth century was almost exclusively one of solitary existence and individual self-reliance.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In 1824 Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes and electoral votes.
A)True
B)False
Q5) The presidency of James Monroe is often called the "era of __________."
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Chapter 9: Jacksonian America
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Q1) As president, Andrew Jackson's first political target was the Bank of the United States.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Webster-Hayne debate concerned primarily the issue of the sale of public lands.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What role did political parties play during the 1830s and 1840s?
Q4) In the years after the War of 1812, support for the idea of political parties was greatest in
A)Virginia.
B)New Jersey.
C)New York.
D)Rhode Island.
E)Pennsylvania.
Q5) Andrew Jackson sided with Robert Hayne in the Webster-Hayne debate.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Characterize the presidency of Martin Van Buren.
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Chapter 10: Americas Economic Revolution
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Q1) Why did railroads become the key American industry in the nineteenth century?
Q2) In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads
A)played a relatively small role in the nation's transportation system.
B)standardized both the gauge of tracks and timetables.
C)saw its greatest development in the southern slave states.
D)became the dominant form of transportation in the nation.
E)had not yet been constructed in America.
Q3) In 1860, the percentage of the population in the South living in towns (2,500+ people) was
A)five percent.
B)ten percent.
C)fifteen percent.
D)twenty percent.
E)thirty-three percent.
Q4) In the 1840s, P.T.Barnum's American Museum in New York showcased
A)nature and natural history.
B)American artists.
C)human oddities.
D)past American leaders and heroes.
E)European artists.
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Chapter 11: Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South
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Q1) One actual slave revolt in the nineteenth-century South was led by
A)Nat Turner.
B)Denmark Vesey.
C)Gabriel Prosser.
D)Frederick Douglass.
E)Harriet Tubman.
Q2) Which of the following is TRUE of American slave families in the antebellum South?
A)a child of a slave could not be sold after he or she had reached three years of age.
B)blacks typically had weaker family ties than did whites, due to the uncertainties of their lives.
C)up to one-third of families were broken apart by the sale of family members.
D)most slaves who ran away did so to avoid punishment.
E)newly arrived slaves to a plantation were often shunned by the black community.
Q3) On the eve of the Civil War, ____________ was the major means of transportation in the South.
Q4) One of the most frequent causes of flight from a slave plantation was to
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Chapter 12: Antebellum Culture and Reform
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Q1) American transcendentalists borrowed heavily from European thinkers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The events depicted in Uncle Tom's Cabin were taken from news accounts.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The writings of Edgar Allan Poe were
A)primarily sad and macabre.
B)mostly ignored during his lifetime.
C)largely focused on Southern society.
D)acclaimed by many American writers in his time.
E)completely ignored in Europe after his death.
Q4) In the first half of the nineteenth century, ________________ epidemics devastated many American cities.
Q5) William Lloyd Garrison was assassinated for his advocacy of abolitionism. A)True
B)False
Q6) The antislavery Liberty Party never campaigned for outright abolitionism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) The Mexican War resulted from
A)the United States provoking Mexico to fight.
B)Mexico provoking the United States to fight.
C)Texas citizens attacking Mexican forces.
D)Mexican forces attacking Americans in California.
E)Texas citizens staging an attack by Mexican forces.
Q2) In The Pro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C.Calhoun stated that slavery was
A)likely to be adopted by non-slave states within fifty years.
B)a "necessary evil."
C)a "positive good."
D)likely to end in the United States within fifty years.
E)the "American way of life."
Q3) The Ostend Manifesto angered many antislavery Northerners.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the major consequences of the Mexican War?
Q5) The Kansas-Nebraska Act included an explicit repeal of the Missouri Compromise.
A)True
B)False
Q6) Why did the Whig Party collapse and the Republican Party come into being?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) The U.S.Military Telegraph Corps was headed by Thomas Scott and what future Gilded Age tycoon?
A)John D.Rockefeller
B)Cornelius Vanderbilt
C)J.Pierpont Morgan
D)Jay Gould
E)Andrew Carnegie
Q2) The Battle of Gettysburg
A)represented the last time Confederate forces seriously threatened Union territory.
B)saw Union General George Meade lose nearly a third of his army.
C)saw Union General George Meade clearly be more aggressive than Robert E.Lee.
D)saw Robert E.Lee poised for victory after his attack on Cemetery Ridge.
E)was a Union victory, thanks to Meade having found a copy of Lee's orders.
Q3) The Peninsular campaign in 1862
A)saw General George McClellan plan an ambitious assault on Richmond.
B)was an example of General McClellan's conservative approach to battle.
C)ultimately ended in a Union withdrawal back to northern Virginia.
D)All the answers are correct.
E)None of the answers are correct.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction and the New South
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Q1) During Reconstruction, the black share of profits may have been rising, but the total profits of Southern agriculture were declining.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Enemies of President Grant and "Grantism" were called __________ Republicans.
Q3) As sharecroppers, the black labor force in the South worked hours that were just as long as had been the case under slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of A)slavery.
B)citizenship.
C)cruel and unusual punishment.
D)income tax.
E)suffrage.
Q5) After the Civil War, most black agricultural workers toiled as ______________.
Q6) The "New South creed" was expounded by whites, not blacks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
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Q1) A number of Chinese immigrants worked in the mines of California before turning to the railroad for employment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Secret societies, known as __________, were organized by Chinese Americans.
Q3) In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was NOT a major western industry?
A)mining
B)fur trading
C)ranching
D)commercial farming
E)railroad building
Q4) Chinese tongs were
A)secret societies.
B)prostitutes.
C)Chinese community officials.
D)merchants.
E)indentured servants.
Q5) What economic factors would motivate someone to move to the West during the second half of the nineteenth century?
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Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
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Q1) Russell Conwell became prominent in the late nineteenth century by delivering his "_______________" lecture more than 6,000 times.
Q2) The first oil well was drilled in 1859 in western Pennsylvania by ______________.
Q3) In 1900, the emergence of research laboratories in American corporations
A)occurred as federal funding for research greatly expanded.
B)led to a diversification of research interests.
C)developed similar research goals as in Europe.
D)was deemed unnecessary since so many American university laboratories existed.
E)centralized the sources of research funding.
Q4) In the late nineteenth century, the needs of the American steel industry directly contributed to the further development of all of the following EXCEPT
A)the automobile industry.
B)steam engine technology.
C)freighters on the Great Lakes.
D)the Pennsylvania Railroad.
E)the oil industry.
Q5) Why was there no sustained commitment to labor radicalism in the late nineteenth century?
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