Early American History
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Early American History explores the political, social, economic, and cultural developments of North America from pre-Columbian times through the early 19th century. The course examines indigenous societies before European contact, the impact of colonization, the growth and diversity of the British, Spanish, and French colonies, and the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Students will analyze the creation of the Constitution, the formation of the new nation, regional conflicts, and the expansion of democracy, while considering the contributions and experiences of diverse groups including Native Americans, Africans, and Europeans. The course fosters critical thinking about America's foundational values and challenges.
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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) Which of the following was indigenous to the Americas?
A) potatoes
B) horses
C) measles
D) smallpox
Answer: A
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following provides evidence that Indian cultures had an oral tradition?
A) teepees
B) pueblos
C) creation myths
D) totem poles
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) Who held the title of Protector of the Indians?
A) Moctezuma
B) Bartolomé de las Casas
C) Atahualpa
D) Martin Luther
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following contributed to Hernan Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs?
A) Cortés had more ships.
B) Cortés had indigenous allies.
C) The Aztecs were fighting with the Incas.
D) The Aztec ruler was a child.
Answer: B
Q3) The description of the Spaniards in Bartolomé de las Casas's The Devastation of the Indies and the codices both draw attention to the Spaniards' __________.
A) divinity
B) humanity
C) greed
D) laziness
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Where did King Philip's War take place?
A) Britain
B) Spain
C) New England
D) the Chesapeake
Answer: C
Q2) Which group formed the core of the colonial labor system in the American South?
A) African slaves
B) Indian slaves
C) contract workers
D) indentured servants
Answer: A
Q3) Why did the Chesapeake and the South attract so few settlers?
A) Land was more expensive.
B) Puritan orthodoxy stifled dissent.
C) Diseases were more deadly.
D) There were already too many people.
Answer: C
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) The testimony of Daniel Wescot in the trial of Elizabeth Clawson reveals that they had
A) grown up together in England
B) planned to run away together
C) been previously married
D) a falling out some years ago
Q2) In her confession,Ann Foster stated that the devil promised her __________ if she hurt people.
A) salvation
B) prosperity
C) eternal life
D) absolute power
Q3) Compare and contrast views on religion held by the following people: Cotton Mather,George Whitefield,Jonathan Edwards,and Benjamin Franklin.
Q4) What was witchcraft associated with in colonial America?
A) divine will
B) indigenous rights
C) natural science
D) black magic
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 5.1,what did Britain do after it withdrew its forces from the western frontier in America?
A) issue the Proclamation of 1763
B) arrest the Sons of Liberty
C) dissolve the Stamp Act Congress
D) pursue a policy of salutary neglect
Q2) Which of the following blocked colonial expansion beyond the Appalachian Mountains?
A) Navigation Acts
B) Townshend Duties
C) Declaratory Act
D) Proclamation of 1763
Q3) What did John Adams and Richard Henry Lee support?
A) reconciliation with Britain
B) American independence
C) women's suffrage
D) Indian land claims
Q4) How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 6.2,what was Franklin's strategy in Paris to secure a French alliance in the war against Britain?
A) turn the French aristocracy against their own king
B) provoke a rebellion against the French monarchy
C) mobilize popular support for the American cause
D) secretly work toward reconciliation with Britain
Q2) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 6.6,what did Abigail Adams comment on in her letters?
A) peace negotiations
B) abolitionist movement
C) the ravages of war
D) the economic crisis
Q3) The British occupied which city in the early years of the American Revolutionary War?
A) Yorktown
B) Philadelphia
C) Saratoga
D) Valley Forge
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) What word would Federalists emphasize in the elastic clause of the Constitution?
A) Officer
B) Laws
C) proper
D) necessary
Q2) How did the new American government deal with the issue of slavery?
Q3) What is this statement from the Constitution also called?: "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers,and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States,or in any Department or Officer thereof."
A) consolidated government
B) elastic clause
C) Bill of Rights
D) the Preamble
Q4) Which of the following refused to attend the Constitution Convention in 1787?
A) James Madison
B) Patrick Henry
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) Edmund Randolph
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
Q2) Which of the following was a victory for the Federalists?
A) government subsidies for farmers
B) government subsidies for manufacturers
C) creation of the Bank of the United States
D) passage of the Virginia Resolution
Q3) Compare and contrast the goals and priorities of the Federalists and the Republicans.
Q4) The Constitution gave which of the following the authority to declare war?
A) Supreme Court
B) Congress
C) the president
D) the states
Q5) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions contributed to the __________.
A) Whiskey Rebellion
B) Alien Enemies Act
C) war in Europe
D) doctrine of states' rights
Q6) 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) In the Arguing History video in section 9.6,Britain and France claimed neutral rights during __________.
A) the American Civil War
B) the Napoleonic Wars
C) Embargo Act
D) World War I
Q2) In the introductory video in section 9.3,Theodosia Burr disappeared en route to see her __________.
A) father
B) mother
C) lover
D) husband
Q3) Which of the following Indian communities did the Lewis and Clark expedition encounter?
A) Powhatan
B) Pueblo
C) Shoshone
D) Iroquois
Q4) Evaluate Thomas Jefferson's presidency.What were his successes? What were his failures?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) Tecumseh hoped to gain the support of which country's government in his struggle to stop the encroachment of white settlers into Indian lands in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys?
A) United States
B) Spain
C) France
D) Britain
Q2) What was the purpose of the constitutional amendments proposed by the Hartford Convention?
A) expand the powers of the president in matters of national security
B) expand the powers of the president in matters of Indian removal
C) make declarations of war more difficult to pass through Congress
D) make declarations of war easier to pass through Congress
Q3) What did the battles at the Thames,Horseshoe Bend,and New Orleans share in common?
A) They were all American victories.
B) They were all American defeats.
C) They were all Indian victories.
D) They all ended in a draw.
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) Andrew Jackson's handling of the nullification crisis in 1832 and the battle over the Bank of the United States reflects the
A) weakness of the executive branch
B) strength of the executive branch
C) weakness of the legislative branch
D) strength of the legislative branch
Q2) To which present-day state were Indians relocated under the Indian Removal Act?
A) Oregon
B) Mississippi
C) Georgia
D) Oklahoma
Q3) 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
Q4) How democratic was Jacksonian Democracy? What were its limits?
Q5) 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 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
Q2) Which of the following was a route from the American East to California that involved both ocean travel and overland transportation?
A) around South America
B) across the Arctic Ocean and down the Pacific Coast
C) to the Caribbean, across Panama, and up the Pacific Coast
D) across the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada mountains
Q3) The war with Mexico occurred during whose presidency?
A) James K. Polk
B) William Henry Harrison
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Zachary Taylor
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) 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
Q2) Based on the information in the map,which presidential candidate failed to gain any electoral votes from any states where slavery was allowed?
A) Lincoln
B) Breckinridge
C) Bell
D) Douglas
Q3) Which of the following would be punished under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
A) hiding a fugitive slave from the authorities
B) reporting a fugitive slave to the authorities
C) accusing a black person of being a runaway slave
D) arresting a black person for being a runaway slave
Q4) 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) How did Abraham Lincoln respond to the bombardment of Fort Sumter shown in the image?
A) He issued a call to arms.
B) He emancipated the slaves.
C) He accepted Southern secession.
D) He ended the Civil War.
Q2) Which of the following explains why Britain was reluctant to support the Confederacy?
A) Britain's support of the international slave trade
B) Britain's decline in the global textile industry
C) Britain's dependence on cotton from the South
D) Britain's commitment to the abolition of slavery
Q3) Robert E.Lee's surrender at __________ marked the end of the civil war.
A) Gettysburg
B) Vicksburg
C) Fort Sumter
D) Appomattox Court House
Q4) How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) In the parade of freedmen in Charleston in 1865,one of the banners read,"Our past the Block,our future the School." What does the Block symbolize?
A) education
B) slavery
C) redemption
D) suffrage
Q2) Which of the following did Ulysses Grant support?
A) Inflation Bill
B) Peace Policy
C) Ku Klux Klan
D) the Confederacy
Q3) By the end of 1877,Southerners would consider all the former Confederate states to have been __________.
A) emancipated
B) redeemed
C) assassinated
D) compromised
Q4) Identify and explain the attitude toward Reconstruction expressed by the following presidents: Abraham Lincoln,Andrew Johnson,and Ulysses Grant.
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