History of Early America
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Course Introduction
This course explores the foundational period of American history from pre-Columbian Native American societies through the early decades of the United States. It examines the European colonization of North America, the interactions between Indigenous peoples and settlers, the development of colonial societies, and the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. Students will analyze political, economic, social, and cultural changes that shaped the formation of the United States, considering topics such as slavery, religious movements, and the emergence of American identity up to the early 19th century.
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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) According to the introductory video in section 1.2,what do wheat,rice,and corn share in common?
A) They were the basis of agricultural civilizations.
B) They are very low in calories.
C) They are the most drought-resistant crops in the world.
D) They were all native plants in the Americas.
Answer: A
Q2) What did the Aztec and Inca civilizations both do?
A) cultivate rice
B) harvest wheat
C) build railroads
D) establish empires
Answer: D
Q3) The dwelling shown in the image is best suited for __________ cultures.
A) nomadic
B) agricultural
C) sedentary
D) industrial
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) Who led the voyages shown in the map?
A) Vasco da Gama
B) Walter Raleigh
C) Leif Erikson
D) Christopher Columbus
Answer: D
Q2) Despite their differences,Protestants and Catholics placed their faith in the
A) Catholic Church
B) Church of England
C) Bible
D) pope
Answer: C
Q3) What is the name of the ship shown in the image?
A) caravel
B) codex
C) cargo
D) ingot
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) What accounts for the success of the English in colonizing the eastern seaboard of North America?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
a.Disease had already decimated most of the Indian population before the English colonists arrived.
b.The Indians did not initially resist; in fact,many welcomed and helped the English colonists.
c.As the English colonies expanded,Indian resistance was weakened by inter-tribal rivalries.
d.King Philip's War failed because some Indian tribes allied with the English.
e.Land speculators were able to acquire tribal land by persuading the chief to sign a treaty.
Q2) Which of the following groups represented the majority of the people who participated in the Great Migration during the seventeenth century?
A) Africans
B) Indians
C) Anglicans
D) Puritans
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) Benjamin Franklin represented the provincial assembly of which colony in the British Parliament?
A) New York
B) New Jersey
C) Pennsylvania
D) Massachusetts
Q2) In the Salem witch trials,most of those who were accused of witchcraft were
A) slaves
B) men
C) Indians
D) women
Q3) Where did the Salem witch trials occur?
A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) Pennsylvania
D) Georgia
Q4) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
Q5) What accounts for the differences between the northern and southern colonies?
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) In 1775,George Washington was appointed the head of the __________.
A) Continental Army
B) Continental Congress
C) Stamp Act Congress
D) Sons of Liberty
Q2) The Intolerable Acts reflected Britain's response to which event?
A) Battle of Concord
B) Battle of Lexington
C) Boston Tea Party
D) Boston Massacre
Q3) Compare and contrast American and British expectations of one another.What did the Americans expect from the British,and what did the British expect from the Americans?
Q4) In the decade preceding the American Revolution,American colonists opposed the authority of the British Parliament to __________.
A) regulate trade
B) levy taxes
C) restrict navigation
D) control manufacturing
Q5) 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 Arguing History video in section 6.6,many of the people on the losing side of the American Revolution __________.
A) ran for office
B) left for Canada
C) were killed
D) were enslaved
Q2) Which of the following fought on the Loyalist side during the Revolutionary War?
A) Anthony Allaire
B) Joseph Plumb Martin
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) the comte de Rochambeau
Q3) In what respects was the American Revolutionary War a civil war?
Q4) 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
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) What does the Shays Rebellion reveal about America in the years after the Revolutionary War?
Q2) What word would Antifederalists emphasize in the elastic clause of the Constitution?
A) Officer
B) Laws
C) proper
D) necessary
Q3) The Constitutional Convention decided that an amendment to the constitution required the approval of how many states?
A) one quarter
B) one half
C) three quarters
D) all
Q4) 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
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) Why were farmers negatively affected by the federal tax on whiskey?
A) They consumed the most whiskey.
B) They distilled corn into whiskey.
C) They could not buy any other alcohol.
D) They controlled the black market.
Q2) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
Q3) The Whiskey Rebellion strengthened the Federalists' view of the Republicans and their supporters as __________.
A) elitist
B) alcoholics
C) conservatives
D) radicals
Q4) John Adams started an undeclared naval war against which country shown on the map?
A) Batavian Republic
B) Ottoman Empire
C) French Republic
D) Great Britain
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) According to the introductory video in section 9.2,what had been Napoleon's original plan for Louisiana?
A) use it re-create the French empire in North America
B) sell it to American immigrants settling in the West
C) transfer it back to Spain as payment for war debts
D) turn it into a penal colony for French revolutionaries
Q2) What position did James Madison hold in Jefferson's administration?
A) vice president
B) secretary of state
C) secretary of treasury
D) chief justice
Q3) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
Q4) How was the presidential election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 different from the elections of the previous two presidents and the elections of the next two presidents?
Q5) What prompted Congress to pass the Embargo Act in 1807?
A) Farmers were going bankrupt and ending up in debtors' prisons.
B) Moses Austin established a colony in Spanish-controlled Texas.
C) Britain and France were seizing American merchant vessels.
D) Thomas Jefferson wanted to purchase Louisiana from France.
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) Who was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court?
A) John Marshall
B) William Weatherford
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) William Henry Harrison
Q2) What did Tecumseh use to his advantage in his campaign for Indian unity?
A) Marbury v. Madison ruling
B) American Revolutionary War
C) Embargo Act of 1807
D) New Madrid earthquakes
Q3) 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
Q4) How did the Republicans and the Federalists shape American politics in the early nineteenth century?
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) Which of the following was the first state to be formed from the Northwest Territory?
A) Kentucky
B) Tennessee
C) Ohio
D) Mississippi
Q2) Which of the following was a characteristic of the population in the West?
A) Tradition was important to many.
B) Most were recent immigrants.
C) The majority were extremely poor.
D) The majority were extremely rich.
Q3) According to the video in the introduction,America became more of a(n)__________ in the decades between 1820 and 1840.
A) monarchy
B) oligarchy
C) republic
D) democracy
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 explains why a majority of the Senate opposed the annexation of Texas?
A) The United States was isolationist.
B) The Comanche Indians posed a threat.
C) Slavery was practiced in Texas.
D) Spain still controlled Texas.
Q2) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 12.6,who did Henry Watson meet when he was in Boston?
A) James Marshall
B) John Sutter
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) William Henry Harrison
Q3) In the decade after the Battle of San Jacinto,Texas was __________.
A) an independent republic
B) a U.S. territory
C) a Spanish province
D) a Mexican colony
Q4) How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?
Q5) In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?
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Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis
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Q1) How would opponents of slavery have responded to the Fugitive Slave Act,the Dred Scott case,and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 13.5,who did Abraham Lincoln impress when he delivered a speech at Cooper Union in New York in 1860?
A) Constitutional Unionists
B) Republicans
C) Southern Democrats
D) Northern Democrats
Q3) What did John Brown oppose?
A) expansion
B) conscription
C) slavery
D) taxation
Q4) Who was Abraham Lincoln's opponent in the Senate race in 1858?
A) William Seward
B) Stephen Douglas
C) John Brown
D) John Calhoun
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) According to the Past and Present video in section 14.6,people who argue that Confederate officers and soldiers should be reviled associate the Confederacy with
A) abolitionism
B) slavery
C) suffrage
D) capitalism
Q2) How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
Q3) According to the Arguing History video in section 14.6,why did the majority of soldiers join the Confederate Army?
A) to keep their slaves
B) to defend the South
C) to avoid state taxes
D) to preserve the Union
Q4) 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) What does the Fifteenth Amendment prohibit as a reason for denying someone the right to vote?
A) religion
B) sex
C) age
D) race
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) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 15.6,which of the following provisions is found in the Fourteenth Amendment?
A) forty acres and a mule
B) amnesty for the South
C) equal protection
D) birthright citizenship
Q4) Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.
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