History of the American Republic
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This course explores the development of the United States from its colonial origins through the formation and evolution of the American Republic. It examines the political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that shaped the nation, focusing on key events such as the Revolution, crafting of the Constitution, expansion westward, Civil War, Reconstruction, and industrialization. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will develop an understanding of the forces that influenced the nations identity, democratic institutions, and role in the world, highlighting both achievements and challenges along the path of American history.
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The Brief American Pageant A History of the Republic Volume I To 1877 9th Edition by David M. Kennedy
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings
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Q1) Spain began to fortify and settle border areas like Florida,Texas,and California in order to
A) protect its Central and South American domains from encroachments by England and France.
B) establish a basis for the conquest of North America.
C) acquire more slaves.
D) find a passage to the Pacific Ocean.
E) protect the Indian cultures in those areas from exploitation.
Answer: A
Q2) What happened to the city of Tenochtitlán?
A) It was seized and controlled by the Incans.
B) It suffered a terrible earthquake.
C) Its temples were leveled and replaced by Christian cathedrals.
D) It was destroyed during battles between the Portuguese and Aztecs.
E) Its ruler Moctezuma was supplanted and replaced by Malinche.
Answer: C
Q3) caravel
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Q1) Why did the Lakota (Sioux)change from a sedentary forest-dwelling people to nomadic hunters living on the Great Plains?
A) They lost most means of economic sustenance.
B) They began to live in larger agricultural towns.
C) They began to engage in warfare with other Indians.
D) They lost their oral traditions.
E) They acquired horses from the Spanish.
Answer: E
Q2) Which monarch launched the Protestant Reformation in England?
A) Charles I
B) James I
C) Henry VIII
D) Elizabeth I
E) George IV
Answer: C
Q3) Jamestown
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Q4) Roanoke Island
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) What was the end result of King Philip's War?
A) The lasting defeat of New England's Indians
B) France's moving into Canada
C) The formation of a powerful alliance among the Indians to resist the English
D) The last victory for the Indians
E) The rapid expansion of English settlement throughout New England
Answer: A
Q2) "Bible Commonwealth"
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Q3) heresy
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Q4) What set New York apart from other middle colonies?
A) Widespread use of African slaves
B) A more hierarchical society inherited from the earlier Dutch colony of New Netherland
C) The profound imprint of Quaker beliefs on culture and politics
D) Strong interest in religious toleration and diversity
E) Rapid growth from immigration, due to the abundant opportunities for landholding compared to other colonies
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) jeremiad
Q2) Leisler's Rebellion
Q3) During the seventeenth century,indentured servitude at first seemed the best solution to the labor shortage.What was NOT one of the underlying reasons for this?
A) The Indian population proved to be an unreliable work force because they died in such large numbers.
B) African slaves cost too much money.
C) Many poor Englishmen were willing to mortgage their labor in exchange for passage to America.
D) Slaves was impossible to obtain.
E) Settler families procreated too slowly.
Q4) During the Salem witchcraft trials,most of those accused as witches were
A) from families associated with Salem's burgeoning market economy.
B) from the ranks of poor families.
C) primarily non-Christian Indians.
D) unmarried teenagers.
E) from subsistence farming families.
Q5) blue bloods
Q6) slave codes
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) The first American college not controlled by a religious denomination was A) Harvard.
B) Yale.
C) The University of Connecticut
D) Brown University.
E) The University of Pennsylvania.
Q2) Which statement best describes culture and the arts in the colonies?
A) They were relatively unimportant for most colonists and derivative of European, especially British, styles.
B) Among the colonists were many devoted patrons and countless talented artists, but they depended largely on Europe for inspiration.
C) Colonists were avid consumers of African styles and influences in the arts and nurtured slave artisans and artists.
D) Native American art, music and architecture heavily influenced colonial Americans´ cultural sensibilities.
E) The thriving arts and culture of the American colonies reflected the individualism and creativity of the frontier.
Q3) Poor Richard's Almanack
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Q1) As a result of the French and Indian War,Great Britain
A) gained control of Louisiana and Mexico.
B) became the dominant power in North America.
C) annexed the island of Cuba.
D) gained exclusive control of the slave trade.
E) drove the French settlers from Québec to Louisiana.
Q2) "Join,or Die"
Q3) The French gained control of Louisiana because they A) preferred its climate.
B) saw New Orleans as a potential center of French culture.
C) regarded it as a way to command the mouth of the Mississippi and keep the Spanish in check.
D) hoped to spread Catholicism throughout the Mississippi Valley.
E) saw it as a new center for the fur trade.
Q4) Edict of Nantes
Q5) scalping
Q6) Albany Congress
Q7) coureurs de bois
Q8) beaver fur trade
Q9) Peace of Utrecht
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775
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Q1) "Virtual" representation was the British theory that
A) colonists could cast "virtual" votes in Parliament without being physically present.
B) members of Parliament represented all British subjects even those who had not voted for them.
C) colonists could elect their own representatives to Parliament.
D) Parliament could pass virtually all types of legislation except taxes.
E) the colonists' political virtue was embodied in Parliament.
Q2) mercantilism
Q3) inflation
Q4) Despite the benefits of the mercantile system,the American colonists disliked the system because it
A) forced the South to adopt a one-crop economy.
B) favored the northern over the southern colonies.
C) reinforced class differences in the colonies.
D) reinforced dependence on the mother country and stifled economic initiative.
E) encouraged harsh repression by British officials.
Q5) "royal veto"
Q6) George Grenville
Q7) Lord North
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) Loyalists
Q2) Battle of Saratoga
Q3) Richard Montgomery
Q4) Thomas Paine called not just for independence but for a republic where power
A) is passed down through inherited tradition.
B) is rooted in a belief in God.
C) comes from the people themselves.
D) is equally distributed among three branches of government.
E) belongs only to the educated.
Q5) Which was the more fateful loss for Britain: their defeat at Saratoga in 1777 or at Yorktown in 1781? Explain the importance of both before justifying your choice.
Q6) Battle of Trenton
Q7) George Washington's selection to lead the colonial army was
A) based on recognition of his personal character.
B) more for political reasons than for his leadership.
C) based solely on military experience.
D) opposed by New Englanders.
E) done with no misgivings.
Q8) Patriots
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) Which statement helps explain how America avoided the violent excesses of the French Revolution?
A) American revolutionary principles were essentially unimportant to the actual conflict.
B) The American Revolution brought very little social change.
C) The abundance of cheap, available land served as a safety valve for economic discontent.
D) The nation's political democracy generated widespread consensus.
E) The American aristocracy was socially enlightened.
Q2) Great Compromise
Q3) Could there ever be a serious movement - now or in the future -- to call a new Constitutional Convention? Why have so few American movements,no matter what their grievances,ever wanted to do away with the Constitution?
Q4) civic virtue
Q5) quorum
Q6) Old Northwest
Q7) extensive republic
Q8) republicanism
Q9) republican motherhood
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) "elastic clause"
Q2) Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which
A) the central government possessed the bulk of the power.
B) cities were the primary focus of political activity.
C) a large standing army ensured peace.
D) the states retained the majority of political power.
E) manufacturing interests dominated.
Q3) Summarize the central argument of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions.Explain why they are key documents in American history.
Q4) Thomas Jefferson
Q5) The _____ led to the trial and conviction of _____.
A) Sedition Act; ten Jeffersonian newspaper editors
B) Alien Laws; hundreds of recent immigrants
C) Sedition Act; ten Federalist newspaper editors
D) Alien Laws; Matthew Lyon
E) Sedition Acts; Citizen Genêt
Q6) John Adams
Q7) Convention of 1800
Q8) implied powers
Q9) Bank of the United States
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Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) The legal precedent for judicial review was established when
A) the House of Representatives impeached Justice Samuel Chase.
B) the Supreme Court declared the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional.
C) Congress repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801.
D) President Adams appointed several "midnight judges" to the federal courts.
E) the Supreme Court challenged the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Q2) What benefit to republican virtue did Jefferson see in the Louisiana Purchase?
A) He hoped that the removal of France from the continent would end the immoral influence of French fur trappers on American settlers.
B) He thought that the incorporation of Indian tribes from the Louisiana territory would greatly extend the American experiment in democracy.
C) He believed that expanding into Louisiana would help forge a unified American national identity.
D) He believed that the region could become a bastion of industry, which would lead to greater economic opportunities for more people.
E) He saw the potential to fulfill his dream of a great agrarian republic in the huge, fertile Mississippi Valley.
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) Spain ceded Florida to the United States because
A) it needed funds to suppress the rebellions in Latin America.
B) Jackson had effectively seized it, and Secretary Adams backed him.
C) of the subtle diplomacy of John Quincy Adams.
D) President Monroe and his cabinet were determined to obtain it.
E) of the pressure from slaveholders seeking a new slave state.
Q2) loose construction
Q3) Tallmadge amendment
Q4) Thomas Macdonough
Q5) Along with preventing new colonies,the Monroe Doctrine was also intended to prevent
A) the new Latin American republics from expanding their borders.
B) European nations from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries.
C) the United States from intervening in the affairs of Latin American countries.
D) dictatorships in Latin American governments.
E) Russian control of Alaska.
Q6) Fort Michilimackinac
Q7) Washington Irving
Q8) Monroe Doctrine
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840
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Q1) What were the causes of the Panic of 1837? Could this downturn have been prevented,or was it evidence of the problems inherent in a free-market economy? What solutions were proposed to alleviate the crisis?
Q2) Which Native American group fought U.S.troops for seven years in an effort to hold onto their homelands?
A) Cherokee
B) Sauk
C) Seminole
D) Iroquois
E) Black Hawk
Q3) Stephen Austin
Q4) Andrew Jackson usually appears high up on the list of great American presidents.Does he deserve to be there? What are the criteria for being considered a great president?
Q5) Indian Removal Act
Q6) Was the Indian removal of the 1830s an inevitable tragedy,or the result of American frontier greed and racial prejudice? Could the Cherokees and others have stayed in the east if whites had accepted their "assimilation"?
Q7) annexation
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Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy,1790-1860
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Q1) The growth of early-nineteenth-century American manufacturing was stimulated by the
A) War of 1812.
B) Peace of Ghent.
C) Louisiana Purchase.
D) Pony Express.
E) rise of the "Know-Nothing" Party.
Q2) The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was
A) Andrew Carnegie.
B) Samuel F. B. Morse.
C) Eli Whitney.
D) Samuel Slater.
E) Thomas Edison.
Q3) domestic feminism
Q4) German immigrants in the early nineteenth century tended to
A) settle in eastern industrial cities.
B) retain strong ties to Germany.
C) become slave owners.
D) join the temperance movement.
E) support public schools.
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) American missionaries inspired by the Second Great Awakening were especially active in
A) the West Indies and Latin America.
B) northwest Canada and Alaska.
C) Hawaii and Asia.
D) the Middle East and Russia.
E) Britain and Ireland.
Q2) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Q3) The original prophet of the Mormon religion was
A) William Miller.
B) Brigham Young.
C) Charles G. Finney.
D) the angel Moroni.
E) Joseph Smith.
Q4) Margaret Fuller
Q5) Neal S.Dow
Q6) Brook Farm
Q7) Burned-Over District
Q8) Stephen C.Foster
Q9) Henry David Thoreau
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Southern planters viewed the Northern bankers,agents,and shippers with whom they did business as
A) important allies in the struggle to resist British textile manufacturers´ exploitation.
B) resented middlemen.
C) valued fellow supporters of slavery´s expansion.
D) unreliable economic partners.
E) important guarantors of the nation´s stability.
Q2) "black ivory"
Q3) Most African American slaves were raised
A) without the benefit of a stable home life.
B) never knowing anything about their relatives.
C) without religion.
D) knowing both African languages and English.
E) in stable two-parent households.
Q4) Sojourner Truth
Q5) driver
Q6) Liberia
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) John L.O'Sullivan
Q2) Which coalition urged the United States to gain control over all of the Oregon Country?
A) The Liberty Party and British anti-expansionists
B) Conscience Whigs and southern Democrats
C) Northwestern expansionists and anti-slavery forces
D) Californians and Texans
E) Protestant and Catholic missionaries
Q3) Texas was annexed to the United States as a result of
A) Senate approval of the Treaty of Annexation.
B) a joint resolution rather than a treaty.
C) a presidential order by Andrew Jackson.
D) the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
E) a compromise to admit free-state Iowa at the same time.
Q4) John Tyler joined the Whig party primarily because he
A) saw a chance to become the party's nominee for vice president.
B) resented the dictatorial tactics of Andrew Jackson.
C) was forced to resign from the Senate.
D) believed in its pro-bank position.
E) believed it better represented Virginia's interests.
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) slave-catchers
Q2) Martin Van Buren
Q3) Why were the two great national political parties,which had arranged so many compromises on the slavery issue,unable to remain united (the Democrats)or even survive (the Whigs)in the early 1850s?
Q4) William Walker
Q5) "forty-niners"
Q6) To what extent did the building of the first transcontinental railroad linking the East and the West contribute to the wrenching apart of the North and the South?
Q7) During the 1850s,slaves gained their freedom most frequently by
A) running away.
B) being emancipated in their masters' wills.
C) rebellion.
D) appeal to the courts.
E) self-purchase or voluntary emancipation.
Q8) Franklin Pierce
Q9) Seventh of March speech
Q10) Stephen A.Douglas
Q11) Caleb Cushing
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) In his raid on Harpers Ferry,John Brown intended to
A) call upon the slaves to rebel and establish a kind of black free state.
B) arouse the South to secede from the Union.
C) stir West Virginia to break away from Virginia as a free state.
D) demonstrate that blacks could fight for their freedom.
E) seize weapons to start a guerilla war against the federal government.
Q2) John J.Crittenden
Q3) The Democratic convention of 1860 in Charleston,South Carolina,was unusual in
A) choosing a presidential candidate with virtually no debate.
B) successfully avoiding slavery and any sectional strife.
C) not producing a presidential nominee.
D) the refusal of northerners to attend.
E) adopting a sectional pro-slavery platform.
Q4) Crittenden amendments
Q5) John Brown
Q6) Harriet Beecher Stowe
Q7) "Americans Must Rule America"
Q8) The authors argue that despite Lincoln's election in 1860,the South "was not badly off." What do they mean? Why,in spite of this,did southern states secede?
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South,1861-1865
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Q1) As leader of the Confederacy,Jefferson Davis
A) enjoyed widespread popularity despite the South's military struggles.
B) displayed good administrative skill and judgment.
C) was able to shape the Confederate Congress and public opinion.
D) eloquently articulated southern ideals.
E) defied public opinion, rather than allowing himself to be led by it.
Q2) Like the North during the Civil War,the South
A) exempted the wealthy from military service.
B) experienced draft riots.
C) found volunteer enlistments woefully inadequate to meet manpower needs.
D) drafted women into non-combat military service.
E) used black soldiers.
Q3) Maximilian
Q4) Jefferson Davis
Q5) Alabama
Q6) National Banking System
Q7) bounty brokers
Q8) New York draft riots
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Q10) Edwin M.Stanton
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) William Tecumseh Sherman
Q2) The assassination of Abraham Lincoln
A) was later seen by many southerners as a calamity for the South.
B) brought a last wave of hope for Confederate independence.
C) elevated the even-tempered, eminently sensible Andrew Johnson to the presidency .
D) saved him from impending impeachment.
E) was met by relative indifference in much of the North.
Q3) Battle of Shiloh
Q4) By war's end,nearly half a million slaves
A) escaped from Southern plantations.
B) fought for the Confederacy.
C) died due to Southern food shortages.
D) were sold by desperate Southern planters to slaveholders in Brazil.
E) served in the Union army.
Q5) Salmon Chase
Q6) Ford's Theater
Q7) Wilderness Campaign
Q8) Which was the most decisive battle of the Civil War: Antietam,Gettysburg,Vicksburg,or Atlanta? Why?
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) Was the northern effort to aid recently freed African Americans ever adequate,or was it too weak and half-hearted from the beginning? Could a more radical policy like that of Thaddeus Stevens have succeeded,or would it have sparked even more violent resistance?
Q2) The text authors conclude that in terms of Reconstruction,the Republicans "acted from a mixture of idealism and political expediency." Which Reconstruction policies most reflected the idealism,and which policies most reflected the Republican's political concerns?
Q3) Thirteenth Amendment
Q4) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Q5) Tenure of Office Act
Q6) American Missionary Association
Q7) Johnson was narrowly acquitted on the impeachment charges because
A) Secretary of War Edwin Stanton aided Johnson's defense by spying on congressional prosecutors.
B) radical Republicans recognized that Johnson's successor would be worse.
C) many people feared destabilizing the federal government.
D) it was finally recognized that the charges were dubious and political.
E) Johnson promised to stop obstructing Republican policies.
Q8) pocket veto
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