History of the United States I Exam Answer
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Course Introduction
History of the United States I offers an in-depth examination of the development of the United States from its pre-Columbian origins through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The course explores major political, social, economic, and cultural changes, beginning with Indigenous societies before European contact, the era of colonization, the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution, the rise of sectionalism, and the conflict over slavery leading to the Civil War. It concludes with the transformative period of Reconstruction and its lasting impacts. Emphasis is placed on critical analysis of primary sources, historiographical debates, and the diverse experiences of various groups in shaping the nations early 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) Vasco da Gama
Answer: Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer who is best known for being the first person to sail directly from Europe to India. He accomplished this feat in 1498, when he arrived in the port of Calicut, India. This journey was significant because it opened up a direct sea route to Asia, bypassing the overland trade routes that were controlled by the Ottoman Empire. This allowed for the establishment of lucrative trade routes and increased European influence in the region. Vasco da Gama's exploration also paved the way for further European exploration and colonization of Asia. His voyages were important in shaping the Age of Discovery and the expansion of European power and influence around the world.
Q2) The institution of encomienda allowed the
A) native people to enslave members of other tribes.
B) Europeans to marry Native Americans.
C) European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to try to Christianize them.
D) governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.
E) Europeans to establish an economy based on capitalism.
Answer: C
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Q1) What is one of the events that made 1619 an important year in American history?
A) Blacks from Africa were first brought to English America.
B) Tobacco was first cultivated in Jamestown.
C) The House of Burgesses was established for the Maryland colony.
D) Jamestown was founded.
E) Puritans arrived in Massachusetts Bay.
Answer: A
Q2) Sugar was called a rich man's crop for several reasons.Which statement does NOT identify one of these reasons?
A) It had to be planted extensively.
B) It required the clearing of much land.
C) It could be purchased only by the wealthy.
D) It required an elaborate refining process.
E) It was a capital-intensive agricultural business.
Answer: C
Q3) In many ways,North Carolina was the least typical of the five plantation colonies.Describe the unique features of colonial North Carolina,and explain why this colony was so unlike its southern neighbors.
Answer: NOT ANSWERED
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) Glorious Revolution
Answer: The Glorious Revolution was a political coup in England in 1688, where King James II was overthrown and replaced by William III and Mary II. This event is significant because it marked the shift from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy in England. It also led to the passage of the English Bill of Rights, which limited the powers of the monarchy and established the supremacy of Parliament. The Glorious Revolution also had a wider impact on European politics, as it inspired other countries to challenge the absolute power of their monarchs and seek greater political freedoms. Overall, the Glorious Revolution was a pivotal moment in the history of England and Europe, leading to significant constitutional and political changes.
Q2) What was significant about the document known as the Fundamental Orders,developed by Settlers of the Connecticut River colony?
A) It marked the beginning of the colony of Connecticut.
B) It established a regime democratically controlled by "substantial" citizens.
C) It set up a military alliance in New England.
D) It pleased King Charles I.
E) It supported a government controlled by all people.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) Which statement about slavery is FALSE?
A) The Royal African Company held a monopoly on the colonial slave trade for nearly a century.
B) Early slaves were able to gain their freedom.
C) Some former slaves became slave owners.
D) After their capture in Africa, most slaves were branded before being shipped off for sale.
E) By 1680, slaves outnumbered indentured white servants as new arrivals to colonial plantations.
Q2) Where were families both few and fragile due to high death rates in the seventeenth century colonies?
A) New England
B) the Chesapeake colonies
C) the middle colonies
D) Georgia
E) Florida
Q3) Bacon's Rebellion
Q4) How did the changing nature of Puritan theology and New England's affect New England society? How were the Salem witch trials related to these developments?
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Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) How did colonial American views on education change with time?
A) American colonists came to embrace education as essential training for citizenship.
B) It became increasingly important to Americans that their best and brightest attend the leading English universities at Oxford and Cambridge.
C) American colonists moved away from the English view that education should be reserved for an aristocratic few.
D) Americans came to see education as unimportant beyond primary school.
E) Southern colonists inspired the other regions in establishing a broad system of public education.
Q2) In colonial elections,
A) most eligible voters zealously exercised their right to vote.
B) the right to vote was reserved for property holders.
C) only a small landed elite had the right to vote.
D) average citizens were usually elected to office.
E) slavery came to be a dominant issue.
Q3) New York slave revolt
Q4) Gullah
Q5) "jayle birds"
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Q1) scalping
Q2) New France
Q3) Which of the following was evident from Braddock´s defeat at Fort Duquesne?
A) British adoption of guerrilla tactics was far more thorough and advanced than the French.
B) Indian allies were virtually useless to the French.
C) The Protestant work ethic shared by the British regulars and colonial militiamen nearly enabled them to defeat the larger French force.
D) Continental military tactics and heavy artillery were of limited use in the North American wilderness.
E) Spanish support troops were of vital importance to the French.
Q4) All of the following were main causes of disunity among the thirteen colonies before the French and Indian War EXCEPT
A) vast distances and geographical barriers.
B) boundary disputes.
C) diverse ethnic and religious traditions.
D) resentment of frontier settlers against aristocratic colonists.
E) fierce rivalry over control of the slave trade.
Q5) Jesuits
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775
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Q1) Boston Port Act
Q2) "Continental"
Q3) The Quebec Act bothered colonists because it
A) singled out Massachusetts with the harshest measures.
B) required jury trials for colonists suspected of crimes against the Crown.
C) covered all English-speaking territories in America.
D) set aside land for those who would settle and improve it.
E) attempted to legislate peace between Catholics and Protestants in the region.
Q4) Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Boston Massacre,(B)Townshend Acts,(C)Tea Act,and (D)Intolerable Acts.
A) A, B, C, D
B) D, B, C, A
C) C, B, D, A
D) B, A, C, D
E) A, C, D, B
Q5) "royal veto"
Q6) Boston Tea Party
Q7) Could America have achieved its independence gradually and peacefully,as such British colonies as Canada and Australia eventually did? Why or why not?
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Q1) Battle of King´s Mountain
Q2) What struck a blow to American morale just as it was improving with the arrival of French troops?
A) Americans realized that France was acting out of self-interest rather than idealism.
B) General Benedict Arnold turned traitor and tried to hand over West Point to the British.
C) General Nathanael Greene lost Georgia to the British.
D) French soldiers proved to be an unreliable fighting force.
E) General Lafayette refused any longer to command American troops.
Q3) evacuation of Boston
Q4) New Jersey campaign
Q5) The Declaration of Independence did NOT
A) invoke the natural rights of humankind to justify revolt.
B) provide a long list of allegedly tyrannical actions by King George III.
C) explain the reasons for revolt to "a candid world."
D) blame the British Parliament and public for oppressing Americans.
E) charge the king with inciting Indian hostility.
Q6) Baron von Steuben
Q7) separate peace
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) New Jersey Plan
Q2) Which statement about the Massachusetts state constitution is FALSE?
A) It was drafted by a special convention called for just that purpose.
B) It was put directly to the state´s voters for ratification.
C) It enshrined the ideal of rule by a "natural aristocracy" of talent.
D) It served as a model for the drafting and ratification of the federal Constitution.
E) It could only be amended by another special convention.
Q3) All of these foreign powers attempted to interfere with American trade and independence after the revolutionary war EXCEPT
A) Dey of Algiers
B) Spain
C) France
D) Portugal
E) Britain
Q4) "mobocracy"
Q5) 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?
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) Jefferson's arguments against the constitutionality of a Bank of the United States were based on the "strict construction" principles especially embodied in
A) the Articles of Confederation.
B) the "necessary and proper" clause of the Constitution.
C) the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
D) the Tenth Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
E) the restrictions on Congress's powers in Article II, Section 9 of the Constitution.
Q2) The ____ Amendment might rightly be called the "states' rights" amendment.
A) First
B) Sixth
C) Eighth
D) Ninth
E) Tenth
Q3) According to the textbook's authors,critics claimed that Hamilton "loved his adopted country more than he loved his countrymen." How could Hamilton reconcile his strong patriotism and commitment to create a powerful America with his deep suspicion of ordinary American people?
Q4) implied powers
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The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,1800-1812
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Q1) war hawks
Q2) Why did some Northern critics label Jefferson as a "Negro President"?
A) Because he was rumored to have had sexual relations with one of his slaves
B) Because he strongly supported abolition of slavery
C) Because he refused to intercede in the successful slave rebellion in Santo Domingo
D) Because he was rumored to have slave ancestors
E) Because he would not have won the presidency without the three-fifths rule for counting the slave population
Q3) deposit privileges
Q4) William Clark
Q5) What caused the intermittent war with Tripoli from 1801 to 1805?
A) A conflict over the supply of slaves in the triangle trade
B) A misunderstanding over the treatment of North African immigrants to the United States
C) A dispute over tribute payments to prevent pirate attacks on American ships
D) A failed coup in Tripoli forced Jefferson to intervene to defend democracy
E) A dispute over the impressment of American sailors by the Pasha of Tripoli
Q6) Judiciary Act of 1801
Q7) Zebulon Pike
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
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Q2) George Canning
Q3) After the War of 1812,nationalism could be seen in the
A) training of a new generation of American painters in Europe.
B) development of new American religions.
C) rebuilding of Washington, D.C. to resemble Paris.
D) expansion and celebration of the American army and navy.
E) increased independence of American newspapers.
Q4) nationalism
Q5) Oregon country
Q6) In which case did John Marshall utter his famous legal dictum that the Constitution should be "adapted to the various crises of human affairs"?
A) Gibbons v. Ogden
B) Fletcher v. Peck
C) McCulloch v. Maryland
D) Dartmouth College v. Woodward
E) Marbury v. Madison
Q7) British blockade of 1814-1815
Q8) North American Review
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840
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Q1) Both major political parties of the Jacksonian era tended to
A) promote sectionalism over nationalism.
B) take clear political positions on slavery.
C) emphasize individual liberty over social harmony.
D) be socially and geographically diverse.
E) oppose government interference in moral matters.
Q2) What basic assumptions are contained in John C.Calhoun's doctrine of nullification? Is the doctrine of nullification compatible with a correct federal union? If it had become standard,would nullification have meant a breakup of the Union sooner or later?
Q3) populist
Q4) During its years of existence,the second Bank of the United States
A) was the depository of the funds of the national government.
B) contributed to inflation by issuing excessive federal bank notes.
C) limited economic growth by restricting credit and maintaining high interest rates.
D) served as the chartering agency for state and local banks.
E) invested most of its funds in Wall Street stocks and bonds.
Q5) Goliad
Q6) Bank of the United States
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Q1) The first major transportation project,which ran for sixty-two miles across Pennsylvania,was the
A) Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
B) National (Cumberland) Road.
C) Erie Canal.
D) St. Lawrence Seaway.
E) Lancaster Turnpike.
Q2) Awful Disclosures
Q3) Patent Office
Q4) What caused many emigrants to leave Europe in the first half of the nineteenth century?
A) A series of deadly epidemics
B) Climate change
C) A revival of feudalism in many areas
D) Economic displacement and political turmoil
E) Massive population imbalances that made family formation difficult
Q5) National Road,or Cumberland Road
Q6) Compare and contrast the economic development of the Northeast with that of the South.What were some of the reasons that those differences developed?
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) "Civil Disobedience," an essay that later influenced both Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King,Jr.,was written by the transcendentalist
A) Edgar Allan Poe.
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson.
C) Walt Whitman.
D) Margaret Fuller.
E) Henry David Thoreau.
Q2) The Age of Reason
Q3) The Second Great Awakening tended to
A) sharpen the lines between classes and regions.
B) open Episcopal and Presbyterian churches to the poor.
C) unite northern Baptists and Methodists against slavery.
D) draw the more prosperous and conservative eastern churches into the revivalist camps.
E) increase the influence of educated clergy.
Q4) New Harmony
Q5) Henry David Thoreau
Q6) Edgar Allan Poe
Q7) Charles Grandison Finney
Q8) camp meetings
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
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Q1) What was the political and civil status of slaves in the antebellum South?
A) They had no civil or political rights.
B) They had no civil rights but could vote in elections under the direction of their masters.
C) They were allowed to testify in court on a limited basis, but had no other political or civil rights.
D) They could legally marry, but otherwise lacked civil rights.
E) They had no rights except when they could prove that their father was white.
Q2) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Q3) In 1836,Congress's responded to the growing pile of antislavery petitions it received by
A) considering a constitutional amendment to end the three-fifths compromise.
B) banning public assemblies called for the purpose of discussing slavery.
C) forbidding the transfer of slaves across state lines.
D) ending the international slave trade.
E) passing the Gag Resolution.
Q4) Gag Resolution
Q5) "free-soilers"
Q6) Lane Rebels
Q7) Denmark Vesey
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) After President John Tyler vetoed a bill to establish a new Bank of the United States,
A) he was formally expelled from the Whig party.
B) it created a Constitutional crisis.
C) the House of Representatives impeached him.
D) Henry Clay left politics permanently in protest.
E) Congress overrode his veto and enacted the bank law without his support.
Q2) The Mexican War resulted in
A) a tripling of the territorial size of the United States.
B) combat experience for those who would lead the armies in the Civil War.
C) an embarrassing show of America´s poor naval capabilities.
D) friendlier relations between the United States and Latin American nations.
E) a temporary lull in sectional tensions over slavery.
Q3) Winfield Scott
Q4) slavocracy
Q5) Abraham Lincoln
Q6) Nicholas P.Trist
Q7) Walker Tariff
Q8) Henry Clay
Q9) San Francisco Bay
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) Millard Fillmore
Q2) To what extent was there a resurgence of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s? What were the goals of American diplomacy at the time?
Q3) "the immortal trio"
Q4) In the first few years after the election of 1848,the South could count among its strengths
A) a majority in President Taylor´s cabinet and on the Supreme Court.
B) a majority in the House of Representatives.
C) a president loudly in favor of slavery´s expansion.
D) a dramatic decline in the abolitionist movement.
E) a new railroad connecting it to the Pacific Coast.
Q5) Why was the Underground Railroad such a thorn in the side of the South,even though the number of escaped slaves it aided was relatively small? Why have the Underground Railroad and its most famous "conductor," Harriet Tubman,become such familiar historical names to Americans in recent decades?
Q6) Why did Stephen Douglas prod "the snarling dog of slavery" when it had more or less fallen asleep after the Compromise of 1850? Does Douglas deserve blame for setting in motion the chain of events that led to the Civil War?
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q2) John J.Crittenden
Q3) Abraham Lincoln
Q4) "fire-eaters"
Q5) Compare the historical significance of Harriet Beecher Stowe´s writing and John Brown´s violent efforts to end slavery.Who made the greater contribution to the abolitionist cause? Who played a greater role in provoking the Civil War?
Q6) Republicans proclaimed that they were not bound by the Dred Scott ruling because A) Scott lacked standing to sue, as the Court determined, making the rest of the ruling null and void.
B) Chief Justice Roger B. Taney was no longer of sound mind.
C) the majority of the Supreme Court justices were southerners.
D) the Missouri Compromise had already been invalidated by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
E) popular sovereignty had proven its worth in Kansas.
Q7) Stephen A.Douglas
Q8) John Bell
Q9) Assess the validity of the following statement: "Kansas provided a horrible example of the working of popular sovereignty."
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the
South,1861-1865
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Q1) "King Cotton" failed the South as a tool of wartime diplomacy partly because A) Britain held large surpluses of cotton when the war began.
B) the British elite had long resented the aristocratic pretensions of southern planters.
C) poor harvests over the late 1850s and early 1860s drastically reduced the South´s cotton production.
D) Britain developed alternative supplies of cotton in South Africa and Australia. E) the cotton crop was devastated by the boll weevil.
Q2) America's minister to Britain under President Lincoln during the Civil War was A) Charles Francis Adams.
B) William H. Seward.
C) Jefferson Davis.
D) Edwin M. Stanton.
E) Clara Barton.
Q3) "Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb"
Q4) bounty brokers
Q5) Compare and contrast the characteristics that "Billy Yank" and "Johnny Reb" brought to the battlefield and their wartime experiences.
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Q1) African Americans who fought for the Union Army in the Civil War
A) carried out reprisals against captured slaveowners.
B) served mainly in military support units.
C) served bravely and suffered extremely heavy casualties.
D) accounted for less than 1 percent of total Union enlistments.
E) refused to serve under white officers.
Q2) The North's "victory" at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to
A) issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
B) demand that Britain stop aiding the Confederacy.
C) force the Border States to remain in the Union.
D) keep General McClellan as commander of the Union forces.
E) suppress Copperhead opposition in the North.
Q3) After the Peninsula Campaign,the Union´s adoption of a total-war strategy included
A) emancipating slaves in the Border States and enlisting them.
B) rudimentary biological warfare.
C) blockading the Confederacy's coastline.
D) assassinating Confederate president Jefferson Davis.
E) striking deep into the Confederacy via the Appalachian Mountain chain.
Q4) Peninsula Campaign
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Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction,1865-1877
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Q1) In the 1866 congressional elections,the main issue was
A) how many voters approved of the Thirteenth Amendment.
B) whether radicals would replace moderates as the dominant faction in Congress.
C) whether Reconstruction would proceed with or without the Fourteenth Amendment.
D) how much progress ex-slaves had made with their new rights.
E) whether the Homestead Act should be repealed.
Q2) What was one of the reasons that Congress objected to the readmission of Southern states to the Union under Johnson's plan?
A) The states had not made enough efforts yet to provide forty-acre homesteads for ex-slaves.
B) The states had been readmitted without agreeing to a reparations plan.
C) Many former Confederates were elected to high political office in those states.
D) The states had not yet rebuilt ten percent of their infrastructure as the plan required.
E) Many Southerners still believed secession had been right.
Q3) Thirteenth Amendment
Q4) Tenure of Office Act
Q5) Thaddeus Stevens
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