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This course offers a comprehensive overview of U.S. history from its earliest Native American civilizations through the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War. Students will explore significant social, political, cultural, and economic developments, beginning with Pre-Columbian societies, European colonization, and the formation of colonial America. The course examines the American Revolution, the creation of the U.S. Constitution, expansion and sectional conflict, and the Civil War, culminating with the challenges and transformations of Reconstruction. Through critical analysis of primary sources and historical interpretations, students will gain insight into the foundational events and diverse peoples that shaped the United States.
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HIST 3 US History Through 1877 3rd Edition Volume I by Kevin M. Schultz
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) Several different tribes in the Southwest were called "the Pueblo people" by the Europeans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following was not true of the Black Death?
A) About one third of Europe's population perished.
B) The other name for the Black Death was the Bubonic Plague.
C) It contributed to the decline of feudalism.
D) It triggered the Crusades.
E) It made the farmers more valuable because there were fewer of them.
Answer: D
Q3) The Omaha and the Iroquois were two of the tribes living on the Great Plains.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) The Anasazi were noted for their complex earthen mounds.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) The major conflict between the colonists and a local Indian tribe in the 1630s that previewed future conflicts was known as the
A) Powhatan Conflict.
B) Jamestown Massacre.
C) Pequot War.
D) Roanoke War.
E) Wampanoag War.
Answer: C
Q2) The Columbian Exchange refers to
A) the agricultural products and domestic animals that crossed from European civilizations to the New World and from the New World to Europe.
B) the introduction of European diseases to Native Americans, such as syphilis.
C) the decimation of native populations-by as much as two-thirds-from exposure to small pox and other diseases that they had never been exposed to and had no immunities against.
D) None of these choices.
E) All of these choices.
Answer: E
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) It could be said of William Penn that
A) the hopes he had for his colony were unrealistic.
B) he advertised for colonists who wanted religious freedom and easy access to land.
C) he hated slavery, refused to own slaves, and refused to allow slavery in his colony.
D) he got along famously with the Duke of York, but not so well with Charles II.
E) he wanted to preserve the rights of his colonists, but he drew the line at extending the vote to most white males.
Answer: B
Q2) The Iroquois Confederacy was the single most significant collection of Indian tribes between Canada,Virginia,and the Mississippi River.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Royal colonies were the chief means of colonial expansion between 1660 and 1700. A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) In what ways did religion change in the colonies as a result of the Great Awakening?
Q2) Throughout the 1700s,the Chesapeake developed a strongly egalitarian social structure that anticipated revolutionary republican values.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Adam Smith,a key figure of the Enlightenment,became most famous for his ideas about
A) crimes and punishment.
B) supply and demand.
C) education.
D) religion.
E) treatment of the insane.
Q4) Discuss the development of the four distinct regions of the English colonies in America.
Q5) A jeremiad is a long Puritan speech that emphasized society's fall from purity and grace to its current,depraved state.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) In the midst of the controversy over "freedom," "liberty," and "representation," New England's slaves petitioned the colonial government for their freedom as well.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Declaratory Act declared the colonists in open rebellion against the King of England.
A)True
B)False
Q3) When the Stamp Act Congress met in New York City in the fall of 1765,it was doing so with the tacit approval of the British Parliament.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were the most significant actions taken during the meeting of the Second Continental Congress? How did these actions illustrate the changing attitudes of the colonists meeting there?
Q5) Explain the origins and motivations for Parliament's introduction of a new order in the colonies in 1763.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) One of General Washington's strategies for winning the war was to wear down the British army by moving around the countryside so much that they could not fight effectively.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The British hoped to demoralize and break the will of the patriots in all of the following ways,except
A) enslaving prisoners of war.
B) harassing the coastline with their Navy.
C) maintaining the occupation of New York.
D) trying to bribe major leaders of the Continental Army.
E) promising southern slaves freedom in return for their fight against the rebels.
Q3) Women contributed to the revolutionary war in all of the following ways,except
A) They enforced boycotts, sewing clothing made of nonimported fibers.
B) They raised funds for the Continental Army.
C) Occasionally, they engaged in battle.
D) Temporarily, New Jersey women voted under the state's first constitution.
E) They formed small guerilla bands, attacking British officers from the cover of their homes.
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) The only large state to ratify the Constitution by the end of 1788 was Virginia.
A)True B)False
Q2) All of the following problems posed an immediate challenge to the young nation,except
A) It had amassed a huge debt from fighting for independence.
B) It suddenly had vast lands to control in the west.
C) Loyalists continued to attack the nation's central institutions with guerilla warfare.
D) It had to recreate a system of trade after England's protections had been withdrawn.
E) The revolutionary ideology of republicanism warned against a strong central authority that could address its issues forcefully.
Q3) How does the idea of "separation of powers" apply to the three branches of the U.S.government?
Q4) Neither the Articles of Confederation nor any state constitution directly addressed powers expressly reserved to the states.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Which of these statements was true of the Democratic-Republican Party?
A) It favored Jay's Treaty.
B) It was supported by Alexander Hamilton.
C) It supported a national bank but wanted limited government otherwise.
D) It supported France over Britain whenever the opportunity arose.
E) It was headed by John Adams.
Q2) The most important aspect(s)of the Pinckney Treaty of 1796 was that it
A) removed the whiskey tax.
B) resolved trade issues with Spain.
C) opened the Mississippi River to American shipping and allowed Americans to use the port of New Orleans to transport goods.
D) gave Pennsylvania farmers the right to use the Ohio River.
E) freed Americans to pay more attention to dealing with deteriorating relations with France.
Q3) The Democratic-Republicans sided with France rather than with Great Britain and supported a national bank.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) America's first magazine of importance was the North American Review.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The "revitalization movement" involved
A) internal improvements for the country.
B) the establishment of Washington, D.C. as the capital of the city.
C) encouraging Indians to return to traditional lifestyles.
D) improving public education in each state.
E) a Federalist plot to make Aaron Burr governor of New York.
Q3) During the Era of Good Feelings,
A) James and Dolley Madison restored the White House.
B) the Whig Party disappeared.
C) the Democratic Republicans formed a coalition with the Federalists.
D) the Federalist Party was officially banned.
E) many Americans believed that the fierce political partisanship by political parties was behind them.
Q4) The person who was commissioned to design Washington,D.C.'s Capitol buildings was an Englishman named Gilbert Stuart.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) The nationalist program for economic growth that was put into effect in the early 1800s was very similar to the American Plan of Alexander Hamilton.
A)True
B)False
Q2) By 1850,the percentage of the American labor force employed in agriculture had declined to
A) 15 percent.
B) 35 percent.
C) 55 percent.
D) 75 percent.
E) 85 percent.
Q3) In Gibbons v.Ogden the Supreme Court
A) established the precedent of judicial review.
B) forbade state legislatures to alter a college charter in order to gain control over them.
C) confirmed the federal government's power to regulate commerce overruled that of the states.
D) declared the international slave trade unconstitutional.
E) handed the victory in the 1824 election to John Quincy Adams.
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) During the election of 1828,incumbent president John Quincy Adams
A) joined Jackson briefly on the campaign trail.
B) sent out his supporters to rally the general public.
C) spoke often of his accomplishments during his first term.
D) stayed in the White House and made no real effort to reach out to the people.
E) made numerous speeches detailing his plans for internal improvements and the support of manufacturing interests.
Q2) Through his animosity toward the National Bank,Andrew Jackson
A) almost managed to bring the workings of the federal government to a standstill.
B) ruined the national currency, which did not recover until the Civil War.
C) convinced many people in America that paper currency was only helpful to the wealthy.
D) put personal feelings above the needs of the nation in an extremely unsettled time. E) made many of his personal friends wealthy by his actions against it.
Q3) The Nullification Crisis demonstrated Jackson's sympathy for Southern states' rights.
A)True B)False
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) On plantations,owners usually preferred to have the slave quarters fairly close to the main house so they could keep a watchful eye on their slaves.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Gone with the Wind provided a generally accurate picture of the antebellum American South.
A)True B)False
Q3) New York City became America's largest city in the 1800s because
A) its cultural diversity attracted rural Americans.
B) the city's generous welfare provisions assured a comfortable lifestyle for the poor.
C) other American cities regulated immigration more strictly.
D) it had the only harbor big enough to accommodate the big Atlantic vessels from Europe.
E) migration from Europe and from the countryside combined to make the city's population reach 814,000 by 1860.
Q4) Describe ways in which whites' defense of slavery changed over time.
Q5) How did southern states react to the news of Nat Turner's Rebellion?
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) As was so often the case during the first half of the 1800s,whatever the issue,the main problem with admitting Texas to the Union came down to concern about A) independence.
B) sovereignty.
C) representation.
D) voting rights.
E) slavery.
Q2) As Americans relentlessly moved westward across the continent: A) Native Americans prospered as they assimilated to Anglo American society.
B) western migrants found refuge from the market revolution.
C) the frontier kept alive the democratic promise of making it on their own.
D) Americans were able to avoid the issue of slavery in national politics.
E) they convinced their neighbors and Native American tribes of their peaceful intentions and anti-imperialist principles.
Q3) Why did President Polk want a war with Mexico? How did he go about getting what he wanted? What were the results?
Q4) Discuss the changes in the territorial boundaries of the United States.Why and how did these changes occur?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) The death of America's second two-party System can be attributed,in part,to
A) the Missouri Compromise.
B) the Compromise of 1850.
C) the implementation of popular sovereignty.
D) the rise of the Know-Nothing Party.
E) the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Q2) The Crittenden Compromise would have added an "unamendable amendment" to the U.S.Constitution,one that would guarantee the preservation of slavery where it already existed.
A)True
B)False
Q3) All of the following were part of the Republican party platform in the 1856 presidential election except
A) Deeming slavery a relic of barbarism.
B) Giving free black men the opportunity to establish homesteads in the West.
C) Admitting Kansas to the Union as a free state.
D) Expanding the Market Revolution.
E) Promoting free labor.
Q4) What argument in Congress led to the Compromise of 1850? What were its main provisions?
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) The first battle of the Civil War took place at Manassas Junction near Washington,D.C.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most senseless and disastrous move ordered by Robert E.Lee during the Civil War was
A) his advance toward Washington, D.C. during the Seven Days' Battles.
B) his decision to move into Pennsylvania to relieve the Virginians who had been in the midst of so much of the fighting.
C) the Battle of Antietam, where Lee had overextended his forces into Maryland and was forced into a retreat.
D) his decision to send a group of over 12,500 men to break the Union line at Gettysburg-two-thirds of whom were killed, wounded or captured.
E) leading Grant on a military chase that lasted for weeks and eventually put Lee's men in trenches outside Petersburg, Virginia for nine long, miserable months.
Q3) What was the most significant battle during each stage of the war? Why was each significant? Which is/are considered the turning point(s)of the war?
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) During Reconstruction,freed slaves ensured that Republicans dominated all of the new state governments in the South,at least until after the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Grant's presidential administration is remembered most for A) lack of action.
B) his inability to master the job of president.
C) a marked increase in racism.
D) political chicanery and corruption.
E) a renewed commitment to Reconstruction legislation.
Q3) How did southern Democratic elites react to the actions of the Reconstruction Congress? What measures did they take to ensure that their way of life returned to "normal"?
Q4) Describe what happened in the 1876 election and explain how that turned out to be the end for Reconstruction.
Q5) Northerners became consumed with economic matters after the U.S.entered a deep recession in 1873.
A)True
B)False
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