United States History to 1877
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Course Introduction
This course explores the history of the United States from the pre-Columbian era through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Topics include the diverse Native American societies, European exploration and colonization, the development of the American colonies, the causes and outcomes of the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, expansion and reform in the early republic, the institution of slavery, the Civil War, and the complex process of Reconstruction. Emphasis is placed on political, economic, social, and cultural developments and their long-lasting impact on the nation's identity and institutions.
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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) Mercantilism is an economic theory that suggests that
A) a nation or a state's prosperity was determined by the total volume of its trade.
B) prosperity depended on business investment, not on consumer demand.
C) consumer demand was central to economic growth.
D) free markets were a natural order that should not be disturbed by state interference with international trade.
E) gold was the basis of all value.
Answer: A
Q2) Increasing trade and competition among European powers was a major factor in the decline of feudalism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Several different tribes in the Southwest were called "the Pueblo people" by the Europeans.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) The Powhatan Confederacy assisted early Jamestown settlers because
A) they feared the weapons of the Europeans.
B) the English had impressed them deeply with evidence of European civilization.
C) they were promised horses in return.
D) they hoped to gain the English as allies in their rivalry with other tribes.
E) mutual aid and assistance was the Indian way of life across the continent.
Answer: D
Q2) Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India via the shorter,eastern route because
A) Spain, the country he sailed for, was determined to beat the Portuguese.
B) the Portuguese had spent a great deal of time along the southern coast of Africa and were most familiar with the coastline.
C) he made a successful turn along the Cape of Good Hope in Africa and then headed north, which got him to India before others.
D) Columbus was still trying to reach India by going west.
E) he had been promised great wealth by the king of Portugal if he was first.
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) Which of the following accurately characterizes King William's War?
A) The French and the British actually initiated the fighting.
B) It gave the British control of Hudson Bay.
C) The fighting extended to the North American mainland between different native tribes allied with respective European powers, although the war had actually begun in Europe.
D) The French were forced to build numerous fortifications to protect their settlers around Hudson Bay.
E) The friendly relationship between the French and the Iroquois finally came to an end. Answer: C
Q2) The main goal of the Navigation Acts of 1651 was to
A) raise income for the Mother Country.
B) keep English resources out of the hands of the French and the Dutch and curb the growth of colonial America.
C) ensure that the colonies only traded with England for all imports and exports.
D) keep a closer watch on colonial finances and trade.
E) be sure that British merchant ships always had merchandise in their holds.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) For many colonists,the result of the Glorious Revolution was
A) more control from Britain.
B) no real change in their relationship with Britain.
C) higher taxes.
D) lower taxes.
E) less oversight from the British government.
Q2) Throughout the 1700s,the Chesapeake developed a strongly egalitarian social structure that anticipated revolutionary republican values.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not true about the importation of slaves into the Western Hemisphere in the colonial period?
A) About five million slaves were forcibly brought to the West Indies and Brazil.
B) Only about five percent of Africans were shipped to the United States.
C) American colonists bought most slaves in the seventeenth century, but increasingly shied away from the trade as they approached revolution.
D) More than 95 percent of colonial Africans remained slaves for life.
E) People were enslaved in Africa as a result of kidnapping.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) What role did women play in the colonial boycotts of the Stamp Act?
A) They organized spinning bees to produce homespun cloth.
B) They formed groups such as the Daughters of Liberty.
C) They refused to use British imported tea and other products.
D) All of these choices.
E) None of these choices.
Q2) The colonists stirred up dissent and disseminated information quickly through A) committees of correspondence.
B) the Continental Congress.
C) the Stamp Act Congress.
D) the Sons of Liberty.
E) the Albany Congress.
Q3) Which of these products was not taxed under the Townshend Acts of 1767?
A) paper.
B) glass.
C) tea.
D) rice.
E) lead.
Q4) Explain the reasons for the Boston Tea Party,describe the actions of those involved,and enumerate Parliament's response.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) The person who offered freedom to any slaves who fought for the British was
A) King George III.
B) General John Burgoyne.
C) General Charles Cornwallis.
D) Lord Dunmore of Virginia.
E) General William Howe.
Q2) All of the following are true about Native Americans during the Revolutionary War,except
A) By the time of the Revolution, there still were a large number of tribes on the Atlantic coast.
B) The most powerful tribes in contact with the colonists lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
C) The battles of the Revolutionary War that involved Native Americans were unspeakably harsh.
D) Colonists often used the war as a pretext to expel native tribes from their lands.
E) By the end of the war, nearly one third of the Iroquois nation was dead.
Q3) What was the purpose for the penning of the Declaration of Independence? How well did its authors do in laying out their case for going to war?
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) It could most accurately be stated of the Articles of Confederation that
A) they were not ratified until 1783.
B) John Dickinson's treatise was used to argue against ratification.
C) the central government under the Articles had very little power.
D) only eleven of the states ever ratified the Articles.
E) one of the few powers given by the Articles was the right of taxation.
Q2) Which of these is not a part of the Bill of Rights?
A) Freedom of the press against government intrusion
B) Protection against general (unwarranted) searches
C) The right of males to vote if they paid taxes
D) The right of criminal defendants to enjoy a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury of one's peers
E) Freedom of religion
Q3) The only large state to ratify the Constitution by the end of 1788 was Virginia.
A)True
B)False
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) Hamilton,Adams,and Jefferson would all come to be known as Federalists.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following were reasons that the Democratic-Republicans opposed Hamilton's plan except
A) They feared that only speculators would benefit.
B) Some states had already paid off their debts, so they would now be paying the burdens of other states.
C) They feared it was a plot to favor agrarian interests.
D) Farmers thought a national bank would only serve the interests of financiers and merchants.
E) They thought that it was outside the federal government's powers to create a national bank.
Q3) John Adams was a one term president,in large part due to A) his disagreements with Thomas Jefferson.
B) the political controversy over the Alien and Sedition Acts.
C) the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions.
D) the doctrine of nullification.
E) the XYZ Affair.
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) Explain the significance of the Supreme Court case Marbury v.Madison.
Q2) The Democratic-Republicans in Congress believed that a war with Britain would be
A) a disaster for America, because the navy was not ready.
B) the last chance to force the British to trade with America on equal terms.
C) a second "war for independence" that would be necessary to get Britain to conclusively accept American independence.
D) more likely to be won if the Americans took the offensive before Britain was prepared.
E) a brief conflict that the Americans would win handily, because the British had been so demoralized by the outcome of the Revolutionary War.
Q3) Jefferson's domestic policies focused on all of the following,except
A) reducing the size of government.
B) destroying the national bank.
C) expanding what he understood as the agrarian republic.
D) navigating the development of the first national court system.
E) securing the Louisiana Purchase for American expansion.
Q4) Tecumseh and the Prophet were brothers who belonged to the Shawnee tribe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) All of the following are true about 19th century railroads,except
A) Rail transportation had a number of significant advantages over canal travel.
B) Trains traveled significantly faster than mules.
C) Railroads had become the cornerstone of the American transportation revolution of the 1840s and 1850s.
D) Railroads crisscrossed the South far more densely than in the North.
E) By the 1860s, more than 30,000 miles of track ran through the country.
Q2) Which of the following was not a social change associated with the Market Revolution in America?
A) Growth of cities
B) Impacts on the environment
C) Improvements in urban living conditions
D) More protest movements
E) Changes in the makeup of the work force
Q3) The development of the railroad improved the self-sufficiency of the South with its diversified farming.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Monroe Doctrine,why and when was it issued,and what was its significance?
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) Which act authorized the president to use the U.S.army and navy to put down insurrections?
A) Nullification Act
B) Non-Secession Bill
C) Insurrection Act
D) Anti-Insurrection Act
E) Force Bill
Q2) Which of these was not part of the new participatory style of democratic politics that developed during the Jacksonian era and transformed American politics?
A) Partisan newspapers
B) Public rallies and speeches
C) Heavy voter fraud
D) Parades and marching bands
E) Picnics and other social gatherings
Q3) Even as states began to drop property ownership as a requirement for voting,some states continued to specifically deny the franchise to women and black males.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) At the center of slave culture was
A) singing and dancing.
B) African traditions.
C) separate slave quarters.
D) family and religion.
E) the practice of voodoo.
Q2) How did life change for those living in the northern countryside?
Q3) How did white Virginians respond to Nat Turner's insurrection?
A) They killed dozens of the rebels.
B) They killed about 200 slaves, some involved in the insurrection, but many not.
C) They killed Turner immediately, planning to "chop off the head" of the rebellion's leader.
D) They fought the rebels for almost a week before finally quelling the uprising.
E) They purposely murdered many innocent slaves to make those who watched more pliable.
Q4) How did the lives of planters and of yeomen farmers differ from each other in the antebellum South?
Q5) What was everyday life like for most middle-class women in the North?
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) It would be accurate to say that the early movement of Americans across the country to the West,and early settlement there,was at best haphazard.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Britain initially balked at settling on the 49 parallel as the northern border of the United States because it wanted to control the Columbia River that lay two hundred miles to the south.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Mormonism became a new religious community during the Second Great Awakening.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of these peoples never had a territorial claim on the Oregon Territory?
A) The British
B) The Dutch
C) The Spanish
D) The Americans
E) The Russians
Q5) How did Americans manage to wrest tribal lands away from the Plains Indians?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) How and when was the Know-Nothing Party established? For what purpose?
Q2) Personal Liberty Laws were designed to
A) allow slave owners to free their slaves in their wills.
B) protect northern slaves who hired themselves out in the cities and worked independently.
C) protect escaped slaves who made it into the North.
D) protect free blacks in the North.
E) end slave auctions in the nation's capital.
Q3) John Brown led the massacre at Pottawatomie Creek,Kansas,in order to avenge
A) the victory of Free-Soilers in the election.
B) the fact that anti-slavery individuals had been killed in several different places throughout the territory.
C) the burning down of the Free Soil town Lawrence, Kansas, by pro-slavery advocates.
D) what God told him was a great sin against the black population.
E) the deaths of his son and son-in-law in the Lawrence raid.
Q4) The Free Soil Party slogan was "Free soil,free speech,free labor,and free men."
A)True
B)False
Q5) What were the provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) What were the advantages and disadvantages for the North and for the South at the beginning of the Civil War? Why did each side believe it would win?
Q2) One of the reasons that Lee's Confederate forces were able to push the Army of the Potomac northward and out of Virginia was that the Union general,George McClellan,was too
A) cowardly to fight.
B) unprepared for battle.
C) slow to react to the Confederate onslaught.
D) strategically cautious and overly anxious about the discipline and fighting ability of his men.
E) insecure in his ability to command.
Q3) The first battle of the Civil War took place at Manassas Junction near Washington,D.C.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus was used in Maryland to arrest and imprison Confederate sympathizers who might incite others.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) A number of famous Confederates joined the Republican Party after the war,including James Longstreet and Pierre Beauregard.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Fourteenth Amendment included,among other things,protection for the voting rights of African Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The only state to have an African American judge on the state supreme court during the Reconstruction era was
A) Virginia.
B) Georgia.
C) North Carolina.
D) South Carolina.
E) Tennessee.
Q4) In truth,more whites voted for Grant's opponent in the 1868 election than voted for Grant.
A)True
B)False
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