United States History to 1877
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This course explores the development of the United States from its pre-Columbian origins through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Students will examine key themes including Native American cultures, European colonization, the growth of colonial societies, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, economic and social transformations, slavery, sectional conflict, the Civil War, and its aftermath. Emphasis is placed on the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that shaped the early United States, with attention to the experiences of diverse groups and the evolving concepts of freedom and democracy.
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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) Which phrase best describes "noche triste?"
A) The Spanish victory over Popé's rebellion
B) The death of millions of Native Americans to small pox and other European diseases
C) The arrival of Europeans, who came to steal Native Americans' gold
D) The beginning of warfare between the Aztecs and Cortés's army
E) The enslavement of native people under the encomienda system
Answer: C
Q2) The melting of the glaciers at the end of the ice age created a large lake covering
A) most of California's Central Valley.
B) the Tennessee Valley.
C) the Pacific Northwest.
D) much of present-day Utah, Nevada, and Idaho.
E) half of today's state of Indiana.
Answer: D
Q3) caravel
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Q1) At the outset,Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in the Maryland colony because he
A) hoped to secure freedom of worship for his fellow Catholics.
B) was a committed atheist.
C) wanted the colony's Jews to be able to practice their faith.
D) hoped to maintain a Catholic majority.
E) was asked to do so by the king.
Answer: A
Q2) Virginia,Maryland,the Carolinas,and Georgia were similar in that they were all A) dependent on the export of commercial agricultural crops. B) proprietary colonies.
C) founded after the restoration of Charles II to the throne.
D) founded as refuges for persecuted religious sects in England.
E) able to live in peace with the Native Americans.
Answer: A
Q3) Roanoke Island
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Q4) Jamestown
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Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies,1619-1700
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Q1) "Penn's Woodland"
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Q2) What was the New England Indians' best hope for resisting English encroachment?
A) Acquiring English muskets
B) Enlisting the aid of the French
C) Having intertribal unity against the English
D) Building fortifications
E) Allying themselves with the Dutch
Answer: C
Q3) In Puritan doctrine,the "elect" were also referred to as
A) Separatists
B) "patroons"
C) "visible saints"
D) Pilgrims
E) Anglicans
Answer: C
Q4) King Philip´s War
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Q5) heresy
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Chapter 4: American Life in the Seventeenth
Century,1607-1692
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Q1) Which do you think was the main cause of Bacon's Rebellion: resentment felt by backcountry farmers,Governor Berkeley's Indian policies,or the pressure of the tobacco economy? Justify your choice.
Q2) Which country was the first to end the international slave trade?
A) France
B) Spain
C) United States
D) Africa
E) Great Britain
Q3) the slave trade
Q4) The population of the Chesapeake colonies throughout the first half of the seventeenth century was notable for its
A) fast growth rate.
B) scarcity of women.
C) low death rate.
D) stable family life.
E) large percentage of older men.
Q5) jeremiad
Q6) headright system
Q7) Salem Witch Trials Page 6
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Chapter 5: Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution,1700-1775
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Q1) Benjamin Franklin
Q2) The population of the thirteen American colonies was
A) about evenly divided among Anglo-Saxons, French, Scots-Irish, and Germans.
B) perhaps the most diverse in the world, although it remained predominantly Anglo-Saxon.
C) about one-half non-English.
D) most ethnically mixed in New England.
E) largely German and African American in the South.
Q3) new lights
Q4) The average age of the American colonists in 1775 was about
A) 25.
B) 30.
C) 40.
D) 20.
E) 16.
Q5) Gullah
Q6) New York slave revolt
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Q7) Summarize the key features of the American population in the early eighteenth century.Consider its sources,size,location,diversity,and mobility.
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Chapter 6: The Duel for North America,1608-1763
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Q1) In the wake of the French defeat in Montreal in 1760,the French population in Canada
A) decided to adapt to the new flag and masters.
B) vowed to continue its resistance in guerrilla warfare.
C) fled into the Canadian hinterlands.
D) conspired against the British with nearby Indian tribes.
E) continued to preserve their French heritage and still form a strong French minority in Canada today.
Q2) Though the French were forced to give up their dreams of a North American empire,what were the lasting legacies of their colonization efforts in North America?
Q3) Which statement about French relations with the Indians in New France is FALSE?
A) Indians were excluded from the fur business.
B) Indian numbers were decimated by diseases and alcohol.
C) French Jesuit missionaries attempted to convert the Indians.
D) Destruction of the beaver violated Indians' beliefs and inflicted ecological damage.
E) The French alliance with the Hurons made the Iroquois their enemies.
Q4) Pontiac
Q5) Louisiana
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Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution 1763-1775
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Q1) Which colony did NOT participate in the First Continental Congress?
A) New York
B) Pennsylvania
C) Rhode Island
D) Georgia
E) Virginia
Q2) Discuss the ideologies of republicanism and mercantilism.How do both come to shape colonists' ideas about their destiny?
Q3) At war's end,the British kept their word,to some at least,evacuating as many as fourteen thousand ____ to Nova Scotia,Jamaica,and Britain itself for their loyalty to the British Empire during the war.
A) Mulattos
B) Whigs
C) Black Loyalists
D) Patriots
E) Tories
Q4) John Adams once said that the American Revolution occurred first in the minds of the people before it took place on the battlefield.What did he mean? Was he correct?
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Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire,1775-1783
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Q1) Lord Charles Cornwallis
Q2) How did the British have to change their military strategy after France entered the war on the American side?
A) With their naval superiority no longer guaranteed, the British launched an all-out land war in the South.
B) The British immediately attacked Washington´s army at Philadelphia, to weaken the Americans as much as possible before French troops and supplies arrived.
C) The British leaned more heavily on their Indian allies to harass the colonists.
D) With the seas now no longer under their complete control, the British shifted their focus to the frontier.
E) No longer able to depend on their naval superiority, the British shortened their supply lines by evacuating Philadelphia and escaping to New York.
Q3) natural rights
Q4) Hugh Gaine
Q5) Second Continental Congress
Q6) Joseph Brant
Q7) John ("Gentleman Johnny")Burgoyne
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Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution,1776-1790
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Q1) Which statement about the thirteen new state constitutions is FALSE?
A) They were written documents.
B) They lacked a specific bill of rights.
C) They required the annual election of state legislators.
D) They granted the state legislatures more power than governors.
E) They created weak executive and judicial branches.
Q2) extensive republic
Q3) Quaker anti-slavery society of Philadelphia
Q4) civic virtue
Q5) Why was it difficult to set up a new government in post-Revolutionary America?
A) Each of the thirteen sovereign states had their own unique form of government.
B) Few people wanted to serve as political leaders.
C) Economic problems after the war complicated the situation for the new nation.
D) The various states had little experience with self-government and were confused about how to proceed.
E) There was much unity in the new nation but not many ideas about how best to govern.
Q6) Electoral College
Q7) anarchy
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Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State,1789-1800
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Q1) What did the United States gain in Pinckney's Treaty?
A) France agreed to end the Franco-American alliance of 1778.
B) The Miami Confederacy conceded territory in what became Ohio and Indiana.
C) Britain agreed to release all American sailors held by its navy.
D) Spain gave the United States free navigation of the Mississippi River and disputed territory north of Florida.
E) The Dutch agreed to forgive all American government debts.
Q2) The Bill of Rights guarantees individual rights and freedoms in several areas EXCEPT
A) the right to vote.
B) the right to petition the government.
C) freedom of religion.
D) freedom of the press.
E) right to a trial by a jury.
Q3) impressment
Q4) Bank of the United States
Q5) Sedition Act
Q6) Judiciary Act of 1789
Q7) Washington´s Farewell Address
Q8) George Washington
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11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian
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Q1) deposit privileges
Q2) What was an unintended consequence of President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion through an embargo?
A) It ended up helping the British agricultural economy.
B) It adversely affected France's economy more than Britain's.
C) It stimulated manufacturing in the United States.
D) It permanently destroyed the Federalist party.
E) It provoked the French into impressing even more American sailors than the British had.
Q3) The case of Marbury v.Madison raised the question of who had the right to
A) commit the United States to entangling alliances.
B) impeach federal officers for "high crimes and misdemeanors."
C) declare an act of Congress unconstitutional.
D) purchase foreign territory for the United States.
E) appoint Supreme Court justices.
Q4) Tenskwatawa ("the Prophet")
Q5) "packing" of the courts
Q6) war hawks
Q7) pasha of Tripoli
Q8) James Wilkinson
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Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism,1812-1824
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Q1) In the mislabeled Florida Purchase Treaty of 1819,what was settled along with Spain´s ceding of Florida to the United States?
A) The United States agreed to relinquish its claims in Oregon.
B) Spain ceded some vague claims on New Orleans to the United States.
C) The vague western boundary of Louisiana was fixed, zigzagging northwesterly toward the Rockies.
D) Spain´s Indian allies in Florida were granted a large tract of land in the new state of Missouri.
E) The United States secured its formerly murky claims on Texas.
Q2) loose construction
Q3) The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of
A) New Orleans.
B) Horseshoe Bend.
C) Tippecanoe.
D) the Thames.
E) Bladensburg.
Q4) North American Review
Q5) nationalism
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Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy 1824-1840
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Q1) What was a positive aspect of the Bank of the United States?
A) Its officers' sense of responsibilities to society
B) Its respect for regional differences in American society
C) Its source of credit and stability which helped promote the nation's expanding economy
D) Its ability to expand and contract paper currency as needed
E) Its close ties to the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Q2) Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
A) San Antonio.
B) Goliad.
C) the Alamo.
D) San Jacinto.
E) the Rio Grande.
Q3) slavocracy
Q4) Martin Van Buren
Q5) William Henry Harrison
Q6) John Quincy Adams
Q7) Henry Clay
Q8) "Little Magician"
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Q1) In the case of Commonwealth v.Hunt,the supreme court of Massachusetts ruled that A) permanent corporations were constitutional.
B) labor unions were legal.
C) labor strikes were illegal.
D) girls under the age of 16 could not be employed in factories.
E) the state could regulate factory wages and working conditions.
Q2) In early-nineteenth-century America,which written work resonated with the public for the way it captured the spirit of the times?
A) "Bartleby the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
B) "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) The Gentleman´s Guide to Wealth by John Jacob Astor
D) "The Cult of Domesticity" by Catherine Beecher
E) "Our Pioneer Spirit" by George Catlin
Q3) The text's authors claim that on the eve of the Civil War,"a truly continental economy had emerged" in which "the principle of division of labor...applied on a national scale."
Explain the operation of this regionally organized "national" economy and its political implications.
Q4) Samuel Slater
Q5) Cyrus Field
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Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture,1790-1860
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Q1) "Declaration of Sentiments"
Q2) By 1850,the traditional Protestant denominations in America
A) had turned toward mysticism and monasticism.
B) were ignored by three-fourths of the people.
C) had lost much of their austere Calvinist rigor.
D) had developed a more highly educated clergy.
E) had become tied to the upper classes.
Q3) The Second Great Awakening tended to A) promote religious diversity.
B) reduce social class differences.
C) blur regional differences.
D) discourage church membership.
E) weaken women's social position.
Q4) Robert Owen
Q5) Louisa May Alcott
Q6) New Harmony
Q7) "little red schoolhouses"
Q8) temperance
Q9) Hudson River School
Q10) The Age of Reason
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Chapter 16: The South and the Slavery
Controversy,1793-1860
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Q1) Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Q2) The contingent of southerners most opposed to both the wealthy planters and African American slaves were the
A) European immigrants
B) mountain whites.
C) small slaveowners.
D) non-slaveowning subsistence farmers.
E) citizens of the border states.
Q3) European immigration to the South was discouraged by A) competition with slave labor.
B) southern anti-Catholicism.
C) Irish antislavery groups.
D) immigration barriers enacted by southern states.
E) their inability to tolerate the hot climate.
Q4) mulattoes
Q5) David Walker
Q6) Elijah P.Lovejoy
Q7) breakers
Q8) Denmark Vesey
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Q9) Theodore Dwight Weld
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Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy,1841-1848
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Q1) Zachary Taylor
Q2) Why did Americans in the early 1840s fear the continued existence of Texas as an independent republic?
A) They were concerned that Mexico would reclaim its lost territory and go on to threaten the American South.
B) They worried that Spain would try to regain a foothold in North America through a takeover of Texas.
C) It was a potential refuge for runaway slaves and Indian warriors who might plot against the U.S.
D) It was the object of various British and French schemes that threatened American interests and could lead to war.
E) They did not want a rival republic competing for the loyalties of Latin American nations.
Q3) Manifest Destiny
Q4) David Wilmot
Q5) "joint occupation"
Q6) Why did American foreign policy and expansionism rather suddenly become major concerns in the 1840s?
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Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle,1848-1854
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Q1) To what extent was there a resurgence of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s? What were the goals of American diplomacy at the time?
Q2) Compare and contrast the views of Clay,Webster,and Calhoun in the congressional debate that produced the Compromise of 1850.
Q3) The event that threatened to destroy the longstanding balance between the number of free and slave states in the United States Senate was the
A) passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
B) potential admission of Oregon as a free state.
C) attempt to acquire Cuba as a slave state.
D) proposed building of a southern transcontinental railroad.
E) discovery of gold in California.
Q4) slave-catchers
Q5) Seventh of March speech
Q6) Nebraska territory
Q7) Matthew C.Perry
Q8) Explain the meaning of the slogan,"Free soil,free speech,free labor,and free men," and whose views it represented.
Q9) Utah territory
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Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion,1854-1861
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Q1) James Buchanan
Q2) "the despotic majority of numbers"
Q3) American (Know-Nothing)Party
Q4) When Abraham Lincoln won the 1860 presidential election,the people of South Carolina
A) declared that they would secede if other southern states joined them.
B) were upset and angry because their political power in the Union was gone.
C) looked to Senator James Crittenden as the last hope for compromise.
D) rejoiced because they now had a clear excuse to secede.
E) demanded new constitutional amendments to guarantee slavery.
Q5) 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?
Q6) Roger B.Taney
Q7) The major parties in the 1850s repeatedly put fear of controversy over slavery ahead of experience or leadership skills in choosing presidential candidates.If the parties had chosen more experienced and well-known - but more controversial - leaders as their candidates,do you think the Civil War would have come sooner? Or might it have been avoided altogether?
Q8) John C.Frémont
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Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South,1861-1865
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Q1) During the Civil War,about _____ of the Union´s soldiers came from the loyal slave states.
A) 10,000
B) 25,000
C) 50,000
D) 100,000
E) 300,000
Q2) The Union's establishment of the National Banking System
A) allowed the United States to officially abandon the gold standard for its money.
B) guaranteed that all U.S. money would be in gold or silver.
C) evolved into the third Bank of the United States.
D) served only as an emergency measure during the Civil War.
E) led to creating a standard bank-note currency.
Q3) 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.
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Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War,1861-1865
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Q1) After defeating McClellan at the Second Battle of Bull Run,Robert E.Lee decided to
A) consolidate his forces to protect the Confederate capital.
B) send Jeb Stuart's cavalry to raid northern lines.
C) invade the Union via Maryland.
D) call for a cease fire and peace negotiations.
E) shift some of his troops to the Tennessee and Kentucky fronts.
Q2) Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War
Q3) In the Civil War,more than _____ men died,a loss of _____ of the entire nation's population.
A) 100,000; 0.5 percent
B) 500,000; 3 percent
C) 250,000; 1 percent
D) 1,000,000; 5 percent
E) 600,000; 2 percent
Q4) Gettysburg Address
Q5) Sherman´s march
Q6) Clement L.Vallandigham
Q7) Historians often rank Abraham Lincoln,as the "greatest" of American presidents.Do you agree? Why or why not?
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Q1) The Freedmen's Bureau
A) was a postwar welfare agency for former slaves.
B) was largely a failure in providing education for former slaves.
C) distributed thousands of acres of land to former slaves.
D) advised former slaves to avoid signing labor contracts with their former masters.
E) remained an effective presence throughout Reconstruction.
Q2) The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated
A) that there were deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress.
B) the close ties that were developing between President Lincoln and the Democrats.
C) President Lincoln's desire for a harsh reconstruction plan.
D) that a Congressional majority believed that the South had never legally left the Union.
E) the Republicans' fear of re-admitting Confederate leaders to Congress.
Q3) pocket veto
Q4) Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
Q5) African Methodist Episcopal (AME)Church
Q6) "Black Reconstruction"
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