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AP US History Semester I MCQs Flashcards

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During the seventeenth century, colonists’ daily life was influenced the most by

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The Puritans in Massachusetts

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The “war hawks” in the period leading up to the war of 1812 garnered most of their support from

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The south and west

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One way that the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony encouraged the younger generation to join the Church was by writing

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The halfway covenant

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In his farewell address George Washington warned against

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Foreign entanglements and the formation of political parties

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Which of the following was a result of the Albany Congress?

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The Iroquois remained neutral and the colonists rejected Franklin’s plan for unity

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All of the following are associated with loose constructionism during the early years of the United States of America EXCEPT

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Restrictions on federal legislative powers

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The battle of Saratoga proved to be a significant turning point in the revolutionary war because it

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Demonstrated to France that the Americans might win the war and subsequently led to the Franco-American Alliance of 1778

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The most notable achievement of the United States under the articles of confederation was

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The provision for land sales in the Northwest that would benefit the entire nation

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During the Revolutionary War, the Loyalists

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Made up approximately 20-30 percent of the population

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The success of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 hinged on compromises over

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Slavery and representation in Congress

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During the period preceding the Revolutionary War, the British act provoking the most outrage among the colonists was

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The passage of the Boston Port Act

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In 1775 the Second Continental Congress

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Adopted the Olive Branch Petition, declaring colonial loyalty to the Crown

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Which of the following events represented the most significant action on the part of the colonists against British authority?

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The Stamp Act Congress

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Which of the following statements concerning the Federalist Papers is true?

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They were written as propaganda to support the ratification of the Constitutional

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All of the following were manifestation of mercantilist theory except

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Virtual representation

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The chief goal of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to

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Check the power of the Democratic-Republicans

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Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Land Ordinance of 1785 or the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?

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Land sales in admitted territories would be protected from speculators

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Which of the following does NOT represent the views of Prime Minister Grenville after the Seven years’ War?

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He wanted to reward the colonies through his extension of salutary neglect

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The election of 1800 is historically and politically significant because it

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Demonstrated that political parties could, in fact, bring about a peaceful revolution in a republican form of government

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In 1798 President John Adams delivered the following message to Congress” I will never send another minister to France without assurance that he will be received, respected, and honored as the representative of a great, free, powerful, and independent nation.” What event inspired this comment?

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The XYZ Affair

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The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT

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The renewed persecution of witches

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The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

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It disrupted American shipping

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The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of

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Promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest

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The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT

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Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base

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Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the

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Spread of corn cultivation

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Puritan migration from England came to a near halt between the years 1649 and 1660 because, during that period

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The Puritans controlled the English government after the English Civil War

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Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era?

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She generally lost control of her property when she married

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Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778?

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It influenced the British to offer generous peace terms in the Treaty of Paris in 1783

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Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had no power to

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Levy taxes

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“A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.”

Which of the following is the author of the quotation above?

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Alexander Hamilton

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Alexander Hamilton’s economic program was designed primarily to

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Establish the financial stability and credit of the new government

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The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of

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States’ rights

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Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier hypothesis” focused on the importance of

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The existence of cheap unsettled land

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Liberty of conscience was defended by Roger Williams on the grounds that

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The state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit

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By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?

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They were a majority in many church congregations

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A major weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that they

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Made it too difficult for the government to raise money through taxes and duties

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The Puritans believed that the freedom to practice religion should be extended to

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Puritans only

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The Sugar Act of 1764 represented a major shift in British policy toward the colonies in that, for the first time, the British

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Levied taxes aimed at raising revenue rather than regulating trade

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All of the following influenced the United States’ decision to declare war against Great Britain in 1812 EXCEPT

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The American government’s certainty that its navy was more powerful than Great Britain’s

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The First Great Awakening was a direct response to

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The Enlightenment

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Which of the following states the principle of “virtual representation” as it was argued during the eighteenth century?

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All English subjects, including those are not allowed to vote, are represented in Parliament

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Which of the following most accurately describes the system of indentured service in the Chesapeake settlement during the seventeenth century?

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Most indentured servants were lured by the promise of freedom and property upon completion of their service

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was a significant achievement because it

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Defined the process by which territories could become states

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All of the following were elements of Henry Clay’s American System EXCEPT

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The creation of large numbers of federal jobs in areas with unemployment problems

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Anglo-American women in colonial times

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Could own property or execute legal documents only if they were widowed or unmarried

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In the seventeenth century the Chesapeake Bay settlement expanded its territorial holdings more quickly than did the Massachusetts Bay settlement primarily because

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Farming of the chief Chesapeake export, tobacco, required a great deal of land

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The debate over the First Bank of the United States was significant because it raised the issue of

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How strictly the Constitution should interpreted

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Which of the following statements about the Stamp Act is NOT true?

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Colonial legislatures sent letters of protest to Parliament threatening secession from England if the Stamp Act was not repealed

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The doctrine of nullification stated that

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A state may repeal any federal law that it deems unconstitutional

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The English colonists that settled Virginia and the neighboring Indian tribes had widely different attitudes about all of the following subjects EXCEPT

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The centrality of religion in daily life

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The Whig Party

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Was formed out of opposition to many of Jackson’s policies

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The principle of Popular Sovereignty stated

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Allowed the decision of whether or not new territories would have slavery with a vote within that territory

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Why did the Federalist Party disintegrate?

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They fell from the graces of the American public after the Hartford Convention where some Federalists proposed seceding from the Union because of the War of 1812

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Why did the Democratic-Republic Party disintegrate?

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The Democratic-Republicans fell apart when Jackson formed a new political party that supported his ideals, called the Democrats

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55
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The Know-Nothing Party

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All of these choices

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The Oregon Treaty

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Established the Northern border between the United States and Canada

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The Missouri Compromise can be described by all of the following EXCEPT

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It provided a method for counting slaves among state populations when determining the size of the states’ congressional delegations

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Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from

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Ireland

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“Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members… The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion.”

The passage above was written by

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The Free-Soil party advocated which of the following?

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The exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories

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The principle of Popular Sovereignty stated that

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New territories would decide with a vote whether or not that territory would allow slavery

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Reform movements during the first half of the nineteenth century attempted to accomplish all of the following EXCEPT

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Widen the division between church and state

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The Lowell system of early nineteenth-century textile manufacturing was noteworthy for its

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Efforts to minimize the dehumanizing effects of industrial labor

64
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The Wilmont Proviso

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Sought to ban slavery in territory gained from the Mexican Cession

65
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The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in

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The appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs

66
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  1. The election of 1824 marked a turning point in presidential politics because, for the first time
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The system of choosing nominees by congressional caucus failed

67
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By what means did the United States take possession of the Oregon Territory?

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The US acquired it through treaty with the British in Canada

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Which of the following reformers fought for the rights of the mentally ill?

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Dorthea Dix

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President James K. Polk is most closely associated with

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Westward Expansion

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All of the following sparked support for the abolitionist movement EXCEPT

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The Conscription Act

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Which of the following was the LEAST influential in bringing about Andrew Jackson’s victory in the presidential election of 1828?

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Jackson’s defense of Native American property rights

72
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The Force Act of 1832 was passed in response to

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The Tariff/Nullification crisis

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Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman traveling through the US and commenting on its society attributed American social mobility to

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The lack of an aristocracy and the availability of frontier land

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Which of the following changes in westward migration occurred in 1848?

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Oregon territory decreased while the number headed for California greatly increased

75
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Supreme Court Decisions concerning Native Americans in 1831 and 1832

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Denied them the right to sue in federal court, but affirmed their rights to land that was traditionally theirs

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In the 1830’s, Southern states passed a number of laws regarding the behavior of free blacks. These laws were intended to

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Encourage free blacks to migrate to the North

77
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As a result of the Missouri Compromise

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Slavery was banned north of 36° 30’ in the Louisiana Purchase territory

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In McCulloch v. Maryland, Cohens v. Virginia, and Gibbons v. Ogden, Chief Justice Marshall’s rulings limited the extent of

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States’ rights

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All of the following were results of the Missouri Compromise EXCEPT that

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Sectionalism was reduced

80
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John Quincy Adams, elected president in 1825, was charged by his political opponents with having struck a “corrupt bargain” when he appointed _______________ to become__________.

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Henry Clay, secretary of state

81
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The section of the United States most hurt by the Tariff of 1828 was

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The South

82
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Andrew Jackson’s veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the United States was

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A major expansion of presidential power

83
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Americans moved into Texas

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After an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin

84
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Presidents Jackson and Van Buren hesitated to extend recognition to and to annex the new Texas Republic because

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Antislavery groups in the United States opposed the expansion of slavery

85
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In the case Marbury v. Madison 1803,

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The Supreme Court declared an Act of Congress Unconstitutional, therefore giving the power of the Supreme Court, Judicial Review, or the power to nullify federal laws

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The Federalist power lost control of the American Political Sphere after 1800, and disintegrated after the Hartford Convention, Federalist tendencies in government remained in the Judicial branch because of the fact that Supreme Court Justices and other federal judges serve life terms; this is evidenced by

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The many instances where the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Federal Authority over States’ Authority!

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The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was

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Removal by the US Army

88
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The Adams-Onis Treaty

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Granted the US the Florida Territory

89
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The first great federal transportation project was

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The construction of national roads

90
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The construction boom of the canal networks in the North

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I, II, III, IV, V

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The Monroe Doctrine issued by President James Monroe in the 1823

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All of these!

92
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The group of Native Americans that lived in the Southeast and attempted to assimilate into white culture were the

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Cherokee

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The Nullification Crisis occurred in the State of ________ because they rejected a federal tariff, seeing it as benefiting Northern Industrial Manufacturers and hurting the South because now goods would cost more than the Free Market, without government interventions like tariffs, would dictate!

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South Carolina

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The Supreme Court Case __________ denied the State of Georgia the right to take Cherokee land.

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Worcester v. Georgia

95
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In response to the Supreme Court denying states from taking Cherokee land Jackson

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Nullified the Supreme Court’s ruling by removing Indians to Oklahoma with the US military

96
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From Jackson’s response to the Nullification Crisis when South Carolina nullified a federal tariff,it seems obvious

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Jackson was a strong states’ rights advocate, but saw the states’ powers as limited and not sovereign

97
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The “Trail of Tears” refers to

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The removal of Indians in the East from the homelands

98
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The Second Great Awakening

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I, II, III, IV, only

99
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The Reform Movement in the 1800s

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I, II, III, IV only

100
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The most plausible reason for the Texas Revolution was

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The refusal of Texans to accept Mexican citizenship and abide by Mexican law

101
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The Mexican American War 1846-1848, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

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All of these

102
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The Compromise of 1850

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I, II, III, IV, only

103
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During the 1800’s the most common form of resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

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Working slowly and breaking tools

104
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“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”

The 1836 passage above exemplifies which of the following intellectual trends

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Evangelicalism

105
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Politics in the antebellum United States changed dramatically because

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Expanded White male suffrage broadened participation in elections

106
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One distinguishing feature of the new middle class that emerged in the 1830’s and 1840’s was

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The separation of economic production from the home and family life

107
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Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

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Concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

108
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“We do not know whether free laborers ever sleep. . . The free laborer must work or starve. He is more of a slave than the negro, because he works longer and harder for less allowance than the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of life with him begin when its labors end. He has no liberty, not a single right.” George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters, 1857
The excerpt above reflects the common argument in the antebellum South that

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Slaves lived better than northern factory workers

109
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The role of women expresses in the cult of domesticity had it’s roots in

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Republican motherhood

110
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The United States gained which of the following from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848?

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Possession of California and most of the southwest

111
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The United States House of Representatives responded to abolitionist agitation in the 1830s by

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Banning discussion of antislavery petitions

112
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The Compromise of 1850

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Abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia

113
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The Wilmot Proviso sought to

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Ban slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico

114
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According to the principle of popular sovereignty

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Territorial legislatures would determine whether a territory would have slavery

115
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In the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Stephen Douglas Attempted to set up territorial Government based on

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Popular sovereignty

116
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Why did the Know-Nothings become popular?

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They appealed to German and Irish immigrants

117
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The Republican Party

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Was primarily a sectional party

118
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In the 1850’s, the most important literary example of Abolitionism was

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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

119
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In the Dred Scott Case, The Supreme Court decision was largely the work of

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Roger Taney

120
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The Republican Party platform in 1860

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Dealt exclusively with slavery

121
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Individuals who opposed the expansion of slavery into the territories because they feared its effect of the labor system were known as

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Free Soilers

122
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Which one of the following does not apply to Lincoln’s initial policy toward the confederacy?

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The deployment of troops along the “border states” to demonstrates a Union resolve to fight

123
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Which of the following was NOT a provision of the Confederate Constitution?

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A strong central government

124
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The chart labeled “Resources of the Union and the Confederacy, 1861” could suggest all of the following statements as true EXCEPT

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All of the above statements are true

125
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Which of the following states was NOT part of the Confederacy?

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Missouri

126
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In the beginning, the Civil War was

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A struggle to preserve the Union

127
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Which of the following was NOT a Northern advantage throughout the war?

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Familiar terrain and public support

128
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To secure the necessary troops for the war,

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A and b

129
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Lincoln and Davis learned early in the Civil War that

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Successful conduct of the war required active, executive, leadership

130
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The Emancipation Proclamation freed

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Only slaves in the military occupation zones of the Union army

131
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Confederate leaders were confident of British recognition, because

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British textile mills were so dependent on Southern cotton

132
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A minimal Reconstruction policy was favored by

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President Lincoln

133
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Which of the following groups was disappointed by the Fifteenth Amendment?

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Feminists

134
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At their state constitutional conventions, Southerners were required to do all of the following EXCEPT

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Guarantee the political and civil rights of the freedman

135
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The legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans was

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Poverty and discrimination

136
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The small number of African Americans elected to state or national office during Reconstruction demonstrated on the average

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A desire to implement radical social programs

137
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Andrew Johnson was indicted by the House for his violation of the

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Tenure of Office Act

138
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The South’s Refusal to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment

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Forced the Republicans to abolish the existing southern governments and give the vote to African Americans

139
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Which of the following were characteristics of southern state governments during the era of Radical Republican control?

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II, III, and IV only

140
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In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Robert Taney ruled that

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Congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territory

141
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Following the Civil War, most freed slaves

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Stayed in the South and worked as sharecroppers

142
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The “new immigrants” who arrived in the United States after the Civil War were different from the “old immigrants” in that they

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Spoke different languages and had different customs than most Americans and thus were not easily assimilated

143
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The Industrial Revolution had which of the following effects on slavery in the South?

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Rapid growth in the textile industry encouraged Southern planters to grow cotton, thereby making slavery more important to the economy

144
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Congress brought impeachment proceedings against Andrew Johnson primarily because

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Johnson sought to block the punitive aspects of Congressional Reconstruction

145
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Which of the following is NOT a requirement set by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 for Southern states readmission to the Union?

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The state had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves

146
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Which of the following is true of the American rail system in the nineteenth century?

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Government subsidies and land grants played a major role in its expansion

147
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The failed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution was intended to prevent discrimination against

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Women

148
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What best accounts for the sharp increase of immigrants during the period 1880-1910?

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Many southern and eastern Europeans turned to America for financial gain and political freedom

149
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Which of the following was NOT a result of Reconstruction?

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Government grants of 40 acres and a mule to each freedman

150
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Which of the following was NOT a result of the Compromise of 1877?

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The Democrats took back the House and the Senate

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