1. Between 1800 and 1860 white planters moved to the lower South to...
transform the West into a free labor society.
recreate the conditions of slavery.
invest in agricultural development.
flee antislavery laws in the upper South.
2. George Washington's success as a general is most accurately explained by...
his political astuteness and ability to act decisively.
his strong personality, which enabled him to override the decisions of Congress.
a lack of any competitors among the other Patriot officers.
his willingness to overlook the actions of discontented soldiers, which endeared him to his troops.
3. Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson viewed the westward migration of Americans with...
apprehension because he believed the country was growing too large to be governed as a single republic.
disapproval because he sympathized with the plight of the Indians who would be displaced by white settlement of the West.
disdain because, as a cultured aristocrat, he considered the settlers to be uncouth rabble who would only cause trouble with the Indians and destroy the West's natural environment.
unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen.
4. Around 1820-1840, the economic conditions for casual day laborers in American cities...
improved because they gained greater geographical mobility and were in high demand on new construction projects everywhere.
held steady, neither improving nor worsening.
bore the brunt of unemployment during business depressions.
improved slightly because, even though their wages were declining relative to living costs, they benefited from a heightened sense of charity among the middle class.
5 Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the British colonial frontier before 1750?
Hundreds of British colonists moved into the area west of the Appalachians.
The Iroquois covenant chain broke down, and the confederacy's power diminished.
A lack of natural transportation routes kept the British east of the Appalachians.
The French abandoned their fur-trading forts in the Ohio region.
6. The Compromise of 1850 did not include which of the following?
Abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Adoption of a strong fugitive slave law.
The organization of the New Mexico and Utah territories on the basis of popular sovereignty.
Abolition of slavery in the Oregon Territory.
7. Which of the following does not help to explain the diminishing effectiveness of Reconstruction in the South?
Northerners tired of the expense and violence that supporting Reconstruction engendered.
Racism among moderate Republicans led them to ascribe Republican defeats in the South to the incompetence of black politicians.
A severe depression in 1873 distracted Northerners from the social and racial issues of Reconstruction.
The expanded presence of federal troops and officials from 1875 to 1877 brought about an escalation in southern terrorist retaliation.
8. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the relationship between church and state in post-revolutionary America?
Most citizens accepted the principle of separation of church and state.
The Baptist Church led the campaign for state protection and funding of all Christian denominations.
Most religious denominations served their links to the states.
By 1787, the Anglican Church of Virginia was the only example of an established church in any state.
9. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes one effect of Enlightenment on America.
American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained.
Cotton Mather and the Boston physician Nicholas Boyleston fought against smallpox inoculation.
Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
European Enlightenment ideas had little impact on Americans until 1750.
10. On the eve of European colonization of the Americas, most Western Europeans lived in...
small, relatively isolated, rural communities.
booming new cities and towns.
the older cathedral cities.
the castles that dotted the countryside.
11. The Whiskey Rebellion was significant for all of the following reasons except...
the Whiskey rebels were acting in the tradition of the Patriots of 1765 and the Shaysites of 1786, only now they also waved banners proclaiming the French Revolutionary slogan “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity.”
Washington used force to put down the first strong challenge to the federal government's authority in order to make and enforce a law.
by suppressing the revolt, Washington deterred secessionist movements on the frontier.
when he learned that Thomas Jefferson covertly supported the insurgents, Washington publicly broke with him, precipitating open party conflict.
12. In early nineteenth-century America...
the rise in political status of ordinary white men was accompanied by a decline in the political rights of women and free blacks.
most newly organized free states granted the right to vote to adult black men who owned specified amounts of freehold property.
Pennsylvania and New York allowed all free adult black males to vote.
women were granted the right to vote only in New Jersey in 1807.
13. The Puritans in late sixteenth-century England...
denied the concept that everyone had a calling” from God.
incorporated into their religion many of the traditional Roman Catholic practices, such as burning incense and praying to dead saints.
championed literacy so that everyone could read and interpret the Bible.
gave final authority over religious doctrine to bishops and synods.
14. The movement toward secession in the winter of 1860-1861 was most rapid in...
the Upper South.
South Carolina.
Virginia.
Georgia.
15. A successful, full-scale revolt was nearly impossible for colonial-era slaves to achieve primarily because...
even the Indians would refuse to help them if they escaped.
whites were armed and, except in coastal South Carolina, outnumbered slaves.
whites enlisted Native Americans to track down rebellious slaves.
revolt would endanger the slaves' communities and families.
16. Martin Van Buren's most significant contribution to American political history in the 1820s was his...
pioneering work in making party discipline an effective tool for governing in a democracy.
behind-the-scenes efforts to settle the confused election of 1824 by putting John Quincy Adams in the White House and making Henry Clay secretary of state.
development of the techniques of mass electioneering that brought about Andrew Jackson's election in 1828.
1827 book Democracy in America, which showed how democracy could work in American society.
17. One social change resulting from the Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth century America was that members of the upper class...
came to hold the same cultural and religious values as wage earners in contrast to the elitism that in the eighteenth century had kept the gentry and the "common people" apart.
openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
became more hypocritical, pretending to share cultural and religious values with wage earners, but actually behaving very differently.
tended to claim that they had risen "from rags to riches" and to flaunt their crude taste and rough manners in contrast to "gentlemanly" values of the eighteenth-century elites.
18. In the election of 1864, Lincoln...
won by a slim margin, thanks to the votes of Union soldiers.
was swept to victory by Sherman's victory at Atlanta.
won despite the fact that three out of every four Union soldiers voted against him.
lost the popular vote to McClellan, but won the electoral vote.
19. What were the years and causes of the French & Indian War? Name some of the leaders and battles of this War. Why was it significant? How did George Washington play a role?
20. What were the years and causes of the American Revolution? Who were the Founders? Why was the War significant? Did the French and Indian War have an affect on the War?
21. What were the years and causes of the War of 1812? Name some battles or events that took place during the War. Why was the War significant? Was there a clear victor? What did the US learn from the War?
22. When did the American Civil War take place and what were the causes of the war? Why was it significant? Name some battles and leaders of the War. What new technologies were used?