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Used for AP United States History (In Michigan) Including actual test questions!
I'll be adding more flashcards as we cover the chapters However we did skip chapter one so I do not belive that will ever be covered. Enjoy!
Sydney
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255619256RingshoutWest African religious rite, retained by African Americans, in which participants responded to a preacher Chapter 4 Quiz0
255619257New York City Slave Revolt of 1712Major Middle Colonies rebellion that caused thirty three deaths Chapter 4 Quiz1
255619259New England ConscienceThe legacy of Puritian religion that inspired idealism and reform among later generations of americans Chapter 4 Quiz2
255619260HarvardThe oldest college in America originally based on the Puritan commitment to an educated ministry Chapter 4 Quiz3
255619261William and MaryThe oldest college in the south, founded in 1793 Chapter 4 Quiz4
255619264Leisler's rebellionSmall New York Revolt of 1689-1691 that reflected class antagonism between landlords and merchants Chapter 4 Quiz5
255619265The attitude of carolinas towards indians can be best described asHostile Chapter 6+7 Test6
255619266The city of New Haven was founded byPuritans Chapter 6+7 Test7
255619267The population of Chesapeake colonies was noble for its lack ofWomen Chapter 6+7 Test8
255619268New England colonist were outraged when british dipomats returned_________to french in 1748louisbourg Chapter 6+7 Test9
255619269As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort DuquesneThe frontier from pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian Attack Chapter 6+7 Test10
255619270As A French and Indian war, Great Britian...Became the dominant power in North America Chapter 6+7 Test11
255619271The proclamation of 1763 was issued mainly toworkout affair settlement of the indian problem Chapter 6+7 Test12
255619272The "Ratical Whigs" FearedThe arbitary power of Monarchy Chapter 6+7 Test13
255619273The British Crowns "Royal Veto" of Colonial LegislationWas used sometimes but colonist resented it Chapter 6+7 Test14
255619274The first law ever passed by parliment for rasing tax revenues in the colonies for the crown wasSugar Act Chapter 6+7 Test15
255619275Before 1763 Navagation lawsLoosely enforced in American Colonies Chapter 6+7 Test16
255619276Passage of Sugar and Stamp actConvinced many colonists the british trying to take away liberty Chapter 6+7 Test17
255619277"Virtual" Representation means thatevery member parliment represented all British subjects Chapter 6+7 Test18
255619278The Most Drastic of The Intolerable ActsBoston Port Act Chapter 6+7 Test19
255619279First Continental CongressConsider ways of redressing colonial orievances Chapter 6+7 Test20
255619280As the war for Independence began the colonies afvantage ofMany outstanding civil and Military leaders Chapter 6+7 Test21
255619281The colonists faceduse of European officers Chapter 6+7 Test22
255619285the Principle established by cheif justice marshal in a famous case that the surpeme court can declare laws unconstitutionalMaubury v. Madison who had final authority of the meaning of the constitution (Judicial Review) Chapter 11 Worksheet23
255619286Precedent setting Supreme Court Case in whihc Marshall declared part of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutionalMarbury V. Madison Chapter 11 Worksheet24
255619288Branch of Military service that Jefferson considered least threatening to liberty and most necessary to suppressing the Barbary statesNavy Chapter 11 Worksheet25
255619290Territory beyond Louisiana, along the Columbia River, explored by Lewis and ClarkOregon Chapter 11 Worksheet26
255619292American ship fired on by British in 1807, nearly leading to war between the 2 countriesChesapeake Chapter 11 Worksheet27
255619294Militantly nationalistic western congressmen eager for hostilities with the indians, canadians, and britishWar Hawks Chapter 11 Worksheet28
255619295Battle of 1811 where General Harrison defeated the Indian Forces under Tecumseh and the ProphetTippecanoe Chapter 11 Worksheet29
255619296Federalist name for the war of 1812 that blamed it on the republican presidentMr. Madison's War Chapter 11 Worksheet30
255619297What did the 1829 presidential elections demonstrate?That the new political parties were strongle sectional in their sources of strength Chapter 10+11 Test31
255619298The Second Bank of the United States did not.....shift funds from the west nad south to the northeast Chapter 10+11 Test32
255619299The debate between Webster and Hayne in 1830 Concerned?The nullification of the federal Laws Chapter 10+11 Test33
255619300Andrew Jackson Specie Circular saught toslow down speculation in public land Chapter 10+11 Test34
255619301As a result of Jackson's Bank Policiessales of public land rose tremendously banks printed new bank notes with abandon the nation entered a period of speculative mania Chapter 10+11 Test35
255619302Cheif wepon used by andrew jackson in his dispute with national bank wasto deposit government money in state banks Chapter 10+11 Test36
255619303What was the opinion of Andrew Jackson and probably most of his contemporaries regarding the spoils systemthe frequent roatation of office holders had a benificial effect on the government Chapter 10+11 Test37
255619304The political purpose for proposing the tarriff of 1828 was to?Discredit the administration of president John Quincy Adams Chapter 10+11 Test38
255619305The Whig Party turned against president john tyler becausehe opposed the entire whig legislative program Chapter 10+11 Test39
255619306andrew jackson's view of the presidency emphasisedleadership by the executive branch in the interests of the people. Chapter 10+11 Test40
255619307John C calhoun advocated nullification of a federal law in 1828 and again in 1832 toAvoid secession Chapter 10+11 Test41
255619308In contrast to hte chesapeake colonies those in New EnglandHad a more diversified economy Chapter 10+11 Test42
255754020Originally, The primary purpose of the Joint-stock Virigina company was to provide for the Well-being of the free born english settlers in the colony True or False?FALSE Chapter 2 Online test43
255754021The defeat og Powhatan's indian forces in Virginia was achieved partly by Lord De La Warr's use of brutal "Irish Tactics" True or False?TRUE Chapter 2 online test44
255754022The Maryland colony was founded to establish a religious refuge for persecuted English quakers True or False?FALSE Chapter 2 Online test45
255754023South Carolina prospered partly by selling african slaves in the West indies True or False?FALSE Chapter 2 Online test46
255754024In Their early years, North Carolina and Georgia avoided reliance on slavery True or False?TRUE Chapter 2 Online Test47
255754025After decades of religious turmoil. protestantism finally gained permanent domainance after the succession to the throne ofQueen Elizabeth I Chapter 2 Online Test48
255754026Imperial England and English soldiers developed a contemptuous attitude toward "Natives" partly through their colonizing experiences inIreland Chapter 2 Online Test49
255754027England's victory over the Spanish Armada gave itDominance of the Alantic Ocean and a Viberant sence of Nationalism Chapter 2 Online Test50
255754028At all time of hte first colonization efforts, Englandwas undergoing rapid economic and social transformations Chapter 2 test online51
255754029Many of the early Puritan settlers of America wereuprooted sheep farmers from eastern and western england chapter 2 test online52
255754030Representative government was first introduced to America in the colony ofVirginia Chapter 2 test online53
255754031One important difference between the founding of hte Virginia and Maryland colonies was thatVirginia was founded mainly as an economic ventured while maryland was intended partly to secure religious freedom for persecuted Roman Catholics Chapter 2 Online Test54
255754032The early conflicts between English settlers and the Indians Near Jamestown Laid the basis forthe forced separation of the Indians into the separate territories of the "reservation system" Chapter 2 Online Test55
255754033In colonial English-Indian relations, the term "Middle Ground" referred tothe cultural zone where indians and whites were forced to accommodate one another by shared pratices that included intermarriage Chapter 2 Online Test56
255754034After the defeat of hte coastal Tuscarora and Yamasee Indians by North Carolinias in 1711-1715the powerful creeks, cherokees, and iroquois remained in the appalachian mountians as a barrier againstwhite settement Chapter 2 Online Test57
255754035Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina werereligious dissenters and poor whites fleeing aristocratic Virginia Chapter 2 Online Test58
255754036The puritans all wanted to break away from the church of england and establish a new purified church True or false?FALSE Chapter 3 Online Test59
255754037The large, separatist Plymouth Colony strongly influenced Puritan Massachusetts Bay True or false?FALSE Chapter 3 Online test60
255754038Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson were both banished for organizing political rebels against Massachusetts bay athorities True or false?FALSE Chapter 3 Online test61
255754039The wampanoag people of New England initially befriended the English Colonies True or false?TRUE Chapter 3 Online Test62
255754040New York became the most democratic and economically equal of the middle colonies True or False?FALSE Chapter 3 Online Test63
255754041William Penn originally planned his Pennsylvania colony to be exclusively a refuge for his fellow Quakers True or False?FALSE Chapter 3 Online Test64
255754042William Penn's benevolent policies were supported by non-quaker immigrants to Pennsylvania True or False?FALSE Chapter 3 Online Test65
255754043The middle colonies were characterized by tightly knit ethically homogeneous communities that shared a common scense of religious purpose True or False?FALSE Chapter 3 Online Test66
255754044The principal motivation shpaing the earliest settlements in New England wasReligious commitment and devotion Chapter 3 Online Test67
255754045The indian tribe that first encountered the Pilgrim colonists in New england were theWampanoags Chapter 3 Online Test68
255754046the puritan missionary efforts to convert indians to christianity wereweak and mostly unsuccessful Chapter 3 Online test69
255754047The primary value of the New England Confederation Lay inProviding the first small step on the road to intercolonial cooperation Chapter 3 Online Test70
255754048The event that sparked the collapse of the Dominion of New England wasThe Glorious Revolution in England Chapter 3 Online Test71
255754049The dutch colony of New Netherland.....Was harshly and undemocratically governed Chapter 3 Online Test72
255754050William penn's colony of pennsylvania...activly sought settlers from Germany and other non British countries Chapter 3 Online Test73
255754051Besides pennsylvania, quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of bothNew jersey and delaware Chapter 3 Online Test74
255754052the middle colonies of new york new jersey pennsylvania and delawarehad more ethnic diversity and either new england or the southern colonies Chapter 3 Online Test75
256106942New England Expansion was carried out primarily by independent pioneers and land speculators who bought up large plots and then sold them to individual farmers True or false?FALSE Chapter 4 Test online76
256106943New England women enjoyed fewer rights to inherit and own property than women in the south True or false?TRUE Chapter 4 Online Test77
256106944New England's commercial wealth was based on overseas shipment of the agricultural products of its rich soil True or False?FALSE Chapter 4 Online Test78
256106945Seventeenth-century American lfe was generally simple and lacking in displays of wealth or elaborate class distinctions True or False?TRUE Chapter 4 Online test79
256106946For most of their early history, the colonies of Maryland and Virginia....Containted far more men than women Chapter 4 Online test80
256106947The primary cause of Bacon's Rebellion was...the poverty and discontent of many single young men unable to acquire land Chapter 4 Online test81
256106948Puritan lawmakers in New England prevented married women from having property rights because....they feared that separate property rights for women would undercut the unity of married couples Chapter 4 Online Test82
256106949In New England, Elementary Education.....Was mandatory for any town with more than 50 families. Chapter 4 Online Test83
256106950THe Congregational Church of the Puritans contributed to....The development of basic democracy in the New england town meeting Chapter 4 Online Test84
256106951The focus of much of New England's poliics, religion, and Education was the institution of.....the town Chapter 4 Online Test85
256106952The Half-way Covenant provided........Baptism but not "full communion" to people who had not had a conversion experience Chapter 4 Online Test86
256106953Those people accused of being witches in salem were generally....from families associated with salem's burgeoning market economy Chapter 4 Online Test87
256106954English settlers greatly changed the character of the New England enviroment by.....their extensive introduction of livestock Chapter 4 Online Test88
256761422The established Anglican Church was a more powerful force in colonial life than the congregational Church of New England True or False?FALSE Chapter 5 Online Test89
256761423German settlement in the colonies was especially heavy in.....Pennsylvania Chapter 5 Online Test90
256761424the Scots-Irish eventually became concentrated especially in........The frontier areas. Chapter 5 Online Test91
256761425Indians and African-Americans shared in the common American experience of..........Creating new cultures and societies out of the mingling of diverse ethnic groups Chapter 5 Online Test92
256761426Besides offering rest and refreshment, colonial taverns served an important function as centers of.....News and political opinion Chapter 5 Online Test93
256761427The Anglican Church suffered in colonial America because of......its poorly qualified clergy and close ties with British authorities. Chapter 5 Online Test94
256761428A primary weapon used by colonial legislatures in their conflicts with royal governors wasusing their power of the purse to withhold the governor's salary Chapter 5 online test95
256789305The french empire in north america rested on an economic foundation of forestry and sugar production True or false?FALSE Chapter 6 Online Test96
256789306In the early seventeenth century, both France and England commited large regular forces to what they considered the crucial struggle for control of North America True or False?FALSE Chapter 6 Online Test97
256789307George washington's battle at Fort Necessity substantialy resolved the issue of control of the Ohio Valley True or False?FALSE Chapter 6 Online Test98
256789308The Albany Congress demonstrated a strong desire among some English Colonists to overcome their differences nad control their own affairs True or False?FALSE Chapter 6 Online Test99
256789309British regular troops under General Braddock succeeded in capturing the key French Forts in the Ohio Valley True or False?FALSE Chapter 6 Online Test100
256789310Compared with the English colonies, New France was.....more autocratically governed Chapter 6 Online Test101
256789311The expansion of New France occurred especially...along the paths of lakes and rivers Chapter 6 Online Test102
256789312Colonial Americans were unhappy after hte peace treaty following the "war of Jenkins's Ear" because.......it gave the Louisbourg fortress they had captured back to France Chapter 6 Online Test103
256853008William Pitt's strategy in the assauly of New France finally succeeded because.....he concentrated british forces on attacking the vital strong points of Quebec and Montreal Chapter 6 Online Test104
256853009The French And Indian war weakened interior indian peoples like iroquois and Creeks by...Removing their french and spanish allies from Canada and Florida Chapter 6 Online Test105
256853010Pontiac's fierce attack on frontier outposts in 1763 had the effect ofConvincing the Brtish to keep troops stationed in the colonies Chapter 6 Online Test106
256853011The french and Indian war created conflict between the brtish and the american military becausebritish officers treated the american colonial milita with contempt Chapter 6 Online Test107
256935040The repunlican idea of a just society in which selfish interests were subordinated to the common good took dep root in Britain's North American colonies True or False?TRUE Chapter 7 Online Test108
256935041When Americans first cried "no taxation without representation," what they wanted ws to be represented in the British Parliament True or False?FALSE Chapter 7 Online Test109
256935042The Boston Massacre led the British government to pursue even harsher enforcement of the Townshend Acts True or False?FALSE Chapter 7 Online Test110
256935043The First continental Congress proclaimed that the colonies would declare independence from Britian unless their grievances were redressed. True or False?FALSE Chapter 7 Online Test111
256935044One of the ways in which mercantilism harmed the colonial economy wasby inhibiting the devlopment of banking and paper currency in the colonies Chapter 7 Online Test112
256935045The mobilization of "nonimportation" policies against the Stamp Act was politically important becauseit aroused revolutionary fervor among many ordinary American men and women. Chapter 7 Online Test113
256935046American colonists especially resented the Townshend Acts becausethe revenues from the taxation would go to support British officials and judges in America Chapter 7 Online Test114
256935047The event that precipitated the first real shooting between the British and American colonists wasThe british Attempt to seize colonial supplies and the leaders at Lexington and Concord Chapter 7 Online Test115
257398805The most important action the Continental Congress took to protest the Intolerable Acts wasForming the Association to impose a complete boycott of all British goods. Chapter 7 Online Test116
257398807The British parliamentary government at the time of the American REvolution was headed byLord North Chapter 7 Online Test117
257398809One of the advantages the colonists enjoyed in the impending conflict with Britian wasFighting defensively on a large agriculturally self-sufficient continent Chapter 7 Online Test118
257398812In the Revolutionary war, African Americans....fought in both the American patriot and British loyalist military forces Chapter 7 ONline Test119
257398814Geroge Washington was chosen commander of the American army primarily because of his miitary abilities and experience true or false?FALSE Chapter 8 Online Test120
257961931Following the battle of bunker hill, king george and the Continental congress made one last attempt at reconciliation True or False?FALSE Chapter 8 Online Test121
257961932The declaration of independence was especially important because it enabled the Americans to appeal for direct aid from France True or False?TRUE Chapter 8 Online Test122
257961933The Loyalists considered the "Patriots" to be the traitors to their country and themselves to be the true patriots True Or False?TRUE Chapter 8 Online Test123
257961934Most Loyalists were executed or driven from the country after the Patriot victory true ofr false?FALSE Chapter 8 Online Test124
257961935The Loyalists were strongest in New England and Virginia true or false?FALSE Chapter 8 Online Test125
257961936French entry into the war turned the american revolutionary was into a world war involving most of the european great powers True or False?TRUE Chapter 8 Online Test126
257961937At Yorktown, the Americans finally showed that they couldc win an important battle without french assistance true or false?False Chapter 8 Online Test(q 13)127

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