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Mrs. Vann's Midterm Review. Questions with multiple parts have been changed into seperate cards, and questions containing the phrase "all of the following except" have been reworded to eliminate this phrase. Other than that, every question is directly off of her review, word-for-word.

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600357465One of the traits that made Quakers unpopular in England was...their refusal to do military service.
600357466Sugar was called a rich man's crop, but not because...it could be purchased only the by the wealthy.
600357467A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony was to...create a refuge for Catholics.
600357468Among the Puritans, it was understood that...the purpose of government was to enforce God's laws.
600357469Chief Powhatan had Captain John Smith kidnapped in order to...impress Smith with his power and show the Indian's desire for peace.
600357470The colony of South Carolina prospered by...developing close economic ties with the British West Indies.
600357471The Proclamation of 1763...forbade the colonists from going across the Appalachian Mountains.
600357472For their labor in the colonies indentured servants did not receive...a head right.
600357473Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from...white servants.
600357474The long-range purpose of the Albany Congress in 1754 was to...achieve colonial unity and common defense against the French threat.
600357475English officials tried to "establish" the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because...the church would act as a major prop for kingly authority.
600357476The least important economic activity of colonial Americans was...manufacturing.
600357477In the colonial wars before 1754, Americans...demonstrated an astonishing lack of unity.
600357478The slave culture that developed in America...was a uniquely New World creation.
600357479By the mid-eighteenth century, North American colonial governments did not have...complete democracy.
600357480While slavery might have begun in America for economic reasons,...racial discrimination also played a major role in molding the American slave system.
600357481The Olive Branch Petition...professed American loyalty to the crown.
600357482When Parliament passed the Tea Act, colonists thought...it was a trick to get them to violate their principle of "No taxation without representation."
600357483African Americans during the Revolutionary War....fought for both the Americans and the British.
600357484As a result of American opposition to the Townshend Acts,...British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston to restore law and order.
600357485The most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts was the...Boston Port Act.
600357486Thomas Paine argued that all government officials should...derive their authority from popular consent.
600357487Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders were trying to...persuade America to abandon its alliance with France.
600357488In some ways, the Navigation Laws were a burden to certain colonists because...they stifled economic initiative.
600357489When it came to the Revolution, it could be said that the American colonists were...reluctant revolutionaries.
600357490Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were not expected to...become economically self-sufficient as soon as possible.
600357491Examples of colonial experience with self-governance, which prepared Americans for a republic, did not include...militia service.
600357492One purpose of the Declaration of Independence was to...explain to the rest of the world why the colonies had revolted.
600357493By the time the Constitution was adopted in 1789,...prosperity was beginning to return.
600357494The Land Ordinance of 1785 did not...prohibit slavery
600357495Thomas Jefferson favored a political system in which...the states retained the majority of political power.
600357496For its continued success, Hamilton's financial program relied heavily on...trade with Britain.
600357497Britain made neutrality very difficult for the United States during the French and British conflicts of the 1790s by...seizing American merchant ships in the West Indies.
600357498The issue that finally touched off the movement toward the Constitutional Convention was...control of commerce.
600357499The delegate whose contributions to the Philadelphia Convention were so notable that he has been called the "Father of the Constitution" was...James Madison.
600357500The immediate cause of the undeclared war between the United States and France was...the XYZ affair.
600357501Thomas Jefferson argued that a landless class of voters could be avoided in part by...continuing slavery.
600357502Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in...the formation of permanent political parties.
600357503Jay's Treaty did not contain the provision ofa promise by the British to stop selling arms to the Indians.
600357504What was Alexander Hamilton's position on public policy in the 1790s?Privileges for the upper classes, pro-British, potent central government, and government support for business
600357505What was Alexander Hamilton's position on public policy in the 1790s?Sympathy for the common people, pay off the national debt, pro-French, and universal education
600357506In Jay's Treaty, the British...promised to evacuate the chain of forts in the Old Northwest.
600357507The war hawks demanded war with Britain, but not to...retaliate for the British burning of Washington, D.C.
600357508With the demise of the Federalist Party,...the Democratic-Republicans established one-party rule.
600357509The Battle of New Orleans...saw British troops defeated by Andrew Jackson's soldiers.
600357510Lewis and Clark's expedition through the Louisiana Purchase territory did not yield...treaties with several Indian nations.
600357511Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813 at...the Battle of the Thames.
600357512At the time it was issued, the Monroe Doctrine was...incapable of being enforced by the United States.
600357513Thomas Jefferson received the bulk of his support from the...South and West.
600357514The most devastating defeat suffered by the British during the War of 1812 took place at the Battle of...New Orleans.
600357515After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr...plotted to divide the United States.
600357516The purpose behind the spoils system was...to reward political supporters with public office.
600357517The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in...the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
600357518The "Father of the Factory System" in the United States was...Samuel Slater.
600357519The policy of the Jackson administration toward the eastern Indian tribes was...forced removal.
600357520In their treatment of Native Americans, white Americans did not...argue that Indians could not be assimilated into the larger society.
600357521While Andrew Jackson and his supporters disliked the Bank of the United States, it was not because...they wanted to put public service first instead of profits.
600357522Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at ...the Battle of San Jacinto.
600357523The early factory system distributed its benefits to...mostly just the owners.
600357524Most slaves in the South were owned by...plantation owners.
600357525In the Oregon treaty with Britain in 1846, the northern boundary of the United States was established to the Pacific Ocean along the line of...49º.
600357526One characteristic of the Mormons that angered many non-Mormons was their...emphasis on cooperative or group effort.
600357527Weaknesses of the slave plantation system did not include...its land continued to remain in the hands of the small farmers.
600357528For free blacks living in the North,...discrimination was common.
600357529By 1860, slaves were concentrated in the "black belt" located in the...Deep South states of Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
600357530Regarding work assignments, slaves were...Generally spared dangerous work.
600357531The largest single addition to American territory was...the Mexican Cession.
600357532Perhaps the slave's greatest horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was...the enforced separation of slave families.
600357533Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because...the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles.
600357534In the abolitionist movement, Wendell Phillips was a(n)...orator and abolitionist.
600357535Frederick Douglass is well known for his work as...a black abolitionist leader.
600357536Elijah P. Lovejoy is known for being a(n)...martyr for the abolitionist movement.
600357537Arrange the following in chronological order: (A) annexation of Texas (B) Webster-Ashburton Treaty (C) settlement of the Oregon boundary (D) Aroostook War(D), (B), (C), (A)
600357538In his quest for California, President James K. Polk...advocated war with Mexico from the beginning.
600357539In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with...an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.
600357540In the Compromise of 1850, Congress determined that slavery in the New Mexico/Utah territories was...to be decided by popular sovereignty.
600357541The Union's establishment of the National Banking System...was the first significant step toward a unified banking network since 1836.
600357542Napoleon III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of...the Monroe Doctrine.
600357543When the people of Britain and France read Uncle Tom's Cabin, their governments realized that...intervention in the Civil War on behalf of the South would not be popular.
600357544Nativists in the 1850s were known for their...anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.
600357545The Free Soilers condemned slavery because...it destroyed the chances of free white workers to rise to self-employment.
600357546The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the..."Alabama".
600357547The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in...Montgomery, Alabama.
600357548The Black Codes did not provide for...voting for blacks.
600357549The Battle of Antietam was particularly critical because it...probably prevented intervention by Britain and France on behalf of the Confederacy.
600357550The controversy surrounding the Wade-Davis Bill and the readmission of the Confederate states to the Union demonstrated...the deep differences between President Lincoln and Congress.
600357551During the Civil War Britain and the U.S....were nearly provoked into war by the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship.
600357552In the Civil War, the South won the battle of...Bull Run.
600357553The incident that caused the clash between Congress and President Johnson to explode into the open was...Johnson's veto of the bill to extend the Freedmen's Bureau.
600357554President Johnson's plan for Reconstruction...differed radically from Lincoln's.
600357555Reconstruction might have been more successful if...Thaddeus Steven's radical program of drastic economic reforms and stronger protection of political rights had been enacted.
600357556The North's "victory" at Antietam allowed President Lincoln to...issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
600357557Methods used by Ku Klux Klan members to achieve their goal of white supremacy included...beatings, scare tactics, murder, and mutilation.
600357558In 1865, Southern Blacks...often began traveling to test their freedom, search family members, and seek economic opportunity.
600357559Both moderate and radical Republicans agreed that...freed slaves must be granted the right to vote.
600357560Which one of the following is least related to the other three? •Ku Klux Klan •scalawags •carpetbaggers •freedmen •the Union LeagueThe Ku Klux Klan.
600357561Radical congressional Reconstruction of the South finally ended when...the last federal troops were removed in 1877.
600357562The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as...a meddlesome federal agency that threatened to upset white racial dominance.
600357563The Crédit Mobilier scandal involved...railroad construction kickbacks.
600357564At the end of Reconstruction, Southern whites disenfranchised African-Americans with...literacy requirements, poll taxes, economic intimidation, and grandfather clauses.
600357565Many feminist leaders were disappointed with the Fourteenth Amendment because it...failed to give women the right to vote.
600357566By their actions, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not manifested their common beliefs in...manhood-suffrage democracy.
600357567What is a compromise in the Constitution?Continuation of the foreign slave trade.
600357568What did not influence transcendental thought?Catholic beliefs.
600357569Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because...its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.
600357570William Henry Harrison, the Whig party's presidential candidate in 1840, was made to look like...a poor western farmer.
600357571Shays's Rebellion was provoked by...foreclosures on the mortgages of backcountry farmers.
600357572In ruling on the Dred Scott case, the United States Supreme Court...ruled that Congress had no authority to exclude slavery from the federal territories.
600357573Who received the most popular votes in the election of 1824?Andrew Jackson.
600357574Who was eliminated as a candidate when the election of 1824 was thrown into the House of Representatives?Henry Clay.
600357575Who was vice president on the ticket of two presidential candidates in 1824?John C. Calhoun.
600357576According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by...the vote of the people in any given territory.
600357577The main purpose of the Black Codes was to...ensure a stable labor supply.
600357578John C. Calhoun's "South Carolina Exposition" was an argument for...state's rights.
600357579The Panic of 1837 was not caused by...taking the country off the gold standard.
600357580John C. Calhoun's plan to protect the South and slavery involved...the election of two presidents, one from the North and one from the South.
600357581Andrew Jackson's inauguration as president symbolized the...return of Jeffersonian simplicity.
600357582The prime objective of Manifest Destiny in the 1850s was...Cuba.
600357583In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by "waving the bloody shirt" was reminding voters...of the "treason" of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War.
600357584The Crédit Mobilier scandal involvedrailroad construction kickbacks, involving the Union Pacific Railroad.
600357585The Compromise of 1877 resulted in...end of Reconstruction in the South.
600357586In the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that..."separate but equal" facilities were constitutional.
600357587The United States changed to standard time zones when...the major rail lines decreed common fixed times so that they could keep schedules and avoid wrecks.
600357588The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the...Interstate Commerce Commission.
600357589The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was at first primarily used to curb the power of...Labor unions.
600357590The Knights of Labor believed that conflict between capital and labor would disappear when...labor would operate business and industries.
600357591The most effective and most enduring labor union of the post-Civil War period was the...American Federation of Labor.
600357592Historians critical of the captains of industry and capitalism concede that class-based protest has never been a powerful force in the United States because...few Europeans brought their political philosophies to the United States.
600357593The major factor in drawing country people off the farms and into the big cities was...the availability of industrial jobs.
600357594Labor unions favored immigration restriction because most immigrants were not...opposed to factory labor.
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