125140280 | European contact with Native Americans DID NOT lead to | extensive enslavement of natives for work on plantations | |
125140281 | The Virginia House of Burgesses was important because | it set the standard for more colonial legislative bodies that would follow | |
125140282 | The Puritans believed that their purpose in the colonies was to | become an example of faith for the world to see | |
125140283 | Anne Hutchinson was banished by the Massachusetts Bay officials because | she challenged gender roles and Puritan orthodoxy | |
125140284 | Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement, was founded by | a joint-stock company anxious to return a profit to investors | |
125140285 | The settlement of Jamestown Colony in Virginia survived as a result of | the planting of tobacco as a cash crop | |
125140286 | Puritans moved to New England because of | political repression of dissident Protestants, a economic recession, and restrictions on Puritan practices | |
125140287 | In the colonial period, Quakers were NOT known for | their refusal to pay taxes | |
125140288 | Colonial Pennsylvania was characterized by | having all white males vote | |
125140289 | The Triangular trade network of the 18th century sought to | cut out the middleman in trade transactions | |
125140290 | The Salem-Witch Trials in 1692 were | indicative of social and economic tensions among colonists | |
125140291 | The treatment of native populations by Spanish explorers in current-day Mexico and the American Southwest is commonly described as being | harsh and unprincipled | |
125140292 | Native American tribes experienced a cultural shift before Columbus landed in the New World when | knowledge of the growing of corn moved up from Mesoamerica | |
125140293 | The Mayflower Compact is best described as being | a foundation for self-government | |
125140294 | New England's tighly knight colonial societies in the 17th century began to experience trouble when | many began to question the strict adherence to Calvinist doctrine | |
125140295 | The Maryland Act of Toleration (1639) was passed to | maintain a safe haven for Catholics in the colonies | |
125140296 | New England women were able to | enjoy control over the matters of the household, such as finances and purchases | |
125140297 | At the time of the first wave of European settlers to North America, most Native American populations | were widely spread across the continent | |
125140298 | Bacon's Rebellion led to | a decrease in the reliance on indentured servants for labour | |
125140299 | The headright system | granted acreage to any person who paid the passage of servants to the colonies | |
125144189 | The Europeans inported African slaves especially: | to work on sugar plantations, at first in the Mediterranean, and then in the Americas | |
125144190 | About half of the Africans transported into slavery in the Americas went to: | the Caribbean | |
125144191 | The extreme conditions suffered on the second leg of the 18th century trading triangle: | were a product of the desire for profits by the traders | |
125144192 | Slaves were not as numerous as indentured servants in the 17th century Chesapeake because | they cost more and had a shorter life expectency | |
125144193 | A society in whichthe dominent form of labour is slavery is called a | slave society | |
125144194 | The first colonists to publicly criticize slavery were | Quakers | |
125144195 | Another word for country-born slaves is | Creoles | |
125144196 | For family life, African Americans DID NOT | surrender all control of children to women because men were often absent | |
125144197 | African Americans became christians in large numbers only after | the Great Awakening swept the south | |
125144198 | The value and labour of African slaves were the primary driving forces in the economy of | England | |
125144199 | The economic system characterized by state regulation of the economy in order to acquire as much of the fixed wealth of the world as possible is | mercantilism | |
125144200 | The economic view that there is a limited amount of wealth so that gains=losses is called | zero-sum game | |
125144201 | The legislative measures passed by Parliment between 1651-1696 to control trade with the colonies were known as | Navigation Acts | |
125144202 | The society that grew up with slavery in the South was one of great wealth for few and landless poverty for about | 40% | |
125144203 | Once slavery was identified with skin color | all white colonists were raised socially and unified by opressing blacks | |
125144968 | The deerfield raid illustrates the conflict between the | indians, English, and French | |
125144969 | Compared to the British, the French in North America | tended to have better relations with the Indians | |
125144970 | A significant characteristic of Spanish colonial communities were | their close association with religious missions | |
125144971 | Long-lot patterns are not found in | San Francisco | |
125144972 | The British colonial group most comforable with religious and ethnic pluralism were | The Quakers | |
125168015 | Colonial culture | saw the invidual as more important than the community | |
125168016 | Most 18th century farmers were interested in | small, self-sufficient farming communities | |
125168017 | The rising colonial demand for Indian lands stemmed from | a general expectation of property ownership | |
125168018 | Social class in America was | based on economic rank | |
125168019 | The existence of "strolling poor" indicated an 18th century trend in | less avaliable land | |
125168020 | Colonial government in new Spain and New France in the 18th century | was highly centralized and authoritarian | |
125168021 | An Enlightenment thinker would emphasize that | Humans were capable of understanding natural laws and using them to improve their condition | |
125168022 | In Poor Richard's Almanac, Ben Franklin tried to promote this to ordinary folk | Enlightenment thought | |
125168023 | Reverend William's book, the Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, illustrated the fascination of Colonial America with | Problems and diplemmas of crossing frontiers and boundaries | |
125168024 | Old Lights are not like | New lights, George Whitefield, Gilbert Tennet, and William Tennent | |
125168025 | In the mid-1700s, the most populous European colony in NA was | New Spain | |
125168026 | ___________ was a religious exile dissident | Roger Williams | |
125168027 | Community life in colonial NA was NOT | an oral culture following the seasons | |
125168028 | The English colonies populations grew more rapidly than the Spanish or the French because | English immigration policies were less restrictive | |
125168029 | By mid-18th century, the __________ region had the highest population | New England | |
125168030 | The Albany Conference of 1754 provided a clear indication of | the inability of British colonists to unite for a common cause | |
125168031 | The Seven year's war began | on the Ohio river, in present-day Pittsburgh | |
125168032 | In the Treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian war | the french lost their NA enpire to the British | |
125168033 | British PM William Pitt was dedicated to this goal in the French and Indian War | Driving all the French out of NA | |
125168034 | The Royal Proclamation of 1763 | Set aside an area west of the Appalachians as Indian Country | |
125168035 | As a result of various experiences in the French and Indian war, many American colonists | began to feel distinct from the British | |
125168036 | This was not included in the British republicanism political view | property should be controlled by the government | |
125168037 | To the radical Whigs of England, the only effective counterweight for abuse of power was | Vigilant people exercising public virtue | |
125168038 | The primary purpose of the Sugar Actwas to | Raise revenue to defray the cost of the Seven Years War | |
125168039 | The key to Daniel Dulany's rejection in Considerations on the Propriety of Imposing Taxes was that | Americans were members of a seperate political community | |
125168040 | While the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 denied that Parliament could tax colonists, they did | Agree that Parliament could regulate colonil trade | |
125168041 | The primary weapon that colonial opponents of the various revenue acts used to force their appeal was | Nonimportation and nonconsumption | |
125168042 | The Declaration and Resolves passed at the Continental Congress in 1774 commited the colonies to | Economic sanctions prohibiting importation and consumption of British goods and export of colonial goods to other parts of the empire | |
125168043 | A member of the Committee of Observation and Safety in 1775 had responsibility for | Enforcing economic sanction against Britain | |
125168044 | The British experience at Lexington and Concord foreshadowed a central difficulty with which the British had to contend throughout the American Revolution. It was: | Fighting in the midst of an armed population | |
125168045 | Among the early actions taken by the second continental congress, _____________ was not included | Declaring independece from Great Britian | |
125168046 | In his work Common Sense, Thomas Paine assisted the movement for independence by damning Parliament while | Appealing to the American's sense of special purpose | |
125168047 | The Stamo Act caused | idea of actual rep, considerations on the propriety of imposing taxes, sons of liberty, and the declaration act. | |
125168048 | The Intolerable acts, so named by the colonists, were a series of acts passed by British Parliament to punish: | Boston and the colony of Massachusetts | |
125168049 | The earliest military engagement of the American Revolution took place in | Massachusetts | |
125168050 | he continental army encamped at Valley Forge | contained many who were drawn from the ranks of the poor and disadvantaged | |
125168051 | During the American revolution, ___________ were not the most important | Patriot militia | |
125168052 | A ________ would have sympathized with Loyalists | Scot tenant farmer from the Carolinas | |
125168053 | Encounters between the British Army and Continental Army at Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey in late 1776 | Gave the Americans small victories needed to help moral | |
125168054 | The French committed themselves to recognize American independence | After Saratoga and fears of British conciliation | |
125366530 | The Congress under the Artivles of Confederation did not have authority to | tax citizens directly | |
125366531 | The American economy during the Revolution | suffered from inflation | |
125366532 | In their emphasis on the need for a "balanced government", conservatives were expressing their | fear of tyranny by a majority of "the unthinking" | |
125366533 | In taking the posistion he did in the wake os the issuance of the Newburgh address, George Washington | set a precedent for the subordination of the military to civil authority | |
125366534 | Thomas Jefferson's "Governemnt of the Western territory" was an attempt to create | settlement to the disputes and claims of colonies to the west | |
125366535 | Whle it had little practical effect this reform of Jefferson's in VA was copied by most states by 1798: | Abolishing of entail and primogeniture | |
125366536 | The region that was most resistant to calls to prohibit the slave trade was | the lower south | |
125366537 | Approx _________ fraction of the American public remained loyalist during the revolution | Between 1/5 and 1/3 | |
125366538 | The British strategy at the begining of the revolution was to cut off this area from the rest of the colonies | New England | |
125366539 | The expression "not worth a continental" referred to the | Depreciated value of the Continental currency by 1781 | |
125366540 | The state of Maryland held up ratification of the Articles of Confederation for over 3 years because it demanded | other states give up seperate claims to western lands | |
125366541 | In the Land ordinance of 1785, the income from the sale of section 16 went towards | public education | |
125366542 | While not strategically significant, Washingtn revived moral support by sneaking across the Delaware at | Trenton | |
125366543 | ___________ were not important in the American victory at Yorktown | Cherokee Warriors | |
125366544 | The Treaty of Paris | failed to restore NA territory to France | |
125366545 | Shay's rebellin | led to conservative nationalists to insist on a stronger central gv't | |
125366546 | The "purely federal" principles i ntroduced by William Paterson became known as the | NJ Plan | |
125366547 | The Father of the Constitution is | James Madison | |
125366548 | The delegates who met in Piladelphia in 1787 belonged to | a social elite that distrusted democracy | |
125373176 | The Great Compromise included all of the following agreements EXCEPT | an immediate end to the slave trade | |
125373177 | The Anti-Federalists | believed in Montesquieu's argument that republics suceed onlyin small countries | |
125373178 | The Bill of Rights primarly protects | the individual from the gov't and the majority | |
125373179 | NY voted to ratify the constitution following | a threat by NYC that it would secede from the state | |
125373180 | The US supreme court under chief justuce john jay | strengthened it's own role by establishing itself as the final authority on law | |
125373181 | Hamilton's fiscal program | gave wealthy americans an interest in the gov't's sucess | |
125373182 | Washinton issued a proclamation of neutrality in April 1793 because | he feared that Ambassador Genet's activites would bring was with Britain | |
125373183 | Following the end of the war for independence, the US had trouble gaining the land from the Treaty of paris because | Spain reasserted its claim to the area south of the ohio river | |
125373184 | The supression of the whiskey rebellion did not` | include the nationsl gov't proving that protesters had no legitimate complaint | |
125373185 | Jay's treaty and Pinckney's treat | together allowed the US to fully control the land to the Mississippi | |
125373186 | The 2nd major component of Hamilton's fiscal program established | a federal bank | |
125373187 | In his farewell address, Washington | argued for as little political connection to Europe as possible | |
125373188 | The Federalist-controlled Congress passed the Alien and Sedition acts because | Federalists argued that political opposistion to the administration was treason | |
125373189 | During the 1790s, the US began to develop a more democratic politicl culture as shown by | four states dropping the property qualifications to vote | |
125373190 | Who led the jeffersonian republicans following the retirement of madison | Alber Gallatin | |
125373191 | American artists in the late 18th centuryDID NOT include | Thomas Gainsboroguh | |
125382933 | pre-industrial rural societies were not places where | products were priced based on what the market would bear | |
125382934 | system f payment that exchanges goods rather than money is | a barter system | |
125382935 | The Transportation revolution did NOT | show the innovative genius f americans | |
125382936 | The map of the commercial links with canals and railroads as f 1850s shows that the | North had more canals than the South | |
125382937 | The Erie canal | set off a canal-building boom in other states | |
125382938 | Steamboats | caused one of the first public demands for gov't regulation | |
125382939 | In New Englan, these two conditions for rapid industrialization could be found | swift rivers and wealthy investors | |
125382940 | The development of commercial agriculture in the old NW did not involve | independence from east coast bankers because of distance | |
125382941 | Interchangable parts | became famous with the rifle from Springfield | |
125382942 | Mechanization | led to more piecework, longer hours, and lower pay for women | |
125382943 | in the middle class household, home became known as | a haven for leisure and relaxation | |
125382944 | One of the effects of that market revolution on social class | was that created a new middle class | |
125382945 | Paid jobs for women did not include (in the preindustrial world) | teaching | |
125382946 | While many staes had cotton mills, the region with the highest concentration os them by the 1830's was | New England | |
125382947 | Strikes in the 1820s and 30s | were responses to cuts in wages, often for women | |
125382948 | The evangelical religion of Charles G Finney and the 2nd Great Awaking emphasized that | a desire to be saved as shown by moral behavior was enough | |
125382949 | One of the effects of the market revolution on families was that | it required men to have different roles and cooperate with each other | |
125382950 | In his Walden, Henry David Thoreau | questioned the spiritual cost f the market revolution | |
125382951 | After the mr, men no longer worked in their homes, and the area of activity left to women became known as the | women's sphere | |
125382952 | Sentimentalism was not spread through | sermons advocating individualisn | |
125382953 | Russian exploration did not cause | epidemic diseases that destroyed a considerable portion of the native Aleut | |
125388683 | The Fench Revolution Did NOT aid the American economy by | increasing the overseas market for american manufactured goods | |
125388684 | Jefferson advocated a policy f national expansion for reasons that did not include | "only a large country would be able to amass the military power and defend itself" | |
125388685 | Expansionism did not include | stable communities and a strong sense of the public good | |
125388686 | Jefferson did not reach his goqal of reducing the size of government by | removing Spain from contol of the Mississippi | |
125388687 | Marbury v Madison was important because it established the principle of | judicial review | |
125388688 | Jefferson explained buying the lousianna purchase by arguing that | the land would ensure liberty and the existence of the republic | |
125388689 | the map featuring the lousiana purchase shows that lusiana did not include | texas | |
125388690 | the US argued that it's neutral rights were not being violated by | boycotts of products and ships | |
125458429 | the Embargo Act was | an extreme effort that hurt the americans more than the europeans | |
125458430 | Tecumseh | rejected treaties because all land belonged to the indian people and no one could give away the common property of all | |
125458431 | The battle of Tippecanoe | made William Henry Harrison a hero to white Americans | |
125458432 | The War Hawks didn't want to | take Texas | |
125458433 | Andrew Jackson wasn't known for | killing Tecumseh at hte Thames river | |
125458434 | The Treaty of Ghent | settled almost none of the outstanding issues | |
125458435 | The major migration routes westward showed that | each secton of the country had it's own route west | |
125458436 | Monroe's adoption of the american system in 1816 shows that | both parties had accepted the idea that the gov't should promote economic growth | |
125458437 | The Adams-Onis Treaty (Transcontinental treaty of 1819 | drew the border with spanish territory to the pacific | |
125458438 | The Monroe Doctrine did not | stipulate that the Europeans must remove all colonies in the Americas | |
125458439 | The Missouri compromise | severely criticized the desires of Missouri for the national interest. | |
125704250 | The cotton gin was important because it | meant the demand for land among Southerners would increase | |
125704251 | The land booms and rapid moverment into the Old Southwest did not | benefit the whole range of southern people | |
125704252 | The probability of cotton did not lead to | the South's decision not to invest in railroads and factories | |
125704253 | The map showing westward expansion by the South up to 1850 shows that | Southerners had added six states by 1821 to the North's four | |
125704254 | The increase in cotton production in the Lower South | led to a thriving internal slave trade, dividing families | |
125704255 | The internal slave trade after 1820 | involved little humane feeling but generated high profits | |
125704256 | The _________ group of slaves were the most likely to run away or organize mass desertions | House Servants | |
125704257 | Fieldwork on the plantations | was labor commonly enforced by the overseer's whip | |
125704258 | In the early 18th century, ______ percent of slaves worked in the field | 75% | |
125704259 | The effects of slavery on marriage in the south did not | use slave marriages as a control mechanism | |
125704260 | Christianity for African Americans | was a religion of spiritual freedom that helped blacks survive oppression | |
125704261 | Leaders of slave revolts in the 19th century included | Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner and Denmark Vessey | |
125704262 | Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831 caused a major reaction in the South, but did not happen as a result of | Turner having visions | |
125704263 | The middle class in the South in the first half of the nineteenth century | was viewed as grubby and dependent by planters | |
125704264 | The life of yeoman farmers in the South was NOT characterized by a | compulsion to prove one's worth by working for material success | |
125704265 | ____,______-, and _______ became major river-centric shipping centers for agricultural goods | St. Louis, Louisville, New Orleans, and Memphis | |
125704266 | Large plantation owners usually | were the sons of rich southerners | |
125704267 | The idea of the platation as being a family was violated by | the forcible rape of black women by their masters | |
125704268 | The measures taken by southerners after 1831 to control slaves more tightlydid not include | proposing measures to prevent expansion, thereby isolating the South | |
125704269 | By 1850,_____ and _____ had more enslaved blacks than they did free whites | South Carolina and Mississippi | |
125704270 | The New Yorker who established the Albany Regency was | Martin Van Buren | |
125704271 | The election of 1824 did not become controversial because | adams and clay abused the system | |
125704272 | the new popular democratic culture of the 1820s and 1830s | favoured candidates with name recognition and a popular image | |
125704273 | Andrew Jackson was elected in 1828 NOT because of his | political experience and thoughtful posistion on issues | |
125704274 | Henry Clay's American system did not propose a | national observatory | |
125704275 | The issue of the 1820s and 1830s tht came to represent conflicting sectional interests most was the | protective tariff | |
125704276 | Calhoun supported the doctrine of nullification because | he saw it as a way to protect the rights of minorities |
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