5767184465 | 54 million | The population of the Americas in 1492, when the Europeans arrived | 0 | |
5767184466 | Very bad | The best description of the treatment of Native Americans by the Conquistadors | 1 | |
5767184467 | Jamestown | The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States | 2 | |
5767184468 | exporting agricultural; tobacco; rice; slavery; cities; religious | The 4 major characteristics of the southern plantation colonies by 1750 were a devotion to _________ ____________ products (mainly _______ and ____), _______, slow growth of ______, and _________ toleration | 3 | |
5767184469 | freedom of religion | Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, established complete _______ __ ________. | 4 | |
5767184470 | fair | The best description of Indian policy in early Pennsylvania was ____. | 5 | |
5767184471 | South | The physical and social conditions of slavery were the harshest in the _____. | 6 | |
5767184472 | Puritan Congregational Church Town Meeting | Thomas Jefferson described the _______ ______________ ______ ____ _______ (New Engand) as the best school of political liberty the world ever saw. | 7 | |
5767184473 | South Carolina | In 1760, fearful of heavy concentrations of slaves, which colonial legislature unsuccessfully sought to halt the importation of slaves? | 8 | |
5767184474 | Anglican; Congregational | In 1775, the ________ and ______________ churches were the only established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America. | 9 | |
5767184475 | Ohio River Valley | The clash between Britain and France for control of North America began with a fight over the ____ _____ ______. | 10 | |
5767184476 | fairly; eruption; uprising; settling | The Proclamation of 1763 designed to work out the Indian problem ______ and prevent another bloody ________ like Pontiac's ________ and to keep the colonists from ____. | 11 | |
5767184477 | loosely | The Navigation Laws were _______ enforced in the colonies before 1763. | 12 | |
5767184478 | Boston Port | The most drastic measure of the Intolerable Acts was the ______ ____ Act. | 13 | |
5767184479 | August; 1775 | King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellion in ______ of ____ (after the Battle of Bunker Hill) | 14 | |
5767184480 | neutral | When it came to supporting the Revolution, most colonists were _______. | 15 | |
5767184481 | House of Representatives | What was the 1 branch of the government directly elected by the people? | 16 | |
5767184482 | Legislative | Anti-federalists thought the sovereignty of the people resided in which branch of the central government? | 17 | |
5767184483 | No Bill of Rights | What was a major criticism of the Constitution, drafted in Philadelphia? | 18 | |
5767184484 | protective tariffs | The aspect of Hamilton's financial program that received the least support in Congress was __________ _______. | 19 | |
5767184485 | House of Representatives | Thomas Jefferson won the popular and electoral vote, a strange deadlock led to the election being decided where? | 20 | |
5767184486 | federal power; interests | John Marshall helped ensure an increase of _______ _____ and _________ as chief justice of the United States. | 21 | |
5767184487 | disunity | The War of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in the United States History because of its widespread ________. | 22 | |
5767184488 | American industry | The Tariff of 1816 was so important because it aimed to protect ________ ________. | 23 | |
5767184489 | electoral votes; Republican | The House of Representative decided the 1824 election because no one won the most _________ _____ and there were 4 __________ candidates. | 24 | |
5767184490 | southwest | Most early American settlers in Texas came from the __________. | 25 | |
5767184491 | potato famine | The overwhelming event in Ireland in the 1840s was the ______ ______. | 26 | |
5767184492 | Erie Canal | What began the canal era of American History? | 27 | |
5767184493 | women('s) rights; feminization; religion | The main effects of the Second Great Awakening were _____'s ______ movements and the ____________ of ________. | 28 | |
5767184494 | Mormon Religion | Originated in New York, original prophet was Joseph Smith, Utah, Book of Mormon, Brigham Young, polygamy are all related to the ______ ________. | 29 | |
5767184495 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin? | 30 | |
5767184496 | mountain whites | The ________ ______ were the most pro-Union white southerners. | 31 | |
5767184497 | Texas; California | The Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, which ended the Mexican War, confirmed the American title to _____ and __________. | 32 | |
5767184498 | Mexican Cession | The largest single addition to American territory was the _______ _______. | 33 | |
5767184499 | vote; territory | With "Popular Sovereignty", the question of slavery in the territories was to be settled by the ____ of the people in any given __________. | 34 | |
5767184500 | gold; California | The discovery of ____ in __________ threatened to destroy the longstanding balance of free and slave states in the US Senate. | 35 | |
5767184501 | California; balance | The South was growing increasingly worried about the future of slavery because the admission to __________ may tie the political _______ against them. | 36 | |
5767184502 | property; honor | The issue of runaway slaves was of such importance because it was a loss of ________ and _____. | 37 | |
5767184503 | homes; hide; escaping | The Underground Railroad consisted of networks of _____ that slaves could ____ in while ________. | 38 | |
5767184504 | Nicaragua | What area, for a short time, did the American William Walker seize control of in the 1850s? | 39 | |
5767184505 | Matthew Perry | The man who opened Japan to the United States was _______ _____. | 40 | |
5767184506 | Atlantic; Pacific | The primary objective of Manifest Destiny expansionists in the 1850s was to spread from the ________ to the _______. | 41 | |
5767184507 | secret Ostend Manifesto | The secret ______ _________ that was leaked to the ______ stopped the Pierce administration's plans to gain control of Cuba? | 42 | |
5767184508 | transcontinental railroad | Most American leaders believed that the only way to keep the new Pacific Coast territories was to construct a ________________ ________. | 43 | |
5767184509 | popular sovereignty | Senator Douglas proposed that the question of slavery be dealt with in the Kansas-Nebraska territory by _______ _______ ___________. | 44 | |
5767184510 | slavery; constitutional; slave | In 1857, the Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case affected the Western territories by deciding that _______ would be ______________ in those areas that were already _____ territories. | 45 | |
5767184511 | cruelty; slavery | Uncle Tom's Cabin showed people the _______ of _______. | 46 | |
5767184512 | little woman; started; great war | President Lincoln described Harriet Beecher Stowe by saying "So you're the ______ _____ who wrote the book that _______ this _____ ___." | 47 | |
5767184513 | help; South; support | The British and French governments concluded after Uncle Tom's Cabin gained a wide following in their countries that they couldn't ____ the _____ because their people wouldn't _______ it. | 48 | |
5767184514 | slave | In 1855, proslavery southerners regarded Kansas as a _____ state. | 49 | |
5767184515 | deeply divided | The clash between Preston S. Brooks and Charles Sumner revealed that the nation was ______ _______. | 50 | |
5767184516 | nativists | The central plank of the Know-Nothing Party in the 1856 election was _________. | 51 | |
5767362167 | anti-foreign; anti-immigrant | The nativists in the 1850s were known for being ____-_______ and ____-_________. | 52 | |
5767362168 | lack; honesty; war | In part, the Republicans lost the 1856 election because of Fremont's ____ of _______, and the Southerners threatened to start a ___, so Northerner's didn't vote for him. | 53 | |
5767362169 | Southerners | Who applauded the decision in the Dred Scott case? | 54 | |
5767362170 | homestead; public land; away | In the North, the Panic of 1857 created calls for _________ of 160 acres of ______ ____ to be given ____. | 55 | |
5767362171 | amature; president | The political career of Abraham Lincoln can best be described as _______ until he became ________. | 56 | |
5767362172 | won; Senate seat | As a result of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas ___ the ______ ____. | 57 | |
5767362173 | all rights; Declaration (of) Independence | Lincoln stated that he believed that the black race should have ___ ______ as stated in the ___________ of ____________. | 58 | |
5767362174 | arsenal; weapons; slaves | John Brown intended to sieze an _______ of _______ and give them to ______ during his raid on Harpers Ferry. | 59 | |
5767362175 | gangs; out | The South concluded that there were northern _____ trying to take them ___ after John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry. | 60 | |
5767362176 | secede | The reaction of the people of South Carolina when Lincoln won the 1860 election was to ______. | 61 | |
5767362177 | Montgomery, Alabama | Where the Confederate government was 1st organized? | 62 | |
5767362178 | low; supplies; set out | Confederate batteries opened fire on Fort Sumter when they were ___ on ________ and had to ___ ___. | 63 | |
5767362179 | Confederates; fire; Fort Sumter | In 1861, many Northerners were willing to allow Southern States to leave the Union until ____________ opened ____ on ____ ______. | 64 | |
5767362180 | dubious legality | Lincoln used methods of _______ ________ in order to persuade the Border States to remain in the Union. | 65 | |
5767362181 | Union; pro-slavery | Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery was meant for the people in the _____ who were ___-______. | 66 | |
5767362182 | save; Union | Lincoln declared the purpose of the war at the beginning was to ____ the _____. | 67 | |
5767362183 | fight; draw | In order to achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to _____ to a ____. | 68 | |
5767362184 | high morale; locating; soldiers | As the Civil War began, what the South seemed to have the advantage in ____ ______, and at ________ better trained ________. | 69 | |
5767362185 | lack; food; clothes | Of all the hardships faced by the soldiers in the Civil War, the greatest was the ____ of ____ and ______. | 70 | |
5767362186 | economy | The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was the _______. | 71 | |
5767362187 | economy | The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was the _______. | 72 | |
5767362188 | discipline; determination | Northern soldiers eventually became known for their __________ and _____________. | 73 | |
5767362189 | slavery; end | Most working people in Britain sided with the North because they believed that _______ would ___ if the North won. | 74 | |
5768012754 | opposition; citizens | One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that they forced __________ of the ________. | 75 | |
5768012755 | cotton; economy | The South believed that the British would come to its aid because of ______, and therefore the _______. | 76 | |
5768012756 | keep; out; bring; into | What was the role of diplomacy for the Union in the war was to ____ the British and French ___ of the war, and the Confederacy wanted to _____ the British and French ____ the war. | 77 | |
5768012757 | Alabama | The Confederacy's most effective commerce raiding ship was the _______. | 78 | |
5768012758 | president; popular; impeached | The Southern cause was weak because their _________ wasn't _______, and people wanted him _________. | 79 | |
5768012759 | volunteers | To man its army, prior to 1863, the North relied on __________. | 80 | |
5768012760 | standard bank note | The National Banking System was important because it established a ________ ____ ____. | 81 | |
5768012761 | keeping; Union | At the beginning of the war, Lincoln favored _______ the ______ together. | 82 | |
5768012762 | capture; Richmond | Lincoln hoped that a Union victory at Bull Run would result in the _______ of ________. | 83 | |
5768012763 | long; enlistments; southern army | An unexpected result of the Southern victory at Bull Run was the realization that the war would be ____, and also that ___________ in the ________ ____ decreased. | 84 | |
5768012764 | cautious | General George McClellan can best be described as ________. | 85 | |
5768012765 | enemy outnumbered his men | The major mistake that McClellan consistently made was that he believed that the _____ ___________ ___ ___. | 86 | |
5768012766 | Emancipation Proclamation | Lincoln made the political move to draft the ____________ ___________ after the Union loss during the Peninsula Campaign. | 87 | |
5768012767 | border states; join | By invading Maryland, one of Lee's key objectives was to inspire ______ _____ to ____ the Confederacy. | 88 | |
5768012768 | fired | After the Battle of Antietam, General McClellan was _____. | 89 | |
5768012769 | Gettysburg; Antietam | The two major battles of the Civil War fought on Northern soil were the Battles of __________ and ________. | 90 | |
5768012770 | intervention; Confederacy | The Battle of Antietam was critical for the North because it prevented British ____________ with the ___________. | 91 | |
5768012771 | Emancipation Proclamation | The North's victory at Antietam allowed Lincoln to issue the ____________ ____________. | 92 | |
5768012772 | 13th Amendment | The ____ _________ legally abolished slavery in the United States. | 93 | |
5768012773 | moral cause; Union | The Emancipation Proclamation strengthened the _____ _____ of the _____. | 94 | |
5768012774 | soldiers | African-Americans served in the Union Army as ________. | 95 | |
5768012775 | month; ended | The Confederacy enlisted slaves into its army a _____ before the war _____. | 96 | |
5768012776 | victory; doomed | The Battle of Gettysburg was significant because the Union _______ made the Southern cause ______. | 97 | |
5768012777 | Northern Peace Democrats | The group in the North most dangerous to Union cause was the ________ _____ ________. | 98 | |
5768012778 | Copperhead | Clement L. Vallandigham was labeled as __________. | 99 | |
5768012779 | Andrew Johnson | Lincoln's running mate in the 1864 election was ______ _______. | 100 | |
5768012780 | George McClellan | The Democrats nominated ______ _________ to oppose Lincoln in the 1864 election. | 101 | |
5768379738 | Atlanta and Mobile | Union victories in _______ and ______ were crucial to Lincoln's reelection in 1864. | 102 | |
5768379739 | calamity | Ironically, Lincoln's assassination was a ________ for the South. | 103 | |
5768379740 | pardoned; brief jail terms | The defeated Confederate leaders were all ________ in 1868 after _____ ____ _____. | 104 | |
5768379741 | devastated | The economy in the South at the war's conclusion was totally __________. | 105 | |
5768379742 | secession; correct | Many white Southerners believed that their view of _________ was _______ at the end of the Civil War. | 106 | |
5768379743 | meddlesome federal agency; dominance | The white South viewed the Freedmen's Bureau as a __________ _______ ______ that threatened to upset white racial _________. | 107 | |
5768379744 | meddlesome agency; killed | Johnson's view of the Freedmen's Bureau was a __________ ______ that should be ______. | 108 | |
5768379745 | democrats; pro-union southerners | Johnson was put on Lincoln's ticket in the 1864 election because he would politically attract war _________ and ___-_____ ___________. | 109 | |
5768379746 | champion; poor whites | As a politician, Johnson developed a reputation as a ________ of the ____ ______. | 110 | |
5768379747 | readmission; states; Union | Lincoln promised rapid ___________ of Southern ______ into the _____ in the 10 Per Cent Plan for Reconstruction. | 111 | |
5768379748 | swift restoration; southern states; basic conditions | Johnson's plan for Reconstruction was aimed at _____ __________ of the ________ ______ after a few _____ __________ were met. | 112 | |
5768379749 | stable labor supply | The main purpose of the Black Codes was to ensure a ______ _____ ______. | 113 | |
5768379750 | South; not won; war | The Black Codes seemed to indicate to many Northerners an arrogant _____ acting as if the North had ___ ___ the ___. | 114 | |
5768379751 | citizenship; civil rights; free | The 14th Amendment guaranteed ___________ and _____ ______ to ____ slaves. | 115 | |
5768379752 | soft treatment; white south | The root cause of the battle between President Johnson and Congress was Johnson's ____ _________ of the _____ _____. | 116 | |
5768379753 | troops; removed | Radical Reconstruction of the South ended when the last of the federal ______ were _______ in 1877. | 117 | |
5768379754 | 15th | What was the last of the Reconstruction era amendments? | 118 | |
5768379755 | legislation; needed reforms | The Radical Reconstruction state governments passed desirable ___________ and badly ______ _______. | 119 | |
5768379756 | both; North; South | Political corruption was widespread across the nation during Reconstruction in ____ the _____ and _____. | 120 | |
5768379757 | terrorist organization | The Ku Klux Klan can best be described as a _________ ____________. | 121 | |
5768379758 | white; success; black | A primary motive for the formation of the Ku Klux Klan was _____ resentment of the _______ of _____ legislators. | 122 | |
5768379759 | Secretary (of) War; Tenure (of) Office Act | The official charge the House used to impeach President Johnson was his dismissal of _________ of ___ (Stanton), contrary to the ______ of ______ ___. | 123 | |
5768379760 | economic reforms; political | Reconstruction might have been more successful if Thaddeus Stevens' radical program of drastic ________ _______ and stronger protection of _________ rights had been enacted. | 124 |
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