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| 3519254590 | Europeans wanted to discover a new, shorter route to eastern Asia in order to | break the hold that Muslim merchants had on trade with Asia, reduce the time it took to transport goods, reduce the price of goods from Asia, gain more profits for themselves | 0 | |
| 3519280814 | The introduction of American plants around the world resulted in | (like potatoes!) rapid population growth in Europe | 1 | |
| 3519311006 | The financial means from England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by | a joint stock company | 2 | |
| 3519635169 | The size and sophistication of Native American civilizations in Mexico and South America can be attributed to | the development of agriculture | 3 | |
| 3519645374 | The development of "three sister" farming on the southeast Atlantic seaboard | produced a rich diet that let to high population densities | 4 | |
| 3519665965 | The early voyages of the Scandinavian seafarers did not result in permanent settlement in North America because | no nation-state yearning to expand supported these ventures | 5 | |
| 3519678051 | The early years at Jamestown were mainly characterized by | starvation disease and frequent indian raids | 6 | |
| 3519725716 | Captain John Smith's role at Jamestown can best be described as | saving the colony from collapse by making the colonists work | 7 | |
| 3519735070 | European explorers introduced _____ into the New World | smallpox | 8 | |
| 3519751534 | Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the | defeat of the Spanish Armada | 9 | |
| 3519835092 | The summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent because it | was the first attempt at a representative assembly in America | 10 | |
| 3519849380 | Some Africans became especially valuable as slaves in the Carolinas because they | were experienced in rice cultivation... | 11 | |
| 3519865917 | The busiest seaport in the southern colonies was | Charleston | 12 | |
| 3519936986 | The colony of Georgia was founded as a | defensive buffer for South Carlolina | 13 | |
| 3519951237 | Georgia's founders were determined to | create a haven for people imprisoned for debt | 14 | |
| 3519954155 | A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony was to | create a refuge for the Catholics | 15 | |
| 3519960452 | At the outset, Lord Baltimore allowed some religious toleration in Maryland colony because he | wanted to protect he Catholic minority? | 16 | |
| 3520155104 | The statues governing slavery in the North American colonies originated in | Barbados | 17 | |
| 3520164254 | Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia were similar in that they were all | notable for their fertile soil? | 18 | |
| 3520227998 | By 1750, all the southern plantation colonies | had few large cities; based their economies on the production of staple crops for export; provided tax support for the Church of England; practiced slavery | 19 | |
| 3520304861 | People who flouted the authority of the Puritan clergy in Massachusetts Bay were subject to which of the following punishments | fines, flogging, banishment and death | 20 | |
| 3520322009 | According to Anne Hutchinson, a dissenter in Massachusetts Bay, | predestination was not a valid idea | 21 | |
| 3520331847 | As the founder of Rhode Island, Rodger Williams | established complete religious freedom for all | 22 | |
| 3520363035 | The city of New Haven was settled by | Puritans? | 23 | |
| 3520394921 | Unlike, other English voyagers to the New World, the Puritans | transplanted entire communities | 24 | |
| 3520454894 | The Mayflower Compact can be best described as | a charter or contract that insured genuine self - government | 25 | |
| 3520474276 | Unlike Separatist, Puritans | remained members of the Church of England | 26 | |
| 3520598021 | King Philip's War resulted in | the lasting defeat of New England's Indians. | 27 | |
| 3520671648 | The Dominion of New England | eventually included New York and east and were New Jersy, was designed to bolster colonial defense, included all the New England colonies, was created by the English government to streamline the administration of its colonies | 28 | |
| 3520839070 | New York was | dutch colony, lack of enthusiasm for democratic practices | 29 | |
| 3520943046 | Cultural contributions the Dutch made to America include all of the following except | skating, Easter eggs, sauerkraut, Santa Clause | 30 | |
| 3520947283 | Indian policy in early Pennsylvania can be best described as | benevolent | 31 | |
| 3520957709 | Throughout the greater part of the seventeenth century, the Chesapeake colonies acquired most of the labor they needed from | white servants | 32 | |
| 3520975035 | Bacon's Rebellion was supported mainly by | young med frustrated by their inability to acquire land | 33 | |
| 3521005692 | The majority of African slaves coming to the New World | were delivered to South America and the West Indies | 34 | |
| 3522241122 | The slave society that developed in North America was one of the few slave societies in history to | perpetuate itself by its own natural reproduction | 35 | |
| 3522258521 | The expansion of New England society | proceeded in an orderly fashion | 36 | |
| 3522270231 | Economically, the colony of Pennsylvania | became profitable very quickly as a breadbasket | 37 | |
| 3522283764 | All the middle colonies were | notable for their fertile soil | 38 | |
| 3522316726 | The "headright" system, which made some people very wealthy, entailed | giving the right to acquire fifty acres of land to the person paying the passage of a laborer to America | 39 | |
| 3522337311 | The Half-Way Convenant | admitted to baptism but not full membership the unconverted children of existing members | 40 | |
| 3522339527 | The immediate reason for Bacon's Rebellion was | Indian attacks on frontier settlements | 41 | |
| 3522345475 | The population growth of the American Colonies by 1775 is attributed mostly to | The natural fertility of all Americans | 42 | |
| 3522350729 | By 1775, the ____ were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America | Germans | 43 | |
| 3522357385 | By 1775, the ____ churches were the only two established (tax-supported) churches in colonial America | congregational and anglican church | 44 | |
| 3522364026 | Match each denomination with the region a. Congregationalist b. Anglican c. Presbyterian | a. Congregationalist - New England b. Anglican - the South c. Presbyterian - the frontier | 45 | |
| 3522364027 | The Great Awakening | split colonial churches into several competing denominations; led to the founding of Princeton, Dartmouth, and Rutgers colleges; undermined the prestige of the learned clergy in the colonies; was the first spontaneous mass movement of the American people | 46 | |
| 3522369888 | In colonial America, education was most zealously promoted | in New Englnad | 47 | |
| 3522372896 | By 1775, most governments of the American colonies were | bicameral legislatures | 48 | |
| 3522378535 | The most ethnically diverse region of colonial America was ____, whereas ____ was the least ethnically diverse | the middle colonies, New England | 49 | |
| 3522380931 | The Scots-Irish can best be described as | fiercely independent | 50 | |
| 3522621823 | The soldier and explorer whose leadership​ earned him the title "Father of New France" was | Samuel de Champlain | 51 | |
| 3522628817 | Colonial legislatures who were often able to bend the power of the governors to their will because | colonial legislatures controlled taxes and expenditures that paid the governors' salaries. | 52 | |
| 3522633027 | During the seventeenth century, American established the precedent of | being involved in every war since 1688. | 53 | |
| 3522635783 | The courerurs de bois were | Translated as "runners of the woods," they were French fur-trappers | 54 | |
| 3522641551 | In the first military command in the French and Indian War, George Washington | won at Fort Duquesne | 55 | |
| 3522648675 | The French and Indian war also known in Europe as | Seven years war | 56 | |
| 3522652072 | The one valuable resource in New France was | beavers | 57 | |
| 3522659077 | As a result of General Braddock's defeat a few miles from Fort Duquesne , | the frontier from Pennsylvania to North Carolina was open to Indian attack. | 58 | |
| 3522664546 | When William Pitt became prime minister during the French and Indian War, he | focused his military strategy on the capture of French Canada. | 59 | |
| 3522667432 | In the Peace arrangements that ended the French and Indian War, he | France surrendered all its territorial claims to north America | 60 | |
| 3522672565 | As a result of the French and Indian war, Great Britain | became the dominant power in North America | 61 | |
| 3522678308 | During a generation of peace following the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, Britain provided its American colonies with | decades of salutary neglect | 62 | |
| 3522683439 | When the Acadians left Canada, they went to | Louisana | 63 | |
| 3522687078 | Indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports | Sugar, Townshend | 64 | |
| 3522694588 | Under mercantilist doctrine, the American colonies were expected to do all of the following except | 65 | ||
| 3522698057 | The Founding Fathers failed to eliminate slavery because | 66 | ||
| 3522698058 | The British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to | raise money in the form of a direct tax in order to pay for colonial defense | 67 | |
| 3522709443 | One change in colonial policy by the British government that helped precipitate the American Revolution involved | compelling the American colonists to shoulder some of the financial costs of the empire | 68 | |
| 3522711888 | The "radical Whigs" feared | The arbitrary power of government especially the king | 69 | |
| 3522723034 | Passage of the Sugar and the Stamp Act | 70 | ||
| 3522728363 | Colonial protest against the Stamp Act took the form of | wearing homemade woolen clothes ,convening a colonial congress to request repeal of the act ,a colonial boycott against British Goods, violence in several colonial towns primarily Boston. | 71 | |
| 3522735271 | As a result of American opposition to the Townsend Acts | British officials sent regiments of troops to Boston | 72 | |
| 3522744859 | The tax on teas was retained when the Townsound Acts were repealed because | 73 | ||
| 3522752080 | The First Continetial Congress | called for a complete boycott of British goods | 74 | |
| 3522770144 | 76 The Revolutionary War began with fighting in__________:then in 1777-1778,fighting was concentrated in ____:and the fighting concluded in ___________. | Long Island Trenton Saratoga Charleston | 75 | |
| 3522774521 | Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because | Parliment passed the the tax not the colonists | 76 | |
| 3522776997 | Virtual representation meant that | Every member of parliament represented a British subject. | 77 | |
| 3522782355 | King George III officially declared the colonies in rebellionjust after | 78 | ||
| 3522790592 | When the Second Continential Congress met in 1775 | 79 | ||
| 3522794067 | The Olive Branch Petition | 80 | ||
| 3522811415 | The resolution that "These United Colonies are ,and of right ought to be,free and independent states..." was introduced into the Second Continetal Congress by Virginia delegate | Richard Henry Lee | 81 | |
| 3522822190 | Americans who oppossed independence for the colonies were labled _________or _______________,and the independence -seeking Patriots were als know as ________________. | Loyalists, | 82 | |
| 3522837041 | The Americans who continued to support the crown after independence had been declared were more likely to be all of the following except | New England | 83 | |
| 3522843546 | The Indian Chief who fought for the British in New York and Pennsylvania was | Joseph Brant | 84 | |
| 3522848104 | The colonists ' invasion of Canada in1775 | 85 | ||
| 3522855307 | One purpose of the Declaration of Independence as to | 86 | ||
| 3522868507 | Which of the following fates befell Loyalists after the Revolutionary War? | 87 | ||
| 3522875616 | After the humiliating defeat at Saratoga in 1777 the British Parliament | 88 | ||
| 3522882321 | The Battle of Saratoga was a key victory for the Americans because it | .brought the colonist much needed aid and formal alliance with France.. | 89 | |
| 3522895728 | In the late 1776 and early 1777 George Washington helped restore confidence in America's military by | defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton | 90 | |
| 3522903560 | The Armed neutrality League was started by | 91 | ||
| 3522906175 | French aid to the colonies | 92 | ||
| 3522916814 | The Treaty of Fort Stanwix ,the first treaty between the United States and an Indian nation resulted in | the ceding of most of the Iroquois land and their removal to Canada | 93 | |
| 3522930260 | The major issue that delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation concerned | taxation | 94 | |
| 3522935949 | US foreign relations following the Revolutionary War | 95 | ||
| 3522938068 | Shay's Rebellion convinced many Americans of the need for | 96 | ||
| 3522946785 | The Constitutional Convention was called to | 97 | ||
| 3522953838 | Which of the following Revolutionary leaders was present at the Constitutional Convention | 98 | ||
| 3522972737 | The delegate whose contributions to The Philadelphiar Convention were so notable that he has ben called the "Father of the Constitution was | 99 | ||
| 3522986861 | After the Revolutionary war both Britain and Spain | prevented America from exercising effective control over about half of its total territory | 100 | |
| 3522995866 | As a result of the Revolution , many state capitals were relocated westward | 101 | ||
| 3523005686 | The Great Compromise at the Constitutional Convention worked out and acceptable scheme for | 102 | ||
| 3523013772 | The idea that all tax measures should start in the House made to appease | 103 | ||
| 3523019070 | "large state plan" | 104 | ||
| 3523023484 | "small state plan" | 105 | ||
| 3523027162 | Northwest Ordinance | 106 | ||
| 3523035855 | three-fifths compromise | 107 | ||
| 3523041810 | The one branch of government elected directly by the people is the | 108 | ||
| 3523048544 | The delegates at the Constitutional Convention stipulated that the new Constitution be ratified by | 109 | ||
| 3523060303 | Probably the most alarming characteristic of the new Constitution to those who opposed it was the | 110 | ||
| 3523063229 | All of the following guarantees provided by the Bill of Rights except | 111 | ||
| 3523079609 | Alexander Hamilton believed that a limited national debt | 112 | ||
| 3523090001 | Hamilton expected that the revenue to pay the interest on the national debt would come from | 113 | ||
| 3523094527 | Hamilton vs Jefferson | 114 | ||
| 3523104062 | When the French Revolution developed into a war wit Britain, George Washington and the American Government | 115 | ||
| 3523117292 | In Jays treaty ,the British | 116 | ||
| 3523127183 | The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississipi River in | 117 | ||
| 3523138412 | Washington's Farewell Address in 1796 | 118 | ||
| 3523148667 | Foreign relations between the united States and France deteriorate in the late 1790s over | 119 | ||
| 3523156885 | The United State finally negotiated a peace settlement with France in 1800 mainly because Napoleon | 120 | ||
| 3523163857 | The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to | 121 | ||
| 3523170014 | The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were writted in response to | 122 | ||
| 3523178452 | in 1800 ,Thomas Jefferson was chosen president by the | 123 | ||
| 3523189889 | Thomas jefferson 's "Revolution of 1800" | 124 | ||
| 3523214872 | As chief Justice of the United States, John Marshall helped to ensure that | 125 | ||
| 3523224150 | John Marshall , as chief justice of the United States , helped to strengthen the judicial branch of government | 126 | ||
| 3523238285 | Thomas Jefferson's first major -foreign -policy | 127 | ||
| 3523247082 | Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the united States because | 128 | ||
| 3523254631 | Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisana Territory from France because | Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisana Territory from France because | 129 | |
| 3523291877 | Th Chesapeake incident involved the flagrant use of | 130 | ||
| 3523306205 | President Jefferson's foreign policy of economic coercion | 131 | ||
| 3523311888 | Macon's Bill No.2 | 132 | ||
| 3523317123 | The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in | 133 | ||
| 3523321349 | During the War of 1812 ,the new England states | 134 | ||
| 3523324803 | The British attack on Baltimore | 135 | ||
| 3523334032 | The most devastating defeat suffered b the British during he War of 1812 took place at the Battle of | 136 | ||
| 3523342067 | The resolution from the Hartford Convention | 137 | ||
| 3523344552 | In diplomatic and economic terms the War of 1812 | 138 | ||
| 3523371615 | The Rush-Bagot agreement | 139 | ||
| 3523376653 | As a result of the Missouri Compromise | 140 | ||
| 3523376654 | Marbury v Madison | 141 | ||
| 3523381010 | Fletcher v Peck | 142 | ||
| 3523387753 | Mc Culloch v Maryland | 143 | ||
| 3523387754 | Gibbons v Ogden | 144 | ||
| 3523392393 | Dartmouth College v Woodward | 145 | ||
| 3523399034 | The United Staes most successful diplomat in the Era of Good feelings was | 146 | ||
| 3523405480 | The House of Representatives decided the 1824 presidential election when | 147 | ||
| 3523410855 | The Treaty of 1818 with England | 148 | ||
| 3523419272 | Andrew Jackson's military exploits were instrumental in the United States gaining | 149 | ||
| 3523432370 | Britain opposed Spain's reestablishing its authority in becauseLatin American countries that had successfully revolted because | 150 | ||
| 3523440998 | At the time it was issued the Monroe Doctorine was | 151 | ||
| 3523446359 | The Anti Masonic party of 1832 appealed to | 152 | ||
| 3523453370 | The nullification crisis of 1832-1833 erupted over | 153 | ||
| 3523457241 | The section of the United States most hurt bythe Tarif of 1828 was | 154 | ||
| 3523462313 | The purpose behind the spoils system was | 155 |
