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Chapter Nine
Jacksonian America
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which statement regarding the American electorate during the 1820s is TRUE?
A. The right to vote was expanded to include many more white males.
B. The right to vote was restricted to property owners.
C. Married white women had the right to vote but could not hold elected office.
Changes in voting rights occurred first in New England states and spread west.
Older states began to expand their property ownership requirements.
Ans: A
Page: 226
Chapter Eight
Varieties of American Nationalism
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The experience of American banking during the War of 1812 revealed the need for
A. another national bank.
B. more state banks.
C. a reduction in gold and silver reserves.
an increase in the number of bank notes in circulation.
currency backed by both gold and silver.
Ans: A
Page: 204
2. Which of the following statements about American currency and banking in this era is FALSE?
Counterfeiting was a serious problem.
Chapter Seven
The Jeffersonian Era
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In regards to education, early nineteenth-century Republicans favored
A. a nationwide system of free public schools for all male citizens.
B. federal government paying the costs of primary schools.
C. private schools as the primary institutions of learning.
the practice that only the children of elite families received an education.
free college education for all white male citizens of the republic.
Ans: A
Page: 170
Chapter Six
The Constitution and the New Republic
Multiple Choice Questions
1. By the late 1780s, dissatisfaction with the Articles of Confederation included a belief that the national government
A. had grown too powerful.
B. was too closely tied to England.
C. was pushing America into another war with England.
was ineffective.
had sold too much western land to speculators.
Ans: D
Page: 148
2. In 1786, Alexander Hamilton found an important ally in his push for a stronger central government in
Chapter Five
The America Revolution
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In 1775, as conflicts with England intensified, American colonists
A. made extensive efforts to prepare themselves for war.
B. were deeply divided about what they were fighting for.
C. believed England was not willing to engage in military operations against them.
saw their larger population as a key advantage over England.
considered arming slaves to help build up the colonial army.
Ans: B
Page: 118
Chapter Four
The Empire in Transition
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England increasingly shifted toward
A. the monarchy.
B. Parliament.
C. the citizens.
the Anglican Church.
the colonial governors.
Ans: B
Page: 94
2. During the first half of the eighteenth century, England?s administration of the colonies
A. was primarily concerned with checking the growth of New France.
Chapter Three
Society and Culture in Provincial America
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Most seventeenth-century English migrants to the North American colonies were
A. aristocrats.
B. religious dissenters.
C. laborers.
commercial agents.
landowners.
Ans: C
Page: 62
2. In the seventeenth century, the great majority of English immigrants who came to the Chesapeake region were
A. slaves.
B. women.
C. convicts.
indentured servants.
religious dissenters.
Ans: D
Chapter Two
Transplantations and Borderlands
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Seventeenth-century English colonial settlements
A. were essentially business enterprises.
B. were tightly controlled by the English government.
C. were effectively isolated from contact with other nations.
were well-planned and generally quite successful from the start.
maintained the political and social institutions of England.
Ans: A
Page: 27
Chapter One
The Meeting of Cultures
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The origins of human existence in the Americas began
A. with migrations from Eurasia over the Bering Strait.
B. with the explorations of Christopher Columbus.
C. as a result of the development of the wheel.
long after the last ice age ended.
from the southern tip of South America.
Ans: A
Page: 3
2. Scholars estimate that human migration into the Americas occurred approximately
A. 2,000 years ago.
Vocabulary
Agricultural Density - The ratio of the number of farmers to the total amount of land suitable for agriculture.
Agricultural Revolution - The time when human beings first domesticated plants and animals and no longer relied entirely on hunting and gathering.
Arithmetic Density - The total number of people divided by the total land area.
Census - A complete enumeration of a population.
Crude Birth Rate (CBR) - The total number of live births in a year for every 1,000 people alive in the society.
Language Preservation
Key Concept 4
"Ame-kun"
Key Terms
Extinct Languages: A language once used that is no longer spoken or read on a daily basis
Isolated Languages: A language unrelated and not attached to any other languages or language families
Lingua Franca: A language used in international communication, like English
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