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American History up to 1877

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Most modern archeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came from which of the following areas of the world?

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Asia

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About 15,000 years ago B.P., which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska?

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Bering Strait

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Which group was the first to build cities in the "new world"?

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Olmecs

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Which of the following groups lived in what is now known as the Four Corners region of the United States?

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Anasazi

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Recently, scholars have begun to find evidence of incredible manipulations of landscapes and environments in the least likely of places,

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the Amazon rainforest

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Which Spanish explorer led the first official expedition to the North American mainland?

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Ponce de León

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Columbus mistakenly labeled the Taino people "Indians," believing that

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he had reached the East Indies

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Although the Aztec eventually drove Cortés and his conquistadors out of their capital city of Tenochtitlán, it eventually fell to siege primarily because of the

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infectious diseases brought by the Spanish

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What momentous event, which occurred throughout Europe, distracted England from pursuing empire in the 1500s?

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the Reformation

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In 1600, England's settlements in the Americas included

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None of these answers is correct (Roanoke, Jamestown, Newfoundland)

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What was the second oldest permanent European settlement in America?

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Santa Fe, New Mexico

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What is merchantilism?

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use of raw materials from the colonies to produce a favorable balance of trade

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In What year was Maryland founded as a proprietary colony by the Calvert family?

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1632

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Gen. James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to colonize Georgia in what year?

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1732

front 15

Which of the following is the best description of a "headright"?

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the right of a free settler or sponsor of immigrants to receive 50 acres per person or head

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The French primarily built settlements instead of cultivating trading relationships.

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False

front 17

Puritan women were restricted to domestic work.

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True

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The "Mayflower Compact" of the Pilgrim Separatists was

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a framework for government devised without a legal basis to do so

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William Penn and the Quakers differed from the Puritans of New England in their belief that

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the state should guarantee all inhabitants freedom of worship

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There was widespread opposition in the colonies.

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True

front 21

________ differences heightened sectional tensions between the seaboard's established communities and the frontiers.

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Ethnic

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________ was an intellectual movement in both Europe and America that celebrated the power of human reason.

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The Enlightenment

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Only some of the major colonial cities were seaports.

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False

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England and North America were exactly alike in the 18th century.

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False

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The Tea Act of 1773

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gave the East India company a monopoly on the American tea trade

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The ________ Act allowed the housing of British troops in uninhabited private homes, outlying buildings, and barns.

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Quartering

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The Sugar Act is also known as the Revenue Act.

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True

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The author of Common Sense was John Locke.

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False

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The Declaration of Independence was adopted

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July 4, 1776

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The "________" was an appeal from the Second Continental Congress affirming American loyalty to King George III.

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Olive Branch Petition

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As the new nation's first president, Washington lamented that nearly all of his actions while in office would

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establish a model for those that followed

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Hamilton proposed to define the national debt in a way that increased what the nation had to pay. What two pressing financial problems did this seek to solve?

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revenue and credit

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Washington's farewell address

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warned against the dangers of parties and called for a restoration of unity in the national political system

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Jefferson's Republican party

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appealed to fears of commerce and urbanization

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The "Second Great Awakening" refers to

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a revivalist religious movement at the beginning of the 1800s

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Which of the following proved to be the breakthrough necessary to push cotton production to the center of the American agricultural stage?

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invention of the cotton gin

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In the years before the Civil War, what single enterprise employed more workers than any other enterprise in the country?

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the postal system

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What was the most basic reason so many Americans moved so much, especially to the new western lands?

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improved economic opportunity

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The factory system began in which industry?

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textiles

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Jackson's popularity was derived not only from defeating the British but also from

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his opening extensive tracts

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Which of the following is an accurate statement about the presidential election of 1840?

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the election demonstrated that a strong, democratic, and popular two-party system was firmly established.

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The forced removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma in 1838, a deadly march under Army escort, is known as the Trail of Tears.

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True

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The ideal of domesticity

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held that women's sphere was the home and family

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Romanticism

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considered emotion as the source of truth.

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Transcendentalism

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sought to rise above reason through individualist spiritual communion with nature.

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Seneca Falls, New York, was the site of

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the first major women's rights convention