front 1 Most modern archeologists would agree that the earliest inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere came from which of the following areas of the world? | back 1 Asia |
front 2 About 15,000 years ago B.P., which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska? | back 2 Bering Strait |
front 3 Which group was the first to build cities in the "new world"? | back 3 Olmecs |
front 4 Which of the following groups lived in what is now known as the Four Corners region of the United States? | back 4 Anasazi |
front 5 Recently, scholars have begun to find evidence of incredible manipulations of landscapes and environments in the least likely of places, | back 5 the Amazon rainforest |
front 6 Which Spanish explorer led the first official expedition to the North American mainland? | back 6 Ponce de León |
front 7 Columbus mistakenly labeled the Taino people "Indians," believing that | back 7 he had reached the East Indies |
front 8 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 | back 8 infectious diseases brought by the Spanish |
front 9 What momentous event, which occurred throughout Europe, distracted England from pursuing empire in the 1500s? | back 9 the Reformation |
front 10 In 1600, England's settlements in the Americas included | back 10 None of these answers is correct (Roanoke, Jamestown, Newfoundland) |
front 11 What was the second oldest permanent European settlement in America? | back 11 Santa Fe, New Mexico |
front 12 What is merchantilism? | back 12 use of raw materials from the colonies to produce a favorable balance of trade |
front 13 In What year was Maryland founded as a proprietary colony by the Calvert family? | back 13 1632 |
front 14 Gen. James Oglethorpe was granted a charter to colonize Georgia in what year? | back 14 1732 |
front 15 Which of the following is the best description of a "headright"? | back 15 the right of a free settler or sponsor of immigrants to receive 50 acres per person or head |
front 16 The French primarily built settlements instead of cultivating trading relationships. | back 16 False |
front 17 Puritan women were restricted to domestic work. | back 17 True |
front 18 The "Mayflower Compact" of the Pilgrim Separatists was | back 18 a framework for government devised without a legal basis to do so |
front 19 William Penn and the Quakers differed from the Puritans of New England in their belief that | back 19 the state should guarantee all inhabitants freedom of worship |
front 20 There was widespread opposition in the colonies. | back 20 True |
front 21 ________ differences heightened sectional tensions between the seaboard's established communities and the frontiers. | back 21 Ethnic |
front 22 ________ was an intellectual movement in both Europe and America that celebrated the power of human reason. | back 22 The Enlightenment |
front 23 Only some of the major colonial cities were seaports. | back 23 False |
front 24 England and North America were exactly alike in the 18th century. | back 24 False |
front 25 The Tea Act of 1773 | back 25 gave the East India company a monopoly on the American tea trade |
front 26 The ________ Act allowed the housing of British troops in uninhabited private homes, outlying buildings, and barns. | back 26 Quartering |
front 27 The Sugar Act is also known as the Revenue Act. | back 27 True |
front 28 The author of Common Sense was John Locke. | back 28 False |
front 29 The Declaration of Independence was adopted | back 29 July 4, 1776 |
front 30 The "________" was an appeal from the Second Continental Congress affirming American loyalty to King George III. | back 30 Olive Branch Petition |
front 31 As the new nation's first president, Washington lamented that nearly all of his actions while in office would | back 31 establish a model for those that followed |
front 32 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? | back 32 revenue and credit |
front 33 Washington's farewell address | back 33 warned against the dangers of parties and called for a restoration of unity in the national political system |
front 34 Jefferson's Republican party | back 34 appealed to fears of commerce and urbanization |
front 35 The "Second Great Awakening" refers to | back 35 a revivalist religious movement at the beginning of the 1800s |
front 36 Which of the following proved to be the breakthrough necessary to push cotton production to the center of the American agricultural stage? | back 36 invention of the cotton gin |
front 37 In the years before the Civil War, what single enterprise employed more workers than any other enterprise in the country? | back 37 the postal system |
front 38 What was the most basic reason so many Americans moved so much, especially to the new western lands? | back 38 improved economic opportunity |
front 39 The factory system began in which industry? | back 39 textiles |
front 40 Jackson's popularity was derived not only from defeating the British but also from | back 40 his opening extensive tracts |
front 41 Which of the following is an accurate statement about the presidential election of 1840? | back 41 the election demonstrated that a strong, democratic, and popular two-party system was firmly established. |
front 42 The forced removal of the Cherokees to Oklahoma in 1838, a deadly march under Army escort, is known as the Trail of Tears. | back 42 True |
front 43 The ideal of domesticity | back 43 held that women's sphere was the home and family |
front 44 Romanticism | back 44 considered emotion as the source of truth. |
front 45 Transcendentalism | back 45 sought to rise above reason through individualist spiritual communion with nature. |
front 46 Seneca Falls, New York, was the site of | back 46 the first major women's rights convention |