Question 1

The main impact European exploration on American Indians at the onset of the establishment of the Columbian Exchange?

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the introduction of diseases like smallpox led to a decimation of the American Indian Population

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the native population was forced off their land as slave labor was imported from Africa

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Spanish and Portuguese explorers cut American-Indian nations off from trade routes, leading to mass starvation

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the introduction of the horse by Spanish-led American Indians to hunt more and depend upon maize and other crops less.

Question 2

The most significant impact of the introduction of sugarcane in the West Indies was...

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the need for slave labor from Africa to maintain constant production of sugar

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the development of a continuous war between Spain and Portugal over Caribbean islands

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the desire of the Spanish to settle the Western Hemisphere with permanent settlements made up of families

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the destruction of the ecosystem of many Caribbean islands resulting in the death of thousands of natives

Question 3

As described, the Columbian Exchange was significant in that it had the greatest impact on which group of people?

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Europeans; new, easier-to-grow foodstuffs such as corn and potatoes were brought from the New World and allowed impoverished population groups to survive and increase their numbers.

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Europeans; their wealth increased

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Africans; they received a greater variety of foodstuffs from Europe, in turn increasing their population significantly.

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Native Americans; they were enslaved by the encomienda system by the thousands

Question 4

According to this excerpt which of the following has supremacy in American law?

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The Constitution

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The Judicial Branch

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The Supremacy Court

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Writs of Mandamus

Question 5

The previous excerpt would have been most strongly supported by which group?

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Southern slave owners in the 1850s

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South Carolina plantation owners in the 1830s

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New England Federalists in the 1810s

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Kentucky legislature in the 1790s

Question 6

In reaction to changing events in American history, interpretation of the Constitution by the Supreme Court can allow subsequent decisions to change initial court rulings. Which of the following pair of Supreme Court decisions illustrates this change of interpretation.

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Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board

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Fletcher v. Peck and Gibbons v. Ogden

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Scott v. Sanford and Schenk v. United States

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Cherokee Nation v. Georgia and Worcester v. Georgia

Question 7

Which of the following presidential actions of the first half of the 19th century challenges the main principles behind the previous quote.

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Andrew Jackson's veto of the bill that called for the re-charter of the Second Band of the United States

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James Madison's Declaration of War in 1812

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James Madison's veto of internal improvements in 1817

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James Monroe's issuing of the Monroe Doctrine

Question 8

Based on the information in the map, which of the following best describes the circumstances of events in the 19th century?

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The United States was attempting to maintain a balance between free and slave states.

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Slave territory was beginning to encroach on free territory.

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Free states were looking to add Oregon Country to their territory to have access to the Pacific Ocean.

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The United States Had intentions of taking the Spanish Territory in the West

Question 9

The event portrayed in the map was the center of controversy later in the first half of the 19th century when...

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the Supreme Court determined the outcome of the compromise that created the above map to be unconstitutional.

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legislation passed in the 1850s overturned the laws established in 1820, allowing a state to rid its territory of slavery.

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the Free Soil Party began to win elections in the western territories where it had been determined that popular sovereignty would determine the outcome of a territory's slave status.

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the events depicted in the map caused the war with Mexico in 1846.

Question 10

The main point of this political cartoon most directly reflects which of the following ideas?

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Social Darwinism

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The Social Gospel

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Progressivism

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Populism

Question 11

The ideas expressed by the artist in the political cartoon illustrate which of the following issues of the Industrial Revolution?

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The belief that monopolies controlled the U.S. Senate.

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Labor unions had too much influence in the government.

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The economy was producing an equitable society.

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The U.S. Senate was able to pass legislation to promote fair business practices.

Question 12

Which of the following ideas developed and became prominent in 20th-century American politics based on the issues expressed in the cartoon?

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Progressive ideas to break up monopolies

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New Deal ideas for redistribution of wealth

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Great Society voting rights legislation

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Populist ideas calling for the direct election of Congress

Question 13

Which of the following Spanish practices is de Las Casas referring to?

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Encomienda system

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Hacienda system

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Asiento system

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Headright system

Question 14

Bartolome de Las Casas is most known for

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speaking out against the atrocities by the Spanish against the native peoples of the Americas

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suppressing native people in order to gain new land for Spanish Christians wishing to start religious societies in the New World

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advocating the conversion of indigenous people to Christianity by allowing Spanish conquistadors to own them and teach them scripture

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starting missions in the New World as sanctuaries for native peoples fleeing persecution by Spanish conquistadors

Question 15

Through his view of the Spanish treatment of native peoples, de Las Casas most likely influenced which of the following?

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The Black Legend

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Triangular Trade

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Middle Passage

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Columbian Exchange

Question 16

Perhaps the most devastating aspect of the Columbian Exchange was...

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the European diseases that decimated indigenous populations in the Americas

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the extinction of animals in the New World by invasive species

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the slave trade that became part of the Columbian Exchange between Africa and the New World

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the wave of explorers that ensued and began to populate the Americas and push the native peoples out of their homeland

Question 17

Which of the following had a profound effect on the growth of agriculture in the New World?

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The horses, cattle, sheep, and goats, that came from the Old to the New World

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The introduction of maize, white potatoes, and sweet potatoes to the Americas.

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The rise of African slavery that originated as part of the Middle Passage

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The waves of settlers and explorers that began to populate the New World

Question 18

This pro-temperance poster was designed to...

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show the effects of alcohol consumption on a family

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illustrate the success of men involved in the business of distilling

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gain support for women's sufferage

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show how prohibition hurt American families

Question 19

The temperance movement of the late 19th-century was given most of its support from which region of the country?

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The West

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The South

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The Midwest

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The Northwest

Question 20

Which of the following was not associated with the temperance movement of the late-19th century?

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Order of the Star-Spangled Banner

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The Anti-Saloon League

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Women's Christian Temperance Union

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The National Prohibition Party

Question 21

Which of the following was most likely the result of Bryan's speech?

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He united the Populist Party with the Democratic Party to run against the Republicans.

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Bryan's speech played no role, as he lost the nomination for president to William McKinley.

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It revived the gold standard in the United States, which had been abandoned since 1873.

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It boosted production in the United States to bring them out of the depression of 1893.

Question 22

Which of the following least represents the argument over bimettalism ans expressed in Jennings's speech

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Industrialists favored the silver standard because it allowed them to grow their businesses by putting more money in their pockets.

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The use of the silver standard was widely accepted in the southern and western portions of the United States because of its agricultural industry.

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Laborers and farmers tended to support an inflationary money policy through the silver standard.

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The use of the gold standard was supported by Republicans and industrialists because it allowed them to control financial policies.

Question 23

What prompted this speech by Charles Sumner to Congress in 1856?

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act, authorized by Stephen Douglas

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John Brown's Osawatomie massacre of pro-slavery supporters in Kansas

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The ratification of the Lecompton Constitution which secured slavery in Kansas

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The admission of Kansas as a free state

Question 24

Sumner's incendiary words and condemnations were directed to

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Southern slave expantionists

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the people of Kansas

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framers of the Constitution

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the president

Question 25

Because of his speech in Congress, Sumner was...

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caned by Preston Brooks in the Congressional chamber

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dismissed from his Congressional seat

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appointed secretary of state by President Buchanan

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successful in repealing the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Question 26

John C. Calhoun's reference to the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions embodies his belief of...

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States' rights

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executive power

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national supremacy

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judicial review

Question 27

Calhoun's sentiments in his Fort Hill Address led to what major crisis in American history?

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The Nullification Crisis in which South Carolina refuted the Tariff of 1832 and threatened secession

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The Indian Removal Act in which the president declared that he had power over the Supreme Court's rulings

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The annexation of Texas by John Tyler, which led to the Mexican War

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Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia, which caused the deaths of over 50 whites

Question 28

Calhoun's comment about the "great struggle" was in reference to the...

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battle between supporters of states' rights versus those who supported federal power

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debate over the Supreme Court's ability to review any laws passed by Congress

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argument over whether or not slaves would be counted for Congressional representation

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War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain for control of North America

Question 29

The major weakness of the Articles of Confederation, and the one that sparked the "commotion" that Washington addresses, was that Congress could not...

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levy taxes

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create treaties

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draft militia soldiers into service

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control the sale of lands

Question 30

Shays' Rebellion occurred in Massachusetts as a result of...

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foreclosures on the lands of farmers in Massachusetts

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unfair taxes placed on farmers by congress

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Indian raids on the frontier

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mandatory enlistment into the militia of Massachusetts

Question 31

Washington's fear, along with many other politicians' fears, of a rebellion sweeping through the nation uncontrollably eventually led to...

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a renewed debate over a stronger central government

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emergence of pro-British sentiments through America

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amendment of the Articles of Confederation

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alliances with foreign nations to improve America's military forces

Question 32

Perhaps one of the most powerful trusts of the Gilded Age, as illustrated, was controlled by...

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John D. Rockefeller

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Andrew Carnegie

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William Marcy Tweed

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William Vanderbuilt

Question 33

The Gilded Age was an economic period known for...

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an era when big business controlled almost every aspect of government and the American economy

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major advancements in workers' rights and their ability to be paid equal wages

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strong presidents who controlled the private industry and often regulated it

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congressional laws that disenfranchised trusts in order to give power back to the federal government

Question 34

The Interstate Commerce Act, one of the first anti-trust legislations,  had the effect of...

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regulating trusts' abilities to control commerce and rates across state lines

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allowing railroad owners to ship goods across state lines without inspection

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giving the federal government the power to regulate rates of interstate commerce

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lowering tariffs for certain goods that America needed from foreign countries

Question 35

The trusts of the Gilded Age gained their power through all of the following methods except...

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fairness and equality in the eyes of the government and the courts

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horizontal or vertical integration

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infiltration of government to receive favorable treatment for their businesses

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eliminating competition through   buying them out or bankrupting them

Question 36

Beginning in the 16th century, Spanish colonizers imported increasing numbers of slaves form West Africa for all of the following reasons except...

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in the half-century after 1518, European demand for tobacco increased dramatically

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the native peoples did not make good slaves because most of them died of disease

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the number of immigrants from Spain to their colonies remained small

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they had no other readily available source of labor to work their plantations

Question 37

During the 16th century, the number of people from England and continental Europe who immigrated to Spain's New World colonies and settled there...

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remained small

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fluctuated wildly due to the frequent wars among the greta powers

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grew exponentially with each passing decade

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never dropped below 10,000

Question 38

Prior to 1607,

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Spain remained the dominant colonial power in the New World

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the English established far more colonies in the New World than other European powers

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the Portuguese claimed large tracts in the New World, but were unable to retain any of them because they lacked enough soldiers and settlers to hold them

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the French had already replaced the Spanish as the dominant colonial power in North America

Question 39

Which of the following groups would be most likely to oppose the perspective of the cartoon?

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All of the above

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Nativists in support of government actions during the Red Scare

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Members of the Ku Klux Klan

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Supporters of the immigration laws passed in the 1920s

Question 40

The influx of which immigrant groups gave rise to the sentiments in the cartoon?

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Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

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created a federal office to supervise the admission or rejection of immigrants at U.S. ports of entry

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Immigrants from Northern and Western Europe

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Immigrants from Central and South America

Question 41

The provisions of the quote statute approved in 1662, indicate that by that time slavery in Virginia...

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was legal and at least some of its defining features had been written into law

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did not exist as yet

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existed ,but there was no discrimination against African Americans

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had been abolished

Question 42

Given the fact it has been estimated that there are fewer than 1,000 African-American slaves in all of the North American colonies in 1660, it seems clear that the Virginia statute of 1662...

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was written to address the status of mixed-race children

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made Virginia the first colony to legalize slavery

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was passed in reaction to the rapid growth of the slave population in the early 1660s

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banned marriage between the races

Question 43

Combined with the Virginia statute of 1662, which of the following had the most negative impact on African-American women?

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Banning the importation of slaves after 1808

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The 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

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The 1820 Missouri Compromise

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The Dred Scott v. Sanford decision

Question 44

As Benjamin Franklin has testified, George Whitefield's sermons during his first two religious revival tours of England's North American colonies in 1739 and 1740...

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won so many converts that historians regard his tours as the beginning of the First Great Awakening

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nearly caused a rebellion in Puritan New England, where the clergy regarded him as a heretic

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helped transfer the intellectual currents of the European Enlightenment to the colonies

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were so full of hateful rhetoric that he alienated most of the clergymen who heard him

Question 45

When Benjamin Franklin notes that "the clergy, taking a dislike to him, soon refused him their pulpits," he is alluding to...

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the eventual split of many congregations into New Lights and Old Lights

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Whitefield's offending of the clergy by refusing to share the money he collected with them

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Whitefield's unwillingness to reimburse the churches for the use of their facilities

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congregations protesting that they would prefer to listen to their own minister's sermons

Question 46

Benjamin Franklin's admiration for the power of Whitefield's oratory and the positive impact that it had on ordinary colonists is especially noteworthy because Franklin...

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was not a religious individual and did not pay much attention to most preachers

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greatly admired the colonial clergymen who refused to share their pulpits with Whitefield

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found Whitefield's Loyalist political views objectionable

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was so busy with his inventions that he had never before listened to a sermon

Question 47

The event depicted in this engraving of 1770 entitled "The Bloody Massacre"...

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had relatively little immediate impact because it coincided with the repeal of four of the five Townshend duties

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never actually occurred; it was a product of Paul Revere's imagination

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was strongly condemned by John Adams, winning him the admiration of the Patriots

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quickly led to the outbreak of war between the British and the American colonists

Question 48

In the immediate aftermath of the Boston Massacre, many of the citizens of the city of Boston...

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became more receptive to the pleas of radicals such as Samuel Adams, who saw the need for vigilance in view of signs of increasing British oppression

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decided to enlist in the British army in order to obtain weapons to defend themselves

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organized the Boston Tea Party

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looked to George Washington to organize and lead a new colonial military force

Question 49

Events that had occurred by the mid-1840s that might serve as evidence to support Professor Miller's interpretation include all of the following EXCEPT...

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Thomas Edison installing electric lights at the New York Stock Exchange

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the opening of the Boston and Albany railroad

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transatlantic Cunard steamships arriving regularly at Boston Harbor

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telegraphic messages that carried the news that Henry Clay and James K. Polk had been nominated for the presidency

Question 50

One of the "basic changes" that set modern America off from its premodern past that was clearly apparent by the 1830s was the ...

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proliferation of large, mechanized textile factories such as those constructed in Lowell, Massaschusetts

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expansion of the steel industry from Pittsburgh to places such as Birmingham, Alabama

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building of transcontinental railroads in the North as well as the South

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mass production of the automobile at several locations near Detroit, Michigan

Question 51

To make the argument that the opening of the Erie Canal was one of the important events of the 1820s that helped transform American society, historians such as Professor Miller might point to...

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the rise of New York City to become America's largest city and busiest port

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the decline of the railroad as the major carrier of goods between East Coast and Midwest cities

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the proliferation of steamships on America's rivers

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large-scale imports of horses to pull the barges along the canal

Question 52

The idea that American politics as well as American society had entered the modern era by the mid-1840s seems plausible when one recognizes that by that time...

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two well-organized political parties had been formed, able to compete with each other in elections in every section of the country

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all adult white males had the right to vote.

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the Constitution had been amended to provide for the direct election of U.S. senators

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contributions from a small number of large donors was already determining the outcome of most national elections

Question 53

The Freedmen who petitioned General Howard in October 1865...

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recognized that they needed to obtain land of their own to be truly free

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were trying to avoid having to work in order to earn a living

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were more concerned with gaining the right to vote than with obtaining land

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had learned that Congress had appropriated money to give away "forty acres and a mule"

Question 54

The "promises its agents made to us" refers to ...

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offers of assistance that the Freemen had received from agents of the Freedmen's Bureau during the months after the surrender at Appomattox

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President Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction

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the Wade-Davis Bill, passed by Congress in 1864 but vetoed by President Lincoln

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President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation

Question 55

An important reason that the idea that the federal government would make "homesteads" available to the Freedmen seem plausible in 1865 is that ...

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Congress had passed and President Lincoln had signed the Homestead Act in 1862

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President Lincoln had promised to do so in the Emancipation Proclamation

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Congress had authorized the Freedmen's Bureau to give away "forty acres and a mule"

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President Johnson promised to do so when he announced his plan for Reconstruction

Question 56

The excerpt from President George Washington's Farewell Address makes reference to both Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty, in part for the purpose of...

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encouraging the development of a stronger national identity

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increasing the president's popularity with the American peole

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discouraging radical New Englanders from seceding from the Union

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discrediting criticisms of the president made by Thomas Paine

Question 57

The expansion of railroads to the West Coast led to the

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destruction of American Indian habitats.

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admission of California as a free state.

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realization that private funding alone should build America's railroads.

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first American Industrial Revolution in the Northeast

Question 58

How did railroad companies encourage immigration?

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They ran advertising campaigns in Europe for cheap railroad lands in the United States.

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They paid high wages to workers who would emigrate from thier home countries.

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They lobbied the federal government to overturn the Chinese Exclusion Act.

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They offered free homesteads to those who would settle along rail lines.

Question 59

The completion of the transcontinental railroad led to

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economic growth and the expansion of Asian markets.

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hostility between the government and big business

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increase sectional tension.

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assimilation of Mexican Americans into society as equals.

Question 60

Plessy v. Ferguson resulted in which of the following?

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Second-class citizenship for African Americans

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Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by southern states that had been holding out

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Violent riots that swept through major northern cities in the 1890's

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Integration of public schools

Question 61

Prior to 1900, most African Americans in the post-Reconstrution South

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became sharecroppers or tenant farmers.

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left the United States and emigrated to Africa.

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migrated west to take advantage of free homesteads

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migrated north and took jobs in industrial cities.

Question 62

While mainstream African Americans leaders of the late Gilded Age differed in how they sought the end segregated society, many followed a moderate course that called for

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gradual accommodation.

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a "back-to-Africa" movement

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violent protests.

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nonviolent civil disobedience

Question 63

Andrew Carnegie reflects which of the following  business models of the Gilded Age in the above quote?

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Vertical integration

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Conspicuous consumption

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Laissez-faire economics

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Social Darwinism

Question 64

The rise of big business was fostered by all of the following during the Gilded Age EXCEPT

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the strict laissez-faire policy of the federal government.

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plentiful natural resources

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improved transportation systems that opened new resources and market.

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a growing immigrant labor force

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