had little impact on either England or North America apart from deposing the Stuarts and barring Roman Catholics from the English throne.
contributed significantly to the creation of a new empire based on commerce, with a curb on royal monopolies, encouragement of enterprising merchants, and development of the American colonies as a source of wealth.
created democratic governments in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland, but not in England.
represented a major step toward democracy in both England and the North American colonies.
ANSWER: The Glorious Revolution in England and America contributed significantly to the creation of a new empire based on commerce, with a curb on royal monopolies, encouragement of enterprising merchants, and development of the American colonies as a source of wealth.
Question 1 At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required... Americans to vacate their houses or take in British troops on the demand of any commander. colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops. that Americans convicted of treason be hanged and “quartered”; that is, cut into four pieces by the hangman. that collectors of the stamp tax receive a commission of one-quarter of the revenue they took in.
Question 2 Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes immigration during the 1840s and 1850s? Most immigrants settled in the South to take advantage of jobs in industry and agriculture. Most of the Irish who arrived were poverty-stricken peasants. The largest group of immigrants came from eastern and southern Europe. The poorest immigrants came from Wales and Scotland.
Question 3 The Northwest Ordinance of 1787... prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory. funded an exploratory party to locate the Northwest Passage. provided for the eventual creation of eight to ten new states in the Northwest Territory. required compulsory elementary education in each new township in the Northwest Territory.
Question 4 Which of the following does not help to explain the diminishing effectiveness of Reconstruction in the South? Northerners tired of the expense and violence that supporting Reconstruction engendered. Racism among moderate Republicans led them to ascribe Republican defeats in the South to the incompetence of black politicians. A severe depression in 1873 distracted Northerners from the social and racial issues of Reconstruction. The expanded presence of federal troops and officials from 1875 to 1877 brought about an escalation in southern terrorist retaliation.
Question 5 According to the Constitution, which branch of government is responsible for readmitting states that have seceded from the Union? the Constitution does not address this question. the executive branch. the judicial branch. the legislative branch.
insisting that high protective tariffs were in the national interest.
attempting unsuccessfully to have Congress repeal the Tariff of 1832.
persuading Congress to pass new legislation enacting a compromise tariff to gradually reduce duties.
ignoring the issue.
ANSWER: In the aftermath of the nullification crisis, President Jackson responded to southern concerns about the tariff by persuading Congress to pass new legislation enacting a compromise tariff to gradually reduce duties.
came to hold the same cultural and religious values as wage earners in contrast to the elitism that in the eighteenth century had kept the gentry and the "common people" apart.
openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
became more hypocritical, pretending to share cultural and religious values with wage earners, but actually behaving very differently.
tended to claim that they had risen "from rags to riches" and to flaunt their crude taste and rough manners in contrast to "gentlemanly" values of the eighteenth-century elites.
ANSWER: One social change resulting from the Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth century America was that members of the upper class openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
tried to impose cultural assimilation and forced labor along with religious conversion of indigenous peoples.
became large landowners who collected tribute from the Indians.
outlawed slavery in the Spanish colonies.
adapted to native culture almost completely.
ANSWER: The Spanish Franciscan missionaries tried to impose cultural assimilation and forced labor along with religious conversion of indigenous peoples.
produced an agricultural surplus--enough to trade with the Native Americans.
lived remarkably disease-free.
suffered from famine and diseases that killed more than half the population.
ANSWER: During their first couple of years in the Jamestown colony, the English migrants suffered from famine and diseases that killed more than half the population.
prohibited state governments from using property requirements to disqualify blacks from voting.
gave the full vote to all adult African Americans.
prohibited state governments from using literacy tests and poll taxes to prevent blacks from voting.
forbade states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition as a slave.
ANSWER: The Fifteenth Amendment forbade states from denying any citizen the right to vote on the grounds of race, color, or previous condition as a slave.
resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York.
provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory south of latitude 36°30´.
convinced the aged and retired Thomas Jefferson that the peaceful extinction of slavery by mutual agreement was now in sight.
ANSWER: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
it produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton, over two-thirds of the world supply.
planters were using European immigrants as industrial workers.
planters were building factories to process cotton.
southern society was dominated by free labor.
ANSWER: By 1840 the South was on the cutting edge of the Market Revolution because it produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton, over two-thirds of the world supply.
was a failure because the nine colonies represented could not agree on a unified policy.
protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists.
formulated a set of resolves that threatened rebellion against Britain.
accepted the constitutionality of the Sugar Act but not the Stamp Act.
ANSWER: The Stamp Act Congress held in New York in 1765 protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists.
American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained.
Cotton Mather and the Boston physician Nicholas Boyleston fought against smallpox inoculation.
Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
European Enlightenment ideas had little impact on Americans until 1750.
ANSWER: Some ministers combined Lockean political principles with Calvinist theology in order to attack the role of bishops and vest power in the laity.
apprehension because he believed the country was growing too large to be governed as a single republic.
disapproval because he sympathized with the plight of the Indians who would be displaced by white settlement of the West.
disdain because, as a cultured aristocrat, he considered the settlers to be uncouth rabble who would only cause trouble with the Indians and destroy the West's natural environment.
unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen.
ANSWER: Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson viewed the westward migration of Americans with unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen.
resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York.
provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory south of latitude 36°30´.
convinced the aged and retired Thomas Jefferson that the peaceful extinction of slavery by mutual agreement was now in sight.
ANSWER: The Missouri Compromise of 1820 provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.
the Gullah dialect spread to the new slave territories in the Old Southwest.
the rapid transfer of slaves from other regions into the Lower Mississippi Valley significantly minimized cultural differences.
blacks rejuvenated African customs as the transatlantic slave trade ceased.
most slaves were united by their traditional religion, which persisted despite the efforts of white Christians to convert them.
ANSWER: A more unified African American culture began to emerge in the early decades of the nineteenth century because the rapid transfer of slaves from other regions into the Lower Mississippi Valley significantly minimized cultural differences.
came to hold the same cultural and religious values as wage earners in contrast to the elitism that in the eighteenth century had kept the gentry and the “common people” apart.
openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
became more hypocritical, pretending to share cultural and religious values with wage earners, but actually behaving very differently.
tended to claim that they had risen “from rags to riches” and to flaunt their crude tastes and rough manners in contrast to the “gentlemanly” values of the eighteenth-century elites.
ANSWER: One social change resulting from the Industrial Revolution in early nineteenth-century America was that members of the upper class openly distanced themselves by values and lifestyle from wage earners in contrast to the shared cultural and religious values that had united the gentry and ordinary folk in the eighteenth century.
they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.
they did not enfranchise the entire white population of voters.
they did not foster party competition.
they did not create apportionment based on population.
ANSWER: Planters failed to politically dominate the South because they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot.
