American History

    was the first “constitution” adopted in North America. was the Pilgrims' declaration of independence from England. proclaimed the ...

    had little impact on either England or North America apart from deposing the Stuarts and barring Roman Catholics from the English throne...

Question 1 At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required... Americans to vacat...

    attacked the US Constitution because it condoned slavery. was a minister who came to his antislavery convictions through the evangelica...

    insisting that high protective tariffs were in the national interest. attempting unsuccessfully to have Congress repeal the Tariff of 1...

     came to hold the same cultural and religious values as wage earners in contrast to the elitism that in the eighteenth century had kept ...

    As the 1840 election demonstrated, the Whigs held the edge in party discipline and mass loyalty. The two parties offered virtually the ...

    tried to impose cultural assimilation and forced labor along with religious conversion of indigenous peoples. became large landowners w...

    doubled the size of their population. produced an agricultural surplus--enough to trade with the Native Americans. lived remarkably di...

    prohibited state governments from using property requirements to disqualify blacks from voting. gave the full vote to all adult African...

    roughly three thousand families comprised of the plantation elite category. plantation elites owned more than 1,000 slaves. plantation...

    always lived in the Western Hemisphere. migrated by sea from Polynesia. migrated by sea from China. migrated by land from northeaster...

    resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York. provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free stat...

     appropriating funds to compensate slave owners for emancipating their slaves. abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia. ending ...

    it produced and exported 1.5 million bales of raw cotton, over two-thirds of the world supply. planters were using European immigrants ...

    was a failure because the nine colonies represented could not agree on a unified policy. protested loss of American rights and libertie...

    American thinkers agreed with John Locke's idea that political authority was divinely ordained. Cotton Mather and the Boston physic...

    denied the concept that everyone had a calling” from God. incorporated into their religion many of the traditional Roman Catholic pract...

     apprehension because he believed the country was growing too large to be governed as a single republic. disapproval because he sympat...

    Abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Adoption of a strong fugitive slave law. The organization of the New Mexic...

    comply with its laws out of fear of reprisals. welcome these measures as a way of strengthening the bonds of empire, which would prote...

     the right to a jury trial. the right to vote. the right to bear arms. freedom of speech.  ANSWER: All of the following are rig...

    the Upper South. South Carolina. Virginia. Georgia.  ANSWER: The movement toward secession in the winter of 1860-1861 was most ...

   He planned to encourage missionaries to convert the tribes east of the Mississippi River to Christianity and white culture. He intended...

    reduced the rates levied on imported raw materials such as flax, hemp, iron, lead, molasses, and wool. was a significant legislative v...

  resulted from the conciliatory efforts of Congressman James Tallmadge of New York. provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state...

It was democratic. Local notables dominated it by managing local elections through devices such as loaning money and treating workers or t...

    Because they believed men were spiritually weaker than women, the Shakers segregated the sexes to protect men from temptation. Shaker ...

   the Gullah dialect spread to the new slave territories in the Old Southwest. the rapid transfer of slaves from other regions into the L...

    destroying the sense of family. separating adults but not children from their families. destroying seventy-five percent of black mar...

    barracks provided by factory owners. rural areas and rode trains to their jobs in the cities. church-sponsored charity houses. cro...

    promoted African colonization as the best solution to the evils of slavery. urged women to leave any church that did not preach agains...

    they were demonstrably more intelligent than male candidates. men scorned teaching as “women's work.” state legislatures were pr...

    Congress chartered the Second Bank of the United States later that same year. Federalists urged that the bank be dissolved on the grou...

    created a spelling book purposefully for African Americans. published dictionaries and spelling books to conform American spelling and...

England invaded Ireland during the mid-1840s, displacing the Irish population. They fled a famine caused by severe overpopulation and a de...

Thousands of young men and women who migrated from urban areas created the new urban culture. Sex and dress were marginal to the new urban...

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 g...

lived mostly in the Lower South. generally acknowledged unity with the enslaved population. won the right to trial by jury in criminal c...

they lived in a republican society with democratic institutions such as the secret ballot. they did not enfranchise the entire white popul...