Chapter 6, 7, 8, & 9 Review Questions (Units 1-5) Flashcards
Which of the following statements about indentured servitude is true?
Approximately half of all indentured servants died before earning their freedom
The Mayflower Compact foreshadows the U.S. Constitution in which of the following ways?
It posits the source of government power in the people rather than in God
The first important cash crop in the American colonies was…
Tobacco
The philosophy of Mercantilism holds that economic power resides primarily in…
Control of hard currency and a positive trade balance
Colonial vice-admiralty courts were created to enforce…
Import and export restrictions
All of the following are examples of conflicts between colonists and Native American tribes EXCEPT…
The Stono Uprising
Which of the following statements about cities during the colonial era is NOT true?
The majority of colonists lived in urban areas
Colleges and universities during the colonial period were dedicated primarily to the training of…
The clergy
Which of the following is the best explanation for why the British did not establish a powerful central government in the American colonies?
The Britsh cared little how the colonists lived so long as the colonies remained a productive economic asset
The Albany Plan of Union failed because…
None of the colonies was willing to share tax-collecting powers with a national entity
The Albany Plan of Union was suggested by Benjamin Franklin
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.
The American colonists objected to the policies imposed by Parliament after the French and Indian War for all of the following reasons EXCEPT…
They believed they should be represented in Parliament if they were subjected to the mercantilist restrictions
The Stamp Act (1765) led to the colonies wanting representation
Britain’s Parliament passed a series of acts between 1760 and 1775 that would create and/or increase taxes on goods, commerce, and trade in the colonies. Much of this tax would be used to pay for the British debt after the long and costly French and Indian War.
What Acts were placed on the 13 British colonies after the French and Indian War?
The Stamp Act (1765), Sugar Act (1764), Townshend Acts (1767), and Intolerable Acts (1774).
These acts ultimately led to The American Revolution
These Acts were meant to increase income to the British Empire after the long and costly French & Indian War.
What was The Sugar Act of 1764?
The act placed a tax on sugar and molasses (syrup) imported into the colonies.
It aimed to stop the sugar and molasses smuggling trade from the French and Dutch West Indies. It was also meant to provide increased income to the British Empire.
What was The Stamp Act of 1765?
The Stamp Act imposed a tax on all papers and official documents in the American colonies, though not in England.
It taxed newspapers, almanacs, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dice, and playing cards.
What were the Townshend Acts of 1767?
The Townshend Acts placed taxes on imports of paper, paint, lead, glass, and tea.
The act was named after Charles Townshend, Chancellor of the Exchequer. He believed that the Townshend Acts would assert British authority over the colonies as well as increase revenue.
What were the Coercive (intolerable) Acts of 1774?
The Coercive Acts were a series of four laws (the Boston Port Act, the Massachusetts Government Act, the Administration of Justice Act, and the Quartering Act) passed by the British Parliament to punish the colony of Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party.
According to the theory of virtual representation…
Colonists were represented in Parliament by virtue of their British citizenship
Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had which of the following powers?
I. The power to collect taxes
II. The power to negotiate treaties
III. The power to supercede state law
II only
George Washington established the principle of executive privilege in a dispute with Congress over the…
Jay Treaty
The Jay Treaty of 1974 sought to settle outstanding issues between the two countries that had been left unresolved since American independence.
The Age of Salutary Neglect drew to a close with…
The end of the French and Indian War
The Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was historically significant in that it…
Represented a first step in colonial unity against Britian
Thomas Jefferson relied on the ideas of John Locke in writing the American Declaration of Independence in all of the following ways EXCEPT Locke’s belief that…
Man must submit to the General Will to protect his natural rights
Historians often cite Shay’s Rebellion (1786-1787) as a significant event in U.S. history because it…
Demonsrated the weakness of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation
What was Shay’s rebellion?
Shay’s rebellion was a series of violent attacks on courthouses and other government properties in Massachusetts in opposition to high taxes and stringnet economic conditions.
The rebellion was brought about by a monetary debt crisis at the end of the American Revolutionary War.
Which of the following best summarizes the strict constructionist position on the establishment of the National Bank?
The Constitution forbids the establishment of the bank because creating a bank is not among Congress’s enumerated powers.
All of the following were immediate social or economic consequences of the American Revolution EXCEPT…
Expanded rights for women to hold property
Although the Supreme Court was the weakest of the three branches of government in the early days of the new republic, John Marshall strengthened the Court by…
Establishing the principle of judicial review in the case of Marbury v. Madison
What was Marbury v. Madison?
The decision in Marbury v. Madison greatly expanded the power of the Supreme Court by establishing its right to overturn acts of Congress, a power not explicitly granted by the Constitution; meaning that American courts have the power to strike down laws and statutes that they find to violate the Constitution of the United States.
The Louisiana Purchase was an important factor in the development of U.S. trade because it…
Gave the country complete control of the Mississippi River
As a result of the Hartford Convention following the War of 1812…
The Federalist Party lost credibility and eventually died out
Andrew Jackson accused Henry Clay of using his influence to broker the “corrupt bargain” of 1824 (which cost Andrew Jackson the election) because Clay…
Was promised a cabinet position if John Quincy Adams was elected president
The controversy over the tarrif during the late 1820s and early 1830s demonstrated that…
Economic sectionalism was a serious threat to national unity
Andrew Jackson’s positions on the Second National Bank and the American System typified his…
Distrust of large national government programs
The Cherokee of Georgia were forced off their land because…
Gold was discovered in their territory and Georgians demanded that the Indian Removal Act be enforced
Brook Farm in Massachusetts, the Oneida Community in upstate New York, and New Harmony in Indiana were similar in that they…
Were utopian communites designed to ameliorate the effects of a growing commercial society
As a result of the Mexican-American War, all of the following became part of the United States EXCEPT…
(A) California
(B) Nevada
(C) New Mexico
(D) Texas
(D) Texas
“Bleeding Kansas” was a direct result of the doctrine of…
Popular sovereignty
As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation,
Nearly 200,000 free blacks and escaped slaves joined the Union Army
Andrew Johnson was impeached because…
He violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Stanton
The principle of popular sovereignty stated that…
Settlers in the Western territories, not Congress, would decide whether to allow slavery in their territories
The dispute over electoral votes in the election of 1876….
Was resolved by a special bipartisan commission and resulted in the end of military reconstruction
Following the Civil War, most freed slaves…
Stayed in the South and worked as sharecroppers
The Know-Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of…
Immigration
The Free-Soil party advocated which of the following?
(A) The freedom of settlers within the territories to determine the slave status in their new state
(B) Passage of the Homestead Act to give free land to all Western settlers
(C) The exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories
(D) The policy of giving newly freed slaves “40 acres and a mule” following the Civil War
(C) The exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories
Which of the following is NOT a requirement set by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 for Southern states’ readmission to the Union
(A) Blacks had to be allowed to participate in state conventions and state elections
(B) The state had to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
(C) The State had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves
(D) The state had to rewrite its constitution and ratify it
(C) The state had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves
Who proposed “forty acres and a mule”?
Union General William T. Sherman’s plan to give newly-freed families “forty acres and a mule” was among the first and most significant promises made – and broken – to African Americans.
