SLO Class prep

Question 1

Which of the following is not considered a secondary source of history?

Answer 1

Legal document

Question 2

The development of maize by Native Americans was significant because it:

Answer 2

Represented an early success in environmental/genetic engineering.

Question 3

In the South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), Vice-President John C. Calhoun argued that:

Answer 3

The individual states could nullify or refuse to enforce a federal law.

Question 4

An agreement drafted in 1620 that granted political rights to all male colonists who would abide by the colony’s laws was called:

Answer 4

Mayflower Compact

Question 5

What was different about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense compared to previous statements of colonists’ defiance?

Answer 5

Challenged directly the legitimacy of the monarchy.

Question 6

The Great War for Empire (or Seven Years’ War) was called:

Answer 6

The French and Indian War in North America and ended with Britain victorious over France but deeply in debt.

Question 7

The first direct tax ever imposed on the colonists by the British Parliament in 1764 was the:

Answer 7

Sugar Act.

Question 8

The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) was acceptable to southerners, because it:

Answer 8

Allowed the possibility of slavery in territories north of the Missouri Compromise line of 1820.

Question 9

This American Revolutionary battle convinced most western European nations to recognize the independence of the United States.

Answer 9

Saratoga

Question 10

American policy towards Native Americans in the period after the War of 1812 resulting in the Trail of Tears:

Answer 10

Attempted to remove eastern tribes to the trans-Mississippi West.

Question 11

During the early decades (cc. 1620-1660) of colonial settlement in the Chesapeake area (Virginia & Maryland), the mass labor system consisted of:

Answer 11

Indentured servants, mostly English but also African.

Question 12

The term first used in the 1840s to describe the right and duty of the United States to expand westward is called:

Answer 12

Manifest Destiny.

Question 13

“Salutary Neglect” towards the American colonies developed because:

Answer 13

For a long time the British government was satisfied with their profitability.

Question 14

The Mayflower Compact was a radical document, because:

Answer 14

It allowed all men, regardless of wealth, to participate in government.

Question 15

In his 1861 inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln let it be known that he:

Answer 15

Considered the Union to be unbroken and perpetual.

Question 16

The Emancipation Proclamation called for the freedom of all slaves:

Answer 16

Living in states in rebellion

Question 17

The period from 1816 to 1823, when the decline of the Federalist Party and the end of the War of 1812 gave rise to a time of political cooperation was known as:

Answer 17

Era of Good Feelings.

Question 18

The growth of democratic participation in public affairs during the early 1800s was an effect caused by:

Answer 18

The fact that fewer and fewer states maintained property qualifications for voting.

Question 19

Which of the following statements about the Battle of Yorktown (1781) is most accurate?

Answer 19

It showed the value of French support to the American victory.

Question 20

Which of the following is not considered a primary source of history?

Answer 20

Biography of a historical person