SLO Class prep Flashcards
Which of the following is not considered a secondary source of history?
Legal document
The development of maize by Native Americans was significant because it:
Represented an early success in environmental/genetic engineering.
In the South Carolina Exposition and Protest (1828), Vice-President John C. Calhoun argued that:
The individual states could nullify or refuse to enforce a federal law.
An agreement drafted in 1620 that granted political rights to all male colonists who would abide by the colony’s laws was called:
Mayflower Compact
What was different about Thomas Paine’s Common Sense compared to previous statements of colonists’ defiance?
Challenged directly the legitimacy of the monarchy.
The Great War for Empire (or Seven Years’ War) was called:
The French and Indian War in North America and ended with Britain victorious over France but deeply in debt.
The first direct tax ever imposed on the colonists by the British Parliament in 1764 was the:
Sugar Act.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854) was acceptable to southerners, because it:
Allowed the possibility of slavery in territories north of the Missouri Compromise line of 1820.
This American Revolutionary battle convinced most western European nations to recognize the independence of the United States.
Saratoga
American policy towards Native Americans in the period after the War of 1812 resulting in the Trail of Tears:
Attempted to remove eastern tribes to the trans-Mississippi West.
During the early decades (cc. 1620-1660) of colonial settlement in the Chesapeake area (Virginia & Maryland), the mass labor system consisted of:
Indentured servants, mostly English but also African.
The term first used in the 1840s to describe the right and duty of the United States to expand westward is called:
Manifest Destiny.
“Salutary Neglect” towards the American colonies developed because:
For a long time the British government was satisfied with their profitability.
The Mayflower Compact was a radical document, because:
It allowed all men, regardless of wealth, to participate in government.
In his 1861 inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln let it be known that he:
Considered the Union to be unbroken and perpetual.
The Emancipation Proclamation called for the freedom of all slaves:
Living in states in rebellion
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:
Era of Good Feelings.
The growth of democratic participation in public affairs during the early 1800s was an effect caused by:
The fact that fewer and fewer states maintained property qualifications for voting.
Which of the following statements about the Battle of Yorktown (1781) is most accurate?
It showed the value of French support to the American victory.
Which of the following is not considered a primary source of history?
Biography of a historical person
