Lyceum History Practice Exam III

By 1776, the people of English descent made up about what percentage of colonists?

The underlying purpose for passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to

Which of the following set up a nursing staff of women to care for the wounded during the Civil War

The Panic of 1837 resulted from

All of the following were steps on the way to the Civil War EXCEPT

Which of the following colonies was least likely to allow plays to be staged?

Which of the following fought with the British in the War of 1812 as a result of the Battle of Tippecanoe?

Which of the following ensured the future of slavery in the South?

The underlying disagreement between Parliament and the American colonists revolved around

Between 1800 and 1860, the majority of American workers

Paintings that were created by untrained and itinerant artists in the colonial and early national periods are known as

Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans and Jackson's Democrats held which of the following beliefs in common.

The decision in Scott v. Sandford did all of the following EXCEPT

Which of the following institutions served the role of "the great equalizer" in American society?

Northern Democrats who wanted Lincoln to negotiate peace with the South

All of the following were border states EXCEPT

American settlers moved to Texas in the 1820s and 1830s, because

The central issue in McCulloch v. Maryland was

Which of the following became independent as the "Bear Flag Republic"?

Which of the following is an accrurate list of the economic activity of the southern colonies in the min-1700s

The policy of the United States government toward Native Americans in the early republican period was to

Which of the following was a well-known preacher of the First Great Awakening

In writing their new state constitutions, states

All of the following worked to end slavery in one way or another EXCEPT

Which of the following was not passed by Congress while the Civil War was being fought?

Educated colonists were familiar with

All of the following were important issues for workers in the mid-nineteenth century EXCEPT

At the same time the Stamp Act was repealed, Parliament passed the

"Any man's son may become the equal of any other man's son" describes what characteristic of American society?

As opposed to Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton considered the role of the federal government was to

While members of Congress debated slavery, the United States was also pursuing the

Which of the following was a new job that opened to single woman in the first half of the 1800s?

In writing the Dec. of Independence, Thomas Jefferson drew on the social contract theory of which Enlightenment thinker

Which of the following crusaded for asylums for the mentally ill?

Whose idea were the committees of correspondence?

Many Northern workers began to support abolition because

Which of the following had to pay tax to mine for gold in California?

The most popular architectural style in the early and mid-1800s was

All of the following changed the nature of hand work in the nineteenth century EXCEPT

Utopian communities in general were based on

Which of the following was NOT a feature of urban life in the antebellum North?

All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT

Jefferson's worst foreign policy blunder was

Which of the following created a crisis between the U.S and Britain at the beginning of the Civil War

Which of the following was a well-known group of landscape painters in the first half of the nineteenth century.

All of the following were tensions within the abolition movement EXCEPT

In the 1700s, socioeconomic class probably meant the least to

An unintended outcome of the Second Great Awakening was

Which of the following is an example of transcendentalist literature?

The struggle between proslavery and antislavery forces to have Kansas admitted to the Union in the late 1850 resulted in

In addition to France, which of the following nations aided the Americans in the Revolutionary War

The social reform movements of the 1800s relied heavily on

"Manifest destiny" was used by Americans in the mid-1800s to justify

One of the casualties of the French and Indian War was

The First Continental Congress

Southern slaves were able to build communities that provided all of the following EXCEPT

The middle-class sentimental novel of the mid-1800s was chiefly concerned with

All of the following revolved around the issue of states' rights EXCEPT

The rights of women changed

The election of 1800 is significant because

The chief obstacle emigrants met on the overland trails to the Far West was

Which of the following did NOT contribute to the population explosion in the colonies in the 1700s

Which of the following was LEAST likely to become a member of the American Party in 1854?

During the war, one of George Washington's biggest problems was

Most white Southerners owned

The slogan "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight" referred to American claims to which of the following?

If you were listening to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, you were most likely at a

A colonial scientists whose work was well known in Europe was

Which of the following poets is considered the quintessential American "common man"?

Cortes was aided in his conquest of the Aztec empire by