US History Mid-Term Exam

The Alien Acts granted the president power to:

Which ruler experienced defeat with the destruction of an armada?

Which of the following was the most important reason that the Texas settlers decided to fight for independence?

Preacher of the Great Awakening and friend of Benjamin Franklin who tried to convice him to become a follower of Christ

For all the following military leaders except____, the Mexican War was a "Dress rehearsal for Civil War

What did Eli Whitney introduce to American industry?

Which of the following men explored for Portugal?

What British response to the Gaspee incident angered the colonists?

What happened during Jefferson's presidency that doubled the size of the United States?

Who became the “voice of the Revolution”?

Who became the leader of the Great Awakening in New England?

The British three-part plan to win the Seven Years’ War included all of the following except

What step in wheat production did Cyrus McCormick improve?

In education, the middle colonies and the South lagged behind New England because

Who founded what is considered the first Baptist church in America?

What country was England’s main opponent during the wars that raged from the 1680s to the 1760s?

Which of the following was least likely to be found in colonial churches?

What state's borders were settled as a result of negotiations with Britain?

The Saratoga campaign was an important victory for the Patriots because

Which type of food was not considered standard fare for a colonial meal?

The Chesapeake affair was one reason for

Which amendment reserves all non-delegated powers to the states and the people?

This Supreme Court Case established the principle of Judicial review

Alexander Hamilton was not nominated as a presidential candidate in the 1796 election because he:

Daniel Boone pioneered a path called the _______ through the Cumberland Gap

Which of the following was not an epidemic that seriously reduced the population of New England?

From what did Puritans want to “purify” the Church of England?

The idea is that the ultimate source of governmental power lies in the people

What unicameral plan did the small states support at the Constitutional Convention?

Which president achieved the four goals he had set for his administration?

Key policy that says Europe should not interfere in the Western Hemisphere and the US should not meddle in Europe

Which of the following is not true about the French Revolution?

idea that America was providentially ordained to possess the North American continent

Who was the first president elected under the Constitution?

The main reason the British divided their forces during 1777 was that

Which of the following was not one of the reasons Madison gave for declaring war on England?

Which of the following was not among the original executive departments?

The name of the Adena and Hopewell cultures that developed in what is now called the Midwest?

What was the main reason the South lagged behind the North in developing industry?

Arguablly the main turning point of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of:

What was the climax of transportation in the nineteenth century?

Which denomination did not allow infant baptism?

Instruction regarding Christian beliefs is called

Settlers came to America for all of the following reasons except

Washington spent a severe winter encamped here with his army:

Tecumseh was a threat to the United States because he

What was a direct result of the election of 1800?

Scots-Irish and German settlers

Why was Franklin's Albany Plan a failure?

Where was “the shot heard round the world” fired?

Who was the chief justice elected by John Adams during the "Midnight Appointments" that was Adams most enduring legacy?

Which president reportedly said, "Science is my passion, politics my duty"?

Which two colonies came from the land originally called New Netherland?

The most important phase of the church service in colonial America was

The Huguenots came from

Was most famous member of Underground Railroad and would go on to be a spy for the Union during the Civil War

Who won the Battle of Quebec?

The largest Anabaptist group in America was the

American education during the first half of the nineteenth century introduced all the following except:

What was the primary motivation for the settlement of Massachusetts?

Which war brought an end to French power in the New World?

What unexpected event turned Cornwallis’s secure position at Yorktown into a hopeless trap?

This event spurred the British to take action in Massachusetts called the “Intolerable Acts”:

The main effect of the Jay Treaty was that it

The most significant fact about John Cabot’s voyages was that he