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According to the terms of the Peace of Paris of1763,

Societies responded to a lack of natural resources in the Great Basin and Plains by developing

Perhaps the single strongest unifying factor ofpre-Civil War southern whites was their

In ThePro-Slavery Argument (1837), John C. Calhoun stated that slavery was

Which of the following is known for her pioneering work in the American feminist movement?

Which example shows Africans' cultural and linguistic adaptations in the Western hemisphere?

Pre-Columbian Southwest Indians were most noted for which environmental practice?

Which Spanish priest devoted his life to improving the rights of American Indians?

The America First Committee

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

In 1776, Abigail Adams was an advocate for

African-American soldiers in the Union

The Fifteenth Amendment dealt with the issue of

How did the motives of Virginia settlers differ from those of Massachusetts Bay?

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT

In 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

All of the following is true of slavery in British North America EXCEPT 

The slave codes of the American South

The high inflation rates of the late 1960s and early 1970s were largely the result of

The Missouri Compromise of 1819

The "Fireside Chats" were aided by the invention of which technology?

The New Jersey Plan

The Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)

The ideology of Free-Soil included

The objective of the "Bonus Army" incident of 1932 was

The arrival of Europeans in the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and 16th centuries

In 1882, first group of immigrants to from the US on the basis of nationality were

England’s first experience with colonizationcame in

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the latter 1800s except that it

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

The Federal Housing Administration is a New Deal agency that assists Americans by

The author of Common Sense

The Virginia Plan called for

At the end of the Civil War, the number of slaves that emerged from bondage was 

During 18th century, French differed from English in Indian relations because the French 

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

The Scopes trial of 1925 was a legal battle between

Which of the following was arguably the most distinctive feature of Shakerism?

During World War I, the new technology of warfare

The proposed Albany Plan of 1754

In the early nineteenth century, schooleducation was largely the responsibility of

Which of thefollowing statements regarding American railroads in the 1850s is FALSE?

Which of the following was NOT one of the motives for European conquest?

The first atomic explosion in history took place in 1945 in

The purpose of this group, formed in 1966 in Oakland was to protect blacks against police abuse

The heresy that caused Anne Hutchinson to be banished from Massachusetts Bay colony was the:

What was the Truman Doctrine?

TheAmerican or “Know-Nothing” Party of the 1850s

The result of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 was

The Stamp Act of 1765

The National Chairman of "Stop ERA" in 1978 was 

Marbury v. Madison established which important principle?

Transcendentalists

In the 1840s, critics of territorial expansion by the United States

In his first voyage in 1492, ChristopherColumbus

The purpose of slave codes were to:

The Compromise of 1850 allowed for the admission of California

From the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of World War I was marked by

How does the 1966 Supreme Court decision in Miranda v. Arizona continue to affect society?

To “manumit” means to

The English Reformation resulted from

Which is the Southern culture of segregation that existed for a century after the Civil War?

As president, Andrew Johnson

The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

The Watergate tapes increased cynicism toward the U.S. government because they revealed that

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

The Hudson River School of painters emphasized in their work the importance of 

Sexual relationships between white southern menand female slaves were 

In the 1840s, the organized movement against drunkenness in the United States

The Great Depression was caused by overspeculation in the stock market, bank failures and...

The Second Great Awakening

Theory that individual states do not have to carry out any federallaws with which they disagree

The policy objectives of Reaganomics were based on the theory that 

Between 1890 and 1914, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from

Whichof the following was NOT a result or consequence of the Dred Scott decision of 1857?

The first permanent English settlement in theNew World was established in

Historians view this as a key event in the shift from indentured servitude to slavery.

The message of the Second Great Awakening

16th-19th century North American Indians most resisted European beliefsabout 

Inthe 1830s, Democrats were more likely than Whigs to support

During the 1920s, Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan were most identified with

Prior to its annexation by the United States in 1898, Hawaii

During the first half of the eighteenth century,England’s administration of the colonies

For Americans during the Revolution, equality meant that there should be equality of

In northeasternNorth America before European contact, the Iroquois developed the tradition of

What factor dramatically reduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans?

The primary goal of the United States’ policytoward Indians in the early 1800s was to

Which amendment is most closely associated with the action shown in this image?

The clothing styles of blue jeans, the Army surplus look, and tie-dyed shirts were part of 

Following the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt

A more organized method for conducting international trade between Europe and the Americas was

By 1860, as a result of the social expectationsexpressed in the “cult of domesticity,”

Americans were dissatisfied with theArticles of Confederation because the national government

Which event convincedGeorge Washington that the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised?

The transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson

Chinese from California became major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad because

The “peculiar institution” was a southern reference to

In the seventeenth century, English Quakers

17th & 18th century French & Dutch colonial relationships with Indians were based primarily on

 This image best expresses this attitude

In this society maize spread into the Southwest leading to development and diversification

In 1942, when the United States interned Japanese Americans in “relocation centers,”

Following John Brown’s 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry, many southerners assumed

Which term was used to refer to a person of mixed black and white ancestry?

"The duty of the man of wealth is to become the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren"

In 1890, the “Ghost Dance”

In the eighteenth century, under the Englishgovernment’s theory of "virtual representation,"

Maroon communities of escaped slaves in Brazil and the Caribbean are an example of 

All the following statements regarding the New Deal and women are true EXCEPT that

The perceived U.S. support for the Shah of Iran in 1979 resulted in which of the following?

The late nineteenth-century political cartoon above is critical of:

As he left the presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower was concerned about

A key to Henry Ford’s success in the mass production of automobiles was

A theological position that God does not intervene in the natural world; emphasis on reason

After the United States entered World War I,

How did the Zimmerman telegram influence U.S. entry into World War I?

Which was the largest slave rebellion in British North Americancolonies before the Revolution?

Major factor to the declining death rate in cities at the end of the 19th century was 

In the 1820s, most of the settlers from the United States who migrated to Texas were

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of “concentration” for Indians

In 1999, Senator Susan Collins proposed the Oil Price Safeguard Act in order to address...

Inthe 19th century, Southerners used all of the following arguments to justifyslavery EXCEPT

At the start of the Civil War, the

Which of the following statements about thepoorest class of white southerners is FALSE?

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the “Social Gospel” was

The 1904 “Roosevelt Corollary”

The Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Marbury v. Madison (1803)

The most enduring change that occurred in U.S. banking during the FDR administration was the?

Criticisms within the US of American colonialism included all the following EXCEPT that

The term "Columbian Exchange" describes the:

The Supreme Court's 1964 decision in Reynolds v. Sims significantly affected U.S. politics by

The Virginia Statute of Religious Liberty of1786

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

In 1865, southern whites defined “freedom” as

General John J. Pershing made a major contribution to the Allied victory in WWI by

The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918

The religious concept of deism

Which of the following was NOT a result of Spanish and Portuguese exploration and conquest?

Nine of the first ten amendments to theConstitution placed limits on the

In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

The Supreme Court held in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

In order to secure control of the Panama Canal zone, the United States

Which of these was NOT a demographic characteristic of the post-World War II era in the US?

Which civil rights leader supported civil disobedience and desegregation in the 1960s?

In McCullochv. Maryland (1819), the Supreme Court confirmed the

The most distinctive quality of women in professions during the progressive era was that

Before the arrival of Europeans, GreatBasin and Western Plains Indians

The central ideology of slavery, and the vital instrument of white control, was

The change shown in the map was a result of

Japanese Americans in 1943 were forced to swear loyalty oaths before they were...

In 1680, the Pueblo Indians rose in revoltagainst Spanish settlers after the Spanish

The political philosophy of Whigs

Which Spanish system used religion in order to incorporate Indians into colonial society?

Which is a Spanish term used to refer to a person of both European and American Indian descent?

The Map is supportive of the generalization that:

Which of the following reflects the economic impact of the Spanish-American War on the U.S.?

The Wilmot Proviso

Jim Crow laws

In the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions, it wasasserted that

Of the following, the most common form of resistance to slavery was

In redefining gender roles, the experimental 1840s Oneida Community

By 1860, factories in the United States

Many members of Congress disagreed with FDR's court-packing plan in 1937 because...

The theory of Social Darwinism

In what way did sixteenth-century Europeansbenefit from trade between the Americas and Europe?

“Mother country” extracting raw materials from its colonies

Which of the following is most relevant for a student writing a paper about W.E.B. Du Bois?

From their colonial experiences in Ireland, theEnglish concluded that

City bosses and urban political machines in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Progressivism tended to be based on the central assumption that

The Boston Massacre

The Mexican War resulted from

The Spanish system that used Indian labor to support sugar plantations and silver mining was

The historical context of this political cartoon is

 Among the many important results of the First Great Awakening was that it:

Most of the slaves who eventually reached North America were originally:

African and American Indian societies tended tobe matrilineal, which means

Which statement regarding the Americanelectorate during the 1820s is true?

Which action best supports the ideas expressed in Washington's Farewell Address?

The Fourteenth Amendment

At the start of the Revolution, Americanadvantages over the British included a 

In the fifteenth century, slavery in Africa

During Reconstruction, most “carpetbaggers” were

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

As a result of the U.S. government’s Indianpolicy in the 1830s and 1840s,

Between 1840 and 1860, the majorityof immigrants who arrived in the United States came from

Which of the following statements regarding the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor is FALSE?

In the 1870s in the Far West, the largest single Chinese community was located in

Cahokia was a large trading center located nearwhat present-day city?

In 1942, the United States and Mexico agreed to the braceros program, which

At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists

Inthe Constitutional Convention of 1787, slaves were classified as

The “Trail of Tears” taken by the Cherokees ledthem to the area that later became

The largest number of immigrants to the United States in the late nineteenth century came from

According to Andrew Jackson’s theory ofdemocracy,

The Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that

Massachusetts reformer who created movement for new methods of treating the mentally ill was

Early labor systems in British North America relied primarily on

TheWilmot Proviso

 What was the guiding principal of President Carter's foreign policy?

Incas,Mayas, and Aztecs shared the following characteristics EXCEPT

Whichof the following colonial settlers largely avoided intermarriage with native populations?

The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act

In the late nineteenth century, political “machines” in cities owed their existence to the

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated

What was the main effect of the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

During the Gilded Age there was a notable increase in federal support for 

Published in January 1776, Common Sense was written by

During the 1950s the federal government funded education in math and science in response to

Which group described themselves as building a "City on a Hill" that would be a model society?

Mormonism

The Puritan founders in Massachusetts whodescribed their colony as a “city upon a hill”

The term “redemption” as used in theReconstruction era refers to

What was the main reason for the rapid settlement of the Great Plains in the late 1800s?

According to 19th-century “science” of phrenology, what did shape of individual’s skull reveal?

All of the following are true of the Articles of Confederation EXCEPT

The greatest complaint by opponents of theproposed Constitution of 1787 was about the

U.S. soldiers involved in the Japanese occupation of the Bataan Peninsula in 1942...

When President Polk received the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, he

In colonial America, under English common law amarried woman

The origins of the majority of human existencein North America began

The compromise illustrated in this map was caused by 

In 1865, southern blacks defined “freedom” as

What was one effect of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and the secret bombing of Cambodia?

The Monroe Doctrine declared that

President FDR sought to reassure the American public during uncertain economic times by

The Progressive era reform of recall 

In its beginning, the Maryland colony

In 1836, Texas did not immediately join the United States because

In WWI a stalemate developed along the western front because soldiers dug trenches and...

The Civilian Conservation Corps

In 1620, the Puritan Pilgrims who came to NorthAmerica 

What is event is depicted in this picture?

In “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

Most of the early white settlers in North Carolina were:

The suppression of Bacon’s Rebellion helped spur

The1856 beating of Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate

In his doctrine of nullification, John C.Calhoun argued that

In 1940, the “lend-lease” plan

Within the ideology of Manifest Destiny were all the following beliefs EXCEPT that

In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the Supreme Court ruling

The name given to the effort to help runaway slaves escape was the

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

What was the Marshall Plan?

ChristopherColumbus called the native people he encountered on his voyages “Indians”because

The early years of Jamestown were mainly characterized by:  

In the late fifteenth century, the desire inEurope to look for new lands was spurred by

Before 1860, compared to Irish immigrants,German immigrants to the United States

Supreme Court in Bakke (1978) challenged the concept of

Which of these resulted from the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?

Which crop introduced by theSpanish most increased demand for African slaves in the Caribbean?

The Espionage Act of 1918 demonstrates that at one time the federal government was willing to

In the 1830s and 1840s, abolitionists were divided

In the 1840s, abolitionists in the United States constituted

Which statement regarding the economic theory ofmercantilism is FALSE?

The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both

During the American Revolution, female “campfollowers”

What condition(s) in England in the sixteenthcentury provided incentive for colonization?

In colonial North America, the “middle grounds”refers to a region in which

The Declarationof Independence

Most white southerners owned

A meeting in 1754 led by Ben Franklin; a failed first attempt to politically unite the colonies

The policy idea behind “Dollar Diplomacy” was to

What factor dramaticallyreduced New World native populations after contact with Europeans?

Demands for "free and unlimited coinage of silver" and "graduated income tax" were made by:

The term “muckrakers” referred to

The 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women’s rights

The primary reason the US dropped a second atomic bomb on Japan in August 1945 was that the

Southern defenders of slavery made all the following arguments EXCEPT that

What was the significance of OPEC?

16th through 19th-century North American Indians most resisted European beliefsabout 

The use of Indian labor in the Spanish colonies was gradually replaced by

During Reconstruction, the term “scalawags” referred to

Which of the following is NOT true of the Iroquois and Algonquian?

In the election of 1860,

In London, the initial promoters of Jamestownencouraged colonists to focus on

The foreign policy issue which plagued the Carter presidency was

An evangelical movement that began in Europe and swept through the colonies in the 1730s-1740s

The “Antifederalists”

Regarding religion, American slaves

In the late 1800s, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson...

The Grange and what other organization were supported primarily by farmers?

The Lewis and Clark expedition

The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was intended foremost to

Pre-ColumbianSouthwest Indians were most noted for which environmental transformationpractice?

What was one way that the 19th amendment helped advance the cause of gender equality?

In the Emancipation Proclamation, President Abraham Lincoln declared freedom for slaves

All of the following are true of railroad expansion in the latter 1800s except that it

One long-term consequence of the New Deal was that

A major reason for the founding of the Maryland colony in 1634 was to:

As the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams:

An act passed by British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue through a direct tax