Colonial and Revolutionary America
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Course Introduction
This course explores the history of North America from the first European settlements through the American Revolution and the creation of the United States. Students will examine the diverse cultures and societies present in the colonial period, the social, economic, and political developments that shaped the colonies, and the causes and consequences of the Revolution. Topics include European colonization, indigenous resistance, transatlantic slavery, evolving colonial identities, revolutionary ideology, war and its impact on various populations, and the challenges of nation-building in the new republic. Emphasis is placed on a variety of perspectives to understand the complex foundations of American society.
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HIST 3 US History Through 1877 3rd Edition Volume I by Kevin M. Schultz
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Chapter 1: Three Societies on the Verge of Contact
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Q1) The Iroquois Confederacy was formed in part for the purpose of
A) defending themselves against attacks from other tribes in the northeast region.
B) sharing resources.
C) wiping out European settlements.
D) controlling the best hunting lands.
E) allowing intermarriage between the tribes.
Answer: A
Q2) Chaco Canyon is noted for being
A) the largest pre-Columbian culture in North America.
B) home to more than a dozen Anasazi "Great Houses."
C) the site of the largest Mississippian-shaped mound.
D) the main agricultural stronghold in the West.
E) viewed by the Anasazi as the source of all life.
Answer: B
Q3) During the Archaic era,maize was a staple crop that helped make a sedentary existence possible.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact and Settlement, 1492-1660
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Q1) Maryland's Toleration Act of 1649 represented a major extension of legally sanctioned religious liberty and toleration in this region of North America.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Thanksgiving,though very different today from the original,began with a treaty celebration between
A) the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags.
B) the Puritans and the Powhatan Confederacy.
C) the Separatists and the Puritans.
D) the Puritans and the Pequots.
E) the Pilgrims and Opechancanough.
Answer: A
Q3) The largest French trading post in Canadian territory was Quebec.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Expansion and Its Costs, 1660-1700
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Q1) Indentured servants
A) made up at least 70 percent of the migrants to the Chesapeake during the colonial period.
B) proved resilient to the demanding climate of the Chesapeake.
C) usually remained servants for life.
D) came in increasing numbers as England's economy grew ever more rapidly.
E) typically spoke a different language than their masters and practiced different faiths.
Answer: A
Q2) Between 1660 and 1700,North America changed in which of the following ways?
A) The non-native population grew from about 70,000 to about one million.
B) England had established colonies in three distinct regions.
C) New England was flourishing economically, while the Chesapeake was still struggling.
D) The only colony where living conditions were fairly stable and comfortable was in New England.
E) English colonists had not yet found it necessary to move on to the western frontier, but signs pointed to that happening soon.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Expansion and Control, 1700-1763
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Q1) Known as the "New Lights," the Protestant denominations of the Great Awakening supported evangelism,new methods of prayer,and equality before Christ.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these countries was not a major source of immigration to the Middle Colonies from 1700-1760?
A) Ireland
B) Scotland
C) the Netherlands
D) England
E) Germany
Q3) The rapid increase of New England's population between 1660 and 1760 stemmed from all of the following,except
A) a high birthrate.
B) the importance of families in New England society.
C) a hospitable and healthy environment.
D) a voracious appetite for African slaves in the region.
E) an environment friendly to commerce.
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Chapter 5: Toward Revolution, 1763-1775
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Q1) The first real battle of the Revolutionary War took place at A) Boston Harbor.
B) Lexington.
C) Bunker Hill.
D) Philadelphia.
E) Albany.
Q2) As opposition in the colonies mounted to England's various acts and policies,which of the following groups remained mostly supportive of the Crown?
A) artisans
B) wealthy
C) merchants
D) free blacks
E) rural Cheseapeake residents
Q3) The Stamp Act was designed to tax the colonists for the purpose of A) repaying Britain's war debts in Europe.
B) paying the soldiers protecting the North American colonies.
C) paying for the quartering of British soldiers in South Carolina.
D) regaining control of the colonies.
E) punishing colonists for not participating wholeheartedly in the French and Indian War.
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Chapter 6: The Revolution
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Q1) By 1790,all states except Georgia and South Carolina had outlawed the importation of slaves from abroad.
A)True
B)False
Q2) All of the following are true about Native Americans during the Revolutionary War,except
A) By the time of the Revolution, there still were a large number of tribes on the Atlantic coast.
B) The most powerful tribes in contact with the colonists lived between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
C) The battles of the Revolutionary War that involved Native Americans were unspeakably harsh.
D) Colonists often used the war as a pretext to expel native tribes from their lands.
E) By the end of the war, nearly one third of the Iroquois nation was dead.
Q3) The first state to draft and enact a statute protecting religious freedom for all was Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: Confederation and Constitution, 1783-1789
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Q1) Neither the Articles of Confederation nor any state constitution directly addressed powers expressly reserved to the states.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The most pressing challenge of the new nation under the Articles of Confederation concerned
A) raising taxes.
B) printing currency.
C) settling land in the West.
D) dealing with foreign powers.
E) managing the adverse economic and political consequences of the inflationary Revolutionary War debt.
Q3) How does the idea of "separation of powers" apply to the three branches of the U.S.government?
Q4) Explain the most significant parts of the Bill of Rights,addressing each amendment separately.
Q5) Compare and contrast the Virginia and New Jersey Plans that were presented at the Constitutional Convention.Explain the compromise that brought the two sides together.
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Chapter 8: Securing the New Nation, 1789-1800
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Q1) Hamilton argued that Congress had the power to create a national bank because
A) the Constitution directly granted this power.
B) the Constitution gave Congress the power to do whatever was necessary to carry out its stated roles.
C) the Constitution delegated revenue powers to Congress.
D) he embraced a strict interpretation of the Constitution.
E) All of these choices.
Q2) When the new government went into operation in 1789,its first order of business was to
A) learn the ins and outs of the Constitution.
B) set precedents according to Constitutional guidelines.
C) decide on a permanent home for the Capital.
D) get the Post Office up and running.
E) get the Treasury Department on a sound footing.
Q3) In compiling possible items for the Bill of Rights,James Madison proposed seventeen amendments to the Constitution.However Congress approved only twelve of these amendments,and the states,in turn,ultimately ratified only ten of the original seventeen amendments proposed by Madison.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Jeffersonian Democracy, 1800-1814
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Q1) America's first magazine of importance was the North American Review.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Under the Non-Intercourse Act of 1809,
A) Jefferson tried to get the warring British and French to leave America out of its war.
B) American ships could trade with all nations except Britain and France.
C) The U.S. demanded that Britain pay American merchants for seized ships and goods.
D) The U.S. assessed a fine to all nations that harassed American ships.
E) led British leaders to announce their respect for U.S. neutrality.
Q3) Tecumseh and the Prophet were brothers who belonged to the Shawnee tribe.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following is not a true statement about the Louisiana Purchase?
A) Jefferson initially set out to buy just New Orleans.
B) Napoleon agreed to sell the land because France desperately needed the money.
C) Jefferson paid $5 million for the land all the way to the Rocky Mountains.
D) The U.S. gained an additional 830,000 square miles in the deal with France.
E) The land was occupied and claimed by various Native American tribes.
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Chapter 10: The Market Revolution
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Q1) Which of the following was not a social change associated with the Market Revolution in America?
A) Growth of cities
B) Impacts on the environment
C) Improvements in urban living conditions
D) More protest movements
E) Changes in the makeup of the work force
Q2) What was the role of the National Bank in the development of America's Market Revolution? Explain how the Bank operated to fulfill this role.
Q3) The purpose of the Tariff of 1816 was to
A) raise revenue for the Second Bank of the United States.
B) prevent the import of British tea.
C) block the importation of slaves.
D) limit the consumption of foreign imports and encourage the development of American manufacturing and commerce.
E) foster a new trade network with Canada and Mexico.
Q4) What was the Monroe Doctrine,why and when was it issued,and what was its significance?
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Chapter 11: Politics of the Market Revolution
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Q1) Which act authorized the president to use the U.S.army and navy to put down insurrections?
A) Nullification Act
B) Non-Secession Bill
C) Insurrection Act
D) Anti-Insurrection Act
E) Force Bill
Q2) Jacksonian Democrats
A) believed in an active federal government that financed internal improvements and promoted the moral health of the nation through antislavery laws.
B) favored a redistribution of land so that poor farmers would have a chance to become independent.
C) thought that the federal government should remain small and avoid telling people how to conduct themselves.
D) embraced the market revolution and saw business and the people's interests as complimentary.
E) wanted to confront the question of slavery head on so that they could get the issue behind them, but the Whigs were reluctant to discuss it openly.
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Chapter 12: A Regionalized America, 1830-1860
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Q1) Nativists especially resented Irish Catholic immigrants,who were always willing to work for lower wages than anyone else.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not true about German immigrants to Milwaukee and St.Louis?
A) Most quickly came to identify themselves as German-American shortly after their establishment in the U.S.
B) They built a brewing tradition that continues to this day.
C) They formed Turnvereine in the spirit of the German liberation movement.
D) They formed distinct ethnic neighborhoods and communities.
E) They assimilated quickly enough not to face any significant nativist resentment.
Q3) Unlike the Irish immigrants of the 1840s and 50s,the German immigrants that came to America in the wake of the failed German revolution of 1848 were generally educated and financially well off.
A)True B)False
Q4) What was everyday life like for most middle-class women in the North?
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Chapter 13: The Continued Move West
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Q1) All of the following happened as a result of the discovery of gold in California,except
A) About 80,000 fortune seekers arrived in California in 1849 alone.
B) Half of the migrants to California came from across the globe.
C) Many of the "forty-niners" ended up staying in California even if their searches for gold did not come to fruition.
D) As new settlers, migrants to California formed diplomatic relationships with Native Americans.
E) Most of the booming settlements of the gold rush days later decayed into ghost towns.
Q2) What was Polk's hidden agenda as the war with Mexico waged on?
A) To crush the Mexican Amy and take control of all of Mexico.
B) To seize California and New Mexico.
C) To take Mexican territory without paying for any of it.
D) To perpetuate slavery all the way to the Pacific.
E) None of these choices.
Q3) How did Americans manage to wrest tribal lands away from the Plains Indians?
Q4) Why did President Polk want a war with Mexico? How did he go about getting what he wanted? What were the results?
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Chapter 14: The Impending Crisis
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Q1) In the Dred Scott decision,the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Roger Taney asserted that
A) by virtue of having been moved temporarily to a free state, Dred Scott had become a free man.
B) the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional; Congress had no right to prohibit slavery anywhere in the United States.
C) since whites considered blacks property, they could never be found guilty of murdering a slave.
D) Dred Scott was guilty of running away from his mistress.
E) Dred Scott had never set up residence personally in either Illinois or Wisconsin, so he was not free.
Q2) After the first seven southern states seceded from the U.S.,the new Confederate States of America elected this man president of the new southern slave republic:
A) Robert E. Lee
B) Jefferson Davis
C) Stonewall Jackson
D) P.G.T. Beauregard
E) John C. Calhoun, Jr.
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Chapter 15: The Civil War
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Q1) Discuss the challenges the Union and the Confederacy faced on their homefronts.
Q2) At the beginning of the Civil War,most northerners
A) hoped that the war aims would explicitly include the end of slavery.
B) were not very concerned about why the war was being fought.
C) disliked slavery but did not want a large, free black population in the United States.
D) wanted full emancipation and a return to Africa for all U.S. slaves.
E) supported broad emancipation unconditionally.
Q3) As the Civil War progressed,the North was able to prosecute the war without going into debt or changing its economic tax and revenue system,and the South successfully enacted several economic changes to finance the war,most of which were financially beneficial to the Confederacy and its citizens.
A)True
B)False
Q4) More than half of Lee's Confederate army was lost at the Battle of Gettysburg.
A)True
B)False
Q5) What was the most significant battle during each stage of the war? Why was each significant? Which is/are considered the turning point(s)of the war?
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Chapter 16: Reconstruction, 1865-1877
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Q1) Lincoln's plan for bringing the southern states back into the Union was viewed by many Republican members of Congress as
A) unrealistic and naïve.
B) unworkable due to its complexity.
C) much too lenient.
D) too harsh.
E) uncharacteristically vindictive.
Q2) Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens were members of a group known as A) Copperheads.
B) Radical Republicans.
C) Carpetbaggers.
D) Redeemers.
E) Scalawags.
Q3) What were some of the major scandals of the Grant years? How responsible does Grant appear to have been for these things?
Q4) Almost one-fourth of the South's fighting-age men died in the Civil War.
A)True
B)False
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