The American System was designed to A) promote American internal improvements, especially the building of roads and canals, to foster economic growth and protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition through higher average tariffs on imported goods. B) reduce the cost of foreign imports through lowering the percentage of the average tariff on imported goods. C) […]
Those who migrated to the Chesapeake Bay area as indentured servants were __________. a. usually from the dregs of English society b. English farmers who saw a better future in the New World c. normally single, lower-class males in their teens or early twenties d. married individuals who came with their families e. generally convicted […]
By the end of the 1830s, A) there were no Indian tribes or communities remaining east of the Mississippi. B) only the Iroquois in New York, a few Cherokees in North Carolina, and scattered small organized Indian communities such as the Seminoles remained living east of the Mississippi. C) the Florida Seminoles had been annihilated […]
The 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam resulted in all the following EXCEPT a A) major turning point in the Vietnam War. B) psychological victory for the North Vietnamese. C) boost to Vietcong recruiting of South Vietnamese civilians. D) tactical military victory for the United States. ANSWER C
The most notable and widely circulated sermons of Rev. Lyman Beecher during the Second Awakening involved his sermons A) preaching temperance or abstaining from alcohol. B) advocating humane prison reform geared to successful prisoner reentry into society. C) advocating the abolition of slavery. D) advocating sending foreign missionaries abroad to Christianize Africans. ANSWER Answer: […]
Which identifies why the Mayflower Compact is considered an important historical document? a. It was the first example of colonists describing the hardships endured on a voyage to the New World. b. It was a legal document that authenticated the Pilgrims’ right to settle in New England. c. It included a list of the passengers […]
The description of Christianity in America as a “democratic and republican religion” by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1830s could be closely associated with populist and democratic political developments in a freer, individualistic Jacksonian America. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
The Pilgrims, who left Holland to settle in America, __________. a. were non-Separatists from the Church of England b. feared their way of life was being undermined by the ways of their Dutch hosts c. had few alternatives because they were harassed by the Dutch d. arrived in Virginia, even though their destination was Massachusetts […]
Among the many Americans who supported versions of Manifest Destiny for their own respective reasons were all of the following groups EXCEPT A) land speculators and promoters of extending the railroads—they were attempting to exploit vast lands in the West. B) farmers dreaming of starting over in rich and cheap new western lands. C) workers […]
Some of the earliest English colonists were younger sons of aristocratic families. Their motives to come to America often included: a. hoping to found a New World version of England where they could live as feudal noblemen b. searching for a haven of religious freedom in order to begin their lives anew c. setting up […]
