What was the vision of revolution that many African Americans held prior to the American Revolution? How did the vision of revolution of many African Americans differ from that of most whites in the colonies? ANSWER Answer: An ideal answer will: 1. Discuss that one key component of African Americans’ vision of the coming […]
After 1618, the Virginia Company’s principal means of attracting new settlers was __________. a. the granting of religious freedom b. liberal suffrage requirements c. a system of land grants d. payment of passage by the company e. impressment ANSWER C
How did the creation of the Northwest Territory out of lands claimed by Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York spur western settlement? What was the significance of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to the political, social, and economic con Answer: ANSWER An ideal answer will: 1. Discuss how the congressional establishment of formerly off-limits […]
Which of the following forms of transportation predominated before the 1820s and 1830s? a. national road systems b. canal systems c. steamboats d. flatboats e. railroads ANSWER D
President Washington steered a middle path in creating the executive branch of the federal government between the course advocated by Alexander Hamilton and his supporters (who admired British models of government) and the course advocated by John Adams (who recommended a more egalitarian approach). Answer: ANSWER TRUE
In the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement, __________. a. the United States and Japan agreed not to attack each other for at least 50 years b. the United States exchanged recognition of Japanese control of Korea for a Japanese pledge not to invade the Philippines c. Japan agreed to limit emigration to the United States d. the […]
What was the result of U.S. Army General Josiah Harmar’s September 1790 march into the Ohio territory of the Miami and Shawnees? A) It stopped all Indian attacks on frontier settlements in the Ohio and Indiana territories. B) General Harmar’s army was defeated by Shawnees, Miamis, and Pottawattamies and 500 Americans were killed before the […]
The most important change in Europe in the five hundred years between Leif Ericsson and Columbus was: a. the industrial revolution b. the revival of commerce and trade c. the creation of banks d. the growth of Protestant churches ANSWER B
Like many of the elite Americans of his day, Jefferson considered himself a deist, defined as a person who A) rejected divine revelation and holds that the workings of nature alone reveal God’s divine nature. B) rejected God completely as any divine force in the natural or human worlds. C) accepted the divine revelation and […]
The so-called “final fling” of settlement on the frontier occurred in __________. a. California b. Oklahoma c. Missouri d. Oregon e. Arizona ANSWER B
