The Pelham farmers in Northampton County, Massachusetts, in 1786 were protesting __________. A) high state property taxes B) the ratification of the Constitution C) a federal whiskey tax D) a weak and ineffective state government ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who were the Acadians, also known as Cajuns? A) French Canadians resettled in Louisiana B) British Tories resettled in the Caribbean C) white Americans who joined Indian tribes D) western Indians resettled in Louisiana ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The XYZ Affair was a result of a failed U.S. diplomatic mission to __________. A) France B) Spain C) Britain D) Holland ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In what ways did the election of 1800 transform American politics? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: party politics; Federalists; Democratic-Republicans; Jeffersonian democracy
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Embargo Act had the greatest impact on __________. A) French merchants B) British merchants C) American farmers D) New Englanders ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Panic of 1819, many urban workers blamed their job losses on __________. A) competition from British imports B) the creation of the Second Bank of the United States C) the Monroe Doctrine D) invention of the cotton gin ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Thomas Jefferson came to office determined to __________. A) expand the size of the federal government B) promote manufacturing and national markets C) reverse the Federalist policies of the 1790s D) abolish slavery ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
By the early 1800s, the South __________. A) had become a slave society B) was a society with slaves C) had begun to question the morality of slavery D) depended less on slavery than during the colonial period ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
A major reason for the reduction in the number of slave owners in the South prior to the Civil War was __________. A) the rapidly increasing price of slaves B) an increasing mortality rate C) a rapid decline in slave birthrates D) the abolition of slave markets in the United States ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these was a consequence of the settlement of the Old Southwest in the early nineteenth century? A) a lull in the expansion of slavery B) the forced migration of Indian peoples C) the Great Awakening D) the strengthening of the white southern family ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
