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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is commonly identified as a failure of the Articles of Confederation?
The national government lacked an effective power to raise revenue
The executive branch was granted too much power over the legislature
The federal government had too much control over interstate commerce
The judicial branch was elected and did no consistently adhere to rule of law
- 2. Multiple Choice
The debates between Federalists and Anti-Federalists which arose out of the downfalls of the Articles were primarily about which of the following
The right of the people to rebel
The existence of slavery
The scope and power of the central government
The need to establish a standard currency
The representation of large and small states
- 3. Multiple Choice
Of the following, the most SIGNIFICANT difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution of 1787 was that the Constitution:
Made states more powerful than national government, while the Articles made the national government more powerful than the states
Was difficult to amend, while the Articles included an easier process requiring approval by a simple majority of states
Provided for a strong national government, while the Articles created a weak central government with few independent powers
- 4. Multiple Choice
Developments such as those depicted in the image most directly led to which of the following?
The importation of enslaved Africans to the Carribean
The increasing use of indentured servants in the Caribbean
The spread of Spanish missionaries into portions of Florida
The settling of the eastern North American seaboard by the Spanish
- 5. Multiple Choice
Which of the following most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?
The emerging European naval capabilities in the Caribbean
The search for new sources of wealth in the Caribbean
The North American reliance on imports from the Caribbean
The spread of diseases native to the Americas to enslaved African plantation laborers
- 6. Multiple Choice
During the first half of the nineteenth century, somen women increasingly "bolstered the household income," by:
Obtaining positions in textile mills
Signing contracts of indentured servitude
Performing clerical and secretarial labor for large corporations
Participating in secular and religious reform associations
- 7. Multiple Choice
Which of the following most directly contributed to women finding new sources of income?
The abolitionist movement
Increased immigration
The market revolution
The emergence of mass political parties
- 8. Multiple Choice
Large, densely settled Indian communities first arose in:
The Great Basin
The Mississippi River Valley
Mesoamerica (Middle America)
The Eastern Woodlands
- 9. Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements about Christopher Columbus' voyages is supported by the map above?
The American Indian population was distributed uniformly throughout North America
The most densely populated regions of North America would eventually become part of New Spain
The most densely populated regions of North America would eventually become part of New France
Compared with other areas of North America, relatively few American Indians lived in the Southeast
The American Indian population was concentrated on the Great Plains
- 10. Multiple Choice
Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by:
the ravages of smallpox
the spread of corn cultivation
the invention of the spoked wheel
the domestication of horses
regular contacts with Africa
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which period marked the highest level of immigration to the United States?
Between 1871-1880
Between 1841-1850
Between 1901-1910
Between 1881-1890
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following contributed to the overall trend depicted in the graph?
Global fluctuations in credit and stock markets
The transformation of the United States into an industrial society
Progressive Era reforms of social conditions in the United States
The outbreak of global war
- 13. Multiple Choice
The majority of immigrants who arrived between 1821-1880 settled in the:
West and Midwest
South and Midwest
South and Northeast
Midwest and Northeast
- 14. Multiple Choice
In the decades following the Civil war, the women's righs movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on:
Achieving the right to vote
Receiving equal pay for equal work
Ending domestic violence
Gaining equal access to higher education
- 15. Multiple Choice
The language and themes of the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions from the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 were most directly inspired by:
The Articles of Confederation
Declaration of Independence
Northwest Ordinance
United States Constitution
- 16. Multiple Choice
Which other "ritcheous cause" would participants in the Seneca Falls Convention have been most likely to support?
Expansionism
Nativism
Abolitionism
Conservatism
- 17. Multiple Choice
The Monroe Doctrine, as presented by President Monroe in 1823, was primarily:
A positive response to recent Latin American revolutions
A warning to European nations against further colonial ventures in the Western Hemisphere
An encouragement to Britain to help Latin American states
A statement removing the United States from involvement in South America
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is true about the Monroe Doctrine?
It was issued at the same time as a British policy statement on Latin America
It was immediately accepted as international law
It stressed that Europe and the Western Hemisphere had essentially different political systems
It was challenged militarily by the "Concert of Europe"
- 19. Multiple Choice
The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
Reaffirmed George Washington's goal of United States neutrality in the Americas
Helped Secretary of State John Quincy Adams secure the presidency in 1824
Established the United States as a dominant economic power in South America
Asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy
- 20. Multiple Choice
The nullification crisis of 1832 arose over the issue of:
Andrew Jackson's use of the veto
Protective tariffs
The Second Bank of the United States
Jackson's American Indian removal policy
The Missouri Compromise
- 21. Multiple Choice
“We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State....”
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
The excerpt most directly expresses an economic perspective that
prioritized regional interests
discouraged international trade
sought to protect United States manufacturing
supported the interests of organized labor unions
- 22. Multiple Choice
“We, therefore, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain... that the several acts and parts of acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws for the imposing of duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof and are null, void, and no law, nor binding upon this State....”
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832
The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the:
balance between individual freedom and public order
expansion of slavery into the western territories
priorities of United States foreign policy
relationship between the federal government and the states
- 23. Multiple Choice
“Still, though a slaveholder, I freely acknowledge my obligations as a man; and I am bound to treat humanely the fellow creatures whom God has entrusted to my charge. ... It is certainly in the interest of all, and I am convinced it is the desire of every one of us, to treat our slaves with proper kindness.”
— Letter from former South Carolina governor James Henry Hammond, 1845
The excerpt from James Henry Hammond is most clearly an example of which of the following developments in the mid-19th century?
The decline of slavery in Southern states as a result of gradual emancipation laws
The increasingly restrictive nature of slavery in the South enforced by stronger slave codes
The expanding use of moral arguments by northern antislavery activists
The growing tendency among Southern slaveholders to justify slavery as a positive good
- 24. Multiple Choice
“Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of Liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and denounce ... slavery ‘the great sin and shame of America’!”
— Frederick Douglass, speech titled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro,” 1852
Which of the following groups would be most likley to support the perspective of Frederick Douglass in the excerpt?
Southern Democrats
Northern merchants
Southern Planters
Northern abolitionists
- 25. Multiple Choice
Support for slavery in the Southern states was based on all the following EXCEPT:
Most white families owned slaves
Slaveholders believed that slaves were inferior and required white guardianship
Slavery was condoned in the Bible
White plantation owners feared abolition would destroy the South's economy
Poor white farmers feared economic competition of four million freed persons
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