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History 7 CH 5-8
ADAMS, JACOB
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Undergraduate 2
10/12/2015
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The First Continental Congress raised an army and appointed George Washington as its commander.
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FALSE
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense was written specifically for the educated elite.
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FALSE
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A key consequence of the Battle of Saratoga in October 1777 was:
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France’s becoming an ally to the United States.
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Americans did not gain much more than independence from the Treaty of Paris.
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FALSE
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The main point of The American Crisis was:
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to inspire American soldiers to continue to fight despite demoralizing military losses.
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The expulsion of the journalist John Wilkes from his seat in Parliament:
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symbolized the threat to liberty for many in both Britain and America.
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The Townshend duties did all of the following EXCEPT:
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reaffirm Boston’s decision to abide by the Quartering Act.
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The Stamp Act created such a stir in the colonies because:
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it was the first direct tax Parliament imposed on the colonies.
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Most of the text of the Declaration of Independence:
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consists of a list of grievances against King George III.
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What were the Suffolk Resolves?
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a set of resolutions made in 1774, urging Massachusetts citizens to prepare for war
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Thomas Paine’s Common Sense:
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argued that America would become the home of freedom and “an asylum for mankind.”
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John Wilkes was expelled from his seat in Parliament for his scandalous writings about the king; this caused many colonists to rally to his side with the call “Wilkes and Liberty.”
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TRUE
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What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?
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the Seven Years’ War
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American leaders viewed the British empire as an association of equals.
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TRUE
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Virtual representation was the idea:
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that each member of Britain’s House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district.
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The property qualification for voting was hotly debated during the 1770s and 1780s.
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TRUE
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The new state constitutions created during the Revolutionary War:
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greatly expanded the right to vote in almost every state.
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How did Pennsylvania display the Revolutionary War’s radical potential?
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Philadelphia’s artisan and lower-class communities took control.
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The irony that America cried for liberty while enslaving Africans was not lost on some British observers like Dr. Samuel Johnson.
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TRUE
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What did the “invisible hand” refer to?
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the free market
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According to Noah Webster, what was the very soul of a republic?
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equality
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Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life. Who was a notable exception?
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John Adams
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The War of Independence weakened the deep tradition of American anti-Catholicism.
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TRUE
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After the Revolution, African-Americans in the North:
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saw steps being made toward emancipation.
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Republican motherhood encouraged:
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greater educational opportunities for women.
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In his Thoughts on Government (1776), John Adams advocated state constitutions that provided for:
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a powerful governor and a two-house legislature that reflected the division of society between wealthy and ordinary men.
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Part of the philosophy of the Revolution was embracing the principle of hereditary aristocracy.
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FALSE
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Thomas Jefferson’s Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom:
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eliminated religious requirements for voting and officeholding.
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Freedom and an individual’s right to vote had become interchangeable by the war’s end.
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TRUE
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As a result of the religious freedom created by the Revolution:
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upstart churches began challenging the well-established churches
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Shays’s Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:
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to some influential Americans the need for a stronger central government.
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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787:
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established the policy to admit the area’s population as equal members of the political system.
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“Separation of powers” refers to the relationship between the national government and the states.
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FALSE
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The relationship between the national government and the states is called:
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Federalism
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The Constitutional delegates who met in Philadelphia represented all of American society, as they were a mix of laborers, farmers, merchants, and politicians.
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FALSE
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The Naturalization Act of 1790 allowed:
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only free white persons to become citizens
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How did southern states react to the Constitution’s provisions regarding slavery?
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South Carolina and Georgia imported an increased number of Africans, because in twenty years, the international slave trade would be constitutionally prohibited.
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The three-fifths clause in the U.S. Constitution:
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gave the white South greater power in national affairs than the size of its free population warranted.
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Which one of the following is TRUE of the Virginia Plan?
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It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house.
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The New Jersey Plan:
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was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated states.
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Which one of the following was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?
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Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.
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Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was able to:
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establish national control over land to the west of the thirteen states.
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Jefferson was unsure whether African-Americans were fixed permanently in a status of inferiority.
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FALSE
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James Madison argued in The Federalist that the large size and diversity of the United States was a source of political stability, not a weakness.
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TRUE
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Anti-Federalists were concerned that the Constitution severely limited liberty.
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TRUE
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Newspapers and pamphlets were a primary vehicle for political debate in the early republic.
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TRUE
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The U.S. military was well prepared for the War of 1812.
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FALSE
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Alexander Hamilton’s long-term goal was to:
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make the United States a major commercial and military power.
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How did Americans respond to the French Revolution?
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Almost everyone supported it at first, because the French seemed to be following in Americans’ footsteps.
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John Adams’s acceptance of defeat in 1800 established the vital precedent of a peaceful transfer of power from a defeated party to its successor.
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TRUE
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Why did the United States become a one-party nation following the War of 1812?
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The Hartford Convention’s allegedly treasonous activities fatally damaged the Federalist Party’s reputation
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The journey from 1804 to 1806 of Lewis and Clark did not produce much valuable information.
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FALSE
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The Sedition Act targeted:
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the Republican press
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What was the significance of the case of Marbury v. Madison?
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The Supreme Court asserted the power of judicial review
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Which one of the following contributed to the United States going to war in 1812?
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Congressional War Hawks who pressed for territorial expansion into Florida and Canada
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Louisiana’s slaves enjoyed far more freedom under the liberty-loving United States than under the rule of tyrannical Spain.
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FALSE
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The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions were a response to:
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the Alien and Sedition Acts
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“Strict constructionists” believed:
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the federal government could exercise only powers specifically listed in the Constitution.
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Which one of the following is TRUE of the Louisiana Purchase?
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Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism
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Which of the following led directly to the formation of an organized political party opposed to the Federalist Party?
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Jay’s Treaty
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