US History

Which colonial town was funded by the Virginia Company

Jamestown

A colonial town that wanted to set a religious example to the world

Plymouth

Intolerable Act

Britian closed Boston harbor as punishment for boycott

Phillis Wheatley, a slave during the revolutionary era in the United States, was:

a published author who wrote poetry

The original 13 colonies that formed the United States were:

dependent on ocean transport for trade

Colonial Jamestown was founded on what cash crop?

tobacco

What war was a direct prelude to the American Revolution?

the Seven Years War

Federalists

backed by Hamilton: strong federal government, central bank, broad interpretation of the constitution

Republicans

Backed by Jeffferson: small fedreal government and strict interpretation of constition

Monroe Doctrine

Declares US will defend Latin America from European colonists

Andrew Jackson

“An Everyday Man”. changed the way we vote for president

Before the campaign of 1828, most candidates for president of the United States were chosen by:

leaders of sectional political groups in Congress

A person who lived in the 1790s in the United States and who believed in a strong central government, broad construction of the Constitution, and funding of the public debt would most probably have been:

a Federalist

What President oversaw the Trail of Tears during the late 1830s?

Andrew Jackson

What cash crop did the South replace tobacco and rice with

cotton

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

John Brown

Sized a fedeeral arsenal in Virgina expecting a slavery revolt

13th amendment

abolished slavery

14th amendment

equal protection under law

15th amendment

Right to vote regardless of race

Carpetbaggers

People from North seeking to profit off of Reconstruction in the South

Boss Tweed

Leader of Democratic Party found guilty of corruption

The most immediate consequence of abolitionism in the United States in the 1830s and 1840s was:

intensified slaveholders' resentment toward the movement

Which of the following best describes the reason for the 1863 riot that took place in New York City?

Irish Americans and German Americans blaming free African Americans for the wartime draft

The cartoonist for Harper's Weekly who played a major role in turning public sentiment against New York City's Boss Tweed was:

Thomas Nast

When Abraham Lincoln commented upon meeting a visitor that she was "the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war," the author and book he was referring to:

Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin