EXAM 2 DCUSH

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Which of the following descriptions accurately characterizes resistance to the Stamp Act?

rowdy, vocal, and widespread

Which of the following statements accurately describes American allies during the War for Independence?

France and Spain fought with the Americans largely because of well-established rivalries with Britain.

The underlying tension that escalated into the Boston Massacre was between

British troops stationed in Boston and the city’s laborers competing for jobs.

What made Thomas Paine’s Common Sense a unique document?

It expanded the size of the public sphere, going beyond the elite.

What is true of the period historians call “the Age of Revolution”?

Revolutions began in British North America and spread to Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Declaration of Independence?

It claimed a natural right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

What is the significance of the Battle of Lexington and Concord?

It is considered the battle that started the Revolutionary War.

Virtual representation was the idea

that each member of Britain’s House of Commons represented the entire empire, not just his own district.

How did the Seven Years’ War impact the British economy?

The government borrowed heavily and struggled to service the debt

Which of the following did the Treaty of Paris stipulate?

Americans had the right to fish in waters off Canada.

What was the significance of the Battle of Yorktown?

It resulted in British surrender and evaporated British public support for the war.

What was the aim of the Townshend Acts?

raising revenue by taxing imported goods

The New Jersey Plan

was mainly supported by the smaller, less populated states.

Which of the following is a check against presidential power in the Constitution?

The Senate can remove the president from office after he or she is impeached by the House.

Which statement is true about the system of presidential election under the original Constitution?

Each elector cast votes for two candidates for president, and the second-place finisher would become vice president.

Which of the following is true of the debate surrounding the ratification of the Constitution?

Rhode Island and North Carolina ultimately voted against ratification.

Which of the following was a characteristic of the federal government under the Articles of Confederation?

Congress could not levy taxes or regulate commerce.

Which of the following statements accurately describes the original House of Representatives?

It was the only sector of the constitutional government that was directly elected.

What is the significance of the Ninth Amendment?

It declared that rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution were “retained by the people.”

What did the delegates of the Constitutional Convention agree that the Constitution should create?

a legislature, an executive, and a national judiciary

Which of the following groups tended to be Anti-Federalist during the ratification debates?

state politicians

Which of the following is true of the Virginia Plan?

It proposed a two-house legislature, with population determining representation in each house.

How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution with regard to the economy?

Under the Articles, states made more decisions about the economy than the national government.

How did the Articles of Confederation compare to the Constitution in regard to sovereignty?

Under the Articles, states had more autonomy, while the Constitution gave some powers to the states.

What was the significance of the essays in The Federalist?

They emphasized the government’s role to preserve and protect its citizens’ freedom and are now considered one of America’s most important contributions to political thought.

Which of the following contributed to the United States going to war in 1812?

Congressional War Hawks who pressed for territorial expansion into Florida and Canada

The War Hawks in Congress included

Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun.

“Strict constructionists” believed that

the federal government could only exercise powers specifically listed in the Constitution.

The Bank of the United States, modeled after the Bank of England, was part of which founding father’s financial program?

Alexander Hamilton

Which of the following was true of the Embargo Act of 1807?

Americans were prohibited from sending ships to foreign ports.

The central aim of the Lewis and Clark expedition was to

explore the economic potential of the territory acquired through the Louisiana Purchase.

The land involved in the Louisiana Purchase

stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains.

The Barbary Wars

helped to lay the foundation of American Islamophobia

What did Alexander Hamilton include in his economic proposal?

federal responsibility for outstanding Revolutionary War debts

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who

preached a militant message to Native Americans early in the nineteenth century.

The American system of manufactures was important because

it used interchangeable parts that could be rapidly assembled.

What was a factor in the nation’s acquisition of Florida from Spain?

Andrew Jackson led an army to invade Florida, subsequently killing British traders.

Most of the states that joined the Union in the six years immediately following the War of 1812 were located

west of the Appalachian Mountains.

What is one major reason an increasing number of emigrants left Europe for the United States between 1840 and 1860?

The Irish potato famine created many refugees who were escaping starvation.

Which problem with cotton did Eli Whitney solve by inventing the cotton gin?

Removing seeds from the cotton was a slow and painstaking task, but Whitney made it much easier and less labor-intensive.

Which statement is accurate about life for the young “mill girls”?

They typically did not make a career out of factory work and would return home after a few years or marry or move.

In what way did the rise of the market revolution and westward expansion alter the lives of enslaved African Americans?

When traders and owners moved enslaved people west, they destroyed family ties and long-standing communities.

Which improvement most dramatically increased the speed and lowered the expense of commerce in the first half of the nineteenth century?

canals and steamboats

What “holy cult” did the French writer Alexis de Tocqueville identify in America in the 1830s?

“the holy cult of freedom”

The “American System of manufactures”

owed a great deal to Eli Terry’s development of interchangeable parts in clockmaking.

What is the relationship between westward migration and the development of the South?

A slave-based plantation economy was quickly established in states like Alabama and Mississippi.

The first industry to be shaped by the large factory system was

textiles

Nativists

stereotyped the Irish as childlike, lazy, heavy drinkers who were unsuited for republican freedom.

What is one significance of Eli Whitney’s cotton gin?

The internal slave trade within the United States grew dramatically.

In Northeast cities during the market revolution,

the wealth gap between the rich and poor significantly widened.