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Which of the following statements about indentured servitude is true? a. Indentured Servitude was the means by which most Africans came to the New World b. Indentured Servitude never attracted many people because its terms were too harsh c. Approximately half of all indentured servants died before earning their freedom d. Indenture was one of the several systems used to distinguish house slaves from field slaves

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b. Indentured Servitude never attracted many people because its terms were too harsh

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The Mayflower Compact foreshadows the US constitution in which way?

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Posits the source of government power in the people rather than in God

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The first important cash crop in the American colonies was

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tobacco

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The philosophy of mercantilism holds that economic power resides primarily in

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control of hard currency and a positive trade balance

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Colonial vice- admiralty courts were created to enforce

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import and export restrictions

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An uprising that was not a Native American vs. Colonists uprising, it was a slave revolt

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Stono Uprising

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Something not true about cities during the colonial era

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that the majority of colonists lived in urban areas

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Colleges and universities during the colonial period were dedicated primarily to the training of

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the clergy

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Why the British did not establish a powerful central government in the American colonies

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The British cared so little how the colonists lived as long as the colonists remained a productive economic asset

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The Albany Plan of Union failed because

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none of the colonies was willing to share tax- collecting powers with a national entity

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American colonists objected to the policies imposed by Parliament after the French and Indian War because :

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1. new restrictions would hinder New England trade 2. Their rights as Englishmen were being violated 3. They resented quartering British troops now that the French threat was removed

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According to the theory of virtual representation

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colonists were represented in Parliament by virtue of their British citizenship

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Stamp Act Congress of 1765 was historically significant in that it

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represented a first step in colonial unity against Britain

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Thomas Jefferson relied on the ideas of John Locke in writing the American Declaration of Independence in all of the following ways EXCEPT Locke's belief that

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man must submit to the General Will to protest his natural rights

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Historians often cite Shays Rebellion (1786-1787) as a significant event in US history because it

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made many Americans realize that slavery could not last

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Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had which power?

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The power of negotiate treaties

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George Washington established the principle of executive privilege in a dispute with Congress over the

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Jay Treaty

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The Age of Salutary Neglect drew to a close with

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the end of the French and Indian War

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Best summary of the strict constructionist position on the establishment of the National Bank

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The Constitution forbids the establishment of the bank because creating a bank is not among Congress's enumerated powers

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Although the Supreme Court was the weakest of the three branches of government in the early days of the republic, John Marshall strengthened the Court by

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establishing judicial review in the case Marbury v. Madison

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The Louisiana Purchase was an important factor in the development of U.S trade because it

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gave the country complete control of the Mississippi River

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As a result of the Hartford Convention following the War of 1812. . .

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the Federalist party lost credibility and eventually died out

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Andrew Jackson accused Henry Clay of using his influence to broker the "corrupt bargain" of 1824 (which cost Andrew Jackson the election) because Clay

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was promised a cabinet position if John Quincy Adams was elected president

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The controversy over the tariff during the late 1820s and early 1830s demonstrated that

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economic sectionalism was a serious threat to national unity

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Andrew Jacksons positions on the Second National Bank and the American System typified his

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distrust of large national government programs

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The Cherokee of Georgia were forced off their land because

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gold was discovered in their territory and Georgians demanded that the Indian Removal Act be enforced

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Brook Farm in Massachusetts, the Oneida Community is upstate New York, and New Harmony in Indiana were similar in that they

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were Utopian communities designed to ameliorate the effects of a growing commerical society

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As a result of the Mexico- American War, what didnt become apart of the United States

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Texas

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'Bleeding Kansas' was a direct result of the doctrine of

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popular sovereignty

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As a result of the Emancipation Proclamation

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nearly 200,000 free blacks and escaped slaves joined the Union Army

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Andrew Johnson was impeached because

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he violated the Tenure of Office Act by firing Secretary of War Stantion

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The dispute over electoral votes in the election of 1876

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was resolved by a special bipartisan commission and resulted in the end of military reconstruction

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Following the Civil War, most freed slaves

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stayed in the South and worked as sharecroppers

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The Know- Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of

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immigration

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The Free Soil Party advocated

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the exclusion of slavery from any of the new territories

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The principle of popular sovereignty stated that

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settlers in the Western territories, not Congress, would decide whether to allow slavery in their territories

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What is NOT a requirement set by the Reconstruction Act of 1867 for Southern States readmission to the Union

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The state had to pay reparations and provide land grants to all former slaves

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The scalawags were

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White southerners who supported Republican policies during Reconstruction

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Supreme Court decisions in the latter nineteenth century most accurately

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reduced federal power over the states by narrowly defining the applicability of the Constitution to state law

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vertical integration refers to

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control of all aspects of an industry, from production of raw material to delivery of finished goods

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Passage of Pendleton Act was a direct result of the

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failure of Reconstruction

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Haymarket Affair represented a major setback for the

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Knights of Labor

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Japan was outraged by the American annexation of Hawaii in 1898 primarily because

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nearly half of Hawaii's residents were of Japanese descent

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The "new immigrants" who arrived in the United States after the Civil War were different from the "old immigrants" in that they

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spoke different languages and had different customs than most Americans and thus were not easily assimilated

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The "Ghost Dance" movement among Western Native Americans did NOT stress

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nonviolence

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In the late nineteenth century, political machines such as Tammany Hall were successful primarily because

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machine politicians provided needed jobs and services to naturalized citizens in return for their votes

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Which of the following was the intended result of the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887

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Native Americans would be coaxed off reservations by land grants and would thus assimilate into Western culture

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Muckrakers furthered the causes of the Progressive movement by

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alerting the public to the social ills and corporate corruption targeted by Progressives

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Prior to the administration of Theodore Roosevelt, the Sherman Antitrust act had been used primarily to

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suppress trade unions

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Following the Spanish- American War and the acquisition of territory overseas, in a series of cases known as the Insular Cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that

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colonial subjects within the American Empire were not entitled to the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution

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What best summarizes the contents of the Zimmerman telegram, which was intercepted in 1917?

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Germany offered Mexico a chance to regain the land it had lost in the Mexican Cession if Mexico attacked the United States and helped prevent the United States from assisting the Allies

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Wilson's Fourteen Points plan for peace after World War 1 included all of the following EXCEPT a. promotion of universal self- determination b. lower tariffs to promote free trade c. repayment of all Allied war expenses by Germany d. across the board arms reduction

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repayment of all Allied war expenses by Germany

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Buying 'on margin' contributed to the stock market crash of 1929 because it

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allowed traders to pay for stock with projected future profits

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