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The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following phrases except

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"monarchy and hereditary succession have laid the world in blood and ashes."

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From the rationalist philosophies of the Enlightenment, Americans of the 1760s and early 1770s derived the idea

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that individuals have certain "natural rights."

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By 1770, after five years of debate over American sovereignty,

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outspoken colonial leaders had repudiated Parliament and claimed equality for their own assemblies under the king.

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The author of the radical pamphlet Common Sense

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called for independence and republicanism.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Boston Massacre of March 1770 or its aftermath?

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Radical Whigs accused the British of deliberately planning the killings.

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At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required

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colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.

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The Coercive Acts, passed in 1774 in response to the Boston tea incident, included a(n)

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all of the answers are correct.

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In the 1760s and early 1770s, lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

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assert that as the king's subjects, colonists were protected against arbitrary acts of the government.

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Which of the following statements most accurately describes the military clash between British regulars and the Massachusetts militia in April 1775?

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Warned by Paul Revere and two other Bostonians, a small force of Minutemen opposed the British at Lexington, and a larger body of Patriots confronted them at Concord; while returning to Boston, the British troops were repeatedly ambushed by militiamen and sustained heavy losses.

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Thomas Jefferson's main purpose in composing the Declaration of Independence was to

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justify the action of Congress by blaming the rupture on George III.

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In the mid-1770s, the Loyalists

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feared that the violence the rebels were using to enforce nonimportation would lead to mob rule.

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After the Great War for Empire ended, Parliament

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instructed the Royal Navy to seize American vessels carrying supplies from the mainland to the French West Indies.

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At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required

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colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops.

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Objecting to the Stamp Act, educated Americans drew on all of the following historical precedents or intellectual traditions except

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democratic traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation.

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The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following phrases except

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"monarchy and hereditary succession have laid the world in blood and ashes."

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Loyalists at the beginning of the American Revolution?

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Many Quakers became Loyalists because they held pacifist beliefs and feared political change.

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George III's response to the Declaration of the Causes and Necessities of Taking Up Arms was to

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refuse to accept the petition, instead issuing the Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition.

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In the 1760s and early 1770s, lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments mainly to

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assert that as the king's subjects, colonists were protected against arbitrary acts of the government.

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During the Great War for Empire,

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deep-seated differences in military discipline emerged between the British officers and the American colonial troops.

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American women contributed to the nonimportation movement of 1768 by

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producing homespun fabric to make the colonies less dependent on British textiles.

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Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically

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artisans, shopkeepers, poor laborers, and seamen.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Daughters of Liberty?

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The organization of women supported boycotts against British goods.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes responses to the planned Stamp Act?

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British politicians, with the exception of William Pitt, refused to consider the idea of American representation in Parliament.

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How did the outcome of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 compare to that of the crisis of the Townshend duties in 1768?

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The stakes had risen: In 1765, American resistance to taxation had provoked an argument in Parliament; in 1768, it produced a British plan for military coercion.

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During the Great War for Empire,

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deep-seated differences in military discipline emerged between the British officers and the American colonial troops.

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The Stamp Act Congress held in New York in 1765

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protested loss of American rights and liberties and declared that only elected representatives could impose taxes on colonists.

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At the First Continental Congress, New England delegates advocated

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political union and defensive military preparations.

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Objecting to the Stamp Act, educated Americans drew on all of the following historical precedents or intellectual traditions except

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democratic traditions dating from the Protestant Reformation.

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George Washington's success as a general is most accurately explained by

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his political astuteness and ability to act decisively.

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Immediately after signing the alliance with the Americans in 1778, the French

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concentrated their naval forces in the Caribbean in the hopes of capturing a British sugar island.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the provisions of the Treaty of Paris, which ended the Revolutionary War?

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The United States promised not to hinder British merchants from recovering their prewar debts from Americans and to encourage state governments to restore confiscated Loyalist property.

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The Patriots succeeded in the American Revolution mainly because

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about two-thirds of the population supported the war to some degree, and the army fought on its own territory.

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France gave serious consideration to an alliance with the rebel colonies primarily because it saw an opportunity to

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exact revenge on Britain for defeat in the French and Indian War and the loss of Canada.

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A political ideology that repudiates rule by kings and princes and celebrates a representative system of government and a virtuous, public-spirited citizenry is called

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republicanism.

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The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

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prohibited slavery in the Northwest Territory.

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Before the Constitution could go into effect, how many states had to ratify it?

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Nine

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Under the Articles of Confederation,

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each state retained its sovereignty and independence.

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Antifederalist Patrick Henry opposed the Constitution because he

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feared high taxes, a large bureaucracy, and a standing army.

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All of the following states were eventually created out of the Northwest Territory except

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Kentucky.

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The Continental army

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enlisted most of its recruits from the lower ranks of society, poor native-born youths, and older foreign-born men.

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The Philadelphia convention established that

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Congress could make no law regulating the importation of slaves until 1808.

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The Constitution, as completed on September 17, 1787, gave the national government

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broad powers over taxation, military defense, and external commerce.

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The largest political and economic problem facing the postrevolutionary state governments was

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a worthless currency and big debts.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes what occurred at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-1778?

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While the ill-equipped, underfed Continental army huddled on a bleak hillside west of Philadelphia, British troops were comfortably housed in the city for the winter.

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To persuade Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York to ratify the Constitution, leading Federalists promised that

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a bill of rights would be added to the Constitution.

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New Jersey was unique until 1807 compared to other states regarding

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allowing unmarried and widowed women property holders to vote.

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Abigail Adams

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insisted on equal legal rights for married women.

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The Land Ordinance of 1785

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set out a rectangular-grid system of surveying land.

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As part of the Great Compromise, delegates at the Philadelphia convention agreed on

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a lower house whose seats would be apportioned on the basis of population.

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In their protests against the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson and Madison

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took the fight to the state legislatures, setting forth a states' rights to interpretation of the Constitution.

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In response to the purchase of Louisiana,

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some New England Federalists devised a plan to secede from the Union and establish a northern confederacy.

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All of the following rights are guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution except

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the right to vote.

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The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as the

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Bill of Rights.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the first congressional government?

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George Washington established a cabinet--or body of advisors--and an administrative bureaucracy under the president's control.

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The Whiskey Rebellion was significant for all of the following reasons except

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when he learned that Thomas Jefferson covertly supported the insurgents, Washington publicly broke with him, precipitating open party conflict.

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As a result of the Embargo Act of 1807, the American economy

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fell into a slump; by 1808, exports had plunged to about one-fifth the pre-embargo level.

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The immediate cause of the duel in which Vice President Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton was

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Hamilton's accusation that Burr was aiding in a plot to destroy the Union.

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All of the following rights are guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution except

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the right to vote.

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What was the effect of the French Revolution and the war between France and England on the American economy?

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By managing to sell to both sides, American merchants profited handsomely.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the American reaction to the French Revolution?

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Artisans praised the egalitarianism of the French republicans and founded political clubs.

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Before becoming president, Thomas Jefferson viewed the westward migration of Americans with

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unqualified approval because he celebrated the pioneer farmer and hoped to see the West developed by independent yeomen.

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Those persons who migrated from New England during the 1790s usually

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moved in large family or church groups.

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In the treaty that ended the War of 1812, the United States gained

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nothing.

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The decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) is of great importance in American history because

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it marked the onset of a period of frequent declarations by the Supreme Court that laws enacted by the Republican-dominated Congress were unconstitutional.

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In response to Hamilton's bill to establish the Bank of the United States,

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Jefferson relied on a strict interpretation of the Constitution to declare the national bank unconstitutional.

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To enhance the authority of the federal government, Alexander Hamilton proposed

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that the federal government assume the unpaid war debts of the states.

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The decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) is of great importance in American history because

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it marked the first occasion on which the Supreme Court declared that it had the power to rule national laws unconstitutional.

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The Lewis and Clark expedition was dispatched primarily to

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report on the physical features and the plant and animal life of the Louisiana Territory, in which Jefferson took a great scientific interest.

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Thomas Jefferson's vision for the future of the United States included

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western territories populated by independent yeomen farm families.

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Under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798,

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it was illegal to publish insults or malicious attacks against Congress or the president.

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In the election of 1800,

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Hamilton threw his support behind Jefferson, who was in an electoral-vote tie with Aaron Burr for the presidency.

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Alexander Hamilton

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proposed making the United States self-sufficient in manufacturing

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In contemplating the opportunity to purchase Louisiana, Jefferson

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revised his view of presidential powers under the Constitution.

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In January of 1815, General Jackson's forces crushed the British in

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New Orleans, Louisiana.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Federalists' response to the War of 1812?

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Some Federalists at the Hartford convention in 1814 proposed secession from the Union.

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By the end of the War of 1812,

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Of the following statesmen, the one most instrumental in arranging the Missouri Compromise was

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Henry Clay

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What role did Gabriel Prosser play in the debate over slave emancipation in Virginia?

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As a slave, he planned a slave uprising in 1800 and was hanged.

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The camp meeting revival that Frances Trollope witnessed in Indiana around 1830 was typical of the Second Great Awakening in that it

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was an intensely emotional, mass experience.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the effect of the Second Great Awakening on American religious groups?

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Evangelical denominations, such as the Baptists and Methodists, grew rapidly in size and influence compared to the Congregationalists, Episcopalians, and Quakers.

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Circuit riders were

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Methodist ministers in frontier communities who rode on horseback over a vast area, or "circuit," preaching and establishing new congregations.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes education before the 1820s?

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Farmers, artisans, and laborers emphasized basic instruction in reading, writing, and arithmetic but saw little use for training in other subjects.

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By the 1820s, more women were becoming teachers because

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school authorities could pay women less than they paid men.

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In early nineteenth-century America,

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the rise in political status of ordinary white men was accompanied by a decline in the political rights of women and free blacks.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the effect of the Second Great Awakening on American religious groups?

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Evangelical denominations, such as the Baptists and Methodists, grew rapidly in size and influence compared to the Congregationalists, Episcopalians, and Quakers.

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The Missouri Compromise of 1820

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provided for Maine to enter the Union as a free state in 1820, and Missouri to enter as a slave state the following year.

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On the basis of their growth and membership increases during the early nineteenth century, the two most popular American Protestant denominations were the

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Baptists and Methodists.

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The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American cultural and social action because it

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challenged the Calvinist doctrine of predestination and helped to make American intellectual culture more optimistic.

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Circuit riders were

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Methodist ministers in frontier communities who rode on horseback over a vast area, or "circuit," preaching and establishing new congregations.

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During and after the Revolution, why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states?

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The northern states gave priority to slaveholders' property rights so that emancipation often was spaced out over several slave generations.

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In efforts to improve transportation at the beginning of the nineteenth century,

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state governments chartered private companies to construct turnpikes and canals.

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The camp meeting revival that Frances Trollope witnessed in Indiana around 1830 was typical of the Second Great Awakening in that it

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was an intensely emotional, mass experience.

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The purpose of the American Colonization Society was to

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encourage Southern planters to emancipate their slaves for resettlement in Africa.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes transportation in the trans-Appalachian West in the early nineteenth century?

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Water transport was the quickest and cheapest way to get goods to market, but most new settlements were not near navigable streams.

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Lyman Beecher, the leading New England clergyman of the first half of the nineteenth century, was a Congregationalist who

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emphasized the free will of the believer to do right and obey God.

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John Adams recommended a bicameral (two-house) legislature because he believed that

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the upper house, consisting of substantial property owners, would check the power of popular majorities in the lower house.

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Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the effect of the Second Great Awakening on women?

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The rate of premarital pregnancy dropped in New England towns.

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When the Bank of the United States' charter expired in 1811,

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it was not renewed.

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In the 1780s, owners of textile mills in the Middle Atlantic and New England states

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used water-powered machines to card and comb wool and cotton into long strands.

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In the early republic, Benjamin Rush and other leaders argued that women should be educated so they could

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oversee the instruction of their sons in the principles of liberty and government.

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Virginia's 1786 Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, which made all churches equal before the law and granted direct financial support to none,

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was written by Thomas Jefferson.

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The Second Great Awakening was the

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religious revival that began around 1790 and continued far into the nineteenth century.

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One reason women took charge of religious and charitable enterprises during and after the Second Great Awakening was because

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they were excluded from other public roles.

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Noah Webster

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published dictionaries and spelling books to conform American spelling and grammar.

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The First Continental Congress

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was summoned by Patriot leaders to protest the Coercive Acts in 1774.

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