Interim Assessment 4: US History – Flashcards

I got an A 93% (i don't know what i got wrong so this is the scores by domain) Colonization Through The Constitution 93% 14/15 New Republic Through Reconstruction 67% 2/3 Industrialization, Reform, And Imperialism 100% 6/6 Establishment As A World Power 100% 6/6 ~TEST HERO

The House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact both reflect the ideas of _________ that the Western Europeans brought with them to the New World.

Which letter on this map marks the area of colonial North America controlled by France around the year 1700?

All of these were key factors in what 1676 uprising?

Which early religious movement played a key role in developing democratic thought and individual freedom-- ideas which helped usher in the American Revolution?

The first Africans to be brought to British North America landed in which colony in the early 1600s?

Which of these had the BIGGEST and EARLIEST impact on the system of mercantilism that developed in the 1600s?

After winning the French & Indian War, Great Britain passed the Proclamation of 1763 which made the colonists angry because

Which goods did Great Britain pass a direct tax on that led to boycotts and a group of delegates to meet to determine how to protest it?

Which political development greatly increased tensions between the American colonies and Great Britain in the years just before the American Revolution?

"For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury...." - From The Declaration of Independence Each phrase from this section of the Declaration of Independence begins with the word 'for', which is referring to the actions of

Which European philosopher proposed that dividing the government into three branches would prevent any one person or group from gaining total control?

The ideas contained in the Declaration of Independence were MOST influenced by

Which is the BEST description of Shays' Rebellion of 1786-87?

The greatest achievement of the Antifederalists was to

Limited government is the concept that a government's power over its citizens should have limitations. Which of these is MOST closely associated with the idea of limited government?

The War of 1812 resulted in

Which best describes the main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?

On Manifest Destiny, by John L. O'Sullivan, 1839 The American people having derived their origin from many other nations, and the Declaration of National Independence being entirely based on the great principle of human equality, these facts demonstrate at once our disconnected position as regards any other nation; that we have, in reality, but little connection with the past history of any of them, and still less with all antiquity, its glories, or its crimes. On the contrary, our national birth was the beginning of a new history, the formation and progress of an untried political system, which separates us from the past and connects us with the future only; and so far as regards the entire development of the natural rights of man, in moral, political, and national life, we may confidently assume that our country is destined to be the great nation of futurity. Sullivan is suggesting that the United States

The U.S. Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson, (1896) determined that segregation was acceptable under the condition that

The purpose of Jim Crow laws was to

"The wisest among my race understand that the agitation of questions of social equality is the extremest folly, and that progress...which will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing. No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important...that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is...more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory...is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera-house." Booker T. Washington September 18, 1895 This speech is representative of what attitude in the earliest years of the Civil Rights Movement?

What is the MOST accurate Social-Darwinist defense for U.S. imperialism?

A major reason why the United States oversaw the building of the Panama Canal was to

In 1882, Congress passed an "exclusion act" which prevented the immigration of workers from what country for 10 years?

Which of these provisions of the Treaty of Versailles was the most crucial to what President Woodrow Wilson sought in the hope that World War I would be a "war to end all wars"?

Which event surrounding World War I had the GREATEST impact on Americans?

In the months leading up to World War I, the United States wanted to maintain its neutrality because

What international crisis was a major factor in the "First Red Scare" in the United States in the early 20th century?

Why is the Harlem Renaissance of major importance in American History?

Henry Ford's most noteworthy contribution to industry is the