Hist17A Midterm2

In the years after the Glorious Revolution, political power in England
increasingly shifted toward

A. the
monarchy.

B. Parliament.

C. the
citizens.

D. the
Anglican Church.

E. the
colonial governors.

By the 1750s, American colonial assemblies

The
proposed Albany Plan of 1754

During
the eighteenth century, in North America, the French differed from the English
in Indian relations, in that the French

A. offered
the Indians more and better trading goods.

B. largely
isolated themselves from Indian tribes.

C. were
more tolerant of Indian cultures.

D. made
little effort to convert Indians to Christianity.

E. forced
Indians to adjust to European ways.

During
the eighteenth century, in North America, the most powerful native group was
the

Native
Americans, Iroquis?

What
future American revolutionary figure surrendered to French forces in 1754 at
Fort Necessity in the Ohio Valley?

A. George
Washington

B. Patrick
Henry

C. James
Madison

D. Benedict
Arnold

E. John
Adams

The
French and Indian War was fought in

The
beginning of the end of the American phase of the French and Indian War was

Throughout
the French and Indian War, American colonists

A. fought
on the side of the French.

B. accepted
temporary new taxes to help finance the war.

*C. sold
and traded food and other goods with the French.

D. resented
that they had to do more of the fighting than did the British regulars.

E. saw
British requisition and impressment policies as necessary.

In
the 1760s, the Grenville ministry increased its authority in the colonies by

The
Sugar Act of 1764 was designed to

The
Stamp Act of 1765

The
“Virginia Resolves” stated that

A. Virginians
should not be required to pay taxes.

B. the
English government had no authority over the economic activities of Virginians.

C. anyone
who supported the right of Parliament to tax was an enemy of the colony.

D. independence
from England was the only solution to the tax crisis.

E. Virginia
must do its part to reimburse England for the cost of colonial defense.

The
Townshend Duties of 1767

The
Boston Massacre

A. was
transformed by some colonists into a symbol of British oppression.

B. resulted
in the death of several British soldiers.

C. led
to Paul Revere’s midnight ride of warning.

D. included
a trial in which British soldiers were convicted of murder.

E. turned
Paul Revere into a martyr for the cause of colonial independence.

In
the eighteenth century, the English constitution was

A. an
unwritten document.

B. difficult
to change.

C. unpopular
in both England and America.

D. believed
to be holding back colonial expansion.

E. All
these answers are correct.

Taverns
were important in the growth of revolutionary sentiment because

The
Tea Act of 1773

A. followed
a few years of relative calm between England and the American colonies.

B. lowered
the price of tea for American colonists.

C. was
intended to benefit a private British company.

D. provided
no new tax on tea.

E. All
these answers are correct.

In
1774, the First Continental Congress

The
events of Lexington and Concord

In
1775, as conflicts with England intensified, American colonists

A. made
extensive efforts to prepare themselves for war.

B. were deeply
divided about what they were fighting for.

C. believed
England was not willing to engage in military operations against them.

D. saw
their larger population as a key advantage over England.

E. considered
arming slaves to help build up the colonial army.

The
author of Common Sense

A. sought
to concentrate colonial anger on unpopular parliamentary measures.

B. was
an American who had never been to England.

C. sold
very few copies of his pamphlet until after the war was won.

D. was
arrested by British officials and charged with treason.

E. considered
the English constitution to be the greatest problem facing the colonists.

Financing
the Revolution was difficult for the American side because

At
the start of the Revolution, American advantages over the British included a

Among
the following, who was NOT a British general during the American Revolution?

After
the Battle of Saratoga, British Prime Minister Lord North responded to the
colonies with

Which
of the following was the scene of a substantial British victory in the final
phase (1778-81) of the American Revolution?

A. Cowpens

B. Charleston

C. Yorktown

D. Guilford
Court House

The
battle at Yorktown involved

The
principal Americans who negotiated the peace terms with the British were

During
the American Revolution, enslaved African Americans in the colonies

A. joined
the British army in large numbers to fight against their American masters.

B. were assisted
by the British to escape as a way to disrupt the American war effort.

C. were
offered their freedom by Americans if they fought against the British.

D. tried
to help Loyalists escape to Canada in exchange for their freedom.

E. were
not significantly affected by the conflict.

Following
the American Revolution, the first state to make slavery illegal was

During
the American Revolution, female “camp followers”

The
prominent eighteenth-century essayist Judith Sargent Murray placed her greatest
emphasis on the right of women to

For
most Revolutionary American political thinkers, the concept of equality meant

A. there
should be equality of opportunity.

B. there
should be equality of rights regardless of race, sex, or property.

C. there
should be equality of condition.

D. there
should be equality of opportunity and of condition.

E. there
should be equality of rights and of condition.

In
1780, Massachusetts sought to revise the power of the governor by

A. allowing
the legislature to set his salary.

B. having
him elected directly by the people.

C. taking
away his authority to veto legislation.

D. permitting
him to sit in the legislature.

E. granting
him the power to tax.

The
Northwest Ordinance of 1787

-created
a single territory out of the lands north of Ohio.
-guaranteed freedom of religion throughout the
affected areas.
-prohibited slavery within the affected areas.
-abandoned the system created in the 1784
Ordinance.


-All these answers are correct.

The
1795 Treaty of Greenville

Which event, more than any other, convinced George Washington that
the Articles of Confederation needed to be revised?

The Virginia Plan called for

The New Jersey Plan

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 came close to

A. abolishing
slavery.

B. granting
citizenship to slaves.

C. granting
suffrage for free black males.

D. abolishing
slavery and granting citizenship to slaves.

E. None of these answers is correct.

The achievement of the “Great Compromise” of the Constitutional
Convention of 1787 was its resolution of the problem regarding

A. women
and voting.

B. the
definition of citizenship.

C. political representation.

D. states
versus federal authority.

E. expansion
of slavery into the territories.

At the Philadelphia convention, James Madison argued that the
ultimate authority of the federal government came from the

Under the “checks and balances” system of the Constitution of
1787, federal judges

Who among the following was one of the authors of The
Federalist Papers?

The “Antifederalists”

A. saw
themselves as defenders of the principles of the American Revolution.

B. feared
that the new government would widely abuse its powers.

C. feared
that the government too much favored common people over the “well-born.”

D. saw themselves as defenders of the
principles of the American Revolution and feared that the new government would
widely abuse its powers.

E. saw
themselves as defenders of the principles of the American Revolution and feared
that the government too much favored common people over the “well-born.”

Virginia and New York ratified the Constitution of 1787 under the
assumption that

In the 1790s, those who were labeled Republicans envisioned
developing a nation that would

Under Alexander Hamilton’s plan, a new national bank would

A. obtain
most of its capital from private investors.

B. facilitate
the collection of taxes.

C. provide
loans to private businesses.

D. act
as a storehouse for federal deposits.

E. All
these answers are correct.

The two preeminent Republicans of the 1790s were

A. Alexander
Hamilton and James Monroe.

B. John
Adams and James Madison.

C. John
Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

D. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.

E. Thomas
Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

In reference to Indians living in the United States, the
Constitution

the Alien and Sedition Acts

In
the early nineteenth century, school education was largely the responsibility
of

The
writer Judith Sargent Murray argued that women

Thomas
Jefferson believed American Indians were primitive people

The
expansion of the medical profession during the early nineteenth century
resulted in a

Religious
skepticism resulted in

The
message of the Second Great Awakening

Eli
Whitney is a major figure in American technology for introducing

A. the concept
of interchangeable parts.

B. the
first modern factory.

C. the
steam engine.

D. the
mechanized assembly line.

E. the
steel plow.

The
early nineteenth century in America is known as the “turnpike era” because

A. most
towns and villages became connected by a network of inexpensive roads.

B. Americans
stopped transporting goods by canal in favor of roads.

C. the
federal government provided free land to road construction companies.

D. concrete
was first developed as a long-life road surface.

E. many roads
were built for profit by private companies.

As
president, Thomas Jefferson

A. sought to
convey the public image of a plain, ordinary citizen.

B. believed
in a passive presidency.

C. gave
the White House its name.

D. tended
to keep talented Federalists in office despite objections from Republicans.

E. only
served one term.

Napoleon
decided to sell the entire Louisiana Territory to the United States because

The
desire by American southerners to acquire Florida

In
the War of 1812, Britain turned its full military attention to America after

A. Napoleon’s
defeat at Waterloo.

B. Napoleon’s
incarceration at Elba.

C. Napoleon’s
catastrophic campaign against Russia.

D. the
American invasion of Canada.

E. the
American raid and burning of York.

In
1814, the British

A. took
control of the Ohio Valley.

B. repulsed
the United States from Florida.

C. seized
Washington and set fire to the presidential mansion.

D. established
naval supremacy on the Atlantic Ocean.

E. forced
the surrender of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

In
the War of 1812, the Battle of New Orleans

The Rush-Bagot agreement of 1817 called for