Question 1

What major event first led the British government to seek ways to make the colonies bear part of the cost of the empire?

Accepted Answer

the Seven Years' War

Question 2

Virtual representation was the idea

Accepted Answer

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

Question 3

What contribution did the Stamp Act episode make to the colonists' concept of liberty?

Accepted Answer

The Stamp Act Congress insisted that the right to consent to taxation was essential to people's freedom.

Question 4

Crispus Attucks

Accepted Answer

was killed at the Boston Massacre.

Question 5

What did Lord Dunmore do that horrified many southerners?

Accepted Answer

He promised freedom to slaves who joined the British cause.

Question 6

For which three accomplishments did Thomas Jefferson wish to be remembered?

Accepted Answer

the Declaration of Independence, the University of Virginia, the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom

Question 7

Why did apprenticeship and indentured servitude decline after the Revolution?

Accepted Answer

The lack of freedom inherent in apprenticeship and indentured servitude struck growing numbers of Americans as incompatible with republican citizenship

Question 8

What role did Native Americans play in the Revolutionary War?

Accepted Answer

They divided in allegiance, just as white Americans did

Question 9

What policy did the new United States pursue in its dealings with Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. government set out to dispossess the Native Americans of their remaining rich lands and drive them westward.

Question 10

Virtually every founding father owned at least one slave at some point in his life. Who was a notable exception?

Accepted Answer

John Adams

Question 11

Which of the following was NOT a key obstacle to the abolition of slavery in the Revolutionary era and new nation?

Accepted Answer

the widespread fear that freed slaves would move west and unite with Indians

Question 12

After the Revolution, African-Americans in the North:

Accepted Answer

often wound up in a state similar to that of indentured servitude.

Question 13

Which of the following was NOT a way in which women contributed to the Revolutionary cause?

Accepted Answer

replacing their husbands in political offices

Question 14

Why did Congress claim that some Indians had forfeited their land rights in the aftermath of independence?

Accepted Answer

because they had aided the British during the war

Question 15

Which of the following is TRUE of how the leaders of the new nation viewed settlers moving west across the Appalachians in the 1780s?

Accepted Answer

They shared their British predecessors' fears that frontier settlers would fight constantly with Native Americans.

Question 16

Shays's Rebellion:

Accepted Answer

modeled their tactics on the patriot protests of the 1760s.

Question 17

Shays's Rebellion was significant because it demonstrated:

Accepted Answer

the need for a stronger central government.

Question 18

Why did the founding fathers create the electoral college?

Accepted Answer

They did not trust ordinary voters to choose the president and vice president directly.

Question 19

The Constitution explicitly granted Congress the power to do all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

emancipate slaves.

Question 20

How did southern states react to the Constitution's provisions regarding slavery?

Accepted Answer

South Carolina and Georgia imported 100,000 slaves before the international slave trade was constitutionally prohibited.

Question 21

Which of the following is TRUE of how the U.S. government in the 1790s dealt with Native Americans?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. government made treaties with them mainly to transfer land to itself or to the states

Question 22

Which of the following was NOT an objection raised by critics of Hamilton's proposals?

Accepted Answer

The proposals would prevent the development of manufacturing, and manufacturing was vital to America's future

Question 23

Strict constructionists believed

Accepted Answer

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

Question 24

Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Accepted Answer

discussed that women ought to have representation in government.

Question 25

Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa were brothers who:

Accepted Answer

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

Question 26

How did the Revolutionary War change the meaning of freedom?

Accepted Answer

It challenged the inequality that had been fundamental to the colonial social order.

Question 27

Which of the following is TRUE regarding Congress and the African slave trade in the United States under the Constitution?

Accepted Answer

Congress prohibited the African slave trade twenty years after ratification of the Constitution

Question 28

Which of the following is TRUE of American national identity as envisioned by the Constitution of 1787?

Accepted Answer

The people were free Americans; Native Americans and other persons, meaning African-American slaves, were not considered part of the political nation.

Question 29

Which of the following is TRUE of the Louisiana Purchase?

Accepted Answer

Jefferson expected the land acquisition to make possible the spread of agrarian republicanism.

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