US History Final

In what way did each colony's government mirror the government of Britain?

What was one effect of new British taxes on colonists?

What incident led Parliament to withdraw nearly all of the Townshend Acts?

Who argued that people had divinely granted rights, including life, liberty, and property?

Why was the Declaration of Independence written?

What was the primary reason why George Washington was chosen to lead the Continental Army?

What important responsibility did the Second Continental Congress take on in May 1775?

How did the Revolutionary War affect slaves?

In 1783, the Treaty of Paris _____.

Battles on the frontier were mostly between which two groups?

Which of the following contributed to the United States' economic weakness at the beginning of the Revolutionary War?

What is a unicameral legislature?

Under the Articles of Confederation, who chose the federal government's Congress of delegates?

Under the Articles of Confederation, small states like Rhode Island wielded as much power as large states like Virginia, because _____.

What was the purpose of the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

Which proposal most resembled the Articles of Confederation?

What was the result of the Three-Fifths Compromise?

Which of the following was a provision of the New Jersey Plan?

The U.S. Constitution contains which provision from the Virginia Plan?

Which principle provides for a system in which the government derives its power from the governed?

In order to win support for the Constitution, what did the Federalists promise to add?

Why was the War of 1812 significant to the United States?

Which of the following is true of the Native American warrior Tecumseh?

Why did the War Hawks push for the invasion of British-held Canada?

Which naval battle established the U.S. Navy as a strong fighting force?

What was one of George Washington's most important precedents?

Which of the following was a part of Alexander Hamilton's plan for restructuring the nation's debt?

What was the result of the XYZ Affair?

How did the British hope to limit American settlement in the Northwest Territory?

Why did Jefferson make the Louisiana Purchase?

Why was the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison significant?

Why did railroads have a greater impact on American society than did canals and steamboats?

How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people worked?

How did the cotton gin change agriculture in the South?

What happened as agriculture became entrenched in the South?

How did nullification relate to tariffs in the early 1800s?

In the early 1800s, new state constitutions expanded the electorate by giving the vote to _____.

In 1833, South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union if _____.

Why did Jacksonian Democrats oppose the second Bank of the United States?

Why was the ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland significant?

Which of the following showed the impact of nationalism on foreign policy?

What did the United States promise in the Monroe Doctrine?

Why did southern whites feel threatened by the Missouri Compromise?

What argument did Southerners give in support of slave labor?

What did Angelina Grimké do as a result of the abolition movement?

How did Nat Turner show resistance to slavery?

How did many enslaved people cope with the miserable conditions they faced?

Why did New Mexico, Texas, and California attract expansionists in the 1820s?

In the 1840s and 1850s, where did Mormons, led by Brigham Young, settle?

Where did Spanish leaders seek to convert Indians to Christianity?

.Who were the Mountain Men?

What did expansionists mean by the term Manifest Destiny?

Who seized power in an 1834 Mexico City revolt?

At the end of the Mexican-American War, the United States paid $15 million and left Mexico City in exchange for _____.

The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gadsden Purchase increased the area of the United States by _____.

Which of the following stirred discord between the North and the South?

What effect did the California Gold Rush have on Mexican Californians?

Why was the Seneca Falls Convention important?

In which of the following did women take active roles in the early and middle 1800s?

Which of the following marked the beginning of the women's movement in the United States?

In his inaugural address, why did Lincoln refer to the right of each state to control its own affairs?

Why did the Confederate States of America write a constitution that prohibited importing slaves from other countries?

Which party in the 1860 election hoped to heal the political split between the North and the South?

Why did the Fugitive Slave Act anger Northerners?

Which statement was true under the new Fugitive Slave Act passed in 1850?

What was the long term effect of the "Bleeding Kansas" problem?

How did Lincoln approach the issue of slavery in his speeches?

The growing immigrant population in the United States led to the creation of the _____.

Why did John Brown attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

What best summarizes why part of the nation was upset over the Dred Scott decision?

Which was a characteristic of the North's economy?

Which factor most influenced the southern way of life?

How did African Americans support the war effort?

What was the Union army's response to the Emancipation Proclamation?

How did African Americans in the South often help Union forces?

What risk did a soldier face if he survived being wounded in a Civil War battle?

Why was the capture of Vicksburg, Mississippi, by Union troops significant?

Which term describes General Grant's strategy for crushing the Confederacy after the Battle of Gettysburg?

What was the impact of the Civil War on the South's African American population?

What immediate effect of the war was felt by both northerners and southerners?

What group used violence to intimidate American citizens?

Horizontal integration differs from vertical integration in that it _____.

According to the theory of Social Darwinism, what class had the most social value?

What was one effect of the conflicts between Native Americans and white settlers?

Which was a system for turning out large numbers of products quickly and inexpensively?

What role did patents play in the work of inventors such as Thomas Edison?

What is a cash crop?

Which of the following was an effect of the transcontinental railroad?

How did the new mining towns enforce laws and keep the peace?

What was one of the dangers of living in a tenement?

Which journalist called attention to the living conditions of tenement dwellers?

Why was steerage considered the worst accommodations on ships traveling from Europe to America?

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 _____.

What were Jim Crow laws?

Why did minority groups receive only limited benefits from Progressivism?

Why did the U.S. banking system need to be reformed in the early 1900s?

What social problem did Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle describe?

Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called _____.

Why did Roosevelt run for President in 1912?

How did Taft's "rule of reason" differ from Roosevelt's New Nationalism?