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| What were the British aims in the raid on April 18, 1775? |
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seize arms, capture Sam Adams and John Hancock
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| Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 for advocating |
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| the seperation of church and state |
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| George Washington was appointed Commander-in-chief of the Continental Army because of |
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| He was a good leader, and he had previous military experience |
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| The Coercive Acts were passed by the British Parliament in reaction to |
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| the Americans' disobedience and to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party |
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| The puritians believed that the freedom to practice religion should be extended to |
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| Thomas Paine's contribution to the Revolutionary cause was because: |
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| created the government that would take command after the ended |
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| The Battle of Saratoga was considered the turning point of the American Revolution because |
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| it convinced the French to give the U.S. military support. It lifted American spirits, ended the British threat in New England by taking control of the Hudson River, and, most importantly, showed the French that the Americans had the potential to beat their enemy, Great Britain |
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| The argument that "abuses and usurpations" by King George and his government violated social contracts that existed between Britain and America was articulated in |
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| Declaration of Independence |
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| A major weakness of the articles of confederation was that they |
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| It created a too-weak national government. When Congress drafted the nation's first constitution in 1777, it knew that many Americans feared a powerful national government. For that reason, the proposed Articles of Confederation created a framework for a loose confederation of states. Within this alliance, each state would retain "sovereignty, freedom, and independence." Any power not specifically given to Congress was reserved for the states. This meant that each state could often develop its own policies. |
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| When Colonial Massachusetts' Governor Thomas Hutchinson attempted to force the sale of taxed tea in Boston in 1773, Bostonians reacted with the |
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| Americans objected to King George hiring Hessian soldiers to fight in America because: |
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| “irrefutable proof to the colonists that they were to be treated as foreigners |
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| All of the following were ideas included in the Declaration of Independence EXCEPT: |
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| call for the abolition of the slave trade |
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| Which of the following contributed most to American victory in the Revolution? |
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| French military and financial assistance. |
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| British strategy after 1778 was to: |
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| shift to a southern strategy because they felt like they could exploit loyalists support |
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| Why did relations between the elites and the common people change as a result of the American Revolution? |
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| The elites learned they would have to treat the common people with respect in order to receive their support |
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| One of the purposes for writing the Declaration of Independence was to: |
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| convince potential foreign allies of American determination to gain independence |
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| The Battle of Saratoga resulted in: |
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| France entering the war on the side of the colonies |
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| Which of the following states the principle of the Manifest Destiny? |
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| America's expansion to the West Coast was inevitable and divinely sanctioned |
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| In his opinion on the case Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Roger Taney ruled that: |
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| Congress had no right to regulate slavery in United States territories |
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| The Sugar Act of 1764 represented a major shift in British policy towards the colonies in that, for the first time, the British |
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| levied taxes aimed at raising revenue rather than regulating trade |
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| The Know-Nothing Party focused its efforts almost exclusively on the issue of |
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| All of the following influenced the United States' decision to declare war against Great Britain in 1812 |
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| the impressment of American sailors, British control of the Atlantic and resulting interference in United States trade with Europe, Great Britain's alliances with American Indian tribes, which curtailed United States westward expansion, the failure of the Embargo act. |
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| These statements accurately describe the Missouri Compromise of 1820 |
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| It allowed Missouri to be admitted to the Union as a slave state, it created the free state of Maine from territory that belonged to Massachusetts, one of its purposes was to maintain the equal representation of free states and slave states in the Senate, it included a northern border in the Louisiana Territory above which slavery was thereafter prohibited |
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| Between 1820 and 1854, the greatest number of immigrants to the United States came from |
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| The "first Great Awakening" can be seen as a direct response to which for the following? |
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| Which of the following states the principle of "virtual representation," as it was argued during the eighteenth century? |
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| All English subjects, including those who are not allowed to vote, are represented in Parliament |
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| By the first decade of the nineteenth century, American manufacturing had been revolutionized by the advent of |
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| interchangeable machine parts |
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| The principle of "popular sovereignty" stated that |
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| settlers in the Western territories, not Congress, would decide whether to allow slavery in their territory |
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| The majority of those who voted Republican in the 1854 elections were? |
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| Which of the following best describes the situation of freedmen in the decade following the Civil War? |
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| the majority entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters |
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| The 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson did which of the following? |
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| In 1890 the most important source of revenue for the federal government was |
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| William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" oration was primarily an expression of his |
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| advocacy of the free and unlimited coinage of silver |
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| Jacob Riis's "How the Other Half Lives" is a study of |
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| immigrant urban poverty and despair in the 1890's |
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| The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman's |
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| cutting wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents |
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| In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, American agriculture was characterized by |
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| An increase in acres under cultivation |
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| the financial depression of 1893 was caused primarily by |
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| result of overspeculation by investors that artificially inflated the price of stocks; stocks took a tumble & didn't recover for almost 4 years |
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| All of the following were results of the Spanish-American War EXCEPT |
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| The Supreme Court ruling that unincorporated possessions such as Puerto Rico were destined for statehood |
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| The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-1956 |
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| marked the emergence of an effective form of racial protest |
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| the bay of pigs invasion of cuba, in 1951, was carried out by |
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| Which of the following best summarizes the United State's primary reason for participating in the war in Vietnam? |
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| American foreign policy experts believed that, without intervention, communism would spread from Vietnam throughout Southeast Asia. (Domino theory) |
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| The 1927 motion picture The Jazz Singer was the first major commercial film to feature |
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| During the 1960s, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) shifted its political agenda in which of the following ways |
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| Although initially integrationist, by 1966 the SNCC advocated black separation |
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| Which of the following resulted in the greatest threat of nuclear war during the Kennedy administration? |
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| Cuban missile crisis/the U.S. naval blockade of Cuba |
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| Social Darwinists would most likely support which of the following |
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| nonregulation of business |
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| The concept of the gospel of welath is reflected in all of the following statements except |
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| money should be distributed to the poor and the homeless |
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| Which of the following was NOT a reason for the split in the Republican party in 1912? |
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| Democratic control of the White House |
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| This man was the first American to go into space. This launch was in May, 1961 |
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