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| According to Professor Curry, who is the instructor for this class, history |
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| is a critical analysis of the human past, an understanding of which is essential tot an understanding of ourselves |
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| A major obstacle encountered in trying to draft a new constitution in 1787 was |
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| strength of localism, reflected in rivalry in states |
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| According to Professor Curry, which of the following statements is true? |
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| localism was a powerful cultural force in colonial America |
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| The committees of correspondence were important because |
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| they provided the machinery for coordinating views and acted on matters affecting the colonies. |
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| Among the important effects of the Great Awakening in America was declining respect for established authority |
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| Declining respect for established authority |
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| According to Richard Hofstadter, in The American Political Tradition, the Founding Fathers |
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| Feared the property-less masses |
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| According to Professor Curry, the Great Awakening had the effect of |
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| Increasing religious diversity in the colonies |
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| At the Constitutional Convention, the “Great Compromise” |
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| Settled the question of congressional representation |
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| When Massachusetts leader John Winthrop spoke of “a city upon a hill,” he was referring to the colony’s desire |
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| Serve as a model Christian community |
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| In Federalist Number 10, James Madison argued that the size and diversity of the nation would make it impossible for any one faction to control the government. |
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| The size and diversity of the nation would make it impossible for any one faction to control the government. |
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| According to Richard Hofstadter in The American Political Tradition, the essence of the American political tradition has been |
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| A belief in the rights of property, the philosophy of economic individualism, and the value of competition |
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| The First Continental Congress of 1774 passed resolutions calling for all of the following except |
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| A formal declaration of independence if the intolerable acts were not repealed. |
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| Lowered the tax on foreign molasses imported into America. |
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| Looking back over the previous seven years from the perspective of 1770, many American colonists concluded that the troublesome events since 1763 were primarily the consequences of |
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| A deliberate conspiracy by corrupt leaders of the Parliament to rob colonists of their rights. |
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| The significance of the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 was that it |
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| Represented the first united colonial action against the parliaments (didn’t get to finish copying) |
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| According to Professor Curry, the Articles of Confederation |
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| Expressed politically the strength of American localism |
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| Thomas Paine’s pamphlet, Common Sense |
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| Made a powerful case for American independence |
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| Britain’s victory over the French in the Seven Year’s War |
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| Led to an imperial crisis in the British empire. |
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| Most Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay colony |
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| Preferred to stay within the church of England and seek an opportunity to reform there. |
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| In the American Declaration of Independence, TJ drew on the political writing of the English Philosopher John Locke Except |
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| The supremacy of the legislature over the executive in government |
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| All of the following existed in the American colonies prior to the American Revolution except |
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| A general commitment to the principle of universal manhood suffrage |
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| The first continental congress created the Continental Association, the purpose of which was to |
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| Enforce a new trade boycott against England |
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| “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” is a quotation from the Declaration of Independence. |
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| Declaration of independence |
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| Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress |
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| Combined legislative and executive power |
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| The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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| Banned slavery in the northwest |
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| According to Curry, all of the following were important factors contributing to the strong spirit of localism in English colonies in North America except |
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| The English prohibited the colonies from cooperating with other another..(didn’t get to finish) |
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| According to Morgan in book , the dilemma for john Winthrop and other New England puritans was |
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| How to live a godly life in a evil world |
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| Article VI of the U.S Constitution declares the Constitution to be |
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| “the supreme law of the land.” |
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| The U.S Constitution of 1789 |
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| Institutionalized the conflict between nationalism and localism in American life. |
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| According to Morgan, Roger Williams antagonized the leadership of Massachusetts Bay Colony by arguing that |
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| The puritans should separate themselves from the church of England |
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| According to Curry, the most important factor conductive to the growth of nationalism that was missing among the English Colonies in North America prior to 1787 was |
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| Was the first national cultural event in American colonies |
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| The US constitution, protections for the individual rights such as freedom of speech |
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| Amendments included after the constitution was adopted |
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| In Morgan points out in The Puritan Dilemma Antinomians like Anne Hutchinson believed |
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| Those who were “under a covenant of grace” were no longer bound by civil or church laws |
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| All of the following were important America cultural characteristics with clear origins in North America except |
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| The correct chronological order for the following documents-from earliest to latest-is |
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| Declaration of independence, articles of confederation, constitution, bill of rights. |
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