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| The series of rapids in rivers where hard cintinental rocks meets the sedimentary plains along the Atlantic |
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| About how long ago did the last glacial expansion in North America occur? |
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| Agriculture was first practiced by the indians of the... |
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| The Continental Divide is found in the... |
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| All of the following were created by glaciation except... |
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| Because of its geological and ecological history, North America has to this day the world's largerst deposits of... |
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| Since the ninteenth century the geographical region that has become America's breadbasket is... |
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| The region with the greatest annual temperature range in the United States is.. |
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| over millions of years broke up Pangaea and produced the present continents |
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| All of the following states have a portion of the piedmont running through them except... |
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| At present the main theories concerning the peopling of the Americas are... |
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| Hunters from Asia walked across a glacial corridor in the Bering Straits, and others arriving from Asia by boat landed at various places along the western coast of America |
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| The Indian peoples of the Great Basin did not develop agriculture because... |
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| the area in which they lived was too dry |
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| Which of the following trives was the ancestor of the modern Pueblo Indians? |
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| At the time of Columbus's first voyage to the New World, aobut how many Native Americans lived on continent north of Mesoamerica? |
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| part of the mound-building Mississippian culture and grew to a popoulation of 20,000 inhabitants |
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| Among North American Indians women alone did the farming except among the tribes in the Southwest... |
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| The term Archaic peoples refers to... |
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| Native Americans from about 8000 to aproximately 2500 B.C. |
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| By the 1500s the nuclear family unit was becoming increasingly important among.. |
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| The beginnings of representative government in the European settlements in North America can be found in... |
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| Virginia, when, in 1619, the company provided for election of an assembly by the inhabitants |
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| Which of the following statements about West African society at the time of first contact with Europeans is correct? |
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| Kinship groups were the most imprtant unit holding people together |
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| The financing of the Virginia settlement came from... |
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| In which European settlement was fur trading with the Hurons and other tribes the primary economic activity? |
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| The great majority of sixteenth-century Europeans were... |
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| The primary aim of the explorations of Balboa, Magellan,Verrazano, and Cartier was to find... |
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| a water passage through the Americas and reach Asia |
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| New technology in the production of which commodity had the most to do with stimulating the African slave trade in the 1500s? |
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| The area that had the longest life expectancy and the fastest growing population growth through natural increase was... |
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| The first colony in English America that had separation of church and state and practiced religious tolerance was... |
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| Harvard College was chartered in 1636 primarily to... |
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| train learned Puritan ministers |
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| A man's right to vote for and be elected to the legislative body in seventeenth-century Massachusetts was based on... |
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| The greatest extremes of inequality in land ownership in the seventeenth century was found in... |
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| The Half-Way Covenant was adopted because... |
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| Too few second and third generation Puritans were willing to testify publicly about their conversion experiences |
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| Which colonies had the most ethnically, religiously, and racially diverse populations in North America... |
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| The middle colonies (New York, New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Delaware) |
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| Which of the following statement about Maryland is correct? |
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| Although it was intended as a haven for Catholics, they were often more persecuted there than were Catholics back in England |
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| The great majority of those arriving in Virginia between 1630 and 1700 were.. |
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| British indentured servants |
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| Which of the following statements about Virginia is correct? |
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| It was governed by an appointed royal governor and governor's council and a House of Burgesses elected by landowners |
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| Which of the following statements about the Anglo-American colonies in 1750 is correct? |
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| Black slaves made up a greater proportion of the population than they had in 1700 |
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| hoped Georgia would be a place for the rehabilitation of English debtors and a barrier to Spanish expansion northward |
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| Which of the following statements concerning colonial government between 1700 and 1750 is correct? |
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| The colonial legislatures became a powerful force in American government, controlling taxes, the budget, and executive salaries |
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| Which of the thirteen colonies was the last to be settled and the only one to receive some financial assistance form the British government? |
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| Which of the following statements about women in the eighteenth century America is correct? |
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| Women in rural and urban families played an important part in helping to support their households |
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| The Glorious Revolution in England touched off rebellions in all of the following colonies... |
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| Massachusetts, New York, Maryland |
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| Which of the following resulted from King William's and Queen Anne's wars? |
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| The wars heightened Anglo0Americans' sense of their British Identity and made them feel dependent on the mother country for protection |
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| The Dominion of New England was... |
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| Created by James II to consolidate his hold on the northern colonies and eliminate their colonial assemblies |
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| required British-American colonists to ship their tobacco, rice, and naval stores to England |
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| All of the following institutions of higher learning were originally founded by religious denominations... |
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| Princeton, Rutgers, Columbia. The U of Pennsylvania was not. |
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| Both the Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774... |
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| interfered with colonial claims to western lands |
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| The Albany Plan of Union... |
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| was not implemented because of opposition by colonial legislatures, but it set a precedent for future plans to unite the British mainland colonies |
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| Which of the following helped convince the delegates to the Second Continental Congress to vote for independence? |
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| In the Declaratory Act, Parliament stated that... |
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| it had the right to legislate for the colonies in all matters, including taxes |
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| How did the French and Indian War differ from King William's, Queen Anne's, and King George's Wars? |
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| As a result of the French and Indian War, France lost her empire in North America.. |
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| The chief reason for the repeal of the stamp Act and the Townshend duties by Parliament was the... |
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| harmful effects of colonial boycotts and nonimportation agreements on British business |
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| Americans objected to the Tea Act because... |
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| there was still a tax on tea and the customs duties collected on it would be used to pay the salaries of royal governors |
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| The Declaration of Independence was primarily written by... |
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| John Adams, a key figure in the Revolution... |
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| served as the lawyer for the soldiers tried for shooting civilians in the Boston Massacre |
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| Which of the following statements about the Revolutionary War is correct? |
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| The fighting ended with Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown |
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| Which statement about the men who wrote the U.S. Constitution is correct? |
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| Most were wealthy men who were convinced that unless the national government was strengthened, the country would fall victim to foreign aggression or simply disintegrate |
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| The Northwest Ordinance did all of the following... |
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| forbid slavery in the Northwest Territory, permit the citizens of the territory to elect a legislature and make their own laws as well as write a state constitution and apply to Congress for admission as a new state. |
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| The British justifies their refusal to evacuate their military forts in the Ohio Valley after the Revolution by pointing America's failure to... |
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| return or pay for loyalists' property and pay British creditors |
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| Which of the following represented the most serious difficulty facing American commercial interests at the end of the Revolution? |
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| British restrictions on trade with the West Indies |
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| Shays's Rebellion was provoked by... |
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| the heavy burden of taxes on the farmers of western Massachusetts |
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| Which of the following men was both an author of the us constitution and an outspoken supporter of its ratification? |
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| The greatest achievement of the Antifederalists was to... |
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| force the Federalists to agree to add a bill of right to the Constitution |
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| Who was the author of Virginia's Statute for Religious Freedom and bills abolishing entails and primogeniture? |
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| All of the following were true about the state constitutions adopted during the Revolution... |
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| they concentrated power in the popularly elected legislatures, they all contained bills of rights, they provided for weak executives and frequent elections |
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| The main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts was to.. |
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| Suppress the Republican opposition to Federalist policies |
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| Hamilton's national bank... |
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| provoked the first clear-cut argument over the strict versus loose interpretation of the constitution |
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| arose out of the French government's demand for a bribe as the price of negotiating |
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