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CHAPTER 1 The Collision of Cultures TRUE/FALSE 1. By 7000 B.C.E., indigenous peoples in the Americas had begun transitioning into farming societies. 2. Mexica tribes originated in northwest Mexico and were later called the Aztecs by Europeans. ANS: T DIF: […]
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CHAPTER 10 The Jacksonian Era, 1828–1840 TRUE/FALSE 1. Andrew Jackson was the most openly partisan and politically involved president up to that point in history. 2. One argument by opponents of Jackson was that democracy remained more an ideal than […]
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CHAPTER 11 The South, Slavery, and King Cotton, 1800–1860 TRUE/FALSE 1. The Old South was socially, culturally, and economically the most unified region of the United States. 2. Cotton had always been a major cash crop of the United States, […]
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CHAPTER 12 Religion, Romanticism, and Reform, 1800–1860 TRUE/FALSE 1. Many American Christians assumed that the United States had a God-mandated mission to provide the world with a shining example of democracy. 2. The Unitarian church was especially popular with the […]
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CHAPTER 13 Western Expansion, 1830–1848 TRUE/FALSE 1. There were hundreds of different Indian tribes west of the Mississippi River in 1840, each with its own language, religion, cultural practices, and forms of governance. 2. The western Plains Indian tribes initially […]
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CHAPTER 14 The Gathering Storm, 1848–1860 TRUE/FALSE 1. Congress never passed the Wilmot Proviso. 2. Southern Democrats founded the Free-Soil party in support of slavery and free land for white settlers in lands conquered during the Mexican-American War. ANS: F […]
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CHAPTER 15 The War of the Union, 1861–1865 TRUE/FALSE 1. Lincoln stressed repeatedly that the “paramount” reason for the war was to save the Union rather than to take a stand one way or the other on slavery. 2. Whereas […]
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CHAPTER 16 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865–1877 TRUE/FALSE 1. The South emerged from the Civil War with a strong, diversified economy. 2. Reconstruction of former Confederate states only began after the war. ANS: F DIF: Difficult REF: Page 642 OBJ: […]
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CHAPTER 2 England’s Colonies TRUE/FALSE 1. Beginning in the thirteenth century with the Magna Carta that established the tradition of a parliamentary monarchy, power in England did not rest with the monarchy alone but also with the nobility and a […]
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CHAPTER 3 Colonial Ways of Life TRUE/FALSE 1. The earliest English colonists in the North American colonies had a relatively low death rate until the 1750s. 2. Most colonists believed in the inferiority of women. ANS: T DIF: Easy REF: […]
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CHAPTER 4 From Colonies to States TRUE/FALSE 1. By the end of the eighteenth century, France and Great Britain were in decline, with Spain and the Netherlands fighting over who would come out ahead. 2. Britain’s adoption of mercantilist policies […]
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CHAPTER 5 The American Revolution, 1776–1783 TRUE/FALSE 1. During the Revolutionary War, Iroquois Nations fought each other on opposite sides, with the Mohawks, Seneca, Onondaga, and Cayuga siding with the British and most of the Tuscarora and Oneida helping the […]
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CHAPTER 6 Strengthening the New Nation TRUE/FALSE 1. By raising taxes in the early 1780s, the Confederation was able to reduce the national debt. 2. Shays’s Rebellion likely heightened the fear of many social and political elites that democracy would […]
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CHAPTER 7 The Early Republic, 1800–1815 TRUE/FALSE 1. Due to the disputed election of 1800, the inauguration of Thomas Jefferson was marred by much bloodshed and violence. 2. Marbury v. Madison was sparked by Jefferson’s attempts to repeal the judgeships […]
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Chapter 8 The Emergence of a Market Economy, 1815–1850 TRUE/FALSE 1. Following the War of 1812, the United States economy stalled due to its continued reliance on European factories. 2. The United States had the fastest growing economy in the […]
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CHAPTER 9 Nationalism and Sectionalism, 1815–1828 TRUE/FALSE 1. The United States experienced a period of economic prosperity in the years after the War of 1812. 2. In the wake of the War of 1812, the passions that emerged regarding the […]