The greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation was its establishment of
What is a system for the orderly settlement of the west
100
What policy asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy?
What is the Monroe Doctrine
100
The immediate effect of Andrew Jackson's attack on the Second Bank of the United States in 1834 was
What is an expansion of credit and speculation
100
The Republican Party originated in the mid-1850's as a sectional party committed to what
What is the opposition to the further extension of slavery into the territories
100
What was a serious constitutional question after the Civil War?
What is - the political and legal status of the former Confederate states
200
What is true of married women in the colonial era with regards to her ownership of property?
She generally lost control of her property when she married.
200
The Hartford Convention was a manifestation of opposition to what war?
What is New England Federalist opposition to the War of 1812
200
Pinckney's Treaty with Spain is considered a diplomatic highlight of Washington's administration because it...
What is it allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans
200
Name some of the goals of educational reformers in the antebellum period.
compulsory school attendance laws,
establishment of teacher training schools,
standard length for the school year,
federal financing of secondary schools
200
What is true of the pay of African American soldiers during the Civil War
For most of the war, they were paid less than white soldiers of equal rank.
300
True or False: the number of slaves in British North American increased rapidly in the last quarter of the 17th century
True
300
The Federalist Papers challenged the conventional political wisdom of the eighteenth century when they asserted what about minority rights?
a large republic offer the best protection of minority rights
300
Which transportation development opened the West to settlement and trade between 1790 and 1830?
What is the construction of turnpikes and canals
300
Why did the American Antislavery Society split into factions in 1840?
William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members.
300
What was the immediate effect of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863
What is it strengthened the moral cause of the Union
400
It resulted in divisions within both the Congregational and the Presbyterian churches
What is the first Great Awakening
400
True or False: Most soldiers in the Continental Army were draftees
False
400
The Supreme Court affirmed its right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments in what case?
What is Marbury v. Madison
400
True of False: In the antebellum period, free African Americans were able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination
True
400
What led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures on the south?
What is enactment of Black Codes by southern legislatures, outbreak of race riots, the election of former Confederates to Congress
500
Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans
What is the Northeast American Indian tribes
500
Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to...
What is to acquire a port to provide an outlet for western crops
500
When Thomas Jefferson said in 1801, "We are all republicans - we are all federalist," he meant what?
- that the principles of American government were above party politics
500
Who said this: "Let Southern oppressors tremble...I shall strenuously contend for immediate enfranchisement...I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice."
Who is William L. Garrison
500
In the decades following the Civil War, what was the situation did most freedmen found themselves in
What is they entered sharecropping arrangements with former masters or other nearby planters