Units 1+2
What was a major difference between the Spanish colonies in the Americas in the 1500s and the English colonies in the Americas in the early 1600s?
The Spanish more actively sought to convert American Indians to Christianity than did the English.
The issuing of the Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms best serves as evidence of the?
The Dred Scott case made which previous territory agreement unconstitutional?
The Missouri Compromise.
What was a major US foreign policy change in the Pacific region at the end of the nineteenth century?
The US acquired new colonial possessions, such as the Philippines.
Eisenhower's concerns about staying peaceful unless necessary emerged most directly from the context of what?
The Cold War.
By the early 1600s, which of the following had most changed the circumstances of villages such as Secotan in eastern North America?
The impact of epidemic diseases introduced by Europeans.
The British Crown's response to the colonists taking up arms was to?
Declare the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
Which group most likely supported the ideas expressed in the Dred Scott case?
Southern Democrats.
Jane Addams idea that women should be able to vote reflected which movements ideals?
Progressivism.
The belief that black people should be able to have their own rights resulted in what?
Growing opposition among Civil Rights activists to Democratic political leaders who supported the status quo.
Participation in the "civil body politic" would have been most available to whom?
Male church members.
What evidence could be best used to challenge the assumption that British attacks on the colonists had been "unprovoked"?
A series of popular boycotts, mob protests, and violence against royal officials.
What most contributed to the expansion of railroads during the 1870s?
Legislation that facilitated the distribution of western land.
What group would support Jane Addams' ideas?
Settlement house workers.
The growing number of women in the workforce in the second half of the twentieth century most directly contributed to what?
Increased social anxiety about the traditional nuclear family.
The ideas that came from the Mayflower compact most contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North Americans colonies?
The establishment of local representative assemblies.
What most directly contributed to the ability of middle-class women to stay home and take care of the house?
The Market Revolution.
What was a long-term result of the expansion and building of railroads?
The creation of farmers' groups to resist corporate control of agricultural markets.
What group of people would support President Calvin Coolidge's opinion on taxing the economy?
Business executives.
Why did the population decrease in Chicago from 1950 to 1990?
Increased economic influence of the South and the West.
What best explains the presence of the Spanish in Florida?
The emergence of competition between Europeans powers in the Americas.
During the first half of the nineteenth century, lower-class women increasingly raised the household income by doing what?
Obtaining positions in textile mills.
The Fourteenth Amendment.
Why did the Population in Chicago increase from 1890-1940?
Job opportunities in industry.
When Eisenhower says, "We must guard against the acquisition, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex," what is he referring to?
The growth of the nuclear arsenal.