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Early America
Growth of Business and Government
American Expansion
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The adoption of horses by Native American tribes such as the Sioux, Apaches and Blackfeet resulted in what?
transformed their cultures into wide-ranging, hunter-gather societies that roamed the Great Plains.
100
What was important about Washington's decision to retire from the presidency in 1797?
established a two-term tradition for American presidents.
100
When did the bitter conflict between whites and Indians intensify?
as the mining frontier expanded.
100
What happened as a result of the development of the cotton gin?
slavery revived and expanded.
100
Besides serving immigrants and the poor in urban neighborhoods, settlement workers like Jane Addams and Florence Kelley took what actions?
actively lobbied for social reforms like anti-sweatshop laws and child labor laws.
200
What was the biggest disrupter of Native American life?
disease
200
Grover Cleveland proposed to address the problem of the large federal budget surplus by doing what?
lowering the tariff.
200
Why did Americans move into Texas?
after an agreement was concluded between Mexican authorities and Stephen Austin to permit the Texan settlers to bring into Texas three hundred families who were to become properly Mexicanized.
200
What was one argument against annexing Texas to the United States?
might give more power to the supporters of slavery.
200
Public executions and lynchings of black men in the Jim Crow South were used to do what?
designed to intimidate African Americans to accept second-class status.
300
An armed march in Philadelphia in 1764 by Scots-Irish colonial immigrants, protesting the Quaker oligarchy's lenient policy toward the Indians was known as what?
March of the Paxton Boys.
300
What did John D. Rockefeller's organizational technique of horizontal integration involve?
forcing small competitors to assign stock to Standard Oil, then consolidating and integrating the operations of the previously competing enterprises, or face the prospect of losing their business.
300
Who served as the crucial guide(s), aiding Lewis and Clark in their expedition through the Louisiana Territory?
The Shoshone woman Sacajawea
300
For a majority of northerners, the MOST outrageous part of the several objectionable parts of the U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger Taney's majority opinion (decision) in the Dred Scott case was that the Court ruled what?
Congress never had the constitutional power to prohibit slavery in any territory.
300
What was the outcome of the War of 1812?
stimulus to patriotic nationalism in the United States, no one won
400
By 1775, who were the largest non-English ethnic group in colonial America?
Africans
400
The Nullification Crisis of 1832-1833 erupted directly over what?
tariff policy.
400
Why was Thomas Jefferson was conscience-stricken about the purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France?
he was concerned that the purchase of the Louisiana Territory could arguably be considered to be unconstitutional.
400
During the Civil War, what did most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma do?
supported the Confederacy.
400
Where was Native American leader Tecumseh was killed in 1813?
Battle of Tippecanoe
500
The Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 arose in southwestern Pennsylvania when the federal government did what?
levied an excise tax on whiskey.
500
How did the summoning of Virginia's House of Burgesses marked an important precedent?
it was the first of many miniature parliaments to flourish in America.
500
In the Compromise of 1850, what did Congress determine about slavery in the New Mexico and Utah territories?
to be decided by popular sovereignty.
500
The Emancipation Proclamation had what effect?
strengthening the moral cause and diplomatic position of the Union, freeing slaves only in the Confederacy
500
Most Americans considered which of the following to be fundamental for any successful republican government?
Civic Virtue