Presidents & elites
Who commanded the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War?
George Washington
What is the Seven Years War also known as?
Which of the following best explains the opposition of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the First Bank of the United States?
The Constitution did not grant the Congress the right to charter a bank.
What was NOT an element of the Compromise of 1850 ?
Organization of the Kansas Territory without slavery
What happened during the First Great Awakening?
The spread of religious evangelicalism
which president declared the war of 1812?
James Madison
what is true about the American victory at Saratoga in October 1777 during the Revolutionary War?
It helped convince France to enter the war.
Members of the Whig Party organized in the 1830s agreed most on what?
Disapproval of Andrew Jackson's policies
According to the Treaty of Paris of 1783, Great Britain both recognized American independence and
promised to set the western boundary of the United States at the Mississippi River
In the period between the American Revolution and the Civil War, the religious communities west of the Appalachians that grew fastest were
Baptists and Methodists
Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan allowed for Southern states to be readmitted into the Union on the condition that they
revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment
who won the war of 1812 and how was it caused?
it was a draw, neither us or g.b won nor lost.
it was caused by british restrictions on foreign trade.
Henry Clay's American System was a plan to do what?
foster the economic integration of the North, the West, and the South
The Proclamation of 1763 was intended to do what?
Restrain colonial settlement along the Appalachian Mountains
The United States Supreme Court made what ruling in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
The protest that the king had "combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution" referred to George III's __________
approval of parliamentary laws impinging on colonial self-government
One of the major consequences of the Mexican-American War was the
designation of 80,000 to 100,000 Mexicans as American citizens
Under the Articles of Confederation, what was the national gov't able to do?
conduct foreign affairs.
WHERE IS THIS FROM? "Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void..."
Missouri Compromise
Herrera saw Mexico as a victim of aggression primarily because
while Mexico abided by all treaties, the United States did not.
WHO SAID THIS? "There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty..."
George Washington
In the Seven Years War, which side did the indians, or native americans, take?
Both the British and the French, but MAINLY the French.
Thomas Jefferson opposed some of Alexander Hamilton's programs because Jefferson believed that
Hamilton's programs favored manufacturing and commercial interests
Between the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and the outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the most important aspect of United States foreign policy was
expanding the nation's boundaries
The establishment of Brook Farm and the Oneida Community in the antebellum United States reflected
a belief in perfectionism