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THIS first form of representative government in the colonies was Virginia's _______ established in 1619.
What was the monoculture (main crop) of the Chesapeake region?
______ were men and women who sold their labor (typically 5-7 years) to the person who paid their passage to America.
The ______ ______ was the route of the triangular trade involved the shipping of captured African men, women, and children to work as slaves in the Americas.
This country settled in South America and the Southern part of North America
What amendment to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed African Americans the right to vote?
One of the concessions made to Louisiana when acquired by the United States was the continuation of theA) Import taxes.B) Slave trade.C) New Orleans port tariff.D) French civil law.E) French as legal language.
What was the term for the practice of keeping blacks apart from whites simply because of the color of their skin?
If you had been a Shawnee convinced that Black Hoof's view of survival was correct, you would haveA) Become allies with other resisting tribal groups.B) Returned to Indian ways believing the whites would disappear.C) Promoted the Ghost Dance.D) Acquired white ways and assimilated.E) Fled as far west as you could.
Russian visits to the Alaska coast in the eighteenth century resulted from A) Fishing in expeditions.B) The discovery of oil and new technology that required its use.C) Discovery of gold deposits.D) Interest in the fur trade.E) Desire for the land.
Napoleon sold the Louisiana Territory to the U.S. because A) He met defeat in the Caribbean and was in need of money for Europe.B) Jefferson threatened to ally with England and help Haitian revolutionaries.C) He did not desire to develop the territory.D) The English were blockading him to prevent his armies from landing in New Orleans.E) He wanted to punish the Spanish for not aiding him in America.
Jefferson advocated a policy of removal to the trans-Mississippi region for Indians because hebelieved thatA) They were "noble savages" whose ways of life must be preserved.B) British emissaries could not influence them as easily in more remote areas.C) It would temporarily placate them and white settlement would push them out soon enough.D) French efforts to ally themselves with the Indians could prove dangerous to the republic.E) Those unreconciled to assimilation would be able to live there undisturbed.
Which one of the following is NOT true of western land sales? A) The price was too high.B) They surged after the War of 1812.C) Over-speculation contributed to panic in 1819.D) The amounts sold in 1810 were greater than in the 1830s and 1850s.E) Not all sales reflected actual settlement.
What was President Lincoln's main reason for entering the Civil War?
The Russian attraction to North America was motivated by A) A North Pacific base against Japan.B) Fishing and whaling.C) Extensive mineral deposits.D) The desire for gold.E) The fur trade.
Of the settlements of the other European powers in 1800, the one most crucial to American trade wasA) Los Angeles.B) New Orleans.C) Yuma.D) Quebec.E) Sitka.
As a result of the Missouri Compromise, this parallel marked the line between slave and free states:A) 36 30' B) 54 40' C) 26 30' D) 31st E) 49th
In 1800, the United States economy and population was predominately A) Industrialized.B) Commercial and urban.C) Dependent on European imports.D) Agricultural and rural.E) Product exporter.
The Missouri Compromise left most the Louisiana Purchase Territory A) Open to a vote on slavery.B) Undivided.C) Slave.D) Free.E) Under Spanish rule.
What is the term for the period after the Civil War in which states formerly part of the Confederacy were brought back into the United States?