History of the Americas Questions
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Who became vice president as a result of the 1796 election?
What city was the nation's capital in 1789?
Who did Washington appoint as Attorney General?
Pinckney's Treaty addressed settlers' disputes over the Floridaborder with which country?
What Treaty allowed the United States to use the port of New Orleans?
What was the United States position on the War between Britain and France?
The first political party division in the United States was between who
What title did Washington take for himself?
What was Jefferson's role when Washington was president?
What was Hamilton's role when Washington was president?
During the antebellum period, the Auburn system was designed to (A) teach factory workers proper work habits (B) instill discipline in grade schools (C) reform criminals (D) punish escaped enslaved people (E) cure mental illness
Who is best known as a renowned African American poet in New England in the lateeighteenth century? (A) Benjamin Banneker (B) Lemuel Haynes (C) Phillis Wheatley (D) Gabriel Prosser (E) Sojourner Truth
After the Civil War, the majority of formerly enslaved people found work in the South as (A) factory workers (B) railroad employees (C) independent craftsmen (D) tenant farmers (E) domestic servants
In the pre-Civil War era, the most important impact of railroads on the economy was that they (A) created a huge new market for railway equipment (B) formed the basis for greater cooperation between southern planters and northern textile manufacturers (C) generated new employment opportunities for unskilled urban workers (D) involved the federal government in the financing of a nationwide transportation network (E) provided midwestern farmers with access to eastern urban markets
The 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, was a protest against (A) the use of women workers in textile factories (B) the abuse of enslaved women on Southern plantations (C) the failure of the Democratic Party to endorse a woman suffrage amendment (D) customs and laws that gave women a status inferior to that of men (E) state restrictions that prevented women from joining labor unions
. Which of the following was NOT an element of the Compromise of 1850 ? (A) Stronger fugitive slave law (B) Abolition of the slave trade in Washington, D.C. (C) Admittance of California as a free state (D) Organization of the Kansas Territory without slavery (E) Adjustment of the Texas-New Mexico boundary
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction included which of the following? (A) Establishment of five military districts to prepare seceded regions for readmission as states (B) Punishment of Confederates through land confiscation and high property taxes (C) Restoration of property to White Southerners who would swear a loyalty oath to the United States (D) Reestablishment of state government after 10 percent of the voters in a state pledged their allegiance to the United States (E) Readmission of states to the Union contingent on their ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution
The idea of Manifest Destiny could best be described as the belief that (A) commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base (B) Native Americans had a right to prevent White settlement in their territories (C) westward expansion undermined democratic institutions (D) slavery should be outlawed in all new territories (E) the ultimate extent of United States territory was to be from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean
Members of the Whig Party agreed most on which of the following issues in the 1830s? (A) Extension of slavery into western territories (B) Elimination of protective tariffs (C) Endorsement of the doctrine of nullification (D) Disapproval of Andrew Jackson's policies (E) Disapproval of the "corrupt bargain" under John Quincy Adams
Which of the following best describes William Lloyd Garrison's proposal to end slavery? (A) Immediate emancipation and resettlement in Liberia (B) Immediate emancipation and resettlement in the Southwest (C) Immediate emancipation with compensation for slaveholders (D) Gradual emancipation without compensation for slaveholders (E) Immediate emancipation without compensation for slaveholders