History of the Americas Questions

Anne Hutchinson, 1630sThe emphasis on personal salvation, which Hutchinson articulated in the 1630s, was most strongly echoed in which later movement?

Source: South Carolina senator John C. Calhoun, speech in the United States Senate, 1837.Which of the following most contributed to slaveholders such as Calhoun arguing in the 1830s and 1840s that slavery should be viewed as part of the Southern way of life?

Anne Hutchinson, 1630sThe excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

Joshua Giddings, congressman from Ohio, speech in the United States House of Representatives, 1846Which of the following comparisons best describes Whitman's and Giddings' arguments about the Mexican-American War?

united states territorial claims map The territorial changes shown in the southwestern region of the map most directly resulted from

Harriet Ann Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861, describing events earlier in the nineteenth centuryWhich of the following claims best aligns with the evidence in the excerpt about the relationship between enslaved African Americans and White Southern citizens?

united states territorial claims map The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about

How many colonies were there originally?

John Adams, former president of the United States, letter to Thomas Jefferson, former president of the United States, 1815Which of the following aspects of life in the United States in the early nineteenth century most likely influenced Adams' recollection of Revolutionary events?

George Fitzhugh, Slaves Without Masters, published in Richmond, Virginia, 1857The views expressed by Fitzhugh would have been most likely to align with which of the following arguments?

united states territorial claims map Which of the following ideas contributed most directly to the territorial changes shown in the map?

George Fitzhugh, Slaves Without Masters, published in Richmond, Virginia, 1857Those who agreed with the views expressed in the excerpt by Weld would most likely have supported which of the following subsequent developments?

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832The ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly from a larger intellectual debate over the

Freedmens Bureau pictureDuring Reconstruction, which of following was a change that took place in the South?

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832Arguments similar to those expressed in the excerpt were later employed to justify which of the following?

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address, November 1863Lincoln's main purpose in the excerpt was to

George Fitzhugh, Slaves Without Masters, published in Richmond, Virginia, 1857The disagreements expressed in the two excerpts most directly reflect which of the following?

James M. McPherson and James K. Hogue, historians, Ordeal By Fire: The Civil War and Reconstruction, 2010The conflict described in the excerpt is most similar to conflict in what other period?

Joshua Giddings, congressman from Ohio, speech in the United States House of Representatives, 1846Based on their arguments in the excerpts, Giddings would likely agree with and Whitman would likely disagree with which of the following claims about the causes of the Mexican-American War?

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