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| 78. All of the following rights protect the people from the government except |
the right to house a soldier. |
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| 77. All of the following rights are guaranteed by the first ten amendments to the Constitution except |
the right to vote. |
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| 76. The first ten amendments to the Constitution were known as the |
Bill of Rights |
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| 75. To persuade Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York to ratify the Constitution, leading Federalists promised that |
a bill of rights would be added to the Constitution |
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| 74. Antifederalists believed a republic could only work if it was |
small with a homogeneous voice |
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| 73. Federalists argued that sovereignty resided in |
the people |
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| 72. Antifederalists argued sovereignty of the government resided in |
the states |
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| 71. In The Federalist, No. 10, James Madison maintained that the constitutional government would |
prevent any one faction from becoming dominant |
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| 70. The most objectionable characteristic of the new Constitution to those who opposed it was the |
absence of a Bill of Rights |
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| 69. The Constitutional Convention required that the new Constitution be ratified by |
special state conventions. |
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| 68. Before the Constitution could go into effect, it had to be ratified by |
nine states |
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| 67. The Constitution, as completed on September 17, 1787, gave the national government |
broad powers over taxation, military defense, and external commerce. |
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| 66. Powers shared by the state and federal government are called |
concurrent powers |
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| 65. Powers given to the states are called |
reserve powers |
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| 64. The executive branch is responsible for |
enforcing the law |
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| 63. The only office directly elected by the people is |
the House of Representatives |
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| 62. All of the following are protections for the Constitution from the people except |
the Bill of Rights |
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| 61. All of the following are (something) in the Constitution except |
control of interstate commerce |
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| 60. The Constitutional Convention addressed the controversy of slavery through the |
3/5 Compromise |
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| 59. Under the Constitution, the President of the United States was elected by a majority vote of |
the Electoral College. |
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| 58. As part of the Great Compromise, delegates at the Philadelphia Convention agreed on |
a lower house based on population and an upper house based on equal representation |
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| 57. The New Jersey plan called for |
a unicameral Congress with equal representation for each state |
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| 56. The Virginia plan called for |
a bicameral Congress based on population |
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| 55. The delegates at the Constitutional Convention were mainly concerned with |
protecting their position and the government from the people. |
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| 54. Most of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were |
men of property and wealth |
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| 53. The Constitutional Convention was called to |
revise the Articles of Confederation |
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| 52. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the Constitutional Convention day-to-day operations? |
It deliberated behind closed doors to forestall popular opposition, and until James Madison’s notebooks were published many years later, Americans knew very little of what happened. |
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| 51. One of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 was it |
set aside a section of each township for education. |
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| 50. The revolt by farmers in western Massachusetts in 1786 to 1787 was |
directed against the creditors of the farmers and high taxes in eastern Massachusetts. |
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| 49. The major legacy of Shay’s Rebellion was |
a redoubling of efforts by leaders with a nationalist perspective to create a strong federal government. |
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| 48. Which of the following factors contributed significantly to the outcome of the battle of Yorktown in 1781? |
the arrival of Rochambeau's fleet in Chesapeake Bay |
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| 47. The inflation experienced during the American Revolution was |
the worst in American history, caused by the enormous increase of paper currency in circulation |
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| 46. The major result of Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga in 1777 was that |
it all but ensured the success of American diplomatic efforts to preserve the French into a military alliance with the Americans |
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| 45. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes British military strategy during the first two years of the Revolutionary War |
The British were content to demonstrate their superior power and tactics in the hopes of convincing the rebels to surrender |
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| 44. The Declaration of Independence contains all of the following except |
“give me liberty or give me death” |
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| 43. In the first years of the Revolutionary War, most Americans |
were still deeply loyal to the king |
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| 42. The author of the radical pamphlet “Common Sense” |
Thomas Paine, called for independence and republicanism |
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| 41. George III's response to the Olive British petition was to |
refuse to accept the petition, instead issuing the Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition |
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| 40. The First Continental Congress |
passed a Declaration of Rights and Grievances and began to boycott British imports |
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| 39. The Coercive Acts passed in 1774 in response to the British Tea incident included |
a measure requiring Boston to pay for the quartering of troops |
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| 38. The major purpose of the Tea Act of May 1773 was to |
bail out the financially troubled British East India Company. |
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| 37. The new ministry by Lord North arranged as compromise in early 1770 by |
repealing the Townshend duties except for the tax on tea. |
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| 36. American women contributed to the non-importation movement of 1768 by |
providing homespun fabric to make the colonists less dependent on British textiles |
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| 35. The Townshend Act of 1767 imposed duties of |
paper, paint, glass, and tea imported into the colonies. |
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| 34. From the rationalist philosophers of the Enlightenment, Americans of the 1760s and early 1700s derived the idea |
that individuals have certain “natural rights” |
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| 33. At the same time that parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which required |
colonial governments to provide barracks and food for British troops |
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| 32. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the issues at stake in the debate over the Sugar Act of 1764 |
American critics were justified in suspecting that key British politicians and officials regarded the colonists as second class citizens who had accepted without protest whatever decisions were made by parliament |
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| 31. When of the following statements most accurately characterizes Pontiac's uprising |
In the agreement that Pontiac eventually signed with the British, whites were banned from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains |
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| 30. By the Treaty of Paris in 1763, Britain |
annexed French Canada, French leads east of the Mississippi River, and Spanish Florida |
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| 29. During the Great War for the Empire |
deep seated differences in military discipline emerged between British and the American colonel troops |
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| 28. In the campaign against New France, Prime minister William Pitt |
counted on defeating French in Quebec and Montreal instead of the frontier. |
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| 27. Hostilities between Virginians, led by Colonel George Washington, and French troops began at |
Fort Duquesne |
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| 26. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes political authority in the colonies after 1700 |
a. Local leaders became more powerful |
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| 25. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the changes in colonial politics in the early 18th century |
a. The Royal Governors remained powerful, but the political authority of local leaders and assemblies greatly increased |
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| 24. Most colonial era slaves dealt with repression and violence by |
a. Engaging in convivial negotiation processes with slave owners for better food, clothes, and working conditions |
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| 23. In his Two Treatises on Government John Locke |
a. Stated that a government derives its legitimacy from the consent of the governed |
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| 22. Most colonists responded to the Navigation Act by |
a. Resenting and resisting the trade restrictions |
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| 21. Under its policy of mercantilism, the British monarchy |
a. Gained power from increased import duties that added to the royal treasury by maximizing exports of manufactured goods and imports of unfinished goods |
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| 20. As a result of the fur trade, most Indian tribes of the North American interior |
a. Were eager to control the fur trade in order to gain European goods |
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| 19. When they settled in the New World, Puritans |
a. Pictured themselves as a select few chosen by God to preserve Christianity |
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| 18. Bacon’s Rebellion contributed to the rise of slavery in the Chesapeake region |
a. By convincing the land holding elite that the presence of a large class of white indentured servants was dangerous and that the colonies’ needs should be met by black slaves |
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| 17. Bacon’s Rebellion |
a. Showed how dissatisfied the western settlers of Virginia had become with the emerging planter-merchant elite |
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| 16. By the late 17th century, the economic life of the Chesapeake region was dominated by |
a. Planter-merchants |
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| 15. In early Virginia and Maryland, indentured servants |
a. Could hope to gain property and better status if they survived to the end of their indentured term |
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| 14. The early 17th century English settlement in Virginia at first was a |
a. Joint-stock colony with many investors from the Virginia Company |
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| 13. The Virginia colonist John Rolfe |
a. Introduced tobacco production in the colony |
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| 12. During their first couple of years in Jamestown colony, English migrants |
a. Suffered from diseases that killed ½ the population |
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| 11. As a result of the presence of French traders and explorers in the Great Lakes region during the 17th century |
a. Gained control of the territory as tribes vied for the opportunity to trade animal skins for European goods |
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| 10. John Calvin and Calvinist theologians stressed |
a. The doctrine of predestination |
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| 9. Martin Luther believed that |
a. People could only be saved by grace, which was a gift from God |
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| 8. The number of Indians living in Mesoamerica declined from 40 million in the 15th century to 3 million in 1650 because |
a. Diseases carried by Europeans decimated most Indian tribes who came in contact with Europeans |
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| 7. Following the conquest of the Aztecs, the Spanish were able to extend their control because of |
a. Small pox and other epidemics |
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| 6. On October 12, 1492, Columbus and his men reached |
a. An island in the Bahamas |
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| 5. Before Europeans made significant contact with West Africa |
a. Slavery still existed, but slaves were considered to be part of the community |
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| 4. The social order in Europe around 1450 is most accurately described as being |
a. hierarchical and authoritarian |
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| 3. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes the way in which Indians north of the of the Rio Grande lived at the time of European contact? |
a. Depending on regional environmental conditions , Indian societies included hunter-gatherer bands, settled in agricultural communities, migrating communities, or self-governing tribes |
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| 2. The 1st people who migrated to the Americas were |
a. bands of hunter gatherers |
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| 1. The ancestors of the Native American people migrated by land from |
a. North East Asia |
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