Thursday, February 5, 2015

Review Quiz #1

1.     1.     A common characteristic of scalawags and carpetbaggers during Reconstruction was that they  A) helped to organize resistance to the new southern government through the Ku Klux Klan  B) formed the core of the teacher’s in the Freedmen’s Bureau schools created in the South  C) cooperated with Republicans and blacks in the new southern governments  D) came into the South from the North to exploit the region and enrich themselves  E) were homeless southerners willing to do anything to survive after the Civil War

2.     From 1790 to 1815, which of the following foreign policy objectives was achieved by the United States?  A) the nation maintained friendly relations with France  B) the nation achieved ownership and control of the Mississippi River  C) the nation avoided war with Europe  D) the nation protected its territory from foreign invasion  E) the nation secured a permanent boundary between Canada and Maine

3.     At the end of the French and Indian War the British realized that  A) salutary neglect of its American colonies was no longer an effective policy  B) long-term peace with France was now possible  C) the American colonies must produce enough revenue to pay down the British national debt  D) the colonies were on the verge of revolution  E) Spain was now the greatest threat to the British colonies around the world

4.     All of the following were factors contributing to the decline of the Federalist Party after the War of 1812 EXCEPT  A) the Party’s association with the Hartford Convention  B) the rulings of the Supreme Court under John Marshall  C) the Party’s unpatriotic behavior during the war  D) Monroe’s good-will tour of New England  E) the Republican Party’s adoptions of many Federalist policies

5.     The Ostend Manifesto, written during the Pierce administration, suggested the United States might be justified in acquiring  A) Texas  B) Mexico  C) Cuba  D) Santa Domingo  E) the Virgin Islands

6.     The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provided for  A) an extension of slavery into the Ohio River Valley  B) protection for Indians in the Ohio River region  C) restrictions on the rights of citizens in new territories  D)an orderly process for territories to become states  E) immediate statehood for territories in the region

7.     While different political groups came together to form the Republican Party in 1854, they were united by their  A) commitment to the immediate abolition of slavery  B) opposition to the spread of slavery into the territories  C) support for the American System of national economic development  D) opposition to Irish-Catholic immigrants’ influence in society  E) support for the Kansas-Nebraska Act

8.     The main cause of Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676 was  A) Indian-colonial clashes in the Virginia backcountry  B) unfair tax policies by the Jamestown government  C) grievances against the indentured servant system  D) growing trouble with convict labor in Virginia  E) tension between Virginia and Maryland over the slave trade

9.     Which of the following groups would have benefited most from enforcement of the Proclamation of 1763?  A) African slaves  B) frontier settlers  C) Indians  D) New England merchants  E) Southern plantation owners

10.   Which of the following resulted from the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848?  A) the Untied States annexed Texas into the Union  B) Mexico paid the United States $15 million in war reparations  C) the United States pledged to abolish slavery in the Mexican Cession  D) the two countries agreed to establish the pre-war status quo  E) the United States received uncontested ownership of Texas

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