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(ntcc) History practice quiz

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What was taxed under the townshend duties in 1776?
Lead, paint, glass,paper, tea
who was given the responsibility of mapping and exploring the newly acquired Louisiana territory in 1803?
Lewis and Clark
What was the primary motivation behind European exploration?
Wealth in Asia spice trade.
What were the reasons for the continued existence of slavery in the south?
Growth in cotton, agriculture industry.
List the new patterns that emerged in the 1850s that weakened the traditional ties between North and South?
Railroad replaced cotton production.
What was the greatest threat to soldiers during the civil war?
Diseases, medical care, not much food.
What was the role of the second bank of the untied states in the economy?
regulate the speculative frontier banks and credit.
What early 19th century American writers were Romanticists?
Thoreau, James Fennimore Cooper, Walt Whitman.
What were the provisions of the american system?
New Nationalism.
What role did woman play according to the ideal of domesticity?
To give love, comfort and moral instructions.
What was the significance of the great awakening?
Fostered revival and sparked ambition programs.
What role did emotion play in romanticism?
Served to reinforce the emotionalism of revivalism.
Where was the first major woman's rights convention?
Seneca Falls
Why did the abolitionist movement split in 1840?
over the issue of women's rights.
What effects did slavery have on the southern economy?
Made labor easier & cheaper & helped the cotton industry prosper.
Where was most of the southern slave population concentrated?
Deep south, south Carolina, Mississippi
Why did manufacturing in the south lag behind the north
Technology in the south were much behind.
About what percent of the population owned slaves?
25% most slaves were owned by 1%
What was the most expansive force in the american economy during the quarter- century after the war in 1812?
Cotton
In what ways did southerners defend slavery after 1830?
It was not found in the bible.
What purpose did the doctrine of manifest destiny serve?
Combined idealistic impulses.
What was the "known -nothing" platform?
Anti-immigration
Why and where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter 1861, Union solders were stopping the independence.
What new technologies changed the civil war battleship?
New weapons, repeating rifle & submarine.
Why was the battle of Antietam significant?
stopped lee's first invasion of the north
How did politics changed during the age of Jackson?
Common man
How did the north raise money to support the war effort?
The manufacturing industry.
How did the invention of the cotton gin affect american agriculture?
Increased production of cotton and made it become less expensive.
Who were the first Europeans to step foot in North America?
Vikings
What were the three goals of Spanish colonization?
Gold, glory, God
Where was the first permanent English settlement in north america?
Virginia
What kind of colony was Virginia originally established as?
Royal Colony
What crop helped to save the Virginia colony?
Tobacco
Which colony is generally associated with the Puritans?
Massachusetts colony
What was the chief executive of an English colony called?
Governor
What was the first colony to offer total religious toleration?
Martland
As far as many colonists were concerned, what were the Sugar Act, the Stamp Act, and the Townshend Acts?
Violations of their liberty, essential rights.
Where was the opening battles of the american revolution?
Lexington and concord, Bunker hill
Who was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
Who was the commander of the Continental Army?
George Washington
Who was known as the "Father of the Constitution"?
James Madison
Who was the first Secretary of the Treasury?
Alexander Hamilton
what did president Washington do rather than help France in her European wars of the 1780's and 1790's?
Stay out of foreign affairs, remained neutral.
Who did Thomas Jefferson send to explore the Louisiana Purchase?
Lewis and Clark
What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 do in regards to sectional balance?
Makes slaves and free states.
During president Jackson's administration, the conflict between state power and national power occurred when what state nullified the tariff law's?
South Carolina
What was the controversial issue in the acquisition of land from Mexico as a result of the Mexican War?
The Texas border location.
How was the issue of slavery in the territories decided according to the Kansas-Nebraska act?
Through popular sovereighty
what novel is Harriet Beecher Stowe known for ?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
after Lincoln's election in 1860, what did the seven seceding southern states create?
The confederate state of america.
What was president Lincoln's original purpose in raising an army after Fort sumter?
Abolish slavery
Who was the union general who pursued general Lee across the state of Virginia in a series of bloody battles, finally forcing Lee's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse?
Ulysses S. Grant
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