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The combination of Calvinism, soil, and climate in New England resulted in the people there possessing which of the following qualities:
a) stubbornness.
b) self-reliance.
c) resourcefulness.
d) all of these.

In late 1776 and early 1777, George Washington helped restore confidence in America’s military by
a) providing adequate food and clothing for the soldiers.
b) defeating the Hessians at Trenton and the British at Princeton.
c) bringing in Alexander Hamilton as his aide.
d) securing the support of France for the American war effort with a victory in New York City.

English yeomen who agreed to exchange their labor temporarily in return for payment of their passage to an American colony were called
a) burgesses.
b) slaves.
c) indentured servants.
d) headrights.

The strong regional support for the Tariff of 1833 came from
a) the West.
b) the middle Atlantic states.
c) New England.
d) the South.

The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York) was noted for
a) tolerating Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania.
b) its lack of enthusiasm for democratic practices.
c) allowing only Dutch immigrants to settle there.
d) its support of free speech.

As a result of the panic of 1857, the South
a) supported government gifts of homesteads
b) believed that “cotton was king.”
c) saw the need to develop manufacturing.
d) saw the weakness of its economic system.

One of the first jobs facing the new government formed under the Constitution was to
a) establish a powerful army.
b) establish economic ties with France.
c) reestablish diplomatic ties with Britain.
d) draw up and pass a bill of rights.

Texans won their independence as a result of the victory over Mexican armies at the Battle of
a) San Jacinto.
b) the Alamo.
c) Goliad.
d) the Rio Grande.

The immense debt owed to northern creditors by the South was
a) not repaid until the twentieth century.
b) repudiated by the South.
c) repaid immediately after the Civil War.
d) paid by pro-Union southerners during the war.

Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery.
b) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
c) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War.
d) intended to show the cruelty of slavery.

During the Civil War, most of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma
a) remained neutral.
b) supported the Union.
c) gave up their slaves.
d) supported the Confederacy.

The decision rendered in the Dred Scott case was applauded by
a) Republicans.
b) popular-sovereignty proponents.
c) proslavery southerners.
d) abolitionists.

Britain gave America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris because British leaders
a) realized that they had been beaten badly.
b) wanted to help Spain as well.
c) were trying to persuade America to abandon its alliance with France.
d) feared continued war might lead to a loss of their Latin American colonies.

Regarding American independence,
a) France gave little assistance.
b) Spain was in total opposition.
c) only a select minority supported independence with selfless devotion.
d) most of the American business community sacrificed profit for victory.

British plans for their 1814 campaign did not include action in
a) New York.
b) Louisiana.
c) Florida.
d) Vermont.

The nullification crisis of 1833 resulted in a clear-cut victory for
a) neither Andrew Jackson nor the nullifiers
b) Andrew Jackson and the Union.
c) the industrialists.
d) South Carolina.

In 1492, when Europeans arrived in the Americas, the total of the two continents’ populations was perhaps
a) 50 million
b) 54 million.
c) 20 million.
d) 200 million.

As a result of Parliament’s rejection of the petitions of the Continental Congress,
a) America sent new petitions to Parliament
b) Sam Adams and John Hancock were arrested.
c) fighting and bloodshed took place, and war began.
d) Americans reluctantly obeyed the British laws.

Eli Whitney was instrumental in the invention of the
a) telegraph.
b) steamboat.
c) railroad locomotive.
d) cotton gin.

Over the course of the seventeenth century, most indentured servants
a) managed to escape the terms of their contracts.
b) faced increasingly harsh circumstances.
c) became landowners.
d) devolved into slavery.

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