History 121
Among the factors that slowed the growth of Spanish colonies in the New World was
Select one:
a. the cold climate of the regions in which Spanish colonies were planted
b. the decades-long war between Spain and Portugal for control of North America
c. Spain's rigid adherence to the economic theory of mercantilism
d. all of the above
The English colony at Roanoke
Select one:
a. was wiped out and burned by an Indian raid.
b. was wiped out and burned by a Spanish raid.
c. failed when its colonists mysteriously disappeared.
d. was officially terminated and evacuated by order of the British crown.
Relatively few Frenchmen migrated to New France
Select one:
a. the climate was cold
b. large numbers of settlers would have disrupted relations with the Indians and thus interrupted the fur trade.
c. the French government did not encourage large-scale migration
d. all of the above
The first major French explorations in the New World were carried out by
Select one:
a. Samuel de Champlain
b. Gaspard de Coligny
c. Jacque Cartier
d. Rene de La Salle
The sponsor of the Roanoke colony was
Select one:
a. Humphrey Gilbert
b. Richard Hakluyt
c. Walter Raleigh
d. Henry Hudson
By 1700 American political culture characterized by
Select one:
a. religion playing a role not only in the search fro liberty but also in the institutions designed to ensure its continuation
b. economic freedom forming the basis for a widespread agreement about the need to preserve private property rights.
c. an increased awareness of the need for individuals to have protection from their governments.
d. all of the above.
The Proclamation of 1763
Select one:
a. prohibited new settlers and trading charters west of the crest of the Appalachians
b. moved westward by more than the 400 miles to boundary of lands reserved for the Indians
c. consisted of a line of forts to be held by British troops along the western frontier
d. set the boundary between English and French holdings in Canada.
Parliaments normal tactic in dealing with the American colonies was to
Select one:
a. shock the colonists into submission by suddenly imposing massive taxes.
b. avoid controversy by restricting its action to the regulation of trade rather than the raising of revenue
c. attempt to assuage them by giving in to their demands
d. exchange small initial taxes for gigantic new powers that could be used oppressively later.
Among the three European thinkers who the authors of the textbook believe were most influential on the American revolutionaries was
Select one:
a. Jeremy Bentham
b. Adam Smith
c. John Locke
d. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Paine's influential 1776 pamphlet calling for independence from Great Britain was entitled
Select one:
a. "The Call of the Wild."
b. "Common Sense"
c. "The American Crisis."
d. "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania."
Which of the following was ...NOT...among the reasons that France decided to aid the United States in their war for independence?
Select one:
a. France favored any policy that weakened British power.
b. FRance feared that if the United States won their independence without French help, the United States might go on to seize French territories in the New World.
c. France had been influence by such philosophers as Montesquieq and Rousseau to the point that it was prepared to enter into a war with Great Britain on the basis of abstract principles of liberty and the rights of man
d. France wanted revenge for its defeat in the Seven Years' War
The Revolutionary War was ended by the
Select one:
a. Treaty of paris 1763
b. Treaty of London of 1781.
c. Treaty of Philadelphia 1776.
d. Treaty of paris of 1783.
Which of the following was...NOT...a concept of government by Americans of the founding generation?
Select one:
a. Freedom of speech and of the Press.
b. "Due process," encompassing the right of trial by jury.
c. The right of the government to limit campaign financing.
d. The right of the people to keep and bear arms.
The overriding obsession of the founders with regard to government was
Select one:
a. constraint
b. economic redistribution
c. equality
d. empowerment
The completed Constitution represented a marked transformation in the American system of Federalism. It required the delegates to endow the "national government" with certain "crucial" powers. Which of the following is ...NOT...one of those powers?
Select one:
a. enforce contracts and property rights.
b. raise armies.
c. states could continue to levy tariffs, duties and print money.
d. regulate foreign and inter-state commerce.
From the moment the ink dried on the Constitution, an important development had taken place in American government whereby the debate increasingly focused on the size of government rather than its virtue.
Select one:
True
False
President Washington was a top-down centralist and consolidator by the nature of his military experience. He virtually invented out of whole cloth the extraconstitutional notion of a cabinet.
Select one:
True
False
Through out their history, Washington and Jefferson remained the best of friends and communicated with each other frequently.
Select one:
True
False
During the American Revolutionary war, Jefferson commanded an army of Virginia Volunteers for General Washington.
Select one:
True
False
Washington, Adams, Hamilton, Morris, Pickering and Knox made up the original Federalist party which today is know as the Democratic Party.
Select one:
True
False
ESSAY Q:
Why is the War of 1812 sometimes called the "Second War for Independence," and what do you think the war accomplished.
(Explain your reasonings in 2 paragraphs or more. Spelling and grammar count, as does your reference source).