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HIST405 Week 2 Quiz Latest 2017 August

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) Which of the following made up the largest segment of Spain’s colonial population by the 1700s?

Spanish

Africans

Indians

Mestizos (multiracial)

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) Profits from tobacco had what effect on Virginia?

Land in Virginia became very expensive.

Many colonists, including indentured servants, decided to move to Virginia.

Settlers persuaded Native Americans to vacate the colony.

The Jamestown colony rapidly declined and lost people.

Question 3

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) What made Rhode Island unique?

Religious dissenters founded the colony.

Colonists bought the land from Native Americans.

Suspected witches were tried and executed there.

Colonists agreed to separate church and state.

Question 4

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 4) Why did colonists turn to slave labor rather than indentured servants in the late 1600s?

Africans refused to come as indentured servants so they were kidnapped as slaves.

There was a decline in availability of indentured servants from England.

The indentured servants from England weren’t good workers.

Indentured servitude was outlawed in the colonies.

Question 5

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The Great Awakening led to

The Enlightenment.

the strengthening of evangelical sects, such as the Baptists.

declining interest in religion.

scientific discoveries.

Question 6

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) At the First Continental Congress, delegates represented every colony except

Georgia.

Virginia.

Rhode Island.

Massachusetts.

Question 7

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) According to the Loyalists, legitimate authority over the colonists was held by the

state governments.

French government.

British government.

government in Washington, D.C.

Question 8

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The Patriots would not have won the Battle of Yorktown and the American Revolution without help from

Spanish explorers.

Germans.

the French.

Native Americans.

Question 9

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 9) Congress called a convention to revise the Articles of Confederation because

states wanted the power to regulate commerce.

state governments called for a new constitution.

the federal government wanted states to collect taxes.

the federal government needed to be made stronger.

Question 10

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) Which of the following most closely preserved the government of the Articles of Confederation?

Virginia Plan

New Jersey Plan

Connecticut Compromise

Great Compromise

Question 11

20 / 20 pts

(TCOs 1 and 2) Identify and describe the main provisions of the Articles of Confederation. Then identify and discuss the main weaknesses of the Articles and the so-called Western Problem. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer.

HIST405 Week 4 Quiz Latest 2017 August

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) The Corrupt Bargain of 1824 secured the presidency for

Andrew Jackson.

John Quincy Adams.

Henry Clay.

William Crawford.

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) The creation of an integrated national economy became known as

mercantilism.

price fixing.

the rise of factories.

market revolution.

Question 3

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 1) Slavery expanded with the growth of

freight shipment.

public education.

cotton plantations.

northern industries.

Chapter 12

Question 4

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) By 1835, Texas was home to about 30,000 American settlers, known as

Texans.

Tejanos.

Mountain Men.

forty-niners.

Question 5

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) James Polk

opposed annexation of Texas.

purchased Texas from Mexico.

favored annexation of Texas.

was the only governor to serve two terms in Texas.

Question 6

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The Fugitive Slave Act adopted in 1850

required private citizens to assist with apprehending runaway slaves.

required private citizens to help runaway slaves escape.

applied only to northern states.

applied only to southern states.

Question 7

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 3) In 1856, Border Ruffians attacked

a New York abolitionist named John Brown.

a group of Southern farmers.

Senator Charles Sumner.

the antislavery town of Lawrence, Kansas.

Question 8

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) Why did John Brown attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry?

He wanted to avenge the death of his sons.

He was protesting in favor of slavery.

He hoped to inspire a revolution that would end slavery.

He wanted to die as a courageous martyr.

Question 9

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 8) Lee’s smaller army defeated McClellan’s larger force and kept Union troops out of Richmond because

Lee was lucky.

McClellan surrendered.

Lee found McClellan’s battle plans.

McClellan was too cautious.

Question 10

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 8) Why did President Lincoln want Grant commanding the Union army after the Battle of Gettysburg?

He wanted to give Grant a chance to prove himself.

He knew victory required the destruction of the Confederate Army and its source of supplies.

He had heard that Grant had recruited more Union troops.

He thought the South would surrender.

Question 11

19 / 20 pts

(TCO 2) Identify and analyze the arguments over slavery in the New Western Territories after the Mexican War (1846–1848). How did northern and southern Democrats differ over this issue? Then describe the presidential election of 1848. Identify the key parties and candidates. Analyze how the results of this election set the stage for a reconfiguration of American politics that ultimately led to Civil War. Be sure to use enough details to support your answer.

HIST405 Week 6 Quiz Latest 2017 August

Question 1

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 10) Which group discouraged immigrants from joining American culture?

Settlement houses

Americanization programs

Fraternal organizations

Nativist groups

Question 2

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 2) The primary reason that people moved to cities was to

learn English.

find a job.

open a store.

join a settlement house.

Question 3

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 6) The gold standard was

the replacement of gold coins with silver coins.

a measure of a politician’s achievement while in office.

the ideal balance between tariffs and prices.

a political issue in the 1896 Presidential election.

Question 4

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 10) Progressivism and Populism largely differed in

goals.

ideology.

Progressives built political coalitions that transcended party lines.

organization.

Question 5

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 6) Most U.S. casualties during the Spanish-American War were caused by

disease.

wounds.

combat.

starvation.

Question 6

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 7) The German invasion of Belgium produced global condemnation because

many Americans were immigrants from Belgium.

Americans depended on products imported from Belgium.

Belgium was an important U.S. ally.

Belgium was a neutral nation.

Question 7

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 7) Which nation was forced to pay reparations after World War I?

France

Germany

Great Britain

The United States

Question 8

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 11) The popularity of the automobile in the 1920s led to a(n)

increase in commercial air travel.

decrease in the number of motels.

increase in bridge and tunnel construction to link cities to suburbs

decline in steel production in the U.S.

Question 9

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 11) Prohibition was enforced by

the Volstead Act.

the Kellogg-Briand Act.

the National Industrial Recovery Act.

None of the above

Question 10

2 / 2 pts

(TCO 11) The Great Depression affected

only American farmers.

only the U.S. economy.

only the U.S. and European economies.

the global economy.

Question 11

20 / 20 pts

(TCOs 6 and 7) Identify and explain at least two major reasons for the growing call

in the late 1800s for the United States to become a global empire. Then identify and describe one of the first events that signaled the beginning of American imperialism. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer.