Troll or False


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The Californios lost a lot of their political power once the Anglo-Saxon  Americans arrived. 
2
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Henry Clay planned on controlling the White House through Harrison. His plans were spoiled when the [eventually] party-less John Tyler replaced Harrison. 
3
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Thoreau, resisting civil government, opposed the Mexican-American war. 
4
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Lord Trollsalot, President after William Henry Harrison, vetoed the offensive bill that provided for a “Fiscal Corporation”. (John Tyler)
5
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Texas was annexed after the settlement of the disputes of the Oregon boundary. (Before)
6
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William Henry Harrison was the second oldest man ever to be elected president. 
7
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The annexation of Texas was the only issues debated in the 1844 election. (One of the many,add s)
8
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The Americans were violently angry entering the War of 1812. (Nationalistic and optimistic)
9
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Martin Delooney, one of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of mass recolonization of Africa, visited Niger in 1859 and worked with Sojourner Truth. (Delaney)
10
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Frederick Douglass was fully black. (Frederick Douglass was mulatto)
11
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William Lloyd Garrison publicly burned the American Constitution, even though he advocated an independent slave republic in Africa. 
12
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The state of Georgia offered $5,000 for the capture of Frederick Douglass. (William Lloyd Garrison)
13
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Many southern whites argued that most black slaves had better lives than factory workers, which is what they would quite possibly become if they were freed. 
14
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In the War of 1812, the Blandensburg militia easily defeated the invading British on August 1814. (were crushingly defeated by)
15
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The 1836 Eric Wang Resolution forced all antislavery appeals to be instantly tabled without debate. (Gag Resolution)
16
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The casualty rate for the Civil War was low. (High)
17
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Washington is northwest of Baltimore. (Southwest)
18
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The South won the battle of Bull Run. 
19
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In the Peninsula Campaign, McClellan marched down to Williamsburg, through to the seven day’s battle at Richmond, lost, and went through Yorktown and then back to the north. 
20
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The stubborn Confederates never enlisted blacks in their armies. (Enlisted blacks into their armies very late in the war)
21
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The Merrimack ironclad was the most violent threat to the blockade. 
22
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A leading copperhead was the “traitor” Clement L. Bolewitz. (Vallandigham)
23
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Extreme State’s rights were quelled after the civil war. 
24
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Middle-class women, the wives and daughters of businessmen, were the first and most fervent enthusiasts of religious revivalism. 
25
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Millerites, or adventists, who mustered several hundred thousand adherent, rose from the superheated soil of the Burned-Over district in the 1790s. (1830s)
26
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When Napoleon fell for the first time, the United States grew stronger. (Weaker)
27
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Southern subsistence farmers raised primarily corn. 
28
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It was impossible for slaves to buy their way out of freedom in the American south. (Possible)
29
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Slaves were often given back-breaking work. (Easier work, as the harder work was reserved for paid workers and often the Irish)
30
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Slaves were mostly motivated to work through money. (Whipping)
31
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Millard Fillmore eased North-South tensions by advocating the Compromise of 1850 and having a large part in it’s passing. A second era of good feelings lasted for a short period after the passing of the compromise. 
32
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A southern railroad would be harder to build than a northern one. (Vice-Versa)
33
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Maine made it illegal to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in its state. (Massachusetts
34
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The South were politically unlucky in the Compromise of 1850 because the part of it they had advocated, the Fugitive Slave Law, was barely enforced and it made the North grow agitated at the South. 
35
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Many immigrants to California were perfect, upstanding citizens. (Lawless criminals)
36
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The delay of the Civil War added to the moral strength of the North. 
37
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William H. Seward based his political beliefs off of his religious beliefs. 
38
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Free-Soil candidate John P. Hale, a New Hampshire senator, took votes from the Whig party that helped Pierce win. 
39
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More than five thousand “finality men” Whigs voted for Webster in 1852 even though he was already dead.
40
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In some form, both the Whig and Democrat platforms in 1852 supported the Compromise of 1850, with the Whigs being the more ardent supporters. (Democrats)
41
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Ex-President James Madison fought for the repeal of the Gag Resolution successfully. (John Quincy Adams)
42
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The Washington government banned abolitionist propaganda in post offices.
43
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Lewis Walrus had his house’s interior destroyed in 1834 due to his abolitionist  beliefs. (Tappan)
44
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Abraham Lincoln was a strong advocator of free soil.
45
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Ulrich Phillips argued for the preservation of slavery. 
46
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The Whigs supported a national bank, internal improvements, and a protective tariff.
47
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The Yalta Proviso, which attempted to ban slavery in Texas and other acquired territories after the Mexican war, failed in congress. (Wilmot)
48
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The “Tyler Plague” was the sarcastic nickname of an influenza sweeping the US during the Tyler administration. (Grippe)
49
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Many British found America a crude nation, and were aggravated that the pro-British federalists had died out. 
50
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A Canadian named McLeod, after allegedly boasting in a tavern of his part in the Caroline raid, was arrested and indicted for murder. 
51
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In 1841 tensions with Britons increased when Britain offered asylum for American escaped slaves who had captured the ship Creole. 
52
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Andrew Jackson was the first President from beyond the Appalachian Mountains. 
53
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Henry David Thoreau wrote in 1844, “Europe stretches to the Alleghenies; America lies beyond”. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
54
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Most pioneer families were poorly fed, ill-clad, and housed in hastily erected shanties (Abraham Lincoln’s family lived in a four-sided lean-to made of brush and sticks). (Three)
55
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Frontiersman enjoyed such obscenities as no-holds-barred wrestling. 
56
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James Fenimore Cooper’s character, Nathan McBrick, was popular. (Natty Bummpo)
57
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Pioneers quickly discovered that when cane was burned off, that tobacco was able to thrive. (European “Kentucky” Bluegrass)
58
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In the War of 1812, the American militia were well trained. (Poorly trained)
59
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The Irish moved mostly into the cheaper western lands. (Seaboard cities). 
60
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Webster argued, completely correctly, that slavery was pointless in California due to a lack of cotton economy. (Although later proven wrong)
61
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The “Young Guard” were more interested in purging and purifying the Union than preserving it. 
62
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The doctrine of Popular Sovereignty was a belief that a territory, when applying for statehood, could decide whether it was to be slave or free. 
63
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President Taylor prevented compromise and was determined to “Jacksonize” Texas dissenters trying to conquer Santa Fe.
64
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The new 1850 Fugitive Slave Law caused many moderate abolitionists to become full-on super antislaveryites. 
65
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Henry Clay was president after Zachary Taylor. (Millard Fillmore)
66
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Millard Fillmore eased North-South tensions by advocating the Compromise of 1850 and having a large part in it’s passing. A second era of good feelings lasted for a short period after the passing of the compromise. 
67
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In 1848 gold was discovered off of Sutter’s Mill, California, starting a gold rush. 
68
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Daniel Webster controversially planned a duel presidency. (John C. Calhoun)
69
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Mild vigilante justice attempted to stop crime in California, but was mostly successful. 
70
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Martin Van Buren ran for President under the Whig party in 1848. (Free Soil)
71
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Abolitionist Harriet Tubman, although illiterate, was a prominent educator of freed slaves. 
72
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The Clayton-Bulwer Treaty between America and Spain stipulated that no canals in Latin America could be militarily controlled by either nation. (Britain)
73
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The Mason-Dixon line borders Pennsylvania and New York. (Maryland)
74
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Harriet Tubman was nicknamed “Moses” by her followers. 
75
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Abolitionists strongly supported Daniel Webster after his 7th of March Speech. (Condemned)
76
T
The Gadsden Purchase, negotiated by James Gadsden in 1853, ceded a small part of Mexican land to the United States for a large sum ($10Million), and was bought to house a transcontinental railroad. 
77
T
The most common way for slaves to become free in the early 1800s was to buy their way out of slavery. 
78
F
The “Immortal Trio” was Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and James K. Polk. (Daniel Webster)
79
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Many Americans believed that a transcontinental was crucial to keeping Pacific Coast states in the union. 
80
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The Ancient Order of Hibernationists, a semisecret society founded in Ireland to fight rapacious landlords, served in America as a benevolent society, aiding the downtrodden. (Hibernians
81
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The Ancient Order of Hibernians helped to spawn the “Molly McGees”, a shadowy Irish miners’ union that rocked the Pennsylvania coal districts in the 1860s and 1870s. (Maquires)
82
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The conciliatory financier Lord Abercrombie established cordial relations with Daniel Webster and helped settle the Maine dispute. (Ashburton
83
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The Flamboyant War was the war where lumberjacks disputed over territory in and above Maine. (Aroostook)
84
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An overlooked bonus sneaked by in the small print of the Maine treaty: the British, in adjusting the U.S.-Canadian boundary farther west, surrendered 6,500 square miles. The area was later found to contain the priceless Mesabi iron ore of Minnesota. 
85
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The Lewis and Clark expedition was the first expedition from America to stumble upon the Oregonian Columbia River. (Robert Gray)
86
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Martin Van Buren was ensured of his defeat in the 1944 presidential election due to the fact that he opposed annexing Texas. 
87
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James K. Polk was the first President to be photographed. (William Henry Harrison)
88
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The main reason John Tyler joined the whig party was because he hated the way Andrew Jackson led the country. 
89
F
The Spanish missionaries, being religious men, were nice to the Indians. (Harsh)
90
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William Henry Harrison was a politically active man in the years between running for president in 1940 and 1944. (Mostly worked his farm)
91
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Mexico had the intent of freeing black slaves after a victory against the Unites States. 
92
F
Puget Sound was regarded as America’s future gateway to the Pacific. (San Francisco)
93
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The Americans gained all of the Maine territory after the lumberjack disputes. (About half)
94
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Texas had seven capitals in the ten years it was an independent nation. 
95
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Stephen Austin was prevented from being in office for two consecutive terms as president of Texas. (Sam Houston)
96
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The slaveholding southern whigs were the most ardent supporters of annexing Oregon. (Northern Democrats)
97
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John Slidell was dispatched as minister to Mexico by James K. Polk in 1845. 
98
F
The British enjoyed a shipping monopoly in the early 1800s. (Textile)
99
F
Samuel L. Jackson has been acclaimed the “Father of the Factory System” in America, and seldom can the paternity of a movement more properly be ascribed to one person. (Slater
100
F
The Democratic-Republican congress finally disbanded the Bank of America in 1816. (renewed)
101
T
Cyrus McCormick invented the mechanical reaper-mower.
102
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Britain, while slightly sympathetic to the south, did not interfere with the north’s blockade because they planned on using a similar plan in later years (WWI). 
103
T
Germans introduced beer (bier) to the Americans. 
104
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Nativicators believed that Germans and Irish were drowning their religion and stealing their votes. (Nativists)
105
F
By 1850, and until this day, Catholicism has been the second most prevalent religion in America. (Most)
106
T
The Boston Associates was a formation of 15 Boston families that eventually dominated the textile, railroad, insurance, and banking businesses of Massachusetts. 
107
F
Harriet Beecher Stowe pushed for women in education. (Catherine Beecher)
108
F
The Union planned to first enter North Carolina and then march to Georgia. (Georgia and then march to the Carolinas)
109
F
Only two states gained slavery freedom due to the Thirteenth Amendment, technically. These were Kentucky and Maryland. (Kentucky and Delaware)
110
T
Black Union soldiers had a high death rate in the Civil War. 
111
F
Mobile is in Georgia. (Alabama)
112
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The North were positively influenced to some degree due to Bull Run because it made them realize just how difficult the fight would be. 
113
F
Sherman began advancing at Chattanooga in Tennessee, marched west to Atlanta, then south to Savannah, and then north to Raleigh. (Southeast)
114
T
The Embargo pushed the spread of factories. 
115
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The 1864 leader of the Democratic Party was George McClellan. 
116
F
The Union’s most prevalent enemies were the Confederates. (Peace agitators)
117
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The two biggest Northern battles were Vicksburg and Canadian March. (Gettysburg and Antietam)
118
T
Shiloh is northwest from Montgomery, Alabama. 
119
F
The Southern army enlistment increased after Bull Run. (Decreased)
120
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Pickett’s charge happened on the third day of Gettysburg. 
121
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Antietam, one of the most violent battles of the war, could have been won much easier if McClellan had properly used the found Confederate battle plans. 
122
F
The Union enlisted blacks throughout the war. (Only after the Emancipation Proclamation)
123
F
General B. McClellan was as fast as Sonic the Hedgehog. (Excruciatingly slow and cautious)
124
F
In 1864, many Union soldiers voted for McClellan. (Lincoln)
125
T
All Rhode Island Mills except one closed in 1815. 
126
F
General John C. Fremont led a detachment of seventeen hundred troops over the famous Santa Fe trail from Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. (Stephen W. Kearny)
127
T
While clerk of the state department Nicholas P. Trist was an over-enthusiastic writer, his eventual treaty with Mexico proved he was, after all, capable. 
128
T
American missionaries to Oregon Indians were instrumental in acquiring Oregon. 
129
F
The treaty of Huadalupe-Gidalgo forced America to pay $15 Million to pay for Northern Mexico. (Guadalupe-Hidalgo
130
T
John Tyler was put on the ticket as Harrison’s vice president mainly so the whig party could garner votes from supporters of state’s rights. 
131
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George Bancroft was a famed historian who also established a naval academy at Annapolis in 1845. 
132
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The Mexican government was disgusted with the low amount of money Polk offered for California. (That the U.S. would even think of buying California from them)
133
T
After the war with Mexico, the United States was looked upon by Latin American nations as an ominous imperial colossus to be speculative of. 
134
T
American troops were occupying the Rio Grande valley before the war with Mexico started.
135
F
Kearny’s army won for the Americans at the battle of San Pasqual in the California territory. (Lost)
136
F
A rising issue in the elections in the 1820s and 1830s was the Stop Online Piracy Act. (Slavery)
137
T
The two-party system that arose in the early-mid 1800s was a strong support for the checks and balances system. 
138
T
Popular sovereignty began to be proved unreliable after the bleeding Kansas issue. 
139
F
The Know-Nothings were outspoken anti-foreigners and Anti-Protestants. (Catholics)
140
T
The Freeport Doctrine said that territories could ban slavery on their own. 
141
T
A higher tariff was called for after the Panic of 1857. 
142
F
The original capital of the Confederate States of America was Harpers Ferry,Virginia. (Montgomery, Alabama)
143
F
The North were pleased by the rulings in the Dred Scott case. (South)
144
F
Lincoln, in 1860, won a majority of the popular vote. (less than a majority)
145
F
The Fugitive Slave Law was more heavily enforced in the North after Uncle Tom’s Cabin. (more weakly)
146
F
Johnny Depp was the presidential candidate for the Constitutional Union party in 1860. (John Bell)
147
F
Abraham Lincoln was picked by the Republican Party as a presidential candidate in 1860 because he was the most experienced. (one with the least enemies)
148
T
The percent of eligible people voting in the 1840s rose to over 80 percent. 
149
F
John Quincy Adams loved to go firing all of his workers so he could elect his friends to positions. (did not fire people to give his supporters positions)
150
T
Andrew Jackson was suspicious of the federal government. 
151
T
The nullification crisis of 1832 was based on the new tariff policy. 
152

Americans argued that Native Americans were unable to become members of society. (did not argue)
153
F
William Henry Harrison defeated the Indians at the battle of Horseshoe   Bend. (Andrew Jackson)
154
T
The Anti-Masonic Party in the 1832 election opened the yes of voters to the possibilities of secret societies. 
155
T
The first election to have written platforms was 1832. 
156
F
The Whig party were opponents of public education. (supporters)
157
T
The Whig Party was held together by the common dislike of Andrew Jackson in its early days. 
158
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Jackson was all over annexing Texas, instantly adding it to his empire. (reluctant to annex Texas, since there was much fear for the expansion of slavery)
159
T
President Harrison was shown as much poorer than he actually was in his election campaign. 
160
T
Frankly, frontier life sucked for most people. 
161
T
The Battle of New Orleans was irrelevant to the outcome of the war of 1812, even though it was one of America’s greatest victories in the war. 
162
F
The pro-southern Nashville Convention went against the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Compromise of 1850. (Opposition of the expansion of slavery in the North)
163
T
William H. Seward was a fine example of the young politicians that were rising up to overcome the antiquated politicians of old (such as Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun). 
164
F
The South, in the early 1850s, was mainly focused on the annexation of Cuba. (The decision of California to be free or slave)
165
F
The Northern “Fire-Eaters” supported slavery. (Southern)
166
F
Oliver Hazard Perry acquired trade with Japan for the United States. (Matthew Perry)
167
F
The Wilmot Proviso was nicknamed “The Bloodhound Bill”. (Fugitive Slave Law)
168
T
Daniel Webster, in his seventh of March speech, spoke in affirmation of a stronger Fugitive Slave Law. 
169
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Franklin Pierce, a “dough-face” President, was notable for sympathizing with the South while being himself from the north. 
170
F
The Compromise of 1850 stated that popular sovereignty would determine the outcome of slavery in all territories acquired from Mexico except Texas. (California)
171
T
Matthew C. Perry read voraciously about Japan before traveling there to negotiate trade.
172
T
Zachary Taylor was the last president to have slaves while in the White House. 
173
T
Thomas Paine’s “The Age of Reason” shockingly declared that all churches were “set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit”. 
174
F
Brigham Young was replaced by Joseph Smith as the leader of the Mormons. (Vice-versa
175
T
Tax-supported elementary schools were scarce in the days of the old republic since they were seen as schools to teach the poor. 
176
F
The south embraced public education in the 1820s. (Shunned)
177
F
Deists believed in revelation and the reading of the bible. (Reason and Science)
178
F
The American economy flourished after they won the War of 1812. (suffered after they ended the War of 1812)
179
F
Peter Cartwright served as President of Oberlin College in Ohio from 1851 to 1856. (Charles Grandison Finney)
180
T
President Thomas Jefferson talked openly of freeing his slaves, when, in reality, he was forced to free them due to economic reasons.
181
F
The South reaped all the profit from the cotton trade. (The North Also)
182
F
Cotton accounted for three-quarters of the value of all American exports after 1840. (Half)
183
T
About 75 percent of cotton exported to Britain came from the American south. 
184
F
In 1850 only 1,833 families owned more than 100 slaves each. (1,733)
185
T
Due to the invention of the cotton gin, slavery was refreshed.
186
F
The Ostend Manifesto rationalized the right of the United States to annex Nicaragua. (Cuba)
187
F
The Wilmot Proviso was intended to spread slavery through the lands won during the Mexican War. (Stop the spread of)
188
F
President James K. Polk ran for a second term for presidency. (Did not run)
189
F
Unitarians believed that God represents the whole world as a whole, and is a spirit in each person. (God exists in only one person)
190
F
The 1817 Rush-Bagot agreement limited Naval Armament on the Mississippi river. (Great Lakes)
191
T
Zachary Taylor was nicknamed “The Hero of Buena Vista”, and used this name in his campaign for presidency under the whig party. 
192
F
The United States was shocked when the Whigs nominated the somewhat unknown Franklin Pierce (who won) for the presidency. (Democrats)
193
F
The Whig Party were strong until their demise in the election of 1856. (1852)
194
F
The Compromise of 1850 banned slavery in the District of Columbia. (The Slave Trade)
195
T
Many of those who proclaimed “54’40 or fight” became supporters of the Free Soil Party. 
196
F
Stephen A. Douglas disliked the idea of a transcontinental railroad. (Liked)
197
T
Early 19th Century Whigs and Democrats tried not to talk of the slavery issue if possible to preserve balance. 
198
F
The whigs were the introducers of popular sovereignty. (Democrats, through presidential candidate Lewis Cass)
199
T
After the new Fugitive Slave Laws of 1850, judges began to be bribed to punish the runaway slaves. 
200
T
The Republican Party formed as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. 
201
T
As well as running for President for the whig party in 1852, Winfield Scott “Old Fuss and Feathers” served for longer than any other general of the United States army of all time, serving in all wars between the War of 1812 and the Civil War (47 years as a general).
202
F
Stephen A. Douglas believed that Kansas should be a free state and Nebraska a slave state. (Kansas and Nebraska should be able to choose if they were to be free or slave)
203
T
As well as promoting the “higher law”, and opposing slavery, William H. Seward competed against Abraham Lincoln for the presidential nomination for the Republican Party in 1860.
204
T
While William H. Seward opposed slavery, he was undoubtedly expansionist- spearheading the purchase of Alaska in 1867. 
205
F
Texas, soon after being admitted as a state, claimed parts of what are now Colorado, Wyoming, and Arizona. (New Mexico)
206
F
Lucretia Mott was a mother of seven who had insisted on leaving “obey” out of her marriage ceremony and who shocked fellow feminists as to go as far as to advocate suffrage for women. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton
207
T
Many progressive women were nicknamed “Suzy Bs” after Susan B Anthony. 
208
F
Dr. Elizabeth Cornwallis was the first female graduate of a medical college. (Blackburn)
209
F
There were many successful armed slave rebellions. (Few to No)
210
T
Some southern plantation owners had Chippendale chairs in their collection. 
211
T
Andrew Jackson fell into debt due to over speculation in his later years. 
212
F
The Impending Crisis of the South argued that immigrants received the most  negative consequences from slavery. (whites who did not own slaves)
213
T
The Crittenden Compromise would have given pro-slaveryites a higher incentive for southern (Latin American) expansion. 
214
T
The Brooks/Sumner clash proved that both the North and the South both had people with radical views on slavery. 
215
T
The U.S. Army was occupied with Indians in the west; it was therefore unable to stop Southern secession. 
216
F
Grain farmers in the North reaped abundant benefits in the Panic of 1857. (Were hard hit)
217
T
Lincoln opposed the Crittenden Compromise. 
218
F
A main reason for Buchanan’s victory was his association with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. (the fact that he was indifferent on the Kansas-Nebraska Act)
219
T
John Brown attempted to rally up slave rebellions at Harper’s Ferry, but few slaves found out about the raid before Brown was hanged. 
220
F
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written to push forward the importance of keeping slavery. (Explain the evils of slavery)
221
T
In some ways South Carolina was delighted that Lincoln was elected president. 
222
T
Northerners were flabbergasted that the Dred Scott ruling proclaimed that Congress had no say in slavery in the territories. 
223
F
The Dred Scott Case ruled that the Kansas-Nebraska Act was unconstitutional. (Missouri Compromise)
224
T
President Buchanan’s advisors were mostly Southern pro-slavery men. 
225
T
The Northern stereotype after Harper’s Ferry were “Brown-lovers” in the eyes of the South. 
226
T
While joining the southern cause was an option, Britain and France decided otherwise because of the strong influence of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. 
227
T
Southern secessionists believed that the North wouldn’t care if they seceded. 
228
T
The Democratic Party became divided when James Buchanan expressed his support for the Lecompton Constitution. 
229
F
Much of the votes in the North in the 1856 election went to Winfield Scott. (John C. Fremont)
230
F
The Know-Nothing, or American, Party ran for the presidency in 1856 with former President Millard Fillmore, with a strong platform of Southern Secession. (Nativism)
231
T
Northern soldiers were overall more disciplined than Southern ones. 
232
T
The border states were important because they had rivers, lots of horses, and some pretty good manufacturing. 
233
T
Both sides in the Civil War faced desertion at a high level. 
234
F
Lincoln had more power than Davis because Davis was fettered by a controlling cabinet. (State’s rights)
235
F
Southern politics were dominated by the masses. (Slave-owning aristocracy)
236
F
Most planters used cotton for quick money and would usually go back to subsistence farming after growing cotton for a short time. (A long time, buying up more and more land as their empires grew)
237
T
The growing of cotton destroyed the land it was grown on, making cotton a risky crop. 
238
T
Most household slaves were females lead by the household mistress. 
239
F
The strong majority of plantations were void of instability and ran smoothly. (Were economically unstable)
240
T
Many smaller slaveowners would sell their land to plantation owners and move north or westward. 
241
F
The Southern “cottonocracy” led to higher amounts of public education. (Suppression of Public Education)
242
T
About 4 percent of people in the south in 1860 were foreign-born. 
243
T
Franklin Pierce was ridiculed by Whigs for being an alcoholic. 
244
T
It is possible to state that the Compromise of 1850 was a main reason for the North winning the Civil War due to the amount of moral strength it racked up in the North against the Fugitive Slave Law. 
245
T
Cuba was the number one priority for American expansionists in the years after the Mexican War. 
246
T
The North were lucky that the Civil War started so late since they were able to build up people and industry in the extra time. 
247
F
Spanish officials captured the American vessel the White Warrior, which attempted to invade Cuba in 1854. (Black Warrior,landed in)
248
F
The 1848 election was based more on principles than personalities. (Personalities than principles)
249
T
Most of the money made from the gold rush was made by people washing gold digger's clothes. 
250
T
The Northerners mostly despised the Fugitive Slave Laws added in the Compromise of 1850. 
251
F
John Bluegrass Blackier (1807-1892) was a poet who spoke out against slavery. (Greenleaf Whittier)
252
F
Professor James Russell Johnson (1819-1891) was the successor of Longfellow at Harvard and writer of the satirical “Biglow Papers.” (Lowell)
253
F
Finland Vesey’s slave revolt was foiled in 1822 in Charleston, South Carolina,  and Vesey was hanged publicly. (Denmark)
254
T
The Seneca falls convention formally began the women’s rights movement. 
255
T
President Madison vetoed the Congress giving money to states for self-improvement.
256
T
Robert Owen’s New Harmony colony was a failure.
257
T
Some mulattos, including William T. Johnson, owned slaves. 
258
F
The gifted and eloquent Frederick Trollsberg, an abolitionist and self-educated orator of rare power, was several times mobbed and beaten by northern rowdies. (Douglass)
259
T
It was often observed that white southerners, who were often suckled and reared by black nurses, liked the black as an individual but despised the race. It was the other way round for northerners who liked the race but hated individuals. 
260
F
The only slave trader to ever be executed was N.P. Thomas, in 1862. (Gordon)
261
T
In 1800 an armed insurrection led by a slave named Gabriel in Richmond, Virginia, was foiled by informers, and its leaders were hanged. 
262
T
Cohens vs. Virginia (1821), a case involving the illegal sale of lottery tickets, allowed John Marshall to prove the right of the national courts to review the state courts.
263
F
Benjamin Galacticus (1779-1864) was an influential chemist and geologist who taught and wrote brilliantly at Yale college for more than fifty years. (Silliman
264
F
Brook Farm was completely unsuccessful from the start. (Successful until a fire destroyed a major building and put the community in debt)
265
T
Fletcher vs. Peck (1810), a case involving private speculation, allowed Marshall to stop the States from breaking contracts in an unconstitutional manner.  
266
T
The Oneida Community practiced free love, birth control, and the eugenic selection of parents to produce superior offspring. 
267
F
Gibbons vs. Ogden (1824), a case involving the attempt of New York to allow a waterborne monopoly between New York and New Jersey to a private concern, was a way for Chief Justice Marshall to prove that interstate commerce was only given by the executive branch. (legislative)
268
F
Nathaniel Science (1773-1838) was a mathematician who wrote on practical navigation. (Bowditch)
269
T
Oceanographer Matthew F. Maury (1806-1873) wrote about ocean winds and currents. 
270
F
The Tariff of 1816 was the first Tariff issued by Americans for revenue. (Protection)
271
T
The Shakers were led by Mother Ann Lee and forbid both marriage and sexual relations.
272
F
Most early American scientists were more interested in pure science rather than the invention of practical gadgets. (Vice-versa)
273
T
Dartmouth College vs. Woodward (1819), a case involving New Hampshire wanting to change the charter of a college, proved that charters were set in stone. 
274
F
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was the best selling book of the 19th century. (The Bible)
275
F
Sojourner Lies was a leading abolitionist and feminist who was once a slave. (Truth)
276
F
William Lloyd Garrison, a leading abolitionist, wrote the controversial newspaper,The Freedom Book, in the mid 1800s. (The Liberator)
277
T
Wendell Phillips, an associate of William Lloyd Garrison, founded the American Antislavery Society in 1833. 
278
T
The International Slave Trade was abolished in 1808.
279
T
Prices for slaves dropped were often based on beatings accumulated under previous owners.
280
F
British General Brock Isaacson led British defense in Canada in the War of 1812. (Isaac Brock)
281
F
American art was strongest in architecture in the early 1800s. (American architecture was of little note in the early 1800s)
282
T
Many American painters in the 1800s were forced to bring their careers to England to find training and patrons. 
283
T
Art in the early 1800s was hindered by the fact that many Americans held the belief that art was a sinful waste of time. 
284
F
Competent American painter Stuart Gilbert (1755-1828), a spendthrift Rhode Islander and one of the most gifted of the early American painters, wielded his brush in Britain competition with the best artists. (Gilbert Stuart)
285
T
American doctors and dentists did not use anesthetics until the 1840s. 
286
F
The “Thoreau Policy” was the belief that America was destined to stretch from sea to sea. (Manifest Destiny)
287
F
Frederick Douglass was the only remaining whig in Tyler’s cabinet after the bank fiasco. (Daniel Webster)
288
T
Spanish missionaries followed El Camino Real (The Royal Road) on the pacific coast, spreading Christianity to Indians. 
289
T
Fremont had won California before Kearny had even arrived. 
290
T
Many Californios supported the South in the civil war due to the manifest destiny-related beliefs of the north.
291
F
Anti-slavery Whigs in congress were nicknamed “Slavery-hatin’” Whigs. (“Conscience”, or “Mexican”)
292
F
President Polk was the main presidential power that secured the annexation of Texas. (Tyler)
293
T
Future President Ulysses S. Grant, who served under Taylor in the Mexican War, believed the war was unjust. 
294
T
Winfield Scott won all of his battles, as his name would suggest, in the Mexican-American war. 
295
T
The Panic of 1937 caused many states to fail to pay their debts to Britain. 
296
T
Britain mostly believed that the Oregon issue was a minor scuffle not worth fighting over. 
297
F
The Mexican-American war was the first war to use the draft system, forcing many Americans who opposed the cause to fight. (Mainly fought by volunteers)
298
T
Lincoln believed that his loose interpretation of civil liberties was vital to keep the Union. 
299
T
The Confederacy only needed a draw to win. 
300
F
Jefferson Davis went completely for the public opinion. (dismissed public opinion)
301
F
Most of the Union’s ships were built in Germany. (Confederate ships were built in Britain)
302
T
The south’s military leaders were overall better prepared than the northern ones at the beginning of the war. 
303
T
The United States threatened to send soldiers to Mexico, causing Napoleon III to end his vainglorious plans of controlling Mexico. 
304
T
The South’s economy was flabbergastingly bad during the war, with this being it’s largest weakness. 
305
T
In 1831 the semiliterate Nat Turner, a visionary black preacher, led an uprising that slaughtered about sixty Virginians, mostly women and children. 
306
T
Revolutionary War veteran John Trumbull recaptured the scenes of the war on scores of striking canvas. 
307
T
The daguerreotype provided stiff competition to American landscape painters such as those of the Hudson River School.
308
F
Stevie Wonder (1826-1864) was a Pennsylvanian who wrote many famous “black songs”. (Stephen C. Foster)
309
T
A protectorate means the relation of a strong nation to a weak one under its control and protection. 
310
F
The Mexican cession was the largest land cession to the United States to date. (Alaskan)
311
T
To default means to fail to pay a loan or the interest due. 
312
F
John Tyler remained a member of the whig party after he vetoed a bill to establish a new bank of the United States. (Was expelled from)
313
F
America was lucky to win the Mexican-American war. (Easily won)
314
T
The California Bear Flag Republic lasted 26 days before Americans came in to claim the territory for the United States. This was mainly because of the slow communication between areas at that time. 
315
T
The Mexican-American war, after disease is taken into account, was proportionately the most deadly of all American wars. 
316
T
The Land Act of 1820 authorized a buyer to purchase 80 virgin acres of land at a minimum of $1.25 an acre in cash.
317
T
Washington Irving gained instant international fame with “Sketch Book”, which combed a pleasing style with delicate charm and quiet humor and used both American and English themes.
318
T
Henry Clay might well have been president if he had been more smart with his campaign and made his political views to the point and not confusing. 
319
T
Abraham Lincoln called for a “Spot Resolution”, or a scrutinization of the location of the shootings that started the Mexican War.
320
T
Santa Anna tricked the American government to letting him back into Mexico.
321
F
Ricky Wilmot proposed the Wilmot Proviso. (David)
322
F
West Point, established in Texas in 1802, created many a great general. (New York)
323
T
Zachary Taylor was a supporter of slavery, and the last president to hold slaves while in office. 
324
F
California was the last future-state territory acquired by the United States. (Alaska)
325
F
James Fenimore Copper was forced to become a writer due to economic troubles. (decided that he could do a better job of writing than the insipid English authors, so became an author)
326
F
William Shakespeare (1794-1878) was an influential American poet who wrote “Thanatopsis” and edited the New York Evening Post. (Cullen Bryant)
327
F
The quote “Whites cannot hold blacks in a ditch without getting down there with them” was spoken by Frederick Douglass. (Booker T. Washington)
328
T
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the only American ever to be honored with a bust in the Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey. 
329
F
In the War of 1812, The ship Articles was the largest American ship, and it destroyed the British’s Guerriere. (Constitution)
330
T
Jousting is the official sport of Maryland. 
331
T
The economic structure of the south became increasingly monopolistic. 
332
T
The South was largely a one-crop economy. 
333
F
Not including the slave population, the South was a mixed population, including immigrants from Ireland and Germany. (A strongly anglo-saxon population)
334
F
Southerners who did not own slaves tended to move towards abolitionism. (Protecting slavery since it gave them racial superiority over slaves to make up for economic inferiority
335
T
While discriminated against highly in all locations, Southern free blacks were slightly better off than Northern free blacks since they were able to form their own communities in the South. 
336
F
Female slaves who had had more than ten children were often killed since they were too weak to be of any more use. (Set free in reward for their reproductive services)
337
T
During the War of 1812, the New England economy prospered. 
338
F
The Panic of 1857 hid the south the hardest. (North)
339
T
Southern supporters of slavery believed Kansas was a slave territory. 
340
T
The word “bigoted” means blindly or narrowly intolerant. 
341
T
James Buchanan thought it unconstitutional to stop secession. 
342
T
Buchanan was an ideal candidate for the Democrats because he had spent much of his career in England and therefore was not caught up in the crossfire of sectional politics that the country was engulfed in. 
343
T
Regardless whether Kansas voted for or against slavery, it’s Lecompton Constitution would protect existing slavery anyway. 
344
F
The South won the civil war. (North)
345
T
The capital of Liberia is Monrovia. 
346
T
Theodore Dwight Weld, who had been evangelized by Charles Grandison Finney in New York’s Burned-Over District in 1820s, was kicked out of Lane Theological Seminary in 1834 for organizing an eighteen-day debate on slavery. He went on, in 1839, to write “American Slavery as it is”.
347
F
Wendell Surname, a Boston patrician known as “abolition’s golden trumpet”, refused to eat sugar cane or wear cotton cloth in protest of slavery. (Phillips)
348
T
David Walker advocated an end to white supremacy in his writing Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
349
F
In the War of 1812, Oliver “Danger” Perry managed to build a fleet of ships on the shore of Lake Erie. (Hazard)
350
T
In the War of 1812, the British Army’s weakest forces were stationed in Canada. 
Chapter 1-11

1
T
Even though they travelled to and settled in the Americas, European explorers still considered themselves Europeans. 
2
F
The two most democratic colonies were Massachusetts and New York. (North Carolina and Rhode Island)
3
T
The Battle of Quebec in 1759 was greatly significant because it ended up with America gaining vast chunks of land from France. 
4
T
Lord De La Warr, the leader of Jamestown after 1610, imposed a harsh military regime in the colony. 
5
F
White women, after the Revolutionary War, were seen in a lower moral regard. (higher)
6
T
Many Scots migrated to America because the rent was high. [+10 for referencing Jimmy McMillan]
7
F
Many state capitals moved east towards seaports. (west away from seaports)
8
T
One reason that the American Revolution was much cleaner than the French was because America had more land. 
9
F
The colony that started out on the largest scale was North Carolina. (Massachusetts)
10
T
Economic democracy proceeded political democracy in the United States. 
11
T
Inadvertently, it was the British who caused the slave system to raise to it’s later level, as they vetoed anti-slavery laws from the colonies. 
12
T
The major issue that delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation concerned western lands.
13
F
Medicine was a profession of high regard in colonial days. (low)
14
F
After leaving Canada, the Acadians went to Alabama. (Louisiana)
15
F
Common Sense was published before the convening of the Second Continental Congress. (after)
16
F
Population density was higher on the Atlantic seaboard due to “two sister” farming. (three)
17
T
A main cause of the American Revolution was Britain’s dumping of much of the costs of the empire on America.
18
T
One flaw of the Articles of Confederation was that it did not allow Congress to collect taxes. 
19
T
Throughout the seventeenth century, the South’s slave labor continued to alienate them from the North. 
20
F
William Howe pursued Washington after the Battle of Long Island. (did not pursue)
21
T
Early Georgia was mainly used as defense for the Carolinas. 
22
T
The founders of the colony wanted to make Georgia a haven for debtors. 
23
T
1787’s Northwest Ordinance allowed the government to govern the Old Northwest. 
24
T
The Land Ordinance of 1785 forced money from land sales to be used to pay off the national debt. 
25
F
Captain John Smith was kidnapped by Chief Eric Wang. (Powhatan
26
T
Novus ordo seculorum means “a new order for the ages”. 
27
T
The War of Jenkins’ Ear ended up with soldiers in every American territory. 
28
F
General Burgoyne was involved in Yorktown. (Saratoga)
29
F
The reason for Edgar’s rebellion was that many farmers had their mortgages foreclosed. (Shay)
30
T
A crisis of imperial authority was brought about by 1770s trade restrictions. 
31

The constitutional convention was finally called because the man who wrote the Articles of Confederation died. (of issues on control of commerce)
32
T
The basic British strategy in the early Revolutionary War was to isolate New England. 
33
F
New England was unhappy when the British gave the city of Louisville to France. (Louisbourg
34
T
The ideals of republicanism believed that only when all of a society’s citizens put aside their differences for the common good was a society just.
35
T
Lumber was the main manufacturing enterprise in early America. 
36
T
Most of those at the Constitutional Convention were strong nationalists. 
37
F
George Washington was victorious at Fort Necessity. (defeated)
38
F
It became clear that the Indians could never be assimilated into Virginian society after the Amazing War. (Second Anglo-Powhatan War)
39
T
The idea that all tax bills should start in the House of Representatives was made to appease large states. 
40
F
It was not until the 1860s that the Louisiana Cajuns ended their isolation due to bridge-building. (1930s)
41
T
The constitution did not originally provide for the creation of a cabinet. 
42
T
The 1733 Molasses Act intended to stop colonial trade with the West Indies. 
43
F
In the late 1700s, the U.S. population was about 75% rural. (90)
44
T
After defeating chief Pontiac, the British pushed for Indian-white relations. 
45
F
The Ninth Amendment can be referenced as the “States’ Rights Amendment”. (Tenth)
46
F
Scandinavian voyages did not settle because they had no money. (because they were unsupported by most nations)
47
F
Alexander Hamilton’s programs mostly favored the poor. (rich)
48
F
Handsome River, Iroquois chief, helped in the Indians’ cultural revival. (Lake)
49
F
Alexander Hamilton wanted an epic national debt. (a limited, but existent)
50
T
Alexander Hamilton wanted an epic national bank. 
51
F
The Carolina’s most important early export was tobacco. (were Indian Slaves)
52
T
The least popular aspect of Hamilton’s economic programs was his tariff. 
53
F
The Tenth Amendment favored loose construction. (strict)
54
T
In the “headright” system, those who payed for the passage of a laborer to America were granted 50 acres of land. 
55
T
Hamilton was against states’ rights. 
56
T
Americans wanted trade with overseas nations other than Britain so they could afford British goods. 
57
F
The 1794 Whiskey Rebellion occurred in Vermont. (Pennsylvania
58
T
The colonists’ invasion of Canada in 1775 contradicted the American claim that they were only fighting defensively. 
59
F
The Presbyterian church was unpopular with the Scots-Irish on the frontier. (popular)
60
F
The founding fathers viewed political parties as ephemeral. (disloyal)
61
F
The main historical influence of the Jesuit priests was their religious influence. (exploration and geography work)
62
T
Opposition by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to the financial plan of Alexander Hamilton resulted in the formation of permanent political parties.
63
T
Sir Walter Raleigh founded the colony on Roanoke. 
64
F
The Australian Revolution left deep social scars on American life. (French)
65
T
The belief of mercantilism was that a country’s superiority was based on it’s wealth. 
66
T
The belief of Antinomialism was the belief that, if a person was predestined for salvation, then they only need to follow secular laws to reach that goal. 
67
T
The Indian problem was attempted to be solved by the Proclamation of 1763.
68
T
In early colonial wars, the Americans had a huge lack of unity. 
69
T
The Pequot War shattered Puritan attempts to convert Indians. 
70
F
The Albany Congress of 1754 was called to keep the Miami tribes loyal to the British. (Iroquois
71
T
A joint-stock company financed England’s colonization. 
72
T
The Franco-American alliance of 1778 bound the United States to help the French defend their West Indies.
73
T
Britain’s policy of Salutary Neglect, which occurred after the Treaty of Utrecht, allowed America to be ruled more loosely under parliament’s rule. 
74
F
Rocky Balboa lead French troops in America during the Revolutionary War. (Rochambeau)
75
F
The War of Jenkins’ Ear, which occurred in the Caribbean and Georgia, was between Britain and France. (Spain)
76
F
The percentage of eligible voters in Massachusetts was lower than in England. (higher)
77
F
The XYZ Affair occurred after the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions. (before)
78
F
Most of the labor in the seventeenth century came from slaves. (Indentured Servants)
79
T
The Treaty of Greenville signed in August with the Miami Confederation resulted in the right of the Indians to hunt the land they had ceded.
80
F
The Europeans were the first slave traders in Africa. (Africans)
81
T
The Americans, when trying to remain neutral in the war between Britain and France, were aggravated by the British when the British attacked American merchant ships in the West Indies. 
82
T
The British, in Jay’s Treaty, agreed to leave all of their western forts. 
83
F
The Nick Start treaty allowed for free navigation of the Mississippi River for the United States. (Pinckney)
84
F
The average age of a colonist in 1776 was 26. (16)
85
F
The Grand Canyon formed immediately after the dinosaurs were wiped out. (after the glaciers retreated)
86
T
Clergymen in Massachusetts were barred from holding political office. 
87
T
The 1796 presidential campaign was fought mainly based on personalities. 
88
T
The XYZ affair declared an undeclared war with France. 
89
F
Humphrey Gilbert failed to establish a colony in Mexico. (Newfoundland)
90
T
The Alien and Sedition Acts were used to silence antifederalists. 
91
T
Federalists believed that the Supreme Court were the sole overseers of constitutionality. 
92
F
The Armenians believed in predestination. (did not believe)
93
F
Maryland was used as a refuge for Protestants. (Catholics)
94
T
The Federalists advocated rule by the “best” people. 
95
F
General Edward Braddock was defeated near fort Duquesne after General James Wolfe’s army defeated General Montcalm’s army on the Plains of Abraham. (before)
96
F
Anne Hutchinson believed that those who were saved needed to be the most moral. (least)
97
F
America was not allowed by Britain to sell furs. (cloth
98
F
The coureurs de bois were fur trappers in New France, while the Huguenots were Catholics from France. (Protestants)
99
F
Roger Williams founded Delaware. (Rhode Island)
100
F
Thomas Jefferson was the man who introduced the Declaration of Independence. (Richard Henry Lee)
101
F
The Puritans disliked alcohol. (adultery)
102
F
Bacon’s rebellion was followed by men who failed to acquire their own slaves. (land)
103
F
Europe’s biggest introduction to the new world was horses. (smallpox)
104
T
Jefferson believed that farmers were bosses. 
105
F
The federalists accused Thomas Jefferson of robbing money from Ben Franklin. (a widow)
106
F
It was because of Prime-minister Lord North’s strategy of invading Canada that the British conquered Quebec. (William Pitt)
107
T
William Bradford, on his Plymouth Plantation, helped the pilgrims survive. 
108
T
In order to purchase New Orleans from France, Thomas Jefferson decided to make an alliance with his old enemy, Britain.
109
F
If he had lived today, George Washington would have had no soul due to his gingerocity. (Thomas Jefferson)
110
T
The Scots-Irish were neutral during the revolutionary war. 
111
T
Phillis Wheatley was an illiterate slave girl when she was freed and taken to Boston, where she learned to read and right. She then became a poet in England at the age of 20. 
112
F
Richmond was the biggest and busiest seaport in the early south. (Charleston)
113
T
The worst loss in the Revolutionary War for the colonists was at Charleston. 
114
T
Sir Francis Drake, referenced heavily in the Uncharted video game series, was a plunderer of Spanish ships. 
115
T
Jonathan Edwards began the Great Awakening. 
116
T
One of the most valuable resources in early Canada (New France) was Beaver pelts. 
117
T
Puritans believed that those who had been elected were saints. 
118
F
The most intense of the preachers in the Great Awakening were the “Forrest Gumpers”. (new light preachers)
119
F
Geronimo argued that Indians should not cede control of land to whites unless all Indians agreed. (Tecumseh)
120
F
The Puritans had their own religion. (were members of the Church of England)
121
T
After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr plotted to divide the United States.
122
T
South Carolina was strongly affiliated with the British West Indies. 
123
F
The most pushed subject in colonial schools was math. (religion)
124
T
Jefferson had authorized American negotiators to purchase only New Orleans and the Floridas from France.
125
F
The separatists who lived during the reign of James I moved away from Belgium because they wanted to keep their culture. (Holland)
126
T
The title of TV show Law and Order has strong Federalist roots. 
127
T
Bacon’s Rebellion started because of Indian attacks in the frontier.
128
T
The favorite branch of the Antifederalists was the legislative branch. 
129
T
As agriculture improved in Native American civilization, the size and sophistication of their societies increased. 
130
F
By 1775, the largest ethnic group in the Americas after Anglo-Saxons was the Scots-Irish. (Africans)
131
T
Antifederalists included states’ rights supporters, backcountry dwellers, paper money advocates, and debtors. 
132
T
Rhode Island was known for its nonconformity. 
133
F
The Constitutional Convention decided to allow the slave trade for an extra 30 years. (20)
134
F
The coastal Indians such as the Algonquians were the most ready to resist the British. (inland)
135
F
The state that most fiercely separated church and state after the Revolutionary War was Alabama. (Virginia
136
F
The “Fighting Quaker” in the Revolutionary War was General Bob Dylan, who fought in the south. (Nathaniel Greene)
137
T
George Rogers Clark fought in the West in the Revolutionary War. 
138
F
Samuel L. Jackson was an explorer and the “Father of New France”. (de Champlain
139
T
The Americans have been involved in every world war since 1688. 
140
T
The Zenger trial was significant to it’s influence on free speech and free press. 
141
T
Early native Americans made strangely accurate astronomical observations, leading to many segments on History’s “Ancient Aliens”.
142
F
America’s population of poor people was proportionally high compared to that in Britain. (low)
143
F
The colony that was harshest to slaves was North Carolina. (South Carolina)
144
T
New England families were very stable. 
145
F
Coronado visited Canada. (New Mexico and Arizona
146
T
The Puritans were unique in that they brought whole communities across the pond. 
147
F
The Lakota Indians were strongly affected by the introduction of Guns. (Horses)
148
T
In Connecticut, the Fundamental Orders that they established believed in democratic rule by virtuous citizens. 
149
F
King James I denied the separation of groups from his Catholic church. (Church of England)
150
F
The Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas all lacked the invention of agriculture. (the wheel)

1
F
The Freedmen’s Bureau’s highest achievement was black property rights. (educational)
2
T
The Fourteenth amendment included citizenship for blacks and the removal of the right for former Confederates to hold office. 
3
T
Congress did not agree with Andrew Johnson’s plan because it gave the South too much political power. 
4
F
Only the radical Republicans wanted to give former slaves the right to vote. (All)
5
F
President Andrew Johnson loved the Freedman’s Bureau. (hated)
6
F
The Black Codes did not allow blacks to rent land, jump labor contracts, be idle, and hold office. (serve on a jury)
7
T
The deep schism between Lincoln and Congress was highlighted by the controversy of the Wade Davis Bill. 
8
T
Congressional Reconstruction ended in 1877. 
9
T
All of the Confederate leaders were eventually pardoned. 
10
T
The bill that lit the fire of the Congress’ battle against Andrew Johnson was Johnson’s veto of the bill to extend the life of the Freedmen’s Bureau. 
11
T
Many blacks traveled to test their freedom. 
12
F
Mississippi was the first state to be re-admitted into the Union. (Tennessee
13
T
Andrew Johnson became a sort of champion for poor rights. 
14
F
Most voters in the 1866 congressional elections supported Andrew Johnson’s reconstruction plans. (Congress)
15
T
Even though they were technically free after the civil war, most African Americans had a hard time organizing their freedom immediately after the war. 
16
F
Some of the radical Republicans in congress were Morgan Freeman, Thaddeus Stevens, and Charles Sumner. (Hiram Revels)
17
T
Both the North and the South were faced with corruption in the reconstruction era. 
18
F
The movement of Exodusters to Kansas failed when they all died of Tuberculosis. (they were refused travel across the Mississippi by steamboat captains)
19
T
The immediate reason for Andrew Johnson’s impeachment was his removal of secretary of War Stanton from office. 
20
F
The Ku Klux Klan wanted to stop only blacks from voting. (blacks as well as carpetbaggers)
21
F
The plan for reconstruction that Andrew Johnson administered took away voting rights from all southerners. (wealthy Southerners)
22
T
Most radical reconstruction regimes gave women more rights. 
23
T
The Union League taught blacks their governmental responsibilities. 
24
T
If Thaddeus Stevens’s radical plans for economic reforms had been enacted, reconstruction might have been more successful. 
25
T
The congressional republicans believed that the Southern States were “conquered provinces”

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