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History 101 Test II Study Guide
America Secedes from the Empire to
Forging the National Economy
Chapters 8-14
America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
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What was the sentiment concerning independence when the Second Continental
Congress met in 1775?
Trace the regions and years where the American Revolution was fought.
What colonial reason for fighting the British was contradicted with the colonial
invasion of Canada?
Give four reasons why the colonists delayed declaring their independence until July
4, 1776.
What two arguments did Thomas Paine in his pamphlet, Common Sense?
Give four examples of colonial experience with self-government that prepared
American colonists for republicanism.
What was the requirement for all individuals once America became a republic and
political power no longer rested with an all-powerful king?
What was one purpose of the Declaration of the Independence?
Give four crucial roles the Patriot militia played in the American Revolution.
Give four reasons why many Americans remained loyalists during the Revolution.
How did George Washington help to restore confidence in the revolutionary cause in
late 1776 and early 1777?
Why was the Battle of Saratoga a key victory for the American colonists?
Give four things that French aid and a formal alliance mean for the colonists.
Why did some Indian nations join the British against the American colonists in the
Revolutionary War?
What was the most important contribution of the seagoing privateers during the
American Revolution?
Give three reasons why the British decided to negotiate an end to the Revolutionary
War.
Why did Britain give America generous terms in the Treaty of Paris?
The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
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During the Revolutionary War, many states took what three actions?
Give four statements about the status of blacks during the American Revolution?
Why did the Founding Fathers fail to eliminate slavery?
As written documents, the state constitutions functioned in what four ways?
How was the path of democracy highly significant in the course of future events in the
period after the Revolutionary War?
What was the economic status of the average American at the end of the
Revolutionary War?
The Revolution spawned what four economic conditions in North America?
Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress had what three traits?
What was the major strength of the Articles of Confederation?
What was one of the most farsighted provisions of the Northwest Ordinance?
After the American Revolution, what was the role of Britain and Spain in American
domestic affairs?
The Shays’s Rebellion convinced many Americans of what need?
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On what issue did the debate between the supporters and critics of the Articles of
Confederation center?
What were the four motives of the delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention in
Philadelphia?
The delegates of the Constitutional Convention demonstrated what four common
beliefs by their actions?
What was probably the most alarming characteristic of the new Constitution to those
who opposed it?
The Federalist made what argument about the establishment of a republican
government during the height of the ratification debate?
Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800
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The Bill of Rights was intended to protect what against the potential tyranny of what?
List four provisions of Alexander Hamilton’s economic program.
Hamilton believed that a limited national debt would serve what purpose?
Why had the Founding Fathers not envision the existence of permanent political
parties?
What was the result of Jefferson’s and Madison’s opposition to Hamilton’s financial
plan?
During its first quarter-century as a nation, what was one major foreign problem
facing the U.S.?
Britain promised to take what action in Jay’s Treaty?
What was a political consequence of Jay’s Treaty with Britain?
How did Britain make U.S. neutrality difficult during the French and British conflicts of
the 1790s?
Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796 contained what warning?
Why did foreign relations between the U.S. and France deteriorate in the late 1790s?
What was the main purpose of the Alien and Sedition Acts?
What did the compact theory as advocated by Jefferson and Madison argue?
Hamiltonian Federalists had what view of the national government?
For its continued success, Hamilton’s financial program depended on what?
Jefferson favored what kind of political system?
Jeffersonians believed in what four ideals or policies?
The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812
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In what way was Jefferson’s “Revolution of 1800” remarkable?
Jefferson’s presidency was characterized by what trait?
His military service at Valley Forge during the American Revolution convinced Chief
Justice John Marshall of what?
John Marshall, as chief justice of the U. S., helped to strengthen the judicial branch of
government by asserting what doctrine?
What did Jefferson’s failed attempt to impeach and convict Supreme Court Justice
Samuel Chase for “high crimes and misdemeanors” mean?
List four reasons what Napoleon chose to sell Louisiana to the United States in 1803.
Why did the British impress American sailors into the British navy?
Give four reasons why Jefferson’s embargo failed.
What was the domestic consequence of Jefferson’s foreign policy of economic
coercion?
By 1810, the most insistent demand for a declaration of war against Britain came
from what two regions?
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What were four arguments put forward by the war hawks as a justification for a
declaration of war against Britain?
Tecumseh argued what should be the Indians’ policy toward white encroachment of
their lands?
Why did James Madison turn to war in 1812?
What were two actions of the New England states during the War of 1812?
The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism,
1812-1834
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Give four reasons why the War of 1812 was one of the worst fought wars in American
history?
What were two consequences of the Battle of New Orleans?
What was the consequence of the Hartford Convention’s resolutions?
Post-War of 1812, nationalism could be seen in what four ways?
Henry Clay embraced the American System, which would create what four things?
Why did New England oppose the American System’s federally constructed roads?
What seven things stimulated the rapid growth and development of the West after
1815?
People moved into the Old Northwest for what four reasons?
Give four results of the Missouri Compromise
Why did Spain sell Florida to the United States?
Why did Britain oppose Spain’s reestablishing its authority in Latin America after the
end of the Napoleonic Wars?
The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1830
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In the 1820s and 1830s, what two issues greatly raised the political stakes?
The new two-party political system that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s had what
legacy?
Why did people in the West tend to prefer Andrew Jackson in the 1824 election?
What did Jackson’s inauguration as president symbolize?
What was the purpose behind the spoils system?
Frenchmen Alexis del Tocqueville was most struck by what trait of American and
Americans when he wrote about his travels across the U.S.?
Why did southerners fear the Tariff of 1828?
Why did Jackson’s administration support the removal of Native Americans from the
eastern states?
For what four reasons did Jackson and his supporters dislike the Bank of the United
States?
What was one positive aspect of the Bank of the United States?
Jackson’s veto of the recharter bill for the Bank of the U.S. represented what?
What cement held the Whig party together in its early history?
What were three reasons for the panic of 1837?
What four things troubled Martin Van Buren’s presidency?
The Mexican government and the Americans in Texas clashed over what four
issues?
Why did Jackson and Van Buren hesitate to extend recognition to and to annex the
new Texas Republic?
Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
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What four things gave rise to a more dynamic, market-oriented, national economy in
the early 19th century America?
What sector of the early-nineteenth-century America’s population was growing at an
unprecedented rate?
Give four factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the
19th century.
When the Irish flocked to the U.S. in the 1840s, why did they remain in the larger
seaboard cities?
What four things describe the relationship between Irish immigrants and U.S. citizens
Why did native-born Americans fear the Catholic immigrants to the U.S.?
What four things did German immigrants do once they arrived in the United States?
Immigrants who came to the U.S. before 1860 helped to fuel what?
What was the result of the development of the cotton gin?
Why did the lot of adult wage earners improve in the early 19th century?
What characterized the American workforce in the early 19th century?
What change did early 19th century American families experience?
How did the early 19th century industrialization affect the trans-Allegheny West?
In the new continental economy, what was the specialized economic activity of each
region?
What were the transportation links between the three regions?
What was the effect of the new continental market economy on American families?
What was a major economic consequence of the transportation and marketing
revolutions?