Early American History and Colonization
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What is the term for the belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic and cultural group?

  • Puritanism
  • Columbian Exchange
  • Ethnocentric (correct)
  • Deism

Which of the following colonies was established in Florida by Spain?

  • St. Augustine (correct)
  • East St. Louis
  • Massachusetts Bay
  • Cahokia

What is the term for the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages?

  • Puritanism
  • Great Awakening
  • Ethnocentric
  • Columbian Exchange (correct)

What is the term for colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years?

<p>Indentured Servants (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following religious groups wanted to purify the Church of England and settled in Massachusetts Bay?

<p>Puritans (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which event marked the turning point of the American Revolution?

<p>The Battle of Saratoga (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary purpose of the Proclamation Line of 1763?

<p>To protect Indian tribes from white settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main objective of the American Colonization Society?

<p>To establish a new nation in Africa for freed slaves (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the consequence of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?

<p>The destruction of the Whig Party (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the significance of the Three-Fifths Clause in the US Constitution?

<p>It counted three-fifths of the slave population for representation purposes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who was the author of the influential novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?

<p>Harriet Beecher Stowe (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary goal of the Sons of Liberty?

<p>To incite riots and protest British policies (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which event marked the last battle of the American War of Independence?

<p>The Battle of Yorktown (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main feature of the Articles of Confederation?

<p>A weak constitution that governed the US during the Revolutionary War (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary idea behind the concept of Manifest Destiny?

<p>The belief that the US had a right to expand its territory through the continent (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary goal of John Brown's scheme at Harpers Ferry?

<p>To capture the federal arsenal (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the significance of the Anaconda Plan?

<p>It was a Union plan to blockade the Southern coast (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the result of the Haymarket Affair?

<p>A national wave of xenophobia (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main goal of the Progressive movement?

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What was the significance of the 19th Amendment?

<p>It granted the right to vote to women (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main consequence of the sinking of the Lusitania?

<p>The United States began to consider entering World War I (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the purpose of the Zimmerman Telegram?

<p>To convince Mexico to attack the United States (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main consequence of the Teapot Dome scandal?

<p>The resignation of President Warren Harding (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main consequence of the passage of the 20th Amendment?

<p>The date of presidential inaugurations was changed (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main goal of Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points?

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What was the primary goal of President Roosevelt's New Deal programs?

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What was the significance of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941?

<p>It led to the United States' entry into World War II (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main purpose of the Truman Doctrine?

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What was the result of the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954?

<p>It led to the desegregation of schools in the Southern United States (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the term used by Winston Churchill to describe the division between the Soviet-dominated East and the U.S.-dominated West during the Cold War?

<p>Iron Curtain (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the purpose of the Berlin Airlift?

<p>To airlift supplies to the Western sector of Berlin (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Who was the leader of the Allied forces in Europe during World War II and later became President of the United States?

<p>Dwight D. Eisenhower (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the outcome of the Kennedy-Nixon Debates in 1960?

<p>The debates illustrated the visual power of television in American politics (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary goal of the Marshall Plan?

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What was the result of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962?

<p>The crisis was resolved through a combination of diplomacy and military threat (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main goal of the Geneva Conference in 1954?

<p>To divide Vietnam into North and South (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary objective of Operation Rolling Thunder?

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Who was the leader of the Viet Minh during World War II and the First Indochina War?

<p>Ho Chi Minh (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the primary goal of Richard Nixon's Vietnamization strategy?

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What was the significance of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964?

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What was the primary objective of the Viet Cong?

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What was the significance of the Tet Offensive in 1968?

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What was the primary goal of the March to Montgomery?

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What was the primary goal of the Nixon Doctrine?

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What was the primary goal of the draft lottery system during the Vietnam War?

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What was the primary goal of the SALT negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?

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Which presidential candidate promised to withdraw American troops from Vietnam in 90 days?

<p>George McGovern (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the main purpose of CREEP, Richard Nixon's re-election committee?

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What was the outcome of the 1975 evacuation of Americans and South Vietnamese from Vietnam?

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What was the primary goal of the Equal Rights Amendment?

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What was the main characteristic of the New Right movement of the 1980s?

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What was the outcome of Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon?

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What was the primary goal of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?

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What was the Iran-Contra Affair?

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Who was the first woman to run for Vice President on a major party ticket?

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