AP Unit 2 Study Guide Henretta c.

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1. Which of the following statements characterizes the British governments attempts to meet its war

debt following the Great War for Empire?

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2. What percentage of the average American colonists income in the 1760s was typically spent on

taxes?
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3. How did Britains skyrocketing national debt affect its government in England and America in the

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1760s?
4. Which of the following was one reason the British sent 7,500 troops to North America after the end
of the Great War for Empire in 1763?

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5. Which of the following was part of British Parliaments effort to govern the colonies after the Great

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War for Empire ended in 1763?

6. George Grenville conceived the Sugar Act of 1764 to replace which of the following acts?

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7. George Grenville designed the Sugar Act of 1764 to accomplish which of the following?
8. The colonists real objections to the Sugar Act stemmed from which of the following?
9. On what basis did the American colonists object to the vice-admiralty courts in which violators of

the Sugar Act were tried?

____ 10. The Stamp Act was instituted by Parliament in the colonies in 1765; it was
____ 11. How did British politicians respond to the Americans cry of no taxation without representation?
____ 12. Which of the following statements characterizes responses to the planned Stamp Act?
____ 13. At the same time that Parliament imposed the Stamp Act, it also passed the Quartering Act, which

required
____ 14. Which of the following statements describes the Stamp Act Congress, which was held in New York

in 1765?
____ 15. Americans responded to the Stamp Act by comparing it to which past event?
____ 16. Members of activist groups, such as the Sons of Liberty, were typically which of the following?
____ 17. Which of the following factors was among those that motivated many merchants, artisans, and

journeymen to protest against the Stamp Act?

____ 18. Why did the British General Gage refuse to use his military force to protect the stamps that were to

be used once the Stamp Act took effect?

____ 19. In the 1760s and early 1770s, lawyers and other educated Americans used common-law arguments

mainly to
____ 20. John Dickinsons Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was a response to which of the following
policies?
____ 21. Patriots widely publicized use of natural rights arguments to protest British actions in the 1760s

inspired which of the following?

____ 22. In which of the following ways did the Rockingham ministry in Britain fashion a compromise to the

Stamp Act crisis in 1766?

____ 23. The Townshend Acts of 1767 imposed duties on which of the following goods?
____ 24. Which aspect of the Townshend Acts posed a great danger to American political autonomy,
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according to the colonists?

How did the Daughters of Liberty contribute to the American boycott of British goods in the late
1760s?
Which of the following statements most describes the colonial boycott efforts of 17681769?
How did the authorities in Great Britain respond to the American boycott of 17681769?
How did the Stamp Act crisis of 1765 compare to the crisis over the Townshend duties in 1768?
For which of the following reasons did the British government resolve to punish the boycotters and
enforce the Townshend Duties by 1769?
In the decade before the American Revolution, the colonists achieved the greatest effect by using
which of the following means of protest?
Which of the following statements describes the Boston Massacre, which took place on March 5,
1770?
By 1770, after five years of crisis and debate over American sovereignty,
Which Patriot leader persuaded Bostonians to create the first committee of correspondence?
Which of the following was the purpose of the Tea Act imposed by Parliament on the colonies in
May 1773?
Why did radical Patriots in the colonies object to the Tea Act of 1773?
The 1774 Coercive Acts applied to which of the following colonies?
Why did New Englanders resent the Quebec Act of 1774?
Which of the following describes the First Continental Congress of 1774?
At the First Continental Congress in 1774, New England delegates advocated which of the following
plans?
Which of the following actions did the First Continental Congress ultimately decide to implement in
1774?
Which of the following actions did Lord Norths government take in response to the First
Continental Congress in 1775?

____ 42. Which of the following statements characterizes the participation of farmers in the Patriot movement

by 1774?
____ 43. Why did Chesapeake slave owners increasingly rally to the Patriot cause?
____ 44. Which of the following individuals would have been an unlikely Loyalist in 1776?
____ 45. Which of the following statements describes the historical significance of the April 1776 Battle of

Lexington and Concord?

____ 46. Which of the following events took place during the Second Continental Congress in 1775?
____ 47. Who led the moderate faction at the Second Continental Congress and won approval of a petition

expressing loyalty to George III and asking for a repeal of oppressive parliamentary legislation?
____ 48. What prompted many southern yeomen and tenant farmers finally to support independence from

Britain in 1775?

____ 49. Why was the popular pamphlet entitled Common Sense significant?
____ 50. Which of the following outcomes resulted from the Continental Congress approval of the

Declaration of Independence?
____ 51. England had a clear advantage at the outset of the Revolutionary War, but Americans had which of

the following factors operating in their favor?

____ 52. Which of the following statements characterizes the relative military strengths of the British and
Patriot forces during the Revolutionary War?
____ 53. Which of these events occurred at the Battle of Long Island in August 1776?
____ 54. What was significant about George Washingtons leading of his troops across the Delaware River on

Christmas night in 1776?

____ 55. Which of the following statements describes British military strategy during the first two years of the

Revolutionary War?
____ 56. Which of the following describes the Continental army during the Revolutionary War?
____ 57. Why was the Battle of Saratoga historically significant?
____ 58. Patriot women contributed to the war effort in the 1770s by
____ 59. Which of the following factors posed a major problem for the colonies during the American

Revolution?
____ 60. Which of the following statements describes the American Revolutions impact on civilians in areas

that saw military conflicts?

____ 61. To finance the war during its first two years, the new American state governments relied primarily on
____ 62. Which of the following was a consequence of the large increase of paper currency in circulation in

the states during the Revolutionary War years?

____ 63. How did the finances of the Continental Congress compare to those of the states during the first two

years of the Revolutionary War?

____ 64. Which of the following statements characterizes events at Valley Forge in the winter of 17771778?
____ 65. France gave serious consideration to an alliance with the rebel colonies primarily because it regarded

the war as an opportunity to

____ 66. The Treaty of Alliance that the French and Americans signed in 1778 included which of the

following stipulations?
____ 67. How did the British respond after their loss at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777?
____ 68. What spurred the British Parliament to repeal the Tea Act in 1778?
____ 69. The British strategy in its military campaign in the South in 1778 relied on which of the following

factors?
____ 70. Through which of the following actions did Sir Henry Clinton launch his southern campaign in
1778?

____ 71. Which event turned the tide of the war after Britains series of victories in the South in the late

1770s?
____ 72. Which of the following battles marked the end of the American Revolution in 1781?
____ 73. Which of the following factors made a critical contribution to the outcome of the Battle of Yorktown

in 1781?
____ 74. Why did the British surrender to the Americans in the Battle of Yorktown in 1781?
____ 75. Which of the following statements explains the Patriots successful revolution against Great Britain?
____ 76. Which of the following factors explains George Washingtons success as an American military

leader?
____ 77. Why did British and American diplomats take nearly two years to conclude a peace treaty after the

British surrendered at Yorktown?

____ 78. Despite the favorable terms Americans achieved in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, they could not

ultimately secure which of the following?

____ 79. Pennsylvanias constitution of 1776 contained which of the following provisions?
____ 80. Which of the following statements characterized Pennsylvanias democratic constitution of 1776?
____ 81. Why was Abigail Adams a notable figure in the Revolutionary era?
____ 82. Although women made few gains in the eighteenth century, they did achieve a degree of progress in

1790 when they won which of the following?

____ 83. What happened to the property of Loyalists during the Revolution?
____ 84. Which of the following was a result of the Loyalists exodus during and after the Revolution?
____ 85. Which of the following was true under the Articles of Confederation?
____ 86. Why did it take the Continental Congress several years to ratify the Articles of Confederation?
____ 87. Why was the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 significant?
____ 88. Which of the following states were eventually created out of the Northwest Territory?
____ 89. Why were the land ordinances of the 1780s considered a great accomplishment of the Confederation

Congress?
____ 90. Which of the following statements characterizes postwar trends in American trade?
____ 91. Which of the following issues formed the basis for the major political and economic challenges that

faced postrevolutionary state governments in the 1780s?

____ 92. What did Shayss Rebellion, which took place in Massachusetts in the winter of 17861787,
demonstrate to American political leaders?
____ 93. The Great Compromise led to which of the following outcomes?
____ 94. The three-fifths compromise dealt with which of the following issues?
____ 95. Which constitutional provision demonstrated the framers lack of trust in the people?

____ 96. The Constitution, as completed on September 17, 1787, gave the national government which of the

following?
____ 97. Why were Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut among the first to ratify the United

States Constitution?
____ 98. American antifederalist Patrick Henry opposed the ratification of the Constitution for which of the

following reasons?
____ 99. In Federalist No. 10, James Madison maintained that the constitutional government would

accomplish which of the following ends?

____ 100. To persuade Massachusetts, Virginia, and New York to ratify the Constitution, leading Federalists

promised that
____ 101. Which of the following statements describes actions the first congressional government undertook in

1789?
____ 102. Approval by Congress and ratification by the states of the Bill of Rights had which of the following

outcomes?
____ 103. Alexander Hamiltons 1789 financial plan for the United States included which of the following

items?
____ 104. Why was Hamiltons financial plan so controversial?
____ 105. To win votes for his financial plan, Hamilton made which of the following concessions?
____ 106. The critical disagreement that led to the emergence of political parties in the mid-1790s was based

on which of the following issues?

____ 107. Thomas Jeffersons vision for the future of the United States included which of the following ideas?
____ 108. Which statement was true of George Washingtons 1793 Proclamation of Neutrality?
____ 109. Which of the following statements characterizes the American reaction to the French Revolution?
____ 110. Which of the following served as a catalyst for the 1794 domestic insurgency known as the Whiskey

Rebellion?
____ 111. Which of the following describes Jays Treaty of 1795?
____ 112. Which of the following individuals would have been unlikely to gravitate toward the Republicans in

the late 1790s?

____ 113. Why was Toussaint LOuverture a significant figure in the 1790s?
____ 114. Which of the following is true of the U.S. election of 1796?
____ 115. Which of the following events was the Federalists response to the Republicans criticism of their

policies in the 1790s?

____ 116. The Naturalization, Alien, and Sedition Acts had which of the following outcomes in the United

States in the 1790s?

____ 117. The Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which were set forth in 1798, supported which of the

following positions?

____ 118. Which of the following statements most accurately characterizes U.S. relations with France during

the late 1790s?

____ 119. Why did Thomas Jefferson call his election to the presidency the Revolution of 1800?
____ 120. The 1783 Treaty of Paris addressed Native Americans living in the Old Northwest in which of the

following ways?
____ 121. Washingtons Secretary of War, Henry Knox, favored which of the following approaches to Native

Americans?
____ 122. Indians ceded much of Ohio and acknowledged American political sovereignty in which of the

following treaties?
____ 123. Which of the following best characterizes the Native American response to whites assimilation

efforts in the Midwest in the late eighteenth century?

____ 124. Who led the conservative Senecas, who condemned assimilation and demanded a return to ancestral

customs?
____ 125. The southern migrants who moved along the coastal plain toward the Gulf of Mexico between 1790

and 1820 originated in which of the following areas?

____ 126. Which of the following statements describes migrants who left New England during the 1790s?
____ 127. Which of the following was true of New Englanders westward migration during the 1790s and

1800s?
____ 128. In 1801, Jefferson responded to the Barbary States; threats against American shipping by
____ 129. Which of the following phrases describes the federal judiciary at the time Thomas Jefferson became

president in 1801?
____ 130. Why was the decision in the case Marbury v. Madison (1803) of great importance in American
history?
____ 131. Jeffersons administration demonstrated its disagreement with Hamiltons philosophy by
____ 132. Why was Pinckneys Treaty of 1795 significant?
____ 133. Which of the following statements characterizes federal land price policies in the Northwest

Territory during 17901820?

____ 134. Why did Thomas Jefferson decide to attempt to purchase New Orleans in 1801?
____ 135. Which of the following describes Jeffersons approach to the opportunity to purchase Louisiana in

1802?
____ 136. Which of the following took place in response to the Jefferson administrations purchase of

Louisiana?
____ 137. What was the immediate cause of the illegal duel in which Vice President Aaron Burr killed

Alexander Hamilton in 1804?

____ 138. Why did Thomas Jefferson dispatch the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1804?

____ 139. As a result of the Embargo Act of 1807, the American economy
____ 140. The prophet Tenskwatawa was historically significant for which of the following activities?
____ 141. Which region of the Union was known for its support of the declaration of war on England in 1812?
____ 142. Which of the following statements describes the Federalists response to the War of 1812?
____ 143. Why was the American victory at the Battle of New Orleans in 1815 significant?
____ 144. Which of the following was an outcome of the postwar election of 1818?
____ 145. In which of the following actions did President James Madison contradict the traditional philosophy

of Republicans?
____ 146. Which of the following factors made the critical contribution to the Federalist Partys downfall?
____ 147. John Marshalls decisions upheld the principle of
____ 148. Which of the following cases is properly paired with its corresponding decision?
____ 149. Which of the following stipulations was included in the Adams-Ons Treaty of 1819?
____ 150. Which of the following was true of the Era of Good Feeling?
____ 151. John Jacob Astor, a prominent New York merchant of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth

centuries, made his fortune in which trade?

____ 152. Which of the following statements characterizes the operations of the Bank of the United States in

the twenty years after its 1791 chartering?

____ 153. Which of the following took place after the Bank of the United States charter expired in 1811?
____ 154. In which of the following lists is the emergence of American financial institutions placed in the

correct chronological order?

____ 155. Which of the following spurred the Panic of 1819 in the United States?
____ 156. The Panic of 1819 caused which of the following outcomes?
____ 157. Why did a national market emerge in the United States between the 1780s and about 1820?
____ 158. Which of the following describes the textile industry that was emerging in New England and the

Middle Atlantic states in the 1780s?

____ 159. In which of the following ways did the growth of rural manufacturing affect New Englanders in the

early eighteenth century?

____ 160. The growth of the textile industry in New England in the early nineteenth century negatively affected

which of the following occupations?

____ 161. Which of the following statements describes transportation in the trans-Appalachian West in the

early nineteenth century?

____ 162. Which of the following objections to the system of state-sponsored mercantilism emerged in the

United States by 1820?

____ 163. On what basis did the U.S. government base its claim that the commonwealth system was consistent

with republican ideology?

____ 164. Which of the following describes the publication Letters from an American Farmer?
____ 165. Which of the following describes the relationship between social status and wealth in seventeenth-

and eighteenth-century American history?

____ 166. Which of the following describes the political developments taking place in America during the first

two decades of the nineteenth century?

____ 167. Which of the following statements describes the extent to which parents exercised control over their

childrens marriages in the United States in 1800?

____ 168. The spread of the cultural attitude known as sentimentalism in early nineteenth-century America had

which of the following social and cultural consequences?

____ 169. In theory, companionate marriage gave wives equality of rank and fortune but did not solve the issue

of
____ 170. What was the net effect of republican marriage patterns on the institution of marriage in early

nineteenth-century America?
____ 171. Which of the following characterizes the impact of companionate marriage on divorce in the early

nineteenth century?
____ 172. Which of the following factors contributed to the sharp decline in the American birthrate from 1790

to 1820?
____ 173. In the early republic, Benjamin Rush and other leaders argued that women should be educated so

they could do which of the following?

____ 174. Society's notion of women as republican wives and mothers was based on which of the following

ideas about women?

____ 175. American ministers such as Thomas Bernard argued in the early nineteenth century that women

should exercise their power in society through

____ 176. Which of the following characterizes the impact of republican ideology on child rearing in America

in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?

____ 177. How did yeomen and tenant farmers who were influenced by the Second Great Awakening in the

nineteenth century treat their children?

____ 178. In the early 1800s, which group would have endorsed Thomas Jeffersons and Benjamin Rushs

proposals for comprehensive public education?

____ 179. Noah Webster influenced American society in the late eighteenth century through which of the

following means?
____ 180. Why did the emancipation of slaves proceed very slowly in the northern states during and after the

Revolution?
____ 181. About how many African Americans were still living in slavery in the northern states in 1810?

____ 182. Which slaves became free as a result of the Virginia legislatures passage of a manumission act in

1782?
____ 183. Which of the following developments ended the debate over emancipation in the South in the early

nineteenth century?
____ 184. Which of the following describes the state of Southern society in the early nineteenth century?
____ 185. The Souths political clout, which ensured that the national government would continue to protect

slavery, rested on which of the following?

____ 186. Why did a group of prominent citizens found the American Colonization Society in 1817?
____ 187. The proposed 1819 Tallmadge Amendment articulated which of the following plans?
____ 188. Which of these statesmen played a critical role in creating and passing the 1820 Missouri

Compromise?
____ 189. Which of the following describes the Missouri Compromise, enacted in 1820?
____ 190. The Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery in which of the following regions of the Louisiana

Purchase?
____ 191. Which of the following statements characterizes the relationship between church and state in
postrevolutionary America?
____ 192. What was the Second Great Awakening that took place in the United States in the nineteenth

century?
____ 193. Which were the two fastest-growing American church denominations during the early nineteenth

century?
____ 194. How did evangelical Christians spread religious revival during the Second Great Awakening?
____ 195. In which of the following ways did evangelical religions in the South evolve during the first decades

of the nineteenth century?

____ 196. African Americans who converted to Christianity during the Second Great Awakening embraced

which of the following teachings?

____ 197. The Second Great Awakening deeply influenced American culture and society by
____ 198. Which of the following was a result of the Second Great Awakening?
____ 199. Emma Willard was the first American to advocate for which of the following reforms?
____ 200. The increasing importance of women in the Protestant denominations in New England during the

Second Great Awakening led to which of the following outcomes?