HIST 405 Quizzes Week 2, 4 and 6​​

HIST 405 Week 2 – Revolution: From Rebellion to Jeffersonian Democracy – Quiz 1

1. (TCO 4) What were encomiendas?
2. (TCO 1) Puritan leaders found Anne Hutchinson especially dangerous because she
3. (TCO 4) Why did English immigration to the colonies drop dramatically after 1660?
4. (TCO 2) The French and Indian War was also called
5. (TCO 2) To protest British taxes, colonists often organized boycotts to
6. (TCO 2) The Battle of Lexington was part of a strategy by the British to suppress the colonists by
7. (TCO 2) Which is an advantage the British had over the Patriots at the beginning of the war? 8.
8. (TCO 9) The Articles of Confederation created a national government with
9. (TCO 1) The Constitution divides government power
10. (TCOs 1 and 2) Identify and analyze major actions taken by the English Parliament during the 1760s that angered the colonists, and discuss specifically at least one act that dealt with what the colonists viewed as unfair taxation. Then discuss the significance to the colonists of the Tea Act and the Coercive Acts and why these particularly galled the colonists. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer.

HIST 405 Week 4: Civil War and Reconstruction – Quiz 2

1. (TCO 3) The assertion that states the right to disobey federal law was called
2. (TCO 3) The Waltham System
3. (TCO 1) The bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history was
4. (TCO 3) By 1835, Texas was home to about 30,000 American settlers, known as
5. (TCO 3) James Polk
6. (TCO 2) The Fugitive Slave Act adopted in 1850
7. (TCO 3) In 1856, Border Ruffians attacked
8. (TCO 2) What law was found to be unconstitutional in the Dred Scott decision?
9. (TCO 8) One advantage the South had over the North was that southerners believed
10. (TCO 8) Which Civil War battle decisively turned the tide of the war in favor of the Union?
11. (TCO 2) Identify and analyze the arguments over slavery in the New Western Territories after the Mexican War (1846 -1848). How did northern and southern Democrats differ over this issue? Then describe the presidential election of 1848. Identify the key parties and candidates. Analyze how the results of this election set the stage for a reconfiguration of American politics that ultimately led to Civil War. Be sure to use enough details to support your answer.

HIST 405 Week 6: From the Great War to World War II – Quiz 3

1. (TCO 10) Many immigrants came to the U.S. to avoid
2. (TCO 2) Some neighborhoods and even industries came to be associated with immigrants of a particular nationality because immigrants
3. (TCO 6) One justification for the new social and economic order of the North was based
4. (TCO 10) How did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire affect industrial reforms?
5. (TCO 6) Most U.S. casualties during the Spanish-American War were caused by
6. (TCO 7) What nation informed American authorities about the Zimmermann note?
7. (TCO 7) Which nation was forced to pay reparations after World War I?
8. (TCO 11) During the 1920s, the stock market
9. (TCO 11) Which President was named Silent Cal?
10. (TCO 11) Stock speculation became common because
11. (TCOs 6 and 7) Identify and explain at least two major reasons for the growing call
    in the late 1800s for the United States to become a global empire. Then identify and describe one of the first events that signaled the beginning of American imperialism. Make sure you use enough details to support your answer.