Praxis 5004. Social Studies
Which group of colonies were most willing to work with the Native Americans? - answer
French
New England Colonies - answer Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Which colony was called "New Sweden?" - answer Delaware
Why was the Proclamation Act opposed? - answer The act prohibited English
settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. (Purpose: to appease Native
Americans)
Currency Act - answer Prohibited colonists from issuing paper money
Which act placed the first internal tax on the colonists? - answer Stamp Act: 1765
Townshend Acts - answer placed taxes on the colonists; passed in 1767
Sons of Liberty - answermade up of colonists; protested the Stamp Act; secretly staged
riots against tax collectors; hanged British officials in effigy.
Why did George Washington warn against the creation of factions? - answerFactions
caused jealousies, false alarms, and could cause damage
Factions - answerPolitical parties in Britain; made up of few people who schemed to win
favors from the government.
Who spurred the formation of the first political parties in the newly created USA? -
answerThomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Who was a colonial leader? - answerPatrick Henry
Who was a founding father that died in 1790? - answerBenjamin Franklin
What was Alexander Hamilton's attitude about the Constitution? - answerHe believed
Congress had power to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its duties;
follow it loosely; Congress should have the power to collect taxes; favored creation of
national bank
, During which election did political parties first play a role? - answer1796; after
Washington retired
The Whigs - answerFavored strong national growth
United behind President John Quincy Adams
Northeast businesspeople supported them
Farmers did not support them
What does "Manifest Destiny" mean? - answerTerritorial and Westward Expansion
Settlement of Texas - answerMany new settlers took slaves with them
Slavery was outlawed in Mexico
Many of the new settlers were southerners
Tensions between US and Mexico after Texas settlement - answerManifest Destiny was
the motive for settling the Southwest
Mexican gov owed debts to US for property damages during the struggle for
independence from Spain
Mexico hadn't paid war debts
Why were Northerners in Congress opposed to the admission of Texas as a state? -
answerAdmission would disrupt the balance between free and slave states.
What is the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? - answerIt repealed some
of the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Erased Louisiana Territory's imaginary line and left it up to the people of the territory:
bloodshed and two separate governments
Missouri Compromise - answerAdmitted Maine as a free state
Admitted Missouri as a slave state
Drew imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory dividing free/slave parts of that state.
Lincoln-Douglas debates - answerHeld in Illinois
Both running for US Senate from Illinois
Pre-Civil War South - answerpossessed more confidence
excellent military officers
men were more familiar with living and working in outdoors
larger land area
Pre-Civil War North - answerGreater population
more industries
more mineral resources
better transportation system
Populism - answerFlourished in late 19th/early 20th centuries
Which group of colonies were most willing to work with the Native Americans? - answer
French
New England Colonies - answer Connecticut
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Which colony was called "New Sweden?" - answer Delaware
Why was the Proclamation Act opposed? - answer The act prohibited English
settlement beyond the Appalachian Mountains. (Purpose: to appease Native
Americans)
Currency Act - answer Prohibited colonists from issuing paper money
Which act placed the first internal tax on the colonists? - answer Stamp Act: 1765
Townshend Acts - answer placed taxes on the colonists; passed in 1767
Sons of Liberty - answermade up of colonists; protested the Stamp Act; secretly staged
riots against tax collectors; hanged British officials in effigy.
Why did George Washington warn against the creation of factions? - answerFactions
caused jealousies, false alarms, and could cause damage
Factions - answerPolitical parties in Britain; made up of few people who schemed to win
favors from the government.
Who spurred the formation of the first political parties in the newly created USA? -
answerThomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton
Who was a colonial leader? - answerPatrick Henry
Who was a founding father that died in 1790? - answerBenjamin Franklin
What was Alexander Hamilton's attitude about the Constitution? - answerHe believed
Congress had power to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its duties;
follow it loosely; Congress should have the power to collect taxes; favored creation of
national bank
, During which election did political parties first play a role? - answer1796; after
Washington retired
The Whigs - answerFavored strong national growth
United behind President John Quincy Adams
Northeast businesspeople supported them
Farmers did not support them
What does "Manifest Destiny" mean? - answerTerritorial and Westward Expansion
Settlement of Texas - answerMany new settlers took slaves with them
Slavery was outlawed in Mexico
Many of the new settlers were southerners
Tensions between US and Mexico after Texas settlement - answerManifest Destiny was
the motive for settling the Southwest
Mexican gov owed debts to US for property damages during the struggle for
independence from Spain
Mexico hadn't paid war debts
Why were Northerners in Congress opposed to the admission of Texas as a state? -
answerAdmission would disrupt the balance between free and slave states.
What is the significance of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854? - answerIt repealed some
of the terms of the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
Erased Louisiana Territory's imaginary line and left it up to the people of the territory:
bloodshed and two separate governments
Missouri Compromise - answerAdmitted Maine as a free state
Admitted Missouri as a slave state
Drew imaginary line across the Louisiana Territory dividing free/slave parts of that state.
Lincoln-Douglas debates - answerHeld in Illinois
Both running for US Senate from Illinois
Pre-Civil War South - answerpossessed more confidence
excellent military officers
men were more familiar with living and working in outdoors
larger land area
Pre-Civil War North - answerGreater population
more industries
more mineral resources
better transportation system
Populism - answerFlourished in late 19th/early 20th centuries
