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- The First Great Awakening | 1 of 4Which of the following is an accurate statement about the First Great Awakening, which began in the 1730s?AIt was designed to appeal to the unchurched in the English colonies of America.BIt only impacted white European landowners in the British colonies.CIt incited religious division between old traditionalists and new revivalists.DIt was relegated to the colonial, frontier backcountry.
- Imperial Economic System | 1 of 4What economic system do the above laws reinforce?AMercantilismBCapitalismCThe plantation systemDSocialism
- Phillis Wheatley's Poem on Tyranny and Slavery | 2 of 3Which statement below MOST closely aligns with the author's point of view?ASlavery was a "positive good" that represented a better life than enslaved people would have in Africa.BSlavery was a "necessary evil" left over from British rule that Americans were forced to accept.CEnslaved people should resist their masters in overt and covert means.DThe exportation of enslaved people from Africa destroyed kinship and familial ties with Africa.
- Formation of French-American alliance
- French and Americans force Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown
- Committees of Correspondence formed
- British East India Company granted monopoly (Tea Act)
- Governor Hutchinson's actions provoke Boston Tea Party
- A group of Americans who arrived in Hawaii in 1820 and China in 1830 were known as _____________.
- Hired workers directly, including thousands of women, to build or improve airports, roads and playgrounds
- In his famous speech on July 5, 1852 _____________ argued that there are forces in operation which must that inevitably work the downfall of slavery
- The practice of _____________ was established on Southern Farms to Trey maintain free labor after the emancipation of slaves population
- All Townshend Acts repealed except for tea act
- In an attempt to prevent European efforts to dominate or recolonize Latin American countries, the _____________________ ________________ to the Monroe Doctrine stated that the United States would intervene in order to "prevent the loosening of ties to civilization", such as monetary, fiscal or political instability.
- New York legislature suspended by Parliament
- The United States acquired its first Pacific possessions as a result of the ____________________________________.
- The "triggering event" for the Spanish/American War was the destruction of the USS Maine in Havana Harbor on 15 February 1898 due to a main magazine detonation triggered by an external explosion of unknown origin, determined by a US Navy board of inquiry to be an external explosion by a sea mine or similar device.
- Merchants from the United States first traded with China in 1884
- by 1932, __% of american workers were unemployed
- In 1899, the United States Secretary of State, John Hay, enunciated the McKinley Administration's geopolitical, diplomatic and trade policy regarding China as the "________________ _____________" policy.