WGU Academy US History Graded Midterm Exam questions and answers

Amerigo Vespucci helped spread recognition of the idea that the Americas were new continents. The first truly complex society in the Americas was that of the Olmecs. Regarding knowledge of the Americas prior to the fifteenth century, most Europeans were entirely unaware of the existence of the Americas. The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony is historically inconclusive. As a result of his third voyage in 1498, Christopher Columbus concluded that he had encountered a continent separate from Asia. The English Reformation resulted from a political dispute between King Henry VIII and the Catholic Church. Originally, the Georgia colony excluded both free Africans and slaves. Which of the following statements best characterizes the first years of Jamestown's existence? The settlement survived despite an enormous loss of life. The New York colony emerged after a struggle between the English and the Dutch. Over time in the seventeenth century, an increasing number of New England Puritans came to view Indian society with fear and contempt. When it was established in 1644, the colony of Rhode Island was notable for its religious toleration. The suppression of Bacon's Rebellion helped spur slavery in Virginia. By the mid-eighteenth century, a distinct colonial merchant class came into existence, in part because of illegal colonial trade in markets outside of the British Empire. A common form of resistance of enslaved Africans to their condition was running away. Class divisions in colonial North American cities were more real and visible than in rural places. The term middle passage refers to the movement of enslaved Africans from Africa to the New World. The Great Awakening of the 1730s and 1740s had particular appeal with women and young men. In the outbreaks of witchcraft hysteria that marked New England colonial life, those accused were most commonly women of low social position. The first clash of the French and Indian War took place near what is now Pittsburgh. In North America during the eighteenth century, French relations with the Indians differed from that of the English in that they were more tolerant of Indian cultures. The Paxton Boys and the Regulators both demanded tax relief. The Townshend Duties of 1767 were taxes on what Townshend believed to be external transactions. The French and Indian War in North America demonstrated that increasing England's control over the colonies would not be easy. In North America as a result of the Seven Years' War, England confirmed its commercial supremacy and increased its political control of the settled regions. Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to borrow and issue money. The core American political ideology of the post-war period considered the success of the new republican governments to be dependent on independent landowners. The author of Common Sense considered the English constitution to be the greatest problem facing the colonists. When George Washington crossed the Delaware River on Christmas night, 1776, he was intent on surprising the Hessians. At the start of the Revolution, American advantages over the British included a greater commitment to the war. The Ordinances of 1784 and 1785 represented an attempt to provide for the admission of new states into the union. In the debate over the new government, Antifederalist opponents to the document argued that the Constitution would put an end to individual liberty. In the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a major concession to the pro-slavery delegates was the continuation of the slave trade for at least twenty more years. Alexander Hamilton's funding plan was eventually passed by Congress essentially as Hamilton had desired. The Antifederalists saw themselves as defenders of the principles of the American Revolution and feared that the new government would widely abuse its powers. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were well educated by the standards of their time. As treasury secretary, Alexander Hamilton supported the creation of a national bank. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 came close to None of these answers is correct. Under the federal structure first implemented in the Constitution, the people would directly elect members of the House of Representatives. The religious concept of deism argued for a remote God that had withdrawn from human affairs. During the Second Great Awakening, the Indian revivalist Handsome Lake called for the restoration of traditional Indian culture.