Clep US History 1 2023/2024

____________, a dissident Puritan minister, founded the settlement of Providence. Correct Answer-Roger Williams What were the main tenets of the Three-Fifths Compromise? Correct Answer-l) Bach slave would count as three- fifths of a person for purposes of taxation and representation. 2) The federal government was prohibited from stopping the importation of slaves prior to 1808. Who were the "scalawags"? Correct Answer-Southerners who supported Reconstruction governments What was the Second Great Awakening? Correct Answer-The Second Great Awakening was a revival that took place in the beginning of the 1800s. Women and blacks were heavily involved in the movement, and it sparked the reforms of the 1830s and 1840s. Why was the Act of Religious Toleration approved in Maryland? Correct Answer-The Act of Religious Toleration was intended to protect the Catholic minority by granting freedom of worship to all Christian persuasions. Which branch has the power to impeach the president or other high government officials? Correct Answer-The legislative branch or Congress Why did the Scots-Irish immigrate to the New World? Where did they settle? Correct Answer-I) The Scots-Irish left their homelands due to high rent and economic depression. 2) They settled in the Virginia and North Carolina mountain valleys, beyond the Appalachians. Which section of the country had the fewest number of public schools in the 1830s? Correct Answer-The South What was Bacon's Rebellion and what was its effect? Correct Answer-I) Nathaniel Bacon led a group of men, many of them former indentured servants, in burning Jamestown to show their disapproval of the colony's Indian policy. 2) It marked the turning point from the use indentured servants to the use of African slave labor. What is the Electoral College? Correct Answer-The Electoral College is a body of electors from each state, based on the state's combined number of senators and representatives. Its function is to elect the president. What colony was established for freed slaves in 1830? Correct Answer-Liberia What brought about the rise of the nativist movement during the late 1840s and early 1850? Correct Answer-The alarm of native-born Americans over the rising tide of German and Irish immigration Who founded Pennsylvania? Why was Pennsylvania founded? Correct Answer-l) William Penn 2) He founded Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers, a religious sect whose followers were pacifists , and believed all people had an "inner light" that allowed them to communicate with God. Which amendment guarantees freedom of speech, press, and religion? Correct Answer-The First Amendment Why did Kansas become known as "Bleeding Kansas"? Correct Answer-Full-scale guerilla war erupted there after the election of two opposing territorial governments. What was the purpose of John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry? What was the reaction to this event? Correct Answer-I) John Brown hoped to capture the federal arsenal and start a slave uprising. 2) Many in the North began to view Brown as a martyr, but many in the South saw this as evidence that the North wanted to end slavery. This event also played on one of the South's deepest fears, slave revolt. Why may it be said that the Enlightenment further weakened the Church's influence in society? Correct Answer-The Enlightenment placed less faith in God as an active force in the universe. Which amendment grants to states those powers not , granted to the federal government? Correct Answer-The Tenth Amendment True or False: The majority of southerners owned slaves. Correct Answer-False. Three-fourths of the southern whites did not own any slaves. Which class had economic power and dominated the political and social life of the South? Correct Answer-The planter class What was the Great Awakening?