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What happened in 1453 that made Europeans even more unwilling to engage in trade via Silk Road? - correct answer ✅The Ottomans took Constantinople, the last stop on the Silk Road trading route. Columbus made three assumptions about the size & shape of the world based on Toscanelli's 1474 map which turned out to be wrong, which is one of them? - correct answer ✅Japan was further from China than previously thought. What is untrue about the jamestown settlement? - correct answer ✅The settlement failed after the "starving time," becoming a "lost colony" What was different about the Salem Witchcraft Trials compared to other witchcraft trials? - correct answer ✅They allowed just spectral instead of physical evidence
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True/false: the headright system was developed to slow immigration to the "new world" bc resources were so scarce - correct answer ✅false Galileo Galilei contributions to astronomy - correct answer ✅Telescopic observations of the surface of the moon, new moons around Jupiter Nicholas Copernicus contributions to astronomy - correct answer ✅The modern theory that Earth orbits sun Johannes Kepler contributions to astronomy - correct answer ✅Elliptical orbits Tycho Brahe contributions to astronomy - correct answer ✅Accurate recordings of the stars, the sun orbits the Earth, but other planets orbit the sun Rousseau idea - correct answer ✅Called for a more equal distribution of property, inspired socialism
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What was not part of Hamilton's vision for the US economy? - correct answer ✅A rural economy Was the whiskey rebellion put down by an army lead by George Washington? - correct answer ✅YES 2nd estate pop - correct answer ✅noblility 3rd estate pop - correct answer ✅the people 1st estate pop - correct answer ✅Clergy Where did Napoleon die? - correct answer ✅St. Helena
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Where was Napoleon banished but he escaped? - correct answer ✅Elba Where was Napoleon born? - correct answer ✅Corsica Why were there so many immigrants from France in America in the 1790s, and how did the Federalists react? - correct answer ✅Many French immigrants flocked to America in the 1790's because they wanted refuge from the French Revolution. In addition, because there were no immigration laws until the 1920's, immigrants were able to live in America for seven years before they were able to become citizens and have the ability to vote. In other words, immigrants did not have to worry about the difficulty of gaining citizenship nor potentially facing deportation until the Federalists responded harshly with the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798 (Federalists were unhappy with the French seizing American warships and were aggravated about their participation in the Quasi War). Aliens sometimes faced deportation or being thrown in jail, and, the Naturalization Act was extended for aliens (of requiring fourteen years before aliens could become citizens). Lastly, these acts banned false and "malicious" statements against the government or governmental officials.
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Why was France so willing to sell America Louisiana? - correct answer ✅Because Haiti had ruined their dreams of an American Empire Aaron Burr did not...? - correct answer ✅Try to become Pres of France Embargo Act 1807 - correct answer ✅An Act which banned exports from America to punish GB and France How did Tecumseh take Detroit? - correct answer ✅Pretended to have more people than he did leading to surrender Was the Ear of 1812 a decisive victory for the US? - correct answer ✅NOPE In what ways did Jefferson go against his own ideals? Do you consider that a sign of failure or not? - correct answer ✅Going into office, Jefferson had ideals (goals) that
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involved changing the way in which America worked. Goals of Jefferson included limiting the size and control of the government, eliminating taxes, avoiding industry, eliminating military, and ultimately getting rid of all power that could result in tyranny. Jefferson also supported equality, freedom, and inalienable rights, despite owning slaves who ran his farm. Jefferson also had his eyes set on an Agrarian-style society in which jobs were centered around agriculture. One of the ways in which Jefferson went against his list of ideals was when he created an American navy to safeguard American shipping (American ships were seized due to barbary pirates). In addition, while Jefferson aimed to decrease debt, he ended up increasing the debt by purchasing Louisiana from France. I believe that Jefferson's acts were signs of good leadership as he went with the times and was not blind to the needs of America in the moment. Jefferson was able to be open-minded when he was searching for the solutions that faced him during his presidency (like the Tripolian War) instead of focusing on what mattered to him. These acts were signs of success as the outcomes of the problems that faced Jefferson could have resulted in worse endings than if he stuck to his ideals. What effect did the Embargo Act and the War of 1812 have on American manufacturing? - correct answer ✅They forced Americans to depend on themselves and make their own products.
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Great Britain. These factory towns became referred to as mill towns, as the mills (producing items such as textiles) were at the heart of the towns with restaurants, churches, stores, and houses popping up in the surrounding area as people had more time to focus on culture and down time (due to the decrease in labor). These towns were located in the country near a water source (like rivers). Women were allowed to work, and like men, stayed in dormitories on-site and were fed. In contrast, the European way of life at this time was lower quality as people lived in concentrated areas in filthy cities and there was population degradation. The European system had factories in the city (unlike the Lowell system), and did not give women the same opportunities to work. The biggest obstacle to industry and markets in America was _________. - correct answer ✅Transportation Populist anger began to rise in the early 1800s as a gap grew between the rich and the poor. Populists directed their anger at _________. - correct answer ✅a. Lawyers, Doctors, and Preachers. Correct
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Device that led to a massive growth in slavery in the South. - correct answer ✅Cotton gin Eli Whitney invention, even though it didn't really work. - correct answer ✅Interchangeable Parts Device that led to a massive decrease in slavery in the North - correct answer ✅McCormick Reaper According to the text book, the anti immigration "Know-Nothing" party swept all but two seat in which states election in 1854? - correct answer ✅Massachusetts When and why did whites begin playing the banjo? - correct answer ✅As part of minstrel shows which reinforced racial stereotypes Why did John Quincy Adams not have a mandate for his political platform during his presidency? - correct answer ✅. Because he had won fewer votes than another candidate and won the house only through a corrupt bargain.
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Why did the economic center of the South move south and west in the early 1800s? - correct answer ✅Soil exhaustion in the old south About what percentage of southerners owned slaves? - correct answer ✅5% True or False? Nat Turner's Rebellion was stopped before anyone died, but they planned to kill dozens of people, terrifying slave owners and whites. - correct answer ✅FALSE Robert Smalls - correct answer ✅Stole a Confederate ship and sailed to freedom Eliza Harris - correct answer ✅Leaped across ice flows to freedom. Henry Brown - correct answer ✅Escaped by mailing himself to freedom.
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True or False? Mormons were largely rejected because of their strong pro slavery beliefs in the North - correct answer ✅FALSE The Seneca Falls convention produced a document that was based one what earlier one? - correct answer ✅The Dec. of Independence Which of the following is an accurate description of how people most likely first came to the Americas. - correct answer ✅Across the Bering Strait land bridge and possibly some other ways. Which of the following was the reason the Aztec Empire grew to dominance in the Americas? - correct answer ✅a. They had a steady supply of food thanks to chinampas. True or False? During the siege of Constantinople in 1453, one of the best defenses was a giant chain. - correct answer ✅TRUE DAT
