All Categories
History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- Which of these would have been most likely to have been a Scalawag during the Reconstruction Era?
- Which Supreme Court case stated that a slave was not a citizen, but rather the property of an owner?
- The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was created primarily for the purpose of
- The basic ideological conflict between the British and the colonists concerning the nature of representative government and the nature of political power.
- The similarities and differences in the lifestyle and in the patterns of family life of New England colonists, Chesapeake colonists, and New England Native Americans.
- Examine the impact of the Second World War on America's economic institutions, organized labor, agriculture, and the federal government, and discuss and assess the role played by the federal government in the war effort.
- The role of ideology and culture in American expansionism and imperialism during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- In May of 1787 a convention was called together in Philadelphia with a legal mandate to:Answers:create a new and more perfect governmentrevise the articles of Confederationdiscuss the place of the United States in the worldmake sure that the States were treating their citizens fairly
- In an attempt to keep the British from supplying an army from the north, the Americans invaded what is now Canada and captured Montreal but then withdrew after failing to take __________ in December of 1775.Answers:Du LacDetroitQuebec CityDuquesne
- In 1786, this rebellion broke out in western Massachusetts when small farmers there protested the high taxes imposed upon them to help pay of the Revolutionary War debt.Answers:the Whiskey Rebelliobnthe Jacobite RebellionShays' Rebellionthe Farmers' Rebellion
- Unlike the other members of the Constitutional Convention who sought to establish dominance through their wealth and social status, James arrived in Philadelphia with two large trunks full of _________.Answers:the best wine in Americathe finest French cheeses and Russian caviarbooksOld Toby
- The __________ Compromise was the agreed upon method for how to count a State's slave population toward political representation.Answers:3/5CaliforniaConnecticutGreat
- Through their classical educations, America's founding fathers knew very well that Plato and Aristotle thought that democracy led to:Answers:freedomprosperitydeathchaos
- At the time the Constituion was created, many who had feared the tyranny of the government for most of their adult lives now began to fear the tyranny of the ________ more.Answers:majority (or mob)Virginiansfreed slaves and indentured servantsSouth
- Plato and Aristotle lived in Athens, birth place of democracy, which is why they loved democracy and thought it was the best form of government.Answers:TrueFalse
- Of the three main intellectual leaders of the American Revolution, only Benjamin Franklin was at the Constitional Convention and he didn't say very much. Identify one of the other two main intellectual leaders of the American Revolution who weren't there.Answers:George WashingtonJohn AdamsFrancis MarionJohn Hancock
- The fall of the Roman Republic is most often dated with the victory of Octavian (later called Caesar Augustus) at the Battle of _______ in 31 B.C.Answers:ActiumThermopylaeGettysburgCannae
- Who filled the intellectual leadership void caused by the absence of key intellectual leaders (and Franklin's relative silence) and became the driving force of the convention.Answers:John JayThomas EdisonJames MonroeJames Madison
- Plato and his student, Aristotle, are two of the most influential thinkers in all of Western Civilization.Answers:TrueFalse
- The rebellions in Massachusetts and New Hampshire in 1786 were seen by many leading politicians as resulting from the weakness of:Answers:the Continental Armythe Constitutionthe Articles of Confederationnone of the above