American History Before 1877 Exam Bank
Course Introduction
This course explores the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Students will examine the experiences of diverse Native American societies, European colonization, the evolution of colonial societies, the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, slavery, and the profound changes brought by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of primary sources and the understanding of historical interpretations that have shaped the narrative of early American history.
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Q1) Indian women who lived in the eastern woodlands engaged in all but which of the following?
A)Raised corn,squash,and beans
B)Gathered nuts and fruit
C)Hunted and fished
D)Built houses
E)Made clothing
Answer: C
Q2) Columbus never stopped believing that he had found the Orient in his travels.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
Q3) King John II declined to support Columbus's voyage because his advisors thought Columbus miscalculated the distance to Asia.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) The first people to serve as slaves in the Americas were Africans,imported by the Portuguese.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The European disease that ravaged the Aztec population in the early 1500s was chicken pox.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Native people in the Americans introduced Europeans to all of the following except
A)avocadoes
B)rice
C)potatoes
D)beans and nuts
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Where was the settlement that later became known as the Lost Colony located?
A)Roanoke
B)Croatoan Island
C)St.Augustine
D)Hispaniola
E)Jamestown
Answer: A
Q2) With the founding of Pennsylvania,William Penn hoped to accomplish which of the following?
A)Make a fortune from selling his lands
B)Redeem the good name of his father,who had died deeply in debt
C)Provide a haven for English Quakers
D)Both A and B
E)Both A and C
Answer: E
Q3) More than 100,000 German immigrants arrived in America during the century leading up to the American Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) Benjamin Franklin helped establish the first American lending library.
A)True
B)False
Q2) After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government
A)dealt with specific laws and the consequences of breaking them.
B)spoke to government leaders,excluding the will of the people.
C)stressed that humans had a right to life,liberty,and property.
D)expressed his belief that a people never had the right to overthrow their government.
Q4) How did England's George Grenville justify taxing the colonists?
A)He asserted that colonists derived benefit from the Seven Years' War and,therefore,should pay more taxes.
B)He was attempting to create a diversion from charges of corruption.
C)He was succumbing to pressure from Parliament to do so.
D)All of these
E)None of these
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) Who was the chief advocate for passage of a Bill of Rights?
A)George Washington
B)James Madison
C)Thomas Jefferson
D)Alexander Hamilton
E)John Adams
Q2) Which of the following events occurred first?
A)The Spanish began to allow Americans to use the port of New Orleans after paying duties.
B)Congress passed an ordinance to establish rules for obtaining statehood in the Northwest Territory.
C)America's first depression struck the nation.
D)The Bank of North America was established.
Q3) By 1790,the country's war debt had reached
A)$10 million.
B)$40 million.
C)$50 million.
D)$10 billion.
E)$100 million.
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) After acquiring Louisiana from France,President Jefferson purchased East and West Florida from Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The White House gained that name during the administration of James Monroe,who had the building painted white.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In 1802,federal personnel throughout the country numbered under 10,000,and most of that number worked as bureaucrats in Washington,D.C.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following did Thomas Jefferson do as president?
A)Reduce taxes
B)Retain the national bank
C)Attempt to limit the judiciary
D)Strengthen the federal government
E)All of these
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) The Second Bank of the United States,chartered in 1816, A)was authorized to coordinate the flow of money.
B)operated totally as a public enterprise.
C)ran into much opposition,especially from eastern businessmen.
D)was the brainchild of Thomas Jefferson.
E)was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1817.
Q2) One result of the opening of western lands to settlement was that couples married at younger ages.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Thomas Cole helped found the Hudson River School,which was dedicated to painting
A)famous New Yorkers.
B)the American landscape.
C)wild birds.
D)America's vanishing wildlife.
Q4) Protective tariffs were opposed by those who supported the American System.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about William Lloyd Garrison?
A)His newspaper,The Liberator,became a vehicle for ending slavery.
B)He embraced moral suasion as a strategy.
C)He attended antislavery meetings held by African Americans.
D)He supported the gradual end of slavery as the most expedient approach.
Q2) Leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass had once been a slave in Maryland.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Antislavery reformers sent hundreds of petitions to Congress,which were quickly acted upon.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves?
A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)Quakers
D)Anglicans
E)Puritans
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) During Jackson's presidency,he did all but which of the following?
A)He replaced 10 percent of officeholders during his two terms.
B)He fired partisan newspaper editors from important government posts.
C)He supported Peggy Eaton.
D)He came to rely on his informal "kitchen" cabinet.
E)He initiated the spoils system.
Q2) A major potato blight in Ireland that starved over 1 million people and led almost 2 million more to migrate to the United States
A)True
B)False
Q3) Martin Van Buren was the first presidential candidate to go out on the campaign trail,inventing a new style of politics.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following presidents served later than the others?
A)John Tyler
B)William Henry Harrison
C)Martin Van Buren
D)James K.Polk
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1820-1860
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Q1) The U.S.Supreme Court twice ruled in favor of the Cherokees and against their removal from their lands
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844,Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following is not a true statement about the experiences of Native Americans after the War of 1812?
A)
They lost the protection they had hoped for from the British
B)They were tricked into giving up their land by fraudulent treaties
C)Whites ignored tribal differences and lumped all native peoples together
D)They found a genuine enemy in Andrew Jackson
E)They were increasingly pushed off their lands and onto more remote,less farmable lands
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) The Know-Nothing political party was formed in the early 1850s by nativists opposed to immigration.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who was the original organizer of the Compromise of 1850?
A)John C.Calhoun
B)Henry Clay
C)Lewis Cass
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Tyler
Q3) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 instituted popular sovereignty in the territories and inflamed people throughout the country.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The incident that marked the beginning of the war between the North and South took place at Fort Sumner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) The Confederate Impressment Act was passed to fill vacancies in the army due to desertions.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who served as superintendent of nurses for the Union army?
A)Dorothea Dix
B)Clara Barton
C)Louisa May Alcott
D)Walt Whitman
E)Kate Cumming
Q3) Which of the following statements concerning women in the Civil War is true?
A)Women volunteered for military service in northern armies.
B)Women quickly became respected as nurses in both armies.
C)In the South,the U.S.Sanitary Commission coordinated women's relief efforts.
D)Dorothea Dix later established the Red Cross as a result of her experiences in the war.
E)Women gained fame for their fighting abilities in the conflict.
Q4) John Wilkes Booth,who assassinated President Lincoln,had been a slave owner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) Redeemers saw as their mission saving the South from a disastrous foray into multiracial politics
A)True
B)False
Q2) Women's suffragist Susan B.Anthony said that black and Asian men should be barred from voting unless women could vote
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 gave the federal government the power to outlaw the Klan.
A)True
B)False
Q4) For many newly freed blacks,the highest priority at the end of the war was
A)reuniting their families.
B)leaving the South.
C)obtaining jobs.
D)learning to read and write.
E)creating their own churches.
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Q1) The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of which policy?
A)Manifest Destiny
B)Monroe Doctrine
C)Open Door Policy
D)Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q2) The Wilson-Gorman Tariff called for which of the following?
A)Raising the rates on copper
B)Increasing duties on sugar
C)Supporting reciprocal trade with China
D)Giving Hawaii favored nation status
Q3) The Platt Amendment stated that the United States would not annex Cuba if the island were liberated from Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Native Americans attempted to fight discriminative land practices of white ranchers by forming a secret organization known as the White Caps.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) What university was created by a wealthy businessman in 1891?
A)Stanford
B)Yale
C)Harvard
D)Dartmouth
Q2) Which group encouraged farmers to raise "less corn and more hell" and served as the basis for the Populist Party's platform?
A)the Knights of Labor
B)the Farmers' Alliance
C)the American Federation of Labor
D)the Colored Farmers' National Alliance and Cooperative Union
Q3) What was the federal government's first attempt to regulate the railroads?
A)The Interstate Commerce Act
B)The Sherman Antitrust Act
C)The National Reclamation Act
D)The Hepburn Act
Q4) The invention of the telephone led to rapid growth in the number of female office workers in the 1880s.
A)True
B)False
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1895-1920
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Q1) The Birth of a Nation,a popular 1915 film by D.W.Griffith,glorified
A)the Industrial Workers of the World
B)the Ku Klux Klan
C)the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D)the Wilson Administration
Q2) Ida Wells Barnett concentrated her reform efforts on which of the following?
A)temperance
B)lynching
C)tenement housing
D)child labor
E)sanitation
Q3) What Wisconsin politician was the leading symbol of state reform during the Progressive Era?
A)Robert M.LaFollette
B)D.W.Griffith
C)Woodrow Wilson
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)William Jennings Bryan
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) Which statement about the U.S.home front during World War I is true?
A)Americans were asked to go without meat and other staples as part of an effort to raise food for the Allies.
B)A move to restrict the sale and use of alcoholic beverages was quickly and thoroughly defeated.
C)Wheat production dropped by one-third because many farmers enlisted in the war.
D)Membership in labor unions decreased and the number of strikes increased.
E)African Americans were motivated to prove themselves after combat units were desegregated.
Q2) Which statement regarding U.S.participation in World War I is true?
A)The United States chose to use an all-volunteer system for raising troops.
B)Roughly 3 million men joined the armed forces during World War I.
C)The United States got the majority of the funds for the war through taxes.
D)Most of the U.S.convoys escorting merchant ships were destroyed by German submarines.
Q3) The federal government established a minimum wage during and after the war years.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Who championed the crusade against evolutionism and helped the prosecution in the Scopes trial?
A)Williams Jennings Bryan
B)Clarence Darrow
C)Florence Kelley
D)Aimee Semple McPherson
E)John T.Raulston
Q2) Who was Henry L.Mencken?
A)the founder of the NAACP
B)the founder of Time magazine
C)a writer who disparaged older values
D)a jazz musician who broke racial boundaries
Q3) Which change occurred among for women between 1920s and 1930?
A)Women started having children later.
B)The number of working women decreased.
C)Women's wages were almost as high as men's.
D)The percentage of women in the workforce doubled.
Q4) Amelia Earhart made a successful trans-Atlantic flight in in the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution after the organization refused to allow Marian Anderson to sing at Constitution Hall because she was black.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which action did President Hoover take to remedy the depression following the 1929 stock market crash?
A)He initiated a massive public works program.
B)He set up presidential committees to coordinate volunteer relief efforts.
C)He proposed legislation to have the government underwrite failed banks.
D)He discouraged the Federal Reserve System from allowing businesses to borrow.
Q3) What did the 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act do?
A)reduce taxes on corporates and estates
B)grant workers freedom of association in unions
C)provide states with matching funds for unemployment relief
D)fund the construction and renovation of transportation facilities
Q4) The popularity of radio suffered during the tough economic times of the Depression.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) Although the Japanese destroyed eighteen U.S.warships in its attack on Pearl Harbor,the United States suffered no loss of life.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the war in the Pacific?
A)U.S.victories at Coral Sea and Midway shattered the illusion of Japan's invincibility.
B)After securing Guadalcanal,Americans began leapfrogging islands to move on Japan.
C)The United States adopted a two-pronged attack that would culminate in a final attack on Japan.
D)Kamikaze attacks had a significant impact on morale but did little damage to the U.S.fleet.
Q3) The first U.S.offensive in the Pacific theater occurred at Guadalcanal,a small island off New Guinea.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government fell to communists led by Mau Tse-tung in 1949.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dr.Benjamin Spock provided American women with information on what topic?
A)birth control
B)child care
C)homeopathic remedies
D)sex
Q3) Who served as President Eisenhower's secretary of state?
A)John Foster Dulles
B)George Humphrey
C)Robert McNamara
D)Charles Wilson
Q4) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus,sparking a year-long boycott of the buses in what city?
A)Atlanta,Georgia
B)Birmingham,Alabama
C)Little Rock,Arkansas
D)Montgomery,Alabama
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In The Feminine Mystique,Betty Friedan gave voice to middle-class women who sacrificed families and children for careers.
A)True
B)False
Q2) President Nixon removed Attorney General Elliot Richardson and his deputy after they refused to fire Archibald Cox,who was investigating White House activities.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave President Johnson the authority to A)escalate the Vietnam War.
B)negotiate with North Vietnam.
C)send military advisors to Vietnam.
D)bomb military targets in Cambodia.
E)sink Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Q4) The Freedom of Information Act gave the American people unprecedented access to classified government material.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) All of the following statements about Ronald Reagan are true except
A)he had served as governor of California
B)he had served as a state senator in Illinois
C)he had been an actor and television personality
D)he was the oldest man ever to become president
Q2) Under the Helsinki Accord (1975),the U.S.and Soviet Union promised to respect cold war boundaries between eastern and western Europe.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Resolving the savings and loan crisis cost $500 billion in taxpayer money.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The federal budget deficit increased dramatically during Ronald Reagan's presidency.
A)True
B)False
Q5) In 1983 Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union as an "evil empire."
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Which statement regarding U.S.troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 is true?
A)Most of the Iraqi troops under Saddam Hussein had stepped aside once the war began.
B)Public support for U.S.involvement in Iraq soared after weapons of mass destruction were found.
C)Although hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed or injured,fewer than 500 American troops were killed in Iraq.
D)The Bush administration had anticipated a quick victory in Iraq and had not adequately planned for remaining there as an occupying force.
Q2) What state's Supreme Court upheld same-sex marriages in a 2005 ruling?
A)Alaska
B)California
C)Massachusetts
D)Utah
E)Vermont
Q3) In 2005,there were an estimated 11 to 12 million illegal immigrants living in the United States.
A)True
B)False
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