American History I Final Test Solutions
Course Introduction
American History I provides a comprehensive overview of the political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from pre-Columbian times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The course examines indigenous societies, European colonization, the formation of the British colonies, the American Revolution, the creation of the U.S. Constitution, the growth of the new nation, Westward expansion, the Civil War, and the aftermath of emancipation and reconstruction. Through the analysis of primary and secondary sources, students gain a deeper understanding of the foundational events and diverse perspectives that have shaped early American society.
Recommended Textbook
American Pageant Volume 1 16th Edition by David
Available Study Resources on Quizplus
22 Chapters
1915 Verified Questions
1915 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/study-set/933
Page 2
M. Kennedy
Chapter 1: New World Beginnings, 33,000 BCE-1769
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
83 Verified Questions
83 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18318
Sample Questions
Q1) Men became conquistadores because they wanted to
A) gain God's favor by spreading Christianity.
B) escape dubious pasts.
C) seek adventure, as the heroes of classical antiquity had done.
D) satisfy their desire for gold.
E) All of these
Answer: E
Q2) ____ Spain
Answer: 6
Q3) The institution of encomienda allowed the
A) native people to enslave members of other tribes.
B) Europeans to marry Native Americans.
C) European governments to give Indians to colonists if they promised to Christianize them.
D) governments of Europe to abolish the practice of Indian slavery and to establish African slavery.
E) Europeans to establish an economy based on capitalism.
Answer: C
Q4) ____ Portugal
Answer: 4
Page 3
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 2: The Planting of English America, 1500-1733
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
146 Verified Questions
146 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18319
Sample Questions
Q1) ____ North Carolina
Answer: 3
Q2) Maryland Act of Toleration
Answer: The Maryland Act of Toleration, passed in 1649, was a law that granted religious freedom to Christians in the Maryland colony. It was the first law in the British North American colonies to explicitly protect religious freedom. The Act was significant because it was a response to the religious conflicts and persecution that were occurring in England and Europe at the time. It was also a reflection of the colony's commitment to religious tolerance and diversity.
The Act of Toleration was also significant in the broader context of American history because it set a precedent for religious freedom and tolerance in the colonies. It influenced the development of religious freedom in the United States and was an early example of the principles of religious liberty that would later be enshrined in the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Overall, the Maryland Act of Toleration was a landmark in the history of religious freedom and tolerance in America, and its legacy continues to be felt today.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 4
Chapter 3: Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
150 Verified Questions
150 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18320
Sample Questions
Q1) All of the following are true of Martin Luther except
A) he was German.
B) he protested against Catholic doctrines at Wittenberg in 1517.
C) there was little notice of his reforms in Europe.
D) he denounced the authority of priests and popes.
E) he declared that the Bible was the only source of God's word.
Answer: C
Q2) ____ New York
Answer: 2
Q3) The Dutch colony of New Netherland (later New York)
A) allowed only Dutch immigrants to settle there.
B) was established for its quick profit of fur trading.
C) tolerated Quakers from nearby Pennsylvania.
D) supported free speech and other democratic practices.
E) All of these
Answer: B
Q4) ____ New York City
Answer: 6
Q5) ____ Pennsylvania
Answer: 1
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 5
Chapter
4: American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
86 Verified Questions
86 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18321
Sample Questions
Q1) By 1700, the colonial South generally lacked
A) a well-defined social structure.
B) reliable overland transportation.
C) an urban professional class.
D) a manageable labor force.
E) cash crops.
Q2) The Half-Way Covenant
A) allowed full communion for all nonconverted members.
B) strengthened the distinction between the elect and all others.
C) brought an end to the jeremiads of Puritan ministers.
D) resulted in a decrease in church members.
E) allowed the children of unconverted existing members to be baptized but not full members of the church.
Q3) Bacon's Rebellion
Q4) The social glue that formed the basis of tightly knit New England society was
A) small villages and farms.
B) black slavery.
C) the wealthy planter-merchant class.
D) the royal charter.
E) none of these choices.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 6
Chapter
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
127 Verified Questions
127 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18322
Sample Questions
Q1) Which of the following was not considered to be a colonial naval store?
A) Tar
B) Pitch
C) Rosin
D) Turpentine
E) Glass
Q2) The time-honored English ideal, which Americans accepted for some time, regarded education as all of the following except
A) essential training for citizenship.
B) designed primarily for men.
C) reserved for the aristocratic few.
D) essential for creating leaders.
E) hailed and embraced in New England more than any other region.
Q3) English officials tried to establish the Church of England in as many colonies as possible because
A) they were concerned about the eternal souls of the colonists.
B) the church would act as a major prop for royal authority.
C) such an action would restore enthusiasm for religion.
D) the American colonists supported such a move.
Page 7
E) such an action brought in more money to England.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 6: The Duel for North America, 1608-1763
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
95 Verified Questions
95 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18323
Sample Questions
Q1) The disunity that existed in the colonies before the French and Indian War can be attributed to all of the following except
A) the enormous distances between the colonies.
B) geographical barriers like rivers.
C) conflicting religions.
D) varied nationalities.
E) contempt for the British government.
Q2) The soldier and explorer whose leadership in establishing French colonies earned him the title "Father of New France" was
A) Samuel de Champlain.
B) Robert de La Salle.
C) Antoine Cadillac.
D) Des Moines.
E) Edward Vincennes.
Q3) ____ Louisiana
Q4) voyageurs
Q5) Jesuits
Q6) Compare and contrast the reasons for unity and the reasons for disunity in the American colonies before and after the Seven Years' War.
Page 8
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 7: The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
78 Verified Questions
78 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18324
Sample Questions
Q1) Explain the relationship between mercantilism, the Navigation Laws, and British efforts to create an administrative structure for their empire after 1696.
Q2) The radical Whigs feared
A) too much democracy.
B) a written constitution.
C) the arbitrary and enhanced power of the monarchy andits ministers at the expense of Parliament.
D) a too powerful parliament.
E) republicanism.
Q3) Explain the following quote, "In the American wilderness, they encountered a world that was theirs to make afresh."
Q4) Unlike the ____ Act, the ____ Act and the ____ Act were both indirect taxes on trade goods arriving in American ports.
A) Townshend, Stamp, Sugar
B) Stamp, Sugar, Townshend
C) Stamp, Quartering, Townshend
D) Declaratory, Stamp, Sugar
E) Quartering, Stamp, Sugar
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 9
Chapter 8: America Secedes from the Empire, 1775-1783
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
78 Verified Questions
78 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18325
Sample Questions
Q1) The Patriot militia played a crucial role in the Revolution in all of the following ways except
A) taking up the task of political education.
B) raising funds to support the war effort.
C) convincing people that the British army was an unreliable friend.
D) mercilessly harassing small British detachments.
E) as effective agents of Revolutionary ideas.
Q2) The most important contribution of the seagoing privateers during the Revolutionary War was that they
A) gained control of the sea for the colonists.
B) successfully invaded the British West Indies.
C) captured hundreds of British merchant ships.
D) fought the British navy to a standstill.
E) made reliance on the French unnecessary.
Q3) Who was the American diplomat that negotiated the Model Treaty with France?
A) John Adams
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Thomas Paine
D) Benjamin Franklin
E) Patrick Henry
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 10
Chapter 9: The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
82 Verified Questions
82 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18326
Sample
Questions
Q1) In keeping with the spirit, if not the actual wording of the Declaration of Independence's affirmation that "All men are created equal," most states ____ property-holding requirements for voting.
A) kept the same
B) reduced C) raised D) ignored E) raised significantly
Q2) The economic status of the average American at the end of the Revolutionary War was
A) better than before the war.
B) probably worse than before the war.
C) about the same as before the war.
D) more closely tied to Britain than before the war.
E) more closely tied to France than before the war.
Q3) According to the text's authors, "In some respects, the hated British Navigation Laws were more disagreeable after independence than before." What is the basis for their conclusion?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 11
Chapter 10: Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
94 Verified Questions
94 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18327
Sample Questions
Q1) The 1796 presidential campaign focused heavily on
A) the Bank of the United States.
B) the candidates' personalities.
C) slavery.
D) foreign trade.
E) real issues.
Q2) The formal Franco-American political and military defense alliance of 1778
A) was ended by mutual agreement in 1789.
B) bound the United States to neutrality in the event of war between France and Britain. C) was weakened significantly by the issuance of President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793.
D) was invoked by the French to obtain American aid in France's war with Britain after 1793.
E) led the United States to war with Great Britain in 1812.
Q3) According to the text's authors, "critics claimed [Hamilton] loved his adopted country more than he loved his countrymen." Rephrase this statement in your own words; then supply evidence supporting the statement.
Q4) ____ Vermont
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 12
Chapter 11: The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic,
1800-1812
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
73 Verified Questions
73 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18328
Sample Questions
Q1) List at least three key principles of government advanced by Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican party before 1800.Describe how these ideals fared during Jefferson's administration.Were they translated into public policy? Explain how or, if not, why not.
Q2) Arrange these events in chronological order: (A)Louisiana Purchase, (B)Chesapeake incident, (C)Burr's trial for treason, and (D)Embargo Act.
A) A, B, D, C
B) C, D, A, B
C) A, C, B, D
D) D, B, C, A
E) B, D, C, A
Q3) In 1812, President James Madison turned to war
A) to guarantee his reelection.
B) due to his extreme hatred of Great Britain.
C) to fulfill alliance obligations with France.
D) to fulfill alliance obligations with nationhood Spain.
E) because he came to believe that only a vigorous, aggressive assertion of American political and economic rights could demonstrate the viability of American nationhood and the republican experiment in the United States.
Page 13
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 12: The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge
of Nationalism, 1812-1824
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
99 Verified Questions
99 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18329
Sample Questions
Q1) All of the following were true of the American regular army on the eve of the War of 1812 except
A) they were ill-trainedand ill-disciplined.
B) they were widely scattered.
C) their numbers were large enough that they did not have to rely on state militias.
D) most of the generals were leftovers from the Revolutionary War and lacked vigor and vision.
E) there was no burning national anger to unite Americans against the British.
Q2) U.S.Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall's rulings almost single-handedly shaped constitutional interpretation
A) toward strict adherence to the literal text of the Constitution.
B) upholding individual civil liberties.
C) tipping the balance of power between Congress and the president toward the president.
D) toward favoring nationalistic centralism and curbing the powers of popularly elected state legislatures in national political and economic affairs.
E) in the direction of states' rights over the federal government.
Q3) ____ 36° 30'
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 14
Chapter 13: The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
94 Verified Questions
94 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18330
Sample Questions
Q1) The Force Bill of 1833 provided that the
A) Congress could use the military for Indian removal.
B) President could use the army and navy to collect federal tariff duties.
C) President could use the army to collect excise taxes.
D) military could force citizens to track down runaway slaves.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) The spoils system under Andrew Jackson resulted in
A) a superior class of intelligent, competent federal job holders than under previous presidential administrations.
B) the replacement of insecurity by security in employment.
C) the destruction of the personalized political machine.
D) the appointment of many corrupt and incompetent officials to federal jobs.
E) the same public policies as those taken by John Quincy Adams.
Q3) The cement that held the Whig party together in its formative days was
A) hatred of Andrew Jackson and his aggrandizement of executive power at the expense of the states and Congress.
B) support of the American System.
C) opposition to the Anti-Masonic party.
D) the desire for a strong president.
E) opposition to the tariff.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 15
Chapter 14: Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
92 Verified Questions
92 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18331
Sample Questions
Q1) Factors encouraging the growth of immigration rates in the first half of the nineteenth century included the
A) rapid growth rate of the European population.
B) perception of America as the land of freedom and opportunity.
C) introduction of transoceanic steamships.
D) economic and political turmoil in Europe.
E) religious oppression by European state churches.
Q2) One of the primary goals of the child-centered family of the early-mid 1800s was to
A) raise children who were obedient to authority.
B) allow parents to spoil their children.
C) raise independent individuals who would become responsible citizens of the American republic.
D) increase the average number of children per family to five per household.
E) preserve childhood innocence.
Q3) Explain the impact of the market revolution on American workers, including women.
Q4) Compare and contrast the economic development of the Northeast with that of the South.What were some of the reasons that caused those differences in development?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 16
Chapter 15: The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
82 Verified Questions
82 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18332
Sample Questions
Q1) All of the following influenced transcendental thought except
A) German philosophers.
B) Oriental religions.
C) Catholicism and the papacy.
D) individualism.
E) love of nature.
Q2) What was the relationship between industrialization and the women's rights movement? What did women reformers want in the early-mid-nineteenth century? How would you assess the scope and substance of their goals and measure their level of success?
Q3) Early-nineteenth-century American educators included A) Horace Mann.
B) William H. McGuffey.
C) Noah Webster.
D) Emma Willard.
E) Mary Lyon.
Q4) Write your definition of paternalism.Then use this definition to argue that early-nineteenth-century American reform efforts were in part paternalistic endeavors by middle-class Americans to "do something for" the less fortunate.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 17
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
67 Verified Questions
67 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18333
Sample Questions
Q1) All the following were true of the American economy under Cotton Kingdom except
A) cotton accounted for half the value of all American exports after 1840.
B) the South produced more than half the entire world's supply of cotton.
C) 75 percent of the British supply of cotton came from the South.
D) quick profits from cotton drew planters to its economic enterprise.
E) the South reaped all the profits from the cotton trade.
Q2) The idea of recolonizing blacks back to Africa was
A) proposed by Timothy Dwight Weld.
B) proposed by John Quincy Adams.
C) advocated by Frederick Douglass.
D) suggested by political leaders of the African nation of Liberia.
E) supported by the black leader Martin Delaney.
Q3) Plantation agriculture was wasteful largely because
A) it relied mainly on artificial means to fertilize the soil.
B) it required leaving cropland fallow every other year.
C) excessive water was used for irrigation.
D) it was too diversified, thus taking essential nutrients from the soil.
E) its excessive cultivation of cotton despoiled good land.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 18
Chapter 17: Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
56 Verified Questions
56 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18334
Sample Questions
Q1) President Polk's claim that "American blood [had been shed] on the American soil" referred to news of an armed clash between Mexican and American troops near
A) San Francisco.
B) the Nueces River.
C) Santa Fe.
D) the Rio Grande.
E) San Antonio.
Q2) Compare and contrast President Polk's willingness to go to war against Mexico over Texas but not against Britain over Oregon.
Q3) When northwesterners questioned why all of Texas was annexed but not all of Oregon, Oregon settlement supporters such as Sen.Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri responded that
A) Oregon was far more expensive than Texas to defend.
B) Oregon land waslessdesirable than that of Texas.
C) Polk and his supporters in the Senate were far more interested in Texas as a bulwark for slavery.
D) Great Britain was a far more powerful nation than Mexico.
E) None of these choices are correct.
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 19
Chapter 18: Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
74 Verified Questions
74 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18335
Sample Questions
Q1) Southern delegates met at a convention in Nashville in the June of 1850 to
A) plan southern secession.
B) develop a series of compromise political proposals over slavery to preserve the Union.
C) propose a series of constitutional amendments to protect the legality of slavery.
D) denounce Daniel Webster as a traitor to the South.
E) condemn the political compromises over slavery being worked out in Congress.
Q2) It has been said that "the historian who searches for examples of intelligent and tolerant statesmanship in the period 1850-1854 seeks almost in vain." Citing the "statesmanship" of men like Clay, Douglas, Webster, Calhoun, Pierce, and Fillmore, demonstrate that this argument is or is not supportable.
Q3) By 1850, the South was losing perhaps ____ runaways a year out of its total of some 4 million slaves.
A) 200
B) 500
C) 800
D) 1,000
E) 2,000
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 20
Chapter 19: Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
63 Verified Questions
63 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18336
Sample Questions
Q1) Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin
A) intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
B) was prompted by passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
C) comprised the recollections of a long-time personal witness to the evils of slavery.
D) received little notice at the time it was published but became widely read during the Civil War.
E) portrayed blacks as militant resisters to slavery.
Q2) The government of the Confederate States of America was first organized in
A) Atlanta, Georgia in February 1860.
B) Montgomery, Alabama in February 1861.
C) Richmond, Virginia in February 1861.
D) Knoxville, Tennessee in February 1860.
E) Charleston, South Carolina in February 1861.
Q3) What was responsible for the violence in "Bleeding Kansas"? Why might the violence be viewed as a "prelude to Civil War"?
Q4) Assess the validity of the following statement, "It was probably fortunate for the Union that secession and civil war did not come in 1856, following a Republican victory."
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 21
Chapter 20: Girding for War: The North and the South,
1861-1865
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
57 Verified Questions
57 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18337
Sample Questions
Q1) As leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis
A) enjoyed real personal popularity despite the South's loss.
B) was a poor administrator.
C) developed a good relationship with his congress.
D) effectively articulated southern ideals.
E) defied rather than followed southern public opinion and his congress on several key issues regarding conduct of the Civil War.
Q2) The South believed that the British would come to its aid because
A) the people in Britain would demand such action.
B) British Canada was strongly hostile to the Union.
C) Britain still had slavery in its empire.
D) the government had refused to allow Uncle Tom's Cabin to be sold in the empire.
E) Britain was dependent on Southern cotton.
Q3) Confederate commerce-raiders
A) operated near New York and Boston.
B) dealt a devastating blow to the Union's merchant marine.
C) severely crippled the Union war effort.
D) established an effective blockade of Union ports.
E) were almost all built in Britain.
Page 22
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Chapter 21: The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
67 Verified Questions
67 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18338
Sample Questions
Q1) Slaves hindered the Confederacy's war efforts by
A) work slowdowns and strikes that diminished productivity.
B) instilling a fear of insurrections.
C) creating the need for white men to guard slaves when they could have been on the warfront.
D) serving as spies, guides and scouts for the Union army.
E) All of these choices are correct.
Q2) Historians usually rank the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln, as the greatest of American presidents.Do you agree? Why or why not?
Q3) The most serious Confederate threat to the Union blockade came from
A) British navy vessels on loan to the South.
B) swift blockade-running steamers.
C) the threat of mutiny from pro-southern sailors.
D) the entrance of the British and French navies as direct military combatants on behalf of the Confederacy.
E) the ironclad Merrimack (renamed the Virginia) warship, which destroyed two wooden ships of the Union navy off the Chesapeake Bay and threatened to destroy many more wooden Union warships.
Q4) ____ Gettysburg
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above. Page 23
Chapter 22: The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877
Available Study Resources on Quizplus for this Chatper
72 Verified Questions
72 Flashcards
Source URL: https://quizplus.com/quiz/18339
Sample Questions
Q1) The Fourteenth Amendment
A) failed to confer any civil rights, including citizenship on the freedmen.
B) prohibited from federal and state office those former Confederates who as federal officeholders had once sworn to uphold the U.S. Constitution.
C) guaranteed the freedmen the right to vote.
D) met all the political demands of the radical Republicans.
E) conferred a broad array of civil rights, including voting rights, on white women.
Q2) The official charge that the House of Representatives used to impeach President Johnson was his
A) veto of the Reconstruction Act of 1867.
B) readmission of Southern states without seriously reconstructing them.
C) dismissal of Secretary of War Stanton contrary to the Tenure of Office Act.
D) apparent sympathy with the Ku Klux Klan.
E) veto of the Freedmen's Bureau bill.
Q3) There are several examples in American history of rapid reconciliation with the defeated foe.Why didn't the South receive this sympathetic treatment in Reconstruction? Who or what do you fault for the harshness of Southern Reconstruction? Why?
To view all questions and flashcards with answers, click on the resource link above.
Page 24