Colonial and Revolutionary America Practice Exam
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundations and transformation of North America from the era of European contact through the American Revolution. Students will examine the diverse societies of Native Americans prior to colonization, the establishment and development of European colonies, and the complex interactions among indigenous, African, and European peoples. The course analyzes key political, social, economic, and cultural changes that led to the rise of colonial societies and the movement toward independence. Special attention is given to the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, including issues of identity, resistance, and the creation of new political institutions. Through the study of primary and secondary sources, students gain a deeper understanding of the formative period in American history.
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Q1) New technologies used by the Portuguese to improve navigation and nautical warfare included all of the following except:
A)Lateen Sails
B)Astrolabe
C)Compass
D)Sonar Answer: D
Q2) John Cabot established the Northwest Passage in 1497.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci named the new continent he "discovered" after himself,calling it "America."
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Columbus never stopped believing that he had found the Orient in his travels.
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 Spanish conquest of the New World was aided by which of the following?
A)Superior Spanish weaponry
B)The conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés
C)Impact of European diseases on the native population
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) One consequence of the slave trade for Africa was the rise in demand for guns and gun violence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Native peoples rejected all aspects of Catholicism that Spanish missionaries offered.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Rhode Island,founded by Roger Williams,was noted for
A)close ties between church and state.
B)condemnation of Anne Hutchinson.
C)mistreatment of the local native tribes.
D)religious toleration.
E)Both B and D
Answer: D
Q2) Which of the following provides the correct chronological order for the founding of the English colonies?
A)Virginia,Carolina,Massachusetts,New Jersey
B)Virginia,Massachusetts,New Jersey,Carolina
C)Virginia,Massachusetts,Carolina,New Jersey
D)Massachusetts,Virginia,Carolina,New Jersey
Answer: C
Q3) The conversion from rice to tobacco completely transformed the society of South Carolina,making slavery much less important.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) 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
Q2) The three major parts or sections of the Declaration of Independence included all of the following except
A)an actual declaration of independence from Great Britain.
B)a listing of King George's mistreatment of the colonists.
C)a rationale for breaking away from an unjust government.
D)a demand for the British to vacate American territory immediately.
E)all of these were included in the Declaration of Independence.
Q3) One strategy that proved to be effective against the Townshend Act was that of nonimportation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) After the Revolutionary War,the Confederation Congress virtually disbanded the army,despite the objections of
A)George Washington.
B)Alexander Hamilton.
C)Thomas Jefferson.
D)James Madison.
E)All of these
Q2) The three land ordinances passed by Congress in the 1780s dealt with settlement in A)the Northwest Territory.
B)the Southwest Territory.
C)Tennessee Valley.
D)Louisiana.
E)Florida.
Q3) Antifederalists believed that even the House of Representatives would become A)unrepresentative.
B)dominated by the rich.
C)too large to be workable.
D)unresponsive.
E)All of these
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) After the War of 1812,who was placed in charge of negotiating with native tribes in the Southeast?
A)Andrew Jackson
B)James Monroe
C)John C.Calhoun
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Jay
Q2) As president,John Adams opposed the Sedition Act on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Jay Treaty opened the Mississippi River to free navigation and allowed Americans to use the port of New Orleans.
A)True
B)False
Q4) After ratification of the Constitution,the Democratic-Republicans assumed the leadership role in creating a new government.
A)True
B)False
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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) When completed,the Erie Canal was how much longer than any canal built prior?
A)Two times longer
B)Three times longer
C)Five times longer
D)Ten times longer
E)It was actually smaller than most canals of its day.
Q4) Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott forged a friendship when they first met at the Seneca Falls Convention.
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) The Pennsylvania Abolition Society provided legal counsel to African Americans fighting for their liberty
A)True
B)False
Q2) White slave owners justified slavery by pointing to the Bible.
A)True
B)False
Q3) In their own ways,both Whigs and Democrats in the South supported slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass had once been a slave in Maryland.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Denmark Vesey was a black slave in North Carolina who led an aborted slave rebellion in 1822
A)True
B)False
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Q6) Nat Turner was a Virginia slave who led a slave revolt in 1831. A)True
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) The Liberty Party was formed to assure that western lands were provided to would-be settlers free of cost.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Americans referred to Henry Clay's appointment as secretary of state by President John Quincy Adams,who was named earlier to his position in a controversial House of Representatives decision,as
A)the spoils system.
B)political gerrymandering.
C)a corrupt bargain.
D)an impeachable offense.
E)Both A and B
Q3) Andrew Jackson wanted to bring about the end of the Second National Bank because he thought it was a tool of business and other elites.
A)True
B)False
Q4) "Old Hickory" was a campaign nickname attached to Andrew Jackson by supporters
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion,
1820-1860
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Q1) The Rush-Bagot Treaty ended the war with Mexico in 1848,with Mexico agreeing to sell California and New Mexico to the United States and to give up all claim to Texas in exchange for $15 million
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which native tribe developed its own alphabet and received praise for its "civilized" ways?
A)Cherokee
B)Creek
C)Seminole
D)Choctaw
E)Iroquois
Q3) The 1819Adams-Onis Treaty between the United States and Spain gave the United States a northern border to the Pacific Ocean,while Spain retained lands from Texas to California
A)True
B)False
Q4) About one in four of the eastern Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) The Free-Soil Party's slogan in the 1848 presidential election was "fight on and fight forever."
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Pottawatomie massacre,John Brown and several followers attacked and killed five men as revenge for the sack of Lawrence.
A)True B)False
Q3) Which of the following national political figures won the 1848 presidential election?
A)Martin Van Buren
B)Zachary Taylor
C)Lewis Cass
D)James K.Polk
E)Winfield Scott
Q4) South Carolina seceded the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) To raise an army,the Union
A)Enlisted rich and poor men side by side
B)Saw the creation of immigrant-specific units
C)Required troops to serve for three years
D)All of these choices
Q2) The Civil War was financed through A)loans.
B)taxes.
C)the printing of paper money.
D)All of these
Q3) Britain did not come to the aid of the Confederacy - as the latter had hopedbecause
A)Its leaders clashed with Jefferson Davis
B)It had stockpiled cotton and did not need to trade with the South
C)It had signed a treaty of alliance with the North
D)It resented the South's relationship with France
Q4) Renegades was the nickname given to antiwar Democrats sympathetic to the South.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) Which of the following is not a true statement about Congressional Reconstruction?
A)It was more lenient than Presidential Reconstruction
B)It sought to punish the South for the war
C)It advocated taking land from wealthy Confederates to give to former slaves
D)It was led by Thaddeus Stevens
Q2) Northerners largely approved of the black codes passed by the new state governments in the South to control former slaves
A)True
B)False
Q3) The transcontinental railroad first opened in 1876,connecting the East coast of the United States with the West coast
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to oversee blacks' transition from slavery to freedom
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Projecting Power, widening Borders:
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Q1) Chinese workers performed the most dangerous operations in the building of the transcontinental railroad.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who proposed the "frontier thesis," that the availability of free land was pivotal to the development of democracy in America?
A)Mark Twain
B)Josiah Strong
C)Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins
D)Frederick Jackson Turner
Q3) During the period known for yellow journalism,William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer published newspapers in what American city?
A)Chicago
B)San Francisco
C)Boston
D)Washington D.C.
E)New York
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) The Pullman Strike occurred after George Pullman
A)initiated wage cuts and layoffs.
B)hired African American porters.
C)developed the railroad sleeping car.
D)refused to recognize the American Railway Union
E)replaced union members with new immigrants
Q2) Louis Sullivan is best known for the development of which of the following?
A)the dumbbell tenement
B)the skyscraper
C)the passenger elevator
D)the department store
Q3) What was the purpose of the subtreasury plan proposed by Charles Macune in the 1880s?
A)To help farmers get bank loans
B)To manipulate the prices of farm crops
C)To put farmers on the boards of local banks
D)To provide government aid to farmers during lean years
Q4) J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.
A)True
B)False
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1895-1920
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Q1) The Department of Justice brought a lawsuit to break up the Northern Securities Company resulting from mergers in what industry?
A)Steel
B)Railroads
C)Oil
D)Banking
Q2) What organization advocated a socialist agenda that would culminate in the end of capitalism?
A)American Federation of Labor
B)Industrial Workers of the World
C)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D)Women's Trade Union League
Q3) What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
A)to replace the central bank with regional banks
B)to reduce the power of the Federal Reserve Board
C)to facilitate trade between the United States and its neighbors
D)to provide a means for controlling the currency and money supply
Q4) The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire spurred reform efforts in industry.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) Passed in 1920,the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
A)gave women the right to vote.
B)guaranteed equal pay for men and women.
C)prohibited the sale or distribution of alcohol.
D)desegregated government offices and workplaces.
Q2) The U.S.had a long-term policy of isolationism in foreign wars.
A)True
B)False
Q3) William Jennings Bryan led the effort that blocked ratification of the Treaty of Versailles by the Senate.
A)True
B)False
Q4) From the outbreak of war in Europe,President Woodrow Wilson publically supported England and its allies
A)True
B)False
Q5) The U.S.financed the bulk of the war by selling Liberty Bonds.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What sport did Harold "Red" Grange play in the 1920s?
A)baseball
B)basketball
C)football
D)golf
E)tennis
Q2) The McNary-Haugen Plan,which was introduced in Congress repeatedly in the 1920s,was intended to provide support for
A)agriculture.
B)banking.
C)hydroelectric power plants.
D)railroad construction.
Q3) In the 1920s,Charles Lindbergh became famous for which of the following?
A)winning the Pulitzer Prize for Literature
B)making the first solo trans-Atlantic flight
C)breaking home run records set by Babe Ruth
D)becoming the highest-paid athlete in America
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) What country invaded Manchuria in 1931?
A)France
B)Korea
C)Japan
D)Russia
Q2) Who was the Republican Party's nominee for president in the 1936 election?
A)Herbert Hoover
B)Alfred M.Landon
C)Huey P.Long
D)Robert Wagner
Q3) Franklin Roosevelt initiated a series of conversations with the American public that became known as "fireside chats."
A)True
B)False
Q4) Under the Agricultural Adjustment Act,the federal government paid subsidies to farmers who agreed to
A)reduce their crop production.
B)increase their farm production.
C)hire unemployed migrant workers.
D)donate surpluses to the unemployed.
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) Operation TORCH was the code name for the D-Day invasion of France.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who or what was Rosie the Riveter?
A)the nickname of a highly effective tank
B)a woman who earned fame for her heroics
C)a symbolic image of the female war worker
D)the first woman to become the head of a Fortune 500 company
Q3) More than 3 million U.S.women entered the workforce for the first time during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What federal office was charged with supervising rationing and controlling inflation caused by over-demand and under-supply?
A)the Lend-Lease Program
B)the National War Labor Board
C)the Office of Price Administration
D)the War Production Board
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) President Truman did not run for re-election in 1952.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The United States was affected by the Cold War in all of the following ways except
A)the size and influence of the American Communist Party grew.
B)Alger Hiss,who had been an advisor in the Roosevelt administration,was accused of being a spy.
C)the House Un-American Activities Committee investigated Americans suspected of spreading communist propaganda
D)Hollywood writers and directors who refused to answer questions about their political beliefs were blacklisted.
Q3) Why did President Truman remove General MacArthur from his command in Korea?
A)MacArthur refused to escalate the war.
B)MacArthur publicly criticized Truman's approach.
C)MacArthur was suspected of being a communist sympathizer.
D)MacArthur had not achieved the military goals that had been established.
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) All of the following statements regarding the oil embargo of 1973-1974 are true except
A)OPEC halted oil shipments to the United States,western Europe,and Japan to protest their support of Israel.
B)the embargo caused panic in the United States,which used 30 percent of the world's energy.
C)the government lowered the speed limit on highways to 55 miles per hour to save energy.
D)after the oil embargo was lifted,energy prices dropped below the pre-embargo prices.
Q2) Who was President John F.Kennedy's secretary of state?
A)Robert Kennedy
B)Robert McNamara
C)Dean Rusk
D)Sergeant Shriver
Q3) The "Plumbers" were members of a White House unit that Nixon charged with stopping security leaks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Texas billionaire Ross Perot ran as a third-party candidate in the 1992 election.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The 52 U.S.hostages remained in captivity in Iran for 444 days and were freed within minutes of Ronald Reagan's inauguration.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which president was dubbed the "great communicator"?
A)George H.W.Bush
B)Jimmy Carter
C)Gerald Ford
D)Ronald Reagan
Q4) Jimmy Carter chose the first female vice presidential candidate when he selected Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The "Contract with America" proposed by the Republican Party in 1994 is most closely associated with which of the following politicians?
A)Newt Gingrich
B)John McCain
C)Sarah Palin
D)Dan Quayle
Q2) In 2003,President George W.Bush sent troops to Iraq in response to reports that Saddam Hussein
A)was preparing to attack Israel.
B)was hiding a cache of weapons of mass destruction.
C)had made terrorist threats toward the U.S.government.
D)dhad orchestrated the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
Q3) The Kyoto Protocols of 1997 sought to address which of the following?
A)world hunger
B)the spread of AIDS
C)greenhouse gases and pollution
D)the proliferation of nuclear weapons
Q4) In 2013,the Supreme Court struck down the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
A)True
B)False
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