Early American History Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course explores the foundations and evolution of American society from pre-Columbian times through the era of Reconstruction. Students will examine the diverse cultures and civilizations that existed in North America prior to European contact, the impact of exploration and colonization, the development of colonial societies, and the causes and consequences of the American Revolution. The course will also analyze the creation of the U.S. Constitution, the expansion of the nation, and the complexities of race, class, and gender in early America. Special attention is given to the experiences of Native Americans, enslaved Africans, and other marginalized groups as the United States developed its national identity.
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Revel for Learning U.S. History Semester 1 1st Edition by H. W. Brands
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Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New
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Q1) The __________ Indians were hunters but not farmers.
A) Plains
B) Pueblo
C) Iroquois
D) Eastern Woodland
Answer: A
Q2) Which of the following provides evidence that Indian cultures had an oral tradition?
A) teepees
B) pueblos
C) creation myths
D) totem poles
Answer: C
Q3) In the Iroquois creation story,which of the following created rivers and animals?
A) the good mind
B) the bad mind
C) Sky-father
D) Earth-mother
Answer: A
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) Which of the following contributed to Hernan Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs?
A) Cortés had more ships.
B) Cortés had indigenous allies.
C) The Aztecs were fighting with the Incas.
D) The Aztec ruler was a child.
Answer: B
Q2) Puritans and Huguenots are both __________.
A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Moors
D) Jewish
Answer: A
Q3) Columbus proposed that the shortest route to Asia was to sail __________.
A) northward
B) southward
C) westward
D) eastward
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Metacomet was the leader of the __________ Indians in the late seventeenth century.
A) Micmac
B) Mohawk
C) Powhatan
D) Wampanoag
Answer: D
Q2) The Pilgrims and the Puritans both had differences with the __________.
A) Virginia Company
B) Great Migration
C) Roman Catholic Church
D) Anglican Church
Answer: D
Q3) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 3.6,the Pilgrims drafted a document that expressed a commitment to __________.
A) equality for women
B) racial supremacy
C) indigenous rights
D) the general good
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) In the Salem witch trials,most of those who were accused of witchcraft were
A) slaves
B) men
C) Indians
D) women
Q2) Where did the Salem witch trials occur?
A) Massachusetts
B) Virginia
C) Pennsylvania
D) Georgia
Q3) What accounts for the differences between the northern and southern colonies?
Q4) Which of the following did Cotton Mather support?
A) inoculation against smallpox
B) dismissal of spectral evidence
C) exonerations for convicted witches
D) separation of religion and politics
Q5) Compare and contrast views on religion held by the following people: Cotton Mather,George Whitefield,Jonathan Edwards,and Benjamin Franklin.
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Q6) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) How does the introductory video in section 5.4 characterize the start of war between Britain and America?
A) accidental
B) deliberate
C) calculated
D) decisive
Q2) Which of the following shares the same view of the relationship between the government and the people as this statement?: "Governments are instituted among Men,deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
A) "Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could."
B) "it is just and reasonable that the several nations or tribes of Indians . . . should not be molested or disturbed ."
C) "we . . . will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."
D) "Obedience to government is every man's duty, because it is every man's interest. . . ."
Q3) How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) Why did George Washington want a long war?
A) He wanted to give his soldiers more experience in the battlefield.
B) He hoped a war would break out in Europe to distract Britain.
C) The strategy of guerrilla warfare succeeded only in long wars.
D) He needed time to formulate a military strategy and battle plan.
Q2) The Treaty of Paris signed in 1783 gave the United States land east of which river?
A) Colorado
B) Mississippi
C) Missouri
D) Saint Lawrence
Q3) What do the Battle of Waxhaws and the Battle of Kings Mountain share in common?
A) Both highlight the ways in which the Revolutionary War became a civil war.
B) Former slaves who joined the British side played central roles in both battles.
C) The Patriots defeated the Loyalists in both battles.
D) The Loyalists defeated the Patriots in both battles.
Q4) Who were the people who supported British rule,and what were their reasons for supporting the British side in the American Revolutionary War?
Q5) In what respects was the American Revolutionary War a civil war?
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 7.3,most of the people who settled the western frontier __________ the people in the eastern states.
A) had a different mind-set from B) shared much in common with C) were more complacent than D) were wealthier than
Q2) What do the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution reveal about changes in how the states saw their relationship with one another?
Q3) Which of the following shared with the Articles of Confederation the same understanding of how representation should be determined?
A) New Jersey Plan
B) Virginia Plan
C) Three-fifths compromise
D) Bill of Rights
Q4) How did the new American government deal with the issue of slavery?
Q5) What does the Shays Rebellion reveal about America in the years after the Revolutionary War?
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) Which of the following was responsible for interpreting and applying the principles of the Constitution?
A) state legislatures
B) Department of State
C) Congress
D) Supreme Court
Q2) John Adams started an undeclared naval war against which country shown on the map?
A) Batavian Republic
B) Ottoman Empire
C) French Republic
D) Great Britain
Q3) Which of the following would have most likely supported the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A) John Adams
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) James Madison
D) George Washington
Q4) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) The effectiveness of the Embargo Act was contingent on Britain and France being dependent on __________.
A) Spanish silver
B) American trade
C) slave labor
D) prison labor
Q2) Which of the following Indian communities did the Lewis and Clark expedition encounter?
A) Powhatan
B) Pueblo
C) Shoshone
D) Iroquois
Q3) The Embargo Act reminded many Americans of the __________.
A) Sedition Act
B) Coinage Act
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Alien Act
Q4) How was the presidential election of Thomas Jefferson in 1800 different from the elections of the previous two presidents and the elections of the next two presidents?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) According to the video in the introduction,what was the significance of the War of 1812?
A) established the principle of human rights in international law
B) established the principle of judicial review in constitutional law
C) created American empires in Africa, Asia, and the South Pacific
D) confirmed the United States as a full-fledged, independent country
Q2) Which political party declined after the War of 1812?
A) Progressives
B) Democrats
C) Republicans
D) Federalists
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 10.2,who claimed that he had predicted the earthquakes that rocked the Ohio and Mississippi valleys in 1811 and 1812?
A) Metacomet
B) Tecumseh
C) John Marshall
D) Andrew Jackson
Q4) The War of 1812 ended in a draw,yet Americans thought they had won the war.What gave Americans the impression that they had emerged victorious?
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) According to the video in the introduction,America became more of a(n)__________ in the decades between 1820 and 1840.
A) monarchy
B) oligarchy
C) republic
D) democracy
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 11.2,who symbolized the contradiction in America between democracy and slavery?
A) George Washington
B) Andrew Jackson
C) James Madison
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q3) What did George W.Harkins and George Guess share in common?
A) Both were vocal supporters of the Indian Removal Act.
B) Both were relocated under the Indian Removal Act.
C) Both challenged the Supreme Court ruling in Worcestor v. Georgia.
D) Both supported legislation that denied Indian legal claims to tribal lands.
Q4) Andrew Jackson is referred to as the People's President.To what extent did he live up to that name? To what extent did he fall short?
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) Which of the following was a route from the American East to California that involved both ocean travel and overland transportation?
A) around South America
B) across the Arctic Ocean and down the Pacific Coast
C) to the Caribbean, across Panama, and up the Pacific Coast
D) across the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Great Basin, and the Sierra Nevada mountains
Q2) Who was the Whig candidate in the presidential campaign of 1844?
A) James K. Polk
B) Henry Clay
C) John L. O'Sullivan
D) Zachary Taylor
Q3) Which of the following explains why a majority of the Senate opposed the annexation of Texas?
A) The United States was isolationist.
B) The Comanche Indians posed a threat.
C) Slavery was practiced in Texas.
D) Spain still controlled Texas.
Q4) How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?
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Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis
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Q1) Who used the following quote to describe the situation in the United States in the late 1850s?: "A house divided against itself can not stand."
A) Stephen Douglas
B) Henry Clay
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) John Calhoun
Q2) Which territory applied for statehood in 1849?
A) Kansas
B) Nebraska
C) California
D) Oregon
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 13.2,what put Stephen Douglas at a disadvantage in his courtship of Mary Todd?
A) his affiliation with the Whig Party
B) his affiliation with the Democratic Party
C) his loss of the senate seat to Abraham Lincoln
D) his frequent bouts of depression
Q4) How did events in the middle of the nineteenth century push the South toward secession?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) Fighting at which of the following places started the Civil War?
A) Vicksburg
B) Bull Run
C) Antietam
D) Fort Sumter
Q2) Which state joined the Confederacy after Abraham Lincoln issued a call to arms?
A) Missouri
B) West Virginia
C) Tennessee
D) Maryland
Q3) Robert E.Lee's surrender at __________ marked the end of the civil war.
A) Gettysburg
B) Vicksburg
C) Fort Sumter
D) Appomattox Court House
Q4) What do the Battles of Vicksburg and Gettysburg share in common?
A) Both were fought in the South.
B) Both were fought in the North.
C) Both were Confederate victories.
D) Both were Union victories.
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) Which of the following was a Radical Republican?
A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) Andrew Johnson
C) Robert E. Lee
D) Samuel Tilden
Q2) Which of the following was proposed by Congress to deal with the financial panic that broke out in 1873?
A) Ku Klux Klan Act
B) Peace Policy
C) Inflation Bill
D) Reconstruction Amendments
Q3) Who was impeached by the House of Representatives?
A) Andrew Johnson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Thaddeus Stevens
Q4) Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.
Q5) Identify and explain the attitude toward Reconstruction expressed by the following presidents: Abraham Lincoln,Andrew Johnson,and Ulysses Grant.
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