Foundations of American History Exam Review
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of the major themes, events, and movements that have shaped the United States from its colonial origins through the Reconstruction era. Students will examine key developments such as indigenous societies before European contact, European colonization, the growth of American colonies, the Revolutionary War, the formation of the Constitution, early national expansion, slavery, sectional conflict, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. Through analysis of primary documents and scholarly interpretations, the course emphasizes critical thinking about the political, social, economic, and cultural forces that have influenced the evolution of American society.
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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) 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
Q3) Humans began migrating to the Americas during the __________.
A) Norman Conquest
B) Agricultural Revolution
C) Viking invasions
D) ice age
Answer: D
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) After the fall of Constantinople,most scholars and artists left and migrated in which direction?
A) south
B) north
C) west
D) east
Answer: C
Q2) The Past and Present video in section 2.5 draws a parallel between the motives of the Europeans in the colonization of the Americas to the foreign policy decisions of which country today?
A) Iraq
B) Germany
C) United States
D) China
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Which of the following made negotiating treaties between the English and the Indians difficult?
A) The English refused to negotiate with the Indians.
B) Indian chiefs refused to negotiate with the English.
C) Tribal borders did not align with colonial borders.
D) English law did not recognize written contracts.
Answer: C
Q2) The figure depicted in the image became well known after he __________.
A) married a former indentured servant
B) signed the first treaty with the colonists
C) converted to Christianity
D) started a war with the colonists
Answer: D
Q3) King Philip's War was waged against the colonists from which country?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) Spain
D) England
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) Which of the following was a new Indian tribe that emerged from an amalgamation of several different tribes?
A) Seminoles
B) Creeks
C) Choctaws
D) Aztecs
Q2) Benjamin Franklin engaged in which of the following?
A) warfare
B) witchcraft
C) printing
D) preaching
Q3) In the Salem witch trials,most of those who were accused of witchcraft were
A) slaves
B) men
C) Indians
D) women
Q4) What accounts for the differences between the northern and southern colonies?
Q5) 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) Which of the following reflects the same ideas as those expressed in Thomas Paine's Common Sense?
A) Treaty of Paris of 1763
B) Proclamation of 1763
C) Declaration of Independence
D) Declaratory Act
Q2) In his testimony to Parliament in 1766,Benjamin Franklin explained the reasons for colonial opposition to the __________.
A) Proclamation of 1763
B) Coercive Acts
C) Stamp Act
D) Townshend duties
Q3) Which of the following events is depicted in the image?
A) Battle of Lexington
B) Battle of Bunker Hill
C) Boston Massacre
D) Boston Tea Party
Q4) Compare and contrast American and British expectations of one another.What did the Americans expect from the British,and what did the British expect from the Americans?
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) An alliance with France would compensate for American __________ weakness.
A) moral
B) naval
C) political
D) national
Q2) The battles at Trenton and Saratoga both ended in a(n)__________.
A) British victory
B) British retreat
C) American victory
D) American retreat
Q3) Which battle ended the American Revolutionary War?
A) Yorktown
B) Philadelphia
C) Saratoga
D) Valley Forge
Q4) The Sons of Liberty would have had the most in common with which group?
A) Tories
B) Loyalists
C) British
D) Whigs
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) In the How Do We Know? video in section 7.6,the "necessary and proper" clause is also referred to as the __________ clause.
A) federalist
B) liberal
C) conservative
D) elastic
Q2) 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
Q3) Impoverished farmers were concentrated in which part of Massachusetts?
A) eastern
B) western
C) southern
D) northern
Q4) What do the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution reveal about changes in how the states saw their relationship with one another?
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions reflected the perspective of which group?
A) Republicans
B) Federalists
C) the majority party in Congress
D) the advisers to the president
Q2) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 8.5,what have historians used to understand women's lives in early America?
A) private conversations between Abigail Adams and her servants
B) notes Abigail Adams took during the Constitutional Convention
C) letters Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams
D) speeches Abigail Adams delivered before her marriage
Q4) Why were farmers negatively affected by the federal tax on whiskey?
A) They consumed the most whiskey.
B) They distilled corn into whiskey.
C) They could not buy any other alcohol.
D) They controlled the black market.
Q5) Compare and contrast the goals and priorities of the Federalists and the Republicans.
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) Thomas Jefferson had Aaron Burr prosecuted for __________.
A) dueling
B) fraud
C) murder
D) treason
Q2) The Louisiana Purchase shifted America's future in which direction?
A) north
B) south
C) east
D) west
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 9.4,Moses Austin could not export the lead his company mined because of the __________.
A) Revolution of 1800
B) French Revolution
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Embargo Act
Q4) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
Q5) Evaluate Thomas Jefferson's presidency.What were his successes? What were his failures?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 10.1,the similarities between Americans and the British enabled Britain to pursue a policy of __________.
A) impressment
B) containment
C) annexation
D) evacuation
Q2) Which of the following countries would have most likely disagreed with the artistic interpretation of the Peace of Ghent shown in the image?
A) Britain
B) Belgium
C) United States
D) Italy
Q3) The American government's policy of Indian removal affected __________ in the War of 1812.
A) all Indians regardless of their position
B) only those Indians that had sided with the United States
C) only those Indians that had sided with Britain
D) only those Indians that had remained neutral
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) To which present-day state were Indians relocated under the Indian Removal Act?
A) Oregon
B) Mississippi
C) Georgia
D) Oklahoma
Q2) Which of the following made specific provisions that ensured the continued existence of slavery in the United States?
A) Louisiana Purchase
B) Trail of Tears
C) Bank of the United States
D) Missouri Compromise
Q3) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 11.6,what did John Quincy Adams's campaign use to discredit Andrew Jackson during the 1828 presidential election?
A) Worcestor v. Georgia
B) Indian Removal Act
C) coffin handbills
D) cotton gins
Q4) How did slavery influence American politics in the early nineteenth century?
Q5) How democratic was Jacksonian Democracy? What were its limits?
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) What did George Fitzhugh call "slaves without masters"?
A) cannibals
B) heroes
C) fugitives
D) abolitionists
Q2) Who would have most likely agreed with the following statement?: "Hatred to slavery is very generally little more than hatred of negroes."
A) George Fitzhugh
B) Henry Watson
C) William Lloyd Garrison
D) Henry Clay
Q3) According to the Past and Present video in section 12.6,critics of the notion of American exceptionalism accuse Americans of __________.
A) having a double standard
B) holding themselves to a higher standard
C) adhering to an isolationist foreign policy
D) allowing other countries to choose their own path
Q4) In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?
Q5) 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) According to the video in the introduction,what triggered a series of events that would culminate in the Civil War?
A) the decline of the abolitionist movement
B) the discovery of gold in California
C) the acquisition of Florida from Spain
D) the revocation of the return clause in the Constitution
Q2) Which of the following contained a provision requiring all states to return fugitive slaves?
A) the Constitution
B) the Declaration of Independence
C) the Kansas-Nebraska Act
D) the Missouri Compromise
Q3) "Bleeding Kansas" refers to the violent conflict between supporters and opponents of
A) slavery
B) secession
C) expansion
D) industrialization
Q4) How was the Missouri Compromise of 1820 weakened in the middle of the nineteenth century?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) How many states joined the Confederate States of America?
A) four
B) seven
C) eleven
D) fifteen
Q2) Which of the following conclusions is supported by the information provided in the map?
A) All slave states joined the Confederacy.
B) Some slave states remained in the Union.
C) Some free states joined the Confederacy.
D) The first states to secede were all in the West.
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 14.2,Abraham Lincoln saw Southern secession as a threat to the vital interests of the United States after the secession of which state?
A) Louisiana
B) South Carolina
C) Florida
D) Georgia
Q4) What contributed to the victory of the Union over the Confederacy in the Civil War?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) In the parade of freedmen in Charleston in 1865,one of the banners read,"Our past the Block,our future the School." What does the Block symbolize?
A) education
B) slavery
C) redemption
D) suffrage
Q2) The Fourteenth Amendment states that the right to __________ cannot be revoked without due process of law.
A) property
B) representation
C) citizenship
D) education
Q3) According to the video in the introduction,the period from 1865 to 1877 is referred to as __________.
A) Redemption
B) Peace Policy
C) Reconstruction
D) The Birth of a Nation
Q4) To what extent was Reconstruction a success? To what extent was it a failure?
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