History of the United States Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive overview of the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the history of the United States from its earliest colonial beginnings to the present. Students will examine the formation and evolution of American society, exploring key events such as the American Revolution, Civil War, industrialization, world wars, civil rights movements, and contemporary issues. Through primary and secondary sources, the course emphasizes the diversity of experiences and perspectives that have shaped the nation's past, helping students to develop critical thinking skills and a deeper understanding of the historical forces that continue to influence the United States today.
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Q1) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci described the continent he encountered in his travels as the "New World."
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) The European explorer who first touched the coast of Brazil and led to its being claimed by his country was Pedro Álvares Cabral.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which of the following explorers did not set out in search of the Northwest Passage?
A)John Cabot
B)Giovanni da Verrazzano
C)Henry the Navigator
D)Jacques Cartier
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) The highest Spanish governing officials who actually resided in America were the viceroys.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Which of the following made it far easier for Europeans to take land from native peoples?
A)Native people's strong desire for horses,which made them willing to yield land in exchange
B)The impact of European diseases on native populations
C)The ability to enslave native peoples
D)The Europeans' possession and use of guns
Answer: B
Q3) European travelers introduced which of the following to the New World?
A)Pigs and sheep
B)Tobacco
C)Potatoes
D)Coffee
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) The Pilgrims were of what religious faith?
A)Separatists
B)Puritans
C)Lutherans
D)Anglicans
E)Catholics
Answer: A
Q2) South Carolina's plantation economy resembled that of what other territory?
A)Hawaii
B)Virginia
C)West Indies
D)West Africa
E)Both C and D
Answer: C
Q3) By 1675,both the English and the Spanish had established colonies along the Atlantic coast.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) What occurred after Great Britain closed the port of Boston?
A)Residents were confronted with food shortages.
B)Residents faced severe unemployment.
C)Neighboring towns harbored refugees from Boston looking for work.
D)Other provinces began to suggest a Continental Congress to consider what action to take.
E)All of these
Q2) 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
Q3) The Sons of Liberty were first formed to protest the A)Stamp Act.
B)Molasses Act.
C)Currency Act.
D)Tea Act.
E)Sugar Act.
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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) At the Constitutional Convention,the agreed-upon 3/5ths compromise called for enslaved Americans to count as 3/5ths of a free person for what purpose?
A)direct taxation.
B)apportioning representation.
C)All of these
D)None of these
Q3) The principal author of the first Northwest Ordinance was John Adams.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) Spain and the United States disputed the boundaries of A)Louisiana.
B)Ohio.
C)Utah.
D)California.
Q2) The Whiskey Rebellion served to demonstrate
A)Washington's weaknesses as president.
B)the strength of the federal government.
C)the success of the determined farmers.
D)the weaknesses of the federal government.
E)Jefferson's effectiveness as an arbitrator.
Q3) The Judiciary Act of 1801 reduced the number of justices on the Supreme Court from six to five.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The initial reaction in the United States to revolution in France was supportive. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Dorothea Dix launched a famous crusade in support of A)the abolition of slavery.
B)the right of women to vote and hold office.
C)protections for children working in factories.
D)humane institutions for the insane,orphans,and the poor,among others.
Q2) The Erie Canal was completed in 1832.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Erie Canal was financed primarily through A)taxes.
B)tolls.
C)legislative grants.
D)fundraising drives.
E)ticket sales.
Q4) Horace Mann became most famous for his work in what profession?
A)business
B)education
C)law enforcement
D)clergy
E)journalism
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) Nat Turner was a Virginia slave who led a slave revolt in 1831.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the result of Nat Turner's revolt?
A)The deaths of more than 700 whites
B)The hanging of Turner and numerous other rebels
C)A growing fear of slave rebellions throughout the South
D)Both the deaths of 700 whites and the hanging of Turner
E)Both Turner's hanging and an escalating fear of slave rebellions throughout the white South
Q3) 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.
Q4) The Missouri Compromise allowed Missouri to join the Union as a free state while permitting slavery inCalifornia.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) The new Whig Party consisted mainly of those who disliked A)internal improvements.
B)a strong central government.
C)the national bank.
D)Andrew Jackson.
E)Freemasons.
Q2) In 1840,William Henry Harrison was a presidential candidate for which political party?
A)Democratic
B)Whig
C)Anti-Mason
D)Republican
E)Stalwart
Q3) Andrew Jackson filled his cabinet with men from his native Tennessee. A)True B)False
Q4) 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
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1820-1860
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Q1) Which of the following statements regarding the Gadsden Purchase of 1853 is true?
A)It defined the final border of the continental United States.
B)It cost the United States $30 million.
C)It gave the United States a clear route for the building of the southern transcontinental railroad.
D)Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S.and cost $30 million
E)Both that it defined the final border of the continental U.S.and provided a clear route for constructing a southern transcontinental railroad.
Q2) Why was the war with Mexico notable?
A)The fact that the United States had an exceptionally strong navy
B)The number of military leaders who made names for themselves in that conflict
C)The extremely small number of U.S.casualties
D)Answers B and C
E)Answers A and B
Q3) John Sutter owned the land in California where gold was first discovered in 1848
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) In the 1860 election,Abraham Lincoln won all of the following northern states except A)New York.
B)Indiana.
C)Connecticut.
D)Rhode Island.
E)New Jersey.
Q2) Harriet Beecher Stowe filed a lawsuit seeking to have the Dred Scott freed by the U.S.Supreme Court.
A)True
B)False
Q3) As people prepared to vote in the presidential election of 1860,they were very much aware that their decision might result in civil war.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Fire-eaters were people who were extremely vocal in their opposition to slavery. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) What was the major reason why the South suffered food shortages on the home front during the war?
A)It sold many of its crops abroad to help finance its war effort
B)It continued to concentrate on raising cotton instead of food crops
C)Wealthy families hoarded food
D)All of the above
Q2) All of the following were the advantages the Confederacy had over the Union at the start of the Civil War except
A)A larger geographical terrain to navigate
B)Its long border with Mexico
C)Its large industrial capacity
D)A network of country roads that made sneak attacks possible
E)Generals with greater military experience than those in the North
Q3) Lincoln's position on slavery was
A)It should end gradually
B)Slave holders should be paid for their slaves once they were freed
C)He hated slavery personally
D)All of the above
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) In its 1896 decision in Plessy v.Ferguson,the Supreme Court upheld racial segregation
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) The Freedmen's Bureau was established by Congress to oversee blacks' transition from slavery to freedom
A)True
B)False
Q4) Sharecroppers who rented and worked farms owned by larger landowners were able to make a comfortable living after a few years
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The last major chapter in the Indian wars took place at _____.
A)Little Big Horn
B)Sand Creek
C)Wounded Knee
D)Leadville
Q2) Dollar diplomacy was applied to Latin America but not to Asia.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements about the U.S.attempt to dominate the West is true?
A)The U.S.army killed Geronimo during his raids throughout the Southwest.
B)The U.S.army thwarted Chief Joseph's attempt to migrate to Canada with his band of Nez Percé.
C)The Dawes Severalty Act resulted in the sale of 200 million acres of land set aside as Indian reservations to white settlers and speculators.
D)President Grant favored the annihilation of western Indians.
Q4) Nearly one million buffalo were slaughtered during the 1870s.
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 city hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893?
A)New York
B)Chicago
C)St.Louis
D)Philadelphia
Q2) New immigrants to the United States in the 1870s provided much of the unskilled labor in U.S.factories.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was the co-founder of Hull House,a settlement house in Chicago?
A)Jane Addams
B)Louis Sullivan
C)Samuel Gompers
D)Andrew Carnegie
Q4) Andrew Carnegie cut the cost of steel rail in half by switching to the Bessemer process.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) 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
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) 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
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) During the war,Germany did not target American troop ships because they did not think American soldiers were good fighters.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these was not an attempt by the U.S.government to limit criticism of its participation in the war?
A)The Espionage Act
B)The Leverage Act
C)The Sedition Act
D)The Alien Act
Q3) The Fourteen Points included all of the following except A)freedom of the seas.
B)national self-determination.
C)a league of nations to keep the peace.
D)total disarmament.
Q4) The Palmer raids sought to end labor strikes by rounding up and arresting union activists.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Who was the Democratic candidate for president in the 1924 election?
A)John W.Davis
B)Albert Fall
C)Robert La Follette
D)Alfred Smith
Q2) The National Origins Quota Act was designed to give preference to immigrants from what region?
A)Asia
B)Latin America
C)Northern Europe
D)Southern and Eastern Europe
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) Boston's Fenway Park was known as "the House that Ruth built."
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) Who was Jesse Owens?
A)an African American track star
B)an African American radio comedian
C)the first African American baseball player
D)the first African American Oscar winner
Q2) How did Congress respond to German and Italian aggression in the mid-1930s?
A)It issued a declaration of war.
B)It passed two Neutrality Acts.
C)It proclaimed support for its allies.
D)It called for an emergency summit of world leaders.
Q3) President Roosevelt embraced isolationist ideals that the United States should refrain from all agreements with European nations.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The American Liberty League was organized by conservative business leaders to counter what they viewed as the New Deal's radicalism.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) More than 3 million U.S.women entered the workforce for the first time during World War II.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg helped prevent the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps from what country?
A)Austria
B)Belgium
C)Bulgaria
D)Hungary
Q3) Who became president following the death of FDR on April 12,1945?
A)Herbert Hoover
B)Warren Harding
C)Calvin Coolidge
D)Harry Truman
E)Dwight Eisenhower
Q4) The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
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Q1) In what year did North Korea invade South Korea?
A)1945
B)1947
C)1950
D)1953
Q2) Following World War II,the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)turned attention from investigating Nazi propaganda to addressing lynchings and other violence associated with racism.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who was John F.Kennedy's Republican opponent in the presidential election of 1960?
A)Dwight Eisenhower
B)Richard Nixon
C)Lyndon Johnson
D)John Nance Garner
E)J.Edgar Hoover
Q4) President Truman did not run for re-election in 1952.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) At what university did a violent confrontation between antiwar protesters and National Guard troops result in the death of four students?
A)Kent State
B)Princeton
C)University of Mississippi
D)University of California at Berkeley
Q2) Mobilization Day was a day set aside in 1969 for draft-age men to sign up for military service.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What became the first mass-circulation magazine in 1972?
A)Cosmopolitan
B)Mademoiselle
C)Ms.
D)Working Woman
Q4) In the 1972 election,Nixon carried every state except Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Proposition 2 ½ in Massachusetts sought to lower income taxes in response to the recession.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these presidents appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first female justice to the U.S.Supreme Court?
A)Ronald Reagan
B)Gerald Ford
C)Jimmy Carter
D)George H.W.Bush
Q3) In 1979,Iranian militants seized the U.S.Embassy in Iran and took Americans hostage after the United States
A)pledged support for Islamic fundamentalists in toppling the shah.
B)refused to give diplomatic recognition to the new regime in Iran.
C)Allowed the deposed shah to enter the United States for medical treatment.
D)threatened to return the deposed shah to power through force if necessary.
Q4) The president who deregulated the airline industry was Ronald Reagan.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: America in a Global Context, 1989-Present
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Q1) In 1994,the United States intervened in what country to help push out the military rulers as a prelude to a more democratic government?
A)Cuba
B)Haiti
C)Mexico
D)Nicaragua
Q2) During Bill Clinton's first two years as president,U.S.economy experienced all of the following except:
A)tax increases.
B)free trade agreements.
C)an economic recession.
D)a decrease in the federal deficit.
Q3) Results of the close presidential election of 2000 were called into question due to irregularities in what state?
A)California
B)Florida
C)Tennessee
D)Texas
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