Introduction to American History Exam Bank
Course Introduction
Introduction to American History offers students a foundational overview of the major events, people, and movements that have shaped the United States from its earliest beginnings to the present day. The course explores key themes such as colonization, the American Revolution, westward expansion, the Civil War, industrialization, and significant 20th-century developments, while also considering the diverse experiences of individuals and groups across the nations history. Through lectures, readings, discussions, and primary source analysis, students will develop an understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces that have influenced the American experience.
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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) According to the introductory video in section 1.1,which of the following is considered to be the lifeline of civilizations?
A) roads
B) rivers
C) mountains
D) glaciers
Answer: B
Q2) The sexual union of Earth-mother and Sky-father is central to the creation story of the __________ Indians.
A) Zuñi
B) Iroquois
C) Chinook
D) Creek
Answer: A
Q3) The Inca civilization developed a system of record-keeping using __________.
A) potlatches
B) quipu
C) longships
D) teepees
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) What did Columbus name the island that he landed on in 1492?
A) San Salvador
B) Bahamas
C) Cuba
D) New Spain
Answer: A
Q2) Who led the voyages shown in the map?
A) Vasco da Gama
B) Walter Raleigh
C) Leif Erikson
D) Christopher Columbus
Answer: D
Q3) Who was the ruler of the Aztec empire when the Spanish conquest began?
A) Atahualpa
B) Moctezuma
C) Henry VIII
D) Elizabeth
Answer: B
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Why did the Chesapeake and the South attract so few settlers?
A) Land was more expensive.
B) Puritan orthodoxy stifled dissent.
C) Diseases were more deadly.
D) There were already too many people.
Answer: C
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following was a way that the English colonists acquired Indian territory?
A) signing treaties with Indian chiefs
B) marrying into Indian tribes
C) negotiating indenture contracts
D) regulating the Middle Passage
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
Q2) In the image,the young woman in the bottom right corner (seated at the end of the bench)appears to be a(n)__________.
A) victim of witchcraft
B) pawn of the government
C) spy for the devil
D) angel from heaven
Q3) Britain returned Louisbourg,which had been seized by the American colonists in 1745,to France in order to expand its empire in __________.
A) Mexico
B) Canada
C) India
D) China
Q4) According to the introductory video in section 4.2,life expectancy was the highest in
A) New England
B) England
C) the Deep South
D) the Chesapeake
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) The Sons of Liberty and the Committees of Correspondence both __________.
A) called for ending the boycott
B) opposed British control
C) condemned the Boston Tea Party
D) supported the Townshend duties
Q2) The ideals that inspired the American Revolution also influenced the __________.
A) policy of salutary neglect
B) abolitionist movement
C) French and Indian War
D) Proclamation of 1763
Q3) The American colonists viewed the Proclamation of 1763 and the Sugar Act as __________.
A) undermining their interests
B) promoting their well-being
C) encouraging local initiative
D) weakening Indian defenses
Q4) How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?
Q5) Compare and contrast American and British views on the events leading up to the American Revolution.Be sure to identify specific events and explain how the Americans and the British saw those events.
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) France's alliance with the Americans was motivated by its __________.
A) greed for gold
B) commitment to peace
C) need for revenue
D) rivalry with Britain
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) According to the introductory video in section 6.2,what was Franklin's strategy in Paris to secure a French alliance in the war against Britain?
A) turn the French aristocracy against their own king
B) provoke a rebellion against the French monarchy
C) mobilize popular support for the American cause
D) secretly work toward reconciliation with Britain
Q4) What was George Washington's strategy in the American Revolutionary War? How effective was it?
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) The Northwest Ordinance provided a path for territories to become states once their population reached __________.
A) 10,000
B) 25,000
C) 60,000
D) 100,000
Q2) What does the Shays Rebellion reveal about America in the years after the Revolutionary War?
Q3) Which of the following states would most likely support the proposal that the new land acquired in the Treaty of Paris be given to the states that bordered it?
A) New Hampshire
B) Massachusetts
C) Virginia
D) Rhode Island
Q4) Which of the following did Patrick Henry say should hold the most power?
A) Congress
B) the Supreme Court
C) the military
D) state governments
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) The French Revolution's ideals of liberty,equality,and fraternity resonated with __________.
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q2) Who would most likely have agreed to Edmond Genet's requests?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q3) Which country shown on the map established a naval blockade that interfered with American trade in Europe?
A) Russia
B) Hungary
C) French Republic
D) Ottoman Empire
Q4) Compare and contrast the goals and priorities of the Federalists and the Republicans.
Q5) Compare and contrast Federalist and Republican views on the French Revolution.
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) In his letter to Meriwether Lewis,Thomas Jefferson instructed Lewis to find a river route to the __________.
A) Great Salt Lake
B) Gulf of Mexico
C) Atlantic Ocean
D) Pacific Ocean
Q2) According to the Past and Present video in section 9.6,what evidence does the Constitution require to substantiate a charge of treason?
A) personal correspondence in which the accused mentions treason
B) testimony from two eyewitnesses who saw the alleged act of treason
C) circumstantial evidence that strongly suggests an act of treason
D) publication of materials that call for resisting federal laws
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 9.1,what was the outcome of the duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr?
A) Hamilton stepped away.
B) Burr stepped away.
C) Hamilton died.
D) Burr died.
Q4) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) Who would most agree with Tecumseh's message of Indian unity?
A) the Prophet
B) the war hawks
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Henry Clay
Q2) Who was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court?
A) John Marshall
B) William Weatherford
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) William Henry Harrison
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
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) In the Arguing History video in section 11.6,what does the speaker identify as the fulfillment of the promise made in the Declaration of Independence?
A) development of the welfare state
B) redistribution of economic resources
C) limits on political contributions
D) expansion of the franchise
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 11.1,Andrew Jackson married Rachel Robards even though she was __________ at the time.
A) married to someone else
B) engaged to someone else
C) under the age of eighteen
D) working as a prostitute
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 11.4,Andrew Jackson disagreed with __________ on a state's right to nullify a federal law.
A) John Calhoun
B) John Quincy Adams
C) John Marshall
D) Nicholas Biddle
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 12.4,how did the war with Mexico affect Ulysses Grant?
A) It turned him off of war completely and made him a pacifist.
B) It launched him to the national stage as the greatest general of all time.
C) It convinced him to fight only for causes that he believed were just.
D) It strengthened his commitment to the preservation of slavery.
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) Where did the Turner rebellion occur?
A) Virginia
B) New York
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia
Q4) How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?
Q5) In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?
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Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis
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Q1) According to the Arguing History video in section 13.6,the division of American society on the issue of slavery along __________ lines made secession easier to imagine.
A) geographical
B) racial
C) cultural
D) party
Q2) Based on the information in the map,which presidential candidate failed to gain any electoral votes from any states where slavery was allowed?
A) Lincoln
B) Breckinridge
C) Bell
D) Douglas
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 13.1,who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A) Mary Todd
B) Nat Turner
C) John Brown
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
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) According to the introductory video in section 14.5,which of the following was the farthest north that Confederate troops reached?
A) Vicksburg
B) Gettysburg
C) Antietam
D) Bull Run
Q2) Which of the following states seceded from the Union in 1861?
A) Missouri
B) Kentucky
C) Kansas
D) Louisiana
Q3) How many states had seceded by March 1861?
A) three
B) five
C) seven
D) nine
Q4) In what respects was the conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865 a civil war? In what respects was it a rebellion? In what respects was it a war of independence?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) Which of the following ended Reconstruction?
A) Compromise of 1877
B) Ku Klux Klan Act
C) Plessy v. Ferguson
D) The Birth of a Nation
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) To what extent was Reconstruction a success? To what extent was it a failure?
Q4) The Thirteenth,Fourteenth,and Fifteenth Amendments are collectively referred to as the __________ amendments.
A) Reconstruction
B) Republican
C) Radical
D) Jim Crow
Q5) Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.
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