Introduction to US History Pre-Test Questions
Course Introduction
Introduction to US History provides students with an overview of the major events, people, and themes that have shaped the United States from its colonial beginnings to the present day. This course explores significant political, economic, social, and cultural developments, examining topics such as the founding of the nation, the evolution of democracy, slavery and its abolition, industrialization, major wars, social movements, and the ongoing challenges of contemporary America. Through analysis of primary and secondary sources, students will gain a deeper understanding of the historical forces that have influenced the country's trajectory and the diverse experiences of its people.
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Q1) Shamans performed rituals to do which of the following in Native American society?
A)influence weather.
B)cure illness.
C)interpret dreams.
D)predict the future.
E)All of the above
Answer: E
Q2) In the early sixteenth century,the pope decided the terms of settlement and exploration of the New World.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Which European nation was the early leader in exploration?
A)Spain
B)Portugal
C)England
D)Italy
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) The Age of Exploration is historically important because it _____.
A)led to the discovery of shortcuts to lucrative trade networks
B)led to the rise of nation-states
C)transformed life on four continents
D)made Spain the richest nation in the world
Answer: C
Q2) Which crop dominated the economies of Brazil and the Caribbean in the early sixteenth century?
A)Potatoes
B)Corn
C)Tobacco
D)Sugar cane
Answer: D
Q3) Mercantilist theory emerged from the growth of capitalism.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Agricultural production in the middle colonies and New England centered on A)grains and livestock.
B)rice.
C)sugar.
D)cotton.
E)tobacco.
Answer: A
Q2) The Massachusetts Bay charter called for the establishment and/or appointment of all but which of the following governing bodies and officials?
A)Governor
B)Deputy governor
C)Executive board
D)General court
E)Court of review
Answer: E
Q3) The Virginia Company of London funded the first permanent English colony at Jamestown.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) 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.
Q2) The North Carolina Regulator Movement targeted
A)British tax laws.
B)the control of colonial elites.
C)belligerent Native American tribes.
D)slaves across the border in South Carolina.
E)All of these
Q3) One strategy that proved to be effective against the Townshend Act was that of nonimportation.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Gaspée was a French warship that harassed colonial merchant ships.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) The Disqualification Act was designed to punish those who had participated in Shays's Rebellion.
A)True
B)False
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) By 1775,the population of British North America was A)500,000.
B)1.5 million.
C)2.5 million.
D)5 million.
E)3 million.
Q4) 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) Which of the following individuals,who was also a much-disliked cousin of Thomas Jefferson's,served as chief justice of the U.S.Supreme Court?
A)John Marbury
B)John Marshall
C)John Adams
D)John Jay
E)John Taney
Q2) Which of the following occurred in the presidential election of 1796?
A)Aaron Burr became vice president.
B)John Adams became president.
C)Members of two different political parties became president and vice president.
D)Both B and C
E)Both A and B
Q3) The controversial and seminal election of 1800 led to
A)Aaron Burr's killing of Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
B)the scrapping of most Federalist programs.
C)the passage of the Twelfth Amendment.
D)All of these
E)None of these
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) The most famous minister during the revivals of the 1820s and 1830s was Samuel Gridley Howe.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Textile mills in Waltham,Massachusetts,drew their workers primarily from
A)the sons of local farmers.
B)the wives of local farmers.
C)young,unmarried farm women.
D)children between the ages of twelve and fourteen.
E)farmers who had little work to do during the winter months.
Q3) The Unitarian Church is well known for
A)allowing women such as Margaret Fuller to preach in public services.
B)holding to a literal interpretation of the Bible.
C)focusing on feelings rather than doctrine in matters of religion.
D)establishing colleges for women.
Q4) The Erie Canal was completed in 1832.
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) White women on southern plantations
A)were required to be submissive to husbands
B)felt powerless to challenge slavery
C)turned control of all of their possessions over to their husbands upon marriage
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q2) Southern society knew about white men's sexual - often forced - relationships with slave women but pretended not to notice.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The explosive issue of slavery split which of the following churches?
A)Methodist
B)Quakers
C)Catholic
D)Baptists
Q4) 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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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) Andrew Jackson vetoed the rechartering of the Bank of the United States because he believedit
A)prevented state banks from lending money.
B)refused to accept deposits of federal revenue.
C)went against states' rights.
D)constantly meddled in national politics.
E)had been responsible for his losing thousands of dollars years earlier.
Q2) Who was Andrew Jackson's presidential successor?
A)Henry Clay
B)Martin Van Buren
C)William Seward
D)John Eaton
Q3) In 1840,William Henry Harrison was a presidential candidate for which political party?
A)Democratic
B)Whig
C)Anti-Mason
D)Republican
E)Stalwart
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Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion,
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Q1) Osceola was the leader of the Cherokees who resisted the forced march from native homelands and was captured and died in captivity
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following is not a true statement about the experiences of Native Americans after the War of 1812?
A)
They lost the protection they had hoped for from the British
B)They were tricked into giving up their land by fraudulent treaties
C)Whites ignored tribal differences and lumped all native peoples together
D)They found a genuine enemy in Andrew Jackson
E)They were increasingly pushed off their lands and onto more remote,less farmable lands
Q3) Which of the following groups established a town in Nauvoo,Illinois?
A)Abolitionists
B)African Americans
C)Mormons
D)Native Americans
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) Southern Whigs nominated Zachary Taylor for president in 1848 because they assumed he would support the spread of slavery.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What situation led to the Compromise of 1850?
A)California's request to join the Union as a free state
B)A disagreement over the route for a transcontinental railroad
C)A proposal to abolish the slave trade in the nation's capital
D)None of these
Q3) According to the principle of popular sovereignty,which of the following would be allowed?
A)Congress would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
B)The Supreme Court would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
C)Settlers would determine whether a territory would have slavery.
D)Slavery would be mandated in all new territories.
E)Slavery would be excluded from all new territories.
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) Andrew Stephens was President of theConfederacy.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Native American groups in the Oklahoma territory stood against the U.S.during the war.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which of the following statements regarding African American troops serving in the Union army is true?
A)They were paid the same wages as white troops.
B)From the beginning,they played an integral role in many fighting units.
C)They distinguished themselves in battles in Louisiana and South Carolina.
D)All of these
Q4) The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863
A)Freed all slaves
B)Freed only northern slaves
C)Freed slaves that lived in the rebel territories
D)Freed slaves once the war ended
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) What federal agency was formed to assist former slaves in making the economic adjustment to freedom?
A)Freedmen's Bureau
B)Department of Education
C)African American Rights Association
D)NAACP
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) 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
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Q1) Which of the following events took place the year after the defeat of Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn?
A)Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act.
B)Chief Joseph attempted to lead his band of Nez Percé to Canada.
C)Geronimo surrendered to the U.S.army and was exiled to Florida.
D)Grant appointed Ely Parker as Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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) Which of the following had the greatest influence in the destruction of the buffalo in the 1860s and 1870s?
A)The advent of the railroad
B)A growing Indian population
C)Changes to the American diet
D)Disease
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance:
Industrialization, urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) What nineteenth-century politician and orator became famous for his "cross of gold" speech in which he said,"You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns,you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold"?
A)William McKinley
B)William Jennings Bryan
C)William Seward
D)William Howard Taft
Q2) Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish immigrant who gained considerable wealth in the steel industry.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statement was not true of railroads in the 1880s?
A)They stimulated the development of a national market.
B)They consumed more than half of the nation's steel production.
C)There was only one transcontinental line.
D)They moved toward consolidation.
Q4) J.P.Morgan founded the Standard Oil Company.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What was the label applied to investigative reporters who sought to expose government corruption and social ills?
A)Muckrakers
B)Yellow journalists
C)Sensationalists
D)Rationalists
Q2) The Payne-Aldrich Tariff called for lowering duties on
A)lumber and cattle hides.
B)cotton and wool.
C)grains.
D)tobacco.
Q3) Which changes took place in the U.S.family in the early 1900s?
A)States revoked laws making homosexuality illegal.
B)Divorce was easier to obtain and more common.
C)The average size of the family increased.
D)Some states legalized abortion.
Q4) The Hepburn Act increased government's control over the country's railroads.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which of these was NOT part of the U.S.war effort during World War I
A)Meatless days
B)Wheatless days
C)Fishless days
D)Victory gardens
Q3) The Triple Alliance consisted of which three countries?
A)Italy,Germany and France
B)Germany,Austria and England
C)Italy,Germany and Austria
D)Germany,France and England
Q4) Charles Evans Hughes was a Supreme Court justice and the Republican Party's 1916 presidential candidate.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The Rise of American Mass Culture, 1920-1929
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Q1) In the 1921-1922 Washington Naval Conference,a commitment to respect one another's territorial possessions was agreed to by all of the following countries except:
A)France
B)Great Britain
C)Japan
D)the Soviet Union
E)the United States
Q2) President Coolidge supported laws overseeing the new airline industry and the nation's radio airwaves.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Boston's Fenway Park was known as "the House that Ruth built."
A)True
B)False
Q4) F.Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby depicted
A)the beauty of urban society.
B)the horrors of World War I.
C)the excesses of the Jazz Age.
D)the artistry of the United States.
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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 was the goal of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
A)to help public schools stay open
B)to help states aid the unemployed
C)to help banks protect their deposits
D)to help farmers hurt by the Dust Bowl
Q2) The Supreme Court became more liberal as President Roosevelt replaced justices who retired with his own choices.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What country invaded Manchuria in 1931?
A)France
B)Korea
C)Japan
D)Russia
Q4) What did the 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act do?
A)reduce taxes on corporates and estates
B)grant workers freedom of association in unions
C)provide states with matching funds for unemployment relief
D)fund the construction and renovation of transportation facilities
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) Germany's lightening strike invasion of Poland was called the A)Anschluss
B)Blitzkrieg
C)Kristallnacht
D)Luftwaffe
Q2) Which of the following statements regarding the fall of the Philippines is false?
A)Trapped U.S.troops held out for six months in the Bataan Peninsula before being forced to surrender to Japanese troops.
B)President Roosevelt ordered commanding general Douglas MacArthur to slip out of the Philippines,leaving his troops behind.
C)When the defenders surrendered,the Japanese forced them to walk roughly 70 miles with little or no food or water.
D)The fall of the Philippines deeply divided Americans,who began to question whether the country should be at war.
Q3) Operation TORCH was the code name for the D-Day invasion of France.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
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Q1) All of the following were provisions of the National Security Act of 1947 except
A)the creation of a single Department of Defense to oversee all the armed forces
B)the establishment of the Central Intelligence Agency to collect intelligence abroad
C)the establishment of the National Security Council to provide foreign policy information to the president
D)the creation of the House Un-American Activities Committee to investigate subversive activities within the United States
Q2) What was the Beat Generation?
A)a group of parents and educators who opposed the new rock 'n' roll culture
B)a group of writers and poets who attacked mainstream values and conformity
C)a group of World War II veterans who demanded respect for older Americans
D)a group of young people who focused on economic prosperity and material gain
Q3) The United States experienced a surge in marriage and birth rates in the years following World War II.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) Mobilization Day was a day set aside in 1969 for draft-age men to sign up for military service.
A)True
B)False
Q2) In the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty,the United States and the Soviet Union limited the number of long-range missiles and froze the production of antiballistic missiles for five years.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Who were the freedom riders?
A)the first military advisors in Vietnam
B)leaders of a bus boycott in and beyond Montgomery,Alabama
C)members of the Beat Generation who followed Jack Kerouac on his On the Road adventure
D)bus travelers who traveled through the South to test the Supreme Court ruling outlawing segregation
Q4) Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after he was implicated in the Watergate scandal.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) President Jimmy Carter attempted to stimulate the ailing economy in all of the following ways except
A)tax cuts
B)public works programs
C)a voluntary citizens' program called "Whip Inflation Now"
D)an increase in the minimum wage
Q2) What was the Strategic Defense Initiative?
A)a weapons system based in space that would shoot down Soviet missiles
B)a series of nuclear missile bases in locations surrounding the Soviet Union
C)a set of international agreements that pledged mutual assistance in case of Soviet aggression
D)a surveillance system that would make it feasible to hit Soviet-launched missiles while they were still over Soviet territory.
Q3) Under the Helsinki Accord (1975),the U.S.and Soviet Union promised to respect cold war boundaries between eastern and western Europe.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 24: America in a Global Context, 1989-Present
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Q1) President George W.Bush's waning popularity at the beginning of his second term was due in large part to his proposal for which of the following?
A)education reform
B)changes to Social Security
C)a national health-care system
D)an end to unemployment insurance
Q2) The 1992 acquittal of four white police officers accused of beating Rodney King after he was stopped for speeding sparked race riots that left 53 people dead in what city?
A)Atlanta
B)Chicago
C)Los Angeles
D)New York
Q3) Conservatives such as Lynne Cheney and David Horowitz viewed "political correctness" as
A)the cornerstone of a multicultural democratic society.
B)an overemphasis on the importance of Western culture.
C)a violation of the principle of separation of church and state.
D)an insistence on conforming to liberal views on race and gender.
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