U.S. History I Exam Bank
Course Introduction
U.S. History I offers a comprehensive survey of the political, social, economic, and cultural development of the United States from its pre-Columbian origins through the end of the Civil War. The course explores key events such as European colonization, the American Revolution, the creation of the Constitution, westward expansion, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War. Emphasis is placed on the experiences and perspectives of diverse groups, including Indigenous peoples, enslaved Africans, women, and immigrants, to provide a nuanced understanding of how the early foundations of the United States shaped the nations identity and institutions.
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Q1) Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal engaged or planned to engage in all but which of the following?
A)Challenge Arab hold on commerce with the East
B)Challenge Italian hold on commerce with the East
C)Promote trade with Africa
D)Spread Christianity
Answer: D
Q2) Which of these factors contributed to increased exploration by the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
A)New developments in shipbuilding
B)Increased used of lateen sails
C)Updated versions of astrolabes
D)All of these choices.
Answer: D
Q3) After months at sea,Columbus first spotted what we now know as Cuba on October 12,1492.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
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Q1) Native peoples rejected all aspects of Catholicism that Spanish missionaries offered.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Which of the following is NOT a true statement about the transatlantic slave trade?
A)Portugal practically had a monopoly on slave trade during the sixteenth century.
B)The growth of the slave trade was propelled by sugar cultivation.
C)African slaves were first transported to Portugal's South American colonies and plantations.
D)The journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas is referred to as the Middle Passage.
Answer: C
Q3) Columbus brought horses to the Americas for the first time as part of the Columbian Exchange.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) The conversion from rice to tobacco completely transformed the society of South Carolina,making slavery much less important.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) Because Puritan women were the spiritual equals of men,they shared in the oversight of the churches.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) More than 100,000 German immigrants arrived in America during the century leading up to the American Revolution.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) By 1720,blacks composed 20 percent of the population in the Chesapeake region.
A)True
B)False Answer: True
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following describes the situation in Boston by 1770?
A)Boston had become the powder keg of the revolution,with detested Redcoats garrisoned in the city.
B)Bostonians directed their anger toward customs agents,burning several customs houses.
C)During the Boston Massacre,British troops initiated a conflict with a local crowd,eventually firing into the group and killing more than a dozen.
D)In the face of so much lost revenue,the British government decided to repeal all the Townshend duties Bostonians had been protesting,including the tea tax.
E)All of these are descriptive of the situation in Boston.
Q3) One reason for the uproar over the Sugar Act was that it took effect during an economic depression.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) What was the status of U.S.exports by the end of the 1780s?
A)They had declined by 25 percent.
B)They returned to approximately their pre-Revolutionary level.
C)They had increased by about 10 percent.
D)They surpassed those of Great Britain.
E)They reached a level equal to those of France.
Q2) Which of the following events occurred first?
A)The Spanish began to allow Americans to use the port of New Orleans after paying duties.
B)Congress passed an ordinance to establish rules for obtaining statehood in the Northwest Territory.
C)America's first depression struck the nation.
D)The Bank of North America was established.
Q3) The three land ordinances passed by Congress in the 1780s dealt with settlement in A)the Northwest Territory.
B)the Southwest Territory.
C)Tennessee Valley.
D)Louisiana.
E)Florida.
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) Which of the following accurately describes America's first Congress?
A)Antifederalists
B)Elitists
C)Federalists
D)Both A and B
E)Both B and C
Q2) Which of the following event pairings occurred during the same year?
A)George Washington became president and the French Revolution began.
B)The Bank of the United States was established and the Senate approved the Jay Treaty.
C)John Adams became president and the Naturalization Act was passed.
D)The Judiciary Act was passed and Alexander Hamilton wrote his Report on Public Credit.
Q3) After the War of 1812,who was placed in charge of negotiating with native tribes in the Southeast?
A)Andrew Jackson
B)James Monroe
C)John C.Calhoun
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Jay
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Protective tariffs were opposed by those who supported the American System.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) When completed,the Erie Canal was how much longer than any canal built prior?
A)Two times longer
B)Three times longer
C)Five times longer
D)Ten times longer
E)It was actually smaller than most canals of its day.
Q4) The most famous artistic production of the antebellum United States was the statue The Greek Slave.
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) Young male slaves would bring the highest prices in the slave markets.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Pennsylvania Abolition Society provided legal counsel to African Americans fighting for their liberty
A)True
B)False
Q3) The invention of the invention of the cotton gin in 1793 helped transform cotton into the South's most profitable crop.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves?
A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)Quakers
D)Anglicans
E)Puritans
Q5) White slave owners justified slavery by pointing to the Bible. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) The Freemasons formed in response to the growth of secret political societies;their efforts grew them into an influential third party
A)True
B)False
Q2) William Henry Harrison won the presidency in 1840 in part because he lived in a log cabin and drank hard cider.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the original cause of the split between Andrew Jackson and John C.Calhoun?
A)The Tariff of 1828
B)The 1824 election
C)John Eaton's appointment as secretary of war
D)Martin Van Buren's appointment as secretary of state.
E)Nullification
Q4) Republicans was the new name given to supporters of Jackson;shortened from the old name of Democratic-Republicans
A)True
B)False
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1820-1860
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Q1) The Forty-Niners were men who found a minimum of forty-nine pounds of gold during the California gold rush.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) The 1846 Wilmot Proviso -introduced in Congress but never enacted-would have permitted slavery in any territory that might be won from Mexico as a result of war
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) After the 1860 election,the Democrats retained control of which government body?
A)Senate
B)Supreme Court
C)House of Representatives
D)Both the Senate and Supreme Court
E)All of these
Q2) Who was the Supreme Court chief justice who presided over the Dred Scott case?
A)John Marshall
B)James Marbury
C)Joseph Scalia
D)Roger B.Taney
E)John Quincy Adams
Q3) What was the most problematic aspect of the Compromise of 1850?
A)The exclusion of slavery from California
B)The banning of the slave trade in Washington,D.C.
C)The Fugitive Slave Act
D)The banning of slavery in the territories of the Southwest
E)The banning of slavery in the nation's capital
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Q1) Which of the following statements concerning women in the Civil War is true?
A)Women volunteered for military service in northern armies.
B)Women quickly became respected as nurses in both armies.
C)In the South,the U.S.Sanitary Commission coordinated women's relief efforts.
D)Dorothea Dix later established the Red Cross as a result of her experiences in the war.
E)Women gained fame for their fighting abilities in the conflict.
Q2) Union men who were drafted could pay $300 to have someone else serve for them. A)True
B)False
Q3) What made Jefferson Davis seem a more likely wartime leader than Abraham Lincoln?
A)He had served in the war with Mexico
B)He had previously served as Secretary of War
C)He had served more time in political office
D)All of these
Q4) The Union and Confederacy both eagerly enlisted African Americans as soldiers.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and
Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 gave the federal government the power to outlaw the Klan.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What was the legacy of Reconstruction for most African Americans?
A)The full legal benefits of freedom
B)Discrimination and violence
C)Landownership for the first time
D)Admission to skilled factory jobs
E)Economic security
Q3) Scalawags were white northerners who went South during Reconstruction.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Lucy Stone and Alice Stone Blackwell fought for equal rights for women via the American Woman Suffrage Association
A)True
B)False
Q5) The National Woman Suffrage Association rejected the Fifteenth Amendment
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 14: Projecting Power, widening Borders: the
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Q1) The Roosevelt Corollary was an extension of which policy?
A)Manifest Destiny
B)Monroe Doctrine
C)Open Door Policy
D)Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Q2) Passed in 1901,the Platt Amendment _____.
A)encouraged trade with China
B)dictated the terms of the Panama Canal Zone
C)established protectorate status in the Philippines
D)barred Cuba from allying itself with another foreign power
Q3) During the period known for yellow journalism,William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer published newspapers in what American city?
A)Chicago
B)San Francisco
C)Boston
D)Washington D.C.
E)New York
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) Time zones were put in place by the railroad industry to help facilitate nationwide travel and transport.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Wilson-Gorman Tariff included provisions for all of the following except
A)reducing duties on wool
B)adding a personal income tax
C)raising duties on copper and lumber
D)repealing reciprocal trade provisions of the McKinley Tariff Act
Q3) John D.Rockefeller made his fortune in what sector of the economy?
A)Banking
B)Railroads
C)Steel
D)Oil
Q4) Which of the following was not one of the Ocala demands?
A)The subtreasury program
B)Regulation of transportation facilities
C)Free and unlimited coinage of silver
D)Abolition of the income tax
E)Abolition of private banks
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1895-1920
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Q1) In 1912,Theodore Roosevelt ran as the presidential candidate of the Bull Moose Party,which was officially known as the
A)Socialist Party.
B)American Party.
C)Progressive Party.
D)Know-Nothing Party.
E)People's Party.
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 Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans to
A)Midwestern farms
B)the Pacific Coast
C)Canada
D)Northern cities
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
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Q1) In Schenck v.United States (1919)the Supreme Court declared that laws did not violate the rights of suspected radicals because they presented "a clear and present danger."
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) Where did World War I begin?
A)In Russia
B)In Germany
C)In the Balkans
D)In Great Britain
Q4) From the outbreak of war in Europe,President Woodrow Wilson publically supported England and its allies
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The first motion picture with sound was The Grapes of Wrath.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The McNary-Haugen Plan,which was introduced in Congress repeatedly in the 1920s,was intended to provide support for A)agriculture.
B)banking.
C)hydroelectric power plants.
D)railroad construction.
Q3) One problem for the U.S.economy in the late 1920s was the uneven distribution of wealth.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What was the Spirit of St.Louis?
A)an airplane
B)a baseball stadium
C)a book
D)a movie
E)a train
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Chapter 19: A Nation in Crisis: the Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939
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Q1) Upon taking office President Roosevelt declared a national bank holiday to allow the federal government to inspect the banks and only allowed those considered solvent to reopen.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) Huey Long was a Louisiana senator who proposed an agenda to redistribute income to "make every man a king."
A)True
B)False
Q4) What strategy was pioneered by autoworkers at a General Motors plant in Flint,Michigan?
A)picket line
B)strikebreaking
C)sit-down strike
D)walkout
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) The Atlantic Charter established the lend-lease program.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the war in the Pacific?
A)U.S.victories at Coral Sea and Midway shattered the illusion of Japan's invincibility.
B)After securing Guadalcanal,Americans began leapfrogging islands to move on Japan.
C)The United States adopted a two-pronged attack that would culminate in a final attack on Japan.
D)Kamikaze attacks had a significant impact on morale but did little damage to the U.S.fleet.
Q3) What was the Double V campaign?
A)a campaign in which African Americans fought for equal rights
B)a campaign in which labor unions fought to protect workers' rights
C)a campaign in which women fought for equal pay in the workplace
D)a campaign in which the military fought simultaneously on two fronts
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) Who was George F.Kennan?
A)a military officer who provided intelligence during the Korean War
B)a foreign service officer who introduced the doctrine of containment
C)a scientist who was an integral member of the Manhattan Project team
D)a spy who provided information about the Soviet Union's atomic bomb
Q2) Although American troops fought in the Korean War,casualties numbered fewer than 10,000.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Which statements about television in the 1950s is false?
A)More money was spent on commercials than on producing the shows.
B)Regulations restricted advertisement time to less than 5 percent of television airtime.
C)Ed Sullivan's Sunday night variety show introduced Americans to Elvis Presley and the Beatles.
D)By the time of high school graduation,the average American child had spent more time watching television than in school.
E)Television programs promoted and reinforced middle class,suburban values.
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) All of the following statements regarding the oil embargo of 1973-1974 are true except
A)OPEC halted oil shipments to the United States,western Europe,and Japan to protest their support of Israel.
B)the embargo caused panic in the United States,which used 30 percent of the world's energy.
C)the government lowered the speed limit on highways to 55 miles per hour to save energy.
D)after the oil embargo was lifted,energy prices dropped below the pre-embargo prices.
Q2) President Nixon supported all of the following environmental programs except A)a ban on the use of DDT
B)the Endangered Species Act
C)the Water Pollution Control Act
D)the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency
Q3) The movies Easy Rider and Hair celebrated the counterculture.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Anita Hill's accusations of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas kept him from becoming a Supreme Court justice.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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.
Q3) The Federal Reserve was able to curb the seemingly uncontrollable inflation that plagued the economy in the late 1970s and early 1980s by
A)Freezing the federal budget and restricting spending
B)Lowering interest rates
C)Raising interest rates
D)All of the above
Q4) The Federal Reserve raised interest rates to over 21 percent in 1981.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) Subprime loans were the only loans that survived the downturn of the housing market in 2007.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Between 2010 and 2013,unemployment
A)remained at the highest level since the Great Depression.
B)rose dramatically.
C)rose slightly.
D)declined steadily.
Q3) The "Contract with America" proposed by the Republican Party in 1994 is most closely associated with which of the following politicians?
A)Newt Gingrich
B)John McCain
C)Sarah Palin
D)Dan Quayle
Q4) The Kyoto Protocols of 1997 sought to address which of the following?
A)world hunger
B)the spread of AIDS
C)greenhouse gases and pollution
D)the proliferation of nuclear weapons
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