U.S. History Survey I Exam Materials
Course Introduction
U.S. History Survey I provides a comprehensive overview of the social, political, economic, and cultural development of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the end of the Civil War. Students will explore indigenous societies, European colonization, the formation of colonial America, the American Revolution, the framing of the Constitution, the early republic, westward expansion, and the causes and consequences of the Civil War. The course emphasizes key events, influential figures, and major themes that shaped the foundations of the nation, fostering critical analysis of primary and secondary sources to understand historical change and continuity.
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Chapter 1: The Atlantic World and the Dawn of Exploration, 1492-1535
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Q1) Ghana,Mali,and Songhay were early empires in which region of the African continent?
A)Southern Africa
B)Eastern Africa
C)Northern Africa
D)Western Africa
E)Central Africa
Answer: D
Q2) Why did King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain agree to fund Columbus's expedition?
A)They had just lost Granada and needed to find new colonies to replace it.
B)They feared the Italians would back Columbus if Spain did not.
C)They resented Portugal's domination of the slave trade.
D)They hoped it would yield new ways to rebuild Spain's depleted financial resources. Answer: D
Q3) John Cabot established the Northwest Passage in 1497.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 2: Contact, colonization, and Exchange in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1600
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Q1) What were the negative aspects of the Columbian Exchange?
A)European bacteria and diseases infested native populations.
B)The introduction of guns made tribal warfare more violent.
C)Rats that escaped from European ships resulted in infestations and imbalanced ecosystems in the Caribbean.
D)All of these choices.
Answer: D
Q2) Native peoples rejected all aspects of Catholicism that Spanish missionaries offered.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) What is Papiamento?
A)A Portuguese-Creole language
B)An indigenous plant cultivated in Brazil
C)A pivotal region for the slave trade in West Africa
D)A Native American staple crop
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) By 1675,both the English and the Spanish had established colonies along the Atlantic coast.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) New England merchants became known for which of the following industries?
A)Fishing
B)Maritime trade
C)Shipbuilding
D)A and B
E)B and C
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) The Gaspée was a French warship that harassed colonial merchant ships.
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) The Seven Years' War illustrated the differences that were emerging between the British-born soldiers and the American-born colonists.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) Under the Articles of Confederation,the central government had the power to A)levy taxes.
B)raise troops.
C)conduct foreign affairs.
D)override state laws.
E)None 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) Which of the following was authorized under the Articles of Confederation?
A)Each state had an equal vote in Congress.
B)Congress could levy taxes.
C)Congress could raise troops when needed.
D)Individual states coined their own money.
E)All of these
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) "We are all Republicans,we are all Federalists" was John Adams's most famous statement.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following was false about the Embargo of 1807?
A)It forbade exportation to Britain but encouraged exportation to France.
B)Jefferson found the embargo hard to enforce.
C)The U.S.Treasury suffered a loss in customs revenue.
D)Congress repealed the Embargo Act and replaced it with the Non-Intercourse Act.
E)During the embargo,smuggling continued to be a serious problem.
Q3) What was the initial reaction of most Americans to the French Revolution?
A)Sympathy
B)Concern
C)Indifference
D)Fear
E)Anger
Q4) The Monroe Doctrine was issued jointly by the United States and Great Britain.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 7: The Market Revolution and Social Reform,
1800-1860
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Q1) Henry David Thoreau is perhaps best known for A)living in an isolated house in the woods,attempting to live a self-sufficient and self-contained life.
B)wanting to show how man could live in harmony with nature.
C)describing his experiences at Walden Pond in Walden: Life in the Woods.
D)All of these
Q2) Native American prophets warned of their tribes' destruction if tribe members failed to turn from wicked practices of the whites.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Second Bank of the United States,chartered in 1816,
A)was authorized to coordinate the flow of money.
B)operated totally as a public enterprise.
C)ran into much opposition,especially from eastern businessmen.
D)was the brainchild of Thomas Jefferson.
E)was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1817.
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) Young male slaves would bring the highest prices in the slave markets.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eli Whitney became wealthy from his invention of the cotton gin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves?
A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)Quakers
D)Anglicans
E)Puritans
Q4) What did the American Colonization Society,which purchased land in Africa for free blacks,name the new country?
A)Ghana
B)Ivory Coast
C)Republic of the Congo
D)Cameroon
E)Liberia
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) The term "the spoils system" refers to the practice of removing appointees upon entering office and replacing them with one's own political supporters
A)True
B)False
Q2) Americans referred to Henry Clay's appointment as secretary of state by President John Quincy Adams,who was named earlier to his position in a controversial House of Representatives decision,as
A)the spoils system.
B)political gerrymandering.
C)a corrupt bargain.
D)an impeachable offense.
E)Both A and B
Q3) Santa Anna was the Mexican general who led the infamous attack on the Alamo A)True
B)False
Q4) The Whig Partywas founded in the 1830s;its members were held together by their opposition to Jackson.
A)True
B)False
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1820-1860
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Q1) The Rush-Bagot Treaty ended the war with Mexico in 1848,with Mexico agreeing to sell California and New Mexico to the United States and to give up all claim to Texas in exchange for $15 million
A)True
B)False
Q2) Fifteen years after Joseph Smith was killed by a mob in 1844,Brigham Young led the entire Mormon population in a mass migration to Utah.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The phrase "fifty-four,forty or fight" refers to Americans' support for a war with Mexico
A)True
B)False
Q4) Joseph Smith was the Mormon leader responsible for the Mormons' migration to the Great Salt Lake area that would later become Utah
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) Who was the original organizer of the Compromise of 1850?
A)John C.Calhoun
B)Henry Clay
C)Lewis Cass
D)Zachary Taylor
E)John Tyler
Q2) What did the Supreme Court rule in the Dred Scott decision?
A)Scott was not a citizen of the United States.
B)Scott could not sue in a U.S.court.
C)The Missouri Compromise was still valid.
D)Both A and B
Q3) Which of the following events occurred during the summer of 1856?
A)Brooks's caning of Sumner
B)The Dred Scott case came before the Supreme Court
C)The Pottawatomie massacre
D)The sack of Lawrence
E)All of these
Q4) William H.Seward served as Lincoln's secretary of war.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) 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
Q2) Union advantages at the beginning of the war included all of the following except
A)A large white population
B)A network of railroads and canals
C)Solid industrial capacity
D)Ships and naval experience
E)Its large geographical size
Q3) Who was the founder of the American Red Cross?
A)Clara Barton
B)Dorothea Dix
C)Phoebe Pember
D)John Sullivan
E)Jane McClellan
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) What did the Crédit Mobilier scandal involve?
A)Manipulation of the stock market
B)Railroad building
C)Bribery of congressmen
D)All of the above
Q2) Northern support for Reconstruction waned as northerners believed that the South would be better off when whites were dominant.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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
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) What happened as a result of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?
A)Seventy-five thousand Chinese were deported from the United States.
B)Prejudice against Chinese living in the West became more pronounced.
C)Chinese were barred from entering the United States for 10 years.
D)The number of Chinese living in the United States fell to less than 50,000.
E)The Supreme Court's reversal of the law ushered in a series of lawsuits from immigrant groups.
Q2) What was the main purpose of the Dawes Severalty Act?
A)To limit the authority of the Bureau of Indian Affairs
B)To return eastern land to Native American tribes
C)To provide reservation land for the tribes of the Great Plains
D)To encourage assimilation of Native Americans into white culture
Q3) The Wilson-Gorman Tariff called for which of the following?
A)Raising the rates on copper
B)Increasing duties on sugar
C)Supporting reciprocal trade with China
D)Giving Hawaii favored nation status
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) 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
Q2) Who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870?
A)John D.Rockefeller
B)Andrew Carnegie
C)J.P.Morgan
D)Samuel Gompers
Q3) Which union embraced women,blacks,and agricultural workers,as well as workers from various skilled crafts?
A)American Federation of Labor
B)National Labor Union
C)Knights of Labor
D)American Railway Union
Q4) Time zones were put in place by the railroad industry to help facilitate nationwide travel and transport.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v.Ferguson declared which of the following practices legal?
A)Polygamy
B)Segregation
C)Prohibition
D)Compulsory education
E)Interracial marriage
Q2) Margaret Sanger is best known for advocating which of the following?
A)abstinence from alcohol
B)birth control
C)equal rights for African Americans
D)municipal reform
Q3) What organization advocated a socialist agenda that would culminate in the end of capitalism?
A)American Federation of Labor
B)Industrial Workers of the World
C)National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D)Women's Trade Union League
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
1914-1920
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Q1) American soldiers during World War I potentially experienced all of the following except
A)Shellshock
B)Trench warfare
C)Exposure to poison gas
D)The use of airplanes in battle
E)Reliance on U.S.submarine technology
Q2) Woodrow Wilson's 1917 "Peace Without Victory" speech called for
A)U.S.entry into the conflict in Europe
B)U.S.companies and government agencies to provide money and supplies to allied nations.
C)The establishment of a worldwide organization to prevent future wars
D)The beginning of peace talks between the belligerent nations
Q3) William Jennings Bryan resigned as Secretary of State because
A)He clashed with other members of Wilson's cabinet on the handling of the war effort.
B)He feared Wilson's demand for an apology from Germany might prompt warfare.
C)He was boycotting Wilson's attempt to negotiate with Germany secretly.
D)None of these
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Q1) What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A)an urban renewal project
B)an African American artistic movement
C)the migration of African Americans from the South to the North
D)a political movement calling for desegregation and equal rights
Q2) In 1927,Ford attempted to regain market share from General Motors by doing all of the following except
A)advertising extensively.
B)introducing a new Model A.
C)offering credit to car buyers.
D)dismantling the assembly line.
Q3) Who was President Warren Harding's first secretary of state?
A)Charles Evans Hughes
B)Andrew Mellon
C)Herbert Hoover
D)William Howard Taft
E)Henry C.Wallace
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) The popularity of radio suffered during the tough economic times of the Depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What group wooed African American support by defending the Scottsboro boys,teens who had been wrongly accused of raping two white women in Alabama in 1931?
A)the Civilian Conservation Corps
B)the Communist Party
C)the Democratic Party
D)the Ku Klux Klan
Q3) The Golden Gate Bridge,the Grand Coulee Dam,and the Boulder Dam are among the structures built under the purview of what New Deal program?
A)Civilian Conservation Corps
B)National Recovery Administration
C)Public Works Administration
D)Works Progress Administration
Q4) The Revenue Act of 1932 was designed to raise money through tariffs.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) What was the Manhattan Project?
A)a top-secret program aimed at creating an atomic bomb
B)a program to ensure the profitability of private corporations with government contracts
C)a program in which the government assumed ownership of automobile factories to make planes and tanks
D)a program aimed at developing new technologies to counter the threat of German submarines
Q2) What battle marked a turning point in the Pacific theater,proving to be the end of the Japanese offensive?
A)Battle of the Bulge
B)Battle of the Coral Sea
C)Battle of Guadalcanal
D)Battle of Iwo Jima
E)Battle of Midway
Q3) The Atlantic Charter established the lend-lease program.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) President Truman did not run for re-election in 1952.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which statement about the Tidelands Oil Act is true?
A)It was passed over President Eisenhower's veto.
B)It funded new drilling and oil exploration in Alaska.
C)It transferred coastal oil land from the federal government to the states.
D)It focused on building new relationships with Middle Eastern oil suppliers.
Q3) Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus,sparking a year-long boycott of the buses in what city?
A)Atlanta,Georgia
B)Birmingham,Alabama
C)Little Rock,Arkansas
D)Montgomery,Alabama
Q4) The Taft-Hartley Act gave the president the authority to impose a cooling-off period to prevent strikes that threatened the national interest.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In April 1970 Antiwar protests increased after American troops invaded which country to cut off enemy supply lines to Vietnam?
A)Cambodia
B)China
C)North Vietnam
D)Thailand
Q2) The focus of the Vietnamizationplan introduced by President Nixon in 1969 was
A)the use of napalm to denude the forests of North Vietnam.
B)a surge of U.S.troops in Vietnam preceding the final withdrawal.
C)a publicity campaign to explain American involvement in Vietnam.
D)the gradual replacement of U.S.troops by South Vietnamese soldiers.
Q3) 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
Q4) Mobilization Day was a day set aside in 1969 for draft-age men to sign up for military service.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Carter responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by
A)Freezing Soviet assets in the U.S.
B)Blocking grain shipments to the Soviet Union
C)Refusing to allow Soviet athletes to participate in the 1980 Olympics
D)All of the above
Q2) Stagflation refers to high inflation and high employment.
A)True
B)False
Q3) President Carter's efforts to solve the energy crisis focused largely on consumptionusing less energy.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Why was Robert Bork's appointment to the Supreme Court ultimately blocked?
A)His opposition to the decision in Roe v.Wade
B)His controversial views on civil rights
C)His unpopular position on privacy rights
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
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Q1) Which statement regarding U.S.troops in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 is true?
A)Most of the Iraqi troops under Saddam Hussein had stepped aside once the war began.
B)Public support for U.S.involvement in Iraq soared after weapons of mass destruction were found.
C)Although hundreds of thousands of Iraqis were killed or injured,fewer than 500 American troops were killed in Iraq.
D)The Bush administration had anticipated a quick victory in Iraq and had not adequately planned for remaining there as an occupying force.
Q2) President Bush issued economic sanctions against China following the brutal crackdown on student demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Operation Desert Storm was a series of strikes carried out against what country?
A)Afghanistan
B)Iran
C)Iraq
D)Kuwait
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