U.S. History to 1877
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Course Introduction
U.S. History to 1877 is a comprehensive survey of the major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the territory that became the United States, from pre-Columbian times through the end of Reconstruction. The course examines key events, such as colonization, the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, westward expansion, the rise of sectionalism, the Civil War, and the efforts to rebuild the nation in the aftermath of slavery. Emphasizing diverse perspectives and experiences, including those of Indigenous peoples, African Americans, and women, the course equips students with critical analytical tools to understand the forces that shaped early American society and its ongoing legacy.
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Q1) Which of the following was the primary commodity affluent Europeans wanted from the East?
A)Spices
B)Teas
C)Rugs
D)Opiates
E)Coffee
Answer: A
Q2) Pueblo Indians were descendants of which of the following?
A)Chaco
B)Anasazi
C)Hopi
D)Aztecs
E)Zuni
Answer: B
Q3) Explorer Amerigo Vespucci named the new continent he "discovered" after himself,calling it "America."
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) The Spanish conquest of the New World was aided by which of the following?
A)Superior Spanish weaponry
B)The conquest of Mexico by Hernán Cortés
C)Impact of European diseases on the native population
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Answer: D
Q2) French Huguenots attempted to establish which of the following settlements?
A)Roanoke Island
B)Charlesfort
C)Jamestown
D)Fort Caroline
E)Both B and D
Answer: E
Q3) One consequence of the slave trade for Africa was the rise in demand for guns and gun violence.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) 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
Q2) 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
Q3) Which of the following events occurred first?
A)Roger Williams was exiled from Massachusetts.
B)Anne Hutchinson was exiled from Massachusetts.
C)Rhode Island was established.
D)All three occurred the same year.
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) The situation of the American colonies in the 1760s could best be described by which of the following?
A)Enforcement of earlier Navigation Acts seriously undermined the colonial economy.
B)Immigration and an economic depression contributed to unrest on the frontier.
C)Laws such as the Woolen Act and the Molasses Act ensured that most of the colonies' wealth was returned to the mother country.
D)None of these statements are true.
Q2) 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
Q3) One strategy that proved to be effective against the Townshend Act was that of nonimportation.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) What act prohibited armed groups in Massachusetts from gathering in public?
A)Riot Act
B)Protest Act
C)Espionage Act
D)Sedition Act
E)Shays Act
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 gives the correct order of states ratifying the Constitution?
A)Delaware,Maryland,Virginia,New Jersey
B)Delaware,New Jersey,Maryland,Virginia
C)Virginia,Maryland,Delaware,New Jersey
D)New Jersey,Delaware,Virginia,Maryland
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Chapter 6: Forging a New Nation, 1790-1828
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Q1) 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.
Q2) Why did Thomas Jefferson eventually win the tied election of 1800?
A)He had a reputation as a "simple man."
B)He proved to be such an effective secretary of state.
C)He agreed to leave many of the Federalists' programs alone.
D)All of these
E)None of these
Q3) "We are all Republicans,we are all Federalists" was John Adams's most famous statement.
A)True
B)False
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) Protective tariffs were opposed by those who supported the American System. A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements does not accurately describe the ideal of domesticity?
A)Women were to be providers of a sense of safety for children.
B)Women were to be the moral center of the household.
C)Men were required to make a greater monetary investment in home life than women.
D)Women on the whole denounced the new emphasis on domesticity as confining and degrading.
E)Women were expected to make the home a place of refuge and renewal.
Q3) The Washingtonians were unique in their fight for reform because A)they were all women.
B)they all came from families that had been torn apart by alcohol abuse.
C)they pledged first to stop drinking themselves and then to help others quit drinking.
D)they pledged all of their personal wealth and belongings to the movement.
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) David Walker's Appeal was widely read and accepted by the white South.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Eli Whitney became wealthy from his invention of the cotton gin.
A)True
B)False
Q3) About three of every four enslaved people worked as which of the following?
A)domestic servants
B)factory workers
C)Shipbuilders
D)Fieldhands
Q4) Urban black churches provided A)mutual aid.
B)fellowship.
C)avenues for leadership.
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
Q5) Leading abolitionist Frederick Douglass had once been a slave in Maryland. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) Who was Andrew Jackson's presidential successor?
A)Henry Clay
B)Martin Van Buren
C)William Seward
D)John Eaton
Q2) What national politician penned the controversial South Carolina Exposition?
A)John C.Calhoun
B)Martin Van Buren
C)Andrew Jackson
D)Henry Eaton
E)Henry Clay
Q3) Andrew Jackson filled his cabinet with men from his native Tennessee.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Force Bill gave congressional authorization for President Jackson to use military force to keep order in South Carolina during the nullification crisis
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 10: Manifest Destiny and Western Expansion,
1820-1860
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Q1) Congressional hearings were held in 1818 to examine Andrew Jackson's behavior involving
A)insubordination during the War of 1812.
B)his treatment of native tribes in the Southeast.
C)the Peggy Eaton affair.
D)accepting bribes from land speculators.
E)reports of his marriage to a woman still married to someone else.
Q2) The Panic of 1837 helped spur westward expansion.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo,the United States paid Mexico $15 million for the strip of land that finished the "building" of the United States and gave the country its final border with Mexico
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) The northern press referred to those who crossed from Missouri to Kansas to vote illegally for proslavery candidates as LeCompton ruffians.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) The Know-Nothing political party was formed in the early 1850s by nativists opposed to immigration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) Native American groups in the Oklahoma territory stood against the U.S.during the war.
A)True
B)False
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) Britain and France remained neutral during the Civil War because these rival nations did not want to upset the delicate balance of power between themselves.
A)True
B)False
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 attempted to protect rights of blacks by outlawing conspiracies and,in extreme instances,authorizing the use of military force
A)True
B)False
Q2) Southern states were able to increase their representation in U.S.Congress because
A)Presidential Reconstruction ended the three-fifths clause
B)Large numbers of northerners relocated there seeking to make a profit from Reconstruction programs
C)They controlled the largest geographical region in the country
D)Blacks voters could be persuaded or intimidated to vote as white southerners wanted
Q3) The National Woman Suffrage Association rejected the Fifteenth Amendment
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) Grant's peace policy toward Native Americans relied most heavily on _____.
A)introducing them to Christianity
B)teaching them to be farmers
C)herding them onto reservations
D)providing government assistance for their living needs
E)leaving them to their own devices
Q2) 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.
Q3) Which of the following men favored a U.S.expansionist policy in the late nineteenth century?
A)Mark Twain
B)James G.Blaine
C)Samuel Gompers
D)Henry Cabot Lodge
E)Theodore Roosevelt
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Chapter 15: Change and Resistance: Industrialization,
urbanization, and Farm Protest, 1865-1910
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Q1) Writer Mark Twain coined the term "Gilded Age" to refer to the appealing facade of an age that concealed problems lurking beneath the surface.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Who is generally credited with building the first skyscraper in the United States?
A)Louis Sullivan
B)Daniel Burnham
C)John Pemberton
D)Andrew Carnegie
Q3) In the 1894 congressional elections,
A)the Democrats won a decisive victory in the Senate.
B)the Republicans regained control of the House of Representatives.
C)the Populist Party won twice as many congressional seats as in 1892.
D)several third-party candidates emerged to thwart the two-party system.
Q4) New immigrants to the United States in the 1870s provided much of the unskilled labor in U.S.factories.
A)True
B)False
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Q1) What did Woodrow Wilson call his 1912 campaign platform that was based on promoting competition and enforcing antitrust laws?
A)Gilded Deal
B)New Freedom
C)New Nationalism
D)Square Deal
Q2) Which government agency was established in 1914 to oversee business practices?
A)Federal Trade Commission
B)Federal Reserve System
C)Interstate Commerce Commission
D)Keating-Owen Committee
Q3) What retailer founded in 1893 built a solid reputation among rural Americans to whom it sold a wide range of mail-order goods via an annual catalog?
A)Macys
B)Sears,Roebuck and Company
C)J.C.Penney
D)WalMart
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Chapter 17: America and Global Conflict: World War I,
1914-1920
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Q1) From the outbreak of war in Europe,President Woodrow Wilson publically supported England and its allies
A)True B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
Q4) Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge helped draft the League of Nations proposal.
A)True B)False
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Q1) Which group gained least from the prosperity of the 1920s?
A)Farmers
B)Factory workers
C)Railroad workers
D)Bankers
Q2) What group benefited most from Margaret Sanger's campaign to make birth control available?
A)Catholics
B)wealthy women
C)middle-class women
D)poor women
Q3) By 1929,the wealthiest 5 percent of Americans received roughly what percentage of the total annual personal income?
A)5 percent
B)12 percent
C)25 percent
D)33 percent
E)45 percent
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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 unemployment rate for African Americans during the Depression was as high as 50 percent,higher than for white Americans.
A)True
B)False
Q2) What New Deal program,aimed at creating "jobs,jobs,jobs," employed 25 percent of the nation's work force at its height?
A)Civilian Conservation Corps
B)Federal Emergency Relief Administration
C)Public Works Administration
D)Works Progress Administration
Q3) The 1935 Wagner Act created the National Labor Relations Board and protected collective bargaining and other rights of workers
A)True
B)False
Q4) What were Hoovervilles?
A)shantytowns built by homeless Americans
B)temporary camps built by the Bonus Army
C)housing provided by the federal government
D)inexpensive cars introduced by Ford Motor Company
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Chapter 20: World War Ii at Home and Abroad, 1939-1945
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Q1) What was the significance of the 1943 battle at Stalingrad?
A)Russia's victory marked a turning point in the war.
B)Germany's control following its victory hindered Soviet access to supplies.
C)Germany's victory was one of the factors that compelled the United States to enter the war.
D)Russia's victory was fleeting,as an undisciplined Russian army spread itself too thin to protect the city for long.
Q2) The Atlantic Charter established the lend-lease program.
A)True
B)False
Q3) On December 7,1941,Japanese planes destroyed the battleship Arizona in an attack that occurred where?
A)Hawaii
B)the Philippines
C)the South Pacific
D)the Sea of Japan
Q4) 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) Alger Hiss was eventually tried and convicted of perjury after denying he had been a member of a communist cell.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Martin Luther King,Jr. ,embraced a philosophy based on
A)nonviolent resistance
B)challenges in legal courts
C)militant opposition to injustice
D)passive acceptance of differences
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) In the 1972 election,Nixon carried every state except Massachusetts.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The 1970s energy crisis resulted in all of the following except
A)daylight savings time in winter
B)an easing of environmental restrictions on coal mining
C)a reduction of economic aid and political support for Israel
D)increased population in and political influence of the Sunbelt
E)a national speed limit of 55 miles per hour on the nation's highways
Q3) The Peace Corps sought to spread American ideals by providing which of the following?
A)equal educational opportunities for underprivileged youth
B)food and clothing to Americans living below the poverty line
C)educational and technical assistance to underdeveloped nations
D)trained mediators to negotiate among political and military rivals
Q4) What happened at My Lai that aroused the ire of the U.S.public?
A)U.S.troops massacred a rogue band of Vietcong.
B)U.S.troops killed hundreds of Vietnamese civilians.
C)U.S.air strikes destroyed factories and power plants.
D)U.S.prisoners of war were executed by the Vietcong.
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Chapter 23: A Conservative Resurgence, 1975-1992
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Q1) Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a network of computer-based messaging systems that became the internet.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of these is not a true statement about Jimmy Carter's presidency?
A)He pardoned Vietnam draft evaders.
B)He appointed few people of color to high-level posts
C)He relied on his wife as a key advisor
D)He turned off voters with his approach to the energy crisis
Q3) The Reagan Doctrine stated that the U.S.would
A)aid anticommunist efforts to thwart Soviet-sponsored governments
B)declare war on the Soviet Union if it expanded into the western hemisphere
C)develop a missile system that could demobilize Soviet missiles in the atmosphere before they reached the U.S.
D)end all previous arms control treaties with the Soviet Union if that nation should attempt to extend its reach into Central or South America
Q4) President George H.W.Bush clung firmly to his promise of "No New Taxes."
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The dot-com bubble refers to a period of time in which speculative investors poured money into
A)construction-related stocks.
B)Internet-related stocks.
C)real estate.
D)savings bonds.
Q2) What position did Barack Obama hold prior to becoming president?
A)director of the NAACP
B)U.S.Senator from Illinois
C)U.S.Senator from Hawaii
D)Secretary of State
Q3) Who was John McCain's running mate in the 2008 presidential election?
A)Joseph Biden
B)Hillary Clinton
C)John Kerry
D)Joseph Lieberman
E)Sarah Palin
Q4) Same-sex marriage became legal in Canada before the United States.
A)True
B)False
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