United States History I Exam Review
Course Introduction
United States History I examines the major political, economic, social, and cultural developments in the United States from pre-Columbian times through the Reconstruction era. This course explores the interactions between Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans, the formation and growth of the American colonies, the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, the drafting of the Constitution, the evolution of American democracy, and the challenges of nation-building during the 19th century. Special emphasis is placed on the diverse experiences of various groups, westward expansion, slavery, the Civil War, and the Reconstruction period, providing students with a foundational understanding of the forces that shaped early America.
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Chapter 1: The Atlantic World and the Dawn of Exploration, 1492-1535
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Q1) Indian women who lived in the eastern woodlands engaged in all but which of the following?
A)Raised corn,squash,and beans
B)Gathered nuts and fruit
C)Hunted and fished
D)Built houses
E)Made clothing
Answer: C
Q2) Pueblo Indians were descendants of which of the following?
A)Chaco
B)Anasazi
C)Hopi
D)Aztecs
E)Zuni Answer: B
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
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) The mines at Potosi and Zacatecas were noted for their rich yield of gold.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) In 1455,the pope granted which nation a monopoly on the Atlantic slave trade?
A)Portugal
B)England
C)Spain
D)Italy
E)France
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Colonizing North America, 1565-1763
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Q1) Where was the settlement that later became known as the Lost Colony located?
A)Roanoke
B)Croatoan Island
C)St.Augustine
D)Hispaniola
E)Jamestown
Answer: A
Q2) The conversion from rice to tobacco completely transformed the society of South Carolina,making slavery much less important.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q3) The Lenape Indians of Pennsylvania later became known as which of the following?
A)Penobscots
B)Delawares
C)Shoshone
D)Algonquians
E)Iroquois
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Dissolving the Political Bands, 1763-1776
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Q1) One reason for the uproar over the Sugar Act was that it took effect during an economic depression.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Sons of Liberty were first formed to protest the
A)Stamp Act.
B)Molasses Act.
C)Currency Act.
D)Tea Act.
E)Sugar Act.
Q3) After 1763,Spain becamefriendlierwith Britain.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Which of the following prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
A)Proclamation of 1763
B)Relocation Act of 1764
C)Navigation Act of 1772
D)Townshend Acts of 1767
E)Treaty of Ghent of 1759
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Chapter 5: The American Revolution, 1776-1789
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Q1) Which of the following was not a provision of the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
A)The territory of the United States would extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River.
B)Spain would receive Florida.
C)France would receive Canada.
D)The British would promptly evacuate all troops from the United States.
E)Britain would recognize the independence of the United States of America.
Q2) 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
Q3) 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
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Q1) Alexander Hamilton's proposals for America's financial program included all but which of the following components?
A)Honoring all Revolutionary War debts at face value
B)Levying customs duties and excise taxes
C)Creating a federal income tax
D)Having the federal government assume all states' debts
E)Both C and D
Q2) Which of the following was false about the Lewis and Clark expedition?
A)Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark out to strengthen U.S.claims to the West.
B)Lewis and Clark were to search for a Northwest Passage and bring back descriptions of unknown species of plants and animals.
C)The Corps of Discovery engaged in a series of armed conflicts with Native Americans at nearly every stop along their entire route.
D)Sacagawea helped guide the party up the Missouri River and through the Rockies.
E)The group brought back amazingly detailed descriptions of the lands,plants,and animals that they encountered.
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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 Erie Canal was completed in 1832.
A)True
B)False
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 financed primarily through A)taxes.
B)tolls.
C)legislative grants.
D)fundraising drives.
E)ticket sales.
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Chapter 8: The Peculiar Institution: the Old South and
Slavery, 1800-1860
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Q1) What was the first religious group to prohibit members from owning slaves?
A)Baptists
B)Methodists
C)Quakers
D)Anglicans
E)Puritans
Q2) The Virginia slave debates of 1831-1832 revealed which of the following?
A)Many Virginians worried about slavery's influence on whites.
B)Many Virginians openly admitted the debilitating effect of slavery.
C)Many Virginian's worried that slavery prevented the economy from developing in the same manner as it did in the North.
D)None of these
E)All of these
Q3) Young male slaves would bring the highest prices in the slave markets.
A)True
B)False
Q4) In their own ways,both Whigs and Democrats in the South supported slavery.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Democracy and Popular Politics, 1828-1848
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Q1) What was the primary topic of disagreement between Mexican authorities and U.S.settlers in Texas in the 1830s?
A)Mexico's mercantilism
B)Diplomacy with Great Britain
C)Slavery
D)Free access to the Mississippi River at New Orleans
E)Religion
Q2) Andrew Jackson's defense of Peggy Eaton's so-called scandalous past contributed to the rift between Jackson and John C.Calhoun
A)True
B)False
Q3) In his pamphlet "South Carolina Exposition," Henry Clay laid out his argument supporting nullification.
A)True
B)False
Q4) John Tyler was a member of the Whig Party,yet once he became president in 1841,he actively resisted Whig legislation in Congress.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter
1820-1860
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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) 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.
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
Q4) Mexico gave up more than 600 million acres to the United States in the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 11: The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861
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Q1) In 1856,on the floor of the U.S.Senate,Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina almost beat to death which Massachusetts senator?
A)Thaddeus Stevens
B)John C.Calhoun
C)Charles Sumner
D)Zachary Taylor
E)Benjamin Butler
Q2) After winning an unfair election in Kansas in 1854,proslavery proponents took control of the territorial legislature at what city?
A)Lecompton
B)Pottawatomie
C)Topeka
D)Lawrence
E)Kansas City
Q3) The incident that marked the beginning of the war between the North and South took place at Fort Sumner.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: A House Divided: Civil War, 1861-1865
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Q1) Clara Barton nursed Union troops and went on to found the American Red Cross.
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
Q3) The Conscription Bureau was established in May 1863 to allow blacks to serve in the Union army.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What caused the bread riot?
A)A lack of sufficient supplies of bread during the wartime South
B)Widespread starvation
C)Suspicions that merchants created wartime shortages of flour to drive prices up
D)All of these
E)None of these
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Chapter 13: Bitter Aftermath: Reconstruction and Redemption, 1863-1896
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Q1) Women's suffragist Susan B.Anthony said that black and Asian men should be barred from voting unless women could vote
A)True
B)False
Q2) 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
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) Black leader Booker T.Washington was sometimes accused of saying what whites wanted to hear
A)True
B)False
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Q1) The Platt Amendment stated that the United States would not annex Cuba if the island were liberated from Spain.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Which of the following statements about the U.S.attempt to dominate the West is true?
A)The U.S.army killed Geronimo during his raids throughout the Southwest.
B)The U.S.army thwarted Chief Joseph's attempt to migrate to Canada with his band of Nez Percé.
C)The Dawes Severalty Act resulted in the sale of 200 million acres of land set aside as Indian reservations to white settlers and speculators.
D)President Grant favored the annihilation of western Indians.
Q3) Dollar diplomacy was applied to Latin America but not to Asia.
A)True
B)False
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) To address concerns in the Panic of 1893,Congress
A)passed the McKinley Tariff Act.
B)repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act.
C)strengthened laws regulating the stock market.
D)established the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Q2) Who coined the term the Gilded Age?
A)Horatio Alger
B)Mark Twain
C)Mary Elizabeth Lease
D)"Boss" Tweed
Q3) Who founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870?
A)John D.Rockefeller
B)Andrew Carnegie
C)J.P.Morgan
D)Samuel Gompers
Q4) Louis Sullivan is best known for the development of which of the following?
A)the dumbbell tenement
B)the skyscraper
C)the passenger elevator
D)the department store
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Q1) The NAACP was founded in 1909 to end segregation and guarantee voting rights for blacks.
A)True
B)False
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 Hepburn Act increased government's control over the country's railroads.
A)True
B)False
Q4) 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) Where did World War I begin?
A)In Russia
B)In Germany
C)In the Balkans
D)In Great Britain
Q2) Which statement regarding U.S.participation in World War I is true?
A)The United States chose to use an all-volunteer system for raising troops.
B)Roughly 3 million men joined the armed forces during World War I.
C)The United States got the majority of the funds for the war through taxes.
D)Most of the U.S.convoys escorting merchant ships were destroyed by German submarines.
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
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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) Who was the controversial leader of Pan-Africanism who encouraged blacks to travel to Africa?
A)W.E.B.DuBois
B)Marcus Garvey
C)Langston Hughes
D)Al Jolson
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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 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
Q2) The 1935 Wagner Act created the National Labor Relations Board and protected collective bargaining and other rights of workers
A)True
B)False
Q3) As Secretary of the Interior,Harold Ickes oversaw the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration.
A)True
B)False
Q4) The Supreme Court became more liberal as President Roosevelt replaced justices who retired with his own choices.
A)True
B)False
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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) Operation TORCH was the code name for the D-Day invasion of France.
A)True
B)False
Q3) 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.
Q4) The Selective Service Act of 1940 was the first peacetime draft in U.S.history.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 21: Affluence and Anxiety: Cold War America,
1945-1960
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Q1) Who were the Little Rock Nine?
A)the first integrated high school baseball team in the Deep South
B)the first black students to attend the previously all-white Central High School
C)the jurors who decided a famous case involving the alleged rape of white students by young black men
D)a group of black students who brought a successful lawsuit against the city of Little Rock for discrimination
Q2) Which of the following strategies was influential in ending the Soviet Union's blockade of East Berlin?
A)the intervention of U.N.peacekeeping forces
B)U.S.military intervention and the threat of nuclear intervention
C)the steady supply of food,fuel,and medical supplies delivered by airlift
D)sympathy strikes among people within the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
E)secret negotiations between the foreign ministers of the United States and the Soviet Union
Q3) President Truman did not run for re-election in 1952.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 22: Revolution and Crisis, 1960-1974
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Q1) 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
Q2) Which best describes U.S.involvement in Vietnam during the Kennedy administration?
A)The United States sent an increasing number of American military advisors to support the South Vietnamese regime.
B)The United States used covert operations to overthrow the communist government and replace it with Ngo Dingh Diem.
C)The United States arranged for U.N.peacekeeping troops to enter Vietnam but avoided sending U.S.military personnel.
D)The United States began to pull military advisors out of Vietnam,leading North Vietnam to attack the now weakened government.
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) Who first proposed using proceeds from arms sales to Iran to support the Contras in Nicaragua?
A)Oliver North
B)Colin Powell
C)Ronald Reagan
D)John Tower
Q2) Ronald Reagan won over voters in the 1980 presidential election by asking "Are you better off than in 1976?"
A)True
B)False
Q3) The Moral Majority was
A)a sign of the rise of the religious right in American politics
B)opposed to women's rights
C)a vocal opponent of homosexuality
D)All of the above
E)None of the above
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 United States was the primary leader in drafting the Kyoto Protocols,which seek to address climate change by reducing pollution.
A)True
B)False
Q2) During the Occupy Wall Street movement,thousands of protestors occupied financial districts to call attention to
A)bank foreclosures
B)the nation's economic disparity
C)the funding of repressive regimes
D)the lack of funding for AIDS research
Q3) What did the National Congress of American Indians allege in a federal court case?
A)The U.S.government was encouraging suicide among young Native Americans.
B)The U.S.government had unfairly regulated casino gambling on reservation land.
C)The Indian Trust Fund had been depriving Native Americans of their payments for decades.
D)The policy of pushing Native Americans onto reservation land violated their constitutional rights.
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