American Civilization I Final Exam Questions
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American Civilization I explores the origins and development of the United States from pre-Columbian times through the end of the Civil War. This course examines the cultural, political, economic, and social foundations of early American society, including indigenous cultures, European colonization, the evolution of colonial life, struggles for independence, the formation of government, and the factors leading to sectionalism and civil conflict. Emphasis is placed on key events, influential figures, and the diverse experiences that shaped the nation's identity during its formative centuries.
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Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New
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Q1) Which of the following provides evidence that Indian cultures had an oral tradition?
A) teepees
B) pueblos
C) creation myths
D) totem poles
Answer: C
Q2) What did Leif Erikson do?
A) defeated the Vikings
B) established Vinland
C) invented the longship
D) ended the Norman Conquest
Answer: B
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 1.2,which of the following played a central role in the Agricultural Revolution in the Americas?
A) rice
B) wheat
C) corn
D) barley
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 2.1,the fall of Constantinople set off a chain of events that contributed to the __________.
A) Dark Ages
B) Renaissance
C) Age of Faith
D) Crusades
Answer: B
Q2) Which of the following reflects Spain's goals in the Americas?
A) science and technology
B) tolerance and equality
C) justice and peace
D) God and gold
Answer: D
Q3) Puritans and Huguenots are both __________.
A) Protestant
B) Catholic
C) Moors
D) Jewish
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) Which colony encroached on the lands of the Powhatan Indians in the seventeenth century?
A) Rhode Island
B) Massachusetts
C) Virginia
D) Plymouth
Answer: C
Q2) According to the Arguing History video in section 3.6,defenders of slavery described the practice as __________.
A) a necessary evil
B) the will of God
C) the law of nature
D) a Christian duty
Answer: A
Q3) Religion played a central role in the founding of which colony?
A) Pennsylvania
B) New York
C) Virginia
D) Carolina
Answer: A
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) What did France cede to Britain in the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War?
A) Louisiana
B) Canada
C) Florida
D) Texas
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 4.3,the people accused of witchcraft were perceived as threats to __________.
A) commerce
B) agriculture
C) slavery
D) security
Q3) During the Salem witch trials,the __________ made it easier to convict people accused of witchcraft.
A) Great Awakening
B) Treaty of Paris
C) belief in deism
D) use of spectral evidence
Q4) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
Q5) What accounts for the differences between the northern and southern colonies?
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) Which commodity continued to be taxed after the Townshend duties were rescinded?
A) paint
B) paper
C) lead
D) tea
Q2) In the image,the stamp on the far right reflects whose view of the Stamp Act?
A) British Parliament
B) American colonists
C) African slaves
D) Indian tribes
Q3) Which of the following did the Americans call the Intolerable Acts?
A) Townshend duties
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Coercive Acts
Q4) The words "all men are created equal" are found in which document?
A) Declaration of Independence
B) Declaratory Act
C) Proclamation of 1763
D) Mayflower Compact
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 6.6,what did Abigail Adams comment on in her letters?
A) peace negotiations
B) abolitionist movement
C) the ravages of war
D) the economic crisis
Q2) The painting shows George Washington leading his army in __________.
A) King Philip's War
B) the French and Indian War
C) the Whiskey Rebellion
D) the American Revolution
Q3) The British offensive in the Carolinas was called the __________ strategy.
A) eastern
B) western
C) southern
D) northern
Q4) Who were the people who supported British rule,and what were their reasons for supporting the British side in the American Revolutionary War?
Q5) In what respects was the American Revolutionary War a civil war?
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) In the Arguing History video in section 7.6,what was the priority of the delegates at the Constitutional Convention?
A) increase chances of the constitution being passed
B) limit the powers of the federal government
C) reach a permanent solution on the slavery issue
D) take a moral stand against the practice of slavery
Q2) Impoverished farmers were concentrated in which part of Massachusetts?
A) eastern
B) western
C) southern
D) northern
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 7.4,what did Benjamin Franklin insist the delegates do at the Constitutional Convention?
A) reduce the power of Congress
B) reinstate the Articles of Confederation
C) sign the constitution
D) stand by their principles
Q4) What does the Shays Rebellion reveal about America in the years after the Revolutionary War?
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 8.6,what was a penalty for violating the Alien and Sedition Acts?
A) community service
B) labor camp
C) imprisonment
D) death
Q2) How did party politics shape American political life during the first two administrations?
Q3) Compare and contrast the goals and priorities of the Federalists and the Republicans.
Q4) Who supported George Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) James Madison
D) Edmond Genet
Q5) What sector of the economy did Republicans consider the most important?
A) agriculture
B) manufacturing
C) banking
D) industry
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) In the introductory video in section 9.3,Theodosia Burr disappeared en route to see her __________.
A) father
B) mother
C) lover
D) husband
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 9.4,Moses Austin could not export the lead his company mined because of the __________.
A) Revolution of 1800
B) French Revolution
C) Intolerable Acts
D) Embargo Act
Q3) Which of the following is considered a failure of Jefferson's administration?
A) Revolution of 1800
B) Alien and Sedition Acts
C) Embargo Act
D) Louisiana Purchase
Q4) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 10.3,what did Britain consider doing with the western half of the Mississippi Valley if they won the Battle of New Orleans?
A) establish a colony for fugitive slaves
B) create an Indian buffer state
C) sell the land to Spain
D) sell the land to France
Q2) Which of the following statements reflects the perspective of a war hawk on the eve of the War of 1812?
A) "The United States, my children, are the friends of both parties, . . . they are willing to satisfy the wishes of both."
B) "Those who remain may be assured of our patronage, our aid, and good neighborhood."
C) ". . . what are we not to lose by peace?-commerce, character, a nation's best treasure, honor!"
D) "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is."
Q3) How did Indians deal with the encroachment of white settlers into Indian lands in the early nineteenth century?
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) What did George W.Harkins and George Guess share in common?
A) Both were vocal supporters of the Indian Removal Act.
B) Both were relocated under the Indian Removal Act.
C) Both challenged the Supreme Court ruling in Worcestor v. Georgia.
D) Both supported legislation that denied Indian legal claims to tribal lands.
Q2) Which of the following upheld the Cherokees' right to their lands?
A) Jackson administration
B) Van Buren administration
C) Georgia state legislature
D) Supreme Court
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 11.2,who symbolized the contradiction in America between democracy and slavery?
A) George Washington
B) Andrew Jackson
C) James Madison
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q4) How did slavery influence American politics in the early nineteenth century?
Q5) How democratic was Jacksonian Democracy? What were its limits?
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) According to the Arguing History video in section 12.6,which of the following provides the strongest evidence that American democracy has expansionist tendencies?
A) Whig Party
B) Battle of the Alamo
C) Civil War
D) Manifest Destiny
Q2) According to the Past and Present video in section 12.6,critics of the notion of American exceptionalism accuse Americans of __________.
A) having a double standard
B) holding themselves to a higher standard
C) adhering to an isolationist foreign policy
D) allowing other countries to choose their own path
Q3) Which of the following describes a response to the Turner rebellion?
A) strengthening of abolitionism in the South
B) extension of legal protections for slaves
C) tightening of Virginia's slave code
D) deporting of freed slaves to Africa
Q4) How did the issue of slavery divide Americans between 1840 and 1850?
Q5) In what ways were the justifications for slavery and expansion similar?
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Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis
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Q1) Which state flouted the Fugitive State Law?
A) Massachusetts
B) South Carolina
C) Virginia
D) Missouri
Q2) Which of the following statements best reflects the Southern view of the political implications of the balance between free and slaves states shown in the map?
A) "It is desirable for the peace and harmony of the Union that all existing controversies between the states, arising out of the institution of slavery, be settled amicably. . . ."
B) ". . . the manufacturing progress of the North is such, that in a few years she may absorb the whole of the southern staple. . . ."
C) "It is an inevitable law of political economy, that slavery must cease where trade is free and the population of freemen becomes more dense."
D) "A single section, governed by the will of a numerical majority, now controls the government and its entire powers."
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) Which state joined the Confederacy after Abraham Lincoln issued a call to arms?
A) Missouri
B) West Virginia
C) Tennessee
D) Maryland
Q2) Who was the president of the Confederacy?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Robert E. Lee
C) George McClellan
D) Robert Anderson
Q3) Which of the following correctly matches the Union general with his military victory?
A) William T. Sherman-Mobile Bay
B) Phil Sheridan-Shenandoah Valley
C) David Farragut-Atlanta
D) George McClellan-Richmond
Q4) In what respects was the conflict between the North and South from 1861 to 1865 a civil war? In what respects was it a rebellion? In what respects was it a war of independence?
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 15.3,Matthew Gaines once was a(n)__________.
A) Southern Democrat
B) Republican state senator
C) Ku Klux Klan member
D) Confederate officer
Q2) What term refers to the restoration of white Democrats to power in the Southern states?
A) Peace Policy
B) Reconstruction
C) Redemption
D) emancipation
Q3) By the end of 1877,Southerners would consider all the former Confederate states to have been __________.
A) emancipated
B) redeemed
C) assassinated
D) compromised
Q4) Compare and contrast the goals of the Republicans and the Democrats in 1877.
Q5) To what extent was Reconstruction a success? To what extent was it a failure?
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