U.S. History Survey I Practice Exam
Course Introduction
U.S. History Survey I provides a comprehensive overview of the political, social, economic, and cultural developments in the United States from the pre-Columbian period through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. The course examines the beginnings of European colonization, the establishment and growth of British America, the causes and consequences of the American Revolution, the formation of the Constitution, early national development, westward expansion, and the complexities of slavery and sectionalism. It concludes with a study of the Civil War and Reconstruction, emphasizing how these formative events shaped the nation's identity, institutions, and ongoing pursuit of freedom and equality.
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Revel for Learning U.S. History Semester 1 1st Edition by H. W. Brands
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Chapter 1: Old Worlds and New
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Q1) The __________ Indians were hunters but not farmers.
A) Plains
B) Pueblo
C) Iroquois
D) Eastern Woodland
Answer: A
Q2) The first humans are believed to have arrived in the Americas __________ years ago.
A) 1,400
B) 4,000
C) 14,000
D) 40,000
Answer: C
Q3) According to the creation story of the Zuñi people,what did Sky-father give them?
A) rice
B) corn
C) buffalo
D) salmon
Answer: B
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Chapter 2: Exploration and Conquest
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Q1) What is the name of the ship shown in the image?
A) caravel
B) codex
C) cargo
D) ingot
Answer: A
Q2) Which country took the lead in launching exploratory voyages in the Atlantic in the fifteenth century?
A) Spain
B) Britain
C) Portugal
D) France
Answer: C
Q3) Which country had the largest empire in the Americas in the sixteenth century?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Portugal
D) Spain
Answer: D
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Chapter 3: The English Colonial Enterprise
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Q1) In his remarks to John Smith around 1609,who does Chief Powhatan blame for the tense relations between the Indians and colonists?
A) George Calvert
B) John Smith
C) William Berkeley
D) King Philip
Answer: B
Q2) King Philip's War was waged against the colonists from which country?
A) Portugal
B) France
C) Spain
D) England
Answer: D
Q3) In contrast to slavery,indentured servitude was __________.
A) hereditary
B) involuntary
C) lifelong
D) contractual
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: The English and the Americans
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Q1) Compare relations between Britain and its American colonies in 1689 and in 1763.
Q2) According to the introductory video in section 4.4,where did Franklin go after he left Boston?
A) Philadelphia
B) Salem
C) Louisbourg
D) New London
Q3) The naming of colonies as New York and New Hampshire reflects the American colonists' efforts to __________.
A) sever cultural ties with England
B) re-create the English way of life
C) assert their economic independence
D) challenge royal authority
Q4) 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
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Chapter 5: Declaring Independence
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Q1) Which of the following imposed taxes that most affected the daily lives of the American colonists?
A) Stamp Act
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Proclamation of 1763
Q2) Which of the following did the Americans call the Intolerable Acts?
A) Townshend duties
B) Navigation Acts
C) Magna Carta
D) Coercive Acts
Q3) What was a goal of the Stamp Act Congress?
A) violent revolution against Britain
B) political representation in Parliament
C) ending of the boycott on British goods
D) imprisonment of the Sons of Liberty
Q4) Compare and contrast American and British views on the events leading up to the American Revolution.Be sure to identify specific events and explain how the Americans and the British saw those events.
Q5) How did the French and Indian War pave the way for the American Revolution?
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Chapter 6: The Revolutionary War
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Q1) Based on the information provided in the introductory video in section 6.3,which of the following can be inferred?
A) William Franklin did not know the identity of his mother.
B) William Franklin did not know the identity of his father.
C) Benjamin Franklin damaged William Franklin's political career.
D) Benjamin Franklin married William Franklin's mother.
Q2) Loyalist support during the Revolutionary War was the strongest in the backcountry of __________.
A) New York
B) the Carolinas
C) Massachusetts
D) Maryland
Q3) Which battle ended the American Revolutionary War?
A) Yorktown
B) Philadelphia
C) Saratoga
D) Valley Forge
Q4) In what respects was the American Revolutionary War a civil war?
Q5) What was George Washington's strategy in the American Revolutionary War? How effective was it?
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Chapter 7: The Constitution
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Q1) The Constitutional Convention decided that an amendment to the constitution required the approval of how many states?
A) one quarter
B) one half
C) three quarters
D) all
Q2) On the question of what to do with the new land acquired after the American Revolutionary War,the New England states agreed to __________.
A) let the southern states keep their western territories
B) let the northern states keep their western territories
C) make the abolition of slavery a condition for statehood
D) allow slavery to spread into the Northwest territory
Q3) The phrase "We the People" is found at the beginning of which of the following documents?
A) Bill of Rights
B) The Constitution
C) The Federalist Papers
D) Virginia Plan
Q4) How did the new American government deal with the issue of slavery?
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Chapter 8: Federalists and Republicans
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Q1) Who would most likely have agreed to Edmond Genet's requests?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) John Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson
Q2) What did Americans hope would be the driving force of politics?
A) self-interest
B) political parties
C) factionalism
D) civic virtue
Q3) Who supported George Washington's response to the Whiskey Rebellion?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) James Madison
D) Edmond Genet
Q4) Who supported the policy of neutrality in the war in Europe?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) George Washington
C) Edmond Genet
D) Thomas Jefferson
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Chapter 9: Republicans Take Over
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Q1) During the presidential race in 1800,who published a letter that discredited John Adams and cost him the presidency?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Aaron Burr
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) George Washington
Q2) Which of the following Indian communities did the Lewis and Clark expedition encounter?
A) Powhatan
B) Pueblo
C) Shoshone
D) Iroquois
Q3) Which country was the first to claim Louisiana?
A) United States
B) Spain
C) Britain
D) France
Q4) To what extent was Thomas Jefferson a man of contradictions?
Q5) Evaluate Thomas Jefferson's presidency.What were his successes? What were his failures?
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Chapter 10: The Second War of Independence
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Q1) In his speech calling for war,Henry Clay stated,"Let us come home to our own history. It was not by submission that our fathers achieved our independence." To what event is he referring?
A) French and Indian War
B) King Philip's War
C) French Revolution
D) American Revolutionary War
Q2) Which of the following ended the War of 1812?
A) Battle of the Thames
B) Battle of Yorktown
C) Hartford Convention
D) Treaty of Ghent
Q3) In which of the following did the Supreme Court uphold the authority of the Constitution over state laws?
A) Fletcher v. Peck
B) McCulloch v. Maryland
C) Marbury v. Madison
D) trial of Aaron Burr
Q4) How did the Republicans and the Federalists shape American politics in the early nineteenth century?
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Chapter 11: Jacksonian Democracy
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Q1) According to the How Do We Know? video in section 11.6,what did John Quincy Adams's campaign use to discredit Andrew Jackson during the 1828 presidential election?
A) Worcestor v. Georgia
B) Indian Removal Act
C) coffin handbills
D) cotton gins
Q2) According to the Memorial of the Cherokee Nation,the Cherokees were being relocated to lands __________.
A) west of the Arkansas territory
B) along the Proclamation Line of 1763
C) in the Michigan Territory
D) in Oregon Country
Q3) According to the introductory video in section 11.1,Andrew Jackson married Rachel Robards even though she was __________ at the time.
A) married to someone else
B) engaged to someone else
C) under the age of eighteen
D) working as a prostitute
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Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny
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Q1) According to the introductory video in section 12.4,how did the war with Mexico affect Ulysses Grant?
A) It turned him off of war completely and made him a pacifist.
B) It launched him to the national stage as the greatest general of all time.
C) It convinced him to fight only for causes that he believed were just.
D) It strengthened his commitment to the preservation of slavery.
Q2) Whose perspective is reflected in the following statement?: "More forcibly did I then feel the galling chains of slavery,the cruelty and barbarism arising from it,than I ever have since."
A) slave trader
B) slaveholder
C) Southern apologist
D) African slave
Q3) As expressed by John L.O'Sullivan,the notion of Manifest Destiny linked American expansion to __________.
A) divine will
B) secular values
C) racial equality
D) economic exploitation
Q4) 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 of the following would be punished under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
A) hiding a fugitive slave from the authorities
B) reporting a fugitive slave to the authorities
C) accusing a black person of being a runaway slave
D) arresting a black person for being a runaway slave
Q2) In the election of 1860,the Republican Party did not need a single __________ vote to win the presidency.
A) Southern
B) Northern
C) Western
D) centrist
Q3) Which state would have been the most likely to oppose the admission of California into the Union?
A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) South Carolina
D) Pennsylvania
Q4) How would opponents of slavery have responded to the Fugitive Slave Act,the Dred Scott case,and the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
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Chapter 14: The Civil War
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Q1) Who was the president of the Confederacy?
A) Jefferson Davis
B) Robert E. Lee
C) George McClellan
D) Robert Anderson
Q2) How did both the Southern states that seceded and Abraham Lincoln use the Constitution to make their respective arguments for and against secession?
Q3) What did all the states that joined the Confederate States of America share in common?
A) They all practiced slavery.
B) They were all in the West.
C) They had all voted for Lincoln.
D) They had all boycotted the 1860 election.
Q4) According to the introductory video in section 14.4,Abraham Lincoln drafted portions of the Emancipation Proclamation in the telegraph office of which department?
A) Commerce
B) Treasury
C) War
D) State
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Chapter 15: Reconstruction
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Q1) Who made the following statement?: "Treason must be made odious,and traitors must be punished and impoverished."
A) Andrew Johnson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Ulysses Grant
D) William Seward
Q2) Who was impeached by the House of Representatives?
A) Andrew Johnson
B) Abraham Lincoln
C) Ulysses Grant
D) Thaddeus Stevens
Q3) Which of the following groups would have most likely voted for a Republican candidate during the Reconstruction era?
A) Southern planters
B) Confederate soldiers
C) Ku Klux Klan members
D) African Americans
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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