US History Baseline 2020

Which claim is best supported by the evidence in this document?

• The labor system of the British North American colonies depended solely on personal preferences of the people who settled there.

• Climatic conditions, choice of export crop and pursuit of profit combined to determine a colony’s labor system.

• Labor systems were determined by the laws of each colony as well as the religion of its predominant group of settlers.

• The labor force exerted a strong influence on the structure of each colony’s labor system.

A historian’s best use of this document would be as...

• documentary evidence of differences among colonial regions

• a record of recent research findings about colonial American economies.

• a fictional account of how colonial American economies might have worked

• evidence of how colonial settlers understood economic theories

Which event is being depicted in this illustration?

• The Boston Massacre

• The Boston Tea Party

• The Stamp Act

• The Townsend Acts

A historian would find this document most useful for...

• studying what happened during the event depicted

• studying colonial reactions to conflict with British government

• studying the Northwest Ordinance

• studying the War of 1812

Based on the document, (President Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Robert Livingston, 1802) why would the acquisition of New Orleans be significant to the United States?

• New Orleans was owned by France before the Louisiana Purchase

• New Orleans connected the United States to Spanish Mexico

• The United States needed the Port of New Orleans to transport produce

• France would no longer be an American enemy

The Louisiana Purchase led to a turning point in history because

• The Louisiana Purchase allowed the United States to defeat France in a war

• The Louisiana Purchase tripled the American population

• The Louisiana Purchase doubled the size of the United States and accelerated its westward expansion

• The Louisiana Purchase led to an alliance between France and the United States

A historian would findPresident Thomas Jefferson's Letter to Robert Livingston, 1802 most useful for

• Studying President Jefferson’s motivations for making the Louisiana Purchase

• Studying Robert Livingston’s motivations for making the Louisiana Purchase

• Proving President Jefferson did not believe in expansion of executive powers

• Proving the French government did not want to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States

Which group of people was President Jackson addressing in the document?

• African Americans

• Asian Americans

• Mexican Americans

• Native Americans

Which statement best describes President Jackson's purpose in this excerpt?

• To tell Native Americans why they must leave their tribal lands for Indian territories

• To tell Native Americans to vote in favor of the Indian Removal Act

• To tell Americans they can now settle on former Native American tribal lands

• To tell Native Americans that they are now American citizens

Both the black and white abolitionists mentioned in this document were fighting against which policy

• Enslavement of African Americans in the United States prior to the Civil War

• Desegregating the United States military during World War I and World War II

• The practice of indentured servitude used to settle American colonies in the early 1600’s

• Jim Crow laws implemented after the Civil War that were meant to segregate America