U.S. History Semester 1 Exam

Most scientists believed that people first came to the Americas from

• Africa as part of the slave trade

• Asia by migrating over a land bridge

• Australia by traveling in canoes along coastlines

• Europe by sailing ships across the Atlantic Ocean

Which country established a number of colonies along the Atlantic coast?

• Britain

• France

• the Netherlands

• Spain

Antifederalists disliked the Constitution because it did not

• include a bill of rights

• provide any checks and balances

• share power among separate branches

• adequately restrict representation in Congress

Because of the Compromise of 1850, Kansas

• could not enter the Union.

• entered the Union as a free state.

• entered the Union as a slave state.

• exercised popular sovereignty.

How did Lincoln’s election in 1860 lead to secession?

• Lincoln immediately ordered the South to free slaves

• Southerners saw Lincoln as hostile to their institutions.

• Democrats claimed that Lincoln had not won the election fairly.

• Lincoln increased troop levels in the South

How did the Battle of Gettysburg turn the tide of the Civil War?

• The South did not attempt another invasion of the North.

• Most of the northern army was destroyed.

• The South rallied after its victory in Pennsylvania.

• Grant immediately called for and received Lee’s surrender.

Which of the following helped the industrial expansion of the U.S.?

• farming

• monopolies

• the country’s physical geography

• labor unions

The Sherman Antitrust Act outlawed

• assembly lines

• strikes

• monopolies

• unions

Which of the following would cause an immigrant to be sent back to his or her homeland?

• disease

• poverty

• religious beliefs

• too long of a name

When immigrants settled in the cities, which of the following did most experience?

• lush parks and play areas

• clean and safe streets

• life in crowded tenements

• well-paying jobs