History - Practice CLEP Test (part III)

Which of the following best describes the United States position in the world economy during the period 1790–1860?

• It was the leading producer of finished and manufactured goods for export.

• It relied heavily on European capital for its economic expansion.

• It had an inadequate merchant marine and depended largely on foreign vessels to carry its trade.

• It was strengthened by the acquisition of overseas colonies.

• It was severely hampered by its reliance on slave labor.

After the Civil War, the majority of freed people found work in the South as

• factory workers

• railroad employees

• independent craftsmen

• tenant farmers

• domestic servants

Abraham Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction included which of the following?

• Establishment of five military districts to prepare seceded regions for readmission as states

• Punishment of Confederates through land confiscation and high property taxes

• Restoration of property to White Southerners who would swear a loyalty oath to the United States

• Reestablishment of state government after 10 percent of the voters in a state pledged their allegiance to the United States

• Readmission of states to the Union contingent on their ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution

All of the following elements of the Radical Republican program were implemented during Reconstruction EXCEPT

• provision of 40 acres to each freedman household

• enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment

• military occupation of the South

• punishment of the Confederate leaders

• restrictions on the power of the president

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan allowed for Southern states to be readmitted into the Union on the condition that they

• revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify the Thirteenth Amendment

• prohibit the use of the Black Codes

• guarantee suffrage for all citizens, regardless of race

• give land grants to freed people

• punish ex-Confederates refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the United States

Which of the following was a renowned African American poet in New England in the late-eighteenth century?

• Benjamin Banneker

• Benjamin Banneker

• Phillis Wheatley

• Gabriel Prosser

• Sojourner Truth

California was admitted as a state to the Union

• as part of the Compromise of 1850

• with the passage of the Wilmot Proviso

• during the Mexican-American War

• with the passage of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787

• when the Kansas-Nebraska Act settled the issue of western slavery

The activities of the Freedmen’s Bureau included all of the following EXCEPT

• providing food, clothing, medical care, and shelter to war victims

• reuniting families of freedmen

• establishing a network of courts

• establishing schools for freed people

• permanently redistributing land

The United States completed the Gadsden Purchase in 1853 in order to

• obtain Oregon

• build a transcontinental railroad

• relieve population pressures

• obtain additional grazing lands

• balance slave and free states

Which of the following is a correct statement regarding Benjamin Franklin?

• He founded the Bank of the United States.

• He authored the Articles of Confederation.

• He authored the Bill of Rights.

• He invented electricity.

• He helped to negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783.