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Total questions: 80
Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins
Which was the dominant economic occupation in colonial America?
Lumbering
Fishing
Slave Trading
Agriculture
Iron Making
Which of the original thirteen colonies was not established for religious or economic reasons?
Rhode Island
Virginia
Georgia
Massachusetts Bay
Pennsylvania
"O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in! It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit, full of the fire of wrath that you are held over in the hand of God..."
This quote best represents the views of which Congregational minister?
Jonathan Edwards
George Whitefield
Cotton Mather
John Winthrop
John Cotton
Which of the following men is given credit for initially expressing the ideas contained in the above cartoon?
Samuel Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Hamilton
Nathanael Greene
Patrick Henry
"In the following pages I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense ... I have heard it asserted by some that, as America has flourished under her former connection with Great Britain, the same connection is necessary towards her future happiness, and will always have the same effect. Nothing can be more fallacious than this kind of argument. We may as well assert that, because a child had thrived upon milk, it is never to have meat, or that the first twenty years of our lives is to become a precedent for the next twenty. But even this is admitting more than is true. For I answer roundly that America would have flourished as much, and probably much more, had no European power taken any notice of her..."
The above passage best expresses the ideas of ...
George Washington
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Samuel Adams
John Dickinson
Shays’s Rebellion ...
was a protest by farmers against the failure of the Articles
of Confederation to pay bonuses to the veterans of the
American Revolution.
was a violent mob reaction by westerners on the frontier in
reaction to Native American attacks on their settlements.
was organized by Anti-Federalists to prevent ratification of the Constitution.
convinced some American political leaders of the need for a stronger national or central government to maintain law and
order.
was a slave uprising in the northern colonies against the
indentured slave laws.
The first direct tax(es) on colonists passed by Parliament to produce revenue was/were the ...
Stamp Act.
Sugar Act.
Townshend Acts.
Tea Act.
Intolerable Acts.
The policy of mercantilism adopted by Great Britain in relation to the thirteen colonies was designed to ...
make the colonists self-sufficient.
allow the colonists to establish trading posts with Native Americans on the frontier.
strengthen the defenses of the colonies against attacks by the French.
improve and strengthen the economy of the mother country.
promote better relations among the thirteen colonies.
Which is the best description of the political development of
colonial America in the mid-eighteenth century?
Only slaves and indentured servants were directly barred
from voting
The chief executive or governor dominated colonial
government
Participation in government was open to all colonists who
owned property
Colonial democracy was limited but still more democratic
than most systems in Europe
Members of the legislature of the colonies were directly
elected by the people
Which of the following statements would be the least accurate about eighteenth-century colonial society?
English culture dominated a majority of the thirteen colonies
Protestantism was the dominant religion in the colonies
The economic structure of the colonies promoted social
mobility
Religious tolerance was prevalent in the middle colonies
A hereditary aristocracy provided leadership for colonial government and the American Revolution
The political leader in 1763 who insisted that colonists be put
under stricter control and pay more taxes to administer the empire was ...
William Pitt.
George Grenville
Charles Townshend
Frederick North
James Otis
The delegates who attended the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1774 ...
decided to establish a separate colonial government.
formed a committee to produce the Declaration of Independence.
agreed to meet with the king’s Parliament to resolve the issue of taxation.
declared that Parliament had no authority over internal colonial affairs but could regulate commerce.
demanded that the king remove the American troops stationed in the thirteen colonies.
All of the following are Federalist concepts except ...
the need for a strong, central government.
the need for a national bank.
the importance of free trade.
the idea that power should be in the hands of the wealthy.
the idea that the Constitution allows all that it does not strictly forbid.
The idea that the United States was “too weak” to be involved in wars on the European front was behind which of the following?
Jay’s Treaty
The Whiskey Rebellion
The French Revolution
The Proclamation of Neutrality
Pinckney’s Treaty
The concept that states had the right to “null and void any laws they considered unconstitutional” was part of which of the following?
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Alien and Sedition Acts
Twelfth Amendment
XYZ Affair
Washington’s Farewell Address
The main purpose of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 was to ...
remove British troops from colonies in the Western Hemisphere.
increase U.S. involvement in Latin America.
support U.S. involvement in European affairs.
prevent further British colonization of territories in the Western Hemisphere.
encourage British involvement in South America.
The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 was important because it ...
established the importance of the federal government in
improving infrastructure.
limited growth in an already overpopulated New York State.
allowed the Great Lakes to become the primary U.S. port.
opened up a continuous route between the eastern seaboard and the Great Lakes.
led to the invention of the steamboat.
The above map shows the United States after which of the following?
Mexican-American War
Northwest Ordinance
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska crisis
Supreme Court Justice John Marshall issued a series of decisions during his term that reflected his Federalist beliefs. McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was an example of this because it ...
ruled that state courts had the power to alter or invalidate a
contract.
allowed individual states to control interstate commerce.
reinforced the power of the central government over state governments.
authorized a state banking system.
granted states the power to tax federal institutions.
"The Judas of the West has closed the contract and will receive the thirty pieces of silver...Was there ever witnessed such a bare faced corruption in any country before?"
The above was said by whom following the Election of 1824?
Henry Clay
John Adams
John C. Calhoun
Andrew Jackson
John Marshall
The Second Great Awakening increased support for all of the
following causes except ...
the abolition of slavery.
mental health care reform.
education reform.
women’s rights.
the creation of a theocratic state.
Which was not a main provision of Henry Clay’s American System?
institution of tariffs.
disassembling the national bank.
improvements to the U.S. infrastructure.
encouraging expansion of American small business and industry.
limiting British imports into the United States.
Which of the following reformers and movements of the Jacksonian era are correctly paired?
Horace Mann: the mental health movement
Lucretia Mott: women’s rights
Dorothea Dix: education reform
Frederick Douglass: the temperance movement
Ralph Waldo Emerson: the abolition movement
Which political party of the mid-1800s would be most characterized as wanting to curtail the immigration and naturalization of Europeans?
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Know-Nothing Party
Whig Party
Federalist Party
This poster was distributed in Boston after the passage of the ...
Missouri Compromise.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Compromise of 1850.
Dred Scott decision.
Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Provided that, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory...
Which of the following men is associated with the above quotation?
David Wilmot
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
William Lloyd Garrison
Stephen Douglas
“Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute” is most closely associated with ...
the Proclamation of Neutrality.
the XYZ Affair.
the Citizen Genet Affair.
the War Hawks.
Jay’s Treaty.
Which of the following is not an accurate statement about the Hartford Convention of 1814?
It was organized by the New England states to protest the
War of 1812
The delegates supported an amendment calling for secession
from the Union
The delegates voted on a resolution requiring a two-thirds
majority in Congress for any future declaration of war
The delegates supported limiting the president to one term
in office
The delegates voted for a resolution that would prevent two
successive presidents coming from the same state
Pinckney’s Treaty of 1795 was popular in the United States because ...
it allowed American farmers to seize land in the Ohio Valley.
it ended the British impressment of American seamen.
it granted the United States the right of deposit or access to
the port of New Orleans to the American farmers.
the United States and Spain agreed to work jointly against
British policy in the Northwest Territories.
Great Britain agreed to the United States’ request to provide
them with funds to pay for reparations for Loyalist property
destroyed during the American Revolution.
Which of the following pairs of men would be considered War Hawks?
Henry Clay and Daniel Webster
John C. Calhoun and Aaron Burr
Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay and James Madison
Daniel Webster and James Madison
A major effect of John Brown’s raid on Harper's Ferry in 1859 on the North and South was ...
Northern abolitionists condemned the raid as too radical.
Southern congressional leaders left the Democratic Party and
formed their own pro-slavery party.
Republican leaders such as William Seward demanded an
immediate end to slavery.
Southerners were convinced that the North supported
Brown’s raid and that the Republicans had financed the raid.
President Buchanan agreed to meet with Southern and
Northern congressional leaders to deal with the issue of slavery in the upcoming election.
All of the following were advantages enjoyed by the North during the early years of the Civil War except ...
strong military leaders.
large supply of economic resources.
a strong central government.
a large population base.
an industry-based economy.
An “act to define and declare the rights of persons lately known as Slaves, and Free Persons of Color” refers to which law or laws passed after the Civil War?
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Jim Crow laws
Reconstruction Acts
Black Codes
Fourteenth Amendment
The purpose of the Freedmen’s Bureau was to ...
gain former slaves the right to vote.
grant each former slave forty acres and a mule.
repeal the Black Codes.
establish a role for Radical Republicans in the postwar government.
assist former slaves in getting employment, education, food, and clothing.
Women enjoyed increased rights and opportunities in all of the following areas during the Civil War except ...
factory work.
voting rights.
plantation work.
manufacturing of ammunition.
spying.
In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled in the matter of Plessy v.
Ferguson. This was a landmark decision because it established which of the following?
The abolition of slavery
African Americans’ right to vote
African Americans’ right to own land
Legalized the concept of “separate but equal”
Banned segregation
The expression “waving the bloody shirt” refers to which of the following?
The surrender of the South at the conclusion of the Civil War
Republican political tactics following the Civil War
Reconstruction riots
Government land-grant policy to the railroads
Immigration policies following the Civil War
Which of the following presidents is associated with civil service reform?
James A. Garfield
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Who best exemplifies the “Horatio Alger myth”?
Samuel Gompers
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
Mark Twain
Bill Haywood
The above cartoon reflects the policies and beliefs of which of the following?
Tammany Hall
Know-Nothing Party
Immigration Restriction League
Hull House
Niagara Movement
In the 1890s, citizens who advocated for the government to institute public works programs and provide cheap money would align themselves with the policies of ...
Grover Cleveland.
William McKinley.
Jacob Coxey.
Andrew Carnegie.
Helen Hunt Jackson.
“You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns, you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”
This quote is famously identified with which political leader?
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Frederick Jackson Turner
Thomas Watson
William Jennings Bryan
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“You furnish the pictures and I’ll furnish the war” is a quote that is often attributed to ...
William Randolph Hearst.
William McKinley.
Theodore Roosevelt.
Rudyard Kipling.
Alfred T. Mahan.
The Open Door policy of 1899 resulted in ...
the construction of the Panama Canal.
equal trade privileges in China.
foreign tariffs being lifted on European imports.
Dollar Diplomacy.
the Boxer Rebellion.
Which of the following was not part of the political reforms known as the Wisconsin Idea?
Progressive taxation
Workers’ compensation
The regulation of railroad rates
The regulation of food and medicine
The limitation of campaign expenditures
All of the following were part of Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom laws except ...
the creation of federal reserve banks.
the regulation of trade practices.
higher protective tariffs.
the establishment of eight-hour workdays for railroad workers.
the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914.
Which of the following muckraker writers exposed the corrupt practices of Standard Oil Company?
Frank Norris
Lincoln Steffens
Upton Sinclair
Ida Tarbell
Samuel McClure
Which of the following presidential administrations is associated with the Crédit Mobilier and the Whiskey Ring scandals?
Ulysses S. Grant
Rutherford B. Hayes
Zachary Taylor
Grover Cleveland
Warren G. Harding
This cartoon refers to which of the following presidential elections in America?
Election of 1908
Election of 1904
Election of 1916
Election of 1912
Election of 1900
Which of the following statements is best supported by the above chart?
The population of rural America continually declined from
1870 to 1910
Urban and rural growth grew at the same rate between 1870
and 1920
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the United States
had become an urban nation rather than a rural nation
Increasing urban population was due to improvements in
transportation
The decline in rural population was due to increased mechanization in agriculture that required fewer workers
"I found myself...with high expectations and a certain belief that whatever perplexities and discouragement concerning the life of the poor were in store for me, I should at least know something at first hand and have the solace of daily activity...I had at last finished with the ever-lasting 'preparation for life,' however ill-prepared I might be."
The writer of this quote, Jane Addams, was associated with
which of the following?
Antitrust legislation that broke up the Northern Securities Company
Municipal reforms of city government
Legislation that helped establish laws against child labor
Hull House in Chicago
The Henry Street Settlement in New York
Which of the following was not one of the methods used to
mobilize the American war effort in 1917–18?
Government regulation of prices and wages for workers
Laws passed to regulate food production and consumption
The introduction of daylight saving time
The selling of war bonds
The establishment of “Wheatless Mondays” and “Meatless
Tuesdays”
George Creel’s main objective during World War I was to ...
explain the causes and circumstances that led to American
involvement in World War I.
organize and supervise the rationing of food to the public.
work with President Wilson’s cabinet to explain the details of the Fourteen Points.
administer the war munitions industries.
influence public opinion about the war effort.
“The chief business of the American people is business.”
“The man who builds a factory builds a temple.”
The person most closely associated with the above statements is ...
Calvin Coolidge.
William McKinley.
Andrew Carnegie.
Warren G. Harding.
Andrew Mellon.
An immediate cause of the Palmer Raids in 1919 was ...
the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the fear that communism could spread to the United States.
the outbreak of racial riots in the North after World War I.
bombs that had been addressed to government officials and
exploded near their homes.
the murder trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, which stirred anti-
immigrant feelings.
the Boston Police Strike of 1919.
Which of the following men organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association?
James Weldon Johnson
Marcus Garvey
Booker T. Washington
A. Philip Randolph
William E. B. Du Bois
The 1915 film The Birth of a Nation was ...
condemned for its depiction of the Founding Fathers as racists by adopting the Three-Fifths Compromise.
strongly supported by the women’s movement because of its
portrayal of the suffrage movement of the nineteenth century.
controversial because it promoted white supremacy and portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as heroic.
strongly condemned by President Wilson because of its racism.
the highest-grossing movie of the time because it effectively used sound for the first time.
Which of the following was NOT a result of the Treaty of Versailles?
Poland became an independent nation
Free trade was established among the European nations
The League of Nations was formed
The colonies of the Ottoman Empire were divided between England and France
Germany paid reparations for the damages caused by the war
Which was a major problem faced by American farmers in the 1920s?
The failure of banks to provide loans for improvements in
farm machinery
The overproduction of crops
The dust storms that destroyed their crops
The failure of the Federal Farm Board to stabilize farm prices
Excessive railroad rates that increased costs for the farmers and lowered their profit margin
President Hoover took all of the following actions to meet the problems created by the Great Depression except ...
providing federal funds for banks.
working with the Federal Farm Board to help farmers stabilize prices.
encouraging volunteerism.
meeting with business leaders to ask them not to reduce wages.
expanding the federal government to provide direct help for the needy .
The above poster is closely identified with which of the following pieces of New Deal legislation?
Social Security Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal Emergency Relief Act
National Industrial Recovery Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A significant result of the 1936 presidential election was ...
the Democrats lost control of the House but retained a majority in the Senate.
the South became solidly Democratic.
business leaders promised to support the new reforms of the Second New Deal.
African Americans became an essential part of the New Deal coalition.
Midwest farmers abandoned the Democratic Party because of Roosevelt’s agricultural policy .
Which was a major factor that contributed to the recession of 1937–38?
Roosevelt’s decision to remove the United States from the
gold standard
Government spending on relief and recovery programs
The instability of the banking system
The decline of exports
President Roosevelt’s curtailing of expenditures for relief and public works
All of the following were essential provisions of the Atlantic Charter except ...
an end of secret treaties and alliances.
free trade.
destruction of Nazi tyranny.
freedom of the seas.
a world organization to replace the League of Nations
The War Production Board established in 1942 was designed to ...
regulate prices and wages during the war.
encourage workers to buy liberty bonds for the war effort.
provide enforcement of the government’s rationing system.
regulate the conversion of private industry to be used in war industries.
set up production and priorities for control of raw materials.
The proposed March on Washington in 1941 was organized ...
to protest race riots in northern cities such as Detroit and New York.
to demand the end of racial segregation in the armed forces.
to force President Roosevelt to speak out against the lynching of African Americans in the South.
to protest against defense contractors who discriminated against African Americans.
to insist that President Roosevelt include domestic workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act that guaranteed minimum wages for workers.
Which of the following measures of President Truman’s Fair Deal program was approved by Congress?
Federal aid to education
Desegregation of the armed forces
A national health insurance plan
Expansion of Social Security benefits
Civil rights legislation to abolish the poll tax
"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness...Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
In the above passage, attorney Joseph Welch is referring to ...
Senator Huey Long.
Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Senator Alan Cranston.
Senator Hiram Bingham.
Senator Reed Smoot.
Which of the following authors attacked the corporate conformity that was said to be destroying American creativity in the 1950s?
David Riesman
William H. Whyte
Vance Packard
John Kenneth Galbraith
David Halberstam
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...
provided the Justice Department with new power to desegregate schools in the South.
created the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
established a permanent Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department.
allowed the federal government to suspend educational funding for southern schools that were not fully integrated.
was vetoed by President Eisenhower, but Congress overrode his veto to ensure its passage.
The doctrine of “flexible response” is associated with which of the following men?
John Foster Dulles
Dean Rusk
Robert McNamara
McGeorge Bundy
Dean Acheson
The Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 did not result in ...
Kennedy lifting the Cuban blockade.
Khrushchev withdrawing missiles from Cuba.
setting up a hot line for communication during a crisis.
the United States promising not to invade Cuba.
the United States agreeing to turn over the American bases at Guantánamo.
"We are people of this generation...housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit...As we grew, however, our comfort was penetrated...by the Southern struggle against racial bigotry... by the presence of the bomb."
This statement best reflects the ...
Silent Majority
New Left of the 1960s
"Me" generation
Hippies of the 1960s
Beat Generation
The Nixon Doctrine proclaimed that ...
the United States would establish détente with the Soviet Union in order to limit China’s influence in Asia.
China and the United States would establish diplomatic relations with each other.
Taiwan would be guaranteed U.S. protection against invasion by Communist China.
America would honor its military agreement with its Asian allies, but would limit the number of combat troops in its allies’ wars.
America would continue to send troops to countries fighting communism in Asia.
Cesar Chavez, seen above, is most closely associated with the ...
United Farm Workers.
Congress of Racial Equality.
United Mine Workers.
Sierra Club.
American Indian Movement.
All of the following were part of Richard Nixon’s southern strategy in 1972 to build a Republican majority except ...
use Vice President Spiro Agnew to attack liberal and antiwar protesters.
appeal to the Silent Majority.
appoint southern conservative judges to the Supreme Court.
establish greater rapport with the press.
appeal to Catholic, ethnic, and blue-collar workers by stressing traditional values.
An underlying principle of President Carter’s foreign policy was based on ...
continuing the policy of détente with the Soviet Union.
the belief that opening relations with China would strengthen American interests in the area.
working closely with the United Nations to promote peace.
limiting American involvement with our NATO allies.
making human rights the cornerstone of the policy.
All of the following were part of Ronald Reagan’s political platform except ...
reducing taxes.
deregulating the airline and banking industries.
increasing defense spending.
returning more power to the states.
privatizing the Social Security system.
Which of the following writers probably had the greatest influence on creating an awareness of poverty in America?
Michael Harrington
Christopher Lasch
Rachel Carson
Paul Ehrlich
Arthur Laffer
Jerry Falwell is most closely associated with ...
the Contract with America.
the Moral Majority.
Focus on the Family.
opposition to President Clinton’s health care reforms.
support for the Roe v. Wade decision.
