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1.

6. Which of the following is true of White women

in the British North American colonies?

a)

A) They were allowed to be ordained as

ministers.

b)

B) They were considered politically and

socially equal to their husbands.

c)

C) They were eligible to work as teachers in

public schools.

d)

(D) They were eligible to run for political office.

e)

E) They were restricted in holding property and

making legal contracts after marriage.

2.

7. Which of the following was NOT a consequence

of the Great Awakening in the American colonies

during the mid-eighteenth century?

a)

(A) More accessible, democratized piety caused

separatism and secession from established

churches

b)

(B) Heightened interest in the supernatural

caused the renewed persecution of people

for witchcraft

c)

C) The growth of institutions of higher learning

to fill the need for more ministers to spread

the gospel

d)

D) More intensive religious devotion caused the

missionary spirit to flourish

e)

E) The lessening of doctrinal rigor and a

concomitant appreciation for more direct

experiences of faith

3.

Questions 8–9 refer to the following statement.

“The present King of Great Britain ... has

combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction

foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by

our laws."

8. The "constitution” referred to in the quotation

above from the Declaration of Independence was

a)

A) the principles common to all the Navigation

Acts

b)

B) the Articles of Confederation

c)

C) a constitution for the colonies written by

Sir William Blackstone

d)

D) the laws passed concurrently by the several

colonial legislatures

e)

(E) the principles the colonists believed had

traditionally regulated British government

4.

Questions 8–9 refer to the following statement.

“The present King of Great Britain ... has

combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction

foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by

our laws."

9. The protest that the king had “combined with

others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to

our constitution” referred to George III's

a)

(A) alliance with the king of France

b)

B) use of Hessian mercenaries

c)

(C) reliance on his representatives in the

colonies

d)

D) approval of parliamentary laws impinging on

colonial self-government

e)

E) intention to place a German prince on the

throne of British America

5.

1. John Winthrop told the Puritans that their

society would be regarded as "a city upon a

hill.” But first he explained that there would

always be inequalities of wealth and power,

that some people would always be in positions of

authority, and that others would be dependent.

His statements best illustrate the Puritans'

a)

(A) reaction to unsuccessful socialist

experiments in the Netherlands

b)

(B) acceptance of the traditional belief that

social order depended on a system of ranks

c)

(C) intention to vest political power exclusively

in the ministers

d)

D) desire to better themselves economically

through means that included the institution

of slavery

e)

(E) inability to take clear stands on social issues

6.

2. The French and Indian War led Great Britain to

a)

A) encourage manufacturing in its North

American colonies

b)

(B) impose revenue taxes on its North

American colonies

c)

(C) restrict emigration to North America

d)

(D) ignore its North American colonies

e)

(E) grant increased self-government to its North

American colonies

7.

3. All of the following were common

characteristics of many colonial New England

families EXCEPT

a)

(A) a hierarchical institution in which the father

represented the source of authority

b)

(B) a place that sheltered men from the

workplace

c)

(C) a social institution that cared for the needy

and the poor

d)

(D) a social institution that provided vocational

training

e)

(E) a basic farming unit

8.

4. Which of the following is a correct statement

about the use of slave labor in colonial Virginia?

a)

(A) It was forced on reluctant White Virginians

by profit-minded English merchants and the

mercantilist officials of the Crown.

b)

(B) It was the first time Europeans enslaved

African people.

c)

(C) It fulfilled the original plans of the Virginia

Company

d)

(D) It first occurred after the invention of

Eli Whitney's cotton gin, which greatly

stimulated the demand for low-cost labor.

e)

(E) It spread rapidly in the late-seventeenth

century, as enslaved Africans replaced

European indentured servants in the

tobacco fields.

9.

5. Roger Williams defended liberty of conscience

on the grounds that

a)

(A) all religions were equal in the eyes of the

Creator

b)

(B) the institutions of political democracy would

be jeopardized without it

c)

(C) Puritan ideas about sin and salvation were

outmoded

d)

(D) theological truths would emerge from the

clash of ideas

e)

(E) the state should not interfere in church

matters

10.

10. By the time of the American Revolution, many

American colonists had generally come to

believe that the creation of a republic would

solve the problems of monarchical rule because

a republic would establish

a)

(A) a highly centralized government led by a

social elite

b)

(B) a strong chief executive

c)

(C) a small, limited government responsible to

the people

d)

(D) unlimited male suffrage

e)

(E) a society in which there were no differences

of rank and status

11.

11. All state constitutions drafted during the

American Revolutionary era were significant

because they

a)

(A) were based on the principle of virtual

representation

b)

(B) included clauses that immediately

emancipated slaves

c)

(C) provided for the confiscation and

redistribution of the property of wealthy

Loyalists

d)

(D) were the first efforts to establish a

government by and of the people

e)

(E) introduced the concept of checks and

balances

12.

12. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were

written to

a)

(A) record the soil, climate, and profitable crops

in the Pennsylvania colony

b)

(B) chronicle the history of William Penn's

colonization efforts

c)

(C) argue against the power of Parliament to tax

the colonists without representation

d)

(D) petition King George III for colonial

representation in Parliament

e)

(E) encourage colonization of the western

frontier

13.

13. Under the Articles of Confederation, which of

the following was true about the national

government?

a)

(A) It had the power to conduct foreign affairs.

b)

(B) It had the power to regulate commerce.

c)

(C) It had a bicameral legislature

d)

(D) It had an independent executive branch.

e)

(E) It included a federal judiciary.

14.

14. The concept that the ultimate sovereignty of the

federal government rests with the people is most

explicitly stated in

a)

(A) the preamble to the United States

Constitution

b)

(B) Common Sense

c)

(C) the Fourteenth Amendment to the United

States Constitution

d)

(D) the Bill of Rights

e)

(E) the Articles of Confederation

15.

15. “There is an opinion that parties in free countries

are useful checks upon the administration of the

government and serve to keep alive the spirit of

liberty. This within certain limits is probably

true, and in governments of a monarchical cast

patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with

favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the

popular character, in governments purely

elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.”

The passage above is from a speech by which of

the following presidents?

a)

(A) George Washington

b)

(B) Thomas Jefferson

c)

(C) John Adams

d)

(D) Andrew Jackson

e)

(E) Abraham Lincoln

16.

16. Thomas Jefferson opposed some of Alexander

Hamilton's programs because Jefferson believed

that

a)

(A) the common bond of a substantial national

debt would serve to unify the different states

b)

(B) the French alliance threatened to spread the

violence of the French Revolution to

America

c)

(C) the federal government should encourage

manufacturing and industry

d)

(D) Hamilton's programs were weakening the

military strength of the nation

e)

(E) Hamilton's programs favored manufacturing

and commercial interests

17.

17. The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the

following effects on the United States?

a)

(A) It severely damaged American

manufacturing

b)

(B) It enriched many cotton plantation owners.

c)

(C) It severely damaged American shipping.

d)

(D) It was ruinous to subsistence farmers,

e)

E) It had little economic impact.

18.

18. Henry Clay's American System was a plan to

a)

(A) compromise on the issue of extending

slavery to new United States territories

b)

(B) foster the economic integration of the North,

the West, and the South

c)

(C) export United States political and economic

values to oppressed peoples

d)

(D) maintain United States noninvolvement in

the internal affairs of Europe

e)

(E) assert the right of states to nullify decisions

of the national government

19.

19. Deists of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth

centuries believed that

a)

(A) natural laws, designed by the Creator,

govern the operation of the universe

b)

(B) prayer has the power to make significant

changes in a person's life

c)

(C) the idea of God is merely the creation of

people's minds

d)

(D) the universe was created by a natural,

spontaneous combining of elements

e)

(E) intuition rather than reason leads people to

an awareness of the divine

20.

20. The Louisiana Purchase was significant

because it

a)

20. The Louisiana Purchase was significant

because it

b)

(B) gave the United States control of the

Mississippi River

c)

(C) eased tensions between western settlers and

Native Americans

d)

(D) forced the British to evacuate their posts in

the Northwest

e)

(E) reduced sectional conflict over the slavery

issue

21.

21. Between the Monroe Doctrine (1823) and the

outbreak of the Civil War (1861), the most

important aspect of United States foreign

policy was

a)

(A) securing access to Canadian fisheries

b)

(B) reopening the British West Indies to direct

trade with the United States

c)

(C) securing international recognition

d)

(D) expanding the nation's boundaries

e)

(E) responding to Cuban independence

22.

22. Jacksonian economic policies did which of the

following?

a)

(A) Removed banking issues from national

politics.

b)

(B) Stalled the westward expansion.

c)

C) Ended foreign investment in the

United States.

d)

(D) Abolished state banks.

e)

(E) Encouraged the expansion of credit and

speculation.

23.

23. Which of the following is true of John C.

Calhoun?

a)

(A) He advocated a strong federal government

and helped to establish the Bank of the

United States.

b)

(B) He supported the doctrine of nullification,

which declared the right of states to rule on

the constitutionality of federal law.

c)

(C) He became a strong opponent of southern

nationalism and sought federal legislation to

link the West and the South.

d)

(D) As vice president of the United States, he

helped formulate the beginnings of a new

Republican Party

e)

(E) He led a successful movement to include

the right of concurrent majority in the

Constitution of the United States.

24.

24. Which of the following had the greatest imped

on the institution of slavery in the United States

in the first quarter of the nineteenth century?

a)

(A) Demands of southern textile manufacturers

for cotton

b)

(B) Introduction of crop rotation and fertilizers

c)

(C) Abolition of indentured servitude

d)

(D) Expanded use of the cotton gin

e)

(E) The Three-Fifths Compromise

25.

25. The "putting-out system” that emerged in

antebellum America refers to the

a)

(A) organizing of slave labor into efficient

planting teams

b)

(B) production of finished goods in individual

households

c)

(C) sending of poor children to live on farms in

the Midwest

d)

(D) shipping of raw materials to European

factories

e)

(E) forced migration of Native Americans from

valuable lands

26.

26. Which of the following was a major focus of

antebellum reform?

a)

(A) Income tax law

b)

(B) Universal suffrage

c)

(C) Prison reform

d)

(D) Creation of national parks

e)

(E) Machine politics

27.

27. The establishment of Brook Farm and the

Oneida Community in the antebellum United

States reflected

a)

(A) the influence of Social Darwinism on

American thinkers

b)

(B) the continued impact of Calvinist ideas on

American thought

c)

(C) a belief in perfectionism

d)

(D) attempts to foster racial integration

e)

E) the implementation of all-female Utopian

communities

28.

28. During the early stages of manufacturing, the

textile mills in Lowell, Massachusetts, primarily

employed

a)

(A) native-born, single White men who had lost

their farms

b)

(B) native-born, single White women from rural

areas

c)

(C) White males from debtors' prisons

d)

(D) recent immigrants from southern and eastern

Europe

e)

(E) African American women

29.

29. Members of the Whig Party organized in the

1830s agreed most on which of the following?

a)

(A) Extension of slavery into western territories

b)

(B) Elimination of protective tariffs

c)

(C) Endorsement of the doctrine of nullification

d)

(D) Disapproval of Andrew Jackson's policies

e)

(E) Disapproval of the "corrupt bargain” under

John Quincy Adams

30.

30. The issue of constitutionality figured most

prominently in the consideration of which of the

following?

a)

(A) Tariff of 1789

b)

(B) First Bank of the United States

c)

(C) Funding of the national debt

d)

(D) Assumption of state debts

e)

(E) Excise tax on whiskey

31.

31. The presidential election of 1840 is often

considered the first “modern” election because

a)

(A) the slavery issue was first raised in this

campaign

b)

(B) it was the first election in which women

voted

c)

(C) voting patterns were similar to those later

established in the 1890s

d)

(D) for the first time, both parties widely

campaigned among all the eligible voters

e)

(E) a second Era of Good Feelings had just

come to a close, marking a new departure in

politics

32.

32. The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the

following EXCEPT the belief that

a)

(A) commerce and industry would decline as the

nation expanded its agricultural base

b)

(B) the use of land for settled agriculture was

preferable to its use for nomadic hunting

c)

(C) westward expansion was both inevitable and

beneficial

d)

(D) the Creator selected America as a chosen

land populated by a chosen people

e)

(E) the ultimate extent of the American domain

was to be from the Atlantic to the

Pacific Ocean

33.

33. “Upon these considerations, it is the opinion

of the court that the act of Congress which

prohibited a citizen from holding and owning

property of this kind in the territory of the

United States north of the line therein

mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution,

and is therefore void; and that neither the

plaintiff himself, nor any of his family, were

made free by being carried into this territory;

even if they had been carried there by the owner,

with the intention of becoming a permanent

resident."

The congressional act referred to in the passage

above was the

a)

(A) Kansas-Nebraska Act

b)

(B) Missouri Compromise

c)

(C) Northwest Ordinance of 1787

d)

(D) Compromise of 1850

e)

(E) Fugitive Slave Act

34.

34. Moby-Dick, The Scarlet Letter, and Leaves of

Grass are examples of which of the following

literary traditions ?

a)

(A) American Renaissance

b)

(B) Harlem Renaissance

c)

(C) Realism

d)

(D) Modernism

e)

(E) Genteel Tradition

35.

35. Which of the following represents William

Lloyd Garrison's proposed solution to the

slavery question?

a)

(A) Immediate emancipation and resettlement

in Liberia

b)

(B) Immediate emancipation and resettlement

in the Southwest

c)

(C) Immediate emancipation with compensation

for slaveholders

d)

(D) Gradual emancipation without compensation

for slaveholders

e)

(E) Immediate emancipation without

compensation for slaveholders

36.

36. Immediately after the Revolution, some men

argued that women should be educated so that

they could

a)

(A) oversee the instruction of their sons to be

good citizens

b)

(B) become clergy

c)

(C) take an active role in public life outside

the home

d)

(D) take an active role in business decisions

with men

e)

(E) make informed decisions about how to vote

The congressional act referred to in the passage

above was the

37.

37. Which of the following groups was most likely

to adopt the Free Soil ideology?

a)

(A) Free African Americans

b)

(B) Northern capitalists

c)

(C) Western frontier settlers

d)

(D) Southern yeoman farmers

e)

(E) Southern plantation owners

38.

38. The 1848 women's rights convention in Seneca

Falls, New York, was a protest against

a)

(A) the use of women workers in textile factories

b)

(B) the abuse of female slaves on Southern

plantations

c)

(C) the failure of the Democratic Party to

endorse a woman suffrage amendment

d)

(D) customs and laws that gave women a status

inferior to that of men

e)

(E) state restrictions that prevented women from

joining labor unions

39.

39. Which of the following wrote Uncle Tom's

Cabin?

a)

(A) Louisa May Alcott

b)

(B) Herman Melville

c)

(C) Harriet Beecher Stowe

d)

(D) Richard Henry Dana

e)

(E) Kate Chopin

40.

40. Which of the following was opposed by both the

Free Soil Party and the Republican Party in the

mid-nineteenth century?

a)

(A) Internal improvement in the West

b)

(B) Extension of slavery into the territories

c)

(C) Growth of textile manufacturing in

New England

d)

(D) Unrestricted immigration from Ireland

e)

(E) Use of paper money

41.

41. In the pre-Civil War era, the railroads' most

important impact on the economy was that they

a)

(A) created a huge new market for railway

equipment

b)

(B) created the basis for greater cooperation

between southern planters and northern

textile manufacturers

c)

(C) generated new employment opportunities for

unskilled urban workers

d)

(D) involved the federal government in the

financing of a nationwide transportation

network

e)

(E) provided midwestern farmers accessibility to

eastern urban markets

42.

42. Which of the following was NOT an element of

the Compromise of 1850 ?

a)

(A) Stronger fugitive slave law

b)

(B) Abolition of the slave trade in Washington,

D.C.

c)

(C) Admittance of California as a free state

d)

(D) Organization of the Kansas Territory without

slavery

e)

(E) Adjustment of the Texas-New Mexico

boundary

43.

43. All of the following conditions influenced the

development of American agriculture during the

first half of the nineteenth century EXCEPT

a)

(A) settlement of the western territories

b)

(B) a widespread interest in conserving soil and

natural resources

c)

(C) the trend toward regional economic

specialization

d)

(D) the enthusiasm for land speculation

e)

(E) improvements in transportation by water

44.

44. Which of the following best describes the

United States position in the world economy

during the period 1790–1860 ?

a)

(A) It was the leading producer of finished and

manufactured goods for export.

b)

(B) It relied heavily on European capital for its

economic expansion.

c)

(C) It had an inadequate merchant marine and

depended largely on foreign vessels to carry

its trade.

d)

(D) It was strengthened by the acquisition of

overseas colonies.

e)

(E) It was severely hampered by its reliance on

slave labor.

45.

45. After the Civil War, the majority of freed people

found work in the South as

a)

(A) factory workers

b)

(B) railroad employees

c)

(C) independent craftsmen

d)

(D) tenant farmers

e)

(E) domestic servants

46.

46. Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction

included which of the following?

a)

(A) Establishment of five military districts to

prepare seceded regions for readmission

as states

b)

(B) Punishment of Confederates through land

confiscation and high property taxes

c)

(C) Restoration of property to White

Southerners who would swear a loyalty

oath to the United States

d)

(D) Reestablishment of state government after

10 percent of the voters in a state pledged

their allegiance to the United States

e)

(E) Readmission of states to the Union

contingent on their ratification of the

Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth

Amendments to the Constitution

47.

47. All of the following elements of the Radical

Republican program were implemented during

Reconstruction EXCEPT

a)

(A) provision of 40 acres to each freedman

household

b)

(B) enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment

c)

(C) military occupation of the South

d)

(D) punishment of the Confederate leaders

e)

(E) restrictions on the power of the president

48.

48. Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction plan allowed

for Southern states to be readmitted into the

Union on the condition that they

a)

(A) revoke the ordinance of secession and ratify

the Thirteenth Amendment

b)

(B) prohibit the use of the Black Codes

c)

(C) guarantee suffrage for all citizens, regardless

of race

d)

(D) give land grants to freed people

e)

(E) punish ex-Confederates refusing to take an

oath of loyalty to the United States

49.

49. Which of the following was a renowned

African American poet in New England in

the late-eighteenth century?

a)

(A) Benjamin Banneker

b)

(B) Lemuel Haynes

c)

(C) Phillis Wheatley

d)

(D) Gabriel Prosser

e)

(E) Sojourner Truth

50.

50. During the antebellum period, the Auburn

system was designed to

a)

(A) teach factory workers proper work habits

b)

(B) instill discipline in grade schools

c)

(C) reform criminals

d)

(D) punish escaped enslaved people

e)

(E) cure the mentally ill

51.

51. California was admitted as a state to the Union

a)

(A) as part of the Compromise of 1850

b)

(B) with the passage of the Wilmot Proviso

c)

(C) during the Mexican-American War

d)

(D) with the passage of the Northwest Ordinance

of 1787

e)

(E) when the Kansas-Nebraska Act settled the

issue of western slavery

52.

52. Which of the following wrote Incidents in the

Life of a Slave Girl?

a)

(A) Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

b)

(B) Sojourner Truth

c)

(C) Lydia Maria Child

d)

(D) Harriet Beecher Stowe

e)

(E) Harriet Jacobs

53.

53. The activities of the Freedmen's Bureau included all of the following EXCEPT

a)

(A) providing food, clothing, medical care, and shelter to war victims

b)

(B) reuniting families of freedmen

c)

(C) establishing a network of courts

d)

(D) establishing schools for freed people

e)

(E) permanently redistributing land

54.

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

a)

(A) obtain Oregon

b)

(B) build a transcontinental railroad

c)

(C) relieve population pressures

d)

(D) obtain additional grazing lands

e)

(E) balance slave and free states

55.

55. Place the following educational events in the correct chronological order. Place the earliest event first.

a)

Establishment of Harvard College, The Common School movement, Establishment of schools to train teachers, Northwest Ordinance

b)

Northwest Ordinance, The Common School movement, Establishment of Harvard College, Establishment of schools to train teachers

c)

The Common School movement, Establishment of Harvard College, Northwest Ordinance, Establishment of schools to train teachers

d)

Establishment of schools to train teachers, Establishment of Harvard College, The Common School movement, Northwest Ordinance

e)

Establishment of Harvard College, Northwest Ordinance, The Common School movement, Establishment of schools to train teachers

56.

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

a)

(A) He founded the Bank of The United States.

b)

(B) He authored the Articles of Confederation.

c)

(C) He authored the Bill of Rights

d)

(D) He invented electricity.

e)

(E) He helped to negotiate the Treaty of Paris of 1783.

57.

57. Which of the following terms was used to refer to a means by which some people escaped slavery in the South?

a)

(A) The Northwest Passage

b)

(B) The Overland Trail

c)

(C) The National Road

d)

(D) The Underground Railroad

e)

(E) The Erie Canal

58.

58. The acquittal of John Peter Zenger in 1735 reflected the growing colonial belief that

a)

(A) colonial governors should have absolute veto power over colonial assemblies

b)

(B) Parliament should not be involved in internal matters in the British colonies

c)

(C) newspaper editors should have the right to criticize public officials

d)

(D) Enlightenment thought should have no place in colonial culture

e)

(E) governors should have the right to limit the publication of newspapers

59.

59. Bacon's Rebellion was

a)

(A) a revolt of enslaved African Americans against treatment by their owners

b)

(B) the name given to a slave conspiracy in New York City

c)

(C) the Philadelphia version of the Boston Tea Party

d)

(D) a revolt by poor farmers and indentured servants

e)

(E) an uprising of Native Americans

60.

60. Which of the following is true about the

American victory at Saratoga in October 1777

during the Revolutionary War?

a)

(A) It enabled George Washington to recapture

New York City.

b)

(B) It led Congress to declare independence.

c)

(C) It caused the British to evacuate Boston.

d)

(D) It helped convince France to enter the war.

e)

(E) It prompted Parliament to end the war.

61.

61. In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the

Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the

following to England?

a)

(A) Cattle

b)

(B) Tobacco

c)

(C) Tea

d)

(D) Cotton

e)

(E) Coffee

62.

62. “No Person or Persons, inhabiting in this

Province or Territories, who shall confess and

acknowledge One almighty God, the Creator,

Upholder and Ruler of the World; ... shall be in

any Case molested or prejudiced, in his or their

Person or Estate, because of his or their

conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be

compelled to frequent or maintain any religious

Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or

their Mind."

The excerpt above is from the charter of which

of the following English colonies?

a)

(A) Plymouth

b)

(B) Pennsylvania

c)

(C) Massachusetts Bay

d)

(D) Jamestown

e)

(E) Roanoke

63.

63. According to the Treaty of Paris of 1783,

Great Britain both recognized American

independence and

a)

(A) agreed to cancel all the prewar debts owed

to the British by American citizens

b)

(B) promised to set the western boundary of the

United States at the Mississippi River

c)

(C) retained fishing rights off Newfoundland

d)

(D) insisted that George III remain the titular

head of the former thirteen colonies

e)

(E) agreed to the presence of British troops in

the Northwest Territories for ten years

64.

64. All of the following resulted from the War of

1812 EXCEPT

a)

(A) the decline of the Federalist Party

b)

(B) increased domestic manufacturing

c)

(C) the loss of Florida to the British

d)

(D) the emergence of Andrew Jackson as a

war hero

e)

(E) heightened patriotism

65.

65. In Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), the Supreme

Court decided that

a)

(A) enslaved people could not be freed by virtue

of their residence in a free state

b)

(B) the Compromise of 1850 was supported by

the Constitution

c)

(C) Dred and Harriet Scott deserved their

freedom

d)

(D) the principle of popular sovereignty could be

applied in new territories

e)

(E) free African Americans could not be

enslaved

66.

66. Widely read autobiographies of escaped slaves,

such as The Life and Times of Frederick

Douglass, assisted the abolitionist cause

primarily by

a)

(A) raising money for back-to-Africa

colonization projects in Liberia and

Sierra Leone

b)

(B) demonstrating the inability of the federal

government to stand up to pro-slavery

interests in the Congress

c)

(C) depicting slavery as benevolent and

supportive of family preservation

d)

(D) linking American slavery to earlier slave

societies in Greece and Egypt

e)

(E) transforming the popular understanding of

slavery from an abstraction to a tangible evil

67.

67. Which of the following best describes the

significance of Shays' Rebellion and the

Whiskey Rebellion?

a)

(A) They were early examples of colonial

opposition to the British taxes imposed after

the French and Indian War.

b)

(B) They led to the meeting of the Constitutional

Convention.

c)

(C) They were precipitated by burdensome tax

policies.

d)

(D) Alexander Hamilton led the armed forces

that suppressed both rebellions.

e)

(E) They were caused by the inability of farmers

to pay their debts.

68.

68. Which of the following best explains the

opposition of Thomas Jefferson and James

Madison to the First Bank of the United States?

a)

(A) Capital for the bank was raised by taxes

on farmers.

b)

(B) The bank did not provide loans to

farmers for the purchase of land.

c)

(C) The bank gave the president too much

control over the economy.

d)

(D) The Constitution did not grant the

Congress the right to charter a bank.

e)

(E) Bank speculation had led to a post-

Revolution depression.

69.

69. Which of the following best describes the

purpose of the Hartford Convention?

a)

(A) To protest the impressments of American

sailors into the British navy

b)

(B) To coordinate a federal response to the

uprising of Tecumseh and the Prophet

c)

(C) To propose amendments to the Constitution

and to avoid the secession of New England

states

d)

(D) To select an alternate seat of government

after Washington was captured by the British

e)

(E) To provide a plan for the incorporation of

Canada into the United States

70.

70. Which of the following were native to North

America before Columbus arrived?

a)

(A) Horses and pumpkins

b)

(B) Dandelions and clover

c)

(C) Maize and squash

d)

(D) Oranges and sweet potatoes

e)

(E) Rice and potatoes

71.

71. The Middle colonies differed from both the New

England and Southern colonies in that the

Middle colonies

a)

(A) had a system of staple crop agriculture

b)

(B) prohibited slavery

c)

(C) required church attendance on Sundays

d)

(D) were more religiously and ethnically diverse

e)

(E) had no history of violence against Native

Americans

72.

72. Which of the following is true of the Northwest

Ordinance of 1787 ?

a)

(A) It barred slavery north of the 36°30' line.

b)

(B) It provided free land grants to anyone

willing to settle in the Northwest Territory.

c)

(C) It established the 49th parallel as

the boundary between Canada and the

United States.

d)

(D) It set aside territories for Native American

tribes in the Old Northwest.

e)

(E) It defined the process by which territories

became states.

73.

73. Which of the following was a direct consequence

of the Proclamation of 1763 ?

a)

(A) New taxes were raised on British colonists

in North America.

b)

(B) The French and Indian War officially ended.

c)

(C) Slavery was prohibited in territories west of

the Mississippi River.

d)

(D) Colonial settlement west of the Appalachian

Mountains was restrained.

e)

(E) British colonists were encouraged to buy

new lands in the southern colonies.

74.

74. Through its ruling in McCulloch v. Maryland,

the Supreme Court achieved all of the following

EXCEPT

a)

(A) upholding the constitutionality of the

Second Bank of the United States

b)

(B) establishing the principle of judicial review

c)

(C) accepting Alexander Hamilton's loose

construction of the Constitution

d)

(D) denying the state of Maryland the right to

tax the Second Bank of the United States

e)

(E) strengthening the power of the federal

government

75.

75. “Now let any candid person examine the causes

by which associations ... so often fail, and he

will find that it arises from the partial and selfish

relations of husbands, wives and children..

Therefore, all who attempt to establish and

support such a system by any power of nature, or

by any human wisdom, or indeed by any means

short of self-denial, integrity of principle, and

real chastity of person, will most certainly fail in

the end."

The statement best reflects the beliefs of which

of the following nineteenth-century Utopian

groups?

a)

(A) New Harmony

b)

(B) The Oneida Community

c)

(C) Brook Farm

d)

(D) The Shakers

e)

(E) The Mormons

76.

76. The disputed election of 1876 was significant

because it

a)

(A) led to the growth of third parties

b)

(B) led to the expansion of executive power

c)

(C) demonstrated the power of big business

d)

(D) signaled the beginning of mass participation

in politics

e)

(E) resulted in the end of Reconstruction in

the South

77.

77. Seventeenth-century Puritans and Quakers

differed primarily over the

a)

(A) divinity of Jesus

b)

(B) importance of charity work (almsgiving)

c)

(C) notion of predestination

d)

(D) celebration of Christmas

e)

(E) consumption of alcohol

78.

78. In the period between the American Revolution

and the Civil War, the religious communities

west of the Appalachians that grew fastest were

a)

(A) Roman Catholics and Quakers

b)

(B) Jews and Episcopalians

c)

(C) Quakers and Presbyterians

d)

(D) Baptists and Methodists

e)

(E) Methodists and Episcopalians

79.

79. Which of the following did NOT occur during

the transportation revolution in the nineteenth

century?

a)

(A) State and federal governments subsidized

the construction of roads and canals.

b)

(B) The cost of shipping goods declined

precipitously.

c)

(C) The postal service grew rapidly.

d)

(D) The Supreme Court enforced monopolies on

steamboat travel and bridge construction.

e)

(E) Railroads became a major carrier of freight

by the start of the Civil War.

80.

80. The Jay Treaty of 1794 led to

a)

(A) more stable relations between the

United States and Great Britain

b)

(B) increased trans-Mississippi migration

c)

(C) the development of the first political party

system

d)

(D) an increase in the power of the Supreme

Court

e)

(E) increased migration from Eastern Europe

81.

81. One of the major consequences of the

Mexican-American War was the

a)

(A) resolution of the issue of slave states versus

free states until the Civil War

b)

(B) expulsion of Mexicans from the annexed

territories

c)

(C) passage of the Homestead Act, which

granted land to settlers in the West

d)

(D) prohibition of slavery in Texas

e)

(E) designation of 80,000 to 100,000 Mexicans

as American citizens

82.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men

are created equal, that they are endowed by their

Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among

these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

—That to secure these rights, Governments are

instituted among Men, deriving their just powers

from the consent of the governed,—That whenever

any Form of Government becomes destructive of

these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to

abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying

its foundation on such principles and organizing its

powers in such form, as to them shall seem most

likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

The Declaration of Independence

82. The author of the passage above was influenced

by the writings of

a)

A) John Locke's Second Treatise on

Government

b)

(B) Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan

c)

(C) David Hume's Of Civil Liberty

d)

(D) Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social

Contract

e)

(E) Pierre-Joseph Proundhon's An Inquiry into

the Principle of Right and Government

83.

83. Which of the following statements best describes

women's involvement in reform movements of

the antebellum period?

a)

(A) Many women argued that their roles as

mothers and wives gave them a unique

understanding of the nature of and solutions

to social ills.

b)

(B) Women rarely ventured outside the private

sphere and were not heavily involved in

reform movements.

c)

(C) Women were successful in getting suffrage

laws passed in many states but were

unsuccessful in getting a national suffrage

law passed.

d)

(D) Women were active in the abolitionist

movement and accepted as equals within it.

e)

(E) Women argued that education would lead to

a more equal society and pushed heavily for

the establishment of a public school system.

84.

84. The purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau was to

a)

(A) campaign against segregation and achieve

political and social equality for freed people

b)

(B) inject money into the Southern economy by

giving loans to freedmen to help them buy

plots of land from their former masters

c)

(C) grant each former slave 40 acres of land in

the western territories

d)

(D) help African Americans transition from

slavery to freedom

e)

(E) establish the first comprehensive public

school system in the Southern states

85.

85. All of the following intellectual traditions

contributed to the ideas of the Founding Fathers

EXCEPT the

a)

(A) French Enlightenment philosophy

b)

(B) liberal tradition represented by John Locke's

Two Treatises of Government

c)

(C) Whig philosophy as represented in British

political pamphlets

d)

(D) skeptical tradition of David Hume

e)

(E) Scottish Enlightenment philosophy

86.

86. The Second Great Awakening differed from the

First Great Awakening in that the Second Great

Awakening

a)

(A) led to a rapid increase in membership in

Congregationalists and Presbyterians

churches

b)

(B) caused revivalists to fear a growing threat to

spiritual authority from laypeople

c)

(C) was closely tied to social reform movements

d)

(D) prohibited women from speaking at camp

meetings and other religious services

e)

(E) began in New York state and made its largest

impact throughout New England

87.

87. Which of the following most directly led to a

more democratic political system in the United

States in the first half of the nineteenth century?

a)

(A) Most states extended the right to vote to

women and free African Americans.

b)

(B) Judicial review was established, limiting the

power of the Supreme Court over the

decisions of Congress.

c)

(C) Presidential elections started being

determined by a combination of the electoral

college and popular vote.

d)

(D) Many states reduced or eliminated property

qualifications for voting.

e)

(E) New territories were not admitted as states

unless they guaranteed the right to vote for

all men over the age of twenty-one.

88.

88. The Federalist Party's political perspective was

characterized by which of the following beliefs

about the central government?

a)

(A) It should have very few powers over the

states.

b)

(B) It should pursue closer relations with France

rather than with Britain.

c)

(C) It should provide aid to western farmers.

d)

(D) It should oppose bankers and

manufacturers.

e)

(E) It should encourage economic development.

89.

89. Which of the following was true of Southern

society in the antebellum period?

a)

(A) The South experienced less social

stratification than the North.

b)

(B) Northern women could not become school

teachers in the South in order to prevent the

spread of abolitionism.

c)

(C) Southerners expected that White women

would work outside the home.

d)

(D) The South had a higher literacy rate than the

North.

e)

(E) Southern politicians increasingly described

slavery as a positive institution.

90.

90. President James K. Polk would have been most

likely to upset Northerners by his

a)

(A) compromise over the Oregon Territory

b)

(B) opposition to invading Mexico

c)

(C) support for a high tariff

d)

(D) invasion of British Columbia

e)

(E) support for the Wilmot Proviso

91.

91. Which of the following is true of the Fugitive

Slave Act of 1850 ?

a)

(A) It was a compromise that prevented further

sectional divisions for the next decade.

b)

(B) It consolidated the concept of states' rights

in regard to enforcing slavery.

c)

(C) Many Northerners opposed it.

d)

(D) It established the right to due process for

people accused of being fugitive slaves.

e)

(E) Most Southern politicians opposed it.

92.

92. Which of the following best describes the

American Colonization Society?

a)

(A) It helped provide jobs for African Americans

building the Panama Canal.

b)

(B) Militant abolitionists such as William Lloyd

Garrison and Frederick Douglass supported

it.

c)

(C) Large numbers of African Americans in the

1850s and 1860s supported it.

d)

(D) It promoted the settling of free African

Americans from the United States to Africa.

e)

(E) It developed the concept of Manifest Destiny

in the 1830s and 1840s.

93.

93. Which of the following was a key component of

Alexander Hamilton's plan for the economic

development of the United States?

a)

(A) Establishment of a national bank that would

stabilize paper currency and extend credit

b)

(B) Termination of all trade with European

countries in order to bolster the United

States economy

c)

(C) Establishment of trade agreements with

European colonies in the Western Hemisphere

d)

(D) Eradication of the national debt in order to

create a small federal government

e)

(E) Reliance on the free market, with no

government involvement in the economy

94.

94. Which of the following best explains the primary

reason for the opposition in the United States to

the annexation of Texas in the late 1830s and

early 1840s?

a)

(A) The large number of Catholics in Texas

b)

(B) The threat of economic competition from

cotton growers in Texas

c)

(C) The potential for creating an imbalance in

the Congress between proslavery and

antislavery forces

d)

(D) The migration of settlers to new land in

Texas

e)

(E) The potential for United States engagement

in a war with Mexico

95.

95. In his Farewell Address, George Washington

advocated that the United States should develop

which of the following policies?

a)

(A) Using its moral standing as a democratic

nation to intervene in foreign affairs

b)

(B) Annexing neighboring territories that were

under Spanish colonial authority

c)

(C) Adopting an isolationist position by

avoiding engaging in alliances with

European states

d)

(D) Creating lasting alliances with newly

independent states in the Western

Hemisphere

e)

(E) Preventing European nations from

interfering in the political stability of the

Western Hemisphere

96.

96. Which of the following contributed to the start of

the French and Indian War?

a)

(A) Attempts by British colonists to settle areas

in the Quebec region of Canada

b)

(B) Skirmishes between British and French

forces over disputed territory in the upper

Ohio River valley

c)

(C) Military confrontations between British

settlers and Native Americans in the Great

Lakes region

d)

(D) Tension caused by new military alliances

between the French and the Iroquois

Confederacy

e)

(E) Raids by French soldiers on British

settlements in western New England

97.

97. Which of the following best characterizes

foreign relations between Europe and the United

States during the Civil War?

a)

(A) Russia advocated for the independence of

the South to defend the legitimacy of

slavery.

b)

(B) France provided significant military and

financial aid to the South during the war.

c)

(C) Britain maintained neutrality in the war

despite significant economic ties to the

South.

d)

(D) European allies of the North encouraged

Mexico to plan an invasion of the South.

e)

(E) Spain aided the North because it saw the

South as a threat to Spanish interests in

Cuba.

98.

98. The Caribbean sugar plantations played an

important role in the growth of the trans-Atlantic

slave trade for which of the following reasons?

a)

(A) Demand for enslaved Africans was high in

the Caribbean because Africans' prior

knowledge of sugar cultivation increased

plantation profits.

b)

(B) The harsh conditions and high mortality

rates associated with Caribbean sugar

cultivation and production resulted in a

constant demand for new labor.

c)

(C) European governments made slavery illegal

in most of their overseas empires, which

limited merchants to selling enslaved people

in only a few places such as the Caribbean.

d)

(D) Sugar produced and shipped from the

Caribbean was in high demand in Africa,

where African merchants were willing to

trade slaves for sugar.

e)

(E) White indentured servants who came to the

Caribbean refused to work in sugar

cultivation, which encouraged the

widespread reliance on enslaved African

labor.

99.

99. Advocates of popular sovereignty in the

mid-nineteenth century asserted which of the

following?

a)

(A) All enslaved people should be freed by a

constitutional amendment.

b)

(B) Presidential elections should not be decided

by the electoral college.

c)

(C) Slavery should not be extended into any new

territories or states.

d)

(D) Residents of a territory should decide if

slavery would be permitted there.

e)

(E) Congress had the sole right to grant suffrage

to women in new territories.

100.

100. Which of the following best describes a

common characteristic of most Eastern

Woodlands Native American societies before

contact with Europeans?

a)

(A) They relied on the bison as their main

source of food and products for trade.

b)

(B) They shared a common language that

enabled easy communication between

tribes.

c)

(C) They lived in farming communities and

also foraged for seasonal food sources.

d)

(D) They used enslaved labor to cultivate corn,

squash, and tobacco on plantations.

e)

(E) They formed a single regional confederacy

that settled disputes between different

groups.

101.

“The consequences of a speedy removal will be

important to the United States, to individual States,

and to the Indians themselves. The pecuniary

advantages which it promises to the Government are

the least of its recommendations. It puts an end to all

possible danger of collision between the authorities

of the General and State Governments.... It will

place a dense and civilized population in large tracts

of country now occupied by a few.... It will

separate the Indians from immediate contact with

settlements of whites; free them from the power of

the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their

own way; . . . and perhaps cause them gradually,

under the protection of the Government and through

the influence of good counsels, to ... become an

interesting, civilized, and Christian community."

President Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message

to Congress, December 6, 1830

101. Jackson's reference to the "pecuniary

advantages which it promises” reveals that

which of the following was a motive behind the

policy he proposed in the excerpt?

a)

(A) Encouraging economic development

through land subsidies to the railroads

b)

(B) Confiscating Native American land to make

it available for sale to Whites

c)

(C) Passing tariffs on increased agricultural

production from lands opened to farming

d)

(D) Granting citizenship rights to Native

Americans in order to expand the tax base

e)

(E) Requiring loan repayments in specie to

stabilize the national banking system

102.

“The consequences of a speedy removal will be

important to the United States, to individual States,

and to the Indians themselves. The pecuniary

advantages which it promises to the Government are

the least of its recommendations. It puts an end to all

possible danger of collision between the authorities

of the General and State Governments.... It will

place a dense and civilized population in large tracts

of country now occupied by a few.... It will

separate the Indians from immediate contact with

settlements of whites; free them from the power of

the States; enable them to pursue happiness in their

own way; . . . and perhaps cause them gradually,

under the protection of the Government and through

the influence of good counsels, to ... become an

interesting, civilized, and Christian community."

President Andrew Jackson, Second Annual Message

to Congress, December 6, 1830

102. By the late 1830s, the policy outlined in the

excerpt resulted in

a)

(A) the launch of a major military campaign by

the United States Army against Native

Americans in the West

b)

(B) legislation that mandated the return of

ancestral lands to Native American nations

in the Southeast

c)

(C) efforts to assimilate Native Americans into

White society and culture under the Dawes

Severalty Act

d)

(D) the development of alphabets for written

language, constitutions, and private land

ownership by Native Americans in the

Southeast

e)

(E) the death of many southeastern Native

Americans from exposure, disease, and

starvation on the forced march called the

Trail of Tears

103.

103. The Boston Tea Party of 1773 most directly resulted in which of the following actions?

a)

(A) The Massachusetts militia engaged in skirmishes with British troops at Lexington and Concord.

b)

(B) British soldiers opened fire on a group of colonial protesters in what became known as the Boston Massacre.

c)

(C) The British Parliament passed the Intolerable Acts, a series of punitive laws for the colonies.

d)

(D) Representatives from the thirteen colonies formed the Stamp Act Congress to better coordinate colonial protest.

e)

(E) Patrick Henry penned the Virginia Resolves to argue for the preservation of local rights against central government power.

104.

104.Which of the following statements best describes a role that the South played in the emerging national and international market economies in the first half of the nineteenth century?

a)

(A) It exported most of the cotton it produced to Northern rather than international textile manufacturers.

b)

(B) It purchased most of its luxury goods from Northern manufacturers instead of international suppliers.

c)

(C) It contributed an ever more diverse range of agricultural commodities to national and international markets.

d)

(D) Its industrial production supplied manufactured goods to Northern, Western, and international consumers.

e)

(E) Its economic output increasingly helped to integrate the country into international financial networks.

105.

105. The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1804, was a response to which of the following problems?

a)

(A) Several states refused to vote on the Constitution without the inclusion of the amendment.

b)

(B) Conflicts within President George Washington's Cabinet prevented the government from functioning.

c)

(C) The original process for electing the president and vice president did not account for the rise of political parties.

d)

(D) The divisions between northern and southern states over tariffs led to competing party nominees for the vice presidency.

e)

(E) Senators disagreed with representatives on the apportioning of electoral votes by state population.

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