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United States HistoryTest 3

Total questions: 72

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

In what year did the Constitutional Convention meet?

a)

1787

b)

1776

c)

1791

d)

1800

2.

In what year was the Spanish Armada defeated?

a)

1588

b)

1603

c)

1492

d)

1620

3.

In what year did Christopher Columbus discover the New World?

a)

1492

b)

1501

c)

1485

d)

1510

4.

What election was the first in which the president and vice president were from different parties?

a)

1796

b)

1800

c)

1788

d)

1824

5.

When did the First Continental Congress meet?

a)

1774

b)

1787

c)

1765

d)

1791

6.

In what year was Jamestown founded?

a)

1607

b)

1620

c)

1585

d)

1619

7.

When was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded?

a)

1630

b)

1607

c)

1620

d)

1650

8.

What year was the Louisiana Purchase made?

a)

1803

b)

1799

c)

1812

d)

1820

9.

When did the French and Indian War begin?

a)

1754

b)

1763

c)

1776

d)

1789

10.

When was the Treaty of Ghent?

a)

1791

b)

1814

c)

1783

d)

1800

11.

In what year was the Bill of Rights ratified? ________

a)

1791

b)

1787

c)

1801

d)

1776

12.

What economic system dominated Europe during the Middle Ages?

a)

Feudalism

b)

Capitalism

c)

Mercantilism

d)

Socialism

13.

What was the first written constitution in present-day United States? ________

a)

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

b)

Mayflower Compact

c)

Articles of Confederation

d)

Virginia Declaration of Rights

14.

What church did most of the southern colonies follow?

a)

Anglican

b)

Catholic

c)

Lutheran

d)

Quaker

15.

What plan did Benjamin Franklin propose for a union of the colonies?

a)

Albany Plan

b)

Virginia Plan

c)

New Jersey Plan

d)

Connecticut Compromise

16.

On what date did the American War for Independence begin?

a)

April 19, 1775

b)

July 4, 1776

c)

September 3, 1783

d)

December 16, 1773

17.

What law divided government-owned land into townships?

a)

Land Ordinance of 1785

b)

Northwest Ordinance of 1787

c)

Homestead Act of 1862

d)

Missouri Compromise of 1820

18.

Who was John Adams’s vice president?

a)

Thomas Jefferson

b)

Alexander Hamilton

c)

James Madison

d)

John Jay

19.

What was the meeting of northeastern states which claimed that states could nullify federal laws?

a)

Hartford Convention

b)

Albany Congress

c)

Continental Congress

d)

Annapolis Convention

20.

Who invented the movable-type printing press?

a)

Johann Gutenberg

b)

Thomas Edison

c)

Alexander Graham Bell

d)

Leonardo da Vinci

21.

Who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

a)

John Winthrop

b)

William Bradford

c)

Roger Williams

d)

Thomas Dudley

22.

Who discovered the Cumberland Gap?

a)

Daniel Boone

b)

Meriwether Lewis

c)

John Smith

d)

William Clark

23.

Who founded Log College? ________

a)

William Tennent

b)

Jonathan Edwards

c)

George Whitefield

d)

Samuel Davies

24.

What Virginian lawyer declared, “Give me liberty, or give me death”?

a)

Patrick Henry

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

George Washington

d)

James Madison

25.

Which Prussian general trained the Patriot army?

a)

Baron von Steuben

b)

Friedrich Engels

c)

Otto von Bismarck

d)

Helmuth von Moltke

26.

What Native American helped the British in the War for Independence?

a)

Joseph Brant

b)

Tecumseh

c)

Sitting Bull

d)

Geronimo

27.

What prime minister passed the Stamp Act?

a)

George Grenville

b)

William Pitt the Elder

c)

Lord North

d)

Charles Townshend

28.

Who authored Commentaries on the Laws of England?

a)

William Blackstone

b)

John Locke

c)

Jeremy Bentham

d)

Thomas Hobbes

29.

Who led a rebellion during the Critical Period?

a)

Daniel Shays

b)

George Washington

c)

Alexander Hamilton

d)

Thomas Jefferson

30.

Which American diplomat negotiated a treaty with Spain?

a)

Thomas Pinckney

b)

John Jay

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

James Monroe

31.

Who explored the southern portion of the Louisiana Territory?

a)

Zebulon Pike

b)

Meriwether Lewis

c)

William Clark

d)

John C. Frémont

32.

Which Spaniard conquered the Aztecs?

a)

Hernando Cortes

b)

Francisco Pizarro

c)

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

d)

Ferdinand Magellan

33.

What major English precedent for American government came from the Magna Carta?

a)

limited representative government

b)

absolute monarchy

c)

universal suffrage

d)

separation of church and state

34.

What was the name of John Paul Jones’s ship that captured the Serapis?

a)

Bonhomme Richard

b)

HMS Victory

c)

USS Constitution

d)

Mayflower

e)

HMS Beagle

35.

Which colony was founded as a haven for English Catholics?

a)

Maryland

b)

Virginia

c)

Georgia

d)

Massachusetts

36.

What industry was uniquely important to New England?

a)

Fishing and whaling

b)

Cotton farming

c)

Gold mining

d)

Automobile manufacturing

37.

What was the most widely used textbook in colonial America? ________

a)

New England Primer

b)

McGuffey Readers

c)

Blue-Backed Speller

d)

Hornbook

38.

What type of school was common in the southern colonies?

a)

Old-field schools

b)

Boarding schools

c)

Grammar schools

d)

Charter schools

39.

What economic theory did the Navigation Acts enforce?

a)

Mercantilism

b)

Capitalism

c)

Socialism

d)

Feudalism

40.

The Administration of Justice Act was not a part of who’s programs to tax the colonies?

a)

George Grenville

b)

Charles Townshend

c)

Lord North

d)

William Pitt

41.

What town did Washington reclaim from the Hessians on Christmas night, 1776?

a)

Trenton

b)

Princeton

c)

Yorktown

d)

Saratoga

42.

The New Jersey Plan was similar to the Articles of Confederation.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

What branch of government is checked by the president’s veto power?

a)

Legislature

b)

Judicial

c)

Executive

d)

Military

44.

What part of Hamilton’s financial plan was not included?

a)

Federal income tax

b)

Assumption of state debts

c)

Creation of a national bank

d)

Excise tax on whiskey

45.

Name one Native American tribe that did not ally with the French in the French and Indian War.

a)

Iroquois

b)

Huron

c)

Algonquin

d)

Ottawa

46.

Which region opposed the War of 1812?

a)

New England

b)

The South

c)

The West

d)

The Mid-Atlantic

47.

What effect of the Crusades helped end feudalism in Europe?

a)

Rise of the middle class in Europe

b)

Decline of trade in Europe

c)

Strengthening of the feudal lords

d)

Isolation of Europe from the rest of the world

48.

The Great Awakening disestablished official churches in the colonies.

a)

True

b)

False

49.

The British did not have a highly centralized colonial government during the French and Indian War.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

How did John Locke’s believed natural law came from__________.

a)

reason

b)

emotion

c)

tradition

d)

authority

51.

How did the Constitution fix the unstable money system under the Articles of Confederation?

a)

Congress given power over monetary issues

b)

Congress could sell western land to earn money for the central government

c)

States had to agree on the value of a dollar

d)

States lost the power to tax

52.

What principle of constitutional government was established by Marbury v. Madison?

a)

Supreme court had authority to strike down unconstitutional laws

b)

The "necessary and proper" clause permits Congress's implied power

c)

Congress can regulate interstate trade

d)

Charters are binding contracts in whcih states cannot tamper

53.

What was the name of the Native American alliance formed about A.D. 1400?

a)

Iroquois Confederacy

b)

Cherokee Nation

c)

Sioux Federation

d)

Algonquin League

54.

Whom did Queen Elizabeth I send to search for the Northwest Passage?

a)

Sir Martin Frobisher

b)

Sir Francis Drake

c)

Sir Walter Raleigh

d)

John Cabot

55.

What was the name for the trend of enclosing land to farm sheep?

a)

Enclosure movement

b)

Industrial Revolution

c)

Open Field System

d)

Agrarian League

56.

What was the first institution of higher learning in British North America?

a)

Harvard College

b)

Yale University

c)

Princeton University

d)

King's College

57.

What French fort did Washington fail to capture during the French and Indian War?

a)

Fort Duquesne

b)

Fort Ticonderoga

c)

Fort Necessity

d)

Fort Niagara

58.

What political principle kept colonists from accepting parliamentary taxes?

a)

No taxation without representation

b)

Popular sovereignty

c)

Manifest destiny

d)

Checks and balances

59.

What law virtually expelled the American colonies from the British Empire?

a)

Prohibitory Act

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Townshend Acts

d)

Tea Act

60.

Which constitutional compromise resolved the issue of counting slave populations?

a)

3/5ths Compromise

b)

Great Compromise

c)

Commerce Compromise

d)

Missouri Compromise

61.

What interpretation of the Constitution did not allow for a national bank?

a)

Strict construction

b)

Loose construction

c)

Judicial review

d)

Implied powers

62.

What legislation allowed Napoleon to manipulate the U.S. into war with Britain?

a)

Macon Bill

b)

Embargo Act

c)

Non-Intercourse Act

d)

Jay Treaty

63.

Who said, “We have met the enemy, and they are ours,” after the Battle of Lake Erie?

a)

Oliver Hazard Perry

b)

Andrew Jackson

c)

William Henry Harrison

d)

Thomas Macdonough

64.

64. Hernando Cortés conquered the _________

a)

Aztecs

b)

Incas

c)

Mayans

d)

Olmecs

65.

The German printer/editor tried for criticizing New York’s governor was _________?

a)

John Peter Zenger

b)

Benjamin Franklin

c)

William Bradford

d)

James Alexander

66.

“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” was preached by _______.

a)

Jonathan Edwards

b)

Cotton Mather

c)

John Winthrop

d)

Roger Williams

67.

67. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania was written by _______.

a)

John Dickinson

b)

Thomas Paine

c)

Samuel Adams

d)

Alexander Hamilton

68.

The British general who captured New York was _______.

a)

Sir William Howe

b)

Charles Cornwallis

c)

John Burgoyne

d)

Henry Clinton

69.

The American general at Saratoga was _______.

a)

Horatio Gates

b)

Benedict Arnold

c)

George Washington

d)

Charles Cornwallis

70.

The author of the first American dictionary was _______.

a)

Noah Webster

b)

Samuel Johnson

c)

Benjamin Franklin

d)

Merriam Webster

71.

The first secretary of the treasury was _______.

a)

Alexander Hamilton

b)

Thomas Jefferson

c)

James Madison

d)

John Adams

72.

The first chief justice of the Supreme Court was _______.

a)

John Jay

b)

John Marshall

c)

Oliver Ellsworth

d)

Roger B. Taney