Name: ________________________________________ Date: __________
Choose the letter of the best answer.
____ 1. A cash crop is one that is raised primarily for
A. sale.
B. food.
C. a farmer's own use.
D. a colony's home country.
____ 2. Enlightenment thinkers stressed all of the following except
A.the use of reason.
B. the scientific method.
C. the importance of the individual.
D. the randomness or unpredictability of the natural world.
____ 3. Which of the following was "awakened" during the Great Awakening?
A. religious belief
B. feelings of patriotism
C. tensions between rich and poor colonists
D. tensions between colonists and Native Americans
____ 4. Which of the following prohibited European settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
A. George Grenville
B. Pontiac
C. Proclamation of 1763
D. French and Indian War
____ 5. During the 1700s, the major reason that there were more Africans enslaved in the South than in
the North was that
A. slavery had been outlawed in the North.
B. enslaved persons could not tolerate the climate of the North.
C. Southern colonists were less willing to do physical labor.
D. the Southern economy required a larger number of field laborers.
____ 6. The relationships between French colonists and Native Americans tended to be peaceful
because the French
A. did not enter lands inhabited by Native Americans.
B. did not try to purchase Native American lands.
C. made business partnerships with Native Americans.
D. provided the Native Americans with furs they needed.
____ 7. Which European country supported the American colonies during the Revolutionary War?
A. Italy
B. France
C. Germany
D. Spain
____ 8. What power did the Articles of Confederation give to the national government?
A. declare war
B. collect taxes
C. develop a national court system
D. enforce laws
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____ 9. What is the name of the system that maintains the separation of powers among the branches of
the federal government?
A. reserved powers
B. delegated powers
C. checks and balances
D. two-house Congress
____ 10. Which group largely supported adding a bill of rights to the Constitution?
A. small states
B. large states
C. Federalists
D. Antifederalists
____ 11. One direct result of the Intolerable Acts was
A. the Boston Tea Party.
B. the formation of the First Continental Congress.
C. the Battle of Bunker Hill.
D. outrage over the Boston Massacre.
____ 12. The result of Shays's Rebellion was to demonstrate that
A. the government set up by the Articles of Confederation was ineffective.
B. the government could function effectively in a time of crisis.
C. individual states had too much power.
D. citizens will always protest new taxes.
____ 13. The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in order to
A. protect the rights of black Americans.
B. protect the rights of women.
C. strengthen the authority of the central government.
D. appease the Antifederalists' concern over individual rights.
____ 14. The person who serves as the president of the Senate is also
A. the Senate majority leader.
B. a member elected by the Senate.
C. the vice-president of the United States.
D. the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
____ 15. The president must have been a U.S. citizen
A. since birth.
B. since the age of eighteen.
C. for a minimum of ten years.
D. for a minimum of twenty-five years.
____ 16. Each of the following is a right guaranteed by the Bill of Rights except the right to
A. vote.
B. assemble.
C. be tried publicly.
D. voice an opinion.
____ 17. The "supreme law of the land" is
A. the Constitution.
B. the Bill of Rights.
C. the Articles of Confederacy.
D. the Preamble.
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____ 18. The three main branches of the U.S. government are
A. the House of Representatives, Senate, and Supreme Court.
B. the president, Senate, and Supreme Court.
C. executive, legislative, and judiciary.
D. state, local, and federal.
____ 19. The Supreme Court's power to judge the constitutionality of a law
A. was made explicit in the case Marbury v. Madison.
B. is itself unconstitutional.
C. can be overridden by a vote of three-fourths of the states.
D. is enumerated in the Bill of Rights.
____ 20. Why did President Jefferson send Meriwether Lewis and William Clark west?
A. to negotiate the purchase of the Louisiana Territory
B. to mine for gold in California
C. to explore newly acquired U.S. territory
D. to settle new areas as non-slave states
____ 21. Which group was forcibly relocated by means of the "Trail of Tears"?
A. Mexicans
B. Shoshone
C. African slaves
D. Cherokee
____ 22. Which area did the Monroe Doctrine aim to free from European influence?
A. the Oregon Territory
B. the Western Hemisphere
C. North America
D. Texas
____ 23. What did the abolition movement promote?
A. instituting slavery in new U.S. territories
B. prohibiting the drinking of alcohol
C. removing Native Americans from eastern states
D. ending the institution of slavery
____ 24. The American System helped bring the nation together by
A. compromising on the difficult issue of slave versus free states.
B. withdrawing funds from the unpopular Bank of the United States.
C. giving common people across the nation a voice in government.
D. protecting American businesses with a tax on imported items.
____ 25. Under Mexican rule, Texas appealed to American settlers mainly because of its
A. cheap land.
B. legalized slavery.
C. religious freedom.
D. government protection from Native Americans.
____ 26. All of the following present-day states were ceded to the United States in the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo except
A. Texas.
B. Florida.
C. California.
D. New Mexico.
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____ 27. Which event was a direct result of the Compromise of 1850?
A. Violence broke out in Kansas.
B. The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
C. California was admitted as a free state.
D. Slavery was ended in Washington, D.C.
____ 28. When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
A. to free the slaves
B. to punish the South
C. to restore the Union
D. to bring an end to the war
____ 29. In which of the following areas did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil
War?
A. food production
B. civilian leadership
C. industrial capacity
D. military leadership
____ 30. Which of the following quotations is from the Gettysburg Address?
A. "We are not prepared for this suffrage. But we can learn."
B. "All persons held as slaves . . . henceforward shall be free."
C. "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they
D. "You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical and
____ 31. Which of the following was not a provision of the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
A. The South would be divided into military districts.
B. Southern states had to pass the Fourteenth Amendment.
C. Southern states had to give African Americans the right to vote.
D. All African-American families would receive 40 acres and a mule.
____ 32. What key difference between the North and the South ultimately led to the Civil War?
A. The Southern climate was warm, while the Northern climate was cooler.
B. The South was less densely populated than the North.
C. The South was agricultural, while the North was more industrialized.
D. The Southern economy depended on slavery, while the Northern economy did not.
____ 33. What was an important effect of the Emancipation Proclamation?
A. It immediately freed Southern slaves.
B. It gave a moral purpose to the war.
C. It united the Republican Party.
D. It kept Great Britain out of the war.
____ 34. What was the aim of "total war" as practiced by Union generals Grant and Sherman?
A. to fight until the Confederacy had no army left
B. to break the Southern people's will to fight
C. to wage war in every part of the South
D. to use the most lethal weapons available
____ 35. Why did new Republican governments in the South after the Civil War have difficulty?
A. African Americans resented interference from Northern carpetbaggers.
B. Slavery remained in force in several Southern states.
C. Many white Southerners refused to accept equal rights for blacks.
D. African Americans did not hold office at the state or local level.
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____ 36. Why did the federal government eventually send troops into the South?
A. to keep Confederate veterans from forming a new Southern army
B. to limit acts of violence and voter intimidation against African Americans
C. to protect the land farmed by African-American sharecroppers
D. to put down riots caused by bank failures during the Panic of 1873
____ 37. Farmers who agreed to give most of their harvest to the landowners in exchange for use of the
land, seeds, and tools were known as
A. tenant farmers.
B. the planter class.
C. sharecroppers.
D. scalawags.
____ 38. This stated that no citizen may be denied the right to vote "on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude."
A. Thirteenth Amendment
B. Fourteenth Amendment
C. Fifteenth Amendment
D. Civil Rights Act of 1866
____ 39. Why is the battle of Gettysburg considered a turning point in the Civil War?
A. It made the South give up the idea of invading the North.
B. It cut the Confederacy in two.
C. It convinced the Confederacy to surrender.
D. It marked the first Union victory on the battlefield.
____ 40. The Preamble to the Constitution
A. establishes legitimacy.
B. assigns powers to various branches of government.
C. describes the three branches of government.
D. lists citizens' rights.