HISTORY EOC REVIEW
Which of the following was a characteristic of the Articles of Confederation? (Q010)
Amending the articles required unanimity of all the states
(Q006) Which of the following is a true statement about Ulysses S. Grant before the Civil War?
He resigned from the army in part because of allegations of excessive drinking.
The greatest positive rate of change in population growth from 1810 to 1850 in the western states was in
Ohio
Who engraved the image of the Boston Massacre that became one of the most influential pieces of political propaganda of the Revolutionary Era?
Paul Revere
Which of the following is true regarding the aftermath of King Phillip's War
Puritans sold Indian children from the warring tribes into slavery
Which of the following defines republican motherhood?
Training son to be future citizens
(Q043) The largest group of immigrants to the United States during the 1840s and 1850s came from Ireland, which was then in the throes of the great potato famine.
True
(Q018) The Carolina "Regulators" of the mid-1760s were
a group of wealthy residents of the backcountry who protested the lack of courts and lack of representation in the colonial governance.
A "carpetbagger" was
a northerner who settled in the South after the war.
What did the 1766 Declaratory Act declare?
that Parliament had the power to pass laws for the colonies "in all cases whatever"
(Q028) At the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention in New York, Elizabeth Cady Stanton modeled theSeneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments on
the Declaration of Independence.
(Q009) Which statement is true regarding King Philip and King Philip's War?
Twelve New England towns were destroyed by the Indians' attacks.
(Q017) When Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion against the Governor of Virginia, he called for
an end to rule by "grandees."
In the summer of 1865, President Andrew Johnson ordered nearly all land in federal hands
be returned to its former owners.
(Q038) To prevent them from being seized by British vessels and "impressed" into the British Navy, Congress in 1790 granted citizenship to
black sailors.
(Q009) Which of the following was an attribute of the new nation?
broad distribution of property ownership
The U.S. constitution provides that the president is to be elected
by an electoral college.
Prior to being taken over by the English in 1664, New York was,
called New Netherland and controlled by the Dutch empire.
(Q001) Under the Articles of Confederation, the national government had the power to
declare war.
One of the main purposes of the Freedmen's Bureau was to
ensure a working system of labor relations between former slaves and former slaveholders.
For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant (Q014)
equal opportunity rather than equality of condition
(Q014) For most free Americans in the new republic, equality meant
equal opportunity rather than equality of condition.
(Q005) There were calls by some expansionists for the United States to annex all of Mexico, yet the movement failed because
of the fear that the nation could not assimilate the large non-white Catholic population.
In consequence of the "Bargain of 1877," President Rutherford B. Hayes
ordered federal troops to stop guarding the state houses in Louisiana and South Carolina.
(Q015) Thomas Jefferson helped pass laws in the state of Virginia that abolished "primogeniture," which is defined as
passing the entirety of a family's land to the oldest son.
By 1860, most states had eliminated ____________ from their voting requirements.
property requirements
(Q010) In the mid-1800s, this concept had replaced class as the boundary between those American men who were entitled to enjoy political freedom and those who were not.
race
After Washington's inauguration, he proclaimed liberty and the republican model of government was dependent on the success of America's experiment in
self-government
(Q012) The 1787 Northwest Ordinance prohibited
slavery.
(Q015) Which of these groups were ineligible to vote in eighteenth century colonial America because they lacked a "will of their own"?
slaves and servants
(Q017) Abraham Lincoln's January 1, 1863, Emancipation Proclamation freed
some slaves, but exempted those in areas under Union control.
(Q031) Which of the following is a correct pairing of inventor and invention?
steel plow and John Deere
(Q007) Which of the following was an innate characteristic of women, according to the "cult of domesticity"?
submissiveness
(Q004) The device invented by Samuel Morse in the 1830s that sent messages over electrical wires was called the
telegraph
What activity made the postemancipation experience in the United States unique from other societies and became central to the former slaves' desire for empowerment and equality?
the right to vote within two years of the end of slavery
(Q025) With the Louisiana Purchase,
the size of the nation was doubled.
Giving a political office to someone based on party service is called (Q026)
the spoils system
(Q005) Which of the following was a feature of the 1774 Intolerable Acts?
the suppression of town meetings and local elections
(Q004) Perhaps the most powerful disciplinary weapon slaveholders possessed was
the threat of sale.
(Q006) As a result of the three-fifths clause,
the white South gained greater power in national affairs than its free population warranted.
The Era of Good Feelings was called so because (Q019)
they were years of one-party government.
(Q018) Early U.S. textile mills relied largely on the labor of
women and children.
The final decisive victory in the War for Independence was
Cornwallis's defeat at Yorktown
What did Jefferson in his Declaration of Independence blame England for doing with Indians?
Enlisting them to fight with the British against the Americans
(Q011) The most influential African-American of the nineteenth century and the nation's leading advocate of racial equality was
Frederick Douglass.
(Q026) The financial strains of the Seven Years' War would later help to spark the
French Revolution.
In the XYZ affair of 1797,
French officials presented American diplomats with a demand for bribes.
Who was the first black senator elected in US history in 1870
Hiram Revels
As a result of this uprising, the state slave code was tightened and a temporary imposition of a prohibitive tax on imported slaves was established.
Stono Rebellion
The Final decisive in the War for Independence was
Tarleton's victory at Cowpens
Which series of events is listed is proper sequence?
Tenure of Office Act; impeachment of President Andrew Johnson; election of Ulysses S. Grant
What did the 1776 declaratory Act declare?
That an additional tax was to be laid on sugar imports from Spains Caribbean colonies
"The Star-Spangled Banner," written by Frances Scott Key, commemorates what event in the War of 1812?
The British bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor
Northern Republicans labeled those opposed to the war
Copperheads
What did Fredrick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the was effort after 1863?
Enlist in the United States Army
(Q002) A significant theme of the Monroe Doctrine was that
European powers should refrain from further colonization in the Americas.
Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?
Expand westward
(Q042) As working-class whites gained equal rights in the political arena, they grew increasingly critical of racial inequality.
False
(Q034) Who was appointed the military commander of the army during the Second Continental Congress?
George Washington
(Q008) Which two colonies became very similar over time regarding slavery?
Georgia and South Carolina
(Q033) Between 1840 and 1860, most immigrants entering the United States were from what two countries?
Germany and Ireland
(Q020) In what 1863 speech did Lincoln assert that the sacrifices of the Union soldiers would ensure that "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth"?
Gettysburg Address
(Q027) Whose name is most often associated with the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
(Q002) One of the leading Federalist thinkers, known as the "father of the Constitution," was
James Madison.
(Q033) Which of the "founding fathers" argued that Parliament had no right to authorize the Writs of Assistance to combat smuggling?
James Otis
The initial fighting of the Civil War began when
Jefferson Davis ordered batteries to fire on Fort Sumter.
The Black Codes were
Laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves in the south
(Q036) What territory did the United States acquire from France in 1803?
Lousiana
Why did President Lincoln think that secession might collapse from within before a war broke out?
Many southern whites strongly opposed secession
(Q024) The case that established judicial review was
Marbury v. Madison.
(Q001) American industrialization first took off in
New England.
The Civil War is sometimes called "the first modern war" because it used weapons and other technological advances of the industrial revolution. Which of the following was one of these advances?
Railroads
(Q002) During the 1760s, backcountry protesters in the Carolinas were known as
Regulators.
The idea that only property-owning citizens possessed "virtue" is related to what political idea? (Q013)
Republicanism
(Q013) The two political parties of the mid-1790s were the
Republicans and Federalists.
(Q032) Which two states voted against ratification of the Constitution?
Rhode Island and North Carolina
Carolina grew slowly until planters discovered what staple crop?
Rice
(Q004) Which of the following was a trend in American democracy during the 1820s and 1830s?
Selling candidates and their images was as important as the positions for which they stood.
(Q035) Which of the following tribes managed to keep part of its members in their traditional land of Florida?
Seminole
(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Shays's Rebellion; Philadelphia Convention; ratification of Constitution
(Q033) Which of the following is true regarding the Middle Passage?
Ship captains sometimes threw slaves overboard, especially when they were sick.
(Q020) Which of the following was part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Slavery was prohibited in the remaining Louisiana Territory north of 36°30'.
Compared to Brazil and the West Indies, involving hundreds or even thousands of slaves, revolts in the United States were
Smaller and less frequent
(Q030) The first state to secede the Union was also the state with the highest percentage of slaves in its population was
South Carolina
Labor on rice plantations in South Carolina and Georgia was generally done by
Take labor
(Q022) The eighty-five essays published by "Publius" and gathered into a book in 1788 was entitled
The Federalist.
(Q024) The first American conflict to be fought primarily on foreign soil and the first in which American troops occupied a foreign capital was
The Mexican war
(Q004) Which of the following was not a feature of the Stamp Act crisis of 1765?
The Stamp Act was passed by the Stamp Act Congress as a way to subvert the power of Parliament to tax the colonies.
(Q007) Which of the following was a difference between the Democrats and the Whigs during the Jackson years?
The Whigs favored public measures and other policies to regulate personal morality; the Democrats did not.
The agreement that ended the Seven Years War was called (Q028)
The peace of Paris
(Q027) Which of the following was a Confederate advantage in fighting the Civil War?
The southern commander, General Lee, was a skilled tactician who hoped that a series of defeats would weaken the North's resolve.
(Q026) Which of the following statements is true regarding the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution?
They declare that rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution are "retained by the people."
(Q025) Which of the following statements is accurate regarding the Anti-Federalists?
They were often small country farmers.
(Q029) Which of the following describes the Battle of Antietam?
This was the bloodiest battle of the war.
"Scalawags" was a derogatory term used to describe southern white Republicans
True
(Q039) More Americans died in the Civil War than in any other war in U.S. history.
True
(Q021) The Fugitive Slave Act
allowed federal commissioners to determine the fate of fugitives without the benefit of a trial or testimony by the accused individual.
(Q022) In the Salem witch trials of 1692,
almost 150 people, mostly women, were accused of witchcraft.
(Q005) The Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819 negotiated
an end to fighting between France and the United States.
(Q015) During the Civil War, the term "contraband camps" was used to refer to
camps of fugitive slaves.
(Q012) Thomas Jefferson wrote that he hoped to erect a "wall of separation" between
church and state.
(Q006) The "shot heard 'round the world" began the American War of Independence, and took place in what city?
concord
(Q012) What 1793 invention spurred the rise of the Cotton Kingdom and fueled demand for slaves?
cotton gin
(Q014) Shays's Rebellion in late 1786 and early 1787 was a rebellion of
debt-ridden farmers who closed the courts in western Massachusetts.
(Q025) Adding to Congress's formal declaration, the Declaration of Independence
declared the United States independent of British rule.
(Q024) Thomas Paine's January 1776 pamphlet Common Sense argued that
democracy and a written constitution were more preferable to monarchy.
What did Frederick Douglass encourage African-Americans in the North to do as part of the war effort after 1863?
enlist in the United States Army
(Q038) South Carolina and Georgia were the two southern colonies that failed to take what action to help win the war?
enroll free blacks and slaves to fight
(Q021) A major blow in the relationship between the British and colonists occurred when Lord Dunmore proclaimed
escaped African slaves who took up arms for the king of England would be freed.
(Q018) The Glorious Revolution
established parliamentary supremacy once and for all.
(Q020) The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
established the principal of popular sovereignty to decide the status of slavery.
Ignoring the Proclamation of 1763 enabled colonists to do what action in the Borderlands?
expand westward
(Q015) "Slave patrols" were
farmers who kept a lookout for runaway slaves.
(Q001) The tactics of American resistance to British colonial policy from the mid-1760s through the mid-1770s included
mass demonstrations in the port towns.
(Q016) In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Americans tended to view Canadians as
monarchial and lacking in an understanding of liberty.
(Q025) As a result of the Seven Years' War, a large number of French residents in Nova Scotia
moved to Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns.
(Q013) When Texas declared itself independent of Mexico, its new constitution
protected slavery even though Mexico had earlier abolished slavery.
(Q009) Which of the following was an innovation associated with the market revolution of the first half of the nineteenth century?
railroad
(Q014) Chicago's spectacular growth between 1830 and 1860 was principally due to
railroads
(Q033) The West Indies produced this increasingly popular product enjoyed by both North American colonists and Indians.
rum
(Q016) The policy of leaving the colonists to govern themselves was called
salutary neglect.
Following the Civil War, white and black farmers in the South
saw the price of cotton fall steadily.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
second Confiscation Act, Siege of Vicksburg, congressional passage of Thirteenth Amendment
What was one of the principal tasks and objectives of the Freedmen's Bureau (1865-1870)?
settling disputes between whites and blacks and among the freedpeople
(Q038) Free blacks were regularly excluded from
steamships.
(Q017) John C. Calhoun of South Carolina considered this idea "the most false and dangerous of all political errors."
that all men are created equal and entitled to liberty
(Q008) Paternalism meant
the master was the head of the system, including providing his slaves with protection and the right of care.
(Q026) Which of the following was the Gettysburg Address specifically designed to communicate?
the need for national reconciliation after years of war
(Q023) In James Madison's view in The Federalist, the "first object of government" is
the protection of property rights.
According to the 1854 Kansas Nebraska Act, (Q002)
the question of whether slavery would be allowed in these territories would be decided by local (white) settlers
Federalism refers to
the relationship between state and national governments.
What was one of the central demands of feminists during Reconstruction?
the widespread availability of the birth control pill
In President Jackson's view, African Americans ought to play what part in Reconstruction?
they should have no role in shaping politics
Black Americans who refused to sign labor contracts to work for whites during Reconstruction
were often arrested and hired out to white landowners.
(Q021) The Great Awakening occurred because many ministers were concerned with
westward expansion.
What did three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War?
whites alone.
(Q001) The "peculiar institution" of the South was
the issue of slavery
(Q010) During the first half of the 1800s, the U.S. economy experienced explosive growth in output and trade, a trend in motion since the colonial era in what historians call
the market revolution.
(Q035) The Constitution mandates that the President of the United States must be a(n)
"natural born citizen."
(Q009) Abigail Adams wrote in a famous letter to her husband to
"remember the ladies."
(Q035) Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?
(Q035) Which of the following did the Stamp Act affect?
(Q006) The Constitution was amended to require states to allow women to vote in
1920.
In 1776 the slave population of the United States was (Q020)
20 percent
In the old south, the percentage of white families that owned slaves was approximately
25 percent
Population in the North was 22 million in 1860, while population of the South in 1860 was
5.5 million
(Q024) Which of the following was part of women's changing role in the first half of nineteenth-century America?
A woman's role was to shelter her husband from a competitive marketplace.
(Q022) Who killed the first U.S. secretary of the Treasury in a duel?
Aaron Burr
The U.S. president before Andrew Johnson was _________.
Abraham Lincoln
(Q011) Most of the labor in building the public buildings of the national government in Washington, D.C., was done by
African-American slaves.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? (Q003)
American System program, "Tariff of Abominations", veto of Second Bank recharter
(Q026) The idea that the United States has a special mission to serve as a symbol of freedom, a refuge from tyranny, and a model for the world is called by historians
American exceptionalism.
(Q007) Which of the following statements accurately describes the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists during the ratification debates?
Anti-Federalists criticized the Constitution for lacking a Bill of Rights; Federalists did not see a need for a Bill of Rights.
Which of the following statements is true regarding the Trail of Tears?
At least one quarter of the Indians perished during the winter of 1838-1839
(Q005) Blacks, free and slave, took part in the Great Awakening of the colonial area, and even more were swept into which southern religions during religious revivals into the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries?
Baptist and Methodist
(Q003) Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Boston Tea Party; Olive Branch Petition; publication of Common Sense; Declaration of Independence
(Q020) In 1773, American colonists disguised as Indians boarded three ships and created a civil protest in
Boston harbor.
(Q041) Trade with the West Indies was central to which of the following colonial economies?
British New England
Before the Revolution, most colonies supported institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against which of the following groups?
Catholics
Before the Revolution, most colonies supported religious institutions with public funds and discriminated in voting and officeholding against which of the following groups?
Catholics
(Q022) Following the Boston Tea Party, Parliament imposed a series of restrictions on Massachusetts that were called the
Coercive or Intolerable Acts.
(Q009) Andrew Jackson was the standard-bearer for which political party?
Democrats
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Ended the Mexican War
(Q038) Immigrants from which of the following nations were easily absorbed in the United States during the early 1800s?
England
Which three nations claimed Oregon Country in the early 1800s
England, Spain, and the United States
(Q008) Which of the following was a part of the balance of power between British and American forces during the Revolution?
In the end, aid from Britain's rivals--especially France--was essential to American victory.
By 1795, the Native American population had declined from the early colonial era, but the area west of the Appalachian Mountains was still known as
Indian Country
Which of the following was part of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's financial plan of 1790-1791?
Issuance by the federal government of interest-bearing bonds
Which statement accurately describes sharecropping?
It allowed a black family to rent part of a plantation, with the crop divided between worker and owner at the end of the year.
What was the significance of the Reconstruction Act of March 1867?
It divided the South into five military districts and called for the creation of new state governments, with black men given the right to vote.
What did the Sugar Act of 1764 do?
It strengthened courts where accused molasses smugglers could be tried without a jury
The Civil War shifted from slave owning planters to
Northern Capitalist
In the wake of the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, what western legislature adopted a resolution declaring that "every free person, born within the limits of any state of this Union, is a citizen of thereof"?
Ohio
The foremost center of political radicalism during the revolutionary era was
Pennsylvania
(Q023) The First Continental Congress met in
Philadelphia.
Which of the following is in the correct time sequence?
Phillis Wheatley was bought as a slave in Boston, Vermont's state constitution banned slavery, the French Revolution broke out in Europe.
(Q019) Which colony was part of the Dominion of New England (1686-1688)?
Plymouth
Like white Americans during the American Revolution, Native Americans experienced... (Q046)
Political divisions
Eighteenth-century migrants included Scottish and Scotch-Irish, who were mostly
Presbyterians
(Q003) Which of the following was a part of slavery's impact on the northern economy?
Profits from the cotton trade helped foster industrial development in the North.
The fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
Prohibited federal and state governments from denying any citizen the right to vote because of race.
(Q039) What institution helped to fan the flames of nativism during the era?
Protestant churches
British success in the Seven Years' War contributed to the making of the American Revolution because (Q009)
The British government raised taxes to pay for the debt it incurred during the war
Where did Confederates want to specifically pursue an aggressive pro-slavery foreign policy before the Civil War?
The Caribbean
Of the following projects, New York City's commercial ascent was owed chiefly to
The Erie Canal
In the wake of the Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court, what western state legislature adopted a resolution declaring that "every free person, born within the limits of any state of this Union, is a citizen thereof"?
Utah
(Q033) What state had the largest slave population in 1790?
Virginia
(Q017) The plan at the Constitutional Convention that proposed creation of a bicameral legislature with representation in each house determined by each state's population was the
Virginia Plan.
(Q022) The Liberator, the abolitionist journal, was published in Boston in 1831 by
William Lloyd Garrison.
What was a major cause of the decline of Reconstruction?
a growing perception among northerners that southern blacks were unfit for equal citizenship
(Q022) The Second Great Awakening was
a popular religious revival that swept the country in the early 1800s.
(Q025) The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in December 1865,
abolished slavery throughout the Union.
(Q025) As acts of self-empowerment, enslaved individuals often
abused livestock.
Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
founding of American Colonization Society; Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin published
What did three amendments to the U.S. Constitution guarantee to former slaves shortly after the Civil War?
freedom from slavery; recognition as citizens; and the vote for adult black men
(Q008) Which of the following was a key principle embedded in the Bill of Rights?
freedom of speech
(Q006) Which of the following was a major cause of Bacon's Rebellion?
frustration over high taxes and diminishing availability of land
(Q003) The Treaty of Paris marked a change in which the balance of power
in eastern North America shifted away from the Indians and toward white Americans.
(Q027) The U.S. Constitution
is a purely secular document that contains no reference to God and bars tests for federal officeholders.
(Q014) When California became a state in 1850,
it entered the Union as a free state.
(Q029) Following the Proclamation of 1763,
its ordinances were ignored and officials covered their involvement in land grabs.
The black codes were
laws that sought to regulate the lives of former slaves.
Nat Turner
led an 1831 slave uprising in Virginia, killing about sixty whites.
(Q040) Which word emerged as the foremost rallying cry for popular discontent in the New World in the mid-1700s?
liberty
(Q008) The expansionist spirit of the early nineteenth century that God intended the American nation to reach all the way to the Pacific Ocean was called
manifest destiny.
(Q022) In the 1850s, two great areas of industrial production had arisen in consequence of the market revolution:
the Atlantic Coast from Baltimore to Boston, and the cities around the Great Lakes.
(Q028) What military action started the American Civil War?
the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter
(Q025) Abraham Lincoln reentered politics in 1854 as a result of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
The House of Representatives approved articles of impeachment against President Andrew Johnson for violation of what law?
the Tenure of Office Act
Radical Republicans in the Reconstruction era shared the view that
the Union victory created an opportunity to institutionalize the principle of equal rights regardless of race.
(Q014) The only time in American history that the president has personally commanded an army in the field was during
the Whiskey Rebellion.
(Q002) Lincoln issued his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation immediately following
the battle of Antietam.
(Q015) The population rush into California in 1848 was a result of
the discovery of gold.
The Reconstruction amendments to the U.S. Constitution helped to create
the first national biracial democracy in world history.
(Q018) The Free Soil Party's platform called for
the government to bar slavery from the western territories and provide land free in the territories to people who wanted to homestead there.
(Q023) Which of the following was an effect of Bacon's Rebellion?
the increased use of African slaves
(Q038) What was General Grant's strategy in 1864 that became a turning point in the war for ultimate Union victory?
to use as many Union troops on the battlefield as possible in a war of attrition
(Q003) By the mid-eighteenth century, distinct slave systems were entrenched in the New World. The oldest and largest was the
tobacco plantation system.
(Q006) Between 1848 and 1860, American trade with China
tripled.
(Q021) Between the 1780s and 1824, the nation's population:
tripled.
(Q009) George Washington was elected the first president of the United States
unanimously by all sixty-nine electors.
(Q007) As Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense, became one of the most successful and influential in the history of political writing to that date, Paine wanted a share of the profits to be used for
war supplies for the Continental army.
(Q023) The Republican Party, founded in 1854,
was a coalition of antislavery Democrats, northern Whigs, Know-Nothings, and Free Soilers.