U.S. History
semester exam review
What merchants controlled the
overland routes to Asia?
Portuguese
Muslim
English
Spanish
Muslim
What European nation first discovered
a sea route to Asia?
England
France
Portugal
Spain
Portugal
The most significant fact about John
Cabot’s voyages was that he
Disappeared mysteriously
Found a new trade route to China
Claimed land in North America for England
Circumnavigated the globe
Claimed land in North America for
England
Luther’s religious ideas spread
primarily because of
Increased travel among Europeans
The European wars, which scattered people
across the Continent
The development of movable-type printing
His popularity in the monasteries
The development of movable-type printing
How did the Protestant Reformation
encourage settlement of the New World?
The Reformation spurred interest in the search for
wealth
Spain and France cooperated with each other
The Reformation made Portugal the leading
European power
Protestants went to the New World to escape
persecution
Protestants went to the New World to
escape persecution
During the sixteenth century which
country dominated exploration of the
New World?
Portugal
Spain
England
France
Spain
The Indian population in the New
World dropped from fifty million to four
million in about one century primarily
because of what?
Long wars with Europeans
Diseases brought by Europeans
Wars among Indian tribes
famine
Diseases brought by Europeans
The defeat of the Spanish Armada
was significant in all of the following
ways except that it
Marked the demise of Spanish power in the
New World
Preserved Protestantism in England
Signaled the beginning of English power in
the New World
Brought an end to the power of the Roman
Catholic church
Brought an end to the power of the Roman
Catholic church
The first permanent English
settlement in America was
Roanoke Island
Jamestown
Florida
Nova Britannia
Jamestown
What early English colony was assisted
by the Indian princess Pocohontas?
Jamestown
the “pioneer” of the Protestant
Reformation
Martin Luther
Aztec Emperor
Montezuma
the “sea dog” who attacked Spanish
ships in the New World
Francis Drake
sponsored two vain attempts to
establish colonies on Roanoke Island
Walter Raleigh
Indian chief who threatened Jamestown
Powhatan
journeyed to China during the rule of
Kublai Khan
Marco Polo
the first modern European to reach the
Western Hemisphere
Christopher Columbus
discovered Newfoundland for the
English
John Cabot
realized the discovery of a new
Continent
Amerigo Vespucci
the first to circumnavigate the globe
Ferdinand Magellen
the English ruler who approved the
colonization of North America
Elizabeth I
the captain whose discipline helped
Jamestown to survive
John Smith
T/F Columbus believed until his death
that he had reached Asia.
T
T/F Magellan returned to Spain aboard
the Victoria after sailing around the
world.
F
T/F Virginia was named in honor of
Queen Elizabeth.
T
T/F The colony on Roanoke Island
became known as the “Lost Colony”
because its inhabitants disappeared
without a trace.
T
T/F “Starving time” refers to the death
of ninety percent of the Jamestown
colonists during the winter of 160910.
T
Settlers came to America for all of the
following reasons except
Religious freedom
Riches
Land
To fight in the British imperial army
To fight in the British imperial army
The major differences between
Pilgrims and Puritans was over
Obedience to the Roman Catholic church
The issue of baptism
Staying in the Anglican church
The issue of godly living
Staying in the Anglican church
What was the primary motivation for
the settlement of Massachusetts?
Religious freedom
Financial opportunity
Reform of debtors
Political freedom
Religious freedom
The Pilgrims left Holland because
The Dutch government banned their religion
The Dutch culture was harming the Pilgrim’s
children
The Pilgrims were facing financial hardship
The Pilgrims wanted to separate from the
Church of Holland
The Dutch culture was harming the Pilgrim’s
children
The Puritan attitude toward the
Anglican church was that they wanted
To separate from the church
To be left alone within the church
To stay in the church and improve it
To become the leaders in the church
To stay in the church and improve it
Which description does not apply to
the Puritans?
Holy commonwealth
City on a hill
Community of believers
Separation of church and state
Separation of church and state
Connecticut differed from
Massachusetts in that it
Had peace with the Indians
Did not require church membership for
voting
Excluded Puritans
Had less attractive land
Did not require church membership for
voting
Before the English came, New Jersey
was settled by the
Dutch only
Portuguese only
Spanish and Portuguese
Swedes and Dutch
Swedes and Dutch
The House of Burgesses was
The first self-governing assembly in America
The home of the governor of Virginia
The financial backer of the Pennsylvania
colony
The first church in Maryland
The first self-governing assembly in America
Roman Catholics found a refuge in
which Colony?
Maryland
Georgia
Massachusetts
Delaware
Maryland
One purpose for the settlement of
Georgia was to
Promote tobacco farming
Look for gold in America
Protect the colonies from Spain
Provide a refuge for Catholics
Protect the colonies from Spain
Who led a small group of Pilgrims to
Plymouth on the Mayflower?
William Bradford
In what colony did the Quakers
undertake a “Holy Experiment”?
Pennsylvania
T/F The Pilgrims were Separatists, not
Puritans.
T
T/F Harvard was America’s first college.
T
T/F The Dutch fought the English
fiercely for years over control of New
Netherland.
F
T/F The first Africans to arrive in
Jamestown were treated as
indentured servants who could gain
their freedom after a period of work.
T
The two largest non-English groups in
America were
Germans and Swedes
Scotch-Irish and Germans
Scotch-Irish and French
Dutch and Germans
Scotch-Irish and Germans
The main reason the Scotch-Irish and
Germans came to America was to
Search for gold
Start tobacco plantations
Fight the English
Escape religious intolerance
Escape religious intolerance
Scotch-Irish and German settlers
Occupied lands in the backcountry
Stayed mostly on the coast
Came to America in small numbers
Were outnumbered by the Swedes and
French
Occupied lands in the backcountry
Pennsylvania Dutch were
Immigrants from New Netherland
Dutch settlers in the Middle Colonies
German immigrants who settles in
Pennsylvania
Settlers in New York
German immigrants who settles in
Pennsylvania
Women in America married earlier
than women in Europe because
Life expectancy was shorter
Parents were more lenient
There were more men than women
There were more women than men
There were more men than women
Epidemics were more common in the
eighteenth-century colonies because
Indians spread new diseases
Crowded cities helped to spread diseases
Medical knowledge was declining
New diseases arrived from Europe
Crowded cities helped to spread diseases
Infant death rated in the colonies were
The highest in the world at the time
As high as 50% of live births
Lower than Europe
Higher than Europe
Lower than Europe
An important native American food
was
Rice
Coffee
Wheat
Corn
corn
Puritans emphasized education
primarily because they wanted children
to
Prepare for high-paying careers
Study the Bible
Learn self-discipline
Study the classics
Study the Bible
In education the Middle Colonies and
the South lagged behind New England
because
The cities were overcrowded
Parents did not value educations
The population was scattered in rural areas
The Germans and Scotch-Irish opposed
schools
The population was scattered in rural areas
What new technique did Cotton Mather
use against smallpox?
innoculation
What city established the first public
library in America?
Charleston, SC
T/F The Great Philadelphia Wagon
Road connected the port cities along
the coast.
F
T/F English colonists were often
prejudiced against the German
settlers.
T
T/F America’s population increased
tenfold during the eighteenth century.
T
T/F Children were an important labor
source on colonial farms
T
T/F Most Southern planters lived in
stately white mansions.
F
T/F The American Indians introduced
the potato to North Americans.
F
T/F Among the three sections of the
colonies, literacy was highest in the
Southern Colonies.
F
T/F Barn raisings and quiltings allowed
backwoodsmen to combine work
and play.
T
What was the most influential religious
movement in colonial America?
Puritanism
Lutheranism
Presbyterianism
Quakerism
Puritanism
What was the first non-Anglican
religious group to settle in America?
Baptists
Pilgrims
Presbyterians
Quakers
Pilgrims
Most American Lutherans came from
Holland
France
Germany
Northern Ireland
Germany
The Huguenots came from
Holland
France
Germany
Northern Ireland
France
Which group rejected modern ways
and desired little contact with outsiders
Anabaptists
Baptists
Pietists
Puritans
Anabaptists
What is a catechism?
Versions of the Psalms adapted for singing
A long pastoral prayer
A summary of doctrine in question-andanswer form
A long stick for waking up sleepy saints
A summary of doctrine in questionand-answer form
What two denominations grew most
as a result of the Great Awakening?
Anglicans and Lutherans
Presbyterians and Baptists
Congregationalists and Moravians
German Reformed and Dutch Reformed
Presbyterians and Baptists
T/F Puritans believed that all Christians
should leave the Church of England.
F
The puritans repented for the
excesses of the Salem witch trials.
T
The Great Awakening lasted only two
years.
F
The Great Awakening was the first truly
national movement in American
history.
T
Hornbook
New England Primer
Pennsylvania Dutch
Scotch-Irish
settler from Ulster.
settler from German areas.
a paddle-shaped board for reading.
standard school text in the colonial
period.
What “world war” brought an end to
French power in the New World?
French and Indian war
King George’s War
King William’s War
Queen Anne’s War
French and Indian war
What event sparked the French and
Indian War?
A force commanded by George Washington
clashed with the French near the forks of the
Ohio River
The colonists called the Albany Congress
The British attacked Quebec
The French refused to honor the Treaty of
Utrecht
A force commanded by George Washington
clashed with the French near the forks of the
Ohio River
the key campaign of the French and
Indian War was the capture of
Fort Duquesne
Louisburg
Montreal
Quebec
Quebec
What peace treaty brought an end to
the French and Indian War?
Albany Congress
Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle
Treaty of Paris
Treaty of Utrecht
Treaty of Paris
One of the major reasons that the
colonies were taxed after the French
and Indian war was that the British
Wanted to punish the colonies for failing to
help during the war
Wanted the colonies to rebel
Needed money to pay for the war
Wanted to ruin the colonial economy
Needed money to pay for the war
What as the crucial issue behind the
War of Independence?
Stamp tax
Tea tax
An idealized view of liberty
Practical self-government
Practical self-government
What was a major accomplishment of
the First Continental Congress?
To appoint a commander in chief
To assert the rights of the colonies to govern
themselves
To petition the king to stop the abuses of
Parliament
To raise a Continental army
To assert the rights of the colonies to govern
themselves
The Saratoga campaign was an
important victory for the Patriots
because it
Brought France into the war
Brought peace
Raised the low morale of the army
Assured American control of the Northwest
Brought France into the war
What action did Boston’s Patriots take
in 1773 when some British ships
refused to take their tea back to
England
Boston Tea Party
Thomas Jefferson
Henry Knox
Valley Forge
Baron von Steuben
George Washington
commander in chief of the Continental army
the primary author of the Declaration of
Independence
American ordinance chief who surprised the British
by transporting heavy artillery to Boston
German drillmaster for the Continental army
the Continental army’s winter headquarters during
the dark winter of 1777-78
The American War of Independence
was a revolution fundamentally
different from the French and
Russian revolutions
Which of the following principles was
most strongly supported by the Articles
of Confederation?
Separation of powers
Limited government
Balance of power
Federalism
Limited government
Which of the following disputes did the
Confederation settle?
Representation
Slavery
Western lands
Trade
Western lands
What bicameral plan did the large
states support at the Constitutional
Convention?
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Plan
Virginia Plan
Three-Fifths Compromise
Virginia Plan
What unicameral plan did the small
states support at the Constitutional
Convention?
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Plan
Virginia Plan
Three Fifths Compromise
New Jersey Plan
What region was most concerned
about granting the federal government
control over trade?
East
Northwest
Middle States
South
South
In the original Constitution, who was
elected directly by the people?
The president of the United States
Federal judges
Members of the Senate
Members of the House of Representatives
Members of the House of Representatives
Bicameral
Checks and balances
Federalism
Popular sovereignty
Separation of powers
Unicameral
a two-house Congress
a one-house Congress
the division of government into branches
a balance of power between the different branches of
government
the division of power between national and state levels of
government
belief that the ultimate source of governmental power is vested
in the people
What issue first opened debate over
constitutional interpretation?
Assumption of state debts.
The title of the president
Creation of a national bank
Salaries for Congressmen
Creation of a national bank
The Federalists strongly supported
States’ rights
Commerce
Farmers
Strict constructionism
Commerce
Jeffersonian Republicans strongly
supported
Commerce
Industry
States’ rights
Centralized government
States’ rights
Tecumseh was a threat to the United
States because he
Promoted torture and attacks on frontier
women and children
Attempted to unite the Indian tribes into one
nation
Preached against whiskey and the white
man’s ways
Gave the British detailed information about
American forts
Attempted to unite the Indian tribes into one
nation
Which of the following events
occurred last?
The War of 1812
The Embargo Act
Macon’s Bill Number Two
The Louisiana Purchase
The War of 1812
What advantage did the United States
enjoy at the beginning of the War of
1812?
A large standing army
A formidable fleet
American support for the war
British involvement in the Napoleonic Wars
British involvement in the Napoleonic Wars
What event led to the death of the
Federalist party?
Hartford Convention
Embargo Act
Macon’s Bill Number Two
Chesapeake affair
Hartford Convention
What was the main provision of the Monroe
Doctrine?
The United States would aid any Latin American
country that asks for it
The United States would support any independence
effort in the Western Hemisphere
No European country could intervene in the
Western Hemisphere
The United States would no longer trade with any
country that retains its trade restrictions
No European country could intervene in the
Western Hemisphere
James Madison
Marbury v. Madison
John Marshall
“Mad Anthony” Wayne
Zebulon Pike
chief justice of the Supreme Court
won a major battle in Ohio against the Indians
explorer of the Great Plains
court decision that maintained “it is emphatically the
province and duty of the judicial department to say
what the law is”
president who oversaw the War of 1812
Which of the following was not an
element of the American System?
tariff
internal improvements
world-class navy
national Bank
world-class navy
What issue lay at the heart of debate
over the admission of Missouri as a
state?
Missouri’s state constitution
the boundaries of Missouri
the route of the National Road
the balance of slave states in the Senate
the balance of slave states in the Senate
What presidential candidate used the
slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too”?
John Quincy Adams
Martin Van Buren
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
William Henry Harrison
What party of “The common man” is still
in existence today?
Democrats
John Quincy Adams
Henry Clay
William Henry Harrison
Andrew Jackson
John Tyler
“the friend of the common man”
“the Great Compromiser” who formulated the Missouri
Compromise
president who won fewer popular votes than the candidate he
defeated
supported states’ rights and unexpectedly became president
when the president died
president whose administration lasted only one month