United States History to 1865

1. United States History to 1865 SOL Review

2. What people developed permanent settlements in the Eastern Woodland area of the U.S.?      • Incas • Pueblos • Iroquois • Kwakiutl

3. This route was most likely the one which Pre-Columbian tribes used to migrate from one continent to another:  • cross a land bridge from Asia to Alaska • along the Mississippi River • from the Eastern Woodlands to the Arctic region of North America • cross the Pacific Ocean

4. The early Americans who worshipped the sun as a religion were the • Inuits. • Incas. • Mayans. • Anasazis.

5. Which of the following was NOT a result of Columbus’s voyage? • Spanish colonists settled in the West Indies. • Portugal found a sea route to India. • Europeans learned about the Americas. • Many Native American peoples lost their lands.

6. The first permanent English colony was set up in 1607 at • Roanoke • St. Augustine • Plymouth • Jamestown

7. The theory of mercantilism states that a country should • export more than it imports. • limit the amount of goods exported. • grant self-rule to its colonies. • import more than it exports.

8. The Proclamation of 1763 angered British colonists because it • stopped them from moving west. • removed British troops from the frontier. • caused many Indian nations to attack settlers. • gave land west of the Appalachians to the French.

9. Colonists objected to the Stamp Act because they • believed that no government had the right to raise taxes. • did not have their own representatives in Parliament. • accused tax collectors of cheating them. • did not want to pay so much for stamps.

10. “Give me liberty, or give me death!” “Since nothing but blow will do, let us come to a final separation!” These statements are the words of  • Loyalists. • Patriots. • redcoats. • British officials.

11. A turning point in the war for the Americans was at • Saratoga. • Bunker Hill. • Long Island. • Brandywine.

12. The author of Common Sense was • Patrick Henry • Samuel Adams • John Adams • Thomas Paine

13. King George III’s prime minister was • Thomas Paine. • Lord North. • Lord Cornwallis. • Nathan Hale.

14. The pamphlet that won many colonists to the idea of independence was  • The Crisis. • Freedom and Democracy. • Common Sense. • the Declaration of Independence.

15. What action finally convinced the British to negotiate with the Americans? • the American victory at Saratoga • the American victory at Yorktown • the signing of the Declaration of Independence • the French decision to aid the colonists against Britain

16. The British commander who surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown was • Lord North. • Lord Cornwallis. • King George III. • John Paul Jones.

17. The author and organizer of the Committee of Correspondence was • John Adams. • Patrick Henry. • Thomas Paine. • Samuel Adams.

18. The initial military confrontation between the British and the American colonists -- “the shot heard around the world” -- was at  • Bunker Hill. • Saratoga. • Yorktown. • Lexington and Concord.

19. The American patriot who rode to warn colonial militia at Lexington and Concord that the British were coming was • Samuel Adams. • Patrick Henry. • Paul Revere. • George Washington.

20. In order to prevent any one branch of government from gaining too much power, the Constitution creates a system of • vetoes. • checks and balances. • impeachment. • federalism.

21. The Three-Fifths Compromise was an agreement that • allowed three fifths of a state’s representatives to Congress to be chosen by the state legislature. • counted three fifths of all white men in any state as part of the population. • allowed three fifths of the slaves in each state to vote. • counted three fifths of the slaves in any state as part of its population.

22. “We the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” According to this first sentence of the Constitution, the power of the government comes from • Congress. • the President. • the people. • the Supreme Court

23. The Federalists favored • a strong national government. • limited governments. • making Washington king. • a bill of rights.

24. Pilgrims agreed to work together to make their colony succeed in the • Jamestown Charter. • Magna Carta. • Mayflower Compact. • Laws of the Indies.

25. The English Bill of Rights was important to colonists because it • set up the system of Parliament. • gave women the right to vote. • protected the right to a trial by jury. • stopped smuggling in the colonies.

26. Who was president during the XYZ Affair? • James Monroe • John Adams • George Washington • James Madison

27. Who was president during the War of 1812? • James Monroe • John Adams • James Madison • Thomas Jefferson

28. As a result of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States • went to war with France. • lost control of New Orleans. • gained land west of the Mississippi River. • stretched across the continent to the Pacific Ocean.

29. Before Oregon became a territory of the United States, it was owned by the United States and • France • Russia • Britain • Mexico

30. Lewis and Clark were helped on their expedition by • the Prophet. • Tecumseh. • Sacajawea. • Canadian fur traders.

31. Louis and Clark were sent to • remove Native Americans from Louisiana. • France to buy New Orleans. • help defeat the French in Haiti. • explore and map Louisiana.

32. The idea of Manifest Destiny meant that • the United States should expand to the Pacific. • Indians had an equal claim to the lands of the West. • slavery should be allowed in the West. • no more European colonies would be allowed in the Americas.

33. A rallying cry for Texans in their fight for independence from Mexico was • “The Union - next to our liberty, most dear!” • “Tippecanoe and Tyler too!” • “Remember the Alamo!” • “Fifty-four forty or fight!”

34. As a result of the Mexican War, the United States gained control of • Oregon. • California. • Missouri. • Louisiana.

35. The Monroe Doctrine proclaimed that • European nations must not interfere in the Americas. • European nations must grant independence to all their colonies. • The United States might intervene in future European wars. • The United States would use force to maintain democratic governments in Latin America.

36. Steam power was important because it • made the best use of river sites. • allowed manufacturers to use water power. • allowed manufactures to build factories almost anywhere. • made machines expensive to run.

37. The cotton gin made growing cotton more profitable because it • kept the soil from wearing out. • allowed slaves to pick cotton more quickly. • allowed slaves to clean cotton more quickly. • allowed northerners to build factories anywhere.

38. Which state threatened to secede from the Union in 1832? • North Carolina • South Carolina • Georgia • Mississippi

39. The small group that dominated southern life and politics was the • poor whites. • planters. • merchants and manufacturers. • free blacks.

40. Slave codes prevented slaves from doing all of the following EXCEPT • gathering in large groups. • owning weapons. • practicing religion. • learning to read and write.

41. Planters dominated the South because they • were wealthy and often became political leaders. • made up the majority of white southerners. • worked in the cotton fields alongside their slaves. • manufactured most of the finished goods used in the South.

42. The Missouri Compromise resulted in • a ban on slavery in new territories. • the number of slave and free states staying equal. • popular sovereignty in Missouri. • a ban on slavery in Missouri.

43. The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied the principle of • states’ rights. • nullification. • popular sovereignty. • universal suffrage.

44. Dred Scott was • a Border Ruffian. • a slave who filed a lawsuit for his freedom. • a Republican senator. • the leader of a slave revolt.

45. Which of the following led the South to secede from the Union? • election of Abraham Lincoln • Fugitive slave law of 1850 • Dred Scott decision • Kansas-Nebraska Act

46. The best-known black abolitionist was • William Lloyd Garrison. • Frederick Douglass. • Angelina Grimke. • John Russwurm.

47. Robert E. Lee surrendered because • his troops were trapped by General Grant’s army. • he realized that the South had been wrong to secede. • Lincoln visited him and asked him to stop fighting. • he was seriously wounded.

48. The main result of the Confederate army’s attack on Fort Sumter was • the start of the Civil War. • another compromise between the North and the South. • the Dred Scott decision. • the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

49. The Emancipation Proclamation said that • all slaves in the Union and the Confederacy were freed immediately. • slaves in states loyal to the Union were freed. • slaves in states still in rebellion were free. • northern blacks could enlist in the Union Army.

50. The turning point in the Civil War came at the battle of • the Wilderness • Antietam. • Gettysburg. • Appomattox Courthouse.