CLEP HISTORY OF THE U.S. I PRACTICE TEST #1

In the impeachment process against the president, the __________________ determines the guilt or innocence of the president?

Senate

The right to a speedy trial is guaranteed Americans by:

The 6th Amendment

According to Article II of the U.S. Constitution, the Sole authority to suspend the writ of habeas corpus resides in:

The Congress

In James Madison's "Federalist Paper Number ten," the most dangerous threat to the U.S. Constitution was presented by:

Factions

The Dutch colony at New Netherland was categorized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Friendly relations with neighboring Amerindians

North American Indian cultures were characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

The lack of the presence of warfare

Spanish colonization of the New World was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT:

Reliance upon large families as settlers

The Puritans left England to settle in America in order to:

create a perfect religious utopia

seventeenth-century English settlers of New England differed from those in Virginia by:

Living in tightly clustered communities

King Philip's war of 1675-1676 was fought to:

Establish English control over the Indians in New England

The only eighteenth-century North American British colony with a black population majority was:

South Carolina

From 1689 until 1763, England fought a series of wars with France for control of North America. Which of the following wars was not part of this series?

King Philip's War

Colonial government in British North America did NOT allow:

Universal manhood sufferage

James Otis earned fame for his defense of American political freedom in:

The Writs of Assistance case

The Boston Massacre occurred after which of the following events?

The Townshend Duties

The battle of Saratoga in 1777 was best known for:

Securing America an alliance with France

In 1632, England allowed its first proprietary colony as a refuge for Catholics in:

Maryland

Prior to 1763, the British policy of mercantilism encouraged the American colonies to:

Supply England with raw materials

At the Philadelphia convention of 1788, the author of the Great Compromise to the U.S. Constitution was:

Roger Sherman

During the ratification contest, the Antifederalist critique of the proposed U.S. constitution contained all of the following arguments EXCEPT:

The location of the new government in Washington, D.C.

Opposition to the Jay Treaty in the U.S. Senate centered around:

It's inability to stop the practice of British impressment

"Millions for defense, not one cent for Tribute" became the nation's rallying cry during:

The XYZ Affair

In the election of 1800, the House of Representatives selected the president because of the deadlocked election between:

Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr

Women emerged from the American Revolution with the prescribed new responsibility of:

raising sons and daughters as good republican citizens

The Lewis and Clark expedition occurred AFTER which event?

Louisiana Purchase

The "Burr Conspiracy" refers to:

Burr's scheme to create a new nation from the southern territory of the United States

During the War of 1812, the battle waged AFTER the signing of the peace treaty at Ghent was the:

Battle of New Orleans

The principle that "American continents were not...subjects for future colonizations by any European power" is expressed directly in:

The Monroe Doctrine

"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it," refers to which Supreme Court decision scorned by President Andrew Jackson?

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia

The rise of the "market economy" in the 1820s refers to the:

the rise of commercial agriculture

All of the following were major reform movements during the 1830s EXCEPT:

Labor Unions

Andrew Jackson referred to the election of 1824 as "the corrupt bargain" because of:

The selection of Henry Clay as President John Quincy Adams' secretary of state

Andrew Jackson's impact on the office of the presidency is characterized by a reliance on:

All of the above

Jackson's reasons for his veto of the Second Bank of the United States included:

All of the above

The historian most associated with the view of slavery as crushing African-Americans into a "sambo personality' is

Stanley Elkins

The slavery is a "positive good" argument was presented by:

George Fitzhugh

Although Texas claimed its independence from Mexico in 1837, it was not admitted as an American state until 1845 because:

The North's fear of a growing slave power in the United States

Select the statement which BEST represents Abraham Lincoln's public position on slavery in the election of 1860:

"If I can maintain the Union with slavery I shall; if I can maintain the union without slavery I shall"

The Mexican-American War resulted in Mexico ceding all of the following territories to the United States EXCEPT:

Washington

Which of the following events occurred last?

Homestead Act

Northern denunciation of the Compromise of 1850 was directed primarily toward:

The Fugitive Slave Law

The Dred Scott decision in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger Taney declared:

The Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

In the election of 1860, Abaraham Lincoln's total of the popular vote was:

40 percent

The Emancipation Proclamation immediately freed the slaves:

None of the above (freed only those slaves in territories in rebellion against the United States. An act of Congress in 1865, through the 13th Amendment ended slavery.)

Because of its acceptance of the states' rights doctrine, the Confederacy most closely resembled:

The Articles of Confederation

During the Civil War, President Lincoln gave evidence of his democratic beliefs by:

Sponsoring the Homestead Act

The vast majority of settlers who traveled to the Far West because of the Homestead Act's grant of a free 160-acre farm:

Returned East after failing as farmers

According to most historians, the major failure of Northern Reconstruction was its inability to:

Provide economic independence to ex-slaves

The president associated with the sell-out of 1876 was:

Rutherford B. Hayes

The cartoon on the previous page by Benjamin Franklin (1754) offered a warning to the 13 colonies if they:

Rejected the Albany Plan

Which of the following lead to European discovery and exploration of the Americas?

Development of new navigational instruments

Roger Williams came into conflict with the Puritan authorities for advocating that:

Political leaders could have no authority over religious matters

Which of the following was NOT one of the middle colonies?

Connecticut

Which of the following did NOT characterize French settlement in the New World?

The French developed widespread settlement in the interior of the continent

The key British victory in the French and Indian War was at:

Louisberg

Which of the following prevented the entrance of Texas into the Union after it gained independence in 1836?

Texas wanted to permit slavery

The "middle passage" refers to:

The voyage between Africa and the Americas taken by the slave traders

All of the following were advocates of religious toleration EXCEPT:

John Winthrop

According to British mercantilist policy, the colonies would perform all of the following EXCEPT:

Produce manufactured goods

The Intolerable Acts of 1774 were passed in response to:

The Boston Tea Party

Which of the following served as an American commander during the American Revolution?

Nathaniel Greene

The Constitutional Convention tool place in 1787 in what city?

Philadelphia

Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Public Credit" proposed which of the following?

Assume the state debts

Under Thomas Jefferson, the Republicans:

Reduced the federal budget

The Adams-Onis Treaty (1819) gave the United States:

Florida

Which of the following is NOT associated with the"American System"?

Bonuses to new industries

The Bill of Rights:

All of the above

The most important difference between the South and other sections of the United States prior to 1860 was which of the following?

Slavery

The Jacksonian era was notable for its:

Rhetorical egalitarianism

What group of immigrants prior to the Civil war helped stimulate formation of the American, or "Know-Nothing," party?

Irish

The term "scalawag" was used during Reconstruction to describe:

Native-born Southerners who cooperated with the Northerners

The "Crime of 73" refers to:

The removal of silver coins from the list of standard coins

Which of the following acts was NOT passed during the Civil War (1861-1865)?

Tenure of office Act

By 1860 approximately how many slaves lived in the South?

4 million

Andrew Jackson contributed to the depression of 1837 by doing which of the following:

Issuing the Specie Circular

The Twelfth Amendment (1804) to the Constitution:

Required the electoral college to vote separately for president and vice president

The federalist papers:

Were written anonymously by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

The Ostend Manifesto of 1854 concerned which of the following?

Cuba

The Declaratory Act of 1766:

Stated that Parliament had the power to make laws binding on the colonies

Which of the following writers was NOT a part of the "American Renaissance" of the mid-nineteenth century?

Henry James

Secessionist feeling during the War of 1812 was strong in:

New England

Which of the following is associated with early English settlement in the New World?

Joint-stock companies

After 1840, the Northeast's primary economic concern was?

Manufacturing of finished products

By the middle 1760s the most influential citizens in the New England towns were:

Merchants

Which of the following was NOT a union strategy in the Civil War?

Fight a defensive war

Which of the following became president upon the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

Andrew Johnson

The ordinances of 1785 and 1787 established all of the following EXCEPT:

Protection of slavery

Which of the following was not a proprietary colony?

Virginia

Which of the following contributed significantly tot he growth of anti-slavery sentiment in the 1850s?

Publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin

the panic of 1857 fundamentally resulted from:

Excessive investments in railroads

Which of the following was NOT characteristic of Spanish civilization in the New World:

Republican government

All of the following are associated with the Pilgrims EXCEPT:

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Which of the following colonies is established so that debtors freed from English prisons could start a new life?

Georgia

The French and Indian War or Seven Years' War resulted in which of the following after the signing of the Treaty of Paris in 1763?

The Spanish obtained New Orleans and Louisiana

Which of the following does not correctly describe the Southern colonies?

They were largely urban

The Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, included which of the following?

Restoration of territory taken during the war

The Iroquois Confederation included all of the following Indian tribes EXCEPT:

Sioux

What was the first college to be established in colonial America?

Harvard College

The British government faced all of the following problems in 1763 EXCEPT:

Independence movements in colonial America

Which of the following was feared as a mob leader by British colony authorities?

Samuel Adams