History to 1877

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1. The first Americans

A) arrived by sea across the Atlantic Ocean

B) originally came from western Europe

C) arrived via the Bering Strait following their food source

D) established no permanent societies until the mid 15th century

C

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Mayan society

A) Dominated by Religion

B) Had the most advanced writing and calendar system of Mesoamerica

C) Engaged in long distance trade

D) Worshiped only one God

D

Which of the following animals were not found in the New World before the Europeans came?

A) flying squirrels and catfish

B) bison and opossums

C) sheep and pigs

D) turkeys and llamas

C

The first country to engage extensively in exploration and discovery was

A) France

B) Spain

C) Portugal

D) England

C

Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World in

A) Canada

B) Cuba

C) Florida

D) the Bahamas

D

Montezuma II ruled the

A) Aztecs

B) Incas

C) Mississipians

D) Toltecs

A

Pizzaro's greatest achievement was to conquer

A) Peru

B) Cuba

C) Mexico

D) Guatemala

A

The Spanish conquerors who followed Columbus to the Americas in the early sixteenth century were primarily driven by the three G's which included all of the following except

A) God

B) Gold

C) Guns

D) Glory

C

The first permanent European town in the present-day United States was

A) St. Augustine, in what is now Florida

B) Sante Fe, in what is now New Mexico

C) Port Royal, in what is now South Carolina

D) New Orleans, in what is now Louisiana

A

La Salle's greatest achievement was to

A) discover the Great Lakes

B) follow the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico

C) establish New Orleans

D) explore and map western Canada

B

The English attempt to establish a colony on Roanoke Island resulted in

A) a permanent English presence in North America

B) a severe blow to Spanish power

C) the disappearance of the colonists

D) the execution of Sir Walter Raleigh

C

The first permanent English settlement in the New World was

A) Roanoke

B) Plymouth

C) Jamestown

D) New Orleans

C

The stockholders who invested in the VirgInia Company were motivated primarily by

A) religion

B) a spirit of adventure

C) financial profit

D) curiosity about the New World

C

Jamestown was established in what year

A) 1619

B) 1610

C) 1607

D) 1587

C

The headright system adopted for the Virginia colony consisted of

A) giving fifty acres of land to anyone who would transport himself to the colony, and fifty more for any servants he might bring

B) "selling" wives to single male settlers

C) auctioning black slaves to settlers

D) giving free land to all servants who came to the colony

A

Maryland was established in 1634 as a refuge for

A) debtors

B) Puritans

C) Catholics

D) ex-convicts

C

The Mayflower Compact

A) completely separated civil and church governments

B) was developed by settlers in Massachusetts Bay

C) provided the original government for the Plymouth colony

D) called for total religious toleration

C

Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony

A) John Winthrop

B) William Bradford

C) Roger Williams

D) Thomas Hooker

A

Of the following, which colony offered the most religious toleration

A) Massachusetts Bay

B) New Hampshire

C) Pennsylvania

D) Plymouth

C

Anne Hutchinson was kicked out of Massachusetts for

A) challenging the authority of local ministers

B) championing equal rights for women

C) refusing to uphold the Sabbath

D) insufficient knowledge of the Bible

A

All of the following are true of Connecticut except that it

A) was founded by Massachusetts Puritans

B) included the settlement of New Haven

C) originally included New Hampshire and Maine

D) defined itself as a "Christian Commonwealth"

C

The colony of New York

A) was formed to serve as a buffer against the French in Canada

B) was built upon the conquest of a Dutch settlement

C) was started as a royal colony by the king

D) had all the land divided into feudal manors consisting of 1,000 acres each

B

Georgia was founded

A) as a colonial refuge for the poor and the religiously persecuted

B) in order to launch military attacks against the French in Florida

C) as a Quaker commonwealth, a southern counterpart to William Penn's "Holy Experiment"

D) as a sanctuary for religious dissenters from Florida

A

The Middle Colonies

A) was dominated by the Puritan faith

B) for many years had a black majority in their population

C) lacked a suitable base for commerce

D) included New York and Pennsylvania

D

The "Fundamental Constitution of Carolina"

A) banned slavery

B) required colonists to become Anglicans

C) encouraged a practice of large land grants

D) made South Carolina the world's first democracy

C

The last of the British colonies founded along the Atlantic coast was

A) Pennsylvania

B) New York

C) Georgia

D) Maine

C

All of the following helped Cortés defeat the Aztecs except

A) superior weapons made of iron and steel

B) the recruitment of Indian allies

C) the peaceful nature of the Aztecs

D) a smallpox epidemic

C

All of the following are true of EnglishQuakers except that they

A) were pacifists

B) followed charismatic preachers

C) refused to take oaths

D) counted William Penn among their members

B

One way Pennsylvania especially stood out among the English colonies was in its

A) freidnly relations with the Indians

B) small size

C) allowing women to vote

D) discouragement of religion

A

Which of the following is NOT true of Georgia

A) James Oglethorpe led the initial settlers

B) it succeeded in keeping out slavery

C) was to serve as a military buffer against Spanish Florida

D) it was the last of the English colonies to be established

B

In the 17th century the staple crop that was the basis of the economy of Virginia was

A) rice

B) tobacco

C) indigo

D) cotton

B

The "Middle Passage" referred to

A) the Anglican belief in entire sanctification

B) the transportation of slaves to the British Colonies

C) certain features of domestic architecture in the southern colonies

D) social customs in Pennsylvania

B

The first African slave arrived in the American colonies in

A) 1619

B) 1700

C) 1650

D) 1587

A

The Navigation Acts specified "enumerated" goods taht

A) could be sold at discount prices

B) could only be purchased with gold or silver

C) could only be shipped to England or its colonies

D) Americans were not allowed to export

C

John Locke's contract theory of government argued that

A) government's cheif duty is to wage war against other nations

B) kings have a "divine right" to rule their subjects as longs as their subjects prosper

C) governments were formed when strong men seized authority as kings to protect natural rights

D) men have certain natural rights, including those to life, liberty, and property

D

As a result of its defeat in the French and Indian War, France

A) lost all of its territory in North America

B) became an ally of the British

C) removed all of its settlers from Louisiana

D) had to pay a huge sum of war damages

A

In retrospect, Britain's victory in the French and Indian War

A) made it the greatest power in the world

B) secured Indian control of western lands

C) started a long period of peace and prosperity

D) led to the loss of its American colonies about twenty years later

D

The Proclamation of 1763

A) drew an imaginary line along the crest of the Appalachian Mountains prohibiting American settlement

B) gave Florida back to Spain

C) lowered taxes on the colonies

D) imposed new taxes on imports

A

The Sugar Act of 1764

A) legalized trade with the French West Indies

B) taxed imports in order to raise revenue

C) aimed to reduce rum drinking in the colonies

D) taxed sugar refined in the colonies

B

The Quartering Act required colonists to

A) do military service

B) surrender their weapons

C) be loyal to England

D) house and feed British soldiers

D

The Currency Act of 1764

A) prohibited the colonies from making their currency legal tender

B) created terrible inflation in the colonies

C) was designed to ease the shortage of hard money in the colonies

D) said that lenders had to accept paper money in payment of debts

A

With the Declaratory Act, Parliament

A) announced its findings that the colonists bore "full and total responsibility" for the Boston Massacre

B) asserted its power to make laws for the colonies

C) announced that it would no longer attempt internal taxation in the colonies

D) repealed the Quartering Act

B

The 1765 Stamp Act

A) required revue stamps on legal and commercial documents

B) soothed American fears of standing armies

C) was approved by the colonial assemblies

D) directly affected only a few Americans

A

In Response to the Stamp Act, the Sons of Liberty

A) attacked British soldiers

B) authored the Virginia Resolves

C) engaged in mob violence

D) did nothing

C

The Stamp Act Congress

A) ended the boycott on British goods

B) encouraged violent resistance to British policy

C) petitioned the British to repeal the Stamp Act

D) forced the resignation of George Greenville

C

In the long run, the most important item taxed by the Townshend Acts was

A) lumber

B) rum

C) paint

D) tea

D

As a result of the Boston Massacre

A) Samuel Adams was arrested and sent to England

B) dozens of Americans were killed by the British

C) American now quietly paid their taxes

D) Americans acquired their first martyrs of the Revolution

D

The major objective of the Tea Act of 1773 was to

A) reduce tea prices for colonists

B) punish colonial tea importers

C) bail out the East India Company

D) force the colonists to drink tea

C

Which is true of the Boston Tea Party

A) Mohawk Indians destroyed the tea

B) the Sons of Liberty destroyed a large amount of property

C) It forced the British to repeal the tea tax

D) caused Thomas Jefferson to write the Declaration of Independence

B

The purpose of the Coercive Act was to

A) punish Boston for the Tea Party

B) arrest leaders of the Sons of Liberty

C) abolish the colonial assemblies

D) outlaw any public criticism of British policy

A

The Coercive Act is know as the ______ in the American colonies

A) Revenue Act

B) Intolerable Act

C) new taxes on tea

D) Quebec Act

B

In response to the Coercive Acts, the First Continental Congress met in

A) New York

B) Philadelphia

C) Boston

D) Hartford

B

In which colony will slaves become the majority of the population, and as a result will have the most harsh and oppressive slave codes

A) North Carolina

B) South Carolina

C) Maryland

D) Virginia

B

The Shot heard around the world which triggered the fighting of the American Revolution was at

A) Moore's Creek

B) Breed's Hill

C) Lexington and Concord

D) Boston

C

The greatest humiliation to the United States in the War of 1812 occurred when the British

A) sank the Leopard just outside territorial waters off Virginia

B) invaded and burned Washington, D.C.

C) captured Fort McHenry and Baltimore

D) attacked New Orleans two weeks after the war ended

B

In the election of 1800,

A) John Adams' diplomatic negotiations with the French won him reelection

B) the Republicans won handily but had to call out troops to put down mobs of Federalist protesters

C) Hamilton threw his support to Jefferson, who was in an electoral-vote tie with Aaron Burr for the presidency

D) George Washington tried to run again, but failed in an attempt to gain the Federalist nomination

C

Whose presidential administration was characterized as the "Era of Good Feelings"?

A) John Adams

B) Thomas Jefferson

C) Andrew Jackson

D) James Monroe

D

The Missouri Compromise stipulated that in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36'30'

A) slaves would become free at age 25

B) slavery would be excluded

C) there would be no restrictions of slavery

D) free blacks could not become citizens

B

Who wrote the Monroe Doctrine

A) James Madison

B) John Quincy Adams

C) James Monroe

D) Henry Clay

B

Many of the New World's early explorers were looking for a shorter and safer route to the Orient.

A) True

B) False

True

Mary Scot was the first British child born in the New World.

A) True

B) False

False

Those who wanted to purify the Church of England were called "Quakers."

A) True

B) False

False

After being banished from Massachusetts, Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.

A) True

B) False

True

The Townsend Acts were called the "Intolerable Acts" in the colonies.

A) True

B) False

False

The Sugar Act affected more American colonists than the Stamp Act and therefore generated more protest.

A) True

B) False

False

Henry Hudson sailed for both England and France.

A) True

B) False

False

The Intolerable Acts were meant to punish the colony of New York.

A) True

B) False

False

The first African slaves in British America were brought to Virginia.

A) True

B) False

True

The famous engraving of the Boston Massacre for which Paul Revere is credited is historically accurate.

A) True

B) False

False

The Coercive Acts were called the "Intolerable Acts" in the colonies.

A) True

B) False

True

John Locke's writings justified revolution in some cases.

A) True

B) False

True