US History I Final

Question 1

What do we call the period where European explorers began claiming land in the Americas?

Answer 1

Age of Exploration

Question 2

What is one major reason why Europeans began crossing the Atlantic?

Answer 2

Ottomans cut them off from trading with Asia on the Silk Road

Question 3

Who was the Genoese explorer sent by Ferdinand and Isabella to find a new route to India?

Answer 3

Christopher Columbus

Question 4

What empire in modern-day Mexico did the Spanish conquer in 1521?

Answer 4

Aztec

Question 5

What were the major barriers that Europeans faced when trying to establish permanent settlements in North America? Select all that apply.

Answer 5

Bad weather

Disease

Conflicts with indigenous people and other Europeans

Question 6

In what modern-day state did the Pilgrims and Puritans found the first New England colonies?

Answer 6

Massachusetts

Question 7

Who could vote in colonial America?

Answer 7

Land-owning adult men

Question 8

What was socially expected of all colonial women, regardless of class or race? Select all that apply.

Answer 8

1. Raise children
2. Take care of the house

Question 9

What makes chattel slavery different from most other kinds of slavery?

Answer 9

Enslaved people were treated as property, not humans

Question 10

What was a major result of the French and Indian War?

Answer 10

Britain began taxing the colonists to pay their war debts

Question 11

How did American colonists respond to taxes? Select all that apply.

Answer 11

1. Boycotted British goods
2. Threw British tea in the harbor
3. Tar and feathered tax collectors

Question 12

What happened at the Boston Massacre?

Answer 12

No one knows for sure.

Question 13

Which of the following is NOT true about the Battles of Lexington and Concord?

Answer 13

Samuel Adams was captured as a prisoner of war

Question 14

What does “tabula rasa” mean?

Answer 14

Blank slate- the idea that men are born free to choose their destiny

Question 15

Who was the general in charge of the entire Continental Army?

Answer 15

George Washington

Question 16

Many of the founding fathers believed in a religious doctrine that emphasized the free will of man. What is this called?

Answer 16

Deism

Question 17

What impact did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense have on the Revolution?

Answer 17

It inpired people to want to separate completely from Britain

Question 18

Approximately how many people were taken to the Americas from Africa to be enslaved?

Answer 18

12,500,000

Question 19

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 19

Journey from Africa to the Americas, where many people died of horrible conditions

Question 20

On which side did Black soldiers serve in the American Revolution?

Answer 20

Both

Question 21

Why would enslaved people agree to fight for a country that did not recognize them as human? Select all that apply.

Answer 21

1. They wanted a way to escape their circumstances
2. Their owners forced them to fight

Question 22

What is significant about the 1st Rhode Island Regiment?

Answer 22

The soldiers were all Black or indigenous

Question 23

What was Dunmore’s Proclamation?

Answer 23

Offered freedom to any enslaved people in the U.S. who fought for the British

Question 24

What happened to many of the enslaved people who fought alongside the British? Select all that apply.

Answer 24

They were sent to colonies like Sierra Leone and Nova Scotia

They settled in England and faced racism and discrimination

Question 25

On what day did Congress formally adopt the Declaration of Independence?

Answer 25

4 July 1776

Question 26

What happened at the Battle of Brooklyn?

Answer 26

The British won because loyalists told them about secret river entrances that the Continental Army was spread too thin to guard

Question 27

Who were the Hessians?

Answer 27

German mercenaries hired by the British

Question 28

What famous New Jersey battle where Washington crossed the Delaware turned the tide in favor of the U.S.?

Answer 28

Battle of Trenton

Question 29

What New Hampshire native led U.S. troops to victory at the Battle of Bennington?

Answer 29

John Stark

Question 30

Why was their victory at the Battle of Saratoga so significant for the United States?

Answer 30

It convinced France to ally with them

Question 31

Why was the Valley Forge encampment so brutal? Select all that apply.

Answer 31

1. They had insufficient clothing and blankets 2. Local shopkeepers only accepted British money 3. Diseases spread quickly

Question 32

Where did the Continental Army camp in the winter of 1778-1779?

Answer 32

Valley Forge

Question 33

What was a key part of the alliance agreement between France and the U.S.?

Answer 33

The U.S. could not make peace with Britain without French approval

Question 34

What was the decisive battle which ended the American Revolution?

Answer 34

Battle of Yorktown

Question 35

What is the name of the document which Americans and British signed to end the Revolution?

Answer 35

Treaty of Paris

Question 36

What do we call a document which lays out how a country is to be run?

Answer 36

Constitution

Question 37

What do we call the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

Answer 37

Bill of Rights

Question 38

What do we call the system of powers which prevents any one branch of the government from being too powerful?

Answer 38

Checks and balances

Question 39

Which of these is NOT guaranteed by the First Amendment?

Answer 39

Freedom of marriage

Question 40

What contributed to the French Revolution? Select all that apply.

Answer 40

The poor starved while the wealthy partied People were influenced by the Enlightenment and the American Revolution

Question 41

Which of the following is NOT one of the beliefs of the Federalists?

Answer 41

In favor of the French Revolution

Question 42

Which of the following is NOT one of the beliefs of the Federalists?

Answer 42

Most were anti-slavery

Question 43

Which of the following is NOT true of the Democratic-Republicans?

Answer 43

John Adams was a member

Question 44

What did the Fugitive Slave Law of 1793 say?

Answer 44

Enslaved people who escaped to free states were not legally free

Question 45

Which of the following was NOT part of the Alien and Sedition Acts?

Answer 45

French immigrants were rounded up and imprisoned

Question 46

What is Napoleon Bonaparte best known for?

Answer 46

Becoming the first Emperor of France

Question 47

What is true about the Louisiana Purchase? Select all that apply.

Answer 47

Napoleon sold La Louisanne to Thomas Jefferson in 1803 It more than doubled the size of the U.S It cost over $300 million in today's money, or about $0.03 per square mile

Question 48

Who did Jefferson send the two most famous explorers to map the Louisiana Purchase?

Answer 48

Lewis and Clark

Question 49

Who was the Shoshone woman who assisted Lewis and Clark in their journey?

Answer 49

Sacagawea

Question 50

What was the primary reason for the War of 1812?

Answer 50

Britain was interfering with U.S. trade

Question 51

Which of these was NOT an early invention that contributed to the Industrial Revolution?

Answer 51

Telephone

Question 52

What was a result of the cotton gin? Select all that apply.

Answer 52

Cotton was easier to make so it was in higher demand Slavery increased

Question 53

What was the Factory Girls Association?

Answer 53

One of the earliest labor unions and the first woman-led union in the U.S.

Question 54

Who is largely credited with inventing the telegraph?

Answer 54

Samuel Morse

Question 55

What was cotton fever?

Answer 55

A sharp increase in demand for cotton after the War of 1812

Question 56

What caused the Panic of 1819? Select all that apply.

Answer 56

Speculation in Louisiana Territory, which caused banks to foreclose on people's land National Bank issuing paper money, causing inflation Crop shortages due to the year without a summer

Question 57

What did the Missouri Compromise accomplish?

Answer 57

Restricted slavery to southern states

Question 58

What was the Trail of Tears?

Answer 58

Forced removal of indigenous people east of the Mississippi River

Question 59

What was the primary reason why Texas rebelled from Mexico?

Answer 59

President Santa Anna made slavery illegal

Question 60

What caused the Mexican-American War?

Answer 60

The U.S. and Mexico disagreed on the border of newly annexed Texas

Question 61

What do we call the belief that the U.S. must expand its influence across all of North America?

Answer 61

Manifest destiny

Question 62

Why did people migrate westward? Select all that apply.

Answer 62

They wanted new land and opportunities Escape the political and economic turmoil in the east

Question 63

Which of these is NOT a danger most people faced on the Oregon Trail?

Answer 63

Attacks from indigenous people

Question 64

Who were the forty-niners?

Answer 64

Miners who migrated en masse to California in 1849

Question 65

What was a result of the gold rush? Select all that apply.

Answer 65

Ku Klux Klan

Question 66

What were the results of the Compromise of 1850? Select all that apply.

Answer 66

California became a free state Passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Question 67

What was the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Answer 67

States decided whether slavery was allowed, rather than Congress

Question 68

What did the Dred Scott decision state?

Answer 68

People of African descent could not be American citizens

Question 69

Who won the election of 1860?

Answer 69

Abraham Lincoln