United States History

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Just as Columbus' crew were beginning to threaten him with mutinous looks of frustration and anger, one of the crewman, Rodrigo, spotted the moonlit cliffs of an island off in the distance. Although Columbus had promised a grand reward to the first sailor to spot land, Columbus said he saw it first the night before and kept the loot for himself. Whether it was Watling Island in the Bahamas or Samana Cay, this New World was not what Columbus was originally searching for. What was the objective of his voyage?

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1. To discover a new route to Africa
2. To find a new location to send Spain's and Portugul's prisoners
3. To find a new route to India and China while looking for other sources of gold and spices
4. To circumnavigate the globe and beat the old record by two days

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How does the New World, or "Mundus Novus," gain the name America?

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The new territory is eventually named after Columbus' daughter, America
2. Anselm D. America, sailing for Portugal is the first to see the mainland
3. Cortez names the territory America after his voyage and travels into Tenochtitlan
4. Amerigo Vespucci, another Italian sailing for Spain, along with Alonso de Hojeda claimed to be captain of the four voyages to the mouth of the Amazon and Brazil and was later given the honor of having his name applied to the continent

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Despite the successful global empire and victory over her rivals, Great Britain's control over its colonies proved an area of dispute. Regarding the American colonies, this European statesman predicted a push for independence.

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1. Edmund Burke
2. Comte de Rochambeau
3. Count Vergennes
4. William Pitt
5. Thomas Paine

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The colonist and explorer Sir Walter Raleigh sent ships to North America and named the land they settled Virginia in honor of Queen Elizabeth, "the virgin queen." Raleigh is also know for his attempts to establish a colony on Roanoke. The inhospitable island was susceptible to attacks from natives and supplies were often delayed by the Spanish Armada. The failed settlement is called the ________ ______.

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1. Lost Colony
2. Forgotten Colony
3. Abandoned Colony
4. Forsaken Colony

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What is the most historically reasonable explanation or definition for the term "Puritan?"

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1. Puritans differentiated themselves from other pilgrims in their fastidious and clean preparation of their meals. Thus, they were dubbed puritans on account of their pure eating habits.
2. Puritans felt strongly that the Chuch of England was too accepting of Rome's dictates and urged a "purification" that would keep the Pope out of their affairs. There was also the more general position held by the puritans that the Church of England was currupt and needed to be purified.
3. Puritans were escaping the influence of Calvinism, and were thought to be more pure in their ceremonial pratices.
4. Puritans stayed loyal to the Church of England and were not like the "Dissenters" of the 1630s. They were therfore more pure in their loyalty to the church.

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Three thousand of these early American settlers were imprisoned under Charles II. Known as the Society of Friends, they took the "Thou shalt not kill" commandment very seriously and began a pacifist religion that called for no ministry or clergy to lead them. They are more commonly known by this name.

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1. Methodists
2. Lutherans
3. The Five Percenters
4. Quakers

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The original 13 colonies are Virginia (Jamestown), Massachusetts, New York, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connectiticut, Delaware, New Hampshire,...

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1. North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Georgia
2. North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Alabama, and Georgia
3. North Carolina, Kansas, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia
4. North Carolina, South Carolina, New Jersey, Pennsyvania, and Georgia

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The economies of Virginia and Mryland relied heavily on the cultivation of which crop?

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1. Corn
2. Wheat
3. Potatoes
4. Tobacco

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The settlement of the Jamestown Colony in Virginia survived as a result of

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1. adherence to a strict Puritan work ethic
2. the planting of tobacco as a cash crop
3. the ability of the settlers to avoid confrontation with the Native Americans
4. the leadership of Jonathan Edwards
5. financial assistance from England

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The Stamp Act

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1. closed the port of Boston and revoked the colony's charter.
2. force colonial officials to house and feed British soldiers.
3. gave Great Britain a monopoly on the tea trade.
4. placed a tax on printed matter of all kinds in the colonies.

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Whose forces captured Kaskaskia, Cahokia, and Vincennes?

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1. Francis Marion
2. George Washington
3. George Rogers Clark
4. Nathanael Greene

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The first national plan of government for the United States was the

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1. Articles of Confederation
2. Mayflower Compact
3. Northwest Ordinance
4. U. S. Constitution

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The Great Comprimise reached at the Constitutional Convention focused on

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1. slavery.
2. representation in congress.
3. commerce.
4. what to call the new government.

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The principle of judicial review was esyablished by Chief Justice

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1. Thomas Jefferson.
2. Meriwether Lweis.
3. John Marshall.
4. John Adams

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United States officals were angered by the practice of impressment used by

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1. French
2. American Indians
3. British
4. Spanish

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Which of the following was proposed in order to fund a national transportation system during the Era of Good Feelings after the War of 1812?

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1. American System
2. Seneca Falls Convention
3. Missouri Compromise
4. Compromise of 1850

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The "man of the people" elected in 1828 was

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1. John Adams.
2. Abraham Lincoln.
3. Stephen Douglas.
4. Andrew Jackson.

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The secession of ___________ would have meant losing the United States capitol to the Confederacy.

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1. Missouri
2. West Virginia
3. Maryland
4. Kentucky

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Which of the following best describes the significance of a major military turning point of the Civil War?

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1. The Union defeat at Fredericksburg led Abraham Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
2. The Confederate losses in the Battle of Antietam forced Southern commanders to adopt a defensive strategey for the remainder of the war.
3. The Battle of Vicksburg consolodited Union control of the Mississippi River and divided the Confederacy in two.
4. The Union victory at Gettysburg destroyed Democratic hopes of defeating Licoln in 1864.

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The Confederacy was confident that France and Great Britain would come to the South's aid because

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1. both nations supplied the South with African slaves.
2. so many southerners were of English or French descent.
3. both nations' economies depended heavily on cotton.
4. both nations hated the Union.

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Which of the following is the best example of the doctrine of Manifest Destiny?

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1. the expulsion of the American Indians from the southern states during the 1820s
2. the settlement of Utah by Mormon migrants from the East during the 1840s
3. the acquisition of California in the Mexican-American War of the 1840s
4. the creation of the territories of Kansas and Nebraska during the 1850s

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One of the Union's first all-black regiments, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, was noted for

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1. being the first all-black outfit to be commanded by an African American officer.
2. demonstrating to the south that African Amricans were deserving of being allowed to serve in the armed forces.
3. recruiting American Indians into its ranks.
4. breaking the Confederates' hold on Fort Wagner.

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Which of the following most influenced the northward migration of African Americans during the early twentieth century?

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1. the job opportunities provided by mobilization for World War I
2. an overproduction crisis in the southern textile industry
3. the extension of the southern railroad network
4. the social reforms enacted by northern progressives

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The French and Indian War pitted the French and their American Indian allies against the

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1. mountain men and fur traders.
2. British and colonial militias.
3. Confederate army.
4. U.S. merchant fleet.

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As a result of advancements in transportation in the 1820s

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1. agriculture took industry into the North
2. once viable cities along the Erie Canal became ghost towns
3. regional specialization developed in the United States
4. the federal government became more involved in funding internal improvements
5. transport of cotton to New England became mor viable on canals

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Which of the following best describes a major physical feature of urban centers in the United States during the last quater of the nineteenth century?

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1. Factories were often constructed around the periphery of the cities to ficilitate the transport of goods.
2. Innovations in tenement construction substantially reduced overcrowding in the innercity neighborhoods.
3. In most urban neighborhods, different social groups lived in close proximity of each other.
4. The extension of mass transit systems enabled many urban dwellers to move to new suburbs.

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All of the following were proponents of "manifest destiny" EXCEPT

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1. voters for James Polk
2. Whig party members during the Mexican War
3. Southern slave owners
4. Northern Democrats
5. supporters of the Treaty of Paris (1898) which ended the Spanish-American War

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After the Civil War, the United States adapted an attitude of isolation from foreign affairs. The turning point, however, signaling the beginning of the US becoming a world power was:

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1. World War I
2. Expansion of business and trade overseas
3. The Spanish-American War
4. The building and financing of the Panama Canal

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The Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 was designed to

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1. place tribes back on federally granted reservations
2. protect the culture and traditions of Native Americans
3. force the assimilation of Native Americans into American society
4. end the protective relationship between the federal government and the tribes
5. sever the ties between warring tribes to promote peace

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This 30 point writing exercise is an example of the Extended Response Questions you will see on the CSET. This exact question, along with sample responses, can be found online within the CSET Social Science Test Guide. This essay is an opportunity to paraphrase and emulate the example you see in the CSET support materials. Do not copy the sample, but you may draw upon it in writing you own response. Use the Score Point Description table as an additional guide as you begin and before you submit you answer. Click here to view the SPD.

Read the two passages below; then complete the exercise that follows.

Alexander Hamilton: The Report on Manufactures (December 5, 1791)

The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States . . . appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted. . .

Not only wealth; but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufactures. Every nation, with a view to those great objects, ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of national supply. These comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing, and defense. . . .

A full view having now been taken of the inducements to the promotion of manufactures in the United States, . . . it is proper . . . to consider the means by which it may be effected. . . In countries where there is great private wealth, much may be effected by the voluntary contributions of patriotic individuals; but in a community situated like that of the United States, the public purse must apply the deficiency of private resource. In what can it be so useful, as in prompting and improving the efforts of industry?

Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)

Those who labour in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. . . . Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husband, for their subsistence, depend for it [instead] on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition. . . . [G]enerally speaking, the proportion which the aggregate of the other classes of citizens bears in any state to that of its husbandmen, is the proportion of its unsound to its unhealthy parts, and is a good-enough barometer whereby to measure its degree of corruption. While we have land to labour then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Writing Prompt: Using the information presented in the two passages and your knowledge of U.S. history, analyze the influence of the views expressed in the passages above on the development of political parties in the United States.

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