Where was the home of the Indians who most effectively utilized the horse in America? A) Great Basin B) Great Plains C) Pacific Northwest D) Southwest ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Spain’s conquistadores were generally motivated by all the following EXCEPT A) achieving personal distinction and national greatness for Spain. B) stimulating the mass migration and settlement of Spanish colonists in the New World. C) acquiring great wealth for themselves and for Spain. D) converting New World peoples to Christianity. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who blocked U.S. annexation of Texas in 1838 with a 22-day filibuster in Congress? A) Andrew Jackson B) John Tyler C) John C. Calhoun D) John Quincy Adams ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What completed the freeing of four million black slaves in the United States? A) Emancipation Proclamation B) Military Reconstruction Act C) Thirteenth Amendment D) surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The postwar rumor among former slaves that they were to receive “forty acres and a mule” from the government was based on provisions of A) the Thirteenth Amendment. B) the surrender terms at Appomattox. C) Special Field Order 15. D) the Emancipation Proclamation. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Polk based the war message he delivered to Congress in 1846 on the claim that A) Mexico had refused to pay its debts. B) Mexican authorities were mistreating American settlers in Texas and California. C) Mexico and Great Britain were plotting to halt American expansion into the Southwest. D) Mexicans had invaded the United […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican War included A) Mexican payment of $15 million in damage claims to the United States. B) American assumption of $3.25 million of Mexican debts owed to citizens of the United States. C) annexation of Texas by the United States. D) the banning of slavery from all […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was one lesson learned from the attempt to colonize Roanoke Island? A) Funding these ventures was going to be too expensive for any single individual. B) France was going to be England’s greatest rival for control of North America. C) Native Americans were automatically going to be unfriendly toward the English. D) Colonization was […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Supreme Court acknowledged Congress’s power to reconstruct state governments in A) Ex parte Merryman. B) Texas v. White. C) Worcester v. Georgia. D) Ex parte Milligan. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What ultimately saved Jamestown from disaster? A) John Smith’s having to return to England after being accidentally injured B) the cultivation of tobacco as a trading commodity C) Chief Powhatan’s decision not to let the beleaguered settlers die off D) the determination and hard work of the first group of settlers ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
