Download US History: Diagnostic One

U.S. History: Diagnostic One
Directions:
 On your answer sheet, fill in the circle that corresponds to your answer for the
multiple-choice question.
 Mark only one answer for each question.
 If you do not know the answer, make your best guess.
Multiple Choice:
1. Many historians have noted transformation of the institution of slavery during the
seventeenth-century colonial America. To what are these historians referring?
a. Laws against slavery were challenged in court and overruled.
b. Miscegenation became a capital crime.
c. Only whites were eligible for indentured servitude.
d. Slavery became a hereditary function of race.
2. Which statement best describes the regional economic differences during the midnineteenth century?
a. The North specialized in manufactured goods, and the South specialized in
textiles.
b. The North specialized in tobacco, and the South specialized in food crops.
c. The North specialized in fishing, and the South specialized in textiles.
d. The North specialized in agriculture, and the South specialized in mining.
3. Which assessment of the enactment of the Proclamation Line of 1763 is most
accurate?
a. The British failed to consider that colonies would resent being forced to
maintain forts on the frontier.
b. The British ignored the impact of the policy on the right of colonial
legislatures to administer western territories.
c. The British considered the act as the only way to avoid conflict between
colonist and Native Americans.
d. The British misjudged the extent of colonial opposition to restrictions on
expansion into western lands.
4. How did the Emancipation Proclamation affect the course of the Civil War?
a. By extending the North’s war aims to include abolition
b. By prompting several states to secede from the Union
c. By forcing Southern states to stop importing enslaved persons
d. By allowing enslaved persons who escaped to serve in the Union Army
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5. Which Statement about society and government in seventeenth-century
Massachusetts Bay Colony is accurate?
a. The working class exerted political influence far out of proportion to the size
of its population.
b. Religious leaders possessed high social status and greatly influenced political
affairs.
c. Aristocratic Pilgrims wielded greater power than working-class Puritans did.
d. The ‘Godly Commonwealth” was a courageous experiment in pure
democracy.
6. Which statement best describes President Jefferson’s position on the Louisiana
Purchase?
a. He believed the United States had a destiny to expand to the West.
b. He sought improved relations with Native Americans who occupied those
lands.
c. He was concerned the development might foster increased political
opposition.
d. He feared territorial expansion would extend encourage the extension of
slavery.
7. What was the goal of the Anaconda Plan during the Civil War?
a. To prevent the flow of supplies to the South through a blockade of land and
sea/
b. To halt the advance of Confederate troops at the Mason-Dixon line
c. To restore the Union through political reconciliation of Northern and
Southern lawmakers
d. To undermine the Southern economy by assisting enslaved persons in the
flight to freedom
8. What belief was central to the philosophy of most transcendentalists?
a. Capitalism was unjust.
b. Original sin was inescapable.
c. Absolute certainty was possible.
d. Humankind was perfectible.
9. What was President Lincoln’s stated goal throughout the Civil War?
a. To punish the Confederacy
b. To free those enslaved
c. To restore the union
d. To acquire new territory
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