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Chapter 1 Exam—U.S. History Honors
52 points—DO NOT WRITE ON THIS EXAM—except for writing your name at
the top.
True-False: (A=True; B=False):
the work of Thomas Jefferson.
1. T/F: In their search for religious freedom, the
Pilgrims finally settled at Plymouth.
14. T/F: Under mercantilism, the colonies had
to sell all manufactured goods to England.
2. T/F: Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee met
at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, to negotiate the terms that ended the Civil War.
15. T/F: The Articles of Confederation were
based on a compromise known as federalism.
3. T/F: The Emancipation Proclamation
abolished slavery in all the states.
4. T/F: Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle
Tom's Cabin to expose the escape routes of the
Underground Railroad.
5. T/F: The middle passage was the journey
that the Pilgrims made to the American colonies.
6. T/F: The Great Awakening inspired a sense of
democracy and equality in the colonies.
7. T/F: American leaders realized that the
Articles of Confederation had given the central
government too much authority over the states.
8. T/F: The Kansas-Nebraska Act resolved the
debate over slavery in the Nebraska Territory by
dividing the territory into Kansas, a free territory,
and Nebraska, a slave territory.
9. T/F: Shortly after the election of Abraham
Lincoln to the presidency, several southern states
seceded from the Union.
10. T/F: President Lincoln's main goal at the
onset of the Civil War was to abolish slavery.
11. T/F: The Mayflower Compact created
a representative assembly called the House
of Burgesses.
12. T/F: The ideas of the Enlightenment greatly
influenced the Declaration of Independence.
16. T/F: The Great Compromise and the
Three-fifths Compromise settled Constitutional
Convention debates over representation in
Congress.
17. T/F: The Bill of Rights was added to the
Constitution to strengthen the national
government.
18. T/F: The Louisiana Purchase gave the United
States control of the port of New Orleans.
19. T/F: Sam Houston commanded Texan forces
during the fight for independence from Mexico.
20. T/F: The Compromise of 1850 brought an
end to the Underground Railroad.
21. T/F: The Kansas-Nebraska Act applied the
principle of popular sovereignty to the Kansas
and Nebraska territories.
22. T/F: Jefferson Davis led the Confederacy as
president.
23. T/F: Most of the early New England
colonists left Europe to escape slavery.
24. T/F: As a result of the French and Indian
War, Great Britain was forced to surrender all of
its land claims west of the Appalachian
Mountains.
25.T/F: Enlightenment ideas about government
had a profound influence on American colonial
leaders.
13. T/F: British taxation policies after the French
and Indian War pushed the colonists to draft the
Declaration of Independence, which was mostly
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26. T/F: Resentment of British taxation policies
ultimately caused colonists to issue the
Declaration of Independence.
27.T/F: Disagreements over taxation policies
in the late 1700s caused the Federalist and
Anti-Federalist political parties to be formed.
28.T/F: Missouri's application for statehood
threatened to upset the balance of free and slave
states in the Union.
29.T/F: The 1846 U.S. War with Mexico
eventually led to the Missouri Compromise.
30.T/F: Great Britain and the United States went
to war in 1845 over control of the Oregon
country.
31.T/F: The discovery of gold there and the
desire of Mormons to practice their religious
beliefs in peace sparked the settlement of Utah.
32. T/F: The Civil War began after seven
southern stated seceded.
37.A religious revolution that challenged the
Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century and
eventually caused many people to flee Europe
for the American colonies.
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Enlightenment
d) Great Awakening
38.Period in 17th- and 18th-century Europe
during which new and revolutionary ideas about
the arts, sciences, and government developed.
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Enlightenment
d) Great Awakening
39.Agreement between a people and their
government.
a) the Mayflower Compact
b) social contract
c) Declaration of Independence
Matching: (match the terms below to the next
five items: no.’s 40, 41, 42, 43, 44)
Multiple Choice:
33.Revival of religious expression in the
American colonies in the early 1700s.
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Enlightenment
d) Great Awakening
34.First colonial democratic government
With full male participation.
a) the Mayflower Compact
b) the Declaration of Independence
c) Constitutional Convention
d) House of Burgesses
a) Pizarro
b) Santa Ana
c) Whitney
d) Scott
e) Cortes
40. Invented the cotton gin.
41. Mexican leader who led the attack on the
Alamo.
42. Spanish conqueror of the Incas (Peru).
43. Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs (Mexico).
44. Slave who tried to sue his owner for
freedom.
35.First, freely-elected representative body in
the colonial world.
a) the Mayflower Compact
b) the Declaration of Independence
c) Constitutional Convention
d) House of Burgesses
36. The cultural revival that made European
exploration possible.
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Enlightenment
d) Great Awakening
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Matching: (match the terms below to the next
five items: no.’s 45, 46, 47, 48, 49)
a) Great Compromise
b) mercantilism
c) Three-fifths Compromise
d) federalism
e) Manifest Destiny
45.Agreement that established a two-house
legislature.
46.Economic system under which the
English tried to sell more goods than they
bought.
47.Coexistence of a strong central government
and state governments.
48.Sentiment that inspired expansionists.
49.Agreement that settled the issue of how
to count slaves for purposes of representation
and taxation
True-False: (A=True; B=False):
50. The Doctrine of Nullification was South
Carolina’s reaction to a series of tariffs that had
been adopted which increased the price of
imported goods. After Congress failed to reduce
the tariffs, South Carolina and other Southern
states seceded from the Union.
51. The question of slavery was the sole cause of
the Civil War.
52. The Civil War was the result of several
differences between the North and the South.
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