7.04 Semester Assessment: Modern U.S. History (all 59 Correct!)

Why were the founders of the Plymouth Colony called pilgrims?

Which colony was founded as a haven for a religious group known as the Quakers?

What did Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke believe?

Which sentence best describes an attitude toward religion during the Great Awakening?

Whose scientific discoveries and inventions exemplified the achievements of the Enlightenment?

Use the map of the thirteen colonies and your knowledge to answer the question. Which southern colony is labeled F?

Use the map of the thirteen colonies and your knowledge to answer the question. Farmers in colony M grew rice and indigo as major cash crops because of the long growing season there. Which southern colony is labeled M?

What is one reason the colonists objected to paying taxes to the British government?

What government post did George Washington hold during the American Revolution?

Which sentence best expresses the self-evident truths stated in the Declaration of Independence?

Which document established the first government of the United States?

Who proposed the system of checks and balances that was included in the U.S. Constitution?

Use the information in the box and your knowledge to answer the question that follows. Which group does not include goals of the U.S. Constitution as found in the Preamble?

Use the information in the box and your knowledge to answer the question that follows. Which group describes the rights and responsibilities of the legislative branch?

What effect did the Louisiana Purchase have on the United States?

What issue most clearly divided Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party?

How did John C. Marshall influence the role of the Supreme Court?

Which group identifies items included in the first 10 amendments to the Constitution?

What tactic of Andrew Jackson's presidential campaign secured his election?

Which area did the United States acquire in the 1840s, and how did it acquire the land?

Which best explains the concept of manifest destiny?

How did the Republican Party begin in the 1850s?

Which state was the first to secede from the Union and on what grounds?

Which was primarily a political challenge that the United States faced after the Civil War?

What was one of the successes of Reconstruction in the post-Civil War South?

How did western settlement affect Native Americans?

How did railroads influence modern business practices?

How did monopolies and trusts affect industry and banking in the late 1800s?

Why was the Sherman Antitrust Act passed?

What did the federal government do in response to union-led strikes?

How did immigration in the late 1800s differ from earlier immigration patterns?

What categories characterized the social stratification that developed in the United States in the late nineteenth century?

What issue was not examined by the muckrakers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

Why did the progressive movement support the direct election of senators?

What was not an achievement of Theodore Roosevelt's administration?

What was one element of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" agenda?

How did Jim Crow laws, poll taxes, and literacy tests affect blacks in the period following the Civil War?

Which Supreme Court decision allowed for the segregation of blacks in "separate but equal" facilities?

Which African American activist seemed to accept segregation, but strongly believed in schooling for blacks and founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?

Who were two pioneers of the early women's movement?

Why did some people support imperialism despite traditional American opposition to colonization?

Both yellow journalism and the explosion on the battleship Maine contributed to the U.S. decision to go to war against Spain. What was another reason for going to war?

Which of the following is a territory that the United States acquired as a result of the Spanish-American War?

Which president strongly promoted business as part of his foreign policy?

What finally brought the United States into World War I?

What did the Selective Service Act authorize the government to do?

What was the purpose of the Espionage and Sedition Acts that were passed during World War I?

Which was not one of Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?

What group could be described for the first time in the 1920s with the terms flapper, wage-earner, and voter?

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Which groups in the 1920s opposed immigration, feared the Red Scare, and believed white Protestants were better than others?

How did the 18th Amendment cause conflict in the United States?

Which presidents' administrations emphasized big business and corporate power?

Which was not a cause of the Great Depression?

How did buying stocks on credit contribute to the Great Depression?

Which was a cause of the Dust Bowl in the Great Plains?

What was one consequence of the severe drought in the Great Plains during the 1930s?

In addition to lost jobs and poverty, what was another effect of the Great Depression on American lives?

What effect did Herbert Hoover's beliefs about government have on the American economy?