US History 1 CLEP Exam ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
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The development of steamboats - (ANSWER)Which of the following was most
responsible for the change shown between 1815 and 1830?
A. The development of practical steam-powered railroad trains
B. The development of a network of canals linking important cities and waterways
C. The growth in the nation's mileage of improved roads and turnpikes
D. Improvements in the design of keelboats and flatboats
E. The development of steamboats
contributors to a more distinctly American literature - (ANSWER)Noah Webster,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Fenimore Cooper were all significant as
cotton gin - (ANSWER)Besides mass production through the use of
interchangeable parts, Eli Whitney also influenced American history by his
invention of the
,negotiation of the purchase of Alaska from Russia. - (ANSWER)The term
"Seward's Folly" referred to Secretary of State William Seward's
Mexican desire to annex Louisiana. - (ANSWER)All of the following were causes of
the Mexican War EXCEPT
A. American desire for California.
B. Mexican failure to pay debts and damages owed to the U.S.
C. U.S. annexation of the formerly Mexican-held Republic of Texas.
D. Mexican desire to annex Louisiana.
E. the disputed southern boundary of Texas.
it was the destiny of America to overspread the continent. - (ANSWER)In coining
the phrase "Manifest Destiny," journalist John L. O'Sullivan meant that
Spain provides good government for its territories. - (ANSWER)In 1786, Thomas
Jefferson wrote the following:
,"Our present federal limits are not too large for good government, nor will the
increase of votes in Congress produce any ill effect. On the contrary it will drown
the little divisions at present existing there. Our confederacy must be viewed as
the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should
take care too not to think it for the interest of that great continent to press too
soon on the Spaniards. Those countries cannot be in better hands. My fear is that
they are too feeble to hold them till our population can be sufficiently advanced
to gain it from them piece by piece. The navigation of the Mississippi we must
have. This is all we are as yet ready to receive."
In this private letter Jefferson is saying all of the following EXCEPT
A. the American political structure could survive in a larger territory.
B. the United States is not yet ready to take territory away from the Spanish.
C. a large territory will enable the political structure to overcome its divisions.
D. it is possible that the United States might advance too quickly into Spanish
territory.
E. Spain provides good government for its territories.
Antifederalists. - (ANSWER)Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution
were called
, 1861—South Carolina secedes from the Union - (ANSWER)Which of the following
events is placed in the INCORRECT year?
A. 1854—Kansas-Nebraska Act
B. 1857—Dred Scott decision
C. 1858—Lincoln-Douglas debates
D. 1859—John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
E. 1861—South Carolina secedes from the Union
The revolt was an attack upon innocent victims. - (ANSWER)This engraving of the
Nat Turner revolt takes what point of view?
The assemblies established the constitutions that defined the governor's powers.
- (ANSWER)The American colonists were able to control the power of the Royal
governors through what means?
the states would decide themselves whether to be slave or free. -
(ANSWER)"Popular sovereignty" meant that
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The development of steamboats - (ANSWER)Which of the following was most
responsible for the change shown between 1815 and 1830?
A. The development of practical steam-powered railroad trains
B. The development of a network of canals linking important cities and waterways
C. The growth in the nation's mileage of improved roads and turnpikes
D. Improvements in the design of keelboats and flatboats
E. The development of steamboats
contributors to a more distinctly American literature - (ANSWER)Noah Webster,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James Fenimore Cooper were all significant as
cotton gin - (ANSWER)Besides mass production through the use of
interchangeable parts, Eli Whitney also influenced American history by his
invention of the
,negotiation of the purchase of Alaska from Russia. - (ANSWER)The term
"Seward's Folly" referred to Secretary of State William Seward's
Mexican desire to annex Louisiana. - (ANSWER)All of the following were causes of
the Mexican War EXCEPT
A. American desire for California.
B. Mexican failure to pay debts and damages owed to the U.S.
C. U.S. annexation of the formerly Mexican-held Republic of Texas.
D. Mexican desire to annex Louisiana.
E. the disputed southern boundary of Texas.
it was the destiny of America to overspread the continent. - (ANSWER)In coining
the phrase "Manifest Destiny," journalist John L. O'Sullivan meant that
Spain provides good government for its territories. - (ANSWER)In 1786, Thomas
Jefferson wrote the following:
,"Our present federal limits are not too large for good government, nor will the
increase of votes in Congress produce any ill effect. On the contrary it will drown
the little divisions at present existing there. Our confederacy must be viewed as
the nest from which all America, North and South, is to be peopled. We should
take care too not to think it for the interest of that great continent to press too
soon on the Spaniards. Those countries cannot be in better hands. My fear is that
they are too feeble to hold them till our population can be sufficiently advanced
to gain it from them piece by piece. The navigation of the Mississippi we must
have. This is all we are as yet ready to receive."
In this private letter Jefferson is saying all of the following EXCEPT
A. the American political structure could survive in a larger territory.
B. the United States is not yet ready to take territory away from the Spanish.
C. a large territory will enable the political structure to overcome its divisions.
D. it is possible that the United States might advance too quickly into Spanish
territory.
E. Spain provides good government for its territories.
Antifederalists. - (ANSWER)Those who opposed ratification of the Constitution
were called
, 1861—South Carolina secedes from the Union - (ANSWER)Which of the following
events is placed in the INCORRECT year?
A. 1854—Kansas-Nebraska Act
B. 1857—Dred Scott decision
C. 1858—Lincoln-Douglas debates
D. 1859—John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry
E. 1861—South Carolina secedes from the Union
The revolt was an attack upon innocent victims. - (ANSWER)This engraving of the
Nat Turner revolt takes what point of view?
The assemblies established the constitutions that defined the governor's powers.
- (ANSWER)The American colonists were able to control the power of the Royal
governors through what means?
the states would decide themselves whether to be slave or free. -
(ANSWER)"Popular sovereignty" meant that
