US HISTORY - MODERN STATES EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH THE MOST RECENT
UPDATED ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Which of the following were native to North America before Columbus arrived?
A) Horses and pumpkins
B) Dandelions and clover
C) Maize and squash
D) Oranges and sweeet potatoes
E) Rice and potatoes - answer ✔✔-C) Maize and squash
Curing the Age of Exploration most super power countries in Europe searched for gold and silver in the
Americas and what from Asia?
A) Cotton and Matierials
B) Copper and Whiskey
C) Technology for Better Mapping
D) Bronze and Weapons
E) Silk and Spices - answer ✔✔-E) Silk and Spices
Which of the following is true of White women in the British North American colonies?
A) They were allowed to be ordained as ministers.
B) They were considered politically and socially equal to their husbands.
C) They were eligible to work as teachers in public schools.
D) They were eligible to run for political office.
E) They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage. - answer ✔✔-E)
They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage.
,Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening in the American colonies during
the mid-eighteenth century?
A) More accessible, democratized piety caused separatism and secession from established churches.
B) Heightened interest in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft.
C) The growth of institutions of higher learning to fill the need for more ministers to spread the gospel.
D) More intensive religious devotion caused the missionary spirit t - answer ✔✔-B) Heightened interest
in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft.
In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the following
to England?
A) Cattle
B) Tobacco
C) Tea
D) Cotton
E) Chesapeake Bay - answer ✔✔-B) Tobacco
17th Century Puritans and Quakers differed primarily over the
A) Divinity of Jesus
B) Importance of charity work (almsgiving)
C) Notion of predestination
D) Celebration of Christmas
E) Consumption of alcohol - answer ✔✔-C) Notion of predestination
Which of the following best describes the American Colonization Society?
A) It helped provide jobs for African Americans building the Panama Canal.
B) Militant abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass supported it.
C) Large numbers of of African Americans in the 1850s and 1860s supported it.
D) It promoted the settling of free African Americans from the United States of Africa.
,E) It developed the concept of Manifest Destiny in the 1830s and 1840s. - answer ✔✔-D) It promoted
the settling of free African Americans from the United States of Africa.
Anne Hutchinson and her followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because:
A) Hutchinson had been convicted of adultery.
B) They attempted to overthrow the colony's elected government
C) Their advocacy of the banning of alcohol put them at odds with the rest of the colonists.
D) Hutchinson's religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church.
E) Their support of English monarchy made them enemies with the Revolutionary leaders in Boston. -
answer ✔✔-D) Hutchinson's religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church.
Why was it possible for England to establish successful colonies by 1700s?
A) Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals.
B) Because the Indians assisted them with resistance.
C) Because the British had imposed their currency in the colonies.
D) Because they owned more slaves during that time period.
E) None of the above. - answer ✔✔-A) Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals.
American Mercantilism in the mid-seventeenth century was the idea of the...
A) British
B) French
C) Native Americans
D) Spanish
E) Portuguese - answer ✔✔-A) British
Dutch and English go to war over _____________________ _________________________. - answer
✔✔-Commercial conflict
Colonies begin to form and southern colonies rely on ____________ and ___________ labor to prosper.
- answer ✔✔-Slave and Indian
, Family becomes the social unit and women are still seen as _________________ to men. - answer ✔✔-
Unequal
___________ drains wealth from America. - answer ✔✔-Britain
America prospers and catches the attention of ____________ ____________. - answer ✔✔-Other
Countries
John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as "a city upon a hill." But first he
explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always
be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the
Puritans'
(A) reaction to unsuccessful socialist experiments in the Netherlands
(B) acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks
(C) intention to vest - answer ✔✔-(B) acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on
a system of ranks
The French and Indian War led Great Britain to
(A) encourage manufacturing in its North American colonies
(B) impose revenue taxes on its North American colonies
(C) restrict emigration to North America
(D) ignore its North American colonies
(E) grant increased self-government to its North American colonies - answer ✔✔-(B) impose revenue
taxes on its North American colonies
All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families EXCEPT?
(A) a hierarchical institution in which the father represented the source of authority
(B) a place that sheltered men from the workplace
(C) a social institution that cared for the needy and the poor
(D) a social institution that provided vocational training
QUESTIONS WITH THE MOST RECENT
UPDATED ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
Which of the following were native to North America before Columbus arrived?
A) Horses and pumpkins
B) Dandelions and clover
C) Maize and squash
D) Oranges and sweeet potatoes
E) Rice and potatoes - answer ✔✔-C) Maize and squash
Curing the Age of Exploration most super power countries in Europe searched for gold and silver in the
Americas and what from Asia?
A) Cotton and Matierials
B) Copper and Whiskey
C) Technology for Better Mapping
D) Bronze and Weapons
E) Silk and Spices - answer ✔✔-E) Silk and Spices
Which of the following is true of White women in the British North American colonies?
A) They were allowed to be ordained as ministers.
B) They were considered politically and socially equal to their husbands.
C) They were eligible to work as teachers in public schools.
D) They were eligible to run for political office.
E) They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage. - answer ✔✔-E)
They were restricted in holding property and making legal contracts after marriage.
,Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Great Awakening in the American colonies during
the mid-eighteenth century?
A) More accessible, democratized piety caused separatism and secession from established churches.
B) Heightened interest in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft.
C) The growth of institutions of higher learning to fill the need for more ministers to spread the gospel.
D) More intensive religious devotion caused the missionary spirit t - answer ✔✔-B) Heightened interest
in the supernatural caused the renewed persecution of people for witchcraft.
In the early seventeenth century, colonists in the Chesapeake Bay area exported which of the following
to England?
A) Cattle
B) Tobacco
C) Tea
D) Cotton
E) Chesapeake Bay - answer ✔✔-B) Tobacco
17th Century Puritans and Quakers differed primarily over the
A) Divinity of Jesus
B) Importance of charity work (almsgiving)
C) Notion of predestination
D) Celebration of Christmas
E) Consumption of alcohol - answer ✔✔-C) Notion of predestination
Which of the following best describes the American Colonization Society?
A) It helped provide jobs for African Americans building the Panama Canal.
B) Militant abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglass supported it.
C) Large numbers of of African Americans in the 1850s and 1860s supported it.
D) It promoted the settling of free African Americans from the United States of Africa.
,E) It developed the concept of Manifest Destiny in the 1830s and 1840s. - answer ✔✔-D) It promoted
the settling of free African Americans from the United States of Africa.
Anne Hutchinson and her followers were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because:
A) Hutchinson had been convicted of adultery.
B) They attempted to overthrow the colony's elected government
C) Their advocacy of the banning of alcohol put them at odds with the rest of the colonists.
D) Hutchinson's religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church.
E) Their support of English monarchy made them enemies with the Revolutionary leaders in Boston. -
answer ✔✔-D) Hutchinson's religious views led to her excommunication from the Puritan church.
Why was it possible for England to establish successful colonies by 1700s?
A) Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals.
B) Because the Indians assisted them with resistance.
C) Because the British had imposed their currency in the colonies.
D) Because they owned more slaves during that time period.
E) None of the above. - answer ✔✔-A) Because they had crucial advantages over European rivals.
American Mercantilism in the mid-seventeenth century was the idea of the...
A) British
B) French
C) Native Americans
D) Spanish
E) Portuguese - answer ✔✔-A) British
Dutch and English go to war over _____________________ _________________________. - answer
✔✔-Commercial conflict
Colonies begin to form and southern colonies rely on ____________ and ___________ labor to prosper.
- answer ✔✔-Slave and Indian
, Family becomes the social unit and women are still seen as _________________ to men. - answer ✔✔-
Unequal
___________ drains wealth from America. - answer ✔✔-Britain
America prospers and catches the attention of ____________ ____________. - answer ✔✔-Other
Countries
John Winthrop told the Puritans that their society would be regarded as "a city upon a hill." But first he
explained that there would always be inequalities of wealth and power, that some people would always
be in positions of authority, and that others would be dependent. His statements best illustrate the
Puritans'
(A) reaction to unsuccessful socialist experiments in the Netherlands
(B) acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on a system of ranks
(C) intention to vest - answer ✔✔-(B) acceptance of the traditional belief that social order depended on
a system of ranks
The French and Indian War led Great Britain to
(A) encourage manufacturing in its North American colonies
(B) impose revenue taxes on its North American colonies
(C) restrict emigration to North America
(D) ignore its North American colonies
(E) grant increased self-government to its North American colonies - answer ✔✔-(B) impose revenue
taxes on its North American colonies
All of the following were common characteristics of many colonial New England families EXCEPT?
(A) a hierarchical institution in which the father represented the source of authority
(B) a place that sheltered men from the workplace
(C) a social institution that cared for the needy and the poor
(D) a social institution that provided vocational training
