CLEP US HISTORY ONE EXAM 2024
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 5 COPIES
◉ 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
◉ California. Answer: Which of the following did NOT experience a
Gold Rush after 1859?
A. Nevada
B. Alaska
C. South Dakota
D. California
E. Colorado
PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS 5 COPIES
◉ 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
◉ California. Answer: Which of the following did NOT experience a
Gold Rush after 1859?
A. Nevada
B. Alaska
C. South Dakota
D. California
E. Colorado
