Final Practice Exam

As the course roster records it, what type of document is Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, and which host keeps the text the course reads?

Select one.

• A declaration of causes, kept by the Avalon Project
• A presidential proclamation, kept by the National Archives
• An inaugural address, kept by the Avalon Project
• A federal statute, kept by the National Archives

In the course's evidence-claims set (illustrative), how is the claim that removal was benevolent because the President said so keyed?

Select one.

• It goes beyond the source, because a speaker's claim is evidence of his argument, not proof that the claim is true
• It shows what the source says, because Jackson's message uses the word benevolent
• It shows what the source says, because a President's message is an official record
• It goes beyond the source, because the message never mentions removal

A county clerk registering new voters lists four events: the 14th Amendment ratified, Dred Scott v. Sandford, the end of Reconstruction, and the Emancipation Proclamation. Which list puts them in order, earliest to latest?

Select one.

• Emancipation Proclamation, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, Emancipation Proclamation, end of Reconstruction, 14th Amendment ratified
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, Emancipation Proclamation, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• Dred Scott v. Sandford, 14th Amendment ratified, Emancipation Proclamation, end of Reconstruction

A county clerk in a free state reads a summary of the Compromise of 1850, the second of the 4 measures in the course's territories set. Which of these were among its parts? Select every one that applies.

Select every option that applies.

• California admitted as a free state
• Slavery ended in the District of Columbia
• A settlement of the Texas boundary
• Kansas admitted as a free state
• A stricter fugitive slave law

Which roster document is the treaty of cession, kept by the National Archives, between the United States and the French Republic?

Select one.

• The Louisiana Purchase Treaty, signed in 1803
• The Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the Seven Years' War
• The Northwest Ordinance, an ordinance passed in 1787
• The Treaty of Paris of 1783, which ended the War of Independence

Using the years in the course chronology, how many years passed from Jefferson's First Inaugural Address to the Missouri Compromise?

Select one.

• 17 years
• 29 years
• 2 years
• 19 years

A settler's almanac lists four documents and measures with their chronology years. Which entry puts Dred Scott v. Sandford, the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Missouri Compromise in order, each with its correct year?

Select one.

• Missouri Compromise (1803), Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1820), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803), Missouri Compromise (1820), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1854), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1857)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1820), Missouri Compromise (1854), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803), Missouri Compromise (1820), Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854), Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

A settler voting in a territorial election asks what the Compromise of 1850 did about the District of Columbia. Which answer matches the territories set?

Select one.

• It ended slavery there along with the slave trade
• It left slavery there to a vote of the District's residents
• It drew a line in the District north of which slavery was barred
• It ended the slave trade there, though not slavery itself

A newspaper editor wants to cite the Texas Declaration of Independence correctly. Which choice gives its document type and the archive whose text the course reads?

Select one.

• A declaration; the Avalon Project
• A joint resolution of Congress; the National Archives
• A treaty of peace; the Avalon Project
• A declaration; Founders Online

A canal town's merchants ship goods east under laws passed by a Congress that the Constitution framed. Which document had framed the national government before the Constitution replaced it?

Select one.

• The Declaration of Independence, adopted in 1776
• The Articles of Confederation, in force from 1781
• The Northwest Ordinance, passed in 1787
• The Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791

A freedpeople's school opening in the first year after the war worked under the policy then in force, Presidential Reconstruction. Which statements are true of that policy as the course defines it? Select every one that is.

Select every option that applies.

• It readmitted the Southern states on lenient terms
• It began when the 15th Amendment was ratified
• It came under President Andrew Johnson, before the 14th Amendment was ratified
• It was the same policy as Congressional Reconstruction under another name
• It gave freedpeople strong federal protection from the start

A border-state family's almanac lists five events: the Kansas-Nebraska Act, the Texas Declaration of Independence, South Carolina's declaration of causes, the Missouri Compromise, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Which list puts them in chronological order, earliest first?

Select one.

• Missouri Compromise, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Texas Declaration of Independence, Kansas-Nebraska Act, South Carolina's declaration
• Missouri Compromise, Texas Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Kansas-Nebraska Act, South Carolina's declaration
• Texas Declaration of Independence, Missouri Compromise, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, Kansas-Nebraska Act, South Carolina's declaration
• Missouri Compromise, Texas Declaration of Independence, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, South Carolina's declaration, Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Compromise of 1850 included a stricter fugitive slave law. Which roster document is that law?

Select one.

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Fugitive Slave Act
• The Missouri Compromise
• The Northwest Ordinance

In which year was the 13th Amendment ratified, as the course chronology records it?

Select one.

• 1863
• 1865
• 1861
• 1857

True or false: item 4 of the evidence-claims set (illustrative), the claim that the Mayflower Compact created American democracy, stays within what the Compact's text shows.

True or false.

• True
• False

Using the year each roster record gives, how many years separate The Federalist No. 10 from Washington's Farewell Address?

Select one.

• 14 years
• 5 years
• 9 years
• 10 years

A city newspaper in a Union state prints the Emancipation Proclamation. Whom did the proclamation declare free?

Select one.

• Every enslaved person in the United States, as of 1863
• Enslaved people in the loyal border states only, as of 1863
• Enslaved people in the areas then in rebellion, as of 1863
• Enslaved people in the federal territories only, as of 1863

Which of these pinned fragments comes from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?

Select one.

• "doth hereby cede to the United States in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full Sovereignty the said territory"
• "shall be free to continue where they now reside, or to remove at any time to the Mexican Republic"
• "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory"
• "cedes and guaranties to his said Britannick Majesty, in full right, Canada"

True or false: Alexander Hamilton and John Adams led the Democratic-Republicans in the 1790s.

True or false.

• True
• False

The pinned fragment "our true policy to steer clear of permanent Alliances, with any portion of the foreign world" appears in which roster document?

Select one.

• Washington's Farewell Address
• Jefferson's First Inaugural Address
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution of the United States

A Union veteran's scrapbook lists four events: the 14th Amendment ratified, the Missouri Compromise, the end of Reconstruction, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Which list puts them in order, earliest to latest?

Select one.

• Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• Kansas-Nebraska Act, Missouri Compromise, 14th Amendment ratified, end of Reconstruction
• Missouri Compromise, 14th Amendment ratified, Kansas-Nebraska Act, end of Reconstruction
• Missouri Compromise, Kansas-Nebraska Act, end of Reconstruction, 14th Amendment ratified

A classroom timeline needs four contact-era milestones placed from earliest to latest: the founding of Jamestown, Cortés's landing in Mexico, the founding of St. Augustine, and the Treaty of Tordesillas. Which order is correct?

Select one.

• Cortés's landing in Mexico, the Treaty of Tordesillas, the founding of St. Augustine, the founding of Jamestown
• The Treaty of Tordesillas, Cortés's landing in Mexico, the founding of Jamestown, the founding of St. Augustine
• The Treaty of Tordesillas, the founding of St. Augustine, Cortés's landing in Mexico, the founding of Jamestown
• The Treaty of Tordesillas, Cortés's landing in Mexico, the founding of St. Augustine, the founding of Jamestown

A port-town shopkeeper pays the taxes voted by the colony's own elected assembly, yet refuses to use paper carrying Parliament's new stamp. Which principle best explains the difference?

Select one.

• Every tax is unjust, whoever lays it
• Only taxes on imported goods are lawful
• A colony owes taxes only in wartime
• Only chosen representatives may tax

A shopkeeper in the boycott years trades with merchants in Carolina, a colony whose founding plan, written about a century earlier, gave every freeman complete power over the people he enslaved. As the course's roster records it, what type of document is that plan?

Select one.

• A colonial frame of government
• A royal charter
• A covenant
• A treaty

A pinned fragment of a treaty of cession reads "doth hereby cede to the United States in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full Sovereignty the said territory". Which choice restates that phrase in plain words?

Select one.

• The French Republic hands the territory to the United States permanently, with full authority over it
• The United States hands the territory to the French Republic for a fixed number of years
• The French Republic lends the territory to the United States while keeping authority over it
• The two nations agree to share authority over the territory for as long as both exist

Which year does the survey chronology key for the ratification of the Bill of Rights?

Select one.

• 1789
• 1791
• 1787
• 1796

True or false: the pinned fragment of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Seven Years' War records Britain handing Canada over to France.

True or false.

• True
• False

Using the year the course roster gives The Narrative of Sojourner Truth and the year the chronology gives Jackson's removal message, how many years separate the two documents?

Select one.

• 18 years
• 20 years
• 23 years
• 30 years

A student building a source list wants only sources made by people who lived through what they record. Which of these items from the source-sorting set (illustrative) are primary for the period or experience they come from? Select every one that is.

Select every option that applies.

• A modern map drawn to show the 1803 purchase
• A merchant's account book from a Charleston shop, 1774 to 1776
• An online encyclopedia entry summarizing the census
• An oral account recorded in the 1930s from a person born into slavery

Put these four in order from earliest to latest: the Missouri Compromise, Jefferson's First Inaugural Address, Jackson's Proclamation on Nullification, and the Louisiana Purchase Treaty. Which order is right?

Select one.

• Louisiana Purchase Treaty, First Inaugural Address, Missouri Compromise, Proclamation on Nullification
• First Inaugural Address, Missouri Compromise, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Proclamation on Nullification
• First Inaugural Address, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Proclamation on Nullification, Missouri Compromise
• First Inaugural Address, Louisiana Purchase Treaty, Missouri Compromise, Proclamation on Nullification

In 1492 Columbus's ships reached Guanahani, a Bahamian island and the home of the Taíno people, and two peoples who had never met came face to face. Which course term names that meeting itself, with the trade, exchange, and conflict that follow, as distinct from rule taken by force?

Select one.

• Contact
• Conquest
• Contingency
• Corroboration

A printed collection of a statesman's papers shows one letter's date in square brackets because the letter itself states no date. What should a careful reader call that bracketed date?

Select one.

• The date the writer gave in the letter's own text
• The archive's heading, which always overrides the text
• The editors' date, supplied by the collection's editors
• A forged date, since brackets mark a later insertion

A student wants to read the same text of South Carolina's declaration of the causes of secession that the course reads. Which host keeps it?

Select one.

• The Avalon Project
• The National Archives
• The Library of Congress
• Founders Online

A museum timeline marks both the First Charter of Virginia and the founding of Jamestown. What gap in years should its label give between the two?

Select one.

• 14 years
• 42 years
• 1 year
• 55 years

Which of these pinned fragments come from documents dated in the same year that the Constitution was signed in convention? Select all that apply.

Select every option that applies.

• "covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation"
• "There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory"
• "three fifths of all other Persons"
• "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion"
• "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal"

A study sheet lists four events of the founding years: the Bill of Rights ratified, the Treaty of Paris that ended the War of Independence, the Articles of Confederation taking effect, and the Constitution signed. Which order runs from earliest to latest?

Select one.

• The Treaty of Paris ends the War of Independence, the Articles take effect, the Constitution is signed, the Bill of Rights is ratified
• The Articles take effect, the Treaty of Paris ends the War of Independence, the Constitution is signed, the Bill of Rights is ratified
• The Articles take effect, the Treaty of Paris ends the War of Independence, the Bill of Rights is ratified, the Constitution is signed
• The Articles take effect, the Constitution is signed, the Treaty of Paris ends the War of Independence, the Bill of Rights is ratified

A history blog post written in 2018 summarizes the colonial boycotts of British goods (illustrative). For a question about those boycotts, which kind of source is the post?

Select one.

• Primary, because its whole subject is the boycott years
• Primary, because its writer studied that period closely
• Neither kind, because a blog post is not a printed record
• Secondary, because it is a later account that interprets the boycotts

True or false: the 13th Amendment made all persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens.

True or false.

• True
• False

A newspaper editor choosing what to print wants to label The Narrative of Sojourner Truth by the document type the course roster gives it. Which label is right?

Select one.

• A dictated narrative
• An autobiography
• A secondary account
• A court record

Congress proposed 12 amendments in 1789, and the states ratified 10 of them. How many of the proposed amendments were left unratified?

Select one.

• 10
• 12
• 22
• 2