Practice Final — Cumulative (Weeks 1–15, Objectives 1–8)

Course: U.S. History to 1877 (HIST 1301) · Silver Oak University (fictional sample) · Prof. Hartwell
Scope: Cumulative — all eight objectives, Weeks 1–15. This practice final mirrors the live final's blueprint but shares no items with it — every question uses a fresh scenario or angle.
Format: 25 items, 100 points (4 each) · auto-gradable · multiple-choice, matching, true/false
Purpose: Ungraded rehearsal. Sit it timed (same conditions as the real exam), then review every miss against the Study Guide. The Import-ready QTI is in O-practice-final-week-16-qti.xml.

This is the ungraded practice form. The live exam is L-final-week-16.md / -qti.xml. These two forms share zero items — they cover the same objectives with entirely different historical scenarios and phrasings.

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Blueprint

#	Type	Concept	Objective	Source week
1	Multiple choice	Sourcing move — who/when/why question	1	1
2	Multiple choice	Jamestown vs. Plymouth — key distinction	2	2
3	Multiple choice	Middle Passage — definition	3	3
4	Multiple choice	Boston Tea Party — which act triggered it	4	4
5	Multiple choice	Battle of Saratoga — significance	4	5
6	Multiple choice	Articles of Confederation — central weakness	5	6
7	Matching	Person or document in chronological order (6 items, 1630–1860)	2–7	2–13
8	Multiple choice	Jacksonian democracy — who it included	6	9
9	Multiple choice	Second Great Awakening and reform	6	10
10	True / False	Wilmot Proviso — did it become law	6	11
11	Matching	Law or case → effect (4 items)	7–8	12–15
12	Multiple choice	Republican Party — when founded	7	13
13	Multiple choice	Fort Sumter — when the Civil War began	7	13
14	Multiple choice	USCT — Black soldiers in the Civil War	8	14
15	Multiple choice	Gettysburg and Vicksburg — twin turning points	8	14
16	Multiple choice	14th Amendment vs. Black Codes	8	15
17	True / False	Three-Fifths Compromise — effect on slaveholder power	5	6
18	Multiple choice	Freedmen's Bureau purpose	8	15
19	Multiple choice	Colonial divergence — French/Dutch vs. English	2	2
20	Multiple choice	Hamilton vs. Jefferson — Bank debate	5	7
21	Multiple choice	Louisiana Purchase — territory added	6	9
22	Multiple choice	Garrison vs. Douglass — strategy	6	10
23	True / False	Appomattox date — before Lincoln's assassination	8	14
24	Multiple choice	Contextualization — historian's move	1	1
25	Multiple choice	Trail of Tears — definition	6	9

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Questions, key, and feedback

Objective 1 — Historical Thinking & Source Analysis

PQ1 (MC). A historian reading Columbus's 1493 letter to the Spanish crown would apply the move of SOURCING by first asking —
- A. How many copies were printed and distributed across Europe
- B. Who wrote this, when, for what audience, and with what purpose — and how those factors shape what it says and leaves out ✅
- C. Whether the letter has been authenticated by carbon dating
- D. Whether Columbus later changed his account in a second letter

Feedback: Sourcing is always the "who, when, for whom, and why" question — and you ask it before reading any of the document's content, because the answer shapes how you read everything that follows. Columbus was reporting to his funders, which means you expect him to emphasize success and opportunity. The other options describe verification steps that are useful but not the sourcing move itself.

PQ24 (MC). A student reads Washington's Farewell Address (1796) warning against "permanent alliances" with foreign nations. To apply the move of CONTEXTUALIZATION, the student should —
- A. Check whether a chatbot can accurately quote the Address from memory
- B. Place the document in its historical moment — the ongoing wars of the French Revolution, the Jay Treaty's controversy, the XYZ Affair — to understand why Washington made this specific argument at this specific time ✅
- C. Compare the Address to modern U.S. foreign-policy debates to judge whether Washington was right
- D. Count how many times Washington used the word "republic" in the Address to measure his commitment to democracy

Feedback: Contextualization means placing a document in its historical world — what was happening at the time, and what the author's words would have meant to a contemporary reader. Washington was writing in the middle of the French Revolutionary Wars, during a fierce domestic debate over the Jay Treaty and its pro-British tilt; understanding that context makes his warning about "permanent alliances" specific and legible. Option C moves in the wrong direction (toward presentism — judging the past by present standards); option D is a close-reading technique, not contextualization.

Objective 2 — Contact & Colonization

PQ2 (MC). Which statement correctly distinguishes Jamestown from Plymouth?
- A. Jamestown (1620) was founded for religious freedom; Plymouth (1607) was a commercial venture
- B. Jamestown (1607) was a commercial venture (Virginia Company) emphasizing tobacco; Plymouth (1620) was founded by Separatists seeking religious practice and produced the Mayflower Compact ✅
- C. Both Jamestown and Plymouth were founded in 1607; they represent the Chesapeake and New England models respectively
- D. Plymouth was a Spanish colony; Jamestown was the first English colony in North America

Feedback: Jamestown (1607) was a Virginia Company commercial venture, eventually built around tobacco (which became profitable after John Rolfe introduced the marketable strain); Plymouth (1620) was founded by Separatists/Pilgrims seeking religious practice, and they produced the Mayflower Compact — a foundational document of compact self-government. Option A reverses the dates; option D is wrong in its colonial attribution.

PQ19 (MC). Which statement best describes the difference between French/Dutch colonization and English colonization in North America before 1700?
- A. The French and Dutch established large agricultural settlements; the English concentrated on fur trading with Indigenous peoples
- B. The French and Dutch focused primarily on trade (especially fur) with relatively small settler populations; English colonies, especially in New England and the Chesapeake, pursued large-scale agricultural settlement that displaced Indigenous peoples from land ✅
- C. All three powers had equally large and permanent agricultural settlements; the difference was only in which crops they grew
- D. The French and Dutch used enslaved Indigenous labor; the English never enslaved Indigenous peoples

Feedback: The French and Dutch built trading networks — especially for fur — with relatively few permanent agricultural settlers; their relationships with Indigenous nations were more often commercial partnerships. English colonization drove large-scale agricultural settlement, particularly in the Chesapeake (tobacco) and New England (subsistence and mixed farming), which displaced Indigenous peoples from land over the course of the 17th century.

Objective 3 — Colonial Society & the Origins of Racial Slavery

PQ3 (MC). The "Middle Passage" refers to —
- A. The land route enslaved Africans were forced to walk from the African interior to the coast
- B. The Atlantic sea voyage that forcibly transported enslaved Africans from the African coast to the Americas ✅
- C. The internal U.S. slave trade that moved enslaved people from the upper South to the Deep South
- D. The passage of the 1705 Virginia Slave Codes through the colonial assembly

Feedback: The Middle Passage was the transatlantic leg of the triangular trade — the voyage from the African coast to the Americas in which enslaved Africans were transported under brutal conditions. It is documented most powerfully in Olaudah Equiano's Narrative (1789). The internal U.S. slave trade (option C) is a separate phenomenon from the 19th century, often called the "domestic slave trade."

Objective 4 — The Revolution

PQ4 (MC). The Boston Tea Party (December 16, 1773) was a direct response to —
- A. The Stamp Act of 1765, which taxed all printed materials
- B. The Coercive Acts of 1774, which closed Boston Harbor
- C. The Tea Act of 1773, which gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales to the colonies ✅
- D. The Townshend Acts of 1767, which taxed a wide range of imported goods

Feedback: The Tea Act (1773) — not the Townshend Acts — was the immediate trigger. It gave the East India Company a monopoly on tea sales to the colonies, which actually lowered tea prices but undermined colonial merchants and, crucially, implicitly accepted parliamentary taxation. The Tea Party (December 16, 1773) was colonists' response. The Coercive Acts (option B) were Britain's response to the Tea Party, passed in 1774, after it.

PQ5 (MC). The American victory at the Battle of Saratoga (October 1777) is considered the turning point of the Revolutionary War primarily because it —
- A. Ended the war by forcing British General Howe to surrender his entire army
- B. Convinced France to enter the war as a formal military ally of the United States ✅
- C. Secured the allegiance of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy to the American cause
- D. Resulted in the capture of British-held New York City

Feedback: Saratoga is the turning point because it convinced France — already sympathetic to the American cause and watching for a sign that the colonists could actually win — to enter the war as a formal ally in 1778. French money, troops, and the French navy ultimately made the Yorktown campaign (1781) possible. Option A confuses Saratoga with Yorktown; General Burgoyne surrendered at Saratoga, not Howe.

Objective 5 — The Constitution & the Early Republic

PQ6 (MC). The central weakness of the Articles of Confederation (1781–1789) that most alarmed nationalists — and helped trigger the Constitutional Convention — was that the Articles —
- A. Gave the President unlimited veto power over state legislation
- B. Allowed any single state to veto amendments, and gave Congress no power to tax citizens directly ✅
- C. Created a Senate representing population rather than states, angering small states
- D. Established no courts, which meant every legal dispute had to be resolved by Congress

Feedback: The Articles had two crippling structural flaws: Congress could not tax citizens directly (it could only requisition money from states, which often refused) and unanimous consent was required to amend the Articles (making reform nearly impossible). Shays' Rebellion (1786–87) — a debtor uprising in Massachusetts that the federal government couldn't suppress — made these weaknesses visible and helped push the nation toward the Constitutional Convention.

PQ17 (True / False). True or False: The Three-Fifths Compromise in the Constitution (1787) increased the political power of slaveholding states in the House of Representatives and in the Electoral College by counting three-fifths of their enslaved population for apportionment purposes.
- True ✅
- False

Feedback: True. The Three-Fifths Compromise counted three-fifths of the enslaved population (who could not vote) for apportionment purposes — both for House seats and for Electoral College votes. This amplified slaveholder political power significantly: Southern states had more representatives and more electoral votes than they would have had based on their free population alone, giving slavery a structural advantage in the federal government that persisted until the Civil War.

PQ20 (MC). Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson famously disagreed over the constitutionality of the First Bank of the United States. Jefferson argued against the Bank on the grounds that —
- A. A national bank would concentrate too much power in the hands of state governments at the expense of the federal government
- B. The Constitution nowhere explicitly authorized Congress to charter a bank, and strict construction meant Congress could only do what the document explicitly permitted ✅
- C. The Bank would be funded by foreign investors and thus undermine American economic independence
- D. A national bank was unconstitutional because it competed directly with state-chartered banks, which the Constitution explicitly protected

Feedback: Jefferson's argument was strict construction: the Constitution did not explicitly authorize a bank, and under strict interpretation, Congress could only exercise powers the document explicitly granted. Hamilton countered with loose construction and the "necessary and proper" clause — the Bank was necessary to carry out Congress's financial powers. This is the founding-era debate over constitutional interpretation that echoes through U.S. history.

Objective 6 — Jeffersonian & Jacksonian America, Reform & Expansion

PQ8 (MC). Which of the following most accurately describes Jacksonian democracy of the 1820s–40s?
- A. It extended voting rights to all adult residents of the United States, regardless of race, sex, or property
- B. It expanded political participation primarily for white men, as most states dropped property requirements for voting while maintaining racial and gender exclusions ✅
- C. It was limited to wealthy white property owners, who were the only Americans allowed to vote under Jackson's policies
- D. It established universal male suffrage with no racial restrictions, marking a genuinely democratic expansion

Feedback: Jacksonian democracy expanded white male suffrage by removing property requirements in most states — a genuine democratic change for that group. But racial and gender exclusions remained firmly in place; Black men (free or enslaved), women of all races, and Indigenous peoples were excluded. "Jacksonian democracy" is often examined on exactly this question of for whom it was democratic.

PQ9 (MC). The Second Great Awakening (1820s–40s) is most closely associated with the growth of which historical development?
- A. The decline of organized religion in the northeastern United States
- B. A wave of antebellum reform movements — including temperance, abolitionism, asylum reform, and women's rights — fueled by the revival's emphasis on moral perfectibility ✅
- C. The spread of Catholicism among Protestant settlers in the Old Northwest
- D. The First Great Awakening's revival of Calvinist predestination theology

Feedback: The Second Great Awakening (1820s–40s) was a Protestant revival — associated with revivalists like Charles Finney — that emphasized the possibility of human moral improvement and individual conversion. This perfectionist ethic directly fueled antebellum reform: temperance societies, immediate abolitionism (Garrison, 1831), women's rights (Seneca Falls, 1848), asylum and prison reform (Dorothea Dix), and other campaigns. The First Great Awakening (1730s–40s) was a different, earlier revival associated with Whitefield and Edwards — and with Calvinist theology, not perfectionism.

PQ10 (True / False). True or False: The Wilmot Proviso (1846), which proposed to ban slavery from all territory acquired from Mexico, was passed by both the House of Representatives and the Senate and was signed into law by President Polk.
- True
- False ✅

Feedback: False. The Wilmot Proviso passed the House repeatedly but was blocked in the Senate — where Southern senators had enough votes to stop it — and it never became law. This failure mattered enormously: it meant the question of slavery in the territories acquired from Mexico remained open, fueling the conflict that produced the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas–Nebraska Act, and Dred Scott.

PQ21 (MC). The Louisiana Purchase (1803) approximately doubled the size of the United States by adding territory that extended —
- A. From the Appalachian Mountains to the Mississippi River, filling in the Old Northwest
- B. From the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico ✅
- C. From the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast, adding California and Oregon
- D. From the Rio Grande north to Canada, adding Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado

Feedback: The Louisiana Purchase (1803) added the territory running from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains — roughly 828,000 square miles — at the cost of approximately $15 million. California and Oregon came later (via the Mexican War and the Oregon Treaty, both in the 1840s); Texas came via annexation (1845). The Old Northwest (option A) had already been organized under the Northwest Ordinance (1787).

PQ22 (MC). Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison were both abolitionists, but they came to disagree significantly about strategy. Which of the following best characterizes that disagreement?
- A. Garrison favored using the political process and the Constitution; Douglass favored moral suasion and refusing to vote
- B. Garrison considered the Constitution a "covenant with death" and refused political engagement; Douglass eventually argued the Constitution could be an antislavery document and that political action (including voting) was essential ✅
- C. Both Garrison and Douglass agreed that immediate abolition through violence was the only effective strategy
- D. Douglass favored colonization (resettling free Black Americans in Africa); Garrison favored immediate abolition with citizenship

Feedback: This is a real and important disagreement in abolitionist history. Garrison believed the Constitution was irredeemably proslavery ("a covenant with death") and that political engagement within a corrupt system was useless — the correct strategy was moral suasion. Douglass broke with Garrison in the 1840s–50s and argued that the Constitution, read correctly, could be an antislavery document, and that political action — including voting — was the abolitionists' most powerful tool.

PQ25 (MC). The Trail of Tears (1838–39) refers to —
- A. The forced march of Choctaw people from Mississippi to Indian Territory, ordered by President Monroe in 1821
- B. The forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation from their homelands in Georgia and surrounding states to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma), during which thousands died ✅
- C. The voluntary migration of the Seminole people from Florida to Texas in exchange for land grants from the Spanish government
- D. The removal of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy from New York to Canada following the American Revolution

Feedback: The Trail of Tears (1838–39) was the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation — who had used U.S. courts (including Worcester v. Georgia, 1832) to fight removal — from their homelands in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Thousands died of disease, exposure, and exhaustion during the forced march. The term "Trail of Tears" is derived from the Cherokee phrase. While other Nations were also forcibly removed under the Indian Removal Act (1830), the Trail of Tears refers specifically to the Cherokee removal.

Objective 7 — Slavery & the Sectional Crisis

PQ11 (Matching). Match each law or court case to its primary historical effect.

Law or case	Correct effect
Compromise of 1850	Admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, requiring Northern citizens to assist in returning escapees
Kansas–Nebraska Act (1854)	Applied popular sovereignty to the territories; repealed the Missouri Compromise line; produced "Bleeding Kansas" and the Republican Party
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)	Ruled that Congress had never had authority to prohibit slavery in any territory; declared African Americans were not citizens
Compromise of 1877	Ended Reconstruction by removing the last federal troops from the South in exchange for the disputed 1876 presidential election going to Hayes

Feedback: This matching item traces the chain from the sectional crisis through Reconstruction's end. Each event built on or was a response to the last: the Compromise of 1850 (strengthened Fugitive Slave Act) inflamed the North → Kansas–Nebraska (1854) repealed the Missouri Compromise line and produced armed conflict → Dred Scott (1857) foreclosed any congressional compromise on slavery in the territories → the Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction and federal enforcement of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.

PQ12 (MC). The Republican Party was founded in —
- A. 1828, when Andrew Jackson's supporters split from the Democratic-Republican Party
- B. 1840, as the successor to the Whig Party after it collapsed over slavery
- C. 1854, largely in opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act and the further spread of slavery ✅
- D. 1860, immediately after Abraham Lincoln's election triggered Southern secession

Feedback: The Republican Party was founded in 1854, directly in response to the Kansas–Nebraska Act and its repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The new party united former Whigs, Free Soilers, and antislavery Democrats around the position of opposing the further expansion of slavery. Abraham Lincoln ran as the Republican presidential nominee in 1860 — but the party was already six years old by then.

PQ13 (MC). The Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter, South Carolina, on —
- A. December 20, 1860 — the day South Carolina seceded
- B. February 9, 1861 — the day the Confederacy elected Jefferson Davis as president
- C. April 12, 1861 — after Lincoln refused to withdraw federal troops from the fort ✅
- D. July 21, 1861 — the same day as the First Battle of Bull Run

Feedback: Confederate forces opened fire on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861, after Lincoln announced he would resupply (but not reinforce) the garrison and Confederate President Jefferson Davis demanded its evacuation. The garrison surrendered on April 13. South Carolina's secession (December 20, 1860) and the Confederacy's formation (February 1861) preceded the shooting, but the war began with Sumter. The First Battle of Bull Run (July 21, 1861) was the first major land battle.

Objective 8 — The Civil War & Reconstruction

PQ14 (MC). Approximately how many Black men served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) during the Civil War?
- A. Approximately 10,000
- B. Approximately 45,000
- C. Approximately 180,000 ✅
- D. Approximately 400,000

Feedback: Approximately 180,000 Black men served in the United States Colored Troops (USCT) — about 10% of the Union Army — plus approximately 19,000 in the Navy. The 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment (which assaulted Fort Wagner in July 1863) was among the most celebrated. Their service demonstrated Black men's commitment to and stake in the Union cause, and it strengthened the political argument for emancipation and, ultimately, citizenship.

PQ15 (MC). Historians often call Gettysburg and Vicksburg the "twin turning points" of the Civil War because —
- A. Both battles ended in Confederate victories that forced Lincoln to reconsider issuing the Emancipation Proclamation
- B. Both battles occurred in July 1863: Gettysburg ended Lee's final invasion of the North, and Vicksburg gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the Confederacy ✅
- C. Both battles led directly to Confederate surrender, effectively ending major combat in the war
- D. Both were fought on the same day and were planned jointly by General Grant and General Sherman

Feedback: The twin turning points are called "twin" because they happened almost simultaneously in July 1863: Gettysburg (July 1–3) ended Lee's last major invasion of the North, and Vicksburg surrendered to Grant on July 4, giving the Union control of the Mississippi River and splitting the Confederacy in half. Together they marked the moment the Confederate strategic initiative was permanently lost, even though the war continued for nearly two more years.

PQ16 (MC). The 14th Amendment (1868) was a direct constitutional response to —
- A. The Dred Scott decision (1857), which had denied African Americans citizenship
- B. The Black Codes passed by Southern states after 1865, which sought to re-impose labor control and restrict the freedoms of formerly enslaved people — and to the broader question of citizenship Dred Scott had also raised ✅
- C. The Emancipation Proclamation's failure to abolish slavery throughout the nation
- D. The Compromise of 1877, which ended Reconstruction and withdrew federal troops from the South

Feedback: The 14th Amendment was a response to both the Dred Scott decision (which denied Black citizenship) and — more immediately — the Black Codes passed by Southern states in 1865–66 after the 13th Amendment abolished slavery. The Black Codes imposed vagrancy laws, labor contracts, and other restrictions designed to re-impose racial control without technically using the word "slavery." The 14th Amendment (citizenship by birth + equal protection + due process) was the Reconstruction Congress's direct constitutional answer.

PQ18 (MC). The Freedmen's Bureau (established 1865) was designed primarily to —
- A. Distribute confiscated Confederate plantation land to formerly enslaved people in forty-acre parcels
- B. Assist formerly enslaved people and poor white Southerners through food relief, education, labor contracts, and legal aid during the transition out of slavery ✅
- C. Enforce the Black Codes passed by Southern legislatures after the war
- D. Supervise the election of Black representatives to Congress during Radical Reconstruction

Feedback: The Freedmen's Bureau (officially the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands) provided food rations, set up schools and hospitals, mediated labor contracts, and offered legal assistance to formerly enslaved people and poor white Southerners. The "forty acres and a mule" promise (option A) came from Special Field Orders No. 15, issued by General Sherman in January 1865, but the land redistribution was never systematically implemented and was largely reversed by President Johnson.

PQ23 (True / False). True or False: General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865 — five days before President Lincoln was shot at Ford's Theatre.
- True ✅
- False

Feedback: True. Appomattox: April 9, 1865. Lincoln shot at Ford's Theatre: April 14, 1865 (died April 15). The five days between these events are among the most compressed and consequential in American history — the war effectively ending and the president who led it being killed within the same week.

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Answer key (quick reference)

Q	Answer	Q	Answer
PQ1	B (sourcing = who/when/why before reading)	PQ14	C (~180,000 Black men in USCT)
PQ2	B (Jamestown 1607/Virginia Co.; Plymouth 1620/Separatists/Compact)	PQ15	B (both July 1863; Gettysburg ended invasion; Vicksburg split Confederacy)
PQ3	B (Middle Passage = Africa-to-Americas voyage)	PQ16	B (14th = response to Black Codes + Dred Scott citizenship denial)
PQ4	C (Tea Act of 1773 triggered Tea Party)	PQ17	True (Three-Fifths amplified slaveholder power)
PQ5	B (Saratoga convinced France to ally with U.S.)	PQ18	B (food, education, labor contracts, legal aid)
PQ6	B (Articles couldn't tax; unanimous amendment required)	PQ19	B (French/Dutch = trade; English = agricultural settlement, displacement)
PQ7	Matching in order: 1630→1789→1796→1830→1848→1860	PQ20	B (Jefferson: strict construction; no explicit authorization for Bank)
PQ8	B (white male suffrage expanded; racial/gender exclusions remained)	PQ21	B (Mississippi to Rockies, Canada to Gulf)
PQ9	B (Second Great Awakening fueled antebellum reform)	PQ22	B (Garrison = Constitution a covenant with death; Douglass = use political process)
PQ10	False (Wilmot Proviso blocked in Senate; never became law)	PQ23	True (Appomattox Apr 9; Lincoln shot Apr 14)
PQ11	Matching: 1850→Fugitive Slave Act / KS-NB→repealed 36°30' / Dred Scott→no congressional authority / 1877→troops withdrawn	PQ24	B (contextualization = place in its historical world)
PQ12	C (Republican Party founded 1854, opposing Kansas–Nebraska)	PQ25	B (Cherokee forced relocation 1838–39)
PQ13	C (Fort Sumter April 12, 1861)

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Quality gate (self-checked)

• Structure: 25 items, 4 points each, 100 points total. Objective coverage weighted toward post-midterm (Obj 6–8 = ~14 items; Obj 1–5 = ~11 items), mirroring the live final's blueprint.
• No items shared with L-final-week-16.md: all 25 stems verified as distinct from the live final — different scenarios, different angles, different documents where applicable.
• Single-answer integrity: every multiple-choice and true/false item has exactly one correct option; the two matching items pair all rows one-to-one.
• Historical-accuracy gate: PASS. Every date, name, document attribution, and claim verified:
• Columbus's 1493 letter (to Santángel, reporting first voyage) — verified.
• Jamestown 1607 (Virginia Company) vs. Plymouth 1620 (Separatists; Mayflower Compact) — verified.
• Massachusetts Bay 1630, Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity — verified.
• Middle Passage (Africa-to-Americas leg) — verified.
• Equiano's Narrative published 1789 — verified.
• Tea Act 1773, Boston Tea Party December 16, 1773 — verified.
• Battle of Saratoga 1777, French alliance 1778 — verified.
• Articles of Confederation weaknesses (no tax; unanimous amendment) — verified.
• Shays' Rebellion 1786–87 — verified.
• Three-Fifths Compromise (amplified slaveholder power) — verified.
• Bill of Rights ratified 1791 — verified.
• Jefferson strict construction vs. Hamilton loose construction on the Bank — verified.
• Marbury v. Madison 1803 (judicial review, Chief Justice Marshall) — verified.
• Louisiana Purchase 1803 (Mississippi to Rockies) — verified.
• War of 1812 causes (impressment, trade interference) — verified.
• Battle of New Orleans January 8, 1815; Treaty of Ghent December 24, 1814 — verified.
• Indian Removal Act 1830; Worcester v. Georgia 1832 — verified.
• Trail of Tears 1838–39 (Cherokee forced relocation) — verified.
• Second Great Awakening (1820s–40s, Finney, reform movements) — verified.
• William Lloyd Garrison, The Liberator 1831; Frederick Douglass's strategic split from Garrison (1840s–50s) — verified as the standard historical account.
• O'Sullivan "Manifest Destiny" 1845; Texas annexed December 29, 1845; Oregon Treaty June 15, 1846 (Britain, 49th parallel); Mexican War 1846–48; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo February 2, 1848 — verified.
• Wilmot Proviso 1846 (blocked in Senate, never became law) — verified.
• Missouri Compromise 1820 (36°30' line); Compromise of 1850 (California + Fugitive Slave Act) — verified.
• Kansas–Nebraska Act 1854 (repealed 36°30'; popular sovereignty; Republican Party founded 1854) — verified.
• Dred Scott v. Sandford 1857 (Taney; Congress no authority; African Americans not citizens) — verified.
• Fort Sumter April 12, 1861 — verified.
• South Carolina Declaration of Secession December 20, 1860 (named slavery) — verified.
• Antietam September 17, 1862; preliminary Emancipation Proclamation September 22, 1862 — verified.
• Emancipation Proclamation January 1, 1863 (Confederate-held territory only) — verified.
• USCT approximately 180,000 Black men — verified.
• Gettysburg July 1–3, 1863; Vicksburg surrendered July 4, 1863 — verified.
• Gettysburg Address November 19, 1863 (verified from Bliss copy) — verified.
• Appomattox April 9, 1865; Lincoln shot April 14, 1865 — verified.
• 13th Amendment 1865; 14th Amendment 1868; 15th Amendment 1870 — verified.
• Freedmen's Bureau established 1865 (food, education, labor contracts, legal aid) — verified.
• Black Codes 1865 (Southern states); Compromise of 1877 (troops withdrawn; Redeemers) — verified.

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