Georgia Milestones Assessment System United States History
Colonization, the Constitution, the nation's conflicts, and the modern United States.
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1.What finally gave the Jamestown colony a product it could sell in England?
2.What was the House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia?
3.What did the Mayflower Compact set up at Plymouth?
4.Which statement correctly contrasts the British colonial regions?
5.What was one effect of the Great Awakening in the British colonies?
6.What was the Middle Passage?
7.What did mercantilism expect the British colonies to do?
8.How did the French and Indian War help cause conflict between Britain and its colonies?
9.What did the Proclamation of 1763 forbid?
10.Why did many colonists oppose the Stamp Act of 1765?
11.What did Thomas Paine argue in Common Sense in 1776?
12.What did Parliament's Coercive Acts, called the Intolerable Acts by colonists, do in 1774?
13.What purpose does the Declaration of Independence give for publishing the document?
14.Which idea does the Declaration of Independence use to justify rejecting British rule?
15.Why did the American victory at Saratoga in 1777 matter to the Revolutionary War?
16.What did Britain accept in the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
17.Which weakness left Congress short of money under the Articles of Confederation?
18.Why did trade disputes grow among the states under the Articles of Confederation?
19.What was missing from the national government created by the Articles of Confederation?
20.What did Shays' Rebellion show leaders who wanted a stronger national government?
21.What did the Great Compromise decide about representation in Congress?
22.What did the Three-Fifths Compromise count toward representation?
23.What does federalism mean under the United States Constitution?
24.How does the Constitution separate the powers of the national government?
25.Which action is an example of checks and balances?
26.Why did Anti-Federalists insist on a bill of rights?
27.Which freedoms does the First Amendment protect?
28.What does the Tenth Amendment reserve?
29.What constitutional argument did Alexander Hamilton use to defend a national bank?
30.What did the Sedition Act of 1798 make punishable?
31.Why is the election of 1800 remembered as a milestone in American politics?
32.What principle did Marbury v. Madison establish in 1803?
33.Why was the Louisiana Purchase both a gain and a constitutional problem for Jefferson?
34.Which grievance helped lead the United States into the War of 1812?
35.What did the Monroe Doctrine announce in 1823?
36.What voting change is associated with Jacksonian democracy?
37.What was the nullification crisis of 1832 and 1833 about?
38.What did Andrew Jackson do about the Second Bank of the United States?
39.What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorize?
40.What did the Supreme Court hold in Worcester v. Georgia in 1832?
41.What was the Trail of Tears?
42.What land did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transfer in 1848?
43.How did the cotton gin change the South?
44.What did the Declaration of Sentiments call for at Seneca Falls in 1848?
45.What goal did William Lloyd Garrison argue for in The Liberator?
46.How did Frederick Douglass contribute to the abolition movement?
47.What line did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 draw in the Louisiana Purchase?
48.Which pair of terms was part of the Compromise of 1850?
49.What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 change?
50.What did the Supreme Court decide in Dred Scott v. Sandford in 1857?
51.Why did Southern states begin to secede after the election of 1860?
52.What event began the fighting in the Civil War?
53.Which advantage did the Union hold when the Civil War began?
54.Where did the Emancipation Proclamation free enslaved people?
55.Besides declaring many enslaved people free, what military step did the Emancipation Proclamation take?
56.Why was the Union victory at Gettysburg in July 1863 a turning point?
57.What did the Union capture of Vicksburg accomplish?
58.What was the military purpose of Sherman's march from Atlanta to Savannah?
59.What happened at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865?
60.What did the Thirteenth Amendment do when it was ratified in 1865?
61.What did the Fourteenth Amendment do that mattered for citizenship?
62.What voting rule did the Fifteenth Amendment add in 1870?
63.What did the Freedmen's Bureau provide after the Civil War?
64.What did the Compromise of 1877 settle?
65.What did the Supreme Court allow in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896?
66.How did the Bessemer process change American industry after the Civil War?
67.What was a business trust such as Standard Oil organized to do?
68.What changed when the transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869?
69.How did immigration to the United States shift in the late nineteenth century?
70.What role did Ellis Island play after it opened in 1892?
71.What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?
72.What did muckrakers do during the Progressive Era?
73.What change did the Seventeenth Amendment make in 1913?
74.What did the Nineteenth Amendment do in 1920?
75.What did Congress pass after the public reaction to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
76.What did the United States gain from Spain in the settlement of the 1898 war?
77.What did the Roosevelt Corollary of 1904 claim?
78.How did the United States secure the route for the Panama Canal?
79.Which events in early 1917 pushed the United States to enter World War I?
80.What were Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points?
81.Why did the United States stay out of the League of Nations?
82.What was the Great Migration during and just after World War I?
83.What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s?
84.What did the Eighteenth Amendment require, and how did it end?
85.What did the Immigration Act of 1924 establish?
86.Which conditions already in place helped cause the Great Depression?
87.How did bank failures in the early 1930s deepen the Great Depression?
88.How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 affect the Depression?
89.What did the Social Security Act of 1935 create?
90.What did the Tennessee Valley Authority do in the 1930s?
91.What did the Wagner Act, also called the National Labor Relations Act, protect in 1935?
92.What was the New Deal's record against the Great Depression?
93.Which acts of aggression in the 1930s led into World War II?
94.Why did the United States enter World War II in December 1941?
95.How did the federal government manage the home front during World War II?
96.What did Executive Order 9066 lead the government to do in 1942?
97.How did women's employment change on the home front during World War II?
98.What was the policy of containment at the start of the Cold War?
99.What did the Truman Doctrine promise in 1947?
100.What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
101.How did the Korean War fit the policy of containment?
102.How did the Cuban Missile Crisis end in October 1962?
103.What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorize in 1964?
104.What did the Supreme Court decide in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954?
105.What did the Montgomery bus boycott achieve?
106.What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaw?
107.What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 do?
108.What did the opening of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 mark?