Praxis Social Studies: United States History
Colonies, the Constitution, slavery and the Civil War, and the United States since Reconstruction.
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1.Haudenosaunee clans sent leaders to a shared council. What did that council let the member nations do?
2.Spanish grants in the early Americas assigned Indigenous communities to colonists. What was the usual result of that labor grant?
3.Which transfer belongs to the Columbian Exchange?
4.French activity along the St. Lawrence in the 1600s depended most on which relationship?
5.What did a Virginia headright give to someone who paid a worker's passage?
6.Maryland's 1649 toleration law protected which people, and which people did it leave out?
7.How did Massachusetts Bay Puritans differ from the Pilgrims who settled Plymouth?
8.Why was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts Bay?
9.What did Anne Hutchinson challenge in Massachusetts Bay?
10.Which pair fits the middle colonies in the 1700s?
11.What did the Navigation Acts try to do?
12.Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 showed which split inside Virginia?
13.What was the Stono Rebellion of 1739?
14.What changed in many colonies during the Great Awakening?
15.Britain's debt after the Seven Years' War led Parliament to which policy?
16.What did the Proclamation of 1763 forbid?
17.The Stamp Act taxed which goods?
18.How did the Boston Tea Party of 1773 differ from a debate in a town meeting?
19.What did the Coercive Acts do to Boston?
20.Why did Thomas Paine's Common Sense matter in 1776?
21.What did the Declaration of Independence do?
22.Why was the American victory at Saratoga in 1777 a turning point?
23.What happened at Yorktown in 1781?
24.What boundary did Britain accept in the 1783 Treaty of Paris?
25.What could the Articles of Confederation not do?
26.What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 provide for the territory north of the Ohio River?
27.What did Shays' Rebellion push some leaders to conclude?
28.What was the Great Compromise at the 1787 convention?
29.What did the three-fifths compromise count?
30.Why did several states ratify the Constitution only after a promise about amendments?
31.What were the Federalist Papers?
32.Which piece belonged to Hamilton's financial plan?
33.How did Washington answer the Whiskey Rebellion?
34.What warning is most associated with Washington's Farewell Address?
35.What did the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 do?
36.Why is the election of 1800 often called a peaceful transfer of power?
37.What did Jefferson agree to buy from France in 1803?
38.What principle did Marbury v. Madison announce in 1803?
39.Which grievance helped push the United States into the War of 1812?
40.When was the Battle of New Orleans fought, relative to the Treaty of Ghent?
41.What did the Monroe Doctrine tell European powers?
42.What line did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 draw?
43.What did the Erie Canal connect?
44.What was the main effect of the cotton gin on slavery?
45.Which change fits Jacksonian politics?
46.What did the Indian Removal Act and the Trail of Tears do to the Cherokee?
47.What was Jackson's stance in the nullification crisis?
48.What did the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 demand?
49.What did immediate abolitionists demand?
50.What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo transfer in 1848?
51.What did the Compromise of 1850 include?
52.What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do to the Missouri Compromise line?
53.What did the Dred Scott decision say about Congress and the territories?
54.What was John Brown's aim at Harpers Ferry in 1859?
55.Why did Southern states begin to secede after the 1860 election?
56.What began the Civil War in April 1861?
57.Whom did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
58.Why are Gettysburg and Vicksburg, both in July 1863, paired as turning points?
59.What did the Thirteenth Amendment do?
60.What does the Fourteenth Amendment's equal-protection clause require of states?
61.What did the Fifteenth Amendment forbid?
62.What did the Compromise of 1877 do to Reconstruction?
63.What did Plessy v. Ferguson accept in 1896?
64.What did the Dawes Act of 1887 do to many tribal lands?
65.Vertical integration means a firm owns which steps?
66.How did the American Federation of Labor differ from the Knights of Labor?
67.What did the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 do?
68.What did a city machine such as Tammany Hall trade for votes?
69.Whom did the Populist movement of the 1890s mainly organize?
70.Which reforms fit the Progressive Era?
71.What did the Spanish-American War of 1898 give the United States?
72.Why did the Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles?
73.What was the Great Migration?
74.Which statement best explains the start of the Great Depression?
75.What did the Social Security Act of 1935 create?
76.What did Executive Order 9066 lead to during World War II?
77.What was D-Day?
78.What did the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan do at the start of the Cold War?
79.How did the Korean War end in 1953?
80.What was Senator McCarthy's method in the early 1950s?
81.What did Brown v. Board of Education hold?
82.What did the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibit in public places and in employment?
83.What did the Voting Rights Act of 1965 target?
84.What was the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962?
85.Which programs were part of the Great Society?
86.What did the Tet Offensive of 1968 change, even though it failed as a lasting military occupation of southern cities?
87.Why did Nixon resign in 1974?
88.What did the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 change?
89.What did the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 require of many public places?
Practice notes on cotton and slavery
These notes were written for practice. They are not a historical document.
Around 1800, about 900,000 people were enslaved in the United States, mostly in the Chesapeake and the Carolinas. Cotton was not yet the country's main export.
By 1860, nearly 4 million people were enslaved. Cotton was the largest export, and slavery had spread through Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
Practice timeline, 1765 to 1774
This timeline was written for practice. It is not a colonial broadside.
1765: Parliament requires stamps on colonial printed paper.
1767: Duties fall on lead, glass, tea, and other imports.
1770: Soldiers kill five people in a Boston crowd.
1773: Protesters destroy tea in Boston harbor.
1774: Parliament closes the port and limits Massachusetts town meetings.
98.What did the GI Bill offer many veterans after World War II?
99.In Cold War policy, what did containment mean?
100.Which pairing fits Reagan's late Cold War years?
101.What did the Twenty-sixth Amendment do?
102.Why did Congress create the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970?
103.What did a homesteader have to do to claim 160 acres under the 1862 Homestead Act?
104.What trap did sharecropping often create after Reconstruction?
105.What was the Harlem Renaissance?
106.Which claim about the New Deal and unemployment is the fairest?
107.What problem was the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 written to reduce?
108.A class has a soldier's letter from 1863 and a historian's chapter about that year. Which is the primary source?