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A.P. U.S. HISTORY

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PRE-TEST

1. When was the Civil War?

a. 1750-1800

b. 1800-1850

c. 1850-1900

d. 1900-1950

e. after 1950

f. Don't know

2. What is the Magna Carta?

a. The foundation of the British parliamentary system

b. The Great Seal of the monarchs of England

c. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man

d. The charter signed by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower

e. Don't know

3. The term Reconstruction refers to ...

a. Payment of European countries' debts to the United States after World War

b. Repair of the physical damage caused by the Civil War

c. Readmission of the Confederate states to the Union and the protection of the rights of black citizens

d. Rebuilding of the transcontinental railroad and the canal system

e. Don't know

4. The Scopes trial was about ...

a. Freedom of the press

b. Teaching evolution in the schools

c. Prayer in the schools

d. Education in private schools

e. Don't know

5. The Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln stated that ...

a. Slaves were free in areas of the Confederate states not held by the Union

b. The slave trade was illegal

c. Slaves who fled to Canada would be protected

d. Slavery was abolished in the Union

e. Don't know

6. The purpose of the authors of The Federalist Papers was to ...

a. Establish a strong, free press in the colonies

b. Confirm George Washington's election as the first president

c. Win foreign approval for the Revolutionary War

d. Gain ratification of the U.S. Constitution

e. Don't know

7. Sputnik was the name given to the first ...

a. Telecommunications system

b. Animal to travel into space

c. Hydrogen bomb

d. Human-made satellite

e. Don't know

8. The Missouri Compromise was the act that ...

a. Funded the Lewis and Clark expedition on the upper Missouri River

b. Granted statehood to Missouri but denied the admission of any other states

c. Settled the boundary dispute between Missouri and Kansas

d. Admitted Maine into the Union as a free state and admitted Missouri as a slave state

e. Don't know

9. Which document established the division of powers between the states and the federal government?

a. The Marshall Plan

b. The Constitution

c. The Declaration of Independence

d. The Articles of Confederation

e. Don't know

10. When was Thomas Jefferson president?

a. 1780-1800

b. 1800-1820

c. 1820-1840

d. 1840-1860

e. 1860-1880

f. Don't know

11. What was the lowest point in American fortunes in the Revolutionary War?

a. Saratoga

b. Bunker Hill

c. Valley Forge

d. Fort Ticonderoga

e. Don't know

12. In his farewell address, President George Washington warned against the danger of ...

a. Expanding into territories beyond the Appalachian Mountains

b. Going to war with Spain over Mexico

c. Entering into permanent alliances with foreign governments

d. Building a standing army and strong navy

e. Don't know

13. The Monroe Doctrine declared that ...

a. The American blockade of Cuba was in accordance with international law

b. Europe should not acquire new territories in the Western Hemisphere

c. Trade with China should be open to all Western nations

d. The annexation of the Philippines was legitimate

e. Don't know

14. Who was the European who traveled in the United States and wrote down perceptive comments about what he saw in Democracy in America?

a. Lafayette

b. Tocqueville

c. Crèvecoeur

d. Napoléon

e. Don't know

15. Abraham Lincoln was president between ...

a. 1780-1800

b. 1800-1820

c. 1820-1840

d. 1840-1860

e. 1860-1880

f. Don't know

16. Who was the American general at Yorktown?

a. William T. Sherman

b. Ulysses S. Grant

c. Douglas McArthur

d. George Washington

e. Don't know

17. John Marshall was the author of ...

a. Roe v. Wade

b. Dred Scott v. Kansas

c. Marbury v. Madison\

d. Brown v. Board of Education

e. Don't know

18. Who was the "Father of the Constitution?"

a. George Washington

b. Thomas Jefferson

c. Benjamin Franklin

d. James Madison

e. Don't know

19. What is the source of the phrase "Government of the people, by the people, for the people?"

a. The "I Have a Dream" speech

b. Declaration of Independence

c. U.S. Constitution

d. Gettysburg Address

e. Don't know

20. Who was the second president of the United States?

a. Thomas Jefferson

b. James Madison

c. John Adams

d. Benjamin Franklin

e. Don't know

21. Who was president when the United States purchased the Panama Canal?

a. Theodore Roosevelt

b. Jimmy Carter

c. Franklin D. Roosevelt

d. Woodrow Wilson

e. Don't know

22. Who was the leading advocate for U.S. entry into the League of Nations?

a. George C. Marshall

b. Woodrow Wilson

c. Henry Cabot Lodge

d. Eleanor Roosevelt

e. Don't know

23. Who said "Speak softly but carry a big stick?"

a. William T. Sherman

b. Sitting Bull

c. John D. Rockefeller

d. Theodore Roosevelt

e. Don't know

24. The Battle of the Bulge occurred during ...

a. The Vietnam War

b. World War II

c. World War I

d. The Civil War

e. Don't know

25. Which of the following was a prominent leader of the abolitionist movement?

a. Malcolm X

b. Martin Luther King Jr.

c. W.E.B. DuBois

d. Frederick Douglass

e. Don't know

26. Who was president of the United States at the beginning of the Korean War?

a. John F. Kennedy

b. Franklin D. Roosevelt

c. Dwight Eisenhower

d. Harry Truman

e. Don't know

27. When the United States entered World War II, which two major nations were allied with Germany?

a. Italy and Japan

b. Italy and Poland

c. Italy and Russia

d. Russia and Japan

e. Don't know

28. Social legislation passed under President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society Program included ...

a. The Sherman Antitrust Act

b. The Voting Rights Act

c. The Tennessee Valley Authority

d. The Civilian Conservation Corps

e. Don't know

29. Who was "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen?"

a. George Washington

b. Woodrow Wilson

c. Dwight Eisenhower

d. Abraham Lincoln

e. Don't know

30. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the United States entered World War II?

a. Peter Ustinov

b. Nikita Khrushchev

c. Marshal Tito

d. Joseph Stalin

e. Don't know

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32. Name the Presidents of the 20th century in order.

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33. Name ten significant American women.

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35. List five Amendments to the Constitution excluding the Bill of Rights.

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36. Name 10 important American inventors with their inventions.

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37. Name 5 American artists.

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38. Give 5 examples of American patriotic/political music.

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39. Name 5 authors/poets from American literature.

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40. List 5 significant Supreme Court decisions.

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41. Name 5 “captains” of American business/industry.

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42. List 5 of America’s greatest moments, excluding wars.

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43. List 5 of America’s darkest moments, excluding wars.

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44. Name 5 American political parties, excluding Democratic and Republican.

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45. Name the four people on Mount Rushmore.

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46. Name five people that signed the Declaration of Independence.

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47. Name five people that signed the Constitution.

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48. Name five current US Congressional officeholders.

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49. Name the current Michigan governor.

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50. Name the current Supreme Court Chief Justice.

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WHO SAID IT?

51. “I have but one life to lose for my country.”

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52. “I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

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53. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

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54. “John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it.”

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55. “The American continents are no longer subjects for any new European colonial establishments.”

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56. “An act of Congress which deprives a person…of his liberty or property merely because he came himself or brought his property into a particular territory could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law.”

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57. “[T]hese dead shall not have died in vain- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth.”

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58. “Hear me my Chiefs, from where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

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59. The voters might not be able to read, he said, but they could “look at the damn pictures.”

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60. “Give me your tired, your poor. Your huddled masses yearning to breath free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.”

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61. The United States—must “exercise…an international police power.”

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62. “…to make the world safe for democracy.”

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63. “America must return to a state of normalcy.”

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64. “The business of America is business.”

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65. “There is nothing to fear but fear itself.”

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66. “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

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67. “I have a dream that children will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”

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68. “The whole world is watching, the whole world is watching…”

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69. “Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!”

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70. “In all my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook, I earned everything I’ve got.”

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71. “It will be my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states onto the people.”

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72. “Read my lips, no new taxes.”

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73. “I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.”

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74. “We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy, every tool of intelligence, every instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary weapon of war -- to the disruption and to the defeat of the global terror network.”

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75. “For there is no secret and there is no defense; there is no possibility of control except through the aroused understanding and insistence of the peoples of the world. We scientists recognize our inescapable responsibility to carry to our fellow citizens an understanding of atomic energy and its implication for society. In this lies our only security and our only hope - we believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death..”

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