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After the election of 1824, what did Andrew Jackson's supporters call Henry Clay's appointment as secretary of state?National Park Service, People: Henry Clay. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
The Articles of Confederation took effect only when every state had ratified them. Which state was the last, in 1781?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Articles of Confederation (1777). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
At the Constitutional Convention, how did the delegates agree to count enslaved people for representation?National Archives, The Constitution: How Did it Happen?. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Benjamin Franklin helped shape the Albany Plan of Union in 1754. What did the plan propose?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Albany Plan of Union, 1754. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
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The Fifteenth Amendment (1870) says the right to vote cannot be denied on account of what?National Archives, Milestone Documents: 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Voting Rights (1870). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How close did the Senate come to removing President Andrew Johnson in 1868?U.S. Senate, Impeachment Trial of President Andrew Johnson, 1868. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How did Congress settle the disputed presidential election of 1876?U.S. House of Representatives, History, Art & Archives: The Electoral Vote Count of the 1876 Presidential Election. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How did President Lincoln stop the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Wade-Davis Bill (1864). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 decide whether slavery would be allowed in the two territories?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How did the Virginia House of Burgesses answer the Stamp Act of 1765?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
How many amendments did Congress propose to the states in 1789, ten of which became the Bill of Rights?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Bill of Rights (1791). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How many justices did the Judiciary Act of 1789 give the Supreme Court?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Federal Judiciary Act (1789). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824), the Supreme Court read the power of Congress over interstate commerce to include what?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Gibbons v. Ogden (1824). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), what had Maryland done to the Bank of the United States?National Archives, Milestone Documents: McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
John C. Calhoun, vice president under Andrew Jackson, broke with Jackson over which claim?National Park Service, People: John C. Calhoun. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
North of which line did the Missouri Compromise bar slavery in the rest of the Louisiana Territory?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Missouri Compromise (1820). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
On what date did the Continental Congress adopt the Lee Resolution for independence?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Lee Resolution (1776). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Under the Northwest Ordinance, how many people did a territory need before it could ask to join the Union as a state?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Northwest Ordinance (1787). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What did President Jefferson ask Congress for in his secret message of January 18, 1803?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Jefferson's Secret Message to Congress Regarding the Lewis & Clark Expedition (1803). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Fourteenth Amendment (1868) say about citizenship?National Archives, Milestone Documents: 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Indian Removal Act of 1830 let the president do?National Archives, Milestone Documents: President Andrew Jackson's Message to Congress 'On Indian Removal' (1830). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 do about slavery in the Northwest Territory?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Northwest Ordinance (1787). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What did the Supreme Court hold about Congress in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What happened to Senator Charles Sumner after his 1856 speech on Kansas?U.S. Senate, The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What met at Jamestown in the summer of 1619?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Where did the first shots of the Civil War fall in April 1861?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which enslaved people did the Emancipation Proclamation cover when it took effect on January 1, 1863?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Emancipation Proclamation (1863). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which governor of Virginia did Nathaniel Bacon defy in the rebellion of 1676?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: Bacon's Rebellion. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which lasting power of the federal courts came out of Marbury v. Madison in 1803?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Marbury v. Madison (1803). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which law was President Andrew Johnson accused of breaking when the House impeached him in 1868?U.S. Senate, Impeachment Trial of President Andrew Johnson, 1868. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which of these was part of the Compromise of 1850?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Compromise of 1850 (1850). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which party held power when Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Alien and Sedition Acts (1798). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which state entered the Union as a free state under the Missouri Compromise, to balance Missouri?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Missouri Compromise (1820). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which uprising led London to issue the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which closed the land beyond the Appalachians to colonial settlement?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Proclamation Line of 1763, Quebec Act of 1774 and Westward Expansion. College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which weakness of the Articles of Confederation is named by the National Archives?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Articles of Confederation (1777). College Board outline: Political institutions, political developments, and public policy (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
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About how many Black men served as soldiers in the United States Army by the end of the Civil War?National Archives, Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
After escaping slavery in 1849, what did Harriet Tubman do over the next ten years?National Park Service, People: Harriet Tubman. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
After the Vesey plot of 1822, what did South Carolina's Negro Seamen Acts require?National Park Service, People: Denmark Vesey. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Before the Civil War, which cause was Dorothea Dix best known for?National Park Service, People: Dorothea Dix. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Besides tools, crops and livestock, what did Europeans carry to the Americas that Native peoples had no defenses against?Library of Congress, exhibition 1492: An Ongoing Voyage: Europe Claims America: The Atlantic Joined. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
By about 1500, which two empires in the Americas were still expanding?Library of Congress, exhibition 1492: An Ongoing Voyage: What Came to Be Called "America". College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Crispus Attucks, a sailor of African and Indigenous ancestry, died in which event of March 5, 1770?National Park Service, People: Crispus Attucks. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
How did the Lowell textile corporations try to control their workers outside the mill?National Park Service, Lowell National Historical Park: The Mill Girls of Lowell. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How does the National Park Service define the Underground Railroad?National Park Service, Underground Railroad: What is the Underground Railroad?. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How were Black soldiers in the Union army paid at first, compared with white soldiers?National Archives, Black Soldiers in the U.S. Military During the Civil War. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In 1619, the same year Virginia's assembly first met, who arrived in the colony against their will?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
In March 1776, what did Abigail Adams ask her husband John to do as Congress made new laws?National Park Service, People: Abigail Adams. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
In the decades before the Civil War, where did most first-generation Irish Americans settle?Library of Congress, exhibition The Civil War in America: April 1861–April 1862. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In which city was Denmark Vesey accused in 1822 of planning an uprising of enslaved people?National Park Service, People: Denmark Vesey. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
On what ground did Dred and Harriet Scott first sue for their freedom in St. Louis?National Park Service, People: Dred Scott. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Under New York's gradual abolition laws, on what date did the last enslaved people in the state become free?National Park Service, People: Sojourner Truth. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Sacagawea, a Lemhi Shoshone woman, help the Lewis and Clark expedition obtain from her people?National Park Service, People: Sacagawea. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Susan B. Anthony do in the presidential election of 1872 that led to her arrest?National Park Service, People: Susan B. Anthony. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, set out to do?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Founding of Liberia, 1847. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868 promise Chinese people?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Burlingame-Seward Treaty, 1868. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 recognize as part of the Great Sioux Reservation?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868). College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Supreme Court decide about the Africans who seized the slave ship Amistad in 1839?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Amistad Case, 1839. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What do historians call the winter of 1609–10 at Jamestown, when most of the settlers died?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What happened at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Convention in London that led Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to plan a women's rights convention?National Park Service, People: Lucretia Mott. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What happened to the Cherokee in 1838?National Park Service, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail: History & Culture. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What was the Middle Passage?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: Slavery: The Peculiar Institution. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Where did John Brown lead a raid in 1859, hoping to start an uprising against slavery?National Park Service, People: John Brown. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Where did Sojourner Truth give her speech "Ain't I a Woman?" in May 1851?National Park Service, People: Sojourner Truth. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Where did the first women's rights convention in the United States meet in July 1848?National Park Service, Women's Rights National Historical Park: The First Women's Rights Convention. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which description fits the Freedmen's Bureau that Congress set up in March 1865?National Archives, The Freedmen's Bureau. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which Powhatan woman married the English settler John Rolfe in 1614?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which two Black men, both from Mississippi, served in the United States Senate in the nineteenth century?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Who founded Providence in 1636 as a shelter for people persecuted for their beliefs?National Park Service, People: Roger Williams – Minister, Merchant, Magistrate. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who led the 1831 uprising of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: Slavery: The Peculiar Institution. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Whom did the textile corporations of Lowell, Massachusetts, recruit as workers from the 1820s?National Park Service, Lowell National Historical Park: The Mill Girls of Lowell. College Board outline: Social developments (25% of the exam), 1790–1877.
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After the Seven Years' War, how did Prime Minister George Grenville raise more revenue from the colonies' sugar and molasses trade?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Besides independence and boundaries, which two economic questions did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 settle?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Treaty of Paris, 1783. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Between 1820 and 1860, which product made up over half the value of United States exports?National Park Service, People: Eli Whitney. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How did colonists in Boston protest the tax on tea in December 1773?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Parliamentary Taxation of Colonies, International Trade, and the American Revolution, 1763–1775. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
How did the cotton gin change slavery in the South?National Park Service, People: Eli Whitney. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In the Dartmouth College case, argued by Daniel Webster, what was New Hampshire stopped from doing?National Park Service, People: Daniel Webster. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Eli Whitney's cotton gin, patented in 1794, do?National Park Service, People: Eli Whitney. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did President Jackson do in 1832 to the bill that renewed the charter of the Second Bank of the United States?Federal Reserve History, The Second Bank of the United States. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the new strain of tobacco that John Rolfe introduced in 1612 do for the Virginia colony?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What happened to the First Bank of the United States when its charter ran out in 1811?Federal Reserve History, The First Bank of the United States. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What was the Union blockade of Southern ports meant to stop?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Blockade of Confederate Ports, 1861–1865. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which economic trouble helped set off Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1676?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: Bacon's Rebellion. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which method of manufacture did Eli Whitney try out while making muskets for the federal government?National Park Service, People: Eli Whitney. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which two companies did the Pacific Railway Act of 1862 authorize to build a railroad to the Pacific?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Pacific Railway Act (1862). College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Who built the two halves of the first transcontinental railroad in the 1860s?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Pacific Railway Act (1862). College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Who paid for the English settlement at Jamestown in 1607?National Park Service, Historic Jamestowne: A Short History of Jamestown. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who proposed the First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress in 1791?Federal Reserve History, The First Bank of the United States. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Who ran the Second Bank of the United States during its fight with Andrew Jackson?Federal Reserve History, The Second Bank of the United States. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Why did Confederate leaders expect Great Britain to break the Union blockade?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Preventing Diplomatic Recognition of the Confederacy, 1861–1865. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Why did the United States want the land it bought from Mexico in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853–54?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Gadsden Purchase, 1853–1854. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Why did Thomas Jefferson oppose a national bank in 1791?Federal Reserve History, The First Bank of the United States. College Board outline: Economic developments (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
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According to the evangelist Charles G. Finney, what was the evidence of God's grace in a person?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion and the New Republic. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Freedom's Journal began to appear in 1827. What was it?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: Free Blacks in the Antebellum Period. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In 1837, how did John C. Calhoun describe slavery on the floor of the Senate?National Park Service, People: John C. Calhoun. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
In which decades did the first Great Awakening, the colonies' first major religious revival, sweep the English-speaking world?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion in Eighteenth-Century America. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Joseph Smith, who grew up in the "burned-over district" of western New York, published which book in 1830?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion and the New Republic. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Frederick Douglass publish in 1845?National Park Service, People: Frederick Douglass. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did President Lincoln do at Gettysburg on November 19, 1863?Library of Congress, exhibition The Civil War in America: November 1863–April 1865. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Roger Williams teach about government and religion that got him banished from Massachusetts Bay?National Park Service, People: Roger Williams – Minister, Merchant, Magistrate. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What did the land-grant colleges created under the Morrill Act of 1862 emphasize?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Morrill Act (1862). College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the photographer Mathew Brady show in his New York gallery after the Battle of Antietam in 1862?Library of Congress, exhibition The Civil War in America: April 1862–November 1862. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What stand did Daniel Webster take in his 1830 Senate reply to Robert Hayne of South Carolina?National Park Service, People: Daniel Webster. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What was the Bay Psalm Book, printed in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 1. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What was The North Star?National Park Service, People: Frederick Douglass. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Where did a famous frontier revival of the Second Great Awakening take place in the summer of 1801?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion and the New Republic. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which book did Phillis Wheatley publish in London in 1773?National Park Service, People: Phillis Wheatley. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which church did Richard Allen and his colleagues form after leaving a white-run Methodist congregation in Philadelphia?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion and the New Republic. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which eighteenth-century outlook stressed morality and rejected the orthodox Christian view of the divinity of Christ?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion in Eighteenth-Century America. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which English philosopher's letters on toleration "became a bible to many" in eighteenth-century America?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion in Eighteenth-Century America. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which newspaper did William Lloyd Garrison begin publishing in Boston in 1831?National Park Service, People: William Lloyd Garrison. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published as a book in 1852, showed the cruelty of slavery through the separation of families?National Park Service, People: Harriet Beecher Stowe. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which poem did Walt Whitman write about the death of Abraham Lincoln?National Park Service, People: Walt Whitman. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which sentence of the Declaration of Independence did the Declaration of Sentiments of 1848 rewrite?National Park Service, Women's Rights National Historical Park: Declaration of Sentiments. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which traveling preacher drew thousands to open-air revivals during the Great Awakening?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: Religion in Eighteenth-Century America. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who were the Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay?Library of Congress, exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic: America as a Religious Refuge: The Seventeenth Century, Part 1. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who wrote the essays known as The Federalist, which argued for ratifying the Constitution?Library of Congress, exhibition Thomas Jefferson: Establishing A Federal Republic. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who wrote the words of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" during the Civil War?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: The Civil War. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Whom did Congress appoint in June 1776 to draft a statement of independence?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Declaration of Independence (1776). College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Why was David Walker's Appeal, published in Boston in 1829, outlawed in many states?Library of Congress, exhibition The African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship: Slavery: The Peculiar Institution. College Board outline: Cultural and intellectual developments (20% of the exam), 1790–1877.
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From which country did the United States buy Alaska in 1867, and for how much?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Purchase of Alaska, 1867. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How much did the United States pay France for the Louisiana Territory in 1803?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Louisiana Purchase, 1803. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
How were the Alabama claims against Great Britain settled in 1872?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Alabama Claims, 1862–1872. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Britain agree to do under Jay's Treaty of 1794?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: John Jay's Treaty, 1794–95. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Commodore Matthew Perry's expedition of 1853–54 achieve?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The United States and the Opening to Japan, 1853. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did George Washington advise about foreign policy in his Farewell Address of 1796?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Washington's Farewell Address, 1796. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Pinckney's Treaty of 1795 with Spain give American farmers in the West?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Treaty of San Lorenzo/ Pinckney's Treaty, 1795. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did President Monroe tell the European powers in his message of December 1823?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Monroe Doctrine (1823). College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did Spain give up to the United States in the Adams-Onís Treaty of 1819?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Acquisition of Florida: Treaty of Adams-Onis (1819) and Transcontinental Treaty (1821). College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the French minister Edmond Genêt do in 1793 that strained American neutrality?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Citizen Genêt Affair, 1793–1794. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Treaty of Ghent, signed on December 24, 1814, do?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Treaty of Ghent (1814). College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo cost Mexico in 1848?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What does the State Department's history say followed from the cost of the French and Indian War?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, 1754–63. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
What happened in the XYZ Affair of 1797–98?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The XYZ Affair and the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1800. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
What set off the Trent Affair of 1861 between the United States and Great Britain?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Trent Affair, 1861. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Where did the Oregon Treaty of 1846 draw the boundary between the United States and British North America?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Oregon Territory, 1846. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which American victory in 1777 persuaded France to sign a treaty of alliance with the United States in 1778?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: French Alliance, French Assistance, and European Diplomacy during the American Revolution, 1778–1782. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which British practice at sea was a leading cause of the War of 1812?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: War of 1812–1815. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1790–1877.
Which river did the Treaty of Paris of 1783 set as the western boundary of the United States?National Archives, Milestone Documents: Treaty of Paris (1783). College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Which treaty ended the French and Indian War and gave Great Britain the French lands east of the Mississippi?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: Treaty of Paris, 1763. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
Who drafted the Model Treaty of 1776, a template for commercial treaties with other nations?U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian, Milestones: The Model Treaty, 1776. College Board outline: Diplomacy and transnational interactions (15% of the exam), 1500–1789.
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the College Board's published outline of the CLEP History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877 exam (https://clep.collegeboard.org/clep-exams/history-of-the-us-1, read 2026-10-09): political institutions, political developments, and public policy 25%; social developments 25%; economic developments 15%; cultural and intellectual developments 20%; diplomacy and transnational interactions 15%; and by period 30% on 1500–1789 and 70% on 1790–1877. The bank holds 35, 35, 21, 28 and 21 questions, and 42 and 98 by period, the same shares. Each fact was read on 2026-10-09 in the public page named under its question: the National Archives (Milestone Documents and founding documents pages), the State Department's Office of the Historian (Milestones essays; the Office says the series is retired and no longer maintained, and only dates, names and terms are taken from it), the Library of Congress exhibitions, the National Park Service, the U.S. Senate and House history pages, and Federal Reserve History. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This free CLEP US History 1 practice test has 140 questions of our own from early colonization to 1877, each naming its public source. It is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by the College Board.
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Topics and periods
The College Board's outline, read October 9, 2026, splits the questions by topic: political institutions and public policy 25%, social developments 25%, economic developments 15%, cultural and intellectual developments 20%, diplomacy 15%. By period, 30% fall in 1500–1789 and 70% in 1790–1877. A History of the United States 1 CLEP practice test should match, so this bank holds 35, 35, 21, 28 and 21 questions.
Timing
The real exam has about 120 questions in 90 minutes, and some are unscored pretest questions. Exam mode draws 120 of the 140 and gives you the same 90 minutes.
For the 1600s and 1700s the College Board stresses the English colonies, with a few questions on Spanish, French and Dutch colonization.
Questions ask you to identify, analyze or compare, so read each explanation for the cause as well as the date.
Questions and answers
Is this History 1 CLEP practice test the real exam?
No. All 140 questions are ours, written to the outline the College Board publishes, with each fact read in the public page named under it. None comes from a real exam or an official sample question, and no real score is implied.
What does a CLEP American History 1 practice test cover?
The exam's full name is History of the United States I: Early Colonization to 1877. It runs from early European colonization through the end of Reconstruction, with a few questions on the Americas before 1500.
Is there a US History 1 CLEP practice test PDF?
Yes. Print the question sheet puts these questions on paper, and one tick adds the answer key. To keep a file, choose Save as PDF in the print window.
What score do you need on CLEP History of the United States I?
Colleges decide. The exam reports a scaled score from 20 to 80, and the American Council on Education recommends 3 semester hours of credit for a 50. Ask your college which score it accepts.