A student argues that the cotton gin, by cutting the labor of cleaning cotton, must have reduced the demand for enslaved workers. Which reply fits the record?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Eli Whitney's Patent for the Cotton Gin (1794)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
A student writes that the Emancipation Proclamation freed every enslaved person in the United States. Which correction should the teacher make?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Emancipation Proclamation (1863)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
A teacher lists weaknesses of the national government under the Articles of Confederation. Which belongs on the list?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Articles of Confederation (1777)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
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U.S. history to 1877, continued
After the Civil War, formerly enslaved people became citizens of the United States. Which amendment, ratified in 1868, made them so?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Civil Rights (1868)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
After the Yazoo land fraud of 1795, in which Georgia's legislature sold 35 million acres of western land amid cries of bribery, what did the state do with that land in 1802?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Yazoo Land Fraud". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
Dred Scott sued for his freedom in 1846 because he had lived in a free territory. On what ground did the Supreme Court tell him in 1857 that he could expect no protection from the federal courts?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
From 1732 to 1752 a board of Trustees in London governed Georgia. Which of these did the Trustees ban in the young colony?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Trustee Georgia, 1732-1752". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
In 1801 Secretary of State James Madison refused to deliver a commission that the outgoing president had signed for William Marbury. What lasting principle came out of Marbury's lawsuit?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Marbury v. Madison (1803)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
In his annual message of December 1823, what did James Monroe say about the colonies that European powers already held in the Americas?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Monroe Doctrine (1823)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
In November 1832 a South Carolina convention declared two federal laws null and void within the state. Which laws?Wikipedia, "Nullification crisis". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
In Worcester v. Georgia (1832), what did the Supreme Court decide about the Cherokee, whose land Georgia had annexed?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Worcester v. Georgia". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 let the settlers of each territory decide whether to allow slavery. Which earlier law's line did it repeal?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
Mexican families living in California in 1848 found themselves inside the United States. What did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provide for them?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 laid out how the territory northwest of the Ohio River would be governed and turned into states. What did it rule on slavery there?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Northwest Ordinance (1787)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
On a class timeline of the American Revolution, the card after the British surrender at Saratoga should show which diplomatic result of early 1778?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "French Alliance, French Assistance, and European Diplomacy during the American Revolution, 1778–1782". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
Parliament's Navigation Acts kept the trade of the colonies, in goods such as tobacco, inside the English empire. Which economic theory did the laws reflect?Wikipedia, "Navigation Acts". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
Roger Sherman's plan at the 1787 convention kept a two-house legislature. Which part of it answered the small states' fear of being outvoted?Wikipedia, "Connecticut Compromise". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
What did General William T. Sherman mean to prove by marching his army across Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah in late 1864?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Sherman's March to the Sea". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0002
What did the treaty signed with France on April 30, 1803, do for the United States?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
Why did the Proclamation of 1763 anger many British colonists in North America?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "Proclamation Line of 1763, Quebec Act of 1774 and Westward Expansion". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 242, objective 0001
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A lunch counter refuses to serve Black customers in 1965. Which law, signed on July 2, 1964, has made that refusal illegal?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Civil Rights Act (1964)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
A student says that Social Security was paid out of general government funds from the start. Which feature of the 1935 act corrects her?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Social Security Act (1935)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
As opposition to the Vietnam War mounted, Congress in January 1971 repealed a measure of 1964 in an attempt to curtail President Nixon's power to continue the war. Which measure?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 put a ten-year ban on the entry of Chinese laborers. What place does it hold in the history of American immigration law?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Early in 1917 a secret German offer of United States territory to Mexico came to light and inflamed American opinion. How was the message uncovered?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Zimmermann Telegram (1917)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Executive Order 9066, signed in February 1942, led to which wartime action?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Executive Order 9066: Resulting in Japanese-American Incarceration (1942)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
In 1978 President Jimmy Carter of Georgia brought two leaders to Camp David, where they agreed on a framework for a peace treaty. Which two countries did they lead?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "Camp David Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
In January 1941 Roosevelt, who had promised to keep America out of the war, still wanted to support Britain. Which law, passed that March, let him send war supplies?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Lend-Lease Act (1941)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
In the 1947 address that became known as the Truman Doctrine, what did the president say the policy of the United States must be?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Truman Doctrine (1947)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools violated the 14th Amendment. How did the justices divide?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Brown v. Board of Education (1954)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
Reformers of the 1880s held that Native Americans who farmed plots of their own would be absorbed into White American culture. Which law acted on that belief by allotting reservation land to individuals?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Dawes Act (1887)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
The treaty that ended the war with Spain in 1898 handed three territories to the United States. Which place did it treat differently, guaranteeing its independence?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "The Spanish-American War, 1898". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890, what could a company do if it lost money because of an illegal trust?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, who gained the power to register qualified citizens in the places the law's formula covered?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Voting Rights Act (1965)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
Until it was abolished in 1962, Georgia chose its party nominees for statewide office by the county unit system. What was the system's main effect?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "County Unit System". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
Which amendment of the Progressive Era took the election of United States senators from the state legislatures and gave it to the voters?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Which body did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Wagner Act, create to deal with relations between unions and private employers?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "National Labor Relations Act (1935)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Which doctrine did Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) uphold, giving legal cover to segregation under state law until the 1950s and 1960s?National Archives, Milestone Documents, "Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
Which step, kept out of the public settlement of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, did the United States tell the Soviet ambassador it was planning anyway?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0002
Which strategy for Black progress did Booker T. Washington lay out in the Atlanta speech of 1895 that came to be called the Atlanta Compromise?New Georgia Encyclopedia, "Atlanta Compromise Speech". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 243, objective 0001
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the framework of the GACE History (6–12) assessment, test code 721, on the GACE website of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and Evaluation Systems, Pearson (https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/studyguide/framework/721 and https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/test/721, read 2026-10-15): four testlets of about 25 selected-response questions and 30 minutes each: 242 United States History to 1877 (to 1830, 60%; 1830 to 1877, 40%); 243 United States History from 1877 to the Present (1877 to 1945, 60%; 1945 to the present, 40%); 244 World History to 1750 (early civilizations to 1492 CE, 60%; 1492 to 1750, 40%); 245 World History from 1750 to the Present (1750 to 1900, 40%; 1900 to the present, 60%). The page holds 20 questions for each testlet, split 12 and 8 as the objectives are weighted; this set holds the two testlets named in its topics. Every fact was read on 2026-10-15 on the page named under its question: the National Archives (Milestone Documents and Featured Documents), the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State, the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
World history: all 40 questions
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A unit on Europe's wars of religion ends with the Thirty Years' War. Which settlement of 1648 closes the unit?Wikipedia, "Peace of Westphalia". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
A world history class reads that the value of gold in Egypt was noticeably affected by the gifts one traveler handed out in Cairo in 1324. Who was the traveler?Wikipedia, "Mansa Musa". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
After the bloody conquest of Kalinga, which Mauryan emperor embraced Buddhism and had his edicts carved on rocks and pillars across India?Wikipedia, "Ashoka". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
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After the Glorious Revolution, what did the English Bill of Rights of 1689 establish?Wikipedia, "Bill of Rights 1689". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
At the Council of Clermont in 1095, what did Pope Urban II urge the Christians of western Europe to do?Wikipedia, "First Crusade". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
The Code of Hammurabi, carved on a stone stele in the eighteenth century BC, is best used in a lesson as evidence of what?Wikipedia, "Code of Hammurabi". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
Coffee and sugarcane became great plantation crops of the Americas after 1492. Where had the two plants come from?Wikipedia, "Columbian exchange". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
The division between Sunni and Shia Muslims began as a dispute over what?Wikipedia, "Shia–Sunni relations". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
How did the Black Death of the mid-1300s change the position of surviving peasants and laborers in western Europe?Wikipedia, "Consequences of the Black Death". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
How did the democracy of fifth-century BC Athens differ from most democracies today?Wikipedia, "Direct democracy". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
In 1215 King John sealed Magna Carta, which promised that no freeman would be imprisoned "except by the lawful judgment of his peers or by the law of the land." Which later principle descends from that clause?National Archives, Featured Documents, "Magna Carta". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
Ships left Europe with manufactured goods, crossed from Africa to the Americas with captives, and sailed home with sugar and tobacco. What is the second of those three voyages called?Wikipedia, "Middle Passage". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
Under the Tokugawa shoguns' policy of national seclusion, which Europeans alone were allowed to keep trading with Japan, from the island of Dejima?Wikipedia, "Sakoku". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
What did the agreement that Constantine and Licinius reached at Milan in 313 do for Christians in the Roman Empire?Wikipedia, "Edict of Milan". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
What did the model that Nicolaus Copernicus published in 1543 change about the accepted picture of the universe?Wikipedia, "Copernican heliocentrism". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
What did the Pax Mongolica of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries make possible across Eurasia?Wikipedia, "Mongol Empire". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
Which agreement of 1494 gave Portugal a claim to the land that became eastern Brazil?Wikipedia, "Treaty of Tordesillas". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
Which church practice, tied to the remission of punishment for sin, did Martin Luther dispute in 1517?Wikipedia, "Ninety-five Theses". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0002
Which religion began to reach China along the Silk Road in the first century CE?Wikipedia, "Silk Road". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
The Zhou kings of ancient China justified their overthrow of the Shang dynasty with which idea?Wikipedia, "Mandate of Heaven". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 244, objective 0001
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A teacher wants one phrase for the core change of the Industrial Revolution. Which is best?Wikipedia, "Industrial Revolution". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
By what name is the clause of the Treaty of Versailles known in which Germany accepted responsibility for causing all the loss and damage of the war?Wikipedia, "Treaty of Versailles". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
The congress that met from September 1814 to June 1815 to plan a long-term peace for Europe was chaired by which Austrian statesman?Wikipedia, "Congress of Vienna". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
Fourteen countries met in Berlin in 1884 to agree on rules for colonizing Africa. How were African states represented?Wikipedia, "Berlin Conference". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789) holds its rights to be universal, valid in all times and places. Which doctrine shaped that claim?Wikipedia, "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
The Gold Coast gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1957 under the name Ghana. Who was its first prime minister?Wikipedia, "Kwame Nkrumah". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Japan industrialized rapidly and took up Western ideas, production methods and technology in an era that began in 1868. Which event opened it?Wikipedia, "Meiji Restoration". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
The Treaty of Nanking ended the First Opium War in 1842. Which of these did it require of China?Wikipedia, "Treaty of Nanking". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
The voting rules of the planned United Nations were settled at the Yalta Conference in 1945. Which members of the Security Council hold a veto?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "The Formation of the United Nations, 1945". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
West Germany entered NATO in 1955. How did the Soviet Union answer?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
What did the Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938, give Germany?Wikipedia, "Munich Agreement". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
What happened in China on October 1, 1949?Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State, "The Chinese Revolution of 1949". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
What replaced the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi after the revolution of 1979?Wikipedia, "Iranian Revolution". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
What sets the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) apart from the other Atlantic revolutions of its age?Wikipedia, "Haitian Revolution". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
When British rule ended in August 1947, the Indian subcontinent was partitioned into which two states?Wikipedia, "Partition of India". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Which event of June 28, 1914, set off the crisis that led to the First World War?Wikipedia, "Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Which event of November 9, 1989, became the symbol of the collapse of communist rule in Eastern Europe?Wikipedia, "Fall of the Berlin Wall". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Which government did the Bolshevik insurrection in Petrograd in the autumn of 1917, the October Revolution, bring to an end?Wikipedia, "October Revolution". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Which party won a landslide in South Africa's first elections open to citizens of all races, held in April 1994?Wikipedia, "1994 South African general election". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0002
Which war was still being fought when the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors on January 18, 1871?Wikipedia, "Unification of Germany". Written to GACE History (721) testlet 245, objective 0001
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the framework of the GACE History (6–12) assessment, test code 721, on the GACE website of the Georgia Professional Standards Commission and Evaluation Systems, Pearson (https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/studyguide/framework/721 and https://www.gace.es.pearson.com/test/721, read 2026-10-15): four testlets of about 25 selected-response questions and 30 minutes each: 242 United States History to 1877 (to 1830, 60%; 1830 to 1877, 40%); 243 United States History from 1877 to the Present (1877 to 1945, 60%; 1945 to the present, 40%); 244 World History to 1750 (early civilizations to 1492 CE, 60%; 1492 to 1750, 40%); 245 World History from 1750 to the Present (1750 to 1900, 40%; 1900 to the present, 60%). The page holds 20 questions for each testlet, split 12 and 8 as the objectives are weighted; this set holds the two testlets named in its topics. Every fact was read on 2026-10-15 on the page named under its question: the National Archives (Milestone Documents and Featured Documents), the Office of the Historian of the U.S. Department of State, the New Georgia Encyclopedia and Wikipedia. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This U.S. history GACE test practice opens on 40 questions of our own for the two U.S. testlets of History (721); 40 more cover world history. It is unofficial and not affiliated with the Georgia Professional Standards Commission or Pearson.
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What the test covers
History (6–12) has four testlets of about 25 selected-response questions each: United States History to 1877 (242), United States History from 1877 to the Present (243), World History to 1750 (244) and World History from 1750 to the Present (245), by the framework at gace.es.pearson.com read October 15, 2026.
Georgia is on it
The U.S. objectives name Georgia history too, so the first set asks about the Trustees, the Yazoo land fraud, Worcester v. Georgia, Sherman's march, the Atlanta Compromise speech and the county unit system. Each testlet has 20 questions here, split 12 and 8 as its two objectives are weighted.
Timing
Each real testlet allows 30 minutes. A timed round here keeps that pace: 40 questions in 48 minutes for either half.
The framework ties the objectives to Georgia's standards SSUSH1 to SSUSH23 (U.S.) and SSWH1 to SSWH22 (world), a ready study map.
Questions and answers
Is there a GACE history study guide?
Yes. The GACE website has a study guide for History (6–12) built on the same four testlets. This page adds 80 practice questions of our own; none repeats or rewords an official sample question.
Is GACE History still test 534?
The GACE website lists History (6–12) as test code 721 today, with testlets 242 to 245. The GaPSC says the supplier changed from ETS to Pearson and that passing scores cannot be split between the two suppliers.
How many questions are on the GACE history test?
100 selected-response questions, about 25 in each of four testlets. Testing time is 2 hours, plus 15 minutes per session for a tutorial and a nondisclosure agreement.
What is a passing score on GACE History?
An assessment-level score of 220 or higher, on a scale of 100 to 300, and you must also meet the floor, a minimum score, on each testlet. This page gives the number right only.
Is the GACE high school history test all U.S. history?
No. Two testlets are U.S. and Georgia history, and two are world history, from early civilizations to the present. In a single session you may take any combination of the four.