Unofficial practice for Oklahoma's OSAT history, government and economics test, field 117, with the state's own history in it.
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A historian studying the Land Run of 1889 reads a diary kept by a settler who made the run. What kind of source is the diary?Wikipedia, Primary source, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0001
After Puritan leaders expelled him from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, what did Roger Williams establish in 1636?Wikipedia, Roger Williams, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0002
Article IX of the Articles of Confederation gave Congress several powers. By the National Archives’ account, which power did the central government still lack?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Articles of Confederation (1777). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0003
Congress titled the Voting Rights Act, which President Johnson signed on August 6, 1965, as an act to enforce one amendment to the Constitution. Which one?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Voting Rights Act (1965). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0009
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Subarea I: U.S. and Oklahoma history, continued
The Dawes Act, approved on February 8, 1887, divided reservation land into individual allotments. What was the allotment for the head of a family?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Dawes Act (1887). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0006
From which region did Executive Order 9066 of February 19, 1942, authorize the forced removal of people to relocation centers further inland?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Executive Order 9066 (1942). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0007
In 1921, most of Tulsa’s ten thousand African American residents lived in which neighborhood, destroyed in the Tulsa Race Massacre?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Tulsa Race Massacre. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0007
In Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) the Sixth Amendment right to counsel was applied to the states. Through which amendment’s Due Process Clause?Wikipedia, Gideon v. Wainwright, lead and Holding. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0009
In Guinn v. United States (1915), the Supreme Court held which provision of Oklahoma’s voting law to be void under the Fifteenth Amendment?Wikipedia, Guinn v. United States, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
In January 1854 Senator Stephen Douglas introduced a bill to split the land west of Missouri into Kansas and Nebraska territories. On what basis did he say the slavery question there should be settled?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0005
In the Land Run of April 22, 1889, into the Unassigned Lands, who came to be known as “sooners”?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Land Run of 1889. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
In the Nullification Crisis of 1832 and 1833, what did South Carolina declare null and void within the state?Wikipedia, Nullification crisis, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0004
Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Which organization established it?Wikipedia, Jamestown, Virginia, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0002
The land Mexico ceded in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848 took in parts of present-day Oklahoma, Kansas and Wyoming. What share of its territory did Mexico cede?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0004
The Missouri Compromise barred slavery above the 36°30′ line in the rest of the Louisiana Territory. Which later law repealed that provision after 34 years?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Missouri Compromise (1820). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0004
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 closed with six articles of compact. What did the sixth one lay down for the territory?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Northwest Ordinance (1787). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0003
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb killed 168 people at which building in downtown Oklahoma City?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma City Bombing. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
On August 4, 1964, President Johnson told the nation of an event two days earlier, and Congress answered with the Tonkin Gulf Resolution. What had he announced?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0008
On September 22, 1862, President Lincoln issued the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. What did it say would happen on January 1, 1863, in states still in rebellion?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Emancipation Proclamation (1863). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0005
The Social Security Act of 1935 made old-age support a federal concern. Before the 1930s, by the National Archives’ account, which older Americans already drew federal support?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Social Security Act (1935). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0007
Speaking at the Cotton States and International Exposition in 1895, Booker T. Washington put forth what became known as the Atlanta Compromise. What did he ask of Black Southerners?Wikipedia, Atlanta Compromise, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0006
Spiro Mounds in Le Flore County is one of Oklahoma’s most important prehistoric American Indian sites. In which culture did its leaders take part between A.D. 850 and 1450?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Spiro Mounds. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, signed in 1830, was the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act. Which nation signed it?Wikipedia, Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
The Tuscarora were accepted into the Haudenosaunee as the sixth nation in 1722, sponsored by the Oneida. From which region had they migrated north?Wikipedia, Iroquois, lead and Eighteenth century. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0002
Under the Treaty of Paris of 1898, which ended the Spanish-American War, the United States paid Spain $20 million as compensation for the cession of which territory?Wikipedia, Treaty of Paris (1898), lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0006
What did the Royal Proclamation of 1763 forbid, at least for a time?Wikipedia, Royal Proclamation of 1763, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0003
What did the Sequoyah Convention, which met in Muskogee in August 1905, try to secure?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Sequoyah Convention. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0010
What news from the British Embassy on February 21, 1947, led within weeks to the Truman Doctrine?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Truman Doctrine (1947). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0008
Which action by President Rutherford B. Hayes do historians largely regard as the end of Reconstruction?Wikipedia, Compromise of 1877, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0005
Which term names the political, economic and military predominance of one state over other states?Wikipedia, Hegemony, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0001
Subarea II: Government and political science 12
The 85 essays of The Federalist appeared under the pseudonym Publius to promote ratification of the Constitution. Who wrote them?Wikipedia, The Federalist Papers, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0012
A country’s national government can redraw or abolish its provinces at will, and the provinces hold only the powers it hands down. What kind of state is this?Wikipedia, Unitary state, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0011
After Congress proposes an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, what makes it part of the Constitution?National Archives, Office of the Federal Register, Constitutional Amendment Process. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0013
After Secretary of State James Madison refused to deliver a commission issued by outgoing President John Adams, a would-be justice of the peace sued. Which principle did the resulting Supreme Court decision establish?National Archives, Milestone Documents, Marbury v. Madison (1803). Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0013
By the National Archives’ account of the Electoral College, how many electors has a state that sends 5 members to the House, and what majority of electoral votes wins the presidency?National Archives, Electoral College, About the Electors. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0014
In political science, which concept concerns the right of an authority, such as a governing law or a regime, to rule the actions of a society?Wikipedia, Legitimacy (political), lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0011
Most scholars trace the phrase “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” in the Declaration of Independence to which philosopher’s theory of rights?Wikipedia, John Locke, Political theory. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0012
Under Article V of the Oklahoma Constitution, an initiative petition for a constitutional amendment needs signatures from what share of the legal voters?Oklahoma Historical Society, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Initiative and Referendum. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0013
What did the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 declare?Wikipedia, Indian Citizenship Act, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0014
Which constitutional amendment, proposed by Congress in March 1971 and ratified by July 1 of that year, set 18 as the highest minimum voting age a state may keep?Wikipedia, Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0014
Which form of government is one in which power rests with a small number of people?Wikipedia, Oligarchy, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0011
Which French political philosopher, author of The Spirit of Law (1748), is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers?Wikipedia, Montesquieu, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0012
Subarea III: Economics 8
A new method cuts the cost of growing wheat, and the demand for wheat does not change. What happens to the equilibrium price and quantity of wheat?Wikipedia, Supply and demand, Supply curve shifts. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0015
A rancher compares the price of a tractor with the price of a pickup, both stated in dollars. Which function of money does the comparison use?Wikipedia, Money, lead and Functions. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0015
Congress and the president answer a recession by cutting taxes and raising federal spending. What kind of policy is this?Wikipedia, Fiscal policy, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0016
Economists track changing prices with an index built from the weighted average price of a market basket of goods and services that households buy. What is the index called?Wikipedia, Consumer price index, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0016
In a day, Country A can produce 60 tons of wheat or 30 tons of steel, and Country B can produce 40 tons of wheat or 40 tons of steel. Where does each have its comparative advantage?Wikipedia, Comparative advantage, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0017
What are open market operations, a key tool the Federal Reserve uses to carry out monetary policy?Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Open Market Operations. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0016
Which trade restriction sets a physical limit on the quantity of a good that can be imported in a given period?Wikipedia, Import quota, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0017
With a free ticket in hand, a student spends Saturday at a football game. She could have worked a shift paying $90 or tutored for $60 instead. What is the opportunity cost of going to the game?Wikipedia, Opportunity cost, lead. Written to the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics (117) framework, competency 0015
How this list was compiled: Our own questions, written to the test design and framework of Oklahoma Subject Area Tests field 117, U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics, in the study guide on the Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Educators website (https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/Content/StudyGuide/OK_SG_OBJ_117.htm, copyright 2022 Office of Educational Quality and Accountability and Pearson Education, Inc.; test page https://www.ceoe.nesinc.com/TestView.aspx?f=HTML_FRAG/OK117_TestPage.html, read 2026-10-13): 80 selected-response questions and 1 constructed-response assignment in 4 hours, passing score 240; selected response weighs U.S. and Oklahoma History (competencies 0001 to 0010) 51%, Government and Political Science (0011 to 0014) 21% and Economics (0015 to 0017) 13%, and the constructed response (0018) 15%. The bank holds 50: 30, 12 and 8. Every fact was read on the public page named under its question: the Milestone Documents and other pages of the National Archives, The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture of the Oklahoma Historical Society, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the named Wikipedia articles, all read 2026-10-13. Licence: Questions, choices and explanations are original work of this site.
How it works
This Oklahoma CEOE history practice test asks 50 questions of our own on the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics test, field 117. Free and unofficial: this site is not affiliated with Oklahoma's Office of Educational Quality and Accountability or Pearson, who own the test.
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OSAT field 117: three selected-response subareas
By the framework on the CEOE site, read October 13, 2026: U.S. and Oklahoma History is 51% of the test, Government and Political Science 21%, and Economics 13%. This bank holds 30, 12 and 8. The last 15% is a written assignment in which the candidate plans social studies instruction; it is not practiced here.
Where Oklahoma comes in
Competency 0010 is the state's own history, and six questions ask it: Spiro Mounds, the Choctaw removal treaty, the Land Run of 1889, the Sequoyah Convention, Guinn v. United States and the Oklahoma City bombing. Competency 0013 adds the Oklahoma Constitution, with its initiative petition and referendum.
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Questions and answers
What is on the Oklahoma CEOE history test?
Ten history competencies, from American Indian societies before European contact to the United States since World War II, one of them Oklahoma's; four on political science, the Constitution, the levels of government and elections; three on economic concepts, the U.S. economy and the international economy.
How many questions are on the OSAT U.S. History/Oklahoma History/Government/Economics test?
Field 117 has 80 selected-response questions and one constructed-response assignment. A test center allows 4 hours of testing and an online proctor 3 hours with no breaks, each after a 15-minute tutorial, by the test page.
What is the passing score for the OSAT history test?
The test page sets it at 240. Part of that score comes from the written assignment, so the tally of right answers shown after a round here is not a scaled score and carries no verdict.
Is the CEOE history test the same as the OSAT?
The Certification Examinations for Oklahoma Educators, CEOE, is the program, and the Oklahoma Subject Area Tests, OSAT, are its content tests. This history test is field 117. World History/Geography is a separate test on the same list.