American Culture Mock Exam

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Mock exam

There are going to be 24 questions about American culture and history. Good luck!

“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 __________.”

1. Love
2. Riches
3. Sunshine
4. Happiness

The Pilgrims came to America in 1620, on the Mayflower.

1. True
2. False

Which of these was NOT one of the original 13 colonies?

1. Georgia
2. Texas
3. Delaware
4. Rhode Island

Which episode from American colonial history is depicted here?

What was NOT a major problem in Native American-colonial relations?

1. European sense of superiority
2. Native American diversity
3. Polar Cultures
4. Lack of cultural relativism

Who signed the Indian Removal Act in 1830 to relocate (often forcibly) Native American tribes to a designated Indian Territory?

The series of forced removals after the Indian Removal Act was signed is often called the “Trail of Tears.”

1. True
2. False

What kind of assimilation was the Dawes Act (1887)?

In 1934, under which president began the “Indian New Deal”, which reversed earlier policies?

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. James K. Polk

On February 6, 1778 who was the first European nation to recognize the United States as an independent nation?

Who was the first president of the United States?

What is the 2nd amendment?

'_____ _____' was a widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.

President during the Mexican-American War:

1. Abraham Lincoln
2. Andrew Jackson
3. Franklin D. Roosevelt
4. James K. Polk

The roughly 2,000-mile route from Missouri to Oregon, which was used by hundreds of thousands of American pioneers in the mid-1800s to emigrate west, was called the...

What is the subgenre of Western films produced in Europe called?

1. Spaghetti Western
2. Gnocchi Western
3. Macaroni Western
4. Noodle Western

The acquisition of territory by the United States from France in 1803 (they paid fifteen million dollars) was called the...

North

South

1. ideal for large-scale farms

2. lack of industrial development

3. slavery was largely replaced by immigrant labour from Europe

4. economy was stalling

5. economy was booming

1. more abundant natural resources

2. industry flourished

3. slavery

4. transportation was easier

5. very few large cities

Eli Whitney invented a machine that can be used to take out the seeds from the cotton, so you could mass-produce cotton. This machine was called the...

A person who sought to abolish slavery during the 19th century was called an...

Who's the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?

1. Pearl Heart
2. Cathay Williams
3. Annie Oakley
4. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rebuilding the Southern government, society, infrastructure, and economy was called the...

On the evening of April 14, 1865, a famous actor and Confederate sympathizer, assassinated President Abraham Lincoln at Ford’s Theatre in Washington.

What was his name?

1. Dred Scott
2. Jim Crow
3. John Wilkes Booth
4. Lee Harvey Oswald

What were these laws called, that enforced segregation between white people and black people in public places?

GOOD LUCK ON YOUR EXAM!