1. From where did the Jamestown settlement obtain the seeds for its successful tobacco crop?
a. Trinidad
b. Cuba
c. Mexico
d. Haiti
2. The British Constitution:
a. was written in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
b. is called the Magna Carta.
c. included English law and acts of Parliament.
d. was ratified by the American colonies.
3. Violations of the Sugar Act were tried in vice-admiralty courts in:
a. Boston.
b. New York.
c. Halifax.
d. Philadelphia
4. What were the two products traded by branches of the Sioux tribe at the yearly trade fair?
a. buffalo robes and corn
b. beaver pelts and buffalo robes
c. horses and beaver pelts
d. corn and rifles
5. White settlement in Oregon had all of the following effects on the Cayuses Indians EXCEPT:
a. the spread of a virulent measles epidemic.
b. the use of the Cayuses as farm laborers for whites.
c. the rejection of Christianity by the Cayuses.
d. the eventual extermination of the Cayuses.
6. Overland immigration to the trans-Mississippi West was highest in:
a. 1840.
b. 1844.
c. 1847.
d. 1852.
7. The election of 1852:
a. was the first contested by the Republican Party.
b. saw the strongest showing ever for the Whigs.
c. focused primarily on troubles with Mexico.
d. was won by a northern Democrat.
8. Members of Young America supported:
a. extending American influence throughout the Americas.
b. universal suffrage for all males.
c. repeal of the unpopular Compromise of 1850.
d. Winfield Scott for president in 1852.