American Yawp Practice Quiz Questions & Answers: The Full Test Bank

Chapter 1: The New World

Which development helped some Indigenous societies in North America support large towns before European contact?

1. A. Steam-powered farming
2. B. The spread of maize farming
3. C. European steel tools
4. D. Sugar plantations

Key terms for Chapters 1–3: Cahokia, maize, Columbian Exchange, encomienda, Jamestown, New Netherland, Puritans, Atlantic slavery.

Chapter 2: Colliding Cultures

What was a main purpose of the Dutch colony of New Netherland?

1. A. Building a fur-trading network
2. B. Creating a Catholic refuge
3. C. Growing rice with convict labor
4. D. Stopping all English settlement

Key terms: New Netherland, Jamestown, joint-stock company, tobacco, headright system, Pilgrims, Puritans and religious dissent.

Chapter 3: British North America

What was the main goal of the English Navigation Acts?

1. A. Ending trade between the colonies
2. B. Controlling colonial trade for England’s benefit
3. C. Giving the colonies full economic freedom
4. D. Banning English goods in America

Key terms: Navigation Acts, mercantilism, Middle Passage, Bacon’s Rebellion, forced migration and the Glorious Revolution.

Chapter 4: Colonial Society

Which product often served as commodity money in the Chesapeake colonies?

1. A. Tea
2. B. Tobacco
3. C. Cotton
4. D. Silver

Chapter 5: The American Revolution

Which British response followed the Boston Tea Party?

1. A. The Coercive Acts
2. B. The Treaty of Paris
3. C. The Proclamation of Emancipation
4. D. The Missouri Compromise

Key terms: Stamp Act, Townshend Acts, Boston Massacre, Tea Act, Boston Tea Party, Coercive Acts, Lexington and Concord.

Chapter 6: A New Nation

What dispute did the Great Compromise settle at the Constitutional Convention?

1. A. How Congress would represent the states
2. B. Where to place the national capital
3. C. Who could join the army
4. D. How to buy western land

Chapter 7: The Early Republic

What did the federal response to the Whiskey Rebellion show?

1. A. Federal laws could not be enforced
2. B. The new government would enforce federal taxes
3. C. States controlled foreign trade
4. D. The national army had been ended

Chapter 8: The Market Revolution

What did the Erie Canal directly connect?

1. A. The Mississippi River and Mexico
2. B. The Great Lakes and Hudson River
3. C. Boston and Charleston
4. D. California and the Atlantic

Chapter 9: Democracy in America

Which policy forced many Native peoples from lands east of the Mississippi?

1. A. The Homestead Act
2. B. The Indian Removal Act
3. C. The Dawes Act
4. D. The Kansas-Nebraska Act

Chapter 10: Religion and Reform

Which meeting issued the Declaration of Sentiments in 1848?

1. A. Hartford Convention
2. B. Seneca Falls Convention
3. C. Albany Congress
4. D. Constitutional Convention

Chapter 11: The Cotton Revolution

Why did the cotton gin help slavery expand?

1. A. It ended the need for field labor
2. B. It made short-staple cotton more profitable
3. C. It stopped cotton exports
4. D. It replaced enslaved workers with machines

Chapter 12: Manifest Destiny

Which treaty ended the Mexican-American War?

1. A. Treaty of Ghent
2. B. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
3. C. Adams-Onís Treaty
4. D. Treaty of Paris

Chapter 13: The Sectional Crisis

How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act deepen the sectional crisis?

1. A. It ended slavery across the West
2. B. It let settlers vote on slavery
3. C. It admitted California as a slave state
4. D. It restored the national bank

Chapter 14: The Civil War

Where did the Emancipation Proclamation declare enslaved people free?

1. A. In every US state
2. B. In states rebelling against the Union
3. C. Only in border states
4. D. Only in Washington, DC

Chapter 15: Reconstruction

What did the Fourteenth Amendment establish?

1. A. Direct election of senators
2. B. Citizenship and equal protection under the law
3. C. A national income tax
4. D. Voting rights for women

Chapter 16: Capital and Labor

Which event most damaged the Knights of Labor?

1. A. Pullman Strike
2. B. Haymarket Affair
3. C. Election of 1896
4. D. Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Key terms: Great Railroad Strike, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Haymarket Affair, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, trusts, Populism and free silver.

Chapter 18: Life in Industrial America

What major population shift did the 1920 census record?

1. A. Most Americans lived in the West
2. B. Urban residents outnumbered rural residents
3. C. Immigration had completely stopped
4. D. Farm work became the largest occupation

Chapter 19: American Empire

What did the United States gain under the treaty ending the Spanish-American War?

1. A. Canada and Cuba
2. B. Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines
3. C. Mexico and Panama
4. D. Hawaii and Alaska

Key terms: Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, Teller Amendment, Platt Amendment, Open Door Policy, Theodore Roosevelt and anti-imperialism.