FREE SAT US History MCQ Question and Answers

Question 1

"Slavery now stands upright, clanking its chains on Kansas territory, encircled by a code of death, and destroying all beloved liberty." The person who said this was probably a (n)

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abolitionist

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muckraker

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plantation owner

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Whig

Question 2

The Congress's ability to override the president's veto of a law

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override the veto with a two-thirds majority vote

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petition the states

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impeach

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call for a referendum

Question 3

The colonists rejected the Tea Act of 1773 despite the fact that it reduced the cost of East India tea because

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the price of the tea included a tax the colonists did not want to pay

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the act gave trading privileges to Dutch merchants over colonial merchants

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the Dutch threatened to stop trading with the colonies

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the British were selling the colonies inferior tea

Question 4

The social structure that developed in the colonies by 1750 was distinct from the social structure in Europe in that

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allowed for greater social mobility than in Europe

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included the Native Americans

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placed the clergy in the middle class

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did not include indentured servants

Question 5

The idea put out by Henry Clay to have Missouri become a slave state and Maine become a free state was known as

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the Missouri Compromise

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Clay's Folly

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the Clay Compromise

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the Maine Compromise

Question 6

Theodore Roosevelt classified a muckraker as someone who "sets his attention... solely on that which is nasty and debasing" in a speech from 1906. His remarks gave rise to the new term "muckrakers," which describes

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investigative journalists

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trial lawyers

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farmers in lowland areas

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religious leaders

Question 7

After President Kennedy was killed, a commission was established to examine the facts and issue a report. The commission's president was

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Chief Justice Earl Warren

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Pierre Salinger

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Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

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Senator J. William Fulbright