NAEP - National Assessment of Educational Progress U.S. History Grade 7

Question 1

Which document, issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declared that enslaved people in Confederate states were to be considered free?

Accepted Answer

The Emancipation Proclamation

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The Thirteenth Amendment

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The Freedmen's Bureau Act

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The Compromise of 1850

Question 2

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 produced a new framework for American government. What was the primary weakness of the Articles of Confederation that made a new constitution necessary?

Accepted Answer

The central government could not levy taxes or enforce laws

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It gave the federal government too much power over the states

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It failed to establish a Supreme Court

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It did not include a Bill of Rights

Question 3

The period following the Civil War known as Reconstruction (1865–1877) primarily aimed to achieve which of the following goals?

Accepted Answer

Reintegrate Southern states into the Union and secure rights for formerly enslaved people

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Expand westward settlement through the Homestead Act

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Industrialize the Southern economy through federal investment

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Punish Confederate leaders with long prison sentences

Question 4

The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary in 1914 is considered the immediate trigger for which major conflict that the United States eventually joined in 1917?

Accepted Answer

World War I

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The Spanish-American War

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The Russo-Japanese War

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The Boer War

Question 5

The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared what practice unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

Racial segregation in public schools

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Poll taxes that prevented Black citizens from voting

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The exclusion of women from serving on juries

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Literacy tests used as voting requirements

Question 6

Which U.S. government program, launched in 1862, encouraged westward migration by offering 160 acres of public land to settlers who agreed to farm it for five years?

Accepted Answer

The Homestead Act

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The Missouri Compromise

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The Morrill Land-Grant Act

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The Northwest Ordinance