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Question 1 of 20
Surviving Catholic missions in California like the one shown in the image below are a reminder of which nation’s North American colonial history?
Source: Original uploader was Lordkinbote at English Wikipedia. , CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons
Question 2 of 20
The following excerpt is from a 1792 journal entry of Commander Vancouver, who was leading an expedition to survey Indigenous communities along North America’s northwest coast.
“The houses … did not seem to have been lately the residence of the Indians. The habitations had now fallen into decay; their inside, as well as a small surrounding space that appeared to have been formerly occupied, were overrun with weeds; amongst which were found several human sculls, and other bones, promiscuously scattered about.”
The devastation that Commander Vancouver describes was likely caused by which of the following illnesses?
Question 3 of 20
Which of the following inventions made slavery very profitable in the early United States?
Question 4 of 20
Which of the following United States Founding Fathers acted as the primary author of the Declaration of Independence?
Question 5 of 20
In the 1780s, antifederalists who opposed the then-proposed U.S. Constitution gained which of the following concessions to win their support?
Question 6 of 20
Which of the following events made American settlement west of the Mississippi River possible?
Question 7 of 20
The 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution expanded on which of the following actions President Abraham Lincoln took during the American Civil War?
Question 8 of 20
Which of the following Progressive Era reforms was caused in part by Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle ?
Question 9 of 20
Which of the following terms describes the United States’ role in World War I between the outbreak of hostilities in the summer of 1914 and the country’s entry into the war in 1917?
Question 10 of 20
Which of the following was a cornerstone of President Johnson’s Great Society in the 1960s?
Question 11 of 20
The Berlin Airlift in 1948 was a response to which of the following events?
Question 12 of 20
Which of the following describes a contribution of Sequoyah to Native American history?
Question 13 of 20
Which of the following figures from classical antiquity founded the empire depicted in the map below?
Source: http://www.drshirley.org/geog/geog14.html
Question 14 of 20
The map below highlights the spreading influence of which religion in the 8th century CE?
DieBuche , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Question 15 of 20
Which of the following parts of the Roman Empire persisted until the late 15th century CE?
Question 16 of 20
The following is an account of someone living in Cairo, Egypt, in the 14th century CE.
“This man flooded Cairo with his benefactions. He left no court emir nor holder of a royal office without the gift of a load of gold. The Cairenes made incalculable profits out of him and his suite in buying and selling and giving and taking. They exchanged gold until they depressed its value in Egypt and caused its price to fall.”
The author’s recollections refer to the actions of which of the following African rulers?
Question 17 of 20
The following question refers to the image below, the Sistine Madonna (1514) by Raphael.
Source: Raphael , Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Raphael’s artistic style is typical of which of the following artistic movements?
Question 18 of 20
The assassination of which European leader sparked the beginning of World War I in 1914?
Question 19 of 20
Which of the following events aided the rise of Nazism in Germany in the early 1930s?
Question 20 of 20
The French Revolution of 1789 deposed which of the following monarchs?
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