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NAEP US History Grade 12 - Question List

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71. In the late 1400's and early 1500's, the primary motivation for the European voyages of exploration was
  1. an attempt to improve the navigation skills of Portuguese sailors
  2. the need to find new sources of tin and wool
  3. the desire to establish foreign colonies to relieve overpopulation
  4. the desire to find new trade routes to China and the East Indies
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72. What statement about the widespread use of vaccines for smallpox and measles in the United States is true?
  1. The vaccines proved ineffective, and these diseases have continued to spread rapidly.
  2. Children caught smallpox and measles at a later age and suffered less from them.
  3. The vaccines led to a dramatic decline in the death rate.
  4. Controversy about the ethics of vaccination prevented their wide-scale acceptance and adoption.
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73. The phrase "Harlem Renaissance" refers to
  1. African American political gains during the Reconstruction period
  2. African American achievements in art, literature, and music in the 1920's
  3. religious revival in the African American community that swept the nation in the 1950's
  4. a series of urban renewal projects that were part of the Great Society program of the 1960's
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74. What was an important difference between the English colonies in the Americas and those controlled by France, Portugal, and Spain?
  1. English colonies had more slaves than did other colonies.
  2. English colonists were allowed to form a type of self-government and other colonists were not.
  3. Fewer people settled in the English colonies than in other colonies.
  4. Fewer people seeking religious freedom settled in the English colonies than in other colonies.
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75. Many American colonists believed that the Stamp Act (1765) represented a form of
  1. taxation without representation
  2. colonial self-government
  3. compromise with the British Parliament
  4. limitation on international trade
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