CSS Past Papers 2008- History of the USA - 1

CSS Past Papers 2008- History of the USA - 1

1. The colony of Virginia was founded in 1607 by ?

a) Captain Robert
b) Christopher Columbus
c) Johan Smith
d) Scott Barlow

2. The colony of New Netherland, founded by the Dutch in 1621, came under English rule in 1664 and was renamed?

a) New Hampshire
b) New Found Land
c) New York
d) New Mexico

3. The first ten amendments to the American Constitution are known as?

a) Bill of rights
b) Citizen demands
c) Governments regulations

4. A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, is the?

a) First amendment
b) Second amendment
c) Tenth amendment

5. The confusion at the time of Jefferson‟s election was corrected by the adoption in 1804 of the?

a) First amendment
b) Eleventh amendment
c) Twelveth amendment
d) Thirteenth amendment

6. The Navigation Act was passed in?

a) 1660
b) 1760
c) 1860

7. The PENDLIETON Act, an act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States, was enacted on?

a) May 11, 1871
b) June 19, 1872
c) September 20, 1881
d) January 16, 1883

8. The Atlantic Charter of August 14, 1941 was a statement of common war aims formulated between?

a) Roosevelt and Hitler
b) Roosevelt and Degaulle
c) Hiter and Degaulle
d) Roosevelt and Winston Churchill

9. The United States of America formally declared war on Germany on?

a) December 8, 1941
b) December 12, 1941
c) January 20, 1942
d) None of these

10. President Roosevelt proclaimed an unlimited emergency on?
a) May 27, 1941
b) May 27, 1942
c) May 27, 1945

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