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Which of the following statements about the nation’s aging population is true? A) On January 1, 2011, one-fifth of the nation’s population was over sixty-five. B) As the nation ages, the use of the nation’s wealth has begun to shift […]

What was one of the major reasons for the popular appeal of the Protestant Reformation? A) Italian merchants realized it made fewer financial demands on them than Catholicism. B) Political figures could use its challenge to Rome’s spiritual authority in […]

The discovery that cattle could feed on the prairie grasses of the public domain of the northern plains led to the development of which of the following? A) bonanza farms B) open-range ranching C) refrigerated railroad cars D) sharecropping The […]

How did the theories of Sigmund Freud affect the ideas and behavior of progressive intellectuals? A) They were especially influenced by Freud’s essentially dark view of human nature. B) They strongly agreed with his view that almost all human behavior […]

The Homestead Strike __________. A) pitted private police against steelworkers near Pittsburgh B) involved rail yard workers west of Chicago C) illustrated the working-class consciousness of Midwestern farmers D) marked the beginning of the end for the Knights of Labor […]

What was the key felony, revealed by the Watergate tapes, committed by Richard Nixon? A) planning the Watergate burglar. B) obstructing justice C) violating the constitution D) witness tampering What happened after the German sinking of a French channel steamer […]

Discuss the challenges that almost doomed the Jamestown colony to suffer the same fate as the Roanoke experiment. Why did the number of New England women in the mills decrease over the 1820s and 1830s? A) Mechanization had made their […]

What pitted John C. Calhoun against Andrew Jackson from the beginning? A) He resented Jackson’s stance on slavery. B) He disliked Jackson’s elitist mannerisms. C) He coveted the presidency and was hoping to succeed Jackson sooner rather than later. D) […]

The Report on Manufactures can best be described as which of the following? A) an early example of economic research B) a bold call for economic planning C) a blue print for a Department of Commerce D) an argument of […]

Who caused a major problem for the new government of the Articles of Confederation when it closed the lower Mississippi River to American commerce? A) Spain B) France C) Great Britain D) England Which of the following describes President Obama’s […]

What was a major factor in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s? A) a distrust of foreigners, Catholics, blacks, and Jews B) a surge in socialist and union activism C) an increase in black civil […]

In the 1680s, James II tried to unify royal control of the northern colonies by creating which of the following? A) Board of Trade B) Dominion of New England C) Office of Colonial Administration D) Dominion of North America What […]

Feminist Margaret Sanger was which of the following? A) a leader of divorce reform B) a strong proponent of birth control C) a major critic of an equal rights amendment D) a chief opponent of prohibition The major paradox of […]

What did Richard Nixon learn during his goodwill tour of South America in 1958? A) Anti-American sentiment ran high in the region as a result of Eisenhower’s cold war policy. B) Eisenhower’s policies had not developed democratic institutions the way […]

Why did Republicans focus on Hillary Clinton in their investigation of the assault on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi? A) She was the most likely Democratic presidential nominee in 2016. B) She had organized an elaborate cover-up to prevent the […]

Which of the following best characterizes Martin Van Buren? A) He was a stoic and staunch advocate for Southern planters. B) He was a gregarious New Yorker who avoided partisanship. C) He served brilliantly under President Monroe as Secretary of […]

Johns Hopkins became the leader in graduate education by modeling itself after universities in which country? A) England B) France C) Italy D) Germany Why is it so difficult to generalize about the institution of slavery in the United States? […]

Which statement regarding the 1980 Republican nominee, Ronald Reagan, is true? A) He was seriously limited by his age during the 1980 campaign. B) He was never a serious contender for the presidential nomination before 1980. C) He was a […]

“Jersey negroes appear to be particularly adapted to this marketWe have the right to calculate on large importations in the future, from the success which hitherto attended the sale.” This quote from a Southern newspaper describes which of the following? […]

What was President Richard Nixon’s principal plan for ending the American commitment in the Vietnam conflict? A) threatening to invade China unless the North Vietnamese forces withdrew B) withdrawing American troops unilaterally C) ordering a naval blockade of the port […]

Which of the following best assesses the political response to the AIDS crisis in the 1980s? A) Only the Clinton administration would publicly acknowledge the AIDS crisis in 1993. B) Democrats vigorously campaigned on the AIDS issue in the 1984 […]

The waning support of Northerners for Radical policy was due in part to which of the following? A) the retirement of President Johnson B) the activities of the Ku Klux Klan C) the increasing fissure between northern and southern whites […]

What significance did the Freeport Doctrine have for the political career of Stephen Douglas? A) It made him unelectable in the South. B) It forever ruined his chances to win the support of Northern Democrats. C) It made him the […]

The most famous native-born revivalist of the Great Awakening, the intellectually brilliant author of sermons such as “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” was __________. A) Jonathan Edwards B) Charles Chauncy C) Solomon Stoddard D) Increase Mather Andrew […]

Which of the following statements about Christendom in the fourteenth century is accurate? A) It dominated Europe as well as Northern Africa. B) It had established cities and institutions of learning far superior to those of Islam or China. C) […]

What was the most important cause of prosperity during the “new era”? A) curtailment of federal spending and reduction of the deficit B) improved efficiency among American manufacturers C) sound federal regulation of the economy D) federal subsidies for basic […]

What was a main Republican criticism of Obama’s immigration reform plan? A) It did not include a “pathway to citizenship.” B) It was too detailed and specific. C) It ignored the desires of the Hispanic electorate. D) It did not […]

By the day of FDR’s inauguration in 1933, banking operations __________. A) had been suspended in four-fifths of the states B) continued, despite several well-publicized failures C) had collapsed totally throughout the country D) remained largely unaffected by the Depression […]

The growing risk of exposure to sexual predators was one troubling side effect of which of the following? A) the law and order campaign B) the wave of new immigrants C) the anonymity of the Internet D) the age gap […]

The urban ethnic neighborhoods of the late nineteenth century were __________. A) ghettos in the European sense B) crowded and unhealthy C) destroyers of traditional immigrant culture D) model communities with high living standards With what was the American Party […]

The British defeat at Yorktown resulted largely from the __________. A) inability of the British to persuade Tories to join them B) French fleet winning control of Chesapeake Bay and preventing Cornwallis from escaping from the peninsula by sea C) […]

The early confidence of both sides was rocked by the staggering casualties sustained in 1862 at __________. A) Bull Run B) Seven Pines C) Shiloh D) Vicksburg Which author spent most of his adult life in Europe writing about the […]

Fearing the nation’s loss of its moral compass, conservative leaders during the 1970s and 1980s actively tried to implement the goals of which movement? A) law and order B) crime and punishment C) civil rights D) criminal justice English thinker […]

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who used the slogan “Back to Africa”? A) Marcus Garvey B) W. E. B. Du Bois C) Booker T. Washington D) Langston Hughes What did American and British strategists decide […]

The Quakers’ religious beliefs were based on which of the following? A) submission to governmental authority B) a hierarchical society led by a hereditary nobility C) an educated and ordained ministry D) direct, mystical experience of religious truth In contrast […]

Which of the following occurred under the Platt Amendment? A) America promised it would not acquire the Philippines as a result of the Spanish-American War. B) Cuba was forced to promise to grant naval bases to America and to avoid […]

Why was the expansion of tobacco cultivation an economic problem in Virginia by the end of the seventeenth century? A) It led to a slump in prices. B) It prompted competition from New England. C) The availability of land in […]

Which of the following accurately assesses the way most white Americans understood slavery? A) They saw it as a beneficial institution. B) They deplored it as an immoral sin. C) They ardently wished for its nationwide expansion. D) They understood […]

The Underground Railroad __________. A) was well-organized and extensive in both the North and the South B) helped slaves escape to Mexico C) endangered slavery by its explicit challenge to the South D) aided tens of thousands of escaping slaves […]

What was the concern as millennials increasingly turned to Facebook and other social media? A) that Facebook would exercise too much power over the consumption patterns of Americans B) that television would soon become extinct as a medium C) that […]

Which of the following statements best describes the African experience in the English North America in 1640? A) Africans were treated equally as English indentured servants. B) The African experience in English North America was much like that of slaves […]

Which of the following was the basic difference between Lincoln and Davis as presidents? A) Lincoln could not stand criticism. B) Davis allowed personal feelings to distort his judgment. C) Lincoln failed to delegate authority. D) Davis was patient with […]

The initiative in the Pacific shifted to the Americans as a result of which 1942 battles? A) Coral Sea and Midway B) Manila and Tarawa C) Saipan and Guadalcanal D) Okinawa and Iwo Jima What likely would have happened if […]

The Bonus Army, which came to Washington, D.C. in 1932, consisted largely of which of the following? A) unemployed steelworkers B) municipal, county, and state employees C) leftwing activists D) unemployed veterans A fundamental goal of mercantilist policy was to […]

Which of the following occurred in early 1895, when the Treasury’s gold reserves reached a desperately low point? A) President Cleveland devalued the dollar. B) President Cleveland ordered twenty million dollars worth of silver dollars coined even though this caused […]

As president, what was Jimmy Carter noted for? A) surrounding himself with Washington insiders B) working patiently and persistently with Congress to enact his programs C) trying to set a tone of democratic simplicity and moral fervor D) avoiding contact […]

In his decision on the Dred Scott case, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Roger Taney argued that the Missouri Compromise __________. A) violated the due process of law B) needed to be preserved for the […]

Which of the following was the key evidence in the Watergate Affair, several pieces of which were deliberately erased or disposed of? A) Nixon’s letters offering to pay the burglars to keep quiet B) Nixon’s nightly memos that detailed all […]

Illegal, often violent, resistance by the Sons of Liberty to __________ may be seen as marking the start of the revolution. A) the Proclamation of 1763 B) colonial assemblies C) the Boston Massacre D) the Stamp Act Like fellow westerners, […]