Which of the following is true of the immigration legislation of the 1920s?
a. The legislation had no lasting effect.
b. It was opposed by the large corporations.
c. It encouraged immigration from underdeveloped countries.
d. The legislation was the most enduring achievement of the rural counterattack.
e. It was quickly repealed in the 1930s.
The Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution __________.
a. changed the process of electing the president and vice president
b. decreased presidential power
c. heightened the potential for further political conflict
d. stopped the African slave trade
e. dealt with the judicial power of the United States
Building the new skyscrapers depended on the invention of __________.
a. concrete reinforced pilings
b. electric elevators
c. automatic window cleaners
d. indoor plumbing
e. vulcanization
What attitudes about race did the American Expeditionary Force reflect?
a. All men, regardless of color, can fight equally and deserve equal opportunities for
advancement.
b. Since black and white soldiers fought together in the Spanish-American War, they
should do so in World War I.
c. Blacks were considered inferior and should be segregated from whites and not given
positions of authority.
d. African Americans and other people of color were considered inferior and therefore
not permitted to fight as soldiers but only to serve as support staff.
e. The AEF believed blacks and whites should be completely segregated, so blacks were
required to command all black troops.
President Johnson antagonized Republicans in Congress by __________.
a. calling for an extension of the Freedmen’s Bureau
b. supporting a civil rights bill to guarantee equality for African Americans
c. urging confiscation and redistribution of southern land
d. vetoing popular legislation
e. insisting that anyone wanting readmission to the Union had to support the Fourteenth
Amendment
After Mexico declared its independence from Spain, it lured American settlers to Texas
with offers of __________.
a. more freedoms for women
b. religious freedom
c. cheap, fertile land
d. money
e. abolition of slavery
What was Dr. Benjamin Spock’s 1946 bestselling book about?
a. infant and child care
b. public education
c. Cold War politics
d. dating and marriage
e. space travel
The Philippine-American War was __________.
a. a minor event for Americans
b. more costly than the Spanish-American War
c. fought in a traditional manner
d. never completely resolved
e. over even before the Spanish-American War
President Ford gave an executive order to the CIA in 1975 in which he __________.
a. ordered the CIA to focus on domestic rather than international intelligence operations
b. ordered the CIA to limit their surveillance to hostile nations
c. ordered the CIA to do whatever was necessary to topple Castro
d. outlawed assassinations as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy
e. outlawed covert surveillance as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy
Why did the government increase federal funding for science education in 1957?
a. The country was starting to favor science over religion.
b. The country became more interested in electronic gadgets.
c. It was responding to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik.
d. It was responding to critics of “progressive” education.
e. It was responding to working-class criticisms of public education.
Which identifies a key reason for why Corts was able to conquer Montezuma, the Aztec
emperor?
a. Montezuma’s unarmored horsemen were unable to fight the armored horses that Corts
brought with him.
b. Corts convinced the Aztecs to fight against their own corrupt leader, Montezuma.
c. Corts and his men overwhelmingly outnumbered the Aztecs.
d. Corts was able to recruit thousands of nearby Native Americans who helped him
defeat Montezuma.
e. Montezuma believed that the Spaniards were gods and did not resist them at first.
Which identifies the strongest influence on eighteenth-century colonial Americans?
a. They still confronted the “howling wilderness” that previous generations had
encountered.
b. They still lived in geographic isolation as in the seventeenth century.
c. They could not escape the economic and cultural influence of Britain.
d. They had completely escaped the economic and cultural influence of Britain.
e. They gradually changed their religious beliefs during their lives in the colonies.
According to which political theory is power dangerous and must be countered by
virtue?
a. commonwealth ideology
b. separation of powers
c. balance of power
d. contractual law
e. corruption and virtue
What was President George W. Bush’s first order of business after being elected?
a. expansion of the Americans with Disabilities Act
b. environmental protections
c. quelling the unrest in the Middle East
d. health care reform
e. a large tax cut
State and local governments aided the railroad by giving it __________.
a. money and land
b. the right to seize private property
c. free labor to lay tracks
d. legal immunity
e. tax breaks and investment advice
In terms of worker relations, Henry Ford __________.
a. was generally behind the times
b. showed little concern for his workers
c. used trickery and brute force to achieve his aims
d. developed a poor image that limited his choice of workers
e. tried many innovations
The main belief of the Radical Republicans was that __________.
a. the process of Reconstruction should be completed quickly
b. the South should be treated with sympathy and compassion
c. Reconstruction policy should be initiated by the president
d. there was an inherent equality between races
e. the rights of freedmen should be ensured by the federal government
Which issue led directly to Bacon’s Rebellion?
a. the inability of the governor to effectively control the Indians on the frontier
b. the unfair trial of colonial smugglers by British admiralty courts
c. Parliament’s decision to appoint the governor rather than allow popular elections
d. the attempt to move the capital from Jamestown to Williamsburg
e. the attempt of Bacon to obtain a license to engage in the fur trade
The Republican party platform in the post-Civil War period __________.
a. included lower protective tariffs
b. did not include civil rights legislation
c. promised subsidies to railroads
d. included decentralized government power
e. ignored moral issues
What did the greatest economic challenge faced by the Nixon administration involve?
a. the reduction of government spending
b. a dramatic increase in international oil prices
c. the bankruptcy of the Federal Reserve System
d. the crisis in American farming
e. rampant unemployment
In the first decade of the twentieth century, the American Federation of Labor
__________.
a. became increasingly radical
b. remained devoted to the interests of skilled craftsmen
c. included more and more unskilled workers
d. lost its place as the largest American union
e. aligned itself with management of America’s largest corporations
What was the main function of American cities during the Jeffersonian era?
a. to centralize cultural activities
b. to serve as depots for international trade
c. to create agricultural marketplaces
d. to centralize financial activities
e. to serve as places to exchange ideas and keep up with news
Which of the following is incorrectly matched with its colony?
a. France ” Canada
b. Portugal ” Brazil
c. Spain ” Puerto Rico
d. England ” Cuba
e. Spain ” Mexico
The growing division between North and South during the 1840s and 1850s
__________.
a. was primarily expressed in political terms
b. was entirely expressed in legal, constitutional terms
c. had little impact on the common man
d. was increasingly seen in cultural and intellectual terms
e. had reached an uneasy but peaceful stalemate by 1860
What was the significance of the decline in fertility rates in America between 1800 and
1939?
a. It reflected a higher death rate among immigrant families.
b. It reflected a higher infant mortality rate due to primitive medical practices.
c. It reflected a conscious decision of many Americans to postpone or limit their
families.
d. It showed that more Americans were remaining single rather than marrying and
having children.
e. It showed that fewer Americans were dying of disease now that vaccines had come
into popular use.
What did Native Americans and African Americans have in common in the early
nineteenth century?
a. Both were enslaved by white Americans and used as cheap agricultural labor.
b. Both successfully resisted white American dominance with peaceful protests and
lobbying.
c. Both successfully resisted white American dominance with violence, often joining
together to do so.
d. Both were denied their citizenship and freedom in most areas of the United States.
e. Both successfully obtained their citizenship and freedom in most areas of the United
States.
The Ku Klux Klan collapsed after __________.
a. several major leaders were convicted of sexual and financial crimes
b. it was unmasked as a secret communist conspiracy
c. new federal laws made membership a crime in 1927
d. evangelist Billy Sunday denounced it in a widely reprinted sermon
e. southerners abandoned it as being unlike the Reconstruction-era Klan
British authorities based their colonial commercial policies on the theory of
__________.
a. feudalism
b. monopolism
c. mercantilism
d. federalism
e. republicanism
The two transcontinental railroad lines met at __________.
a. Sacramento, California
b. Reno, Nevada
c. Promontory, Utah
d. Santa Fe, New Mexico
e. Salt Lake City, Utah
The most influential spokesman for the common school movement was __________.
a. John Harward
b. Lyman Beecher
c. Henry James
d. Horace Mann
e. Terrance Knox
Thomas Jefferson’s attitude toward Native Americans showed that he __________.
a. did not believe they should live in the same areas as Americans.
b. believed their way of life to be worth protecting and preserving
c. wanted to eliminate them
d. respected them as people, and was impressed by their culture
e. wanted to try to assimilate them into the nascent culture of the United States
The __________ nation was an amalgam of peoples of both Native American and
African origins.
a. Algonquin
b. Seminole
c. Cherokee
d. Apache
e. Choctaw
The main issue of John Quincy Adams’s presidency was __________.
a. forced relocation of Native Americans
b. internal improvements
c. foreign affairs
d. tariffs
e. the idea of a continental railroad
The Suffolk Resolves advocated __________.
a. forcible resistance to the Coercive Acts
b. the assassination of British tax collectors
c. the formation of an American navy
d. the repeal of the Stamp Act
e. the formation of the Sons of Liberty