Which colonial war between France and England demonstrated the British colonists
could fight effective joint operations?
a. King William’s War
b. Queen Anne’s War
c. King George’s War
d. War of the Spanish Succession
e. King Philip’s War
Abolitionism received its greatest support in the __________.
a. border states
b. small to medium-sized towns of the upper North
c. large cities
d. frontier territories
e. northern state legislatures
In the beginning, the Civil War was a __________.
a. struggle to free the slaves
b. struggle to preserve the Union
c. personal struggle between Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
d. struggle to preserve “King Cotton”
e. struggle over control of new and future territories
How does Jackson’s interpretation of the ‘spoils system” compare to contemporary
interpretations of it?
a. Unlike Jackson, today’s politicians refuse to use this practice.
b. Unlike Jackson, today’s politicians are not permitted to use this practice.
c. Like Jackson, today’s politicians use it sparingly and secretly.
d. Unlike Jackson, modern presidents are not free to reward their supporters in this way.
e. Unlike Jackson, today’s politicians do not believe that a “chosen few” qualify for
public duty.
Why did Catharine Beecher argue that women should be schoolteachers?
a. Women were best suited to instill virtues in young male children.
b. Women had a stronger moral sense than men.
c. Women were more intelligent than men.
d. Women were not qualified to work in any other occupation.
e. Women had better language and explication skills than men.
In the spring of 1968, students seized five buildings at __________ for eight days
before police regained control.
a. Arizona State University
b. Duke University
c. the University of California at San Francisco
d. Harvard University
e. Columbia University
People’s attitude toward organized religion in the 1950s was __________.
a. incredibly positive, and religious affiliation boomed
b. negative, and churches lost large numbers of members
c. that it was not as important in their lives as in the lives of previous generations
d. that it was the only way to deal with the emotional stress of the Cold War
e. that it was something they simply did not have time for as life became more hectic
Which best describes Benjamin Franklin’s main goal in drafting the Albany Plan?
a. to organize a council of delegates to coordinate common defense and western
expansion
b. to propose the dredging of canals that connected Albany with Lake Erie and the St.
Lawrence River
c. to set up a system of common taxes and tariffs throughout the colonies
d. to draft a constitution that freed the colonies from any control by the British crown
e. to prepare the colonies for an eventual war of independence with England
The president most closely identified with the “Era of Good Feeling” was __________.
a. James Monroe
b. James Madison
c. John Quincy Adams
d. Thomas Jefferson
e. Andrew Jackson
As a “bird of passage”, an immigrant __________.
a. stayed in the United States
b. quickly became an American citizen
c. quickly moved west to farm
d. was detained, or “caged,” indefinitely
e. did not stay permanently in the United States
President Reagan’s policies toward the Soviet Union changed in his second term when
Reagan __________.
a. focused more on destroying the Soviet Union’s economy than on the arms race
b. trusted the Soviet Union more, so that it became America’s closest ally
c. trusted the Soviet Union less, and refused to negotiate with its leaders
d. was more willing to cooperate with the Soviet Union
e. was more eager to break up the Soviet Union
Spain became the number-one power in Europe during the sixteenth century because
__________.
a. the Pope favored Spain’s efforts
b. of the vast amounts of gold and silver it imported from the New World
c. Spain had extensive natural resources and many deep-water ports
d. the people had lived in peace and tranquility for centuries
e. the Spanish were the best shipbuilders of the day
What effect did memories of the Great Depression have on Americans in the 1950s?
a. Many Americans became almost desperately obsessed with gathering material goods.
b. Many Americans hoarded their money and refrained from purchasing expensive
items, such as homes and cars.
c. Many Americans had to be hospitalized for overeating disorders.
d. Many Americans donated money to charities rather than engaging in consumerism.
e. Many Americans were mistrustful of banks, and this damaged the economy.
What was the main implication behind Black Codes?
a. Southerners were willing to allow African Americans legal equality.
b. Southerners wanted African Americans to return to positions of servility.
c. Southerners were interested in improving the education of the freedmen.
d. The freedmen would be allowed to vote and participate in the political process.
e. The idea of ‘separate but equal” was already established.
Which of the following individuals is matched with his art form?
a. William Sidney Mount : novels
b. Nathaniel Hawthorne : novels
c. Herman Melville : painting
d. Oliver Wendell Holmes : painting
e. George Caleb Bingham : novels
How did the ideas promoted by Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois contradict
each other?
a. Washington believed in the good of an industrial society, whereas Du Bois saw the
dehumanizing nature of industrialism.
b. Washington believed in African Americans gradually gaining rights, whereas Du Bois
believed in all rights being demanded by all people immediately.
c. Washington believed that unions decreased the efficiency of production, whereas Du
Bois believed in the power of unions to support workers.
d. Washington believed the woman’s place was in the home, whereas Du Bois believed
in women’s rights to vote, work, and contraception.
e. Washington believed in an expansion of U.S. influence in the world, whereas Du
Bois believed in the country isolating itself from everyone.
The central issue in the Anglo-American debate over governance was __________.
a. divine sovereignty
b. laissez-faire
c. parliamentary sovereignty
d. absolute rule
e. colonial sovereignty
How did irrigation affect the class system in the West?
a. Native Americans owned water rights, so they became a wealthy, powerful class over
white farmers.
b. Companies that diverted water to the arid West grew wealthy, while landowners and
farmers became poor, second-class citizens.
c. Irrigation created fertile land, drawing migrant workers, who became second-class
citizens, generally from southern and eastern Europe.
d. Irrigation made once undesirable Indian reservations desirable, so Native Americans
were displaced and made to live as a class of nomads without land.
e. Because land was suddenly productive, landowners became wealthy, whereas
non-landowners became workers.
In what way was Theodore Roosevelt not conservation-minded?
a. He approved using federal land preserves in Alaska for coal mining.
b. He supported coal strip mining, which he knew damaged the environment.
c. He preserved federal lands but less so than any other president.
d. He hunted and killed big game, which, even in his time, were becoming scarce.
e. He supported the meatpacking industry’s mistreatment of cows.
What did the Volstead Act do?
a. implemented prohibition
b. restricted immigration
c. created special supervision over stockyards, packinghouses, and grain trading
d. reduced income taxes for the wealthy
e. established a higher protective tariff
In what way was Taft more of a conservationist than Roosevelt?
a. He opposed Ballinger’s sale of millions of acres of public land.
b. He opposed Ballinger’s sale of Alaskan land to coal companies.
c. He instituted the nation’s first recycling program.
d. He was a vegetarian and opposed to hunting animals.
e. He conserved more public land than his predecessor.
Who was president of the United States during the depression of 1893?
a. Herbert Hoover
b. Grover Cleveland
c. Rutherford B. Hayes
d. William McKinley
e. Theodore Roosevelt
Why did the Homestead Act of 1862 fail?
a. It charged too much for government land.
b. The land allotments were insufficient for farming arid land.
c. It did not adequately convert Native Americans to farming.
d. Gold was discovered on land set aside for farming.
e. Too few settlers were willing to migrate to the West.
Which statement is the best interpretation of this sentence: “For the British, ‘American’
was a way of saying ‘not quite English'”?
a. The British believed that the colonists could only become truly American if they
broke away
from the crown.
b. The British felt that the colonists needed to import more British goods in order to be
considered truly British.
c. The British did not perceive the differences among the various colonies and thought
all Americans were the same.
d. The British regarded colonists as second-class citizens and did not consider them to
be equal to British citizens.
e. The British felt that the colonists no longer wanted to be British and had rejected
many of their traditional ways.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers believed that a __________ of production would
restore purchasing power to farmers.
a. reduction
b. increase
c. redistribution
d. expropriation
e. monitoring
The temperance movement __________.
a. was created to help unmarried women survive in the workforce
b. led to a rise in organized crime due to criminalization of alcohol consumption
c. was the least successful reform movement of the era
d. was created to address alcohol consumption rates that were slightly less than modern
rates
e. addressed a very real social problem of the time
Lincoln rejected the Crittenden Compromise because he believed that __________.
a. taking a strong stand would win the support of northern unionists
b. most southerners favored secession
c. extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific would solve the slavery issue
d. the minority in favor of secession would soon give up
e. adding Cuba and Central America to the United States would relieve the sectional
crisis
In New England, women __________.
a. enjoyed rights and powers equal to those of men
b. outnumbered men in church by two to one
c. had no economic power whatsoever
d. could easily divorce their husbands
e. began to lobby for voting rights in this colonial period
How are the conflicts in Cuba and the Philippines in the 1890s related?
a. The United States intervened in both places to give colonists their freedom and to
help them become immediate independent states.
b. Both conflicts took place in the Pacific Ocean and allowed the winning countries (the
United States and Great Britain, respectively) more influence in Asia.
c. Both involved Spain, the United States, and a rebellious colonial population.
d. Both were both fought to give the United States more influence in Latin America.
e. The United States entered both conflicts to try to improve a weak economy.
Compared to Roosevelt, William Howard Taft __________.
a. was an activist
b. had less faith in the government’s ability to impose reform
c. did not act as aggressively against the trusts
d. had fewer real problems to confront
e. was a more dynamic politician