Two major suffrage organizations merged in 1890 to form the National American
Woman Suffrage Association under which person?
a. Alice Paul
b. Anna Howard Shaw
c. Carrie Chapman Catt
d. Lucy Burns
e. Susan B. Anthony
Why did American missionaries want to “Christianize” the Philippines?
a. Many American missionaries may have felt that Roman Catholicism was not a
legitimate form of Christianity or that it was not being properly practiced by Filipinos.
b. Most Filipinos were not Christian, and American missionaries felt it was their
obligation to convert them.
c. Most Filipinos were Christian, but American missionaries wanted to annex the
Philippines for money, so they told President McKinley otherwise.
d. Although many missionaries had tried to “Christianize” the Filipinos, they resisted
culturally and religiously.
e. American missionaries knew that “Christianizing” the Filipinos would make it easier
to govern and control them.
After 1890, the U.S. Navy’s building program __________.
a. was called off altogether to help balance the federal budget
b. began to concentrate on fast, lightly armored commerce raiders
c. began to emphasize static coastal defenses over building ships
d. shifted to the construction of a battleship navy with offensive striking power
e. started using steel steamships instead of sailing vessels
The first European nation to establish contact with sub-Saharan Africa was
__________.
a. France
b. Italy
c. the Netherlands
d. Portugal
e. Spain
Why did militants take 53 Americans prisoner from the U.S. embassy in Tehran in
1979?
a. The Carter administration had threatened war if the oil embargo was not lifted
immediately.
b. The Carter administration had seized a group of insurgents the week before and
refused to release them.
c. The Carter administration refused to end American involvement in Nicaragua.
d. President Carter publicly denounced their Ayatollah’s revolution.
e. Carter had allowed the exiled shah to seek medical treatment in the United States.
Why were Republicans able to dominate politics in the 1920s, controlling both
Congress and the presidency?
a. Republicans appealed to the traditional values of immigrant groups and factory
workers.
b. Americans were looking for a return to traditional policies following the changes of
the Progressive Era.
c. Republican government pushed for increased taxation to provide more services to the
urban poor.
d. The government role in the economy decreased in the 1920s.
e. Lower tariffs provided better access to inexpensive, European consumer goods,
fueling the Jazz Age culture.
Lyndon Johnson’s main theme in the presidential election of 1964 was __________.
a. rolling back communist gains around the world
b. further advances in civil rights
c. decreasing the size of the federal government
d. winning the cold war
e. ending poverty in America
During World War II, which group was placed in relocation camps in the United States?
a. Chinese Americans
b. German Americans
c. Japanese Americans
d. Russian Americans
e. Jewish Americans
Which statement best describes the social change that American women experienced
from the 1920s to the 1960s?
a. The media no longer portrayed stereotypical gender roles for men and women in the
1960s, as it had in the 1920s.
b. In the 1960s, there were actually fewer women enrolled in college and professional
schools than there were in the 1920s.
c. In the 1960s, there were a large number of female doctors and lawyers, unlike the
situation in the 1920s.
d. Women were no longer relegated to stereotypical occupations in the 1960s, as they
had been in the 1920s.
e. In the 1960s, women were no longer expected to maintain the household and raise
children, as they were in the 1920s.
Most working women __________.
a. were young and single
b. were married with children
c. were African American
d. had many professional opportunities
e. were widows or single mothers
Which of the following identifies the main catalyst for the Protestant Reformation in
England in the 1500s?
a. Henry VII’s severing of all ties with the pope
b. the Act of Supremacy
c. the death of Edward VI
d. the transfer to private owners of land belonging to the Catholic Church
e. Henry VIII’s wish to dissolve his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
What was the key difference between the English and Spanish colonial systems?
a. The English crown totally funded the colonies, while the Spanish Crown offered little
aid to its colonizers.
b. The English efforts were private, and the Spanish colonies were supported by the
Crown.
c. The English settled the interior lands, while the Spanish settled primarily in coastal
regions.
d. Religion played a central role in all the English colonies, but had little or no impact
in New Spain.
e. The English were more concerned with finding wealth in the New World, while the
Spanish wanted to establish permanent settlements.
How did Hamilton demonstrate his dedication in developing his plan for prosperity and
security?
a. He consulted his friends and colleagues in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and
Virginia.
b. He surveyed and patiently listened to his political enemies, especially Jefferson and
Madison.
c. He traveled to England and France, studying their economic institutions and
industrial centers.
d. He traveled around the United States, even into the Western territories, to gain a true
sense of the nation’s fiscal status.
e. He studied economic literature deeply and surveyed the country’s current fiscal
situation.
What characterized the American economy of the 1920s?
a. a desire for foreign imports over domestic products
b. a reduction in consumer spending
c. advertising becoming a major industry
d. a revival in small shops over larger department stores
e. a boom in agriculture
What was the key to the new affluence of the 1920s?
a. new methods of business organization
b. the discovery of new sources of raw materials
c. better methods of financing business
d. a more skilled workforce
e. new technology
In what ways was American democracy an illusion in the 1820s-1840s?
a. Although all white men began life with equal opportunities, women and African and
Native
Americans did not.
b. Despite the impression that people had equal opportunities, distinctions of dress and
education persisted.
c. Not only were women and African and Native Americans excluded, but even the idea
that all white men began life with equal opportunities was false.
d. Only landowners could vote, and as there were so few landowners in the United
States, suffrage was not universal even among white men.
e. An increasing level of illiteracy led to the press focusing on issues of interest mainly
to the wealthy and highly educated members of society.
Sports flourished in the 1920s because __________.
a. city dwellers attempted to escape the violence in the streets
b. it was part of the youthful revolt of teenagers
c. new sports were more interesting to women
d. the wealthy sought ways to relieve boredom
e. people had more leisure time
__________ wrote the book Looking Backward, which described a future of socialism
in America.
a. Walter Rauschenbusch
b. Edward Bellamy
c. Richard Frick
d. Jane Addams
e. Henry George
How did U.S. geography encourage isolationism?
a. The United States was so close to Canada and Mexico that expansion there seemed
natural.
b. The United States was a relatively small country compared to Canada or Mexico,
making it less willing to engage in armed conflicts over land.
c. The United States was protected on both sides by vast oceans that discouraged attack
from Europe or Asia.
d. The United States had just concluded the Civil War and was more concerned with
domestic affairs than foreign ones.
e. The United States was beginning to prosper and look for new markets for its products
and workers for its factories.
Religious reasons were least important in the founding of which colony?
a. Massachusetts
b. Rhode Island
c. Maryland
d. Virginia
e. Pennsylvania
During Reconstruction, African Americans __________.
a. were able to become independent farmers
b. lived in integrated urban societies
c. lived in a divided society
d. had no opportunity for schooling
e. left the South in overwhelming numbers
Why did Kennedy authorize a covert mission in which 1,400 Cuban exiles invaded
Cuba?
a. to check the island for nuclear weapons
b. to topple the regime of Fidel Castro
c. to gather information about Castro’s relationship with Russian leader Khrushchev
d. to steal classified documents related to the conflict in Vietnam
e. to spark an anticommunist movement among the Cuban people
Which sentence best characterizes the creole languages that developed among slaves in
some parts of the South in the seventeenth century?
a. Creole languages were a mixture of English and different African languages.
b. Creole languages were a mixture of different African languages with no English.
c. Creole languages were a mixture of French, English, and Dutch languages.
d. Creole languages were written versions of African languages.
e. Creole languages were informal, colloquial versions of English.
The evidence that shows that economics was a major motivation for immigration was
found in the __________.
a. occupations of the immigrants
b. kinds of labor needed in the United States
c. peaks in immigration that correspond to times of economic prosperity
d. wages paid to immigrants
e. forms that immigrants filled out when they reached Ellis Island
In part, Lyndon Johnson wanted the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to demonstrate the
American commitment to __________.
a. making Vietnam an American colony
b. remaining neutral in Vietnam
c. defending South Vietnam
d. invading North Vietnam
e. cooperating with Russia in the Vietnam conflict
As the chief negotiator with France, __________ engineered the Louisiana Purchase.
a. James Madison
b. John Quincy Adams
c. John Marshall
d. James Monroe
e. Thomas Jefferson
Which statement best identifies the belief that Christian slaveholders used to justify the
enslavement of other human beings?
a. The prosperity of many is necessitated by the suffering of a few.
b. Suffering in slavery helps African Americans earn a place in Heaven.
c. People of African descent are demons and therefore should be enslaved.
d. People of African descent are mentally and morally inferior.
e. Being enslaved will help convert African Americans to Christianity.
The Treaty of Ghent __________.
a. awarded part of Canada to the United States
b. did little more than end hostilities and postpone issues for future negotiations
c. gave the British navigation rights on the Mississippi River
d. restored Quebec to France
e. was negotiated quickly and quietly, since there were no real debates
The period of greatest immigration in proportion to the overall population in America
was __________.
a. 1790-1800
b. 1805-1815
c. 1845-1855
d. 1880-1890
e. 1910-1920
President Truman’s primary motive for using nuclear weapons against Japan was to
__________.
a. impress the Soviet Union
b. kill as many Japanese as possible
c. make sure these costly weapons were utilized
d. completely destroy Japan
e. end the war as quickly as possible
How did the American family unit change after 1970?
a. The divorce rate sharply increased.
b. The birthrate steadily declined.
c. The number of births to women over age 30 increased.
d. The number of single-parent households was cut in half.
e. Most fathers started staying home to raise children while the mothers went to work.
Why did many African Americans in the North take up arms to fight the British?
a. They believed that the king and the British Parliament were solely responsible for
their lack of freedom.
b. They felt that the British had unfairly taxed them without offering representation in
Congress.
c. They believed that the Americans were more likely to win the war.
d. They felt that the army was the safest place for them to be at the time.
e. They felt that the Americans were more likely to free them from slavery if they sided
with them.