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 was determined
by an individual’s genetic inheritance.
C) They agreed with him that eternal archetypes were the fundamental factors in
understanding psychology.
D) They often used Freud’s ideas as an excuse to reject Victorian prudery.
Why was jazz considered the music of the 1920s?
A) It emphasized structure and order at a time when many people felt their lives were
out of control.
B) It required little sophistication to play or enjoy.
C) It expressed many people’s desire to break with tradition and throw off conventional
restraints.
D) It demonstrated the desire of many whites to understand the experiences of blacks.
Which of the following statements about 1840 presidential nominee William Henry
Harrison is true?
A) His career as a Wall Street banker made him widely unpopular.
B) A former military hero, his political views were largely unknown.
C) He was the first non-slaveholding presidential candidate.
D) He had built a reputation as one of Jackson’s most formidable foes in the Senate.
What was one of the “fundamental tenets of Jacksonian Democracy”?
A) Educated and virtuous people should be elected to office.
B) The experience of government employees improved government services.
C) Expert knowledge was the key to a democratic government.
D) Ordinary Americans could do anything and thus were at the center of the political
process.
In regards to female entry into the traditionally male-dominated workforce, employers
__________.
A) doubted women could handle the work
B) actively sought women to fill their ranks
C) defended women’s abilities to industrial employers
D) were ambivalent as long as the work was done
The Great War triggered a major movement of __________.
A) farmers to urban centers
B) urbanites to rural communities
C) southern blacks to northern cities
D) European immigrants to the United States
From 1830 to 1860, New Bedford was the center of American __________.
A) textile mills
B) whaling
C) trans-Atlantic shipping
D) steamboat construction
Change in higher education came like a floodtide with which of the following?
A) the proliferation of state universities
B) a new influx of foreign capital
C) the immigration of academics from Europe
D) a surge in Christian revivalist colleges
When President Wilson left the United States to attend the peace conference in Paris he
__________.
A) garnered respect from the Republicans in Congress
B) was the first U.S. president to leave American territory while in office
C) assured American involvement in and acceptance of the League of Nations
D) had to take great precautions because of the Spanish flu epidemic
What prompted French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand to initiate the Kellogg-Briand
Pact of 1928?
A) his interest in the United States as a result of his marriage to a New York heiress
B) his conviction that France and the United States ought to sustain their historic
friendship
C) his desire to gather allies in protection against a resurgent Germany
D) his mistrust of the United States and its expansive new naval program
Who was the proprietor of the colony founded as a haven for Quakers?
A) Lord Baltimore
B) William Penn
C) John Oriole
D) Sir John Colleton
Wilson became deeply involved in Mexican politics in response to the reactionary
General __________, who led the 1913 coup and had his former chief murdered.
A) Francisco Madera
B) Adolfo Diaz
C) Francisco Villa
D) Victoriano Huerta
Which of the following Indian nations resisted removal but was subdued by U.S.
troops?
A) the Cherokee
B) the Comanche
C) the Lakota
D) the Seminole
Which of the following was a site of a major Allied victory?
A) Yalta
B) Warsaw
C) Vienna
D) Stalingrad
Why did Henry David Thoreau refuse to pay taxes?
A) He believed in the sanctity of individual property.
B) He thought that taxes were a way of aiding the failures and punishing the successful.
C) He meant to protest the government’s collusion with the British Empire.
D) He refused to support the Mexican War and the complicit role of the state of
Massachusetts.
One of the most striking aspects of the various practical reform movements of the early
nineteenth century was their __________.
A) total dependence on federal funding
B) unwillingness to try new approaches to old problems
C) emphasis on creating special facilities for dealing with social problems
D) hostility toward science
In his “Farewell Address,” George Washington expressed his __________.
A) support of northern commercial interests
B) belief that political parties were harmful and divisive
C) willingness to run for a third term if nominated
D) support for a military alliance with England
From 1893 to 1898, American expansionists tried to annex which of the following?
A) the Virgin Islands
B) the Philippines
C) the Dominican Republic
D) the Hawaiian Islands
The theory of evolution by natural selection, which helped Americans justify their
exploitation of others, was the work of __________.
A) Charles Lyell
B) Charles Darwin
C) Jean Lamarck
D) Gregor Mendel
What was the larger consequence of the Great Awakening in the colonies?
A) It brought about more political uniformity.
B) It produced increasing religious intolerance.
C) It fostered more religious tolerance.
D) It thoroughly undid the impact of Enlightenment.
Chief Justice __________ established the power of the Supreme Court to invalidate
federal laws in Marbury v. Madison (1803).
A) John Marshall
B) Oliver Ellsworth
C) Samuel Chase
D) John Pickering
Headed by Florence Kelley and associated with lawyer Louis Brandeis, the most
effective women’s organization of the Progressive Era was the __________.
A) Consumers’ League
B) Women’s Trade Union League
C) League of Women Voters
D) National American Woman Suffrage Association
Other than Jackson’s personal popularity, the main campaign issue in the presidential
election of 1832 was __________.
A) nullification
B) Jackson’s Indian removal policy
C) the spoils system
D) the Bank of the United States
Which of the following is true of most of the industrial workers in the mid-nineteenth
century?
A) They lived in clean, modern company housing.
B) They were quick to join labor unions and demand decent wages.
C) They lived in the crowded, squalid slums that sprang up in major cities.
D) They were able to have small vegetable gardens and a few chickens.
After secession began in 1860, the proposed constitutional amendment which would
have guaranteed the future existence of slavery south of the old Missouri Compromise
line was the __________.
A) Compromise of 1860
B) Crittenden Compromise
C) Douglas Amendment
D) Lincoln-Buchanan Compromise
The transition from hunting and gathering to farming is known as the __________.
A) Neolithic revolution
B) Archaic revolution
C) Paleolithic revolution
D) Clovis complex culture
What was the effect of the Great War upon the American economy from 1914 to 1916?
A) Because of Wilson’s embargo, there was almost no effect.
B) Trade with the Central Powers almost quadrupled to $3.2 billion a year, while that
with the Allies fell to a trickle.
C) Because of Wilson’s embargo, the economy suffered a severe recession.
D) Trade with the Allies almost quadrupled to $3.2 billion a year, while that with the
Central Powers almost disappeared.
What happened as slaves became more valuable and northern opposition to slavery
became more explicit?
A) Slave owners became more lenient toward their slaves.
B) The system of slavery hardened perceptibly.
C) Neither trend had any effect upon slavery.
D) Slave owners began to move more actively to emancipate slaves and colonize them
in Africa.
The exploration and exploitation of the Americas in the sixteenth century was
dominated by which country?
A) Holland
B) Spain
C) England
D) France
Buchanan’s reaction to the Lecompton constitution was to __________.
A) support it because it provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Kansas
B) support it as a perfect example of popular sovereignty
C) refuse to submit it to Congress because it permitted slavery
D) support it despite the fraud perpetrated by the proslavery faction
Why did Ronald Reagan challenge Gerald Ford’s presidential nomination in 1976?
A) He criticized Kissinger for his “immoral” dtente.
B) He lambasted Ford for his painful spending cuts.
C) He objected to Ford’s decision to send more ground troops to Vietnam.
D) He charged Gerald Ford with pushing the Republican Party too far to the right.
Who consistently favored low prices and easy credit for western land?
A) settlers
B) manufacturers
C) craftsmen
D) merchants