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 labor redundant.
B) The textile industry was gradually moving to the South.
C) The factories tended to fire women in order to give jobs to men.
D) Young women increasingly found work as schoolteachers and clerks.
On what grounds did William Graham Sumner defend the idea of laissez-faire
economics?
Why did Richard Nixon get caught up in the Watergate scandal and why did it force his
resignation?
What did Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara mean when he concluded that “the
figures didn’t add up”?
A) His methodical calculations of kill ratios and other statistics did not match the reality
of the ground in Vietnam.
B) The money the Department of Defense spent on the war in Vietnam was way out of
proportion to the importance of that small nation in the region.
C) The poor results of Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1968 presidential primaries suggested
that the election was unwinnable.
D) The small number of recruits generated by the draft suggested that too many young
American men were cheating their way out of the system.
Immediately after the Erie Canal was completed, it __________.
A) faced severe competition from the rapidly developing railroad network
B) became a financial success
C) became a source of bitter political wrangling in New York
D) was taken over by the federal government
How did freedmen respond to the abolition of slavery?
A) They more than doubled the cotton output because they worked for themselves
B) They homesteaded on vast sections of land confiscated from Confederate leaders
C) They took advantage of the ability to move “without a pass.”
D) They formed large collective farms so they did not need to work for whites.
Which of the following statements about the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
is true?
A) It offered direct “handouts” to the unemployed.
B) It suspended anti-trust laws to revive business activity.
C) It offered help to Americans in disaster zones such as the Dust Bowl.
D) It included an extensive public works program throughout 1934.
Who benefitted the most from the abolition of the quota system in immigration law?
A) Guatemalans
B) Nigerians
C) Koreans
D) Germans
How did the sedentary lifestyle of agricultural Indian tribes promote higher birth rates?
A) The decreased workload allowed more time for sexual activity.
B) Communal work on fields gave men and women more time to be together.
C) The much higher nutritional value of corn over meat assured higher fertility in
women.
D) Infants weakened a hunting tribe’s mobility but offered more helping hands on the
field.
The outcome of the nullification crisis convinced the radical South Carolina planters
that __________.
A) Jackson could not be trusted to keep his promises
B) Calhoun was not firmly committed to nullification
C) nullification and secession could succeed only with the support of other states
D) the government of the United States was an absolute tyranny
What heavily influenced female characters in 1950s popular television?
A) working women, with Rosie the Riveter being the prototype
B) the emergence of feminism
C) the ideas of Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington in Who Are We?
D) the work of Dr. Spock and other psychologists who placed the utmost importance on
women’s nurturing sides
Invented by John Deere, the first tool that helped to ease the labor shortage in the upper
Mississippi Valley was the __________.
A) steam thresher
B) steel plowshare
C) dairy centrifuge
D) combine
In the election of 1860, the __________ Party nominated John Bell for president and
ignored the conflicts rending the nation.
A) Democratic (Southern)
B) Constitutional Union
C) Democratic (Northern)
D) Republican
The first major battle of the Civil War on July 21, 1861, __________.
A) was a disaster for the Union
B) ended in a stalemate
C) ended with defeat for the South
D) involved much posturing but few casualties
Settlements houses were __________.
A) sufficiently funded by private beneficence
B) completely funded by the state
C) funded by private beneficence but in need of state support
D) privately funded and most administrators did not want to deal with the regulations of
state support
Who was the original advocate of organizing new territories on the basis of “popular
sovereignty”?
A) Lewis Cass
B) Nicholas Trist
C) David Wilmot
D) Zachary Taylor
Which of the following statements about U.S. native treaties is true?
A) The U.S. government generally had little interest in honoring them..
B) Due to their lack of written culture, native tribes rarely kept track of their treaty
obligations.
C) Savvy about the legal process, native tribes frequently secured U.S. treaty
obligations in court.
D) Treaties gave both the United States and native tribes dependable rules, but they
reminded both that they still did not live together as one nation.
The Seneca Falls Convention patterned its Declaration of Sentiments on which of the
following?
A) the preamble to the U.S. Constitution
B) the Mayflower Compact
C) the Bill of Rights
D) the Declaration of Independence
The failed real estate development “Whitewater” __________.
A) led to an investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton for illegal use of public monies
B) brought to light the many illicit sexual escapades of Bill and Hillary Clinton
C) forced President George H. W. Bush to bail out the savings and loan industry
D) did not stick to President Ronald Reagan because he was not close enough to the
action
What triggered the Paleolithic revolution?
A) agricultural practice
B) the human use of fire
C) the creation of stone tools
D) human migration from Asia to the Americas
A chief source of conflict between Europeans and Native Americans was the European
misunderstanding of the Native Americans’ __________.
A) sharp division of labor between men’s and women’s work
B) common language and culture throughout the hemisphere
C) desire to preserve the environment in its purest state
D) communal idea of land tenure
Who was the most influential literary critic of the late nineteenth century?
A) Mark Twain
B) Henry James
C) Stephen Crane
D) William Dean Howells
What eased the structural weakness of the gold standard and weakened the argument of
inflationists?
A) new gold discoveries in Alaska and South Africa
B) the creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913
C) the assassination of William McKinley
D) the demise of the British pound on the eve of World War I
Analyzing the events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, President Bush
__________.
A) relied heavily upon information from United Nations inspectors
B) followed his father’s example of patiently building a large coalition among the other
major world powers to help share the burden of the war
C) refused to seek congressional support for war appropriations
D) ignored the advice of Secretary of State Colin Powell
What became the driving force of the colonial New England economy?
A) small textile factories and their workers
B) maritime trade and those engaged in it
C) banking and financial services
D) fishing and whaling
Which Illinois town founded by Mormon leader Joseph Smith as a semi-independent
state within the federal Union?
A) Oneida
B) Amana
C) Nauvoo
D) Salt Lake City
What was the response of the Soviet Union and China to the increasing number of
American ground forces in Vietnam?
A) an equally large increase in Soviet and Chinese troops in the region
B) an offer to broker a peace agreement
C) willful blindness
D) an increase in aid to North Vietnam
How did the war effort between 1941 and 1945 affect the U.S. standard of living?
A) It lowered the standard of living for women workers.
B) It had almost no adverse effect on the average person’s standard of living.
C) It greatly improved the average person’s standard of living.
D) It lowered the standard of living for industrial workers.
Which of the following was an effect of indentured servitude on southern society?
A) Most indentured servants were unable to become landowners.
B) Those with capital were doubly rewarded with land and labor for the price of labor
alone.
C) Small farms became more prosperous than large plantations.
D) Quitrents given directly to servants upon indenture created tremendous prosperity
among that social class.
The three Force Acts (1870″1871) were an attempt by Congress to control groups like
the __________.
A) carpetbaggers
B) Union League of America
C) scalawags
D) Ku Klux Klan
What was the great staple of the Virginia colonial economy?
A) cotton
B) tobacco
C) indigo
D) sugar cane
Which of the following is an accurate assessment of General James Wilkinson?
A) He was loyal to a fault.
B) He betrayed Aaron Burr at the last minute.
C) The Jefferson administration discovered the Burr Conspiracy thanks to his thorough
investigation.
D) Before he conspired with Aaron Burr he was already in the pocket of Spain.
What route did General James Wolfe follow in mounting his successful attack on
Quebec?
A) Lake Ontario
B) the Hudson River
C) Lake Champlain
D) the St. Lawrence River
“[This] will create the greatest inland trade ever witnessed. The most fertile and
extensive regions of America will avail themselves of its facilities for a market.” To
what does this statement refer?
A) the National Road
B) the railroads
C) the Erie Canal
D) the Hudson Steamboat Company
What happened to the Equal Rights Amendment?
A) It became the Twenty-eighth Amendment to the Constitution.
B) It failed to gain any momentum and was passed by only three states.
C) It provisionally became law and still awaits passage by a few states.
D) It fell three states short of passage.
The Monroe Doctrine’s warning against European interference in America came
because __________ colonies rebelled to gain their independence.
A) France’s
B) Spain’s
C) Portugal’s
D) England’s
Which of the following best assesses the state of the union under the Articles of the
Confederation?
A) The United States was a centralized system in which the national government held
the most power, but the states had control over purely local matters.
B) The nation’s federal system was almost exactly like the later union under the
Constitution.
C) Americans formed a league of friendship, in which the states were sovereign and the
national government had only weak delegated powers.
D) The Articles established a centralized system with power vested solely in the
national government.
Explain the political significance of the Oregon Territory in 1844.
Why did other European nations increasingly compete with Spain over colonial
possessions in the Americas in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?
How did the railroads shape the growth and development of the American West after
the Civil War?
Describe the Allied strategy for victory in Europe.
How did Americans try to impose regulations on big business in the late nineteenth
century?
Explain the influence of realism in culture at the turn of the century by drawing from at
least three different examples in art or literature.
How did the War of 1812 change the nation’s political landscape?
Why was John F. Kennedy so reluctant to embrace the civil rights issue?
Why were schools important for American society in the antebellum years?
Discuss the implications of the Dred Scott decision and its impact on the sectional
conflict.
The peace treaty of 1783 with England __________.
A ceded the entire Oregon Territory to the crown
B) set a clear eastern boundary along the former proclamation line.
C) was flawed and unclear on Maine’s northern boundaries
D) granted the United States the right to Texas, ignoring New Spain’s territorial claims
What larger factors explain the end of Reconstruction?
How did airplanes change warfare in the Pacific during World War II?
How did Ronald Reagan intend to remedy the nation’s economic troubles and how did
the Reagan Revolution actually change the economy?
What opportunities did the Revolution create for women and African Americans?
What impact did cotton have on the economy of the South?