As Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover _____.
A) sought to limit government-business relations
B) established a reputation in the area of transportation
C) differed with the policies of Harding and Coolidge
D) pushed for closer relations between government and business
E) was completely unable to accomplish his goals
What was different about the American working class of the 1830s as compared to the
American working class of the 1840s?
A) In the 1830s, most factory work was done by men, but by the 1840s, more women
and children began to work in factories.
B) In the 1830s, most men worked in factories, but by the 1840s, they worked more as
artisans as factory work decreased in general.
C) In the 1830s, the majority of male workers were farmers, but by the 1840s, most
male workers were employed in factories.
D) In the 1830s, most male workers were artisans and few worked in factories, but by
the 1840s, the proportion of male factory workers increased.
E) In the 1830s, most women and children did not work at all, but by the 1840s they
worked side by side with men in factories.
The issue that gays and lesbians have been pressing in the individual states is
________.
A) equal access to education
B) comparable medical insurance
C) equality in the military
D) equal marital rights
E) personal privacy
Who was the president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson’s chief
opponent in the “bank war”?
A) Henry Clay
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Francis B. Blair
D) Nicholas Biddle
E) John Jacob Astor
What was the major push factor that brought Irish immigrants to the United States in
the 1840s and 1850s?
A) oppression by the British government
B) decline in the number of jobs in Ireland
C) overpopulation of Ireland
D) the great potato blight
E) persecution of Catholics
By 1810, one-fifth of the American population was made up of ________.
A) Indians
B) immigrants
C) blacks
D) Latinos
E) Catholics
Who was largely responsible for the idea of driving cattle from Texas to railheads?
A) William Hickok
B) Joseph G. McCoy
C) Charles Goodnight
D) Henry Comstock
E) Hank Chisholm
What was a major goal of the early women’s rights activists in the mid”1800s?
A) to free unmarried women from laws that did not allow them to work outside the
home
B) to give married women some control of themselves, their property, and their children
C) to enact laws that would require men to participate equally in household duties such
as child-rearing
D) to convince more women to run for public office
E) procuring the right to vote
How did consumers respond to Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle?
A) They avoided buying drugs from pharmacies.
B) They stayed away from certain fruits and vegetables.
C) They quickly cut back on meat.
D) They began to purchase more dairy products.
E) They learned how to read product labels.
Why did those who campaigned actively for ratification of the Constitution call
themselves “Federalists”?
A) The term “Nationalists” had been used during the ratification of the Articles of
Confederation and was now negatively viewed.
B) The term suggested that they stood for a confederation of states and not for a
supreme national authority.
C) They wanted the public to know that they supported strong state governments that
controlled the federal government.
D) The term “Antifederalists” was perceived as negative because of the root “anti.”
E) The popular song “Federalists on the Shore” recalled the glories of the Revolutionary
War.
What was the New England version of the Glorious Revolution?
A) a year-long celebration of the overthrow of James II
B) the overthrow of Governor Andros
C) a year-long celebration of the crowning of William and Mary
D) a new bill of rights for all colonists
E) a new bill of rights for land-owning colonists
Which approach did the U.S. military favor when Japan’s defeat was deemed
inevitable?
A) negotiating a peace treaty to avoid further loss of life
B) modifying the unconditional surrender formula
C) an all-out, full-scale invasion of Japan
D) destroying Japan with a series of atom bombs
E) creating a second front in the Philippines
After the Soviet Union exploded its first atomic bomb, Truman appointed a committee
to explore the possibility of _______.
A) using biological weapons
B) building a hydrogen bomb
C) improving stealth planes
D) experimenting on ‘supersoldiers”
E) sabotaging the Soviet weapons arsenal
John F. Kennedy gave civil rights legislation lukewarm support because he ________.
A) feared the possibility of alienating southern Democrats
B) did not think the country was ready to consider it
C) did not want to encourage militant African-American leaders
D) thought it was unnecessary and should be left to the states
E) thought there was little a president could do to combat racism
Which description best identifies how Christian slaveholders justified the enslavement
of other human beings?
A) The prosperity of many was necessitated by the suffering of a few.
B) Suffering in slavery helped African Americans earn a place in Heaven.
C) People of African descent were demons and therefore should be enslaved.
D) People of African descent needed to be taken care of.
E) Being enslaved would help convert African Americans to Christianity.
In terms of foreign policy, Theodore Roosevelt _____.
A) did little to foster American aims
B) reflected the influence of isolationism
C) sought to prepare the country for its role as a world power
D) worked to further isolate the United States from foreign affairs
E) was supremely concerned with world peace
What did President Kennedy do to help South Vietnam in 1961?
A) He praised its government but took no action.
B) He sent money and advisers.
C) He sent combat troops.
D) He threatened North Vietnam.
E) He badgered Europe into sending aid.
The technical innovation of the nineteenth century with the widest impact was
________.
A) the Kodak camera
B) the oil well
C) the automobile
D) the railroad
E) the steam ship
The temperance movement was like the abolition movement in ________.
A) spawning Washingtonian societies
B) being popular in both the North and the South
C) being part of an international movement
D) involving women and black activists in important roles
E) being restricted largely to the North
Why did President John Tyler initiate the politics of Manifest Destiny beginning in
1841?
A) He wanted to win the support of his fellow Whigs.
B) He wanted to reconcile the Whig and Democratic parties.
C) He was inspired by the beliefs of Henry Clay.
D) He wanted to build a base for his reelection in 1844.
E) He hoped to identify himself with James Monroe.
How did the Deep South respond to court-ordered desegregation?
A) by taking action to end discrimination in schools
B) with grudging acceptance of the decisions
C) with apathy and passive acceptance
D) with massive and widespread resistance
E) with violence and threats to once again secede from the Union
How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic?
A) Slavery showed how poorly treated black women were.
B) Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others.
C) Slavery funded much of the Revolution, so it was part of the new republic.
D) Slavery was a British institution and had no place in an independent America.
E) People who fought in the war and enslaved others were too violent for a republic.
What was the difference between northern and southern evangelicalism in the
mid”1800s?
A) Northern evangelicalism focused on self-discipline and social reform; southern
evangelicalism focused on personal piety.
B) Northern evangelicalism focused on personal piety; southern evangelicalism focused
on philanthropy.
C) Northern evangelicalism focused on the virtues of the family unit; southern
evangelicalism focused on helping the poor.
D) Northern evangelicalism focused on philanthropy; southern evangelicalism focused
on self-discipline.
E) Northern evangelicalism focused on conversion of the poor; southern evangelicalism
focused on personal piety.
Who invented the concept of the mass construction of suburban homes?
A) William Levitt
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Joseph McCarthy
D) Norman Vincent Peale
E) Reginald Rose
The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of
England was to ________.
A) separate from it and reform it from the outside
B) rely on help from the English monarchy
C) remain in the Church and reform it from the inside
D) refuse to associate with it in any way
E) actively work to destroy the tenets with which they disagreed
Opposition to Hamilton’s proposed national bank ________.
A) was based on “loose construction” of the Constitution
B) reflected the fears of private bankers
C) was justified because his plans so clearly favored a few “monied interests.”
D) generally did not involve the general public
E) involved issues relating to Congress’s constitutional powers
________ denied states the right to take Native American tribal lands.
A) McCulloch v. Maryland
B) southern legislatures
C) Worcester v. Georgia
D) Fletcher v. Peck
E) Wallace v. Tennessee
Who advocated “black power” as the new leader of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee in the 1960s?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) A. Phillip Randolph
C) Stokely Carmichael
D) Thurgood Marshall
E) Robert Weaver
The congressional answer to Andrew Johnson’s resistance toward Radical
Reconstruction was the _______.
A) Fourteenth Amendment
B) Ten Percent plan
C) Wade-Davis Bill
D) Civil Rights Act
E) Freedmen’s Bureau Bill
King Charles I disbanded Parliament in 1629 because he could not deal with intense
criticism from the ________.
A) Puritans
B) Baptists
C) Catholics
D) Anglicans
E) Presbyterians
The Staple Act of 1663 stated that ________.
A) Americans must stop raising corn and wheat
B) imports to America had to be shipped through England
C) Americans could not produce iron products
D) rum had to be manufactured in the West Indies
E) Americans could only produce staple foodstuffs
In what way was the Spanish-American War fought by small-town America?
A) Most of the volunteer soldiers who served in the armed forces were from rural
America.
B) There were so many volunteers that each unit of soldiers was like a small town in
size and function.
C) The navy and army found that men worked better if they knew someone in their unit,
so they created a buddy system, pairing men from small towns.
D) Soldiers were organized into National Guard units by town, so they observed the
customs and relationships of their hometowns.
E) All of America was involved in the war effort, making uniforms, saving metal,
conserving food; the war was won by people back home in small towns.
In 1565, concern over French encroachment led to the establishment of ________.
A) Jamestown
B) Boston
C) St. Augustine
D) Plymouth
E) Roanoke