Martin Luther King, Jr. founded the _______ to obtain civil rights for African
Americans.
A) Black Panthers
B) Fair Employment Practices Committee
C) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D) Southern Christian Leadership Conference
E) Urban League
The Whig Party ________.
A) generally supported Jackson’s presidency
B) grew from a coalition of Jackson’s opponents
C) refused the support of other, smaller parties
D) represented political ideas unique to the American experience
E) supported abolition
Upton Sinclair’s novel, The Jungle, led to passage of the _____.
A) Hepburn Act
B) Mann-Elkins Act
C) Meat Inspection Act
D) Elkins Act
E) Clayton Antitrust Act
The German sinking of the ________ in 1915 cost 128 American lives and enraged the
American public.
A) Sussex
B) Arabic
C) Nashville
D) Lusitania
E) Titanic
The most famous political machine of the late nineteenth century was ________.
A) the Fifth Street Gang
B) Tammany Hall
C) the Irish Mafia
D) the Lamar Circle
E) the Coughlin Gang
Who wrote the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique?
A) Jacqueline Kennedy
B) Rosa Parks
C) Ella Baker
D) Betty Friedan
E) Coretta Scott King
Why was English Protestantism able to spread so successfully in the 1500s?
A) popular dissatisfaction with the clergy
B) the fact that Martin Luther and John Calvin were both English
C) the fervent Catholicism of the Tudor Kings
D) the English hostility to the French Huguenots
E) Mary I becoming queen of England
How were families affected by the changes sweeping American society in the 1920s?
A) Generally, childhood and adolescence became shorter periods because families
needed to send children to work at a younger age.
B) Fewer married women took jobs outside of the home as traditional values were
restored across the country.
C) The “youth movement” of the 1920s championed traditional family values, such as
respect for one’s parents.
D) Church attendance in urban areas decreased due to a drop in population and in the
construction of houses of worship in the countryside.
E) The average American family decreased in size due to the availability of more
effective birth control methods.
What theme ran through almost all cultural expression of the 1820s”1840s?
A) peace
B) prosperity
C) expansion
D) morality
E) democracy
The Suffolk Resolves advocated ________.
A) forcible resistance to the Coercive Acts
B) the assassination of British tax collectors
C) the formation of an American navy
D) the repeal of the Stamp Act
E) the formation of the Sons of Liberty
The dominant issue of the election of 1896 was ________.
A) monetary standards
B) tariffs
C) political patronage
D) railroad regulation
E) race relations
Why did Hoover have greater appeal than Smith in the election of 1928?
A) As a big-city politician, Hoover appealed to the immigrant population that was larger
than the “nativist” population.
B) As a Protestant and someone who stood for traditional American values, Hoover
appealed to a larger majority of Americans.
C) Hoover was a self-made man who embodied the American belief in freedom of
opportunity and upward mobility.
D) Hoover had fought valiantly during World War I, whereas Smith was known to be a
“draft dodger.”
E) Prior to the presidential race of 1928, Smith had never been involved in politics and
had little experience.
On the issue of slavery, Jefferson ________.
A) politically supported the institution
B) wanted the slave trade outlawed, even though he was a slave owner
C) believed states should regulate it, wanting to keep himself out of the debate
D) wanted to repeal the “three-fifths rule” as it unfairly favored the South
E) worked behind the scenes to support the institution
Even before achieving statehood, ________ prohibited slavery in its constitution.
A) Connecticut
B) New Jersey
C) Massachusetts
D) Pennsylvania
E) Vermont
In what way were the methods of Henry Ford and Edward L. Stratemeyer similar?
A) Both applied the assembly line to auto manufacturing.
B) Both turned out high-quality goods at high prices.
C) Neither would give in to labor demands.
D) Both used mass-production techniques.
E) Both transformed public transportation.
The most spectacular engineering achievement of the young United States was the
________.
A) Cumberland Trail
B) Erie Canal
C) Intercoastal Waterway
D) Baltimore Turnpike
E) Washington Monument
Where did antislavery orators and organizers tend to have their greatest success?
A) border states
B) the upper North
C) large cities
D) frontier territories
E) northern state legislatures
How did President Roosevelt attempt to halt Japanese aggression between 1940 and
1941?
A) by applying economic pressure on Japan through a trade embargo
B) by waging an undeclared war against Japanese naval forces in the Pacific
C) by signing mutual defense pacts with other Asian nations
D) by securing legislation allowing the United States to send troops to China
E) by using an executive order to send troops to fight on Japanese soil
How can Wilson’s reaction to the sinking of the Lusitania be best characterized?
A) conciliatory diplomacy
B) forceful diplomacy
C) pessimistic diplomacy
D) moral pressure
E) reactionary
What finally led Mexico to break off diplomatic relations with the United States and
prepare for armed conflict?
A) The Republic of Texas began claiming land south of the Rio Grande.
B) The United States annexed Texas and claimed the land between the Nueces River
and the Rio Grande.
C) The U.S. military began fighting for control over California harbors.
D) The U.S. government refused to grant rights of citizenship to people of Mexican
descent living in Texas.
E) President Polk criticized the Mexican government in a scathing public address.
The leading African-American scientist and mathematician in early America was
________.
A) John Woolman
B) Richard Allen
C) Benjamin Banneker
D) Sojourner Truth
E) Phillis Wheatley
Which of the following forms of transportation had the greatest impact on the American
economy during the 1840s and 1850s?
A) the clipper ship
B) the canal system
C) the steamboat
D) the covered wagon
E) the railroad
The middle-class wives and children of the late nineteenth century ________.
A) found their status had remained unchanged
B) became more isolated from the working world
C) had a greater economic function
D) tended to deteriorate under the impact of industrialization
E) had more children
What was the role of the Office of Economic Stabilization?
A) It provided lucrative contracts for urgently needed goods.
B) It rationed scarce goods, such as sugar and canned foods.
C) It settled disputes between different federal agencies.
D) It withheld income tax from workers’ wages.
E) It provided federal incentives to the manufacturing industry.
What was one result of the proliferation of patents in the late nineteenth century?
A) The country got most of its technology from Europe.
B) The marketplace was oversaturated with goods.
C) Americans no longer imported most of their technology.
D) Few Americans participated in the economic changes.
E) Americans began to fear technology.
Which of the following explains why England lost the Revolutionary War?
A) The British government did not believe it could win the war.
B) British finances could not support the war.
C) British strategists did not understand how to fight the war.
D) George III never supported the war effort.
E) British soldiers sympathized with the Americans.
Progressive reformers of the cities believed that ________ were needed to solve
problems and enact real change.
A) experts
B) bankers
C) politicians
D) scientists
E) mayors
In 1798, the Federalists sponsored a military buildup with the intention of ________.
A) taking the French West Indies
B) suppressing internal political dissent
C) conquering Canada
D) pacifying the Indian tribes of the Ohio Valley
E) pumping federal dollars into a sagging economy
In the early seventeenth century, Virginia’s blacks ________.
A) were encouraged to marry white women
B) occasionally served in the House of Burgesses
C) sometimes became planters
D) greatly outnumbered whites
E) slowly integrated into white society
Which group overwhelmingly supported Carter in the 1980 presidential election?
A) African Americans
B) blue-collar workers
C) Jewish voters
D) voters in the Sunbelt states
E) voters in the South
Why did America experience rapid economic development in the early nineteenth
century?
A) a high level of federal support
B) the rapid establishment of a strong manufacturing base
C) the nation’s river network permitted economic development
D) the absence of international economic competition
E) the development of web presses for printing money