The Report on Manufactures can best be described as which of the following?
A) an early example of economic research
B) a bold call for economic planning
C) a blue print for a Department of Commerce
D) an argument of laissez-faire capitalism
Which of the following best describes the impact of the armistice of November 11,
1918?
A) Although it ended the fighting on the western front, it continued in the east.
B) The fighting ended, but the German monarchy was still stable on its foundation.
C) The fighting ended, but the shape of the postwar world remained unclear.
D) The end of the fighting also established a new world order for European empires and
their colonies.
Abraham Lincoln won the election of 1860 with a __________.
A) thin majority of the popular vote
B) plurality of the popular vote
C) plurality of the Electoral College
D) overwhelming majority of the popular vote
What was the main issue propounded by candidate William Jennings Bryan in the
election of 1896?
A) the proposal to coin both silver and gold
B) his desire to have the government print more greenbacks
C) changing policy so that the Treasury only coined gold
D) the removal of all trade barriers and protective tariffs
Who commanded the campaign against Mexico City?
A) Zachary Taylor
B) Stephen Kearny
C) Winfield Scott
D) Thomas Hart Benton
In April 1866, for the first time in American history a major piece of legislation became
law over a presidential veto. What was this legislation?
A) Civil Rights Act
B) Wade-Davis Act
C) Thirteenth Amendment
D) Freedman’s Bureau Act
The peace settlement reached at the Paris conference of 1919 was called the
__________ Treaty.
A) Tuileries Garden
B) Chartres
C) League of Nations
D) Versailles
Henry George, Edward Bellamy, and Henry Demarest Lloyd were all
late-nineteenth-century __________.
A) oil industry executives
B) railroad executives
C) radical reformers
D) inventors
What was one of the major reasons for American entry in the War of 1812?
A) American belief that the Spanish were inspiring Native American resistance to
American expansion
B) French attacks on American shipping
C) American belief that the French were inspiring Native American resistance to
American expansion
D) American belief that the British were inspiring Native American resistance to
American expansion
States that did not have woman suffrage by 1914 and opposed the Nineteenth
Amendment in the House of Representatives tended to be located in which area?
A) the South
B) the Midwest
C) the North
D) the far West
The distinction between “treaty Indians” and “nontreaty Indians” __________.
A) carried special weight in the Southwest
B) was easily enforced by the army
C) was based on possession of horses
D) shifted almost from day to day
Members of the institutionalist school of economics such as Richard T. Ely and John R.
Commons thought that __________.
A) Darwin’s ideas explained how slowly society evolved
B) religion, not science, was the key to truth
C) economic problems should be totally divorced from moral concerns
D) actual industrial conditions should be studied with practical social reform as a goal
What was the most vexing problem faced by the Confederacy during the Civil War?
A) cotton imports
B) its naval personnel.
C) the Union’s foreign alliances
D) finance
What was the purpose of the Five-Power Treaty?
A) check Japanese military and political influence in East Asia and release the U.S.
from its expensive naval building program
B) Check Chinese power in South Asia and offer a reason for naval build-up
C) Establish a firm non-aggression pact between Western European countries, the
United States, and Canada
D) Strengthen the alliance between the Soviet Union and its neighbors in Eastern
Europe
The attitude of most Native Americans toward their environment can be seen in the way
they __________.
A) feared Satan’s control of nature
B) obeyed God’s command to dominate and subdue nature
C) diverted rivers, cleared fields, and built roads
D) allowed the wilderness to remain pristine
Who headed the Boston Associates, owner of the innovative Waltham mills?
A) Francis Cabot Lowell
B) Eli Whitney
C) Samuel Slater
D) Robert Fulton
World War II caused a fundamental change in international politics. One aspect of this
change was the __________.
A) sudden independence gained by many former European colonies in Africa
B) formation of a world government under the United Nations
C) triumph of isolationism in America
D) reduction of all the western European nations to the status of second-class powers
Which of the following best describes Woodrow Wilson?
A) an idealistic president set out to furnish a more moral foreign policy
B) a pragmatist whose foreign policy decisions were led by what is possible
C) an isolationist who resented European empires and feared that the United States
might follow their lead
D) an internationalist who was eager to offer the Philippines statehood and make the
United States a global nation
On what grounds did John Marshall deny Marbury’s request for his commission?
A) The “midnight appointment” had happened when Jefferson was already president.
B) The clause in the Judiciary Act on which his appointment was based was
unconstitutional.
C) The Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in this case.
D He rejected Marbury’s commission on purely technical grounds for partisan reasons.
Which governmental body decided the disputed electoral votes in the election of 1876?
A) House of Representatives
B) electoral commission created by Congress
C) Senate
D) Supreme Court
Colonial regulations governing the behavior of blacks __________.
A) were forced on the colonies by the British
B) were part of each colony’s basic constitution
C) allowed free blacks to vote and serve on juries
D) gave blacks no civil rights and involved severe punishments
Who, in the 1920s, led the campaign for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution?
A) Gertrude Ederle
B) Edna St. Vincent Millay
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Alice Paul
Who was the chief clerk of the State Department who negotiated the Treaty of
Guadalupe Hidalgo against the orders of President Polk?
A) George M. Dallas
B) James G. Birney
C) Abel P. Upshur
D) Nicholas P. Trist
Throughout the mid-1880s farmers on the Plains experienced which of the following?
A) excellent harvests, but abysmally low wheat prices
B) disastrous crop destruction from grasshoppers and hail storms
C) bountiful harvests and high wheat prices
D) severe drought and dustbowl conditions
What is the title of Alexis de Tocqueville’s book that analyzed American society?
A) The American Commonwealth
B) Democracy in America
C) Life on the Mississippi
D) Domestic Life of the Americans
What happened when Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers after the fall of Fort Sumter?
A) South Carolina seceded.
B) West Virginia declared independence as a state.
C) Texas sent volunteers to South Carolina.
D) Virginia, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Tennessee seceded.
What was a result of the cotton gin?
A) Cotton production soared and the Southern economy boomed.
B) Southern production of rice ceased.
C) Northern merchants experienced severe economic losses.
D) Northern manufacturing was underfunded as investment flowed to the South.
Which of the following has contributed to the soaring medical costs in the United
States?
A) competition from overseas
B) the excessive regulation of insurance companies
C) the lack of technological improvements
D) changes in Medicare benefits
When did the Panama Canal open for ship traffic?
A) during the Spanish-American War
B) on the eve of World War I
C) in the 1920s
D) after World War II
What made it seemingly impossible for Americans to maintain the institution of slavery
after their declaration of independence?
A) Americans could not keep up slavery if Britain had abolished it.
B) The Continental Army had relied so heavily on slaves that it owed them freedom at
the end of the war.
C) So many slaves had escaped during the Revolutionary War that the institution was
unsustainable.
D) Virtually all European thinkers of the Enlightenment had condemned slavery for
moral and economic reasons.
Late-nineteenth-century spectator sports were notable for which of the following?
A) prohibitions on gambling and betting
B) mixture of upper- and working-class interests
C) predominantly rural audiences
D) church sponsorship and high moral tone
Susan B. Anthony’s first campaign focused on a petition to do which of the following?
A) end slavery
B) reform property and divorce laws
C) grant women the right to vote
D) give women equal chances in the labor market
The 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine declared that the United States’ policy was to do which
of the following?
A) protect Israel at all costs
B) use armed force in the Middle East to stop communist aggression
C) maintain its monopoly of the area’s oil
D) promote regime change in undemocratic Central American governments
What happened as a result of Wilson’s mobilization of the home front in the war?
A) The government’s regulation of the economy was extensive.
B) It was so ineffective that America failed to aid the Allied forces in time to prevent
their defeat.
C) There was virtually no cooperation between business and the military.
D) The government totally deregulated the economy in order to unleash the productive
forces of free enterprise.