What was a major factor in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s?
A) a distrust of foreigners, Catholics, blacks, and Jews
B) a surge in socialist and union activism
C) an increase in black civil rights activism in the South
D) an increase in ethnically and racially mixed marriages
In the late nineteenth century, settlement house workers like Lillian Wald soon
discovered that __________.
A) practical problems absorbed most of their efforts
B) missionary work was far more welcome among immigrants than expected
C) immigrants came from different cultures that were hostile to American values
D) there was little they could to do affect the daily lives of people
Why did the British suffer a defeat in Saratoga in 1777?
A) American militiamen were ferocious fighters that broke all rules of conventional
warfare.
B) The British military campaign was extremely badly coordinated.
C) French naval forces gave Washington’s army important artillery support.
D) Local militia and the Continentals simply outnumbered British troops.
What did Seth Low and “Golden Rule” Jones have in common?
A) They were both prosecuted for graft by progressive reformers.
B) They both provided the radical labor movement with important leadership.
C) They both were progressive mayors targeting corruption.
D) They both shocked the national public with their muckraking exposs.
After the South seceded, Congress passed several measures previously blocked by
southern opposition, including the __________ Act.
A) Homestead
B) Preemption
C) Emancipation
D) Habeus Corpus
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is caused by the __________, which destroys
the body’s defenses against infection and makes a person vulnerable to many diseases.
A) human herpes virus
B) human papillomavirus
C) human T-lymphotropic virus
D) human immunodeficiency virus
Which southern political thinker most prominently justified southern resistance to the
Tariff of 1828?
A) John Tyler
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Andrew Jackson
D) Henry Clay
What impact did William Pitt’s leadership have on the broader trend of the Seven Years’
War?
A) British diplomats in Paris worked harder on an early armistice.
B) French and British troops agreed to focus on naval combat and pull out of German
countries.
C) The warring factions agreed to pull out of the North American colonies.
D) Britain poured a lot more soldiers and money into North America, eventually
defeating France there.
Why did the Arab Spring pose a foreign policy challenge for the Obama administration?
A) The United States endorsed democratic rule, but worried about the anti-Israeli
sentiment in the region.
B) Obama had actively built up the regime of Hosni Mubarak.
C) American oil corporations were actively working on behalf of military juntas in the
region.
D) By supporting the democratic movements, Obama found himself in agreement with
the Republican opposition.
In 1887, Congress passed the Dawes Severalty Act, which was intended to do which of
the following?
A) persuade Indians to abandon their traditional tribal cultures
B) protect tribal life and customs.
C) encourage Native American crafts and trades
D) place all Native Americans on reservations
Why was the Fugitive Slave Act amended in 1850?
A) to give accused runaways the right to defend themselves in court
B) to restrict the movements and authorities of Southern slavecatchers in the North
C) to include the right of states to demand proof of the fugitive’s guilt from
slavecatchers
D) to compel citizens under threat or fine or imprisonment to assist in the capture of
fugitives
Which term best describes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s attitude toward the constitutional
limits on executive power?
A) cavalier
B) exceedingly cautious
C) innovative
D) dangerous
How did railroads commonly encourage large shippers to use their lines?
A) by giving them rebates
B) by selling them stock below the market price
C) by providing them private cars
D) by refusing to carry goods except under specific contract
What role did Maine play in the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
A) Maine senators were most adamant in their opposition to the admission of another
slave state.
B) Senator Tallmadge from Maine brokered the compromise.
C) Maine was separated from the state of Massachusetts to form a new free state.
D) Maine was the one northern state that voted with the South, thereby allowing the
admission of Missouri.
Which of the following statements accurately assesses Southern plantation life?
A) Most children, black and white, were raised by white servants.
B) Slaveholding families rejected paternalism.
C) Plantations were quite similar to northern farms.
D) Plantations produced most of their own clothing and food.
In the election of 1896, McKinley’s campaign manager, __________, raised an
enormous campaign fund from business.
A) James G. Blaine
B) Marcus Alonzo Hanna
C) Arthur Sewall
D) Andrew Carnegie
Which black militant founded the Afro-American League and called on blacks to use
violence when attacked by whites?
A) John Marshall Harlan
B) T. Thomas Fortune
C) James Bryce
D) W. E. B. Du Bois
What was Martin Van Buren’s response to the Panic of 1837?
A) Inflate the currency.
B) Reestablish the National Bank.
C) Push for federal funding of internal improvements in order to create jobs.
D) Reject government interference in the economy.
The platform of the People’s or Populist Party called for which of the following?
A) a guaranteed price for wheat
B) a high tariff on farm produce
C) a graduated income tax
D) a social security plan
The Emancipation Proclamation applied to which of the following places?
A) Georgia
B) New Orleans
C) Maryland
D) Kentucky
How did the Bank of the United States influence the economy in 1819?
A) Its high interest rates prevented an overheating of the economy.
B) The bank’s low interest rates encouraged borrowing and economic growth in the
nation’s centers for real estate speculation.
C) Its mandate to pay of the nation’s debt meant that it had a deflationary and
depressing effect on the economy.
D) Its generous issue of notes made it hard for the bank to withstand runs, further
spreading the economic depression.
What was the most disturbing economic problem to vex the nation during the Carter
years?
A) inner-city decay and white flight to the suburbs
B) a combination of stagnation and inflation
C) the collapse of the savings and loan system
D) the increasing inequality of income and wealth distribution
Under the crop-lien system, both the sharecroppers and the landowners __________.
A) profited from the South’s rapid economic progress immediately after the Civil War
B) depended on credit, often at high interest rates, from local merchants and bankers
C) had strong incentives to diversify their crops
D) suffered from shortages of labor and credit due to the South’s rapid industrialization
after the Civil War
At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the Allied Powers included which of the
following?
A) Austria-Hungary, Ottoman Turkey, and Germany
B) Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany
C) the United States, Great Britain, and France
D) Great Britain, France, and Russia
White women in the colonial Chesapeake region __________.
A) benefited from the healthy climate and the orderly society
B) greatly outnumbered men and found it difficult to marry
C) usually lived on luxurious plantations with the most modern conveniences
D) found it easy to remarry if they were widowed
Why did President Truman drop atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki?
A) He thought bombing Tokyo would have left Japan without a government to
surrender.
B) He wanted to persuade the Soviet Union to intervene in the fight against Japan.
C) He hoped to bring the war to a quick end without Soviet involvement.
D) He knew that a ground invasion would have cost at least 500,000 American
casualties.
Following the Civil War, most southern railroad systems were __________.
A) controlled by European investors
B) unable to afford rolling stock or track maintenance
C) financed by local capital
D) controlled by northern capitalists
In the first battle of the Spanish-American War, Commodore George Dewey
__________.
A) routed the Spanish fleet in Havana harbor and blockaded Cuba
B) devastated the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay
C) raided Havana and kidnapped Spanish General Valeriano Weyler
D) was humiliated in a surprise attack by the Spanish navy
What did the U.S. Supreme Court rule in the case of U.S. v. E. C. Knight Company?
A) Manufacture and commerce were different economic activities.
B) Control over manufacture inevitably meant control over commerce.
C) The American Sugar Refining Company had not violated the federal commerce
clause.
D) The American Sugar Refining Company did not hold a manufacturing monopoly.
As president, John Quincy Adams __________.
A) was an inept politician
B) eloquently aroused public support for his programs
C) was extraordinarily sensitive to the mood of public opinion
D) strongly opposed federal support for internal improvements
Richard Nixon relied heavily on the judgments of National Security Adviser
__________.
A) Dean Rusk
B) Elliot Richardson
C) Henry Kissinger
D) John Dean III
What was the primary reason that the Pilgrims left England?
A) They were expelled from England by the government.
B) They believed the Church of England was too corrupt to save.
C) They wanted to form a profitable trading company.
D) They wanted to establish a colony where everyone could have freedom of religion.
During the 1920s black Americans experienced which of the following?
A) increasing union membership
B) decreasing militancy and activism
C) discrimination and concentration in northern ghettos
D) optimism based on gains in civil rights
What was the alliance between leaders in the military and in business, the foundation of
which was laid by President Wilson during World War I, known as?
A) the Iron Triangle
B) the military requirement
C) the industrial-military complex
D) the mobilization effort
__________ were community centers started by idealistic young people to guide and
help the urban poor.
A) Chautauquas
B) Lyceums
C) YMCAs
D) Settlement houses