Lord Baltimore’s settlement in Maryland ________.
A) became a successful feudal outpost in America
B) declared war on Virginia in 1639
C) never succeeded in becoming a feudal society
D) became a haven for persecuted Protestants
E) successfully put into effect his vision
What was the result of the Homestead Strike?
A) It forced management to meet the workers’ demands.
B) It was resolved through negotiation and bargaining.
C) It had little interference from the government.
D) It brought national attention to the costs of industrialization.
E) It was peaceful compared to Haymarket.
How was Wilson’s practice of foreign affairs similar to his evolution over social
reforms?
A) He tried to follow his predecessors’ policies and successfully did so throughout most
of his presidency.
B) He tried to follow his predecessors’ policies but failed to do so throughout most of
his presidency.
C) He tried to change his predecessors’ policies and ended up following most of them in
the end.
D) He tried to change his predecessors’ policies and managed to do so throughout most
of his presidency.
E) He went back and forth between supporting and then changing his predecessors’
policies.
The _____ helped usher in an age of leisure.
A) use of electricity
B) use of cotton in textile manufacturing
C) introduction of popular fiction
D) increased use of domestic workers
E) equal distribution of wealth
The foreign policy initiative calling for an end to all European colonization efforts in
the Western Hemisphere was known as the ________.
A) Monroe Doctrine
B) Adams-Ons Agreement
C) Continental Treaty 1818
D) Webster-Ashburton Treaty
E) American System
Harriet Beecher Stowe published her abolitionist novel ______ in 1852, and it was
enormously successful.
A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
B) The Impending Crisis of the South
C) Tom Sawyer
D) Up from Slavery
E) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
The two transcontinental railroad lines met at ________.
A) Sacramento, California
B) Reno, Nevada
C) Promontory, Utah
D) Santa Fe, New Mexico
E) Salt Lake City, Utah
Why did educational reformers want local schools to serve sometimes as a substitute for
the family?
A) They were worried that poor and immigrant families would not properly nurture
their children.
B) They were worried that parents in poor and immigrant families often ended up
getting divorced.
C) They were afraid that many families would resist the new child-centered model of
family life they endorsed for religious reasons.
D) They were worried that parents in wealthy families often ended up getting divorced.
E) They were worried that parents in poor and immigrant families often ended up
abandoning their children.
In 1856, which antislavery Senator was almost beaten to death on the floor of the U.S.
Senate by Representative Preston Brooks?
A) Thaddeus Stevens
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Charles Sumner
D) Zachary Taylor
E) William Graham Sumner
How did the Watergate Scandal compare to previous presidential scandals?
A) Unlike previous scandals, Watergate was about lust rather than money.
B) Unlike previous scandals, Watergate was about power rather than money.
C) Unlike previous scandals, Watergate was about money rather than power.
D) Like previous scandals, Watergate was covered up and never revealed to the public.
E) Like previous scandals, Watergate demonstrated the inefficacy of journalism.
How did U.S. neutrality in World War I finally come to an end?
A) Germany proposed an alliance with Mexico and sank five American ships in ten
days.
B) Russia formed an alliance with Germany that threatened U.S. interests in the Pacific.
C) The Allied nations begged the United States to intervene on their behalf.
D) Japan attacked the Philippines and Hawaii, killing hundreds of American citizens.
E) Germany formed an alliance with Cuba, threatening war against the United States.
Lincoln rejected the Crittenden compromise because _______.
A) he wanted to avoid war with the South
B) war was by then inevitable
C) extending the Missouri Compromise line to the Pacific would solve the slavery issue
D) the firing on Fort Sumter had begun the war
E) he felt he had a mandate to oppose slavery
Roosevelt’s “court packing” proposal was _______.
A) a non-starter that never got off the ground
B) curtailed due to opposition from Republicans
C) effectively blocked by Democratic opposition
D) implemented partially and resulted in three appointments
E) successful at limiting the power of the Supreme Court
Why did Theodore Roosevelt call Robert La Follette’s Wisconsin “the laboratory of
democracy”?
A) Wisconsin focused on improving voter education and participation.
B) Wisconsin citizens voted to approve or reject all of La Follette’s ideas.
C) Wisconsin used research methods to implement progressive ideas.
D) Wisconsin removed nearly all corrupt officials at local and state level.
E) Wisconsin’s new voting practices became the model for all other states.
Which statement about West Africa during the era of the European slave trade is
TRUE?
A) Africans were isolated from the rest of the world.
B) Africans had a simple, self-sufficient economy.
C) A single culture covered most of the African continent.
D) Muslim missionaries had introduced Islam.
E) Africans were united by a single language.
Which of the following was NOT a popular sport that flourished in the 1920s?
A) boxing
B) baseball
C) college football
D) golf
E) soccer
In the 1830s and 1840s, the most vocal advocate of states’ rights was ________.
A) Daniel Webster
B) Henry Clay
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Martin Van Buren
E) Andrew Jackson
By the late 1600s, the gap between rich and poor in white Chesapeake society
________.
A) steadily shrank
B) steadily widened
C) remained unchanged
D) could not be estimated
E) is not mentioned by contemporary chroniclers
The immigration legislation of the 1920s _____.
A) had no lasting effect
B) was opposed by the large corporations
C) encouraged immigration from underdeveloped countries
D) was the most enduring achievement of the rural counterattack
E) was quickly repealed in the 1930s
Seventeenth-century English Puritans ________.
A) were only a tiny minority of all Englishmen
B) were committed to significant institutional change
C) were firmly supportive of the status quo
D) accepted the tenets of Catholicism with reservations
E) were neurotic and self-righteous
In the elections of 1894, ________.
A) Grover Cleveland had strong support for his policies
B) few voters supported a strong, active government
C) the Populist Party became a major political party
D) the deadlock between the Republicans and Democrats ended
E) Americans became more suspicious of government power
How did the Republican Party manage to gain so much support in the 1850s?
A) It was sympathetic toward immigrants.
B) It supported agricultural expansion.
C) It wanted to prohibit slavery in the territories.
D) It supported the Catholic Church.
E) It supported progressive labor laws.
As a war leader, Jefferson Davis ________.
A) focused more on policymaking than controlling the military
B) had an excellent relationship with his generals
C) lacked initiative and leadership on the home front
D) frequently used martial law to retain control
E) had the full support of southern governors
What caused the balance of trade between England and the colonies to turn dramatically
in England’s favor by the mid-eighteenth century?
A) the decline in trade between the colonies and the West Indies
B) enormous demand in the colonies for British finished products
C) industrialization in the colonies
D) stricter enforcement of the Navigation Acts
E) enormous demand in the colonies for raw materials from England
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was designed to _______.
A) help support continued control of electrical power by private companies
B) bring modernization and jobs to desolate areas of the upper rural South
C) alienate troublesome conservationists in his administration
D) test the authority of the Supreme Court
E) win votes in a largely Republican area of the country
What did women gain as a result of the American Revolution?
A) Women gained voting rights and access to higher education.
B) Women gained little; their lives remained much the same.
C) Women could now become landowners, shopkeepers, and dress makers.
D) Women gained access to divorce, and some economic opportunities.
E) Women could travel freely, study widely, and find gainful employment.
The most encouraging economic development for women in the late twentieth century
was that ________.
A) women’s wages largely closed the gap with men’s wages
B) women made great progress in entering male-dominated professions
C) the number of female business owners increased greatly
D) the number of women serving on corporate boards grew rapidly
E) the Equal Rights Amendment was ratified in 1982
Which does NOT help explain why Whig Party candidate General Winfield Scott was
crushed in the 1852 presidential campaign?
A) The Compromise of 1850 weakened the political differences between Whigs and
Democrats.
B) The Whigs did not succeed in rallying public interest in a major political issue.
C) The Whigs alienated nativists by actively seeking the immigrant vote.
D) The Whig nominee lost northern support by allying himself with the antislavery
wing of the party.
E) The Whig nominee lost southern support by allying himself with the antislavery
wing of the party.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in American industrial development?
A) an abundance of natural resources
B) a heavy influx of immigrants
C) new technological innovations
D) industrialization of the South after the Civil War
E) an abundance of labor
Henry Ford is often described as the inventor of the assembly line. In what way is this
an inaccurate description?
A) Ford didn’t invent the assembly line himself; his managers and workers did.
B) Ford only improved upon the meatpacking industry’s use of the assembly line.
C) Because human workers worked on the line, it wasn”t really an assembly line.
D) Because machines were involved, it wasn”t really an assembly line.
E) The assembly line wasn”t used in the company until after Henry Ford’s death.
The strategic blunder made by Nicholas Biddle was his ________.
A) decision to confide in Henry Clay
B) decision to seek the bank’s charter renewal four years early
C) decision to give bank loans to congressmen
D) failure to listen to the advice of Henry Clay
E) advocacy of large loans to immigrants