All of the following statements explain the efforts of President Truman regarding civil
rights EXCEPT:
A) In 1946 he created a committee to investigate lynching and other racial problems.
B) In 1948 he presented a civil rights program to Congressthe first president to do so.
C) He issued a ban against discrimination in federal employment.
D) He helped Congress to pass major civil rights legislation and voting bills.
While attempting to build an atomic bomb during World War II, the United States
A) decided to drop the bomb on Japan but not on Germany.
B) concealed the project from the Soviet Union.
C) concealed the project from the British.
D) shared the information with all of its allies.
Antebellum advocates of public education hoped that the schools would
A) challenge the dominance of middle-class values.
B) demonstrate the benefits of economic progress.
C) teach students to think and act independently.
D) counter unsettling effects of economic change.
By the 1740s, a growing proportion of Chesapeake slaves
A) were American-born.
B) had established families.
C) created personal lives.
D) All of the above.
A major concern of the Truman administration was
A) a lack of consumer goods.
B) the expansion of the welfare state.
C) a lack of population growth.
D) a return to the economic conditions of the Depression.
Revivalism shifted to
A) the Deep South.
B) New York and the Old Northwest.
C) rural areas.
D) New England and frontier areas.
Wealthy southern planters justified slavery in terms of white superiority because such a
defense
A) reflected their blind racism.
B) coincided with the main ideological directions of the time.
C) deflected potential class antagonisms among whites.
D) emphasized the profitability of the institution.
The Socialist party
A) stood at its pinnacle in the early 1900s.
B) elected 33 candidates as mayor in the early 1900s.
C) elected two socialists to Congress in the early 1900s.
D) All of the above.
Perhaps the most immediately effective protest against the Stamp Act was the
A) organization of mob riots by the Sons of Liberty.
B) passage of formal resolutions by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
C) boycott of British goods by American merchants.
D) formation of an intercolonial Stamp Act Congress.
How did Presidents Johnson and Kennedy respond to termination policy in the 1960s?
A) They repudiated it.
B) They advocated it.
C) They steered a middle course.
D) They ignored it.
After World War II, the Soviet Union
A) felt little effect from the war.
B) was determined to have a buffer zone for protection of its western border.
C) believed it was vulnerable on its eastern border.
D) aggressively pursued a policy of world revolution.
Essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson urged Americans to
A) conform to the dictates of social judgment.
B) look inward for knowledge and self-reliance.
C) avoid useless crusades for social reform.
D) civilize and tame the wildness of nature.
In November 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated while
A) attempting to undermine support for Vice President Johnson, who hoped to oppose
him in the 1964 Democratic primary.
B) promoting his plans to invade Cuba.
C) on a political trip to help unite the Texas Democratic party.
D) en route to a vacation on Padre Island.
During the immediate postwar years, most white Americans viewed the Native
Americans of the interior as
A) rival members of independent nations.
B) equal partners in western settlement.
C) conquered peoples.
D) potential converts to Christian civilization.
What problems did President Johnson’s Great Society suffer from?
A) Some programs promised too much.
B) Many programs were under funded.
C) Political factionalism divided objectives.
D) All of the above.
All of the following statements characterize the life of Rev. J.C. Pennington EXCEPT:
A) He led slave revolts.
B) He attended lectures at Yale Divinity School.
C) He was licensed to preach in 1838.
D) he headed prominent black churches and started schools.
The United States slipped from its position as the world’s industrial leader mainly
because of
A) shrinking markets abroad.
B) failure to train workers adequately.
C) failure to invest sufficiently in its productive capacity.
D) overconcentration on electronic industries.
By 1830, which of the following regions was still considered to be “frontier”?
A) Michigan
B) Wisconsin
C) Iowa
D) All of the above.
Manufacturers primarily valued education for their workers because it
A) removed child laborers from the workforce.
B) promoted feelings of self-worth.
C) encouraged habits of discipline and productivity.
D) improved intellectual skills.
The nation’s problems, according to conservatives, included
A) too little government control of the economy.
B) excessive individualism.
C) out-of-control entitlements.
D) insufficient funding of social programs.
In general, Americans responded to the suffering they experienced during the Great
Depression
A) by rejecting the capitalistic system.
B) with a sense of guilt.
C) by refusing to work.
D) by embracing socialist principles.
General James Wolfe overcame the French on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 to capture
the city of
A) Louisbourg.
B) Montreal.
C) New Orleans.
D) Quebec.
What internal divisions did unions experience in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
A) Diverse work settings divided workers.
B) Ethnic differences divided workers.
C) Class and interest-based differences divided skilled from unskilled workers.
D) All of the above.
Antebellum Americans joined the temperance crusade, as they did other reform
societies, largely to
A) avoid public suspicion of their own beliefs and behavior.
B) circumvent intrusions of the government.
C) seek relief from loneliness and uncertainty.
D) escape the pressures of middle-class values.
Roosevelt extended Hoover’s ________ policy in Latin America.
The root cause of King Philip’s War in New England stemmed from the anger of young
Wampanoags at the colonists’
A) refusal to sell them guns and supplies.
B) unwillingness to admit Native Americans to white churches and colleges.
C) attacks on their land base and political sovereignty.
D) alliance with their hated enemies, the Narragansetts.
All of the following relate the history of the braceros EXCEPT
A) working conditions were harsh.
B) some workers were deported by the federal government.
C) many workers stayed beyond their official agreement.
D) all braceros were returned to their home nation.
What were the actions of the black leader W.E.B. Du Bois during the Versailles peace
conference?
A) He was in Paris, France, to attend the Pan-African Conference.
B) He supported a Japanese resolution at the Versailles conference that called for global
racial equality.
C) He made statements opposing colonialism.
D) All of the above.
The American author who, during the 1920s, wrote The Great Gatsby, a novel critical of
the American success myth, was
A) William Faulkner.
B) Sinclair Lewis.
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
D) Ernest Hemingway.
During the 1932 presidential campaign, Franklin Roosevelt
A) often appeared vague concerning his plans for dealing with the Depression.
B) promoted a policy of massive spending by the federal government.
C) called for the United States to abandon the gold standard.
D) avoided the South.
In 1882, as part of a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, Congress passed the
A) Chinese Exclusion Act.
B) American Railway Act.
C) Clayton Anti-trust Act.
D) Strike Act.
Many rural Americans entering cities had been pushed out of agricultural labor by
A) Latin American labor competition.
B) Asian American immigration.
C) African American sharecroppers.
D) the invention of machinery.
The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
A) was created after the first 100 days.
B) was something FDR desperately wanted.
C) helped very few people save their homes from foreclosure.
D) had a minimal impact on housing policy.
Explain what types of Americans chose to remain Loyalists during the Revolution, and
why. Discuss the treatment Loyalists received during the war and whether such
treatment was fair or appropriate.
Originally a U.S. warship, which sank as the federal navy abandoned the Norfolk Navy
Yard, the Confederates raised the ________ and covered it with heavy armor.
Suppose you were living during the 1960s and 1970s. How would your attitude toward
environmental issues have changed between 1960 and 1970? What bills might you have
urged your representative in Congress to support?
European, ________, and Asian peoples met in the Americas as part of the Columbian
Exchange.
The ________ ushered in a depression that emptied the hopes and pockets of American
workers.
Discuss the development of the United States’ containment policy and explain the major
attempts of the American government to implement it prior to 1950.
In 1780, the ___________state legislature passed a law to free all newborn slaves when
they reached the age of 21.
The capture of ________ for slavery became the early economic basis of the Carolina
colony.
The House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Richard Nixon as a consequence of
the ________.
Consider the experiences of the typical African slave. Where did the person come from?
Where would he or she be most likely to go? What happened between the moments of
capture and arrival in the western Atlantic?
Discuss the lifestyle of the typical middle-class American woman during the late
nineteenth century.
Emigrants passing through Utah encountered a Mormon society that seemed “familiar
and orderly, yet foreign and shocking.” Explain.
William Patterson’s idea for a new national government was known as the
_________Plan.
The last link in the chain of waterways binding New York City to the Great Lakes and
the Northwest was the ________, stretching 363 miles between Albany and Buffalo.
Historians have used muster rolls from different towns and regions to analyze the social
composition of the continental army and how it changed during the course of the
Revolution. Analyze their conclusions.
Hoover helped to push the __________ Act through Congress in 1924the first of its
kind.
Discuss the proposed program of George Grenville in 1764-1765 to raise revenue to
reduce England’s debts. How and why did the Stamp Act politicize American colonists
as never before?
The Columbian Exchange introduced new plants, animals, and microbes to people on
both sides of the Atlantic. Assess the positive and negative consequences of that
exchange. In your opinion, who benefited mostthose living on the western side of the
Atlantic or those on the eastern side?