How did Theodore Roosevelt establish a regulatory role for government?
A) by appointing pro-regulation justices to the Supreme Court
B) by bringing multiple anti-trust suits against business combinations
C) by pressuring Congress to pass laws authorizing the president to regulate business
D) by forcing federal agencies to more actively regulate labor conditions
Which of the following changed the composition of the American people by abolishing
the national quota system, which had been in effect since 1924?
A) the Immigration and Naturalization Service
B) Proposition 187
C) the Moral Majority
D) the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
The United States and European nations contested spheres of influence in __________.
A) the Philippines
B) China
C) Cuba
D) India
Which of the following would be most likely to oppose prohibition?
A) female leaders of the temperance movement
B) fundamentalist preachers
C) immigrants in urban ethnic areas
D) protestant farmers in the South
During the Eisenhower administration, official American policy for a Soviet attack on
western Europe called for __________.
A) massive nuclear retaliation against the Soviet Union
B) response with conventional military forces
C) intense negotiations mediated by the United Nations
D) western Europe to defend itself, with the United States supplying financial aid
Stagflation included which of the following?
A) rapid economic growth
B) low unemployment
C) high inflation
D) substantial declines in wages
The members of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance __________.
A) were mostly tenant farmers and sharecroppers
B) were Democratic representatives in the United States Congress
C) were also involved in mobilizing the Socialist Party
D) aggressively backed a program that would end the credit system
Which statement would have most likely been said by a member of Las Gorras
Blancas?
A) “We must coexist with white property-owners if we are to prosper.”
B) “Retaining Hispanic titles to great tracts of land is our greatest accomplishment.”
C) “We raid at night, if needed, to stop the Anglo encroachment on our land.”
D) “We denounce the portion of our heritage that is Indian.”
Which of the following states was part of the Dust Bowl?
A) Nevada
B) Illinois
C) Texas
D) California
The Depression was prolonged when __________.
A) the government ordered that more exports be sold in Europe
B) banks voluntarily submitted to regulatory policies
C) the Federal Reserve Board restricted the nation’s money supply
D) farm prices and workers’ wages skyrocketed
Which of the following factors resulted in many Indian deaths on the Great Plains?
A) the spread of smallpox
B) starvation caused by decimation of the corn crop
C) Indians always refusing to move to new land
D) the Indians’ lack of experience with English weapons
After Dewey’s victory, Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo __________.
A) petitioned Congress for Filipino statehood
B) wrote to President McKinley to plea for annexation
C) declared the Philippines an independent country
D) immediately attacked American forces
Reformers who called for use of the Australian ballot secured __________.
A) the guarantee of biracial tickets in the North
B) the right of voters to have privacy in the voting process
C) an end to illegal campaign contributions
D) an end to the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voting
Why was the War Industries Board established?
A) to draft soldiers
B) to allocate scarce materials and standardize production
C) to take over private factories for use by the government
D) to develop weapons capable of sinking German submarines
Progressive reformers looked to __________ to gain ideas.
A) Asia
B) South America
C) India
D) Europe
What was FDR’s primary focus in 1939?
A) domestic economic policy
B) international economic policy
C) domestic social policy
D) international military policy
Joseph Pulitzer and Randolph Hearst capitalized on the middle class’s taste for
__________.
A) fast foods such as soup and instant coffee
B) getting news in an easy-to-read format
C) spending money at dance clubs and music halls
D) riding on trolleys and faster, improved trains
Which of the following created tension in the United States’ relationships with
European nations during the 1920s?
A) debts that European nations owed the United States from World War I
B) the rapid expansion of American based companies into European markets
C) the continued mistreatment of African Americans in the United States
D) the refusal of American companies to export oil to Europe
The main purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to __________.
A) support all nationalist movements across the globe
B) continue support for further labor and social welfare reforms
C) regulate the banking industry in hopes of avoiding another depression
D) use U.S. economic power to help free nations resist subversion or aggression
An example of vertical integration was __________.
A) John Rockefeller’s mergers with other oil companies
B) Andrew Carnegie’s belief in helping his working-class laborers
C) Gustavus Swift’s control of all aspects of meatpacking
D) J. P. Morgan’s belief in the “gospel of wealth”
Many white reformers believed that Indians should __________.
A) be left to live in their traditional ways
B) not be taught to speak English
C) be assimilated by teaching them to be Christians
D) never have to accept the concepts of capitalism
In his novel, A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway __________.
A) ridiculed the narrowness of suburban, middle-class life
B) used the muckraking style to criticize large industries
C) rejected traditional values and the idealism of his youth
D) satirized the era’s mass consumerism
A major difference between the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor
was __________.
A) the American Federation of Labor disapproved of strikes
B) membership in the Knights of Labor was open to all workers
C) the American Federation of Labor had close ties with the Socialist Party
D) support for the Knights of Labor was restricted to craft workers only
How did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempt to raise farm incomes?
A) by nationalizing rail lines that carried farm products
B) by attacking overproduction
C) by decreasing the emphasis on scientific agriculture
D) by acknowledging farmers’ calls for collective bargaining rights
Waco and Oklahoma City were examples of __________.
A) domestic terrorism
B) the war on drugs
C) foreign terrorism
D) random acts of violence
“Court packing” refers to FDR’s proposal to __________.
A) load state courts with civil rights cases
B) surround himself with cabinet members from America’s wealthiest families
C) assert more presidential control over the makeup of the Supreme Court
D) sue corporations who resisted implementation of New Deal reforms
Which state or territory had the greatest percentage of its area as Indian reservation land
in the mid-1890s?
A) Wyoming
B) Oklahoma
C) Oregon
D) Nebraska
The East St. Louis riot that killed thirty-nine Americans __________.
A) began when angry whites attacked blacks who sought jobs
B) showed the severity of police brutality in the North
C) reflected a lack of support for an extended war effort
D) began as an antiwar rally
Residential suburbs were first populated by __________.
A) new immigrants
B) industrial magnates
C) members of the middle class
D) unskilled laborers
Why was the United States linked to the Allies’ cause prior to direct American
involvement in the war?
A) Russia was hostile to American trade with Britain.
B) There were U.S. marines on Allied warships.
C) American banks had issued valuable loans to Allied nations.
D) Germany refused to follow the Declaration of London.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution __________.
A) declared the official end of the Korean War
B) resulted in the resignation of Richard Nixon
C) caused the Soviet Union to dismantle its nuclear missiles in Cuba
D) gave President Johnson the power to wage undeclared war in Vietnam
Civil rights reforms enacted by the Truman administration included __________.
A) passage of the Voting Rights Act
B) a constitutional amendment to ensure citizenship
C) desegregation of all public facilities
D) revitalizing Social Security
The Pentagon Papers detailed American military involvement in __________.
A) the support of various right-wing dictators in Latin America
B) Vietnam
C) Korea
D) the Dominican Republic in 1965
What were the causes of the intense fear of Communist subversion in the late 1940s and
early 1950s? Who were the key figures in the Second Red Scare? What long-term
impact did the Red Scare have on American society?
Historians are divided in opinion regarding Reconstruction’s events and outcomes.
What do you feel were the events that best expressed the Reconstruction period? Why
do you feel Reconstruction reforms were ended in 1877?
Analyze the impact of mechanization, consumerism, advertising, and the boom in the
auto industry on American life in the 1920s. Do you feel these impacts were for the
betterment of American life?
Discuss the role of containment in American foreign policy during the period
1950″1965. Was the overall effect of containment beneficial or harmful to the goals and
ideals of the United States?
Choose three of the following groups and describe the characteristics of life for them in
the 1920s: African Americans, female reformers, young people in urban areas,
fundamentalists, novelists and poets, celebrities, and union members.
Discuss the election of 2000, why it was contested, and what it revealed about the
American people and the nation.
How did American unity provide a foundation for success in World War II? Give
examples of Americans on the home front that illustrate the importance of that unity.
What combined roles did the Truman administration and the Republican Party play in
promoting fear of an internal Communist threat?
What was the Omaha Platform? Examine its appeal to people who felt that
industrialism was too dominant in the economic and social foundation of the United
States.
In what ways did John Kennedy’s mystique shape the national mood of the early 1960s?
What successes and failures did JFK experience as president? How did his combination
of idealism and shrewdness affect the rest of the 1960s?
Describe the coalition of critics that opposed New Deal reforms. What was the variety
of motivations behind the groups and individuals who expressed these criticisms?
Some historians have called the presidential election of 1896 “the nation’s first
“modern” election.” Evaluate the validity of this statement by analyzing the issues,
conflicts, and campaign tactics of that election.
In what ways was Woodrow Wilson among the most interventionist presidents in U.S.
history?
Describe and evaluate the reasons for the rapid rise and fall of the Populist Party. What
strengths and weaknesses were exhibited by the party?
In what ways did the government effectively silence the brief emergence of dissent
against American involvement in World War I? What examples reveal the level of
aggression used against those who were suspected of disloyalty?
Discuss the connections between the antiwar movement, hippies, the counterculture,
and the Black Power movement. What were the successes and failures of the New Left?
How effective were U.S. interventions in Latin America? What were the objectives and
consequences? Do you tend to agree or disagree with these interventions?
What factors accounted for the rise of the Republican Party in the South, and then the
reemergence of the Democratic Party as the dominant power in the South?
Respond to this statement: “American entry into World War II was a vital factor in the
defeat of the Axis powers.”