Which prohibited foreign corporations from building or purchasing sites with military
potential in the Western Hemisphere?
a. Sussex Pledge
b. Zimmermann Note
c. Roosevelt Corollary
d. Lodge Corollary
e. Foster Testimony
How did life improve for African Americans during the last few decades of the
twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century?
a. The average income for African American families increased to match that of white
families.
b. The average educational level of African Americans increased.
c. The incarceration level of African Americans dropped below the national average.
d. The poverty rate among African Americans dropped below the national average.
e. Homicide was no longer the leading cause of death among young black males.
Which identifies why the Mayflower Compact is considered an important historical
document?
a. It was the first example of colonists describing the hardships endured on a voyage to
the New
World.
b. It was a legal document that authenticated the Pilgrims’ right to settle in New
England.
c. It included a list of the passengers on the Mayflower who became the first New
England colonists.
d. It was the first example of colonists forming a basic government in North America.
e. It was the first example of colonists negotiating a treaty with Native Americans in
North America.
In what way do historians consider the abolitionist movement of the 1830s and 1840s a
success?
a. It brought the issue of slavery into the public consciousness.
b. It convinced most people that slavery should be abolished immediately.
c. It peacefully converted many slaveholders to abolition.
d. It led to a marked decrease in racism among northern urban whites.
e. It orchestrated the emancipation of thousands of slaves.
By 1935, Roosevelt’s severest critics were __________.
a. members of the Supreme Court
b. accusing him of being a socialist
c. demanding more radical reforms
d. accusing him of ignoring the rise of military dictatorships in Europe
e. scolding him for not providing more aid to impoverished blacks
How did Shays’s Rebellion help advance Madison’s reformation ideas?
a. Farmers throughout the United States began supporting Madison as a way of
guaranteeing their rights.
b. Wealthy plantation owners feared rebellions on their own lands and wanted a strong
government to protect their interests.
c. Madison was instrumental in calming the farmers and ending the rebellion, so people
began to trust him.
d. Even Northerners were alarmed to see that African Americans could wield such
power, and looked to Madison to establish a government to protect whites.
e. People throughout the United States realized that law and order were breaking down.
Indentured servants __________.
a. were working off the cost of their passage to America
b. served the same number of years regardless of age or experience
c. had no more legal rights than slaves
d. received grants of land when their terms were up
e. usually lived long enough to complete their terms of service
The 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States changed American foreign policy, as the
United States __________.
a. considered returning to an isolationist foreign policy
b. considered returning to a containment foreign policy
c. took on the role of global police officer
d. strengthened its alliances with Europe and cut off diplomatic relations with countries
on other continents
e. realized that involvement in international affairs was a mistake
Which political party made significant gains in Washington in the 1950s, capturing the
presidency in 1952?
a. the Republican party
b. the Democratic party
c. the Libertarian party
d. the Dixiecrats
e. the Progressive party
Why did those who campaigned actively for ratification of the Constitution call
themselves “Federalists”?
a. The term “Nationalists” had been used during the ratification of the Articles of
Confederation
and was now negatively viewed.
b. The term suggested that they stood for a confederation of states and not for a
supreme national
authority.
c. They wanted the public to know that they supported strong state governments that
controlled
the federal government.
d. The term “Antifederalists” was perceived as negative because of the root “anti.”
e. The popular song “Federalists on the Shore” recalled the glories of the Revolutionary
War.
The outcome of the 2000 presidential election hung on legal battles over the vote count
in __________.
a. Ohio
b. Illinois
c. Florida
d. California
e. New Mexico
The court decision in Roe v. Wade guaranteed women’s right to __________.
a. attend traditionally all-male schools
b. run for public office
c. serve in the military
d. earn equal pay for equal work
e. obtain an abortion
What was the South’s goal in seceding from the Union?
a. to create a slave empire based on reactionary ideals
b. to slowly get rid of slavery and exist as an independent nation
c. to recreate the government of the British Isles
d. to recreate the Union as it had been before the Republican Party
e. to form a powerful nation that would eventually take over the North
How did immigrants and native-born people compare in terms of family in the late
nineteenth century?
a. Immigrants married earlier than native-born people and, as a result, had more
children.
b. Immigrant families had fewer children than native-born families, mostly because
they lived in cramped tenements that could not support large families.
c. Immigrants tended to marry later and have more children than native-born people.
d. Immigrant families were usually headed by single women, whereas native-born
families tended to be nuclear families.
e. Immigrants married much earlier than native-born people, and also tended to die at
much earlier ages.
Some American reformers were against segregating Native Americans on reservations
because they believed that __________.
a. Native Americans should be sent to the North where they could live freely
b. reservations took too much land away from white settlers
c. Native Americans should be allowed to live their traditional lifestyles in the West
d. Native Americans should be assimilated into white American culture
e. reservations should include both Native Americans and white settlers
Whose activities were essential to the establishment of a colonial alliance with the
French?
a. Thomas Paine
b. John Adams
c. John Dickinson
d. Thomas Jefferson
e. Benjamin Franklin
Around the time of the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists __________.
a. lost support due to rampant government corruption and extreme inflation
b. lost support due to the violence of his government’s repression of the Chinese
c. gained support because the Chinese middle class was finally flourishing
d. gained support because of Chiang’s pledge to end government corruption
e. had already long since faded as a factor in the Chinese political world
John Dickinson’s 1776 plan for a new U.S. government revolved around the concept of
__________.
a. a weak central government
b. extremely powerful state governments
c. unification with Canada
d. a strong central government
e. a centralized banking system
Which characteristic did most eastern North American Indian cultures share?
a. Eastern Native Americans were united and spoke a common language.
b. Eastern Native American tribes were ruled by a central leader from the most
powerful tribe.
c. Eastern Native Americans waged wars with large numbers of causalities to settle
territorial disputes.
d. Eastern Native American bands were patrilineal.
e. Eastern Native American tribes were willing to align themselves with Europeans
against other tribes.
Why did the Articles of Confederation give states more power than the central
government?
a. The delegates believed that powerful state governments were dangerous.
b. The delegates were mostly state governors, so they wanted to preserve their own
power.
c. The new central government had proven itself unworthy of power with corrupt
officials and
systematic abuses.
d. Articles of Confederation by definition must give power to the states, as they form a
statewide
document.
e. The delegates believed that powerful central governments were dangerous.
Who was the typical small slaveholder?
a. an urban merchant
b. a wealthy landowner
c. a small business owner
d. a shopkeeper
e. a farmer
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation that came very close to being a nuclear
conflict between which two countries?
a. Cuba and China
b. Cuba and the Dominican Republic
c. the United States and China
d. the United States and Russia
e. Russia and Cuba
How did the Dawes Severalty Act try to “civilize” the Indians?
a. by turning them into landowning ranchers and farmers
b. by making public education compulsory on reservations
c. by threatening to exterminate Indians if they refused to adopt white culture
d. by sending Christian missionaries to convert Indians
e. by arranging for their children to be fostered out to white families
How was American handling of the crises of World War One and the Great Depression
similar?
a. Wilson’s initial stance of neutrality in the war was similar to Roosevelt’s initial
inactivity at the beginning of the Great Depression.
b. Just as the government, big business, and labor formed a strong alliance to
concentrate efforts to win the war, so did they join together to combat the effects of the
Depression.
c. Just as the war provided women and minorities with job opportunities, so did the
Great Depression offer more unskilled, typically female and minority jobs.
d. The United States handled both crises with political unity; members of both political
parties set aside their differences to work together.
e. The U.S. government took unprecedented control of business, banking, labor, and
agriculture, although it had to deny civil liberties, to solve both crises.
In 1989, popular demonstrations calling for democratic reform were violently
suppressed in __________.
a. China
b. Egypt
c. Czechoslovakia
d. Chile
e. Russia
Why was the Panic of 1837 significant for President Van Buren?
a. Van Buren had to respond but was hampered by his own political party’s laissez-faire
policies, dooming his reelection.
b. Whigs blamed Van Buren for the crisis, further strengthening their popular appeal.
c. Democrats blamed Van Buren for the crisis, further strengthening their popular
appeal.
d. Van Buren responded contrary to his political party’s laissez-faire policies, forcing
the economy into enough of a rebound to win him a second term.
e. His predecessor, Jackson, had caused the crisis, so Van Buren was taxed with fixing it
without insinuating the panic was caused by the popular Jackson.
In their relations with the Native Americans, the French __________.
a. were as obsessed with Christian conversion as the Spanish
b. tended to cultivate good relations because of the Native Americans’ knowledge of fur
trapping
c. were ruthless in their treatment of the Native Americans
d. drove them from their land in order to set up plantations
e. were at a distinct disadvantage
How did Richard Hakluyt keep the dream of colonizing America alive?
a. He explored the New World and brought exotic products back to England.
b. He interviewed explorers and propagandized their stories in a popular book.
c. He started a successful colony that made reasonably good profits.
d. He wrote a work on the variety and cultural diversity of Native Americans.
e. He wrote a fictional story about a settlement but claimed it was a factual account.
Why did the number of Chinese immigrants fall drastically in the late nineteenth
century?
a. Chinese laborers were treated so poorly in the West that fewer immigrants wanted to
come to the United States.
b. China severely restricted immigration to the United States beginning in the 1880s.
c. The Homestead Act did not apply to Chinese immigrants and thus there was no land
available for them.
d. Many Chinese laborers found better work in Europe than in the United States.
e. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 suspended immigration of Chinese laborers.
One of the major causes of __________ was the disfranchisement of landless freemen
by the Virginia House of Burgesses in 1670.
a. Bacon’s Rebellion
b. Coode’s Rebellion
c. Leisler’s Rebellion
d. the Stono Uprising
e. Shays’s Rebellion
The so-called “final fling” of settlement on the frontier occurred in __________.
a. California
b. Oklahoma
c. Missouri
d. Oregon
e. Arizona
What was a result of the Haymarket Square riot?
a. It brought public sympathy to the plight of the workers.
b. It strengthened the national labor movement.
c. It weakened the national labor movement.
d. It forced government regulation of unions.
e. It ended labor strife in Chicago.