What did Richard Nixon learn during his goodwill tour of South America in 1958?
A) Anti-American sentiment ran high in the region as a result of Eisenhower’s cold war
policy.
B) Eisenhower’s policies had not developed democratic institutions the way he had
hoped.
C) A decade of U.S. neglect had wreaked havoc on the effectiveness of local militaries
to withstand popular protests.
D) The United States was far more popular as a defender of anticommunist freedom
than liberal critics at home had suggested.
The careers of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins suggest that __________.
A) the American environment in the late nineteenth century was not inhospitable to
first-class artists
B) most American talent found itself in a self-chosen exile in Paris
C) American philanthropists had introduced British class anxieties and sensibilities to
the American art scene
D) the art scene remained confined to a few blocks in downtown Manhattan
Where was American settlement in the Oregon region centered?
A) Columbia River Valley
B) Willamette Valley
C) Walla Walla River Valley
D) Cascade Mountains
The main responsibility for “bleeding Kansas” rested upon which of the following?
A) Missouri border ruffians who mercilessly attacked the free state partisans
B) the Pierce administration, which failed to secure honest elections
C) abolitionist fanatics such as John Brown who were unwilling to compromise their
principles and were willing to resort to violence
D) the Buchanan administration, which refused to ensure honest elections because that
might alienate the South
What was true of working women in the late nineteenth century?
A) They were still generally unable to enter the male-dominated professions of teaching
and nursing.
B) They earned less as clerks and “typewriters” than they did as unskilled factory
workers.
C) They had less pleasant working conditions as clerks than they did as unskilled
factory workers.
D) They were often hired as salespersons in department stores because managers
considered them easier to control than men.
Although we imagine the West in the nineteenth century as a thinly populated rural
region, by the late 1870s __________ already had almost 250,000 inhabitants.
A) Las Vegas
B) Sante Fe
C) Tucson
D) San Francisco
The racial beliefs of most white Americans in the last decades of the eighteenth century
were characterized by which of the following?
A) their high regard for white property rights but disregard for black American personal
liberties
B) their confidence that slaves were docile children who would never revolt
C) their growing desire for the ending of slavery by voluntary manumission
D) their trust that the separation from the British Empire would bring about full racial
equality
The cotton boom in the early nineteenth century caused which of the following?
A) a rapid increase in the number of slaves freed by their masters
B) a strict enforcement of laws against the interstate slave trade
C) a demand for more labor, which was met by a renewed growth of slavery
D) the industrialization of previously agricultural regions in the South
The Lecompton constitution caused a complete break between President Buchanan and
which former political ally?
A) Abraham Lincoln
B) Stephen Douglas
C) Jefferson Davis
D) Charles Sumner
“We must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property worth four billions,
or we must secede.” What is the source of this quote?
A) the Mississippi convention
B) the Crittenden Compromise
C) Virginia’s “Declaration of Causes of Secession”
D) John C. Calhoun’s A Disquisition on Government
Which of the following accurately describes the Shaker community of the early
nineteenth century?
A) They valued leisure, the sanctity of sleep, and the merits of individual meditation.
B) Their religious practice was marked by somber reflection and gloomy predictions.
C) They practiced free love, which permitted men and women to cohabitate without
marriage.
D) They held their property in common and believed in the equality of labor.
Which of the following set boomers apart from millennials, according to a 2008 Pew
poll?
A) church membership
B) college education
C) social networking presence
D) sexual orientation
The French Revolution and the ensuing war between France and Great Britain tended to
do which of the following?
A) widen the split between American political parties
B) unite all political parties to oppose the principles of the French Revolution
C) undermine America’s close relationship with England
D) unite all political parties to support the principles of the French Revolution
Granger-controlled legislatures attempted to do which of the following?
A) restore competition among farm machinery manufacturers
B) regulate railroad rates
C) prohibit corporate monopolies
D) subsidize farm prices
What was Roosevelt’s response to the United Automobile Workers’ ‘sit-down strikes”
against General Motors?
A) He thought them illegal, but refused to intervene.
B) He sent in the National Guard to drive the workers out of the plants.
C) He pledged his support to the strikers.
D) He ordered both sides into binding arbitration.
The first and possibly greatest feat of genetic engineering was the creation of
__________ 7,000 years ago.
A) potatoes
B) wheat
C) maize
D) yam
Why did many Americans favor neutrality during the Great War?
A) They believed the Central Powers were going to be victorious within the first six
months.
B) Over two-thirds of all Americans were either first- or second-generation immigrants.
C) They believed the Allies were going to win the war within the first six months.
D) Americans traditionally feared entanglement in European affairs.
The Mexican War was ended by the __________.
A) Gadsden Purchase
B) Treaty of Vera Cruz
C) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
D) Treaty of San Joaquin
Who became president as a result of the Compromise of 1877?
A) Rutherford B. Hayes
B) Ulysses S. Grant
C) James A. Garfield
D) Grover Cleveland
Which king brought the Protestant Reformation to England by declaring himself head
of the English Church in order to divorce his first wife?
A) Charles V
B) Henry VIII
C) James I
D) Richard III
“When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?” “If a man does not keep pace
with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” Who is the
author of these statements?
A) Henry David Thoreau
B) Francis Wayland
C) Ralph Waldo Emerson
D) Nathanial Hawthorne
The election of 1868 seemed to indicate that __________.
A) the white electorate was wholeheartedly behind Grant
B) Horatio Seymour was a very weak candidate
C) most white Americans opposed Radical Reconstruction
D) most white Americans supported Radical Reconstruction
According to the leaders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the inspiration for their
organization stemmed from which of the following?
A) a proclamation by Queen Elizabeth I
B) the Mayflower Compact
C) a treaty with the natives
D) the divine
What was John Marshall’s chief contribution to economic development?
A) his rejection of state charters for corporations
B) his strong states’ rights philosophy
C) his farsighted defense of consumer rights
D) his broadly national view of economic affairs
What happened to state laws that responded to the increasing violence in video games
by prohibiting the sale or rental of such games to anyone under the age of eighteen?
A) They were upheld by the Supreme Court, but not enforced well by the states.
B) They were ruled an unconstitutional violation of the right of free speech.
C) They were never implemented because of an effective lobbying effort put together
by game makers.
D) They were set aside because of the more stringent legislation and enforcement of a
similar federal law.
Intense competition among railroads __________.
A) caused financial instability and increased the chances of an economic downturn
B) prompted industrial decentralization
C) resulted in a uniform low price for all cargo customers
D) encouraged the organization of railroad unions
In its Middle Eastern policy, which country did the Truman administration consistently
support?
A) Israel
B) Egypt
C) Jordan
D) Iraq
Jackson’s advisers who did not hold regular cabinet appointments were called the
__________.
A) Locofocos
B) Tennessee Regulars
C) Old Hickories
D) Kitchen Cabinet
McKinley won the election by carrying states in which areas?
A) South, Great Plains, and Rocky Mountains
B) Midwest, Great Plains, and Pacific Coast
C) East, Midwest, and Pacific Coast
D) South, Midwest, and Great Plains
Nicholas Biddle realized that he could use the Second National Bank as which of the
following?
A) a rudimentary central bank
B) a mechanism to undermine President Jackson
C) a monopoly to enrich foreign investors
D) a means to thwart the political ambitions of Henry Clay
Who was the first newspaper editor to reach a truly massive audience without
abandoning his basic integrity?
A) William Randolph Hearst
B) Joseph Pulitzer
C) Horace Greeley
D) Frank Leslie