The radical abolitionist and cofounder of the American Anti-slavery Society was
________.
A) William Lloyd Garrison
B) Theodore Weld
C) Sojourner Truth
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
E) Harriet Tubman
The boycott movement against the Stamp Act ________.
A) had little effect on Great Britain
B) mobilized colonial women to action
C) ultimately hurt American businessmen more than British
D) was opposed by New England businessmen
E) was badly organized
What was one reason why the United States gave encouragement to Israel during the
invasion of southern Lebanon?
A) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would destroy the PLO.
B) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would lead to the release of
hostages.
C) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would force Lebanon to honor a
treaty.
D) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would sever Soviet-Lebanese
relations.
E) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would redraw borders in the
Middle East.
Why was slavery a point of conflict between the Mexican government and
Anglo-American settlers in Texas?
A) The Mexican government required Anglo-American settlers to emancipate their
slaves.
B) The Mexican government required each Anglo-American settler to own at least four
slaves.
C) The Mexican government allowed white as well as black slavery.
D) The Anglo-American settlers tried to enslave Mexican citizens.
E) The Anglo-American settlers did not want slavery in the territory.
Which of the following was NOT a Hamiltonian idea?
A) Private greed could be the source of public good.
B) The new government depended primarily on the wealthiest Americans.
C) France was the United States’ most important ally.
D) A national bank was necessary for the country’s economic health.
E) Anarchy was a greater threat than monarchy.
The Lewis and Clark expedition ________.
A) at last discovered the long-sought Northwest Passage
B) traveled up the Missouri River to the Pacific Northwest
C) explored the desert Southwest, including Pike’s Peak and the Grand Canyon
D) had to fight its way through the domains of several hostile Indian tribes
E) was assisted by a young Shoshone woman named Pocahontas
Which is the best interpretation of historian Davis Eltis’s statement: “In terms of
immigration alone… America was an extension of Africa rather than Europe until the
late nineteenth century.”
A) The colonists set up communities in the New World that were much closer to the
communities of Africa than those of Europe.
B) Many European colonists gave up the traditional ways of their homelands, while
people brought to America from Africa retained most of their traditions.
C) The new colonies were governed in ways that were unlike any kind of European
government and more like African governments.
D) Africans were not the largest group to immigrate to America, but they had the
greatest influence on the new colonies.
E) More Africans than Europeans came to North America in the early years of
colonization.
As a result of military reforms during the Cold War, the __________ became the
dominant branch of the American armed forces.
A) Navy
B) Army
C) Air Force
D) Marines
E) National Guard
What was true about the sectional quarrel between North and South during the 1840s
and early 1850s?
A) It was primarily expressed in political terms.
B) It was entirely expressed in legal, constitutional terms.
C) It had little impact on the common man.
D) It was increasingly seen in cultural and intellectual terms.
E) It had reached an uneasy but peaceful stalemate by 1860.
What were Johnson’s feelings about committing the United States to the war in
Vietnam?
A) He worried about the consequences of either withdrawal or invasion so he
committed to a large-scale but limited military intervention.
B) He worried about the consequences of being too cautious so he committed the
American military to an all-out invasion of North Vietnam.
C) He was worried about the consequences of a U.S. troop presence so he withdrew
troops to Taiwan and Japan while he reconsidered his options.
D) He worried about the spread of communism so he committed American troops to
two fronts: in Vietnam and in China.
E) He was worried about domestic unrest in the United States, so he decided he could
not commit more than 10,000 troops to the effort.
The turning point of the Vietnam War, which convinced U.S. leaders that the war would
end in a stalemate, was the ________.
A) Tet offensive
B) Gulf of Tonkin affair
C) Battle of Pleiku
D) Battle of Haiphong
E) massacre at My Lai
Which was one major difference between John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson?
A) Kennedy was more committed to a reform agenda than was Johnson.
B) Johnson was considered more stylish than Kennedy.
C) Kennedy was better at manipulating Congress than Johnson.
D) Johnson was more popular with the media than Kennedy.
E) Kennedy was a more polished public speaker than Johnson.
The lives of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson provide strong evidence that
________.
A) Puritans seldom disagreed on matters of theology
B) Massachusetts Bay officials insisted on freedom of religious thought and expression
C) Massachusetts Bay faced difficulties in creating a society based on a religious
principle
D) Massachusetts Bay Colony sent preachers to frontiers as missionaries to the Indians
E) most Puritans had wanted to break away from the Church of England
James Madison opposed Hamilton’s proposal for the public debt because ________.
A) he feared Hamilton’s growing political power
B) the powers of state government would be reduced
C) he believed only speculators would benefit
D) it did not foster the government of the Revolution
E) many soldiers had lost the old loan certificates that entitled them to payment
The reality behind the Cult of Domesticity was ________.
A) the growing urban population of the nation
B) the accepted use of child labor
C) a growing division between the workplace and the home
D) the increasing acceptance of careers for women
E) the staggering number of women dying during childbirth
In practice, working-class families viewed the new public schools ________.
A) as depriving them of needed wage earners
B) as essential to the improvement of their economic situation
C) with indifference
D) as an indication of upper class paternalism
E) as a welcome learning opportunity for themselves and their children
What was the driving force for social change that gained civil rights for African
Americans?
A) landmark court cases
B) presidential intervention
C) laws passed by Congress
D) the religious revival of the times
E) African-American activism
The main issue of John Quincy Adams’s presidency was ________.
A) the forced relocation of Native Americans
B) relations with Canada
C) foreign affairs
D) tariffs
E) the idea of a continental railroad
What was the primary motivation for the passage of the Social Security Act?
A) It was motivated by a belief that people ought to take responsibility for their
economic decisions and situations.
B) It was motivated by a desire to fend off Republican challenges to Democratic
policies and to ensure that FDR would be reelected.
C) It was motivated by a belief that wealth should be distributed equally among all
American citizens and across all social classes.
D) It was motivated by a concern that radical elements within American society would
gain power if discontent among the poor and dispossessed was not remedied.
E) It was motivated by a sense of duty to ensure that all American citizens, especially
the elderly, handicapped, and unemployed, were adequately protected.
The Americans who wrote the first state constitutions were alike in that all ________.
A) totally rejected British traditions and ideas in creating them
B) demanded written documents
C) refused to include bills of rights
D) made the constitutions vague and imprecise where basic rights were concerned
E) followed the example of the British constitution
Why was the signing of the Taft-Katsura Agreement strategically important for the
United States?
A) It abandoned the Philippines to Japan but gained U.S. security in the Pacific.
B) It strengthened U.S. influence in China.
C) It gave the United States free rein in Japan.
D) It benefited U.S. trade with Japan.
E) It traded Korean independence for U.S. security in the Philippines.
What did immigrants from the four major Hispanic groups have in common?
A) They tended to be relatively wealthy.
B) They tended to have few children.
C) They tended to be relatively young.
D) They tended to have very high college graduation rates.
E) They tended to live primarily in rural areas.
What was the significance of a 1901 study of working-class families?
A) It revealed that child labor had virtually ceased.
B) It showed that the number of working women had decreased.
C) It showed that about half of the principal breadwinners were out of work.
D) It revealed that children were attending school in record numbers.
E) It showed that fewer immigrants were in the working class.
In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia ________.
A) attacked the English settlements
B) formed an alliance with the Native American tribes of New England
C) established permanently good relations with the English settlers
D) learned from the English settlers how to grow tobacco
E) migrated westward to avoid future contact with settlers
Shays’s Rebellion involved ________.
A) discontented New England merchants
B) western settlers demanding Indian territory
C) supporters of freer trade with Great Britain
D) discontented farmers in Massachusetts
E) Continental Army officers who had been denied their pensions
During the great coal strike of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt _____.
A) played no role at all in settling the dispute
B) sympathized completely with the company owners
C) turned his attention to the Pure Food and Drug Act instead
D) brought the two sides to the White House to come to an agreement
E) shut down the coal mines for two months
The large increase in the national population reflected in the 1810 census resulted
mainly from ________.
A) the assimilation of whole tribes of Native Americans into the general population
B) natural biological increase
C) a huge increase in the importation of slaves from Africa
D) the immigration of many thousands of Europeans fleeing the Napoleonic wars
E) fabrication of census records by corrupt state officials who hoped to increase their
congressional representation
Under whose intellectual guidance did the Constitutional Convention form a new
government?
A) Robert Morris
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) James Madison
D) Benjamin Franklin
E) Thomas Jefferson
What did Henry George propose as a solution to poverty in the modern society?
A) to let nature take its evolutionary course
B) to replace all taxes with a ‘single tax” on land
C) a socialist utopia in which the government owns the means of production
D) to establish worker and farmer cooperatives to own the means of production
E) to make churches the center of social reform instead of the government
To finance the war effort, the U.S. government relied primarily on _____.
A) higher income tax rates
B) printing paper money for war debts
C) sales of “Liberty Bonds”
D) new discoveries of gold in Alaska
E) loans from foreign governments