Slave spirituals reiterated one basic Christian theme:
A) servants, obey your masters.
B) if someone slaps you, turn the other cheek.
C) a chosen people were held captive but would be delivered.
D) do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
During the Reconstruction period, southern tenant farmers
A) found it easy to gain ownership of their own land.
B) united to confiscate the property of the landowners.
C) generally grew almost all of what they needed for survival.
D) seldom earned much money and fell into debt.
One of the factors that promoted America’s search for new markets between 1865 and
1900 was
A) industrial and agricultural overproduction.
B) an increase in domestic consumption.
C) a decline in American industrial production because of the depression of 1893.
D) a decline in demand for American goods abroad.
In 1949, which of the following unions expelled many of its affiliated unions for
alleged communist ties?
A) AFL
B) IWW
C) CIO
D) UMW
Archaeological studies of the Mound Builders suggest that Native American
A) loss of population and land accompanying the western migration of Europeans was
inevitable.
B) settlements of the Atlantic seaboard represented the highest levels of pre-Columbian
development.
C) culture remained static for thousands of years before Europeans arrived.
D) societies participated in a vast trading network that linked villages across the
continent.
Why did the African slave trade begin?
A) African rulers wanted to sell slaves to the Chinese.
B) Europeans wanted to fill a labor shortage in the Mediterranean world.
C) Europeans wanted new workers to drive down wages in the colonies.
D) European elites valued African culture and viewed Africans as equals.
New York neighborhoods were divided by
A) age.
B) gender.
C) gang affiliation.
D) ethnicity.
The Mormons faced public hostility because of
A)rumors of unorthodox sexual practices.
B) prejudice against immigrants.
C) their passive religious activities.
D)All of the above. .
As a consequence of the Compromise of 1850
A) political parties realigned more closely along sectional lines.
B) several states invalidated personal liberty laws.
C) more serious sectional conflict was avoided.
D) ideas such as secession and abolitionism were repudiated.
The Little Ice Age impacted native societies in the Americas in all of the following
ways EXCEPT:
A) Native peoples abandoned urban centers.
B) Native societies became less populous.
C) Native societies became less centralized.
D) Native women lost power.
Underlying the Marshall Plan was the assumption that
A) economic prosperity brings political stability.
B) the United States would not directly participate in the proposal.
C) Eastern Europe could be freed from Soviet domination.
D) it could convert the Soviet Union to democracy.
Manufacturing shifted to cities as power systems shifted from water to
A) steam.
B) electricity.
C) nuclear.
D) solar.
How did ordinary Europeans view Wilson when he arrived in Europe?
A) They cheered enthusiastically for him.
B) They pelted him with eggs and rocks.
C) They ignored him.
D) They remained neutral in their opinion of Wilson.
Between 1870 and 1890, the population doubled in the city of
A) San Francisco.
B) Buffalo.
C) Chicago.
D) New Orleans.
In 1935, during the second phase of the New Deal, President Roosevelt
A) endorsed most of the programs promoted by Huey Long.
B) encouraged more cooperation between business and government.
C) opposed an increase in taxes.
D) increased government regulation of business.
Discuss the causes and important developments of the Seven Years’ War in North
America. Analyze the consequences of the war for the various “winners” and “losers.”
During the Reconstruction Era, the “Black Codes”
A) reestablished slavery.
B) guaranteed freedpeople full political and civil rights.
C) desegregated southern society.
D) restricted the economic opportunities of the freedpeople.
The economic recession that confronted the American people from 1980 to 1982
A) affected only the Sun Belt states.
B) affected only the upper classes.
C) affected all classes equally.
D) led to unemployment rates for African Americans that exceeded 25 percent.
Washington’s first Secretary of the Treasury was
A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) James Madison.
All of the following describe the essence of prison reform in the antebellum era
EXCEPT
A) tiny cells.
B) small workrooms.
C) isolation cells.
D) work release to go home each night.
What did the Ocala Platform call for?
A) the direct election of senators
B) a lower tariff
C) a subtreasury system
D) All of the above.
All of the following statements describe the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 EXCEPT:
A) The strike was the first and bloodiest strike of the era.
B) The strike began as a result of a reduction in wages by company owners.
C) The strike spread throughout the nation.
D) The strike spread to Latin America and Europe.
Lincoln’s early actions as president indicated that he intended to
A) act only with the sanction of Congress.
B) rely heavily on his cabinet members’ advice.
C) take responsibility for running his own administration.
D) respect the traditions and dogmas of the past.
By 1800, much of southern agriculture was
A) rapidly expanding.
B) in disarray.
C) farmed by free blacks.
D) burned over by fire.
During the early 1850s, political parties lost influence because of the
A) parties’ sharp differences in moral tone and values.
B) standardization of various state political and economic procedures.
C) general decline in national economic prosperity.
D) nomination of dynamic independent political leaders.
Free black women in early American cities worked as
A) domestics.
B) dock workers.
C) farm hands.
D) nurses.
During the Eisenhower administration, an important factor in promoting the material
development of the United States was
A) a population shift away from suburban areas.
B) less corporate control of the American economy.
C) construction of the interstate highway system.
D) control of the economy by the Office of Price Administration.
In their effort to organize American workers during the progressive era, the
International Workers of the World
A) stressed the use of the investigative committee to publicize the problems that
workers faced.
B) welcomed all workers, regardless of skill, race, or gender.
C) relied mostly on political solutions that emphasized protective labor legislation.
D) adopted the philosophy of Samuel Gompers.
Masters controlled which of the following aspects of slave life?
A) physical location
B) work roles
C) diet
D) All of the above.
In an overall analysis, Congressional Reconstruction for the freedpeople
A) provided blacks with an excellent foundation for the future.
B) attracted widespread support among southern whites.
C) provided economic, but not political opportunities.
D) provided little economic security.
All of the following statements are true about Dred Scott and his legal case EXCEPT:
A) Scott and his wife had filed suit for their freedom in Missouri in 1846.
B) They argued that their master had taken them into free territory, making them free
people.
C) Their case reached the Supreme Court at a time when slavery had become a hot
issue.
D) The court ruled that Scott was a citizen.
The 1927 Mississippi flood
A) demonstrated Coolidge’s lack of concern for people’s problems.
B) set a precedent for federal involvement in local affairs.
C) destroyed homes, but stimulated an effort to improve housing for sharecroppers.
D) caused extensive damage because nobody had taken any precautions against
flooding.
The U.S. Congress responded to developments in Europe between 1933 and 1937 by
A) providing military aid to England.
B) declaring war on Germany.
C) approving disarmament agreements.
D) passing a series of neutrality acts.
For blacks like the Parker family, World War I provided
A) fulfillment of their dream of racial equality.
B) new opportunities in the North.
C) an escape from racial prejudice.
D) new opportunities in the South.
Discuss the characteristics of the American population in the late nineteenth century
and analyze the nature of immigration into the country during that period.
Discuss Franklin Roosevelt’s general approach to dealing with the problems of the
Great Depression and give appropriate examples from his programs implemented in the
first 100 days to illustrate your analysis.
Discuss the change in American political culture from the 1820s to the 1840s. Contrast
the election of 1828 with the election of 1840.
Suppose that you were a black intellectual living in New York City and observing the
various aspects of black life in the United States during the 1920s. Describe what you
would consider the major aspects of black life and culture during that period.
Discuss the general attitude of native-born white Americans toward immigrants during
the 1920s.
In 1937, the Supreme Court upheld the ________ Act.
Discuss the major reform legislation passed by Congress during the Third New Deal
during 1937 and 1938 and evaluate the degree to which these measures were successful.
Herbert Hoover served as Secretary of ________ under the Harding and Coolidge
administrations.
Evaluate the foreign policy of Richard Nixon and his success in achieving his foreign
policy objectives.
You are a Catholic priest living in England in the 1540s and 1550s. How do you
respond to the attacks on the Church that have been made by Martin Luther, John
Calvin, and Henry VIII?
Hoping the issue would boost his reelection chances in 1844, President ________
reopened the question of annexing Texas.
By 1763 there were 23 ________ circulating in the colonies.
Suppose you were a militant black during the 1960s. What organizations would you
most likely support and which civil rights leaders would you most likely admire?
Explain your answer.
The supporters of a ____________national government called themselves Federalists.
Analyze the tensions that existed within the movement to abolish slavery.
The first European to sail around the cape of Africa, ________, allowed the Portuguese
to eventually colonize the Indian Ocean and as far east as the Spice Islands and Canton
by 1513.
The ________ dealt the Great Society a fatal blow.
Alexander Graham argued that ________ should be eaten to preserve health.
Discuss President Woodrow Wilson’s role in drafting the Treaty of Paris at the end of
World War I.
During the first year of the war in the Philippines, over ___________ civilians were
killed by American forces.