Why did the Bay of Pigs invasion result in disaster for the United States?
A) Castro held off troops coming ashore.
B) An air strike failed to destroy Cuban air power.
C) The Americans mistakenly assumed the Cuban people would rise up against Castro
during the attack.
D) All of the above.
During World War I, the black soldier
A) was condemned by W.E.B. Du Bois for participating in the war.
B) refused to fight under French leaders.
C) proved to be superior to the white soldier.
D) typically worked as a stevedore, laborer, or driver.
In the early western theater of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant
A) surprised a large Confederate force at Shiloh Church.
B) displayed a military genius for setting large goals.
C) closely coordinated plans with eastern military activities.
D) prematurely invaded forts in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Religious developments in the United States during the 1950s
A) were characterized by a strong concern with doctrinal issues.
B) emphasized the differences between various religious beliefs.
C) were characterized by less church attendance than in the previous decade.
D) showed improved knowledge of doctrine.
In which of the following port cities was half the population black in 1820?
A) New Orleans.
B) San Francisco.
C) Columbia.
D) Knoxville.
The free black population of the United States increased from 1820 to 1860 because of
all of the following reasons EXCEPT the
A) successful escapes of slaves from the South.
B) continuing immigration of blacks from Africa.
C) natural increase of the free black population.
D) results of personal purchases and manumissions.
Whether secular or religious, the utopian communities of the antebellum era failed for
all of the following reasons EXCEPT the
A) stress on the individualistic impulses of human nature.
B) recurring problems of unstable leadership.
C) financial bickering.
D) waning of enthusiasm after initial settlement.
Important in the United States’s decision to enter World War I was
A) the pro-German bias of Wilson’s advisers.
B) increasing trade with Germany.
C) refusal of the English to borrow money from the United States.
D) the sinking of five ships in March 1917 by German submarines.
During the 1920s, American cities
A) experienced little growth in their central areas.
B) ceased to grow in size.
C) generally prohibited automobile traffic within their limits.
D) experienced considerable suburban expansion.
At the Potsdam Conference, President Truman
A) demanded that Stalin resign as leader of the Soviet Union before the United States
would negotiate.
B) pressured the British to accept a communist government in Poland.
C) sought to reduce tensions with the Soviets.
D) learned that the United States had successfully tested an atomic bomb.
An important leader in the black-pride movement during the 1920s was
A) Booker T. Washington.
B) Marcus Garvey.
C) Jean Toomer.
D) Stokely Carmichael.
All of the following statements are true about the Japanese fishermen on the ship Lucky
Dragon in 1957 EXCEPT:
A) The fishermen drifted near a radioactive fallout cloud left from American testing of
nuclear bombs.
B) They became ill from radiation exposure.
C) One of the crewmen later died of exposure.
D) The United States immediately halted all testing of nuclear bombs as a result of the
mistake.
Members of the American Party feared Catholic immigrants of the 1840s and 1850s
would
A) give their highest loyalty to the pope.
B) refuse to work for low wages.
C) continue to support revolutionary causes in Europe.
D) favor legislation restricting personal behavior.
During the 1950s, ethnic Americans in general
A) constituted an increasingly greater percentage of the American population.
B) tended to become less homogeneous with the rest of the American population.
C) became more readily assimilated into American society.
D) unlike most Americans, were influenced little by television.
During the Reconstruction period, northerners
A) only reluctantly supported the idea of giving blacks the right to vote.
B) generally wanted to confiscate the property of southern whites and give it to the
blacks.
C) enthusiastically endorsed the idea of black equality.
D) opposed granting citizenship to blacks.
The Republican candidate for president in 1940 was ________ of Indiana.
During the late nineteenth century, work in industrial America
A) required more skilled labor.
B) changed in its nature.
C) was little affected by ethnic diversity.
D) placed a high priority on craftsmanship.
The Civil War transformed race relations in the South as
A) blacks proved increasingly unwilling to play a subservient role.
B) whites gained greater appreciation of blacks with increased dependence upon them.
C) white violence toward blacks intensified with growing frustration over a losing war
effort.
D) slaves drew closer to their masters in fear of the unknown.
The Peace Corps was established in order to
A) send trained volunteers abroad to teach modern methods of birth control.
B) provide diplomatic assistance to end civil wars in developing countries.
C) help developing countries industrialize.
D) send dedicated Americans abroad to work with people at the grassroots level.
The event that caused the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914 was
A) France’s invasion of Belgium.
B) the sinking of the Lusitania.
C) the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.
D) England’s attack on Italy.
During the progressive era, trade unions in the United States
A) found it increasingly easy to cooperate with management.
B) increased in membership.
C) almost always succeeded in their strike efforts.
D) enjoyed increasing support from decisions of the Supreme Court.
The slogan “Manifest Destiny” referred to the conviction of Americans in the 1840s that
the United States had a(n)
A) God-given right to exist as a nation.
B) opportunity to replace greed with benevolence.
C) obligation to spread across the continent.
D) mission to free slaves.
During the 1950s, agricultural developments in the United States
A) were influenced by important new technology.
B) ceased to be important to the American economy.
C) tended to focus on the family farm.
D) required a greater number of farmers than in the Depression years.
What did trade unions advocate?
A) shorter hours
B) higher wages
C) better working conditions
D) All of the above.
During the Korean War, President Truman
A) acted to oppose communist aggression.
B) clearly stated American objectives.
C) supported General Douglas MacArthur’s proposal to bomb communist bases in
China.
D) reluctantly cooperated with the United Nations’ decision to defend South Korea.
All of the following accurately relate the history of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of
1938 EXCEPT the act
A) tried to solve the problem of farm surpluses by controlling production.
B) enabled the federal treasury to make direct payments to farmers.
C) tried to market surplus crops.
D) was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
The Chinese met with a violent backlash in the state of
A) Massachusetts.
B) New York.
C) New Jersey.
D) California.
The British Proclamation of 1763
A) ordered colonial governors to reserve lands west of the Appalachian Mountains for
Indian nations.
B) allowed western Indians the right to trade with any European merchants.
C) successfully ended an attempt by Ottawa Indians to drive the British out of the Ohio
Valley.
D) ended reckless speculation in western lands by eastern investors.
In his pursuit of black rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. was committed to
A) forming a black political party.
B) violent confrontation.
C) nonviolent protest.
D) a separatist movement for blacks.
As president, Kennedy was able to win congressional support and funding for
A) medical care for the elderly.
B) aid to parochial schools.
C) a major urban renewal program.
D) the exploration of space.
Horace Mann championed which of the following educational reforms?
A) uniform curricula and teacher training
B) gradeless, open-concept schools
C) local curricular decisions
D) private funding and control
Population growth and cultural development in West Africa
A) depended upon ecological conditions and geography.
B) guarded against foreign invasions and influences.
C) progressed in regular and set patterns.
D) required isolation from other cultures.
In 1892, ________ in Coeur d”Alene, Idaho, struck for higher wages.
The colonial assemblies were modeled after the House of ________ in England.
Discuss the concept of the Ghost Dance and explain why you think that some Indians
ultimately resorted to it in their confrontation with white settlers on the Great Plains
during the late nineteenth century.
Suppose you were a social reformer during the Reagan and G.H.W. Bush
administrations. Explain the situation as you saw it.
The largest slave population in the worldone million in 1800was in ________.
Three ________, passed by Congress during the Grant administration, helped to protect
voters from violence or fraud.
Improvements in sailing by the Portuguese were derived from the _______.
You are a member of Britain’s Parliament voting in favor of the Coercive Acts in 1774.
Write a letter to your American cousin in Massachusetts, briefly reviewing the events of
the past 10 years from the British perspective.
At the urging of Joseph Brant in the summer of 1777, most of the ________ abandoned
neutrality and joined the struggle against the Americans.
The presidential election of ___________was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Why did the North win the Civil War?
During the 1840s, ________ and Anglo Americans came into extensive contact for the
first time.
In the case of ____________ (1803), the Court established the principle of judicial
review.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney, a wealthy South Carolina planter’s wife, experimented
successfully in the 1740s with the cultivation of ________, a plant from which a blue
dye could be extracted for use in textiles.
Analyze the major developments between 1848 and 1861 that contributed to the Civil
War.
In the case of __________ (1816), the Court took a loose view of the construction of
the Constitution.
The tactic of seeking out Indians who divided into small groups during the winter in
order to exterminate them was introduced by ________.