By 1960, the most racially integrated institution in American society was _______.
A) the public high school system
B) the private university system
C) corporate America
D) the armed forces
E) Protestant churches
Which of the following adjectives best describes Eisenhower’s administration?
A) moderation
B) neoconservative
C) liberal
D) progressive
E) reformist
How did the Redeemers restrict voting rights in the late 1870s and early 1880s?
A) African Americans were not allowed to vote at all and were kept away from the
polls.
B) Any African Americans voting for Democrats had their votes discarded.
C) If African Americans tried to vote for Republicans, they were intimidated and
threatened.
D) African Americans could vote only if they paid a fee to the Republican candidates.
E) African Americans risked losing their jobs if they tried to vote for any Democratic
candidates.
Why did northern sentiment to free the slaves increase as the war dragged on?
A) People began to realize that slavery was immoral.
B) People recognized that emancipation could be used as a weapon against the South’s
economic and social systems.
C) Congress thought it would be easier to reintegrate the southern states into the Union
if slavery were abolished.
D) Hatred for the South and the Confederacy had increased.
E) Strategists thought that a northern emancipation law might goad southern military
leaders into making tactical mistakes.
What was the Moral Majority?
A) an international peacekeeping group
B) a group of moderates who denounced Nixon
C) a liberal group of political activists
D) a group of civil rights activists
E) a religious fundamentalist group
How did pressure to settle western lands change the nature of Indian removal as first
planned by Thomas Jefferson?
A) The process was entirely voluntary.
B) Native Americans had no say in the process.
C) Indians who chose to adopt white ways were not allowed to remain.
D) Removal happened much earlier than planned.
E) Jefferson had planned for only small groups to migrate west.
During the Red Scare of 1919″1920, ________ led the attack on foreign-born radicals.
A) A. Mitchell Palmer
B) Clarence Darrow
C) Warren G. Harding
D) Alexander Berkman
E) William Jennings Bryan
What was one result of the proliferation of patents in the late nineteenth century?
A) The country got most of its technology from Europe.
B) The marketplace was oversaturated with goods.
C) Americans no longer imported most of their technology.
D) Few Americans participated in the economic changes.
E) Americans began to fear technology.
Initially, why did Americans want to remain neutral when war broke out in Europe?
A) Neutrality seemed safest.
B) Most Americans believed only in nonviolent solutions to conflicts.
C) Most Americans didn’t care about a war a whole ocean away.
D) Americans were tired of fighting as they had just finished the Revolution.
E) Both Britain and France were generous, powerful allies.
What was revealed by the Republican Party’s nominating convention for the 1856
presidential election?
A) The party received broad-based support throughout the nation.
B) It was primarily a sectional party.
C) The party was made up of farmers and laborers.
D) The party was made of southern planters.
E) The party had to struggle in its first years of existence.
How did FDR’s attitude toward budget deficits impact the success of the New Deal?
A) He drew from the country’s reserves and could not rescue the economy.
B) He did not see the importance of deficits, which could have helped the economy.
C) He raised the deficits, which inhibited his ability to save the economy.
D) He sought a balanced budget when he should have increased spending.
E) He spent too much and nearly bankrupted the United States.
How did the end of the Cold War play into Saddam Hussein’s decision to invade
Kuwait?
A) He thought the world would be too busy controlling Eastern European countries to
object.
B) The Soviet Union was no longer a superpower that could influence him.
C) He had captured weapons from Eastern European countries when the Soviet Union
left.
D) The government of Kuwait no longer received aid from the Soviet Union.
E) He wanted to force the United States to take a stand against Russia.
In the first House vote on the Wilmot Proviso, party lines crumbled and the vote split
________.
A) along party lines
B) along sectional lines
C) along religious lines
D) along socioeconomic lines
E) along gender lines
What led the two-party system of politics to develop in the 1820s”1840s?
A) The Supreme Court passed changes in the Constitution regarding the party system.
B) There was an increasing concern about foreign policy issues.
C) Changes in the method of nominating and electing the president developed.
D) The burgeoning population of the trans-Appalachian West created a need for two
parties.
E) Married women gained the right to vote and created a second party.
Which of these was NOT true of the Progressives?
A) They sought to eliminate large corporations and businesses.
B) They acted out of concern about the effects of industrialization.
C) They believed in the possibilities for progress and were hopeful about human nature.
D) They were confident that it was within their right to intervene in people’s lives.
E) They looked to government to implement the reforms they sought.
How did the dismal economy affect the 2008 presidential race?
A) It helped Obama gain ground during the campaign.
B) It decreased Obama’s overall popularity.
C) It decreased both Obama and McCain’s popularity.
D) It caused resentment against the Democratic Party.
E) It did not have any effect on the 2008 presidential election.
Why did opponents criticize Hamilton’s assumption program?
A) It rewarded states like Massachusetts, which had sloppy financial systems, for
nonpayment of debt.
B) It proposed a lengthy and unrealistic policy of repaying the original holders of the
debt.
C) Only the poor would profit from the program, disadvantaging the rich and creating
larger economic issues.
D) The program was disproportionately favorable to the South.
E) The program could lead to the establishment of a monarchy.
What is one reason why the election of 1936 was noteworthy?
A) It restored Republicans to power after years of Democratic rule.
B) It was the first time a third-party candidate received a sizable number of votes.
C) It marked the creation of a new, powerful political coalition.
D) It affected the political affiliation of most rural and small town voters.
E) It solidified a Democratic party of rural southerners and urban westerners.
Columbus was originally determined to prove that ________.
A) a westward water route to China existed
B) the world was not flat
C) the continents of North and South America existed
D) the lost continent of Atlantis was actually part of South America
E) the world was smaller than scientists believed at the time
The English monarch responsible for quieting religious conflict and strengthening
England in the face of Spanish power was ________.
A) Henry VII
B) Henry VIII
C) Elizabeth I
D) Mary Tudor
E) James I
Which describes the Industrial Workers of the World?
A) the most radical American labor union
B) similar to the American Federation of Labor
C) a self-help group for immigrant workers
D) an American business aimed at immigrants
E) a lobbying group for immigrant businesses
Who was the president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson’s chief
opponent in the “bank war”?
A) Henry Clay
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Francis B. Blair
D) Nicholas Biddle
E) John Jacob Astor
How did the United States react to the 1950 Sino-Soviet treaty?
A) It congratulated Stalin and Mao on their treaty and offered to join their new alliance.
B) It openly threatened Stalin with war if he contributed to the spread of communism in
Asia.
C) It warned the Soviet Union to stay out of East Asian politics.
D) To maintain its alliance with China, the U.S. sought to make peace with the new
regime.
E) It refused to recognize the new Chinese regime and focused on Japan as its main ally
in Asia.
Why didn’t Washington veto Hamilton’s bank bill?
A) He agreed with it wholeheartedly.
B) He didn’t like it, but he knew it was best for the country.
C) Jefferson made a strong argument for it, and Hamilton argued weakly against it.
D) Hamilton made a strong argument for it, and Jefferson argued weakly against it.
E) The Supreme Court had already approved it.
What was one of Lyndon Johnson’s greatest assets in the White House?
A) his knowledge of the legislative process
B) his acclaimed public speaking skills
C) his polish and sophistication
D) his excellent relationship with the media
E) his unassuming presence that led others to underestimate him
Which group overwhelmingly supported Carter in the 1980 presidential election?
A) African Americans
B) blue-collar workers
C) Jewish voters
D) voters in the Sunbelt states
E) voters in the South
In 1871, Congress ________.
A) stopped dealing with Native American tribes as sovereign nations
B) started dealing with Native American tribes as sovereign nations
C) tried to restore lands to Native Americans
D) rejected the Dawes Act
E) began a systematic slaughter of all Native Americans still living in tribes
How did the Great Depression affect Americans psychologically?
A) The loss of savings and employment led most Americans to renounce capitalism and
turn to socialism.
B) Unemployment and poverty undermined people’s sense of self-worth and caused
many to despair.
C) Most men either committed suicide or abandoned their families because they could
not provide for them.
D) Americans in the middle and upper classes had more emotional resources and fared
better than poor people.
E) Hunger and poverty made Americans unable to think properly and make good
decisions, leading to divorce and crime.
At the time of the Civil War, there were approximately ________ slaves in the South.
A) 200,000
B) 400,000
C) 1,000,000
D) 2,000,000
E) 4,000,000
Why did Washington view the Whiskey Rebellion as treason?
A) The rebellious farmers elicited the help of Native Americans, creating a quasi civil
war.
B) He thought French agents had supported the protest.
C) Because Britain supplied the rebellious farmers with money and arms, Washington
assumed that they were siding with the enemy.
D) Because France was having its own revolutionary war, Washington worried the
violence would lead to civil war.
E) The rebellious farmers began to ship and sell their whiskey to France and England,
breaking U.S. trade agreements.
How did ordinary colonists respond after the wealthy elite had initiated the American
rebellion?
A) They rejected the lead of their “betters.”
B) They lost rights gained during the colonial period.
C) They turned an elite movement into a mass movement.
D) They fought for a socioeconomic revolution against the gentry.
E) They retreated further from political activities.
The two major presidential candidates of the 1896 election were ________.
A) William Howard Taft and William Jennings Bryan
B) Thomas Reed and Grover Cleveland
C) William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley
D) Marcus A. Hanna and Thomas Watson
E) Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan
In saying “We are all republicans; we are all federalists” Jefferson meant that _______.
A) Republicans and Federalist should be united against the Whigs
B) he hoped to make common cause with the Federalists
C) there were no real differences between these two parties
D) Americans still shared a common political ideology
E) the real threat was the Whig-Tory split