How was the emptiness of McCarthy’s charges revealed?
A) It was discovered that Julius Rosenberg was an anti-Communist.
B) President Eisenhower condemned him in a nationally televised speech.
C) He admitted that he had lied throughout the committee hearings.
D) Army lawyer Joseph Welch challenged him at the Army-McCarthy hearings.
The first income tax enacted after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment had a top
tax rate of __________ percent.
A) 7
B) 29
C) 42
D) 49
What was the Bonus Army protesting?
A) the inability of the federal government to pay current veteran’s benefits
B) the refusal of the federal government to pay service bonuses early
C) President Hoover’s decision to cut the pay of all military personnel by half
D) the poor conditions in veterans’ hospitals
The major importance of the Alger Hiss case was that __________.
A) Hiss had clearly stolen top-security documents from the State Department
B) Whittaker Chambers was convicted of perjury
C) people began to place more importance on Hiss as a symbol than as an alleged spy
D) it cast suspicions upon the Eisenhower administration for the first time
George W. Bush decided not to implement __________, which had been one of the
major accomplishments of his father’s term as president.
A) NAFTA
B) GATT
C) START II
D) Proposition 187
The content of National Security Council Paper 68 argued that __________.
A) military solutions should be encouraged to contain communism
B) foreign aid should be the key element of containing communism
C) the United Nations was the best vehicle for achieving coexistence with the Soviet
Union
D) the military force behind Soviet expansionism was weak and inefficient
In the presidential election of 1872, Ulysses S. Grant defeated the former Republican
__________.
A) Charles Sumner
B) Horace Greeley
C) Samuel Tilden
D) Horatio Seymour
The first woman named to a presidential cabinet post was Secretary of Labor
__________.
A) Molly Dewson
B) Frances Perkins
C) Mary McLeod Bethune
D) Jane Addams
The Atlantic Charter of 1941 __________.
A) created further distance between the United States and European involvement
B) provided a political framework for the possibility of American involvement
C) did not express American opposition to territorial change by conquest
D) emphasized the defeat of imperial Japan as the first priority
President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative __________.
A) was defeated in the House of Representatives
B) created an expensive defense plan based on super-lasers and satellites
C) emphasized the use of traditional weapons rather nuclear arsenals
D) was opposed by heads of the defense industry
Advances in technology for personal electronics and the Internet helped to make
America __________.
A) more vulnerable to war
B) into the country with the best school system
C) an “instant” society
D) the healthiest country on Earth
What event started a huge influx of whites into Indian territory?
A) the discovery of gold in Indian territories
B) the passage of the Homestead Act
C) the Sand Creek Massacre
D) the Battle of the Little Bighorn
McCarthy’s accusations reached absurdity when he claimed Communist agents included
__________.
A) President Eisenhower
B) Secretary of State George Marshall
C) Elvis Presley
D) HUAC committeeman Richard Nixon
In winning the election of 1916, Woodrow Wilson benefited from __________.
A) the endorsement of Theodore Roosevelt
B) the belief of many voters that the Republicans were a “war party”
C) strong support in the Midwest
D) the unimportance of the war as a campaign issue
A Restrictionist in the 1920s would be most opposed to immigration by a(n)
__________.
A) Polish Catholic man
B) impoverished English woman
C) illiterate Irish man
D) single French woman
The main Asian imperialist power around the turn of the twentieth century was
__________.
A) Japan
B) China
C) Korea
D) Thailand
George W. Bush’s tax cuts __________.
A) primarily helped the poor and lower middle classes
B) were supported by most Democrats
C) had little support among Republicans
D) caused huge federal budget deficits
The Internet grew out of __________.
A) Americans’ desire to do research at home
B) Americans’ desire to have another way to communicate beyond the phone and letters
C) concerns about defense and national security
D) a trade agreement between Microsoft and IBM
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle focused on the problems of __________.
A) textile factories
B) sweatshops
C) child labor
D) meatpacking plants
Unlike the privately sponsored settlement houses of the North, Wesley Houses were
supported by __________.
A) war bonds
B) the Methodist Church
C) community fundraisers
D) government funds
The Republicans pushed the “Contract with America” agenda right after __________.
A) the nomination of Bob Dole in 1996
B) George Bush’s defeat in 1992
C) President Clinton’s reelection in 1996
D) their historic victory in the midterm elections of 1994
Effects of Operation Desert Storm included __________.
A) large destruction of Iraqi military and civilian areas
B) showing the invincibility of Saddam Hussein’s antiaircraft weapons
C) getting the Soviet Union to commit a huge force of troops
D) very high American casualties
By the 1880s, the value of black-owned farms was __________ the value of
white-owned farms.
A) a third
B) half
C) two-thirds
D) three-quarters
A lack of timber caused a shortage of fencing that was finally solved by __________.
A) the invention of barbed wire
B) less rigid concepts of private property
C) military patrols of land boundaries belonging to small farmers
D) a reliance on free-range farming
The majority of the draftees and enlistees for military service in Vietnam __________.
A) were college students
B) came from the Lower South
C) averaged about 25 years of age
D) were from working-class families
The Greenback Party of the 1870s __________.
A) called for labor reform and democratization of the economy
B) represented the laissez-faire philosophy of conservative industrialists
C) played upon people’s dissatisfaction with the Populist Party
D) failed to attract supporters across regional lines
The content of George Kennan’s “long telegram” depicted __________.
A) a return to the depression if the United States did not continue social reforms
B) an aggressive U.S.S.R. driven by expansionist communism
C) a Republican Party that was not loyal to national goals
D) President Truman as an ineffective leader in domestic affairs
The term Solid South refers to __________.
A) reform groups that supported racial unity
B) the growing power of the Lower South in the national economy
C) the dominance of the Democratic Party in southern politics
D) the South’s commitment to balancing the wealth in the rural economy
What was the consequence for the Democratic Party following the elections of 1894
and 1896?
A) The Democratic Party became much stronger through its alliance with the Populist
Movement.
B) The Democratic Party became a sectional minority party confined largely to the
South.
C) The Democratic Party expanded as it came to be seen as the party of prosperity.
D) The Democratic Party weakened as it struggled to balance the interests of competing
factions within the party.
Former president __________ won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.
A) Richard Nixon
B) Gerald Ford
C) Jimmy Carter
D) George Herbert Walker Bush
“Yuppies” tended __________.
A) not to reap the economic benefits of the 1980s
B) to purchase items from upscale retailers
C) not to emulate the upper class in their lifestyles
D) to come from the lowest economic sectors
Which third-party candidate earned 46 electoral votes in the election of 1968?
A) Eugene McCarthy
B) Dick Gregory
C) George Wallace
D) Eldridge Cleaver
In the mid-1990s, the safest political stance for a politician to take was __________.
A) in the center
B) to the far left of the issues
C) to the far right of the issues
D) to not make any decisions
Which statement best describes the cultures of the tribes that lived throughout the West?
A) Most tribes had a difficult time surviving without the benefits of technology.
B) Village Indians were having a difficult time living within the balance of nature.
C) The tribes shared the same rituals in regions from the Mississippi to the Pacific.
D) A wide spectrum of tribes had successfully adapted their lives to a variety of
environments.