Johns Hopkins became the leader in graduate education by modeling itself after
universities in which country?
A) England
B) France
C) Italy
D) Germany
Why is it so difficult to generalize about the institution of slavery in the United States?
A) We have very little data about the time period.
B) Slavery was an isolated institution and utterly separated from the rest of public life
in the South.
C) The behavior of individual masters varied greatly.
D) Slaves handled themselves very differently depending on their attitude towards
work.
What were the gigantic corporation-controlled farms that were created to take
advantage of the newly available acreage in the South and West known as?
A) bread-basket farms
B) reservation plots
C) bonanza farms
D) agribusinesses
On the eve of the Civil War the American Indians in the West __________.
A) were no longer dependent on the buffalo
B) had almost no contact with American and European culture
C) still occupied about 50 percent of the United States
D) were still reluctant to adopt any white technology
Who was the Democratic party’s nominee for president in 1968?
A) Robert F. Kennedy
B) Hubert H. Humphrey
C) Lyndon B. Johnson
D) George M. McGovern
How did Lincoln treat the civil rights of dissenters during the Civil War?
A) He did everything in his power to preserve their rights because he was devoted to
individual freedom.
B) He suspended the writ of habeas corpus in critical areas and applied martial law
freely.
C) He prohibited free elections during the war.
D) He accused newspapers that criticized his government of treason and ordered them
closed.
Which of the following best describes the 1972 campaign of Democratic presidential
candidate George McGovern?
A) the historical breakdown of the New Deal coalition
B) the high point of New Deal liberalism
C) the most formidable challenge to Southern democrats in a century
D) the reason why the South turned Republican
In regards to the women’s rights agenda, conservatives __________.
A) were successful in so severely limiting abortion that it became almost impossible to
obtain
B) were never able to energize a base
C) got the majority of their support from the highly educated elite
D) were able to defeat the ERA with support from housewives and working-class
women
Who established the first American settlement house in New York?
A) Washington Gladden
B) Jane Addams
C) Jacob Riis
D) Dr. Stanton Coit
What was the Supreme Court ruling in what become known as the “insular cases”?
A) Congress was not bound to follow the Constitution in legislating for colonies.
B) Colonies could never become states.
C) Congress must follow the Constitution when legislating for colonies.
D) Annexation of the Philippines was unconstitutional.
Why did the Warren Report on the assassination of President Kennedy fail to end
charges of a conspiracy?
A) It protected information about CIA assassination attempts against Fidel Castro.
B) It denounced conspiracy theorists as uneducated hicks.
C) It concluded that Jack Ruby had been sent by a Democratic rival.
D) It tried to connect Lee Harvey Oswald to the mafia..
How can the United States be described on the eve of World War I?
A) world power
B) marginal regional power
C) major, but rapidly declining, world power
D) an economic world power with no political influence
The effect of the Berlin and Milan decrees by France and the Orders in Council by
Great Britain was to do which of the following?
A) encourage trade with Great Britain and discourage trade with France
B) stop all American trade with both countries
C) promote American trade with both countries
D) make trade more difficult for neutral nations
For Jefferson, what was one of the most important reasons for the Louisiana Purchase?
A) It secured access to the mouth of the Mississippi River.
B) It supported American claims to gold deposits in the Midwest.
C) It opened new territory for the expansion of slavery.
D) It provided land which could be used to back up the new paper money issued by the
National Bank.
Who described America as evolving into an ideal socialist state?
A) Henry George
B) Henry Demarest Lloyd
C) Richard T. Ely
D) Edward Bellamy
Spain could no longer block English entry into the New World because of the
__________.
A) Treaty of Castile with Philip II of Spain
B) success of Walter Raleigh’s colony at Roanoke Island
C) English destruction of the invading Spanish Armada
D) collapse of Spanish settlements in what became New England
As a result of the War of 1812, the Federalists __________.
A) increased their popularity in all regions
B) were discredited as a political party
C) lost popularity in the South
D) regained the presidency in the election of 1816
As millions of Americans watched on television, __________ started a riot at the 1968
Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois.
A) police
B) students
C) black power activists
D) anti-war protesters
In some colonies, landowners paid an annual tax called a __________ as a way for
European nations to derive income from their colonies.
A) servitude
B) deferential
C) indenture
D) quitrent
What was the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision which ruled that segregated
“educational facilities [in public schools] are inherently unequal” and unconstitutional?
A) Berea College v. Kentucky
B) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
C) Cumming v. Country Board of Education
D) United States v. Raines
As a result of the Union victory, people tended to view America as __________.
A) evidence that democracy would fail
B) a nation, not just a union of states
C) vulnerable to further secession movements
D) a beacon of freedom for people of color everywhere
The average Northerner lost interest in Reconstruction once it became reasonably
certain that the former slaves __________.
A) had economic security
B) were guaranteed the vote
C) would not be re-enslaved
D) were guaranteed social equality
Before the Spanish-American War, both Hearst’s New York Journal and Pulitzer’s New
York World tried to increase circulation by doing which of the following?
A) denouncing McKinley’s imperialism
B) publishing tales of Cuban atrocities
C) decrying British interference in the Caribbean
D) publishing tales of Spanish atrocities
The Bill of Rights guaranteed that Congress would not interfere with the right(s) to
__________.
A) freedom of speech, press, and religion
B) a two-party political system
C) own slaves
D) vote
How did the Neutrality Act of 1935 treat the sale of munitions?
A) It banned their sale to all countries except when the president should proclaim that a
state of war existed.
B) It limited their sale to only Great Britain and France, because they had repaid their
loans from the Great War.
C) It approved of their sale to those nations “protected” by the Monroe Doctrine.
D) It forbade their sale to all belligerents whenever the president should proclaim that a
state of war existed.
What did African Americans view as a promise of future change?
A) South Carolina’s secession
B) Sherman’s capture of Atlanta
C) the battle of Gettysburg
D) the Emancipation Proclamation
According to William James, why was religion true?
A) The Bible was a collection of facts.
B) The heart was the place of unalterable truth.
C) People were religious, making religion true.
D) Clergy and priests had warped Americans’ ability to see through religious claims.
The Sacco-Vanzetti case that inspired many intellectuals demonstrated that American
justice had little sympathy towards which of the following?
A) religious fundamentalism
B) radicals and immigrants
C) Roman Catholics
D) unemployed artists
Who was the most effective preacher of the Second Great Awakening?
A) Charles Grandison Finney
B) John Humphrey
C) Charles Fourier
D) Ann Lee
Who was the founder of Chicago’s Hull House?
A) Jane Addams
B) Dr. Stanton Coit
C) Henry Ward Beecher
D) Lillian Wald
Which of the following best assesses Jefferson’s policy against Barbary pirates?
A) With his successful navy campaign against them, he established the United States as
a leading military power.
B) His decision not to challenge the practice of bribe payments was widely judged as an
illustration of his spinelessness.
C) His unsuccessful effort to overwhelm the pirates in a naval war nonetheless became
a source of fame and pride for American sailors.
D) His intricate diplomacy solved an issue that Europeans had long found intractable.
When John Adams was elected president in 1796, who was elected as his vice
president?
A) Thomas Pinckney
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Alexander Hamilton
D) John Jay
Despite many strengths, Herbert Hoover’s weakness as a Republican candidate in 1928
was which of the following?
A) his lack of experience in elective office
B) his painfully old-fashioned approach to capital and labor
C) his modest upbringing in Iowa and Oregon
D) his lack of business experience and familiarity with international affairs