A central tenet of Reagan’s approach to foreign policy at the beginning of his
presidency was the belief that ________.
A) the Palestine Liberation Organization represented a serious threat to the United
States
B) trading arms for hostages was an effective way to negotiate quietly with terrorists
C) the Middle East needed United States intervention to achieve freedom
D) the Soviet Union was a deadly enemy that threatened the United States
E) Israel could not be trusted to honor its agreements
What was Hamilton’s impact on Jay’s Treaty?
A) He counseled Jay on whom to see and what to say when he went to England.
B) He wrote the terms of the treaty, consolidating his and Madison’s ideas.
C) He informed the French of the treaty, allowing them to attack England.
D) He set the terms of the treaty by secret communications with Britain.
E) He filibustered in Congress, stalling the ratification until the treaty expired.
In 1946 and 1947, conflict in __________ caused the Truman administration to worry
about the spread of communism around the globe.
A) Egypt and Iran
B) Sweden and Norway
C) Belgium and France
D) Vietnam and Japan
E) Greece and Turkey
Which of the following was part of the Republican Party platform in the post-Civil War
era?
A) lower tariffs
B) free trade measures
C) subsidies to railroads
D) decentralized federal power
E) the promotion of states’ rights
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was formed due to _______.
A) Western powers’ fears of Soviet military aggression
B) European fears of American military aggression
C) American fears of Chinese military aggression
D) Soviet fears of Chinese military aggression
E) Soviet fears of American military aggression
Which of the following best sums up the ideals of John O”Sullivan’s concept of
Manifest Destiny?
A) North America was American property.
B) Britain and Mexico were the natural enemies of the U.S.
C) Industrialization and expansion are inextricably linked.
D) The U.S. was destined to expand into North America.
E) The U.S. was doomed if it could not expand.
In the 1830s and 1840s, the most vocal advocate of states’ rights was ________.
A) Daniel Webster
B) Henry Clay
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Martin Van Buren
E) Andrew Jackson
Which was central to the colonists’ position in the Anglo-American debate over
parliamentary powers?
A) their strong belief in the powers of their own provincial assemblies
B) their unswerving support of the monarchy
C) their willingness to defer to the wishes of Parliament
D) their desire for an authoritarian government
E) their desire for revolution
After 1890, the U.S. Navy’s building program ________.
A) was sharply curtailed to help balance the federal budget
B) began to concentrate on fast, lightly armored commerce raiders
C) began to emphasize static, coastal defenses over building ships
D) shifted to the construction of a battleship navy with offensive power
E) started using steel steamships instead of sailing vessels
Why did many African Americans in the North take up arms to fight the British?
A) They believed that the king and the British Parliament were solely responsible for
their lack of freedom.
B) They felt that the British had unfairly taxed them without offering representation in
Congress.
C) They believed that the Americans were more likely to win the war.
D) They felt that the army was the safest place for them to be at the time.
E) They felt that the Americans were more likely to free them from slavery if they sided
with them.
Why did some immigrants resist the settlement house movement?
A) They did not trust organizations that were headed by women.
B) They felt that settlement houses kept them segregated from the rest of the society.
C) They did not want their children educated by Americans.
D) They did not want other people to tell them how to live and act.
E) They believed that living in a settlement house would never get them out of poverty.
The Redeemers _______.
A) continued the policies established during Reconstruction
B) offered new programs for working people and tenant farmers
C) were loyal to the class structure of the antebellum South
D) believed in the principles of laissez-faire and white supremacy
E) were mostly members of the old planter aristocracy
As a result of the Salem witchcraft trials, ________.
A) nineteen people were hanged
B) twenty-three people were banished
C) eight people were pressed to death with weights
D) fourteen people were burned at the stake
E) nine people were executed by firing squad
President Taft alienated progressive Republicans by _____.
A) curbing the power of Speaker of the House, Joseph Cannon
B) vetoing a tariff increase
C) dismissing Richard Ballinger
D) campaigning against them in the 1910 midterm elections
E) working directly against them in elections
Which of the following individuals was NOT a member of George Washington’s first
government?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) James Madison
C) Edmund Randolph
D) Alexander Hamilton
E) Henry Knox
In terms of worker relations, what was Henry Ford known for?
A) being behind the times
B) having little concern for his workers
C) using trickery to get them to do what he wanted
D) having little respect for workers’ abilities
E) trying many innovations
Why did many New Englanders oppose war with Great Britain?
A) They traced their heritage back to Great Britain and did not want to be at war with
relatives.
B) They were tired from fighting the Revolutionary War and wanted a time of sustained
peace.
C) They were tired from fighting in conflicts with Native Americans in the West and
wanted a time of peace.
D) They were already engaged in their own armed conflicts with the French in Canada
and couldn”t support two wars.
E) They believed the real reason for the war was to build up America’s egoa ridiculous
cause for war in their opinion.
Which characterizes Jefferson’s stance on slavery?
A) He supported the slave trade, yet he didn’t own any slaves himself.
B) He was a faithful Republican and abolitionist, yet most Republicans were not
abolitionists.
C) He wanted the slave trade outlawed, yet he owned slaves.
D) He publically stated he wanted the slave trade outlawed, but he secretly supported it.
E) He preached life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, but he didn’t want to outlaw
the slave trade.
The most significant result of the Korean War was that it _______.
A) vindicated the United States in the eyes of the world
B) succeeded in unifying Korea for thirty years
C) brought about massive American rearmament
D) reinforced Truman’s popularity with the American people
E) inhibited the further expansion of communism
The “middle ground” was an area ________.
A) where most of the fighting between whites and Indians occurred
B) where whites and Indians interacted on an approximately equal basis
C) inhabited by renegades, half-breeds, and runaway slaves
D) of metaphorical stasis, symbolic of a culture that was part European and part Indian
E) designated by treaty as a demilitarized zone
When President Johnson convinced Congress to pass Kennedy’s proposed tax cut in
1964, the result was ________.
A) huge budget deficits
B) a sustained economic boom
C) protests from welfare recipients
D) a major recession
E) cutbacks in certain social services
What is the significance of the adoption of a standard gauge for all railroads?
A) It allowed all rails to be built of steel instead of inferior quality metal.
B) It allowed trains to travel on all tracks, thus integrating the entire system.
C) It kept all trains running to coordinate their schedules.
D) It allowed tracks to be built on both government and private lands.
E) It kept the trains from derailing so often and so disastrously.
Typically, immigrants, Catholics, freethinkers, and backwoods farmers of the 1840s
would be members of the ________.
A) Democratic party
B) Equal Rights party
C) Federalist party
D) Whig party
E) Republican party
What sixteenth-century European upheaval had a profound impact upon England’s
settlement of the New World?
A) the Crusades
B) the War of the Roses
C) the Reformation
D) the Hundred Years’ War
E) the Renaissance
Industrialization transformed women’s work by ________.
A) introducing a new area of expertise
B) changing where women worked
C) transferring women’s work to men
D) turning the household into a production center
E) reducing women’s household duties
In what way do historians consider the abolitionist movement of the 1830s and 1840s to
be a success?
A) It brought the issue of slavery into the public consciousness.
B) It convinced most people that slavery should be abolished immediately.
C) It peacefully converted many slaveholders to abolition.
D) It led to a marked decrease in racism among northern urban whites.
E) It orchestrated the emancipation of thousands of slaves.
What was the focus of the feminine subculture for many middle-class women during
the nineteenth century?
A) establishing that women are morally superior to men
B) establishing a sense of solidarity with other women
C) gaining political equality with men
D) gaining economic equality with men
E) competition with other women to be most virtuous
The typical great planter of the pre-Civil War South was ________.
A) most likely a self-made man
B) looked down on by most southern whites
C) well-educated
D) born to wealth and position
E) descended from the colonial elite
What made Northerners so opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
A) It permitted slavery in all the states west of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
B) It permitted slavery in all the states east of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
C) It permitted slavery in an area where it had previously been prohibited.
D) It made it much more difficult for escaped slaves to find freedom in the North.
E) It abolished slavery in all the states west of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
The leader of the Filipino resistance to U.S. occupation of the Philippines was
________.
A) Emilio Aguinaldo
B) Jos Burgos
C) William Howard Taft
D) Ferdinand Marcos
E) Jos Mart
The difference between a monopoly and an oligopoly includes ________.
A) whether or not a financier has a stake in a company
B) how the factory purchases its raw materials
C) how many companies control the market of a product
D) how many products a company produces for sale
E) whether the company has one or multiple factories