In December 1775, Parliament passed the ________, which cut America off from
international commerce.
A) Declaratory Act
B) Prohibitory Act
C) Commerce Act
D) Tea Act
E) Trade Act
The president most closely identified with the Era of Good Feeling was ________.
A) James Monroe
B) James Madison
C) John Quincy Adams
D) Thomas Jefferson
E) Andrew Jackson
Seventeenth-century Quakers were known for their ________.
A) aggressive and overbearing personalities
B) belief in humility and pacifism
C) concept of predestination
D) unwillingness to seek the conversion of others
E) belief in the necessity of an educated clergy
Which of the following men was the most influential spokesman for the common
school movement?
A) John Harward
B) Lyman Beecher
C) Henry James
D) Horace Mann
E) Terrance Knox
Which of these best describes Wilson’s success in promoting the League of Nations?
A) The League was rejected both by Europe and by American voters.
B) Wilson’s plan was strongly supported in theory, but its terms were contested by
Congress.
C) The plan never had any hope of gaining ratification.
D) The plan was supported internationally and ratified by Congress.
E) He was more successful abroad than domestically.
How might FDR’s personal background have prepared him to meet the challenges of the
Great Depression?
A) Since he was from a privileged background, he did not personally suffer financial
hardship, which left him free to address the country’s crisis.
B) His service as assistant secretary of the Navy under Woodrow Wilson prepared him
to balance foreign and domestic affairs during the Great Depression.
C) His relationship to Theodore Roosevelt helped him become a conservationist and a
powerful Republican leader.
D) His bout with polio gave him personal experience of suffering and made him more
sensitive to the downtrodden of society.
E) His Ivy League education helped him understand the needs of wealthy American
businessmen during the Great Depression.
What did the Sanitary Commission promote?
A) cleanliness, nutrition, and medical care in northern army camps
B) healthy drinking water in northern cities
C) improved sewer systems in southern urban centers
D) cleanliness in northern factories
E) nutrition and medical care for freed or escaped slaves
Which component was NOT part of Nixon’s plan to end the war in Vietnam?
A) a gradual withdrawal of American troops
B) training South Vietnamese forces to take over
C) renewed bombing of North Vietnam
D) increased military spending
E) taking a hard line in negotiations with Hanoi
The muckrakers and progressives disagreed on what to reform first and how to do it,
but not on _______.
A) the need for reform
B) the need for unions
C) the rights of big business
D) the role of immigrants in America
E) the need for racial equality
Why did many whites support Booker T. Washington’s Atlanta Compromise?
A) because it rejected militancy and attacks on white dominance
B) because it rejected the idea that blacks needed equal rights in the American society
C) because it called for blacks to get a college education and to fight actively for their
rights
D) because it called for the integration of schools and an end to ‘separate but equal”
E) because it promoted the idea of professional careers for blacks
Georgia was founded as a refuge for ________.
A) religious dissenters
B) the poor of London
C) Native Americans
D) former slaves
E) French exiles
The central issue of the 2004 presidential election was ________.
A) the war in Iraq
B) the Cold War
C) the economy
D) family values
E) the war on drugs
In the 1780s, why did Americans disagree sharply over the relative importance of
liberty and order?
A) Americans believed that in order to gain liberty, everyone should be given extensive
civil rights.
B) Some Americans believed people should be free; others believed they should be
well-mannered.
C) Americans who valued British traditions supported order; those loyal to the new
American government supported liberty.
D) Religious leaders preached order while politicians advocated for liberty and
religious freedom.
E) After British tyranny Americans valued liberty but recognized the importance of
order.
What caused friction to develop between the Mexican government and Anglo-American
colonists in Texas?
A) The Mexican government denied Anglo-American settlers the right to own land.
B) The Mexican government did not grant women any rights.
C) Anglo-American settlers flouted Mexican law.
D) Many Anglo-American settlers refused to practice any religion.
E) Many Anglo-American settlers refused to pay taxes.
The American bombing of North Vietnam in 1965 resulted in which of the following?
A) It proved an effective strategy, limiting North Vietnam’s participation in the war.
B) It destroyed North Vietnam’s major port facilities at Haiphong.
C) It greatly impeded communist supply lines to North Vietnam.
D) It garnered approval from the international community.
E) It was largely ineffective and did not stop the North Vietnamese.
After rejecting Johnson’s Reconstruction plan, what was the basis of Congress’s
program?
A) social and moral regeneration of the South
B) confiscation and redistribution of plantations
C) enfranchisement of both the freedmen and ex-Confederates
D) guarantees for the rights of all citizens with the Fourteenth Amendment
E) pardons for members of the planter class who asked for them
What was the significance of Thomas Edison’s laboratory at Menlo Park?
A) It was where Edison first invented the telegraph.
B) It was the first modern research laboratory.
C) It was where the telephone was finally perfected.
D) It was the site of the first power station in New York.
E) It was where Edison first sent a message over telephone wires.
The Sixteenth Amendment _____.
A) established civil rights guidelines
B) authorized the direct election of senators
C) gave women the right to vote
D) authorized an income tax
E) enfranchised eighteen-year-olds
In what way did white farmers resemble black southerners in their treatment at the
hands of southern governments run by the Redeemers?
A) They were often denied the right to vote and were intimidated at the polls.
B) They were forced to pay high taxes on any imported goods from the North.
C) They were not allowed to own property and could work only for rich planters.
D) They could not borrow any federal money and were forced to give up their farms.
E) They were forced into deeper debt due to the crop lien system that favored local
merchants.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisers believed that _______ production would raise
prices for farmers.
A) reducing
B) increasing
C) redistributing
D) expropriating
E) monitoring
After 1815, the United States ________.
A) grew rapidly in size and population
B) was threatened by foreign invasion
C) revised its form of government
D) was unable to expand its economy
E) invaded and occupied Canada
Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A) the end of the U.S.-Soviet arms race
B) the Soviet-American telephone hotline
C) an increase in Kennedy’s popularity among the public
D) a new maturity in Kennedy’s foreign policy
E) a belief among some that a hard-line policy was justified
In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League demanded a literacy test for immigrants
from ________.
A) China
B) Ireland
C) southern and eastern Europe
D) Mexico
E) northern Europe
The middle-class wives and children of the late nineteenth century ________.
A) found their status had remained unchanged
B) became more isolated from the working world
C) had a greater economic function
D) tended to deteriorate under the impact of industrialization
E) had more children
What effect did the Marshall Plan have?
A) It had very little effect because it was not carried out effectively.
B) It inspired the Soviet Union to continue to expand its communist empire.
C) It succeeded in forcing the Soviet Union to stop expanding its communist empire.
D) It failed to revive the sagging postwar economies of Western Europe.
E) It sparked a successful financial recovery in Western Europe.
All of these were essential features of the factory system beginning in the 1840s,
EXCEPT ________.
A) a supervised workforce
B) the workforce being located in one place
C) payment of cash wages
D) each product being produced by one worker
E) mechanization
In which way did the richest plantation families resemble a traditional landed
aristocracy?
A) Planters were poor businessmen.
B) Planters collected taxes from the peasants who worked their land.
C) Planters’ sons chose military or law careers rather than going into trade.
D) Planters lived lives of leisure.
E) Most planters were descended from titled families.
What was one reason why the United States gave encouragement to Israel during the
invasion of southern Lebanon?
A) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would destroy the PLO.
B) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would lead to the release of
hostages.
C) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would force Lebanon to honor a
treaty.
D) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would sever Soviet-Lebanese
relations.
E) The Reagan administration hoped that the invasion would redraw borders in the
Middle East.
Which best summarizes the basic philosophy of the Enlightenment?
A) Reason could help humans achieve perfection in this world.
B) Knowledge was of little use when confined to speculation.
C) Faith and tolerance could help humans achieve perfection in this world.
D) Absolutist governments must be replaced by representative governments.
E) People must give up most possessions to achieve true enlightenment.
George H. W. Bush responded to the 1989 repression of protestors in Tiananmen Square
by ________.
A) threatening to send troops to protect the protestors
B) severing all diplomatic ties with the Chinese government
C) not reacting publicly, but secretly aiding Chinese resistance groups
D) denouncing the violence but secretly maintaining a working relationship with China
E) being personally outraged but doing nothing in response
What did the Great Awakening, intercolonial trade, and the rise of the colonial
assemblies have in common?
A) They created disdain for England.
B) They created a rebellious spirit in America.
C) They contributed to a growing sense of shared identity.
D) They helped create imperial rivalry between England and France.
E) They exacerbated the problems of an already-divided citizenry.