John Muir helped to found Yellowstone National Park in California in the late 1800s.
In developing his New Deal policies, President Franklin Roosevelt rejected all the
programs that President Hoover had instituted.
From 1951 to 1953, the United States defense budget more than doubled.
Charles Sheldon’s 1897 novel In His Steps influenced a generation to abandon
American cities.
Those who settled the Great Plains generally found life easy and free from major
problems.
Unprecedented urban violence raged in American cities prior to the Civil War, fed by
racial and immigrant tensions.
The leader of the Pilgrims was John Smith.
The period of the 1920s in the United States can best be described by the phrase “jazz
age.”
The development and production of hard steel during the late nineteenth century fueled
economic growth.
Most gold miners struck it rich and returned home wealthy.
During his administration, President Kennedy’s relations with the major corporations of
the country were very cordial.
The Seven Years’ War proved to be one of the most significant wars fought in the New
World.
Most miners to California wanted to remain and settle permanently.
If the South had become an independent nation in 1860, it would have ranked as one of
the wealthiest countries in the world in terms of per capita income.
German feelings of betrayal at the aftermath of World War I would have terrible
repercussions over the next three decades.
Slaveholders eagerly allowed the impressment of their slaves for war work.
In the Treaty of Paris in 1783, the United States agreed to a western boundary at the
Mississippi River.
In the Southeast, native civilizations traced their ancestry back at least 8,000 years.
Most of the changes experienced by women in war work remained in place after the
conflict ended.
Critics of the Great Society program came from across the political spectrum.
Eighteenth-century indentured servants possessed many opportunities for economic
advancement.
Over 80,000 gold miners arrived in California in 1849, swelling the American
population of the state.
Throughout his administration, President Wilson steadfastly adhered to the principles of
the New Freedom that he had enunciated during the campaign of 1912.
Throughout the 1830s and 1840s, politics was primarily the business of the social and
economic elite.
Brazil under Portuguese control became one of the most profitable colonies of the
Americas.
Native Americans who fought for American independence gained great benefits from
their efforts.
Herbert Hoover believed that the primary function of government was to educate and
promote, but not to reform.
The Works Progress Administration was a controversial New Deal program designed to
deal with the demoralizing effect of unemployment on the American people.
Mob actions sometimes lasted for days because there was no effective police to stop
them.
Of the more than 900 settlers who arrived in Jamestown from 1607 to 1609, less than
10 percent survived.
Historians estimate that southern wealth declined by roughly 43 percent during the war
years.
Most black women in urban America held jobs before and after marriage in the
mid-1800s.
Republicans increased taxes and state debts in the South during Reconstruction.
An extremely important aspect of entertainment among American civilians and soldiers
during World War II was
A) television.
B) the speakeasy.
C) rock-and-roll music.
D) motion pictures.
In 1850, prostitutes accounted for approximately ______ percent of the female
population in California.
A) 20
B) 40
C) 60
D) 80
Which of the following war measures did southern civilians call into question during
the conflict?
A) conscription
B) impressment
C) taxation
D) All of the above.
After the Civil War, the American middle class
A) had less leisure time than before the war.
B) demonstrated less interest in shopping than the working class.
C) enjoyed rising incomes.
D) found fewer job opportunities.
In the 1980s, 37 percent of all immigrants came from
A) Latin America.
B) Africa.
C) the Middle East.
D) Asia.
All of the following statements are true about the life and work of Eugene Debs
EXCEPT:
A) He was the most important socialist leader in the United States during the early
1900s.
B) He ran on the Socialist party ticket for president several times.
C) He was a great orator.
D) He supported the capitalist state.
The Intolerable Acts provided for all of the following EXCEPT the
A) immunity of British soldiers involved in suppressing civil disturbances from local
court trials.
B) individual punishment of participants in the Boston Tea Party.
C) replacement of Hutchinson as governor by the commander-in-chief of British forces
in America.
D) closing of Boston’s port until Massachusetts paid for tea destroyed in the Boston Tea
Party.
Laws to control the domestic slave trade were
A) enacted by Congress in 1808.
B) poorly enforced.
C) passed to protect slave families.
D) regulated by the British navy.
During the 1920s, in the United States,
A) the American diet improved.
B) Americans had less leisure time.
C) people had fewer educational opportunities.
D) benefits of prosperity were more evenly distributed among the American people.
How did the church impact the free black community?
A) It provided spiritual solace.
B) It set community standards.
C) It offered recreational opportunities.
D) All of the above.
An important factor in changing American lifestyles during the 1920s was
A) the widespread use of the automobile.
B) an increase in air travel.
C) the repeal of prohibition.
D) the development of television.
In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the Democratic party
A) represented an uneasy alliance of former Whigs and Know-Nothings.
B) depicted the Republicans as a group of rebels and traitors.
C) ruled victoriously over the government of the United States.
D) was in shambles organizationally.
In general, social justice progressives
A) rejected Dewey’s educational concepts.
B) showed little concern for urban housing problems.
C) believed most vice was determined by genetics.
D) stressed the importance of environment in shaping character.
Spanish and Portuguese explorations of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
A) helped soothe the Catholic-Protestant division within Christianity.
B) prompted immediate competition from England and France.
C) retarded the growth of western European economies.
D) shifted commercial power from Mediterranean ports to those of the Atlantic.
During the war years, southern
A) industrialists failed to produce military supplies.
B) yeoman farmers suffered an economic decline.
C) planters increasingly relied on cash-crop agriculture.
D) politicians remained devoted to the concept of states’ rights.
According to John Dewey, American education should
A) train talented students for national leadership.
B) differentiate between native and non-native students.
C) be subject-oriented rather than child-centered.
D) be child-centered rather than subject-oriented.
The conservative coalition of the 1980s sought to
A) scale back the welfare state.
B) increase regulation of the banking industry.
C) expand the interstate highway system.
D) reform the election process.
In the Louisiana economy, slaves worked as
A) rice growers.
B) metal workers.
C) indigo processors.
D) All of the above.
The “Red Scare” during the 1920s refers to
A) American fears of communist influence in the United States.
B) a literary device used by those who criticized American society.
C) fears by white Americans that the Indians would attempt to reclaim their lost lands.
D) the attempt of the Soviet Union to establish communism in Cuba.
How did Europeans view Native American people and their behavior?
A) as cultural savages
B) as religious pagans
C) as people to be hated
D) All of the above.
An obstacle hindering the organization of churches and schools in the frontier
communities included
A) lack of determination to reestablish familiar institutions.
B) disagreements over the kinds of churches and schools to build.
C) geographic mobility of the settlers.
D) unwillingness to spend money.
In 1899, W. E. B. DuBois wrote
A) The Philadelphia Negro.
B) Up from Slavery.
C) The Souls of Black Folk.
D) Reconstruction in the South.
Truman’s Fair Deal program
A) was an overwhelming success.
B) had the strong support of Congress.
C) suffered because of the president’s concern about the Cold War.
D) promised gains for a select few in American society.
During the 1830s, the Cherokee Indians
A) suffered hardships and death in a forced removal to Oklahoma.
B) defied a Supreme Court ruling in their attempt to avoid deportation.
C) laid siege to the federal capital.
D) lost tribal lands as a result of their defeat at Horseshoe Bend.
New suburbs for elites were promoted by
A) railroad companies.
B) airline companies.
C) mining interests.
D) the working poor.
Explain the impact trade had on West Africa.
In the anthracite strike of 1902, Theodore Roosevelt
A) created public sympathy for the mine owners.
B) saw his role as that of a mediator.
C) supported use of the strike to achieve the workers’ goals.
D) showed that he would follow the policies of McKinley.
As a result of extensive contact with European colonizers during the early eighteenth
century, Native American tribes of the interior
A) altered patterns of tribal life and leadership.
B) adopted the white man’s culture and religion.
C) benefited from commercial trade and development.
D) abandoned hunting for subsistence agriculture.
In 1872, which of the following men became president of the United States?
A) Horace Greeley
B) Ulysses S. Grant
C) Andrew Johnson
D) Abraham Lincoln
In 1815, Spain held the title to all of the following present-day lands EXCEPT
A) Louisiana.
B) California.
C) Texas.
D) New Mexico.
In the 1920s, the enthusiasm for social progress
A) evaporated.
B) continued at a more moderate pace.
C) was less popular because of the Depression.
D) increased.
You are a newspaper reporter assigned to cover the riots of August 1834 in
Philadelphia. Write an article explaining the causes and events of the riots as well as
offering suggestions as to how such future trouble might be avoided.
A negative image of Native Americans among English settlers
A) justified their claim that natives had disqualified themselves as rightful owners of
the land.
B) explained for them the easy conquest of the natives by the Spanish.
C) spurred their desire to civilize and convert the natives to Christianity.
D) resulted from their lack of information about indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Assume that you were a typical white, middle-class, white-collar employee during the
1950s and 1960s. Describe your working conditions and your living environment.
Suppose you were a typical industrial worker in the United States during the late
nineteenth century. Describe the conditions under which you would probably be
working.
In 1927, ________ became the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone.
The rebirth of learning in Europe, called the ________, encouraged freedom of thought,
richness of expression, and an emphasis on human abilities.
Discuss the attempts to unionize American workers during the progressive era and
analyze the problems that unions faced in their attempts to organize the workers.
As a member of the counterculture of American young people during the 1960s, explain
what your values and principles would probably have been and which literary and
artistic works would have influenced you.
Discuss President Johnson’s plan for reconstruction and Congress’s response to that
plan.
Despite factionalism and general public hostility, the antislavery movement in America
gained significant strength by the 1840s. Explain why.
Analyze the role of blacks during the War of 1812 and the impact of the conflict on
African American people.
The ________ church grew enormously in the two decades before the Civil War.
Discuss the efforts of President Franklin Roosevelt to help the Allied Powers after the
German invasion of Poland and prior to the American decision to enter the war.
President James Madison launched a __________network of roads and canals.
You are a Spanish explorer in 1500 and your brother sails for Portugal. Describe what
voyages of exploration you both might plan for that year.
Suppose you were a factory worker during the progressive era in American history.
Describe the environment in which you would probably be working.
When President Lincoln met ________ in 1863, he is reported to have said, “So you”re
the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”