What did Republican leaders agree to do in order to ensure the election of Rutherford
Hayes?
a. offer lucrative positions to members of the electoral commission
b. end federal support for southern radical regimes
c. support fraudulent elections with federal troops
d. continue federal support for southern radical regimes
e. let Democrats take over all southern governments
Why did Hoover have greater appeal than Smith in the election of 1928?
a. As a Catholic and big-city politician, Hoover appealed to the immigrant population
that was larger than the “nativist” population.
b. As a Protestant and someone who stood for traditional American values, Hoover
appealed to a larger majority of Americans.
c. Hoover was a self-made man who embodied the American belief in freedom of
opportunity and upward mobility.
d. Hoover had fought in the First World War, but Smith had not.
e. Prior to the presidential race of 1928, Smith had never been involved in politics.
What was the most famous political machine of the late nineteenth century?
a. the Fifth Street Gang
b. Tammany Hall
c. the Irish Mafia
d. the Lamar Circle
e. the Coughlin Gang
In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia __________.
a. attacked the English settlements
b. formed an alliance with the Native American tribes of New England
c. established permanently good relations with the English settlers
d. learned from the English settlers how to grow tobacco
e. migrated westward to avoid future contact with settlers
How did Congress respond to concerns about the economic effects of undocumented
workers in 1986?
a. It approved a bill that tripled the size of the border patrol.
b. It created a new branch of the Department of Defense to deal with the issue.
c. It doubled the funds allotted for border enforcement.
d. It repealed privacy laws to allow the government to find undocumented workers.
e. It penalized employers who hired undocumented workers.
Why was the American obsession with equality hypocritical?
a. Americans believed in and reinforced class distinctions.
b. America was the only country in the world to enforce equality.
c. Through the institution of slavery, Americans denied liberty to African Americans.
d. The government controlled and influenced most of the newspapers.
e. The court system was so corrupt that people did not really have fair trials.
Which statement best explains why the Boston Tea Party became a famous symbol of
the American Revolution?
a. The Boston Tea Party was one of the most destructive acts in the entire war.
b. The Boston Tea Party was the final action before the first shots that led to the actual
war.
c. The Boston Tea Party showed that the colonists had lost their respect for the British
monarchy.
d. The Boston Tea Party not only killed many soldiers, but it also destroyed property
worth millions of dollars.
e. The Boston Tea Party was an unprecedented act of violence by angry colonists
against the British troops.
The explanation for the tremendous population growth of seventeenth-century New
England can be found in the __________.
a. extraordinary fertility of New England women
b. emphasis Puritans placed on having large families
c. fact that local Native American tribes were remarkably friendly
d. long lives of New England settlers
e. agricultural richness of the New World
How did former slaves’ ideas about their freedom conflict with ideas of northern allies?
a. Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for
white planters, but blacks did not want to return to plantation life.
b. Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern
allies felt they needed to stay in the South.
c. Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal work
system, but freed blacks wanted to become individual wage earners.
d. Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies felt
they should remain on the land they were used to.
e. Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but
northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.
What caused Mexico to break off diplomatic relations with the United States and
prepare for war in 1845?
a. The republic of Texas began claiming land south of the Rio Grande.
b. The United States annexed Texas and claimed the land between the Nueces River and
the Rio Grande.
c. The U.S. military began fighting for control over California harbors.
d. The U.S. government refused to grant rights of citizenship to people of Mexican
descent still living in Texas.
e. President Polk criticized the Mexican government in a scathing public address.
What was a key reason for the South’s defeat in the Civil War?
a. The Confederacy lacked a single competent general to lead its troops.
b. Southern planters were reluctant to start growing food crops instead of cash crops.
c. Confederate armies lacked the conviction to fight a prolonged war with the North.
d. The South was too industrialized to adapt well to a wartime economy.
e. The northern troops were better individual soldiers than Confederate troops.
Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom called for __________.
a. the expansion of government
b. less government regulation
c. business competition and small government
d. government restraint of competition
e. civil rights for African Americans
How was Jackson’s Force Bill of 1833 connected with slavery?
a. South Carolinians feared that if the federal government could force states to obey
tariff laws, they could force states to obey antislavery laws.
b. Many northerners feared that if southerners required the threat of force to pay tariffs,
they would require physical violence to obey antislavery laws.
c. The Force Bill of 1833 surprised South Carolinians in that Jackson showed he was
willing to force abolitionist ideas on southerners.
d. The Force Bill of 1833 required southerners to pay tariffs on all manufactured goods,
including slaves traded from Africa and within the South.
e. The Force Bill of 1833 put a time limit not only on the slave trade but also on the
institution itself.