American industrial growth was concentrated in the ________.
A) Southwest
B) Northeast
C) Pacific
D) Southeast
E) Midwest
How did Roger Williams’ religious ideas clash with those of the Puritans?
A) Williams believed that settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who had
unconventional religious views should be punished by the colonial leaders.
B) Williams felt that it was not enough to purify the Church of England from within,
but to separate from it.
C) Williams did not believe that the Puritans should separate from the Church of
England, but rather to try to improve it.
D) Williams did not support religious toleration and insisted that the members of the
Church of England try to preserve their own freedom of worship.
E) Williams believed that colonial leaders could not also be religious leaders.
Which of these explains the failure of the National Recovery Administration?
A) Labor and management were unable to really work together.
B) Its programs failed to help farmers.
C) Few banks were actually saved by the program.
D) The Supreme Court struck the program down at the height of its success.
E) The limits put on competition drove prices disastrously low.
How did Ford’s Model T lead to better roads?
A) Ford built roads in every state so people could use his new cars.
B) Because urban centers were so crowded, many cities limited the number of cars that
could travel through them.
C) When cars became popular, cities began building roads far outside their city limits.
D) In response to more cars on the road, the federal government required states to
establish highway departments.
E) Automobile owners had to pay high taxes, which then went to build and improve the
federal highway system.
By the mid-1700s, the colonial assemblies ________.
A) had surrendered most powers to royal assemblies
B) were gaining steadily in power
C) were able to elect the colonial governors
D) were completely independent in their actions from the mother country
E) were full of mid-level bureaucrats seeking better patronage jobs
Which statement best describes the disparity in resources between the North and the
South during the Civil War?
A) The North had more factories and industrial workers than the South.
B) The value of industrial production was higher in the South.
C) The South had more textiles and firearms factories.
D) The South had more miles of railroad tracks than the North.
E) The North was unable to access its immigrant population for manpower.
Why did the population of New England rise in the seventeenth century?
A) Better overall health resulted in people living longer.
B) Puritan families tended to have many children.
C) Couples in New England married younger and tended to have more children.
D) Many more immigrants came to New England than to the other colonies.
E) Colonists from the southern colonies moved to New England in large numbers.
The financial success of the French empire in North America depended upon the
________.
A) fur trade
B) complete annihilation of the Native American tribes in Canada
C) discovery of huge amounts of gold
D) establishment of plantations
E) withdrawal of the Spanish
Why did the acquisition of Texas, New Mexico, and California cause conflict in the
United States?
A) The Constitution did not establish the status of slavery in future states, so whether or
not those territories would allow slavery was hotly debated.
B) The new territories were all north of the Missouri Compromise line, which
threatened to disrupt the balance between slave and free states.
C) The Missouri Compromise mandated that those territories should be free, but the
economies of the territories were already completely dependent on slavery.
D) Mexico kept claiming the territories even after they had been annexed to the United
States.
E) Citizens in those territories refused to pay taxes to a federal government that they did
not support.
How did Joseph McCarthy develop power over his fellow senators?
A) He physically threatened them.
B) He blackmailed them.
C) He instilled fear in them.
D) He bribed them with campaign contributions.
E) He was wildly popular with the public.
How was slavery an obvious contradiction to the principles of the American republic?
A) Slavery showed how poorly treated black women were.
B) Americans claimed to be fighting for freedom, but still enslaved others.
C) Slavery funded much of the Revolution, so it was part of the new republic.
D) Slavery was a British institution and had no place in an independent America.
E) People who fought in the war and enslaved others were too violent for a republic.
The most influential educator of the Progressive Era was _____.
A) Horace Mann
B) Eugene V. Debs
C) Robert M. La Follette
D) John Dewey
E) William James
At the Battle of New Orleans, ________.
A) British forces retreated when they saw how strong American defenses were
B) British forces won and forced the surrender of the city
C) British forces were defeated by Andrew Jackson and his troops
D) Andrew Jackson proved to be an ineffective political leader
E) the War of 1812 was won
Operation ________ was the U.S. and allied military campaign against Iraq in 1991.
A) Against Terror
B) Desert Storm
C) Afghanistan
D) Defeat Saddam
E) Liberate Kuwait
Which of the following Native American groups were peaceful farmers and herdsmen?
A) the Sioux
B) the Kiowa
C) the Seminole
D) the Pueblo peoples
E) the Comanche
Which of the following statements about canals in early nineteenth-century America is
NOT true?
A) They linked the Atlantic coastal cities to the lakes and rivers of the interior.
B) Most of them proved to be unprofitable.
C) They could not compete successfully with railroads.
D) Their construction was paid for through a combination of state funding and private
investment.
E) Spectacular canal boat accidents claimed many lives.
Which of the following required 50 percent of southern voters to take an oath of loyalty
to the Union before the southern states could regain their status as states?
A) Fourteenth Amendment
B) Fifteenth Amendment
C) Loyalty Act
D) Tenure of Office Act
E) Wade-Davis Bill
The first great federal transportation project was the ________.
A) National Road
B) Lancaster Turnpike
C) Erie Canal
D) transcontinental railroad
E) Union and Pacific Railroad
When tobacco prices sagged after 1820, ________.
A) farmers in the upper South switched over to cotton and rice production
B) farmers in the upper South found effective ways to reverse soil depletion
C) an internal slave trade emerged from the upper to the lower South
D) planters in Virginia and Maryland turned openly to slave breeding as a business
E) Virginia and Maryland began exporting slaves to the Caribbean Islands
In what way did the Sugar Act differ from earlier regulations, such as the Navigation
Acts?
A) Its purpose was to show the colonists that they were not in control.
B) Its purpose was to show the colonists that they were autonomous.
C) It taxed sugar for the specific benefit of the East India Company.
D) Its purpose was to collect revenue from the Americans.
E) It had nothing to do with trade.
Which one of the following groups was not part of the southern Republican party of
1868?
A) businessmen hoping for government support
B) poor white farmers
C) newly enfranchised African Americans
D) white planters
E) ‘scalawags” and carpetbaggers
How did Americans respond to the bull market climate on the eve of the great crash in
1929?
A) A general sense of caution about the ability of the market to continue to yield such
fantastic dividends caused the market to falter.
B) Average Americans tended not to invest in the market themselves, instead relying on
professional stockbrokers to invest their savings.
C) Many Americans looked to the government for guidance on how to invest in such a
rapidly growing market.
D) Wild optimism about the continued growth of the stock market led Americans to
engage in speculative investing practices.
E) Wary about the danger of “get rich quick” schemes, many Americans carefully
guarded their life savings.
How were the Orders in Council and the Berlin and Milan Decrees similar?
A) They both allowed broken voyages to occur throughout Europe.
B) They both forbade commerce in Europe but were ineffective “paper blockades.”
C) Neither had any effect on American shipping.
D) Both gave Great Britain control of the seas.
E) Both allowed the British navy to monitor every Continental port.
Which New Deal program did the Supreme Court declare unconstitutional?
A) Commodity Credit Corporation
B) Civilian Conservation Corps
C) National Recovery Administration
D) Tennessee Valley Authority
E) Civil Works Administration
A founder of the National American Woman Suffrage Association was ________.
A) Rheta Childe Dorr
B) John H. Kellogg
C) Susan B. Anthony
D) Charlotte Gilman
E) Rebecca Ablowitz
Which section of the country benefited the most from the economic boom of the 1950s?
A) the Hawaiian Islands
B) the Great Lakes region
C) the Midwest region
D) the Sunbelt states
E) the New England area
Which of the following was critical to life in the suburbs?
A) jobs close to the home sites
B) efficient public transportation
C) the automobile
D) American school systems
E) air conditioning
The effect of Macon’s Bill Number Two was that ________.
A) Napoleon promised to rescind the Berlin and Milan decrees
B) Great Britain promised to rescind the Orders in Council
C) Napoleon declared war on the United States
D) Madison received strong public support
E) even diplomatic contact with Britain and France was severed
What was one goal of the American Colonization Society?
A) to enact gradual voluntary emancipation for slaves
B) to force an immediate end to slavery
C) to settle the West with freed slaves
D) to reunite former slaves with their families
E) to bring slavery to every state in the union
How did the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 change the course of the war?
A) Germany’s own people began to revolt, leading to a weakening of the Central
Powers, giving the Allies an advantage.
B) The Polish people in Germany revolted, distracting German forces from fighting
France and Britain and giving the Allies an advantage.
C) Socialists in the United States refused to help with the war effort, inhibiting U.S.
involvement and prolonging the war.
D) Russia signed a treaty with Germany and dropped out of the war, which enabled
Germany to concentrate on fighting in the West.
E) Russia renewed attacks on Germany from the East, which weakened the Central
Powers on both fronts.
Why did the delegates at the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention vow to secrecy
during the proceedings?
A) to keep their competition (Antifederalists) in the dark
B) so that James Madison could wield limitless power
C) to avoid the spread of rumors
D) to avoid a civil war between the North and the South
E) so that there would be a balance of power between state and federal governments
The major issues dominating politics in the 1820s and 1830s were ________.
A) constitutional
B) sectional
C) social
D) economic
E) diplomatic