The gay and lesbian movement became less radical and militant in the 1970s.
California was one of the most diverse places in the country during the 1850s.
The Philadelphia militia failed to support the radical leaders of the Revolution in the
city.
Presidents Truman approved of communism.
The war made it impossible for many northern and southern women to conform to
traditional gender roles.
By 1835, almost 30,000 Americans were living in Texas, the largest group of Americans
living outside the nation’s boundaries at that time.
In five northern states, free blacks could not testify against whites nor sit on juries.
During the late nineteenth century, international conditions had little effect on the
American farmer.
Most reformers in the United States during the progressive era considered the
environment more important than heredity in forming an individual’s character.
When the Allstons returned to their plantation at the end of the Civil War, they were
unable to regain control of their property from the freed slaves.
In 1675, the Wampanoag in New England laid waste to Puritan settlements.
Deaths among American soldiers during the Spanish-American War were greater from
disease than from battle casualties.
The United States remained far ahead of Germany in the production of rockets during
World War II.
By the end of the 1920s, the United States controlled the financial affairs of only one
Latin American nation.
Religious enthusiasm and commitment were the means by which some Americans of
the 1830s found certainty and reassurance in a fast-changing world.
Between 1881 and 1905, there were over 36,000 strikes by more than 6 million workers
in the U.S.
In 1975, the U.S. Civil Service Commission lifted its ban on hiring homosexuals.
Between 1828 and 1832, dozens of workingmen’s parties arose in the United States.
About half of New York City’s population fled when the British occupied the city.
A nightlong riot in 1969 at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village in New York ignited
the African American civil rights movement.
The Communist party lost members during the 1930s as the New Deal addressed labor’s
complaints.
During the 1920s, the United States bought nearly 60 percent of Latin America’s
exports and sold Latin America 50 percent of its imports.
By 1970, 53 percent of the American people thought that air and water pollution
constituted a major national problem.
Slavery was a new concept to Africans, unknown until Europeans introduced it.
In 1985, full-time working women still earned only 59 cents for every dollar earned by
men.
In 1938, the tourist industry was the third largest industry in the United States, a
reflection of the increasing use of the automobile.
In 1860, nearly 3,000 Chinese lived in Chinatown, a large district in San Francisco.
By the 1830s, all American states had adopted a plan of state-funded public education
for children between 5 and 19 years of age.
To avoid potential violence, Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts tried to convince
the East India Company to return its shiploads of tea to England rather than attempt
unloading in Boston.
All urban reformers were elitist.
For Asian Americans, conditions deteriorated drastically immediately following World
War II.
Prior to 1939, many Americans had hoped that Germany and the Soviet Union would
go to war with each other.
The Declaratory Act, passed in response to the colonial turmoil over the Stamp Act,
failed to resolve the issue of Parliament’s right to tax the colonies.
Sugar production transformed the African slave trade more than any other factor.
Between 1820 and 1860, the per capita income of Americans steadily declined.
The switch from subsistence to commercial hunting drew Native Americans into a
market economy in which their trading partners gradually became trading masters.
Most European visitors to the United States in the 1830s considered Americans to be
dull-witted and listless.
The suffrage victory of women started a feminist reform movement that made major
and immediate gains.
Andrew Jackson argued that the national bank
A) represented an example of special privilege that hurt the common man.
B) restrained state banks from making unwise loans.
C) should be managed by Europe.
D) played a responsible role in promoting economic expansion.
In 1871, a fire destroyed the city of
A) San Francisco.
B) Buffalo.
C) Chicago.
D) New Orleans.
During the 1950s, material consumption in the United States
A) was generally uninfluenced by advertising.
B) was facilitated by installment plans.
C) tended to be limited because many Americans who had experienced the Depression
resisted purchasing luxury goods.
D) was yet to be influenced by easier credit.
During the late 1860s as Republicans lost interest in the South, American women like
Susan B. Anthony
A) fought for women’s rights.
B) remained at home adhering to traditional values.
C) joined the U.S. Army.
D) gave up on helping other women.
For most emigrants on the overland trails,
A) a traditional division of labor persisted through the journey.
B) the trip proved novel and even enjoyable.
C) drawing up rules and electing officers prevented dissension.
D) difficulties multiplied as the trip lengthened.
According to the authors of the textbook, President Franklin Roosevelt
A) did not know that the Japanese planned to attack Hawaii.
B) deliberately provoked an attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor to force American
entry into World War II.
C) ordered military leaders to prepare for a possible attack on Pearl Harbor.
D) anticipated that the Japanese would attack Hawaii.
In contrast to the fate of Africans enslaved in the Americas, the slaves in West African
societies
A) did not suffer a permanently servile condition.
B) transferred slave status automatically to their children.
C) remained uneducated and unwed.
D) lost all legal rights and opportunities for economic advancement.
In the years from 1865 to 1900, American middle-class women
A) failed to gain any new freedoms.
B) gained new opportunities.
C) had less access to higher education than before the Civil War.
D) were forced to work primarily as servants.
In February 1792, Congress approved the ______ bill.
A) bank
B) farm
C) factory
D) reservation
Between 1815 and 1860, southern production of cotton
A) represented more than half of all American exports.
B) harmed the interests of northern merchants and western farmers.
C) contributed to a steady decline in the region’s per capita income.
D) surpassed the corn crop in terms of total acreage.
The campaign between Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams in 1828
A) failed to attract significant public interest.
B) degenerated into a nasty but entertaining contest.
C) exposed Jackson’s lack of an effective political organization.
D) presented thoughtful discussion of controversial issues.
What major problems did the South experience in fighting and winning the war?
A) Southern black troops staged countless mutinies.
B) African American slaves burned several southern cities.
C) It lacked enough food, effective transportation, and military hardware.
D) There was incessant meddling in its affairs by France and England.
The social organization of African societies included
A) kings and noblemen at the top.
B) a great mass of people who worked as farmers.
C) urban craftsmen who supported the elites.
D) All of the above.
The Navigation Act of 1660
A) promoted colonial trade by removing English duties on enumerated articles.
B) created stringent enforcement mechanisms by which England regulated colonial
trade.
C) allowed expanded exports of colonial tobacco to European markets.
D) listed colonial products that could be shipped only to England or to other English
colonies.
New Englanders built more private and comfortable houses at an earlier stage than
colonists in the Chesapeake because of the
A) stunted and unstable family life in New England.
B) less worldly and materialistic attitudes of southerners.
C) unhealthy climate and environment in New England.
D) need of southerners to invest available capital in labor.
The ideology of revolutionary republicanism
A) originated in the struggle of American colonists against imperial despotism.
B) borrowed ideas from English political thought and Enlightenment theories.
C) reflected common colonial interests and experiences.
D) provided a coherent doctrine to which all colonists could subscribe.
According to the doctrine of popular sovereignty, the decision whether to permit slavery
in a territory would be made by the
A) local territorial legislature.
B) president of the United States.
C) Missouri Compromise line.
D) Congress of the United States.
The role of the ideal woman in antebellum America was to
A) perform complementary tasks in the family’s struggle to get ahead.
B) pursue a rewarding and professional career.
C) create a clean and wholesome home for family life.
D) produce vital goods or earn money necessary for the family’s subsistence.
In the decades before the Civil War, Cincinnati workers
A) viewed their bosses as a separate and hostile class.
B) refused to join unions or participate in strikes.
C) struck for fair wages.
D) steadily improved their standard of living.
In 1906, the United States invaded _______ and ________ in Central America.
Which of the following does NOT characterize Chinese views of the United States in
1900?
A) disdain
B) curiosity
C) a place of racial equality
D) suspicion
In America during World War II, generally
A) there was little sense of involvement in the war effort because none of the fighting
occurred in the United States.
B) people of all ages joined in supporting the war effort.
C) only the young supported the war enthusiastically.
D) the government found it difficult to promote support for the war effort.
Americans viewed English policies after 1763 as
A) threats to their economic interests.
B) evidence of English corruption.
C) a systematic attack on their constitutional liberties.
D) All of the above.
An important factor in the white man’s defeat of the Plains tribes was
A) general agreement among the Indians not to resist white settlements in the area.
B) destruction of the buffalo herds.
C) the inability of the Indians to use guns.
D) the Indians’ refusal to use the horse.
Why did the North win the Civil War?
A) It had fewer troops to feed.
B) It had superior manpower, equipment, and economy.
C) It relied on Native American troops.
D) It received monetary assistance from France and England.
In providing aid to the blacks after the Civil War, the Freedman’s Bureau
A) concentrated on helping poor whites instead of blacks.
B) was characterized by mixed success.
C) was generally unconcerned with black needs.
D) was a total failure.
All of the following are true regarding the Chinese American population in the 1800s
EXCEPT they
A) were mostly men.
B) were able to become members of the legislature.
C) were fearful of white miners.
D) worked in a variety of occupations besides mining.
By the time that the United States decided to enter World War I,
A) the Germans had overrun France and were preparing to invade Britain.
B) the British and French had essentially defeated the Germans.
C) fighting in western Europe had become a bloody stalemate.
D) the Italians had defeated the Russians.
Concerning the issue of nuclear weapons development after World War II,
A) Secretary of State Henry Stimson proposed cooperating with the Soviet Union.
B) President Truman supported a joint Soviet-American effort.
C) most American scientists believed that the Soviets could never develop an atomic
bomb.
D) most Americans believed that the United States should freely share its knowledge
with other countries.
Gerald Ford’s goals as president included
A) restoring trust in the presidency.
B) ending welfare programs.
C) ending school busing.
D) increasing aid to education.
Between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War, an important aspect of the
missionary impulse in American foreign policy was
A) a belief in the superiority of the Anglo-Saxon race.
B) opposition to missionary interference in native cultures.
C) a belief that each country had a right to develop its institutions as it saw fit.
D) strict adherence to the Christian concept that all people are equal in the sight of God.
By the 1820s, Philadelphia was becoming a center of ______ production.
A) slavery
B) tobacco
C) textile
D) lumber
The Homestead strike took place in the industrial field of
A) oil.
B) textile.
C) mining.
D) steel.
In 1894, Bishop Henry Turner founded the ________.
Evaluate the effectiveness of Cesar Chavez in achieving his goals for Mexican
Americans.
Most of the longhorn cattle slaughtered for the urban markets of the East came
originally from the state of ________.
Discuss the philosophy of those individuals who, in the late nineteenth century, believed
that the United States should seek national glory and greatness in world affairs.
Describe the conditions of blacks in the South during the late nineteenth century and
discuss how blacks and their leaders attempted to cope with those circumstances.
Explain the reasons for the revival of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s and evaluate
the extent to which the Klan was able to attain its goals successfully.
Discuss the balance of resources between the North and South at the beginning of the
Civil War and its implications for initial military strategy.
How did growing revolutionary sentiment from 1764 to 1776 impact urban artisans,
women, and backcountry farmers in America?
Jackie Robinson became the first__________to play in Major League Baseball in 1947.
Critics called Roosevelt’s attempt to reform the Supreme Court, “______________.”
The ____________ attempted to wrestle an eight-hour day from mining companies.
Discuss the major technological and business innovations that promoted economic
prosperity in the United States during the 1920s.
In New Mexico, the ___________ exploited local Mexican Americans for cheap lands.
President Eisenhower in 1957 sent the ________into Little Rock, Arkansas.
Imagine that you were a white tenant farmer in the South during the late nineteenth
century. Describe the conditions of your existence at that time.