The right to “maverick” cattle meant __________.
A) allowing cattle to freely graze on private land
B) killing your neighbor’s cattle in a dispute
C) putting your own brand on unmarked animals
D) selling cattle only to white men
President Reagan reacted to Mikhail Gorbachev’s offers of Soviet military cutbacks
__________.
A) with great suspicion
B) by refusing to meet with the Soviet leader
C) by embracing the Soviet Union’s new positions
D) after Gorbachev was removed from office
Vice president Dick Cheney developed the George W. Bush administration’s energy
policy in consultation with __________.
A) energy companies
B) environmentalists
C) consumer groups
D) religious groups
This event ended a decade of prosperity at home and complacency about the place of
the United States in the world.
A) the attack on the U.S.S. Cole
B) the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001
C) the hijacking of a Cuban plane
D) the embassy bombings in Africa
During World War II, riots in Harlem and Detroit revealed that __________.
A) the Communist Party had a strong foundation in urban areas
B) antiwar sentiment was on the rise as the war continued
C) labor unions were not following FDR’s no-strike appeals
D) racial divisiveness was still a social problem in America
The Sheppard-Towner Act __________.
A) required less regulation of national banks
B) ended the shame of child labor
C) provided federal funds for infant and maternity care
D) regulated interstate commerce
What was the result of the return of Wolrd War II veterans, who created high demand
and short supply of goods?
A) depression
B) recession
C) inflation
D) stagnation
A major industrial trend of the 1920s was the __________.
A) emergence of more competition within major industries
B) decline of open shops
C) strengthening of local retailers
D) concentration of wealth in the largest firms of an industry
Which of the following made the most use of Christianity in pursuing its goals?
A) the Southern Farmers’ Alliance
B) the Grange
C) the Populist Party
D) the Redeemer Democrats
During the Harding administration, the Supreme Court __________.
A) gained a liberal chief justice
B) expanded from nine to fifteen justices
C) became substantially more pro-business
D) gained its first female member
How did Rutherford B. Hayes demonstrate his sympathy for civil service reform?
A) He created the Civil Service Commission.
B) He fired Chester A. Arthur after charges of corruption.
C) He embraced the platform of the Mugwumps.
D) He refused to appoint people who had aided his campaign.
Most southern women’s clubs supported which of the following strategies?
A) forming alliances with black women’s clubs in the South
B) fighting to improve working conditions for white women
C) forming alliances with men’s clubs
D) focusing efforts on improving conditions for male workers
Which of the following statements about W. E. B. Du Bois is true?
A) He strongly believed that southern whites could aid blacks.
B) He was the first African-American to earn a degree at Yale.
C) He stressed agricultural education as the major aspect of improving life for blacks.
D) He promoted pride in the strengths of African-American culture.
Which of the following best describes the Greenback Party of the 1870s?
A) It was a party that fought for labor reform and greater economic equality.
B) It was a political party that represented the laissez-faire philosophy of conservative
industrialists.
C) It was a political party that exploited people’s dissatisfaction with the Populist Party.
D) It was a political party that attracted supporters only in the Midwest.
In the mid-1990s, __________ came of age and voted based on their worries about the
foreclosure of opportunities.
A) Generation Y
B) Millennials
C) Generation X
D) Baby Boomers
By the 1880s, __________ generated more revenue than the federal government needed
to carry out its operations.
A) customs duties
B) income taxes
C) tariffs
D) sales taxes
Which of the following was a rationale for imperialism in the era 1890″1910?
A) American ideas and institutions were superior to those of inferior nations.
B) The United States needed a vast buffer zone to offset communist expansionism.
C) American prosperity now depended on larger isolation from access to foreign
markets and resources.
D) The spread of Christianity would help lesser nations develop morally.
Theodore Roosevelt’s reform philosophy was closest to that of __________.
A) muckraking journalists
B) the gospel of efficiency
C) the Knights of Labor
D) the Social Gospel movement
Changes in the strategy of female suffragists in the early 1900s included __________.
A) nominating middle class women for national political office
B) not allowing men to join women’s rights organizations
C) adopting activist tactics such as rallies and political lobbying
D) focusing on achieving local voting rights, not national voting rights
The Holiness movement and the Church of God were similar in the way they
__________.
A) rejected secular evils and accepted women on an equal basis
B) combined religious fundamentalism with political activism on a federal level
C) supported religious fundamentalists as candidates for president
D) always refused to allow blacks to join their churches
Many rural southerners objected to urbanization because they disliked __________.
A) the exploitation of women in the new cities
B) the technological advances that accompanied it
C) its contribution to the spread of socialist ideas in the Deep South
D) the changes it caused in individual and family life
One of the pitfalls of the U.S. policy of containment was that it __________.
A) weakened relations with Great Britain
B) often caused America to support undemocratic regimes
C) caused a debilitating recession in the mid-1960s
D) closed American markets in western Europe
In November 1917, the provisional government in Russia was overthrown and the
__________ came to power.
A) Social Revolutionaries
B) Mensheviks
C) Bolsheviks
D) Liberals
In the post-Reconstruction period, __________.
A) blacks in the South were relegated to second-class citizenship
B) segregation was established and reinforced in all northern and southern cities
C) the Republican Party increased its efforts to guarantee equality for blacks
D) southern blacks went to desegregated schools, but were segregated in all other areas
The Republicans won control of Congress in __________.
A) 1934
B) 1938
C) 1942
D) 1946
During the 1920s __________.
A) debt rose twice as fast as incomes
B) incomes rose twice as fast as debts
C) incomes and debt rose at the same rate
D) incomes and debts declined at the same rate
Which country was the world’s dominant economic power in the 1920s?
A) Great Britain
B) the United States
C) France
D) Japan
The radical Republicans’ goals for Reconstruction included __________.
A) the South’s recognition of the benefits of defeat
B) the securing of the freedmen’s right to vote
C) stopping southern states from leaving the Union
D) attempting to strengthen the Republican Party in the North
The International Workers of the World differed from the AFL by __________.
A) organizing all types of workers from a wide variety of ethnic groups
B) refusing to support strikes as a method of protest
C) rejecting the sit-down strike as an effective labor tactic
D) only organizing skilled laborers in their union
In the late nineteenth century, which of the following was most likely to determine the
party affiliation of a voter?
A) occupation
B) ethnic identity
C) religious background
D) cultural identity
Reformers who focused on ending child labor faced resistance from big business and
__________.
A) the American Federation of Labor
B) parents of the children
C) believers in the Social Gospel movement
D) clergy
What happened when auto workers at GM’s Flint, Michigan plant went on strike?
A) They were attacked by the National Guard.
B) They won their strike by using the unique tactic of the sit-down strike.
C) They were removed from the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
D) They obtained better wages and shorter workdays.