How did the Missouri Compromise impact the future of North-South relations in the
U.S.?
A) It put off major conflict to a future time.
B) It resolved major North-South conflicts about slavery.
C) It increased North-South conflict about slavery.
D) It changed North-South conflict from political maneuvers to violent conflict.
E) It changed the source of North-South conflict from economics to slavery.
How can Jefferson’s first term best be characterized?
A) It was a failure in that he led the country to war, increased taxes, and lost land in the
North and West.
B) It was a success in that he united Republican politicians and eradicated their
competition, the Federalists.
C) It was a failure in that he lost important trade rights with Europe and lost western
land to Native American tribes.
D) It was a success in that he reduced taxes, maintained peace, and expanded the United
States.
E) It was a failure in that his judicial, educational, and economic reforms were not
passed by Congress.
What was the main reason for the Ku Klux Klan’s success in the South after 1868?
A) popular support from whites of all social classes
B) its centralized political organization
C) its support from the southern state Republican governments
D) the persistent threat of a violent black uprising
E) the Force Act, which protected terrorist groups like the Klan
In 1854, Stephen Douglas proposed a bill that would set up territorial governments in
Kansas and Nebraska on the basis of ________.
A) the Compromise of 1850
B) Free-Soil ideology
C) congressional approval or disapproval of slavery
D) presidential approval or disapproval of slavery
E) popular sovereignty
According to the policy of “peaceable coercion,” ________.
A) a nation declares its neutrality
B) a nation avoids all military confrontation
C) peaceful relations should be sought through negotiations
D) economic pressure is used as a diplomatic weapon
E) neutral nations can have limited trade with belligerents
Which of these describe the effect of the Cult of Domesticity?
A) It spread the message that women had no value in the society.
B) It saw women as guardians of virtue within the family.
C) It idealized women who left their families for religious missions.
D) It taught that women should help the economic stability of their families.
E) It focused on the domestic role of men.
Theodore Roosevelt resigned from his position as _________ to organize the Rough
Riders.
A) vice president
B) secretary of defense
C) assistant secretary of defense
D) secretary of the navy
E) assistant secretary of the navy
Why did Spain initially have little interest in settling California?
A) The region was full of Native American groups who fought any Europeans that tried
to settle there.
B) The region had so many French settlers that the Spanish did not want to fight over
land with them.
C) The region appeared to lack natural resources and was not easy to reach from
Mexico City.
D) The region was continually plagued by earthquakes, which frightened the settlers
away.
E) The region was too close to Mexico City and the Native American groups there.
In what way was the construction of the Panama Canal as Roosevelt said, “the most
important action in foreign affairs”?
A) It gave the United States control over international trade.
B) It made the United States the world’s most powerful country.
C) It kept the United States out of involvement in World War I.
D) It solidified American influence in Latin America.
E) It gave the United States power over developments in Europe.
Which issue from the 1920s continues to factor heavily in politics today?
A) open immigration versus restrictive legislation
B) segregation versus integration
C) communism versus conservatism
D) prohibition versus alcohol distribution
E) the theory of evolution versus a belief in creationism
What Indians desired most, upon encountering Europeans, was ________.
A) cultural enlightenment
B) victims for human sacrifice rituals
C) religious instruction
D) allies to help them defeat their enemies
E) commercial relations
What was the period of greatest immigration in proportion to the overall population in
America?
A) 1790 to 1800
B) 1805 to 1815
C) 1840 to 1860
D) 1880 to 1890
E) 1910 to 1920
What was one negative effect of industrialization in the United States in the late
nineteenth century?
A) People did not want to live in cities any longer.
B) Most immigrants were not allowed to work at the new industrial jobs.
C) Labor disputes led to the first labor unions.
D) There was a greater need for consumer goods than ever before.
E) There was now a growing disparity in income between the rich and poor.
Who put the most pressure on Kennedy to openly support racial justice?
A) A. Philip Randolph
B) Thurgood Marshall
C) Martin Luther King, Jr.
D) Malcolm X
E) Stokely Carmichael
Thomas Jefferson felt it was important that the U.S. government ________.
A) foster strong ties with Great Britain
B) support business and industrial development
C) decrease the role agriculture played in the American economy
D) lean toward France in the event it clashed with Britain
E) expand the franchise
In 1986, Congress responded to concerns about the economic effects of undocumented
workers when it ________.
A) tripled the size of the border patrol
B) built a wall across the Canadian border
C) doubled the funds for border enforcement
D) repealed privacy laws to find undocumented workers
E) penalized employers who hired undocumented workers
The armed conflict between Native Americans and New Englanders in 1675 was led by
________.
A) Massasoit
B) Powhatan
C) Metacomet
D) Tecumseh
E) Opechancanough
How did cities of the early nineteenth century compare with cities today?
A) They were sparsely populated.
B) They had comparatively lower rents.
C) They were more economically homogeneous.
D) They offered more economic opportunities for unskilled workers than today’s cities.
E) They were more culturally diverse and offered more cultural experiences.
The Report on Manufactures suggested ________.
A) low tariffs on imported goods
B) congressional taxes on industrial goods
C) protective tariffs
D) strict laissez faire
E) a fluctuating tariff schedule
Which statement is a key assumption of mercantilism?
A) Trade benefits all trading partners equally.
B) Trade benefits only the weak nations.
C) One nation’s success in commerce has no effect on other nations.
D) One nation’s success in commerce is another nation’s loss.
E) One nation’s success in commerce benefits all nations.
How did the northern military help some former slaves work toward economic
independence?
A) Northern soldiers were tasked with the assignment of teaching former slaves the
practice of piecework.
B) The Union Army enforced the contract-labor system by making sure that southern
planters offered flexible wages.
C) General Sherman issued an order that set aside the islands and coastal areas of South
Carolina and Georgia for exclusive black occupancy.
D) The northern military established an economic base for former slaves in parts of
Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
E) Union generals issued an order that led to the formation of the sharecropping system,
which allowed black farmers to work their land free and clear.
What was the focus of the bestselling book The Lonely Crowd?
A) life in suburbia
B) love and romance
C) Cold War politics
D) manufacturing work
E) life in the cities
The attack on Fort Sumter ________.
A) was a prolonged and exceptionally bloody battle
B) weakened the secession movement
C) caused increasing opposition to the war in the North
D) united northern opinion against the rebellion
E) was the first southern defeat of the war
During the Truman administration, _______.
A) voting discrimination against African Americans came to an end
B) public schools were desegregated in many states
C) an order for desegregation of the armed forces was issued
D) Congress established a permanent civil rights commission
E) the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department was weakened
With the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty, both the Soviet Union and the United
States agreed to ________.
A) destroy their entire stockpile of intermediate-range missiles
B) remove and destroy all intermediate-range missiles in Europe
C) prevent developing nations from having access to intermediate-range missiles
D) limit their weapons arsenals to intermediate-range rather than long-range missiles
E) work together to create the world’s first intermediate-range missile
Which of the following did not result from the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo?
A) The Rio Grande was confirmed as the southern border of Texas.
B) The United States paid Mexico $15 million.
C) Slavery would not be allowed west of the Rio Grande.
D) Mexico ceded New Mexico and California to the United States.
E) Mexican residents of the ceded areas would become American citizens.
In the 1950s, Americans experienced a contradiction in _______.
A) their apparent obsession with technology but reluctance to embrace television
B) their growing commitment to organized religion while having less time for church
activities
C) moving to the suburbs yet longing for the excitement and opportunities found in
cities
D) saying they feared another depression but refusing to spend money to bolster the
economy
E) denouncing the Soviet Union for human rights violations while supporting
segregation
How did African Americans end up paying the heaviest price for the sectional reunion
after Reconstruction?
A) African Americans lost an enormous amount of wealth and property during
Reconstruction and by the end were reduced to poverty.
B) Congress made no efforts to address the rights of African Americans in their
attempts to repair the damaged South during Reconstruction.
C) Although African Americans saw signs of equal rights at the start of Reconstruction,
once it ended many of these rights were not enforced.
D) Many laws were passed by Congress during Reconstruction that deliberately
restricted the rights of newly freed slaves.
E) African Americans who left the South for the North after the Civil War found that
their rights became restricted as Reconstruction progressed.
Which of the following was an unintended result of the repeal of the Sherman Silver
Purchase Act?
A) Democrats were confined to the North.
B) Democrats became the majority party.
C) It contracted the currency.
D) The rate of inflation rose.
E) Farm prices rose sharply.
What does the following quote from a historian mean regarding western migration?
“The quest for something new would take place in the context of the very familiar.”
A) Families would only migrate to the West after they had sent an individual ahead who
would report back to them.
B) People only migrated in family groups if they already had family established out
West.
C) Families tended to travel back and forth between their old homes and their new
homes until they felt entirely comfortable out West.
D) Most families who traveled west had experience with migration before and thus, the
trip was not new to them.
E) People made every effort to keep their migration experience as familiar as possible,
including traveling in family groups.
A major source of information for the colonists was ________.
A) newspapers
B) books
C) church meetings
D) the marketplace
E) the town crier