The SNCC advocated using violence in pursuing civil rights.
Brazil’s slave population reached over 15 million by 1860.
In 1829 a northern free black man named Nat Turner published a pamphlet that called
for slave rebellion.
The arrival of Irish and German immigrants spurred an anti-Catholic backlash from the
Anglo American Protestant core of the nation.
As late as 1880, most large western cities counted more women than men.
The U.S. and British forces invaded Sicily in 1943.
Colonial women played a vital role in the movement toward revolution.
The New Deal was a consistent and well-organized effort to end the Depression and
restructure society.
In the period between the Civil War and the turn of the century, there was a general
increase in the size of the American family.
In the election of 1864, President Lincoln surprised himself, his party, and the nation by
taking 55 percent of the popular vote.
In 1850 at its annual meeting, the American Antislavery party split into opposing
factions.
Upon passage of a compromise tariff in 1833, South Carolina agreed that states do not
have the powers of nullification or secession.
The Puritans believed that God was on their side after local Indians contracted smallpox
in 1633.
Because of the anxieties created by the Cold War, Americans reflected little optimism in
the two decades after World War II.
Unlike the English and French, the Spanish did not rely on forced Indian labor.
Whites and blacks decreased activity on the Underground Railroad after passage of the
Compromise of 1850.
A follower of Betty Friedan would probably oppose the Equal Rights Amendment to the
Constitution.
The great railroad strike took place in 1887.
By December of 1864, the Confederate desertion rate topped 50 percent.
At the end of the Civil War, the newly freed slaves often demonstrated their
independence by changing their behavior toward whites.
In the 1630s, Anne Hutchinson provoked the anger of the Puritan ministry.
Barriers and riots fully prevented the Chinese from immigrating to the United States.
George Grenville’s program to raise revenue proposed that all imperial debts be paid by
the American colonists.
The Pacific War was often brutal and dehumanizing, leading to many atrocities by U.S.
troops.
The number of newspapers steadily decreased over time in the early United States.
The 1920s are often called a time of isolation for U.S. foreign affairs.
John Locke, an Enlightenment thinker, wrote Essay Concerning Human Understanding
(1689).
Throughout the nineteenth century, American relations with China were restricted to
minor but profitable trade.
Although Lincoln received less than 40 percent of the popular vote in the election of
1860, he carried every free state except New Jersey.
International trade problems probably contributed more to the Panic of 1837 and the
subsequent depression than Jackson’s policies.
In 1837, Theodore Weld published American Slavery as It Is, a major criticism of the
institution.
Which of the following statements describes the corruption in the South during
Reconstruction?
A) It took place in railway bonds.
B) It took place in construction contracts.
C) It took place in land sales.
D) All of the above.
The call for the meeting of a Continental Congress in 1774 came in response to the
A) Quartering Act.
B) Townshend Acts.
C) Stamp Act.
D) Intolerable Acts.
Which of the following tribes won a landmark 1967 decision that repaid them for
deceptive land deals by the federal government in 1823?
A) Modoc
B) Sioux
C) Seminole
D) Navajo
Southerners thought that European nations would recognize and support the
Confederacy because of the Europeans’
A) lack of economic ties with the North.
B) wish to back the winning side.
C) dependence upon southern cotton.
D) desire to upset the balance of power.
New Orleans was originally a colony of the
A) French.
B) Spanish.
C) British.
D) Dutch.
After the communists gained control of China in 1949,
A) the United States repudiated the leadership of Jiang Jieshi.
B) staunch anti-communists accused President Truman of losing China to the
communists.
C) most Americans recognized that their triumph resulted from a long internal conflict
within that country.
D) Secretary of State Dean Acheson claimed that the United States could have
prevented the communist takeover.
Discuss efforts to improve and expand public education in antebellum America. Were
schools supported as an agent for or as a defense against change?
The “Okies” fled
A) the Dust Bowl in the Southwest.
B) blizzards in Alaska.
C) hurricanes in Florida.
D) earthquakes in California.
For members of his “perfectionist” community at Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes
advocated
A) Christian commitment.
B) communal child rearing.
C) agricultural enterprise.
D) absolute chastity.
The American Colonization Society was founded in 1856 but settled no blacks in
Africa.
What were the causes of the Salem witchcraft episode?
A) general differences among the colonists
B) religious differences among the colonists
C) family animosities among the colonists
D) All of the above.
Susan Warner responded to financial adversity by
A) giving piano lessons in her home.
B) opening a school for girls.
C) writing a novel for publication.
D) taking a job in a Lowell textile mill.
For urban artisans in colonial America,
A) New England paid the highest wages.
B) work patterns proved regular and constant.
C) a major goal was economic independence.
D) urban growth and economic expansion guaranteed success.
One effect of the Persian Gulf War was that it
A) caused serious shortages in the United States.
B) brought Israel and the Palestinians together against a common enemy.
C) completely destroyed the power base of Saddam Hussein.
D) increased the popularity of President G.H.W. Bush.
An increase in American international commerce during the late nineteenth century
necessitated a
A) devaluation of the dollar.
B) decrease in government spending.
C) strong navy.
D) policy of isolation.
In its impact on American society, World War II
A) increased the mobility of the American people.
B) decreased the mobility of the American people.
C) required few adjustments in American family life.
D) eliminated prejudice among Americans because they were all fighting for the same
cause.
The material assets of the North during the Civil War
A) became effective only in the long run.
B) immediately placed the South at a disadvantage.
C) offset the greater supply of manpower in the South.
D) allowed the North to wage a defensive war.
In 1906, the United States intervened in which two of the following nations in Latin
America?
A) Mexico and El Salvador
B) Guatemala and Nicaragua
C) Costa Rica and Chile
D) Venezuela and Peru
In terms of economic goals during this administration, President Truman attempted to
A) reduce government interference in the economy.
B) guarantee full employment through government action.
C) restrict the policies of the New Deal.
D) resist the liberal policies of the Republicans.
The Korean War led the United States to sign a peace treaty with
A) Japan.
B) Germany.
C) China.
D) the Soviet Union.
Richard Nixon believed that the office of the president
A) set the moral tone for the nation.
B) ought to be the engine of social change.
C) had too much power.
D) should not interfere with the economy.
Within a single generation of Columbus’s death, Spanish conquistadores
A) failed to expand beyond the Caribbean.
B) explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America and Central America, but
had not yet reached North America.
C) explored, claimed, and conquered most of South America, Central America, and
parts of North America.
D) conquered and claimed Central America.
The first colony organized around slave labor was Portugal’s
A) Madeira.
B) Brazil.
C) Angola.
D) Gao.
All of the following describe the lives of free southern blacks EXCEPT:
A) One-third of the population lived in cities or towns.
B) Whites feared them due to slave revolts.
C) Many lived in rural areas.
D) They owned substantial amounts of property.
Discuss the major issues as well as the more important leaders of reform at the state
level during the progressive era.
The first confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Western democracies after
World War II came over
A) Poland.
B) China.
C) Germany.
D) Vietnam.
Why did Americans think that using nuclear bombs against Japan was necessary?
A) A land invasion of Japan would cost many American lives.
B) Some wanted revenge for Pearl Harbor.
C) Some wanted to drop the bomb to justify its expensive cost and development.
D) All of the above.
In the period from 1865 to 1900, southern factory workers
A) seldom included children in their ranks.
B) generally were required to work fewer than 40 hours a week.
C) earned wages higher than similar workers in the North.
D) often earned wages insufficient to support their families adequately.
The Federal Housing Administration
A) was created in 1934 by the National Housing Act.
B) departed from HOLC policies.
C) failed to enable families to buy their own homes.
D) favored remodeling urban homes to building new suburban homes.
At the end of World War II, the United States
A) found its influence in world affairs considerably diminished.
B) had become a debtor nation.
C) no longer pursued a foreign policy of isolation from the world.
D) returned to its traditional isolationist policy.
Compared to the United States, slavery in Latin America
A) encouraged slave marriages and families more.
B) was more benign.
C) was just as harsh.
D) ended much earlier.
The town of Santa Fe was
A) settled by Americans in the 1820s to promote trade.
B) fiercely guarded and protected during the Mexican War.
C) captured and annexed by Texans in 1841.
D) occupied without a shot by American forces in 1846.
In 1886, the ________ bombing helped to increase the ranks of organized labor.
James Madison’s idea for a new national government was known as the
_________Plan.
Characterize the foreign policy interests of American presidents Harry Truman and
Dwight Eisenhower, as well as the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
England declared war on Spain in 1739, presumably because the Spanish severed the
ear of English sea captain ________.
Congressional opposition to Madison’s call for a war against the British in 1812 came
primarily from the ________ states.
In 1996, President Bill Clinton defeated __________, the Senate minority leader.
The individual primarily responsible for developing the American containment policy
during the Cold War was ________.
The religion of ________ rose rapidly for several centuries after its founding in 610
C.E.
In his famous essay Exposition and Protest, John Calhoun presented the doctrine
of________, by which southern states could protect themselves from harmful national
action.
Describe, in general, the Allied strategy for winning World War II and discuss the
implementation of that strategy in Europe.
The city of ________, near present-day St. Louis, served as the urban center of
Mississippian culture.
In the election of 1832, the National Republicans adopted the name of ________ to
show their opposition to “King Andrew” Jackson and his supporters.
President Kennedy established the ________ to send men and women overseas to help
developing countries achieve their economic and social goals.
Discuss the issues of the post-industrial economy and include examples of their effects
on the public.
Broadly trace the major phases of pre-Columbian Native American history as charted
by archaeologists and anthropologists.
The last Latin American countries to abolish slavery were Cuba and ________.
Discuss American efforts to expand into the Pacific Ocean area prior to the outbreak of
the Spanish-American War.
Discuss President Kennedy’s leadership style and evaluate his success in achieving the
goals of his New Frontier program before his assassination.