The second note of Secretary of State Hay’s Open Door policy with China addressed
A) Japan’s invasion of China.
B) Russian movement into Manchuria.
C) German movement into Poland.
D) British movement into Australia.
“Jim Crow” laws in the South imposed segregation in
A) transportation.
B) education.
C) recreation.
D) All of the above.
The social structure of American colonial cities from 1690 to 1770 was influenced by
A) an absence of urban poverty.
B) an increasing gap between the wealthy and the poor.
C) steadily declining property values and taxes.
D) the end of colonial warfare.
Which of the following southern cities had large free black communities?
A) Baltimore
B) Charleston
C) New Orleans
D) All of the above.
Immigrants in cities were joined by
A) rural Americans.
B) timber workers.
C) Native Americans.
D) European monarchs.
By the 1820s, how many African Americans lived in eastern port cities
A) 50,000
B) 40,000
C) 30,000
D) 20,000
E) 10,000
As part of his Great Society program, Lyndon Johnson
A) failed to demonstrate concern about poverty in the country.
B) called for a tax increase to pay for the social programs.
C) supported a medical assistance plan.
D) refused to support federal aid to education.
Which of the following southern states was the first to leave the Union?
A) Virginia
B) North Carolina
C) South Carolina
D) Georgia
Which of the following groups would have been MOST likely to favor recharter of the
Second Bank of the United States?
A) Native Americans
B) state bankers needing credit
C) southern and western farmers
D) New York state bankers
From 1820 to 1860, the American economy witnessed a
A) consistent increase in available jobs and goods.
B) doubling of per capita income.
C) trend toward regional isolation.
D) decline in worker productivity.
When the war was over, what had the South lost besides political independence?
A) Large and great cities lay in ruins.
B) Tools were worn out.
C) Agricultural fields lay barren.
D) All of the above.
During the Reconstruction Era, poor black southerners
A) generally embraced an emotional and revivalistic religion.
B) effectively combined with poor blacks to achieve political control of the southern
state governments.
C) tended to accept the blacks as their social equals.
D) escaped from the tenant farming system.
The massive flow of silver bullion from the Americas to Europe in the sixteenth and
seventeenth centuries
A) increased prevailing wage rates in Europe.
B) delayed further exploration of America.
C) triggered a century of inflationary pressures.
D) hampered capitalist modes of production.
During the Spanish-American War, the United States
A) attacked Japan.
B) defeated Spain relatively easily.
C) faced a major military challenge.
D) lost most of the battles against the Spanish navy.
What institutions did some Americans attempt to reform?
A) schools
B) asylums
C) prisons
D) All of the above.
Which of the following Founding Fathers was popularized in the 1830s as a model for
hard work and education?
A) Alexander Hamilton
B) Thomas Jefferson
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) John Hancock
The Works Progress Administration
A) supported actors, musicians, artists, and writers.
B) received great approval.
C) provided jobs to any and all citizens who wanted to work
D) paid higher wages than private industry.
All of the following are true regarding the potato’s role in the “Columbian Exchange”
EXCEPT the
A) New World sweet potato made its entry into China in the 1500s.
B) potato strengthened Europeans’ diet.
C) potato led to population growth.
D) potato vastly increased crop yields per acre.
In 1739 a major slave rebellion broke out in
A) Stono, South Carolina.
B) Roanoke, Virginia.
C) Richmond, Virginia.
D) Boston, Massachusetts.
During the 1920s, businesses in the United States
A) failed to recognize the importance of planning.
B) saw the decline of business concentration.
C) saw the emergence of a new kind of manager.
D) rejected the ideas of Frederick Taylor.
Henry Ford earned a reputation as a(n)
A) progressive industrial leader.
B) technological genius.
C) conservative businessman.
D) imitator rather than innovator.
During the 1840s, temperance advocates
A) argued that alcoholism reflected moral failure.
B) lobbied for passage of local option laws.
C) copied successful revival techniques.
D) rioted in the streets.
For South Carolinian Robert Francis Allston, a “plain, honest, common-sense reading of
the Constitution” meant the
A) legitimacy of abolitionism.
B) constitutionality of slavery.
C) support of the United States Bank.
D) disapproval of nullification.
After Word War II, Winston Churchill
A) believed Britain and the United States could work out an alliance with the Soviet
Union.
B) believed that Europe had become divided into two camps.
C) saw a future of peace and harmony throughout the world.
D) feared the growing military might of the United States.
Even before the Second Continental Congress assembled in May 1775, most colonies
had created extralegal, revolutionary governments that
A) created and armed militia units.
B) operated the courts.
C) levied taxes.
D) All of the above.
During World War II, the ethnic group that faced the most difficult test of loyalty to the
United States were the
A) Germans.
B) Japanese.
C) English.
D) Swedes.
Which one of the following was LEAST likely to reinforce the traditional image of
women in the 1950s and 1960s?
A) Adlai Stevenson
B) Benjamin Spock
C) Betty Friedan
D) Doris Day
Which of the following presidents is responsible for initially escalating the Vietnam
War?
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Dwight D. Eisenhower
C) Harry Truman
D) Franklin D. Roosevelt
While the United States fought a colonial war in the Philippines, Great Britain fought a
colonial war in southern Africa.
Which of the following states had disputed election results in the 1876 presidential
election?
A) Louisiana
B) Florida
C) South Carolina
D) All of the above.
The outcome of the Sacco-Vanzetti case indicated
A) a commitment by the political leaders to pursue justice against public pressure for
conviction.
B) that they clearly were guilty of murder.
C) clearly that the two men were not radicals.
D) an unreasoned fear of foreigners and radicals.
The selective service system implemented by the Wilson administration
A) failed to provide sufficient recruits for the U.S. military effort in Europe.
B) led to massive riots against the draft.
C) was headed by Theodore Roosevelt.
D) allowed some young men to avoid military service.
As a result of the Nixon Doctrine, the United States’ policy concerning the Vietnam War
A) led to an immediate decrease in American air attacks on North Vietnam.
B) resulted in a refusal by the United States to negotiate an agreement with the North
Vietnamese.
C) brought increased involvement of American ground troops.
D) led to the replacement of American troops with South Vietnamese troops.
What is significant regarding the “Revolution of 1800”?
It is 1834 and, as a single woman of 18, you have decided to work for one year in the
textile mills at Lowell, Massachusetts. Write a letter home to your parents, explaining
your decision, your working and living conditions, and your plans for the future.
During the War of 1812, the British Navy ________American ports.
Discuss the policy of the Nixon administration toward the civil rights movement and
discuss the major developments in civil rights during his administration.
What was the American response to African struggles against apartheid in South Africa
during the Reagan and Bush years?
The first commander of the United Nations forces during the Korean War was General
________.
Discuss the roots of the reform era in antebellum America, the types of reform pursued,
and the motivations of the reformers.
Evaluate the successes and failures of the Republican administrations that controlled the
southern state governments during the period of Reconstruction.
In 1994, Republicans in Congress introduced the ________to scale back the role of the
federal government.
Suppose you were a nontypical American college student during the period form 1945
to 1960. Describe your probable interests and the culture figures that would most
probably appeal to you.
Suppose that you had been General Douglas MacArthur leading the United Nations’
forces in the Korean War. Explain your objectives in the war, as well as how you would
respond to President Truman’s approach to the war.
The ________, founded in 1834, was the first attempt at a national labor organization in
the United States.
Was the American war against Mexico from 1846-1848 justifiable?
Discuss the activities of the government in mobilizing the American economy after the
United States entered World War I.
Compare the roles and rights of women in seventeenth-century Europe with those of
their counterparts on the American colonial frontier. Explain how conditions improved
or worsened for American women during the eighteenth century.