Julius and Ethel Rosenberg _______.
A) helped the CIA break a Soviet spy ring in the United States
B) were executed for passing American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union
C) were responsible for exposing Alger Hiss as a communist
D) admitted to being responsible for heinous war crimes during the Korean War
E) were American spies who shared valuable information about the Soviet Union
Why were some American women angered by the Fifteenth Amendment?
A) It gave voting rights to white women, but not to African-American women.
B) White women did not want African Americans to have the right to vote.
C) It gave voting rights to African-American men, but not to any women.
D) It did not make the imposition of poll taxes, property qualifications, or literacy tests
illegal.
E) It allowed African Americans to vote in the North, but not in the South.
Why did the United States become involved in the conflict between North and South
Vietnam in 1961?
A) to stop the spread of communism from North Vietnam to South Vietnam
B) to gain control of valuable natural resources in South Vietnam
C) to honor obligations to Russia from the treaty ending World War II
D) to retaliate for North Vietnam’s involvement in the Bay of Pigs operation
E) to stop South Vietnam’s bloody takeover of North Vietnam
Which of the following statements describes a social problem during World War II?
A) Couples had fewer children, which meant a surplus of teachers and daycare centers.
B) There was insufficient housing for workers in cities with wartime industries.
C) Fewer couples were getting married due to the uncertainties of wartime.
D) Middle-aged, married women were edged out of the workforce by single women.
E) California’s economy almost collapsed because it lacked wartime industries.
In what way did the Sugar Act differ from earlier regulations, such as the Navigation
Acts?
A) Its purpose was to show the colonists that they were not in control.
B) Its purpose was to show the colonists that they were autonomous.
C) It taxed sugar for the specific benefit of the East India Company.
D) Its purpose was to collect revenue from the Americans.
E) It had nothing to do with trade.
In 1624, Virginia became ________.
A) an independent commonwealth
B) a proprietary colony
C) a royal colony
D) part of Maryland
E) the primary destination for female settlers
In the Chinese Civil War, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists _______.
A) lost support due to runaway inflation and corruption among Nationalist leaders
B) lost support due to the violence of the Nationalists’ repression of the Chinese
C) gained support because the Chinese middle class was finally flourishing
D) gained support because of Chiang’s pledge to end government corruption
E) faded as a factor in the Chinese political world
The invention that permitted the great expansion of cotton cultivation was the
________.
A) railroad
B) cotton gin
C) cotton reaper
D) steel plow
E) mechanical seed planter
Which is the best description of the most important message Richard Hakluyt’s stories
communicated to European readers?
A) Readers were convinced that the New World was a paradise that was theirs for the
taking, disregarding the native people already living there.
B) Readers were cautioned not to settle in the New World without first being aware of
the potential dangers that they could face.
C) Readers were convinced that the Native Americans were agreeable and eager to help
them get settled in exchange for trading new ideas and goods.
D) Readers were warned to be sensitive to the concerns of Native Americans and not to
treat the New World as a place that was simply theirs for the taking.
E) Readers were convinced that they would find precious metals in North America, and
Hakluyt’s stories told them where to find those precious metals.
The first person to become president without being elected president or vice president
was ________.
A) Gerald R. Ford
B) Richard Nixon
C) Jimmy Carter
D) George H. W. Bush
E) Lyndon Johnson
After the Mexican-American War, the Young America movement shifted its focus to
which of the following?
A) economic growth and industrialization
B) adding Canada and Alaska to the United States
C) the abolition of slavery
D) making the United States a world power
E) spreading the gospel to foreign lands
When did the “irrepressible conflict” over slavery in the territories begin?
A) the late 1840s
B) the mid”1860s
C) the early 1830s
D) the late 1700s
E) the late 1850s
A small-scale civil war over slavery broke out in the late 1850s between rival regimes
of which state?
A) Missouri
B) Kansas
C) South Carolina
D) Tennessee
E) Texas
All of these were essential features of the factory system beginning in the 1840s,
EXCEPT ________.
A) a supervised workforce
B) the workforce being located in one place
C) payment of cash wages
D) each product being produced by one worker
E) mechanization
The Ku Klux Klan went into decline soon after _____.
A) Klan leaders were found to be involved in sexual and financial scandals
B) the organization was unmasked as a secret communist conspiracy
C) new federal laws made membership a crime in 1927
D) evangelist Billy Sunday denounced it in a widely-reprinted sermon
E) it blocked a resolution of censure at the Democratic national convention
What were some of the challenges of settling the land west of the Mississippi River in
the late 1800s?
A) The region got little rainfall, and there was little lumber available for housing.
B) The region was frequently flooded by its rivers, which made farming difficult.
C) The Great Plains had many deserts and this made travel and farming difficult.
D) The region had various Native American groups who would not leave their land.
E) The Great Plains were known for their severe and unpredictable weather patterns.
The first goal of expansionists in the United States after 1815 was to ________.
A) obtain the Pacific Northwest from Great Britain
B) obtain Florida from Spain
C) acquire the former French colony of Louisiana
D) develop the trans-Appalachian West
E) eradicate the Native Americans
How did U.S. intervention in China differ from its intervention in Korea?
A) The United States could only respond with diplomacy in the Chinese conflict, but
gave supplies and funds to North Korea.
B) The United States responded with all-out war in China, but refused to get involved in
the Korean conflict.
C) The United States extracted itself from the conflict when civil war broke out in
China but sent troops to aid South Korea.
D) The United States sent troops to China when civil war broke out, but only sent
money to South Korea when the violence began.
E) The United States intervened with diplomatic efforts and supplies in North Korea,
but did not intervene in any way in China’s civil war.
The economic revolution in the United States between 1810 and 1840 was one of
________.
A) design
B) technology
C) handwork
D) production
E) distribution
Who was Robert Smalls?
A) He was an African-American Congressman during Reconstruction.
B) He was a former general from the Union Army.
C) He was an official in the Confederate government.
D) He was a crucial advisor to President Lincoln.
E) He was a southern planter who refused to free his slaves.
Which of the following resulted from the growth of the working class in the 1830s and
1840s?
A) greater cooperation between employer and employee
B) improvement in working conditions and wages
C) the paternalistic employer-employee relationship
D) more emphasis on skilled labor
E) an upsurge of labor militancy
What was considered to be the most important function of the school in the
mid-nineteenth century?
A) intellectual training
B) vocational training
C) moral indoctrination
D) child care
E) physical conditioning
What does it mean that some Americans believed the U.S. had “continental destiny”?
A) It meant that some Americans believed that the U.S. should control all of the North
American continent.
B) It meant that some Americans believed that the U.S. should expand from the East
coast to the West coast, controlling all the lands in between.
C) It meant that some Americans believed that the U.S. should support Latin American
countries fighting for their independence.
D) It meant that some Americans believed that the U.S. should join with continental
Europe to fight the British Empire.
E) It meant that some Americans believed that the U.S. should join with the continental
European countries that opposed Latin American independence.
Why would most slaves typically prefer living and working on a plantation rather than a
small farm?
A) Plantation owners often worked alongside their slaves.
B) There were often better living conditions on plantations, and more possibilities for
social interaction.
C) Slaves often enjoyed a sense of camaraderie with plantation owners.
D) Rich planters usually avoided breaking up families on their plantations.
E) Working hours were always shorter on plantations than on small farms.
In the period of the rise of the colonial assembly, which of these changes took place in
colonial law?
A) A unique colonial legal system emerged.
B) Colonial courts disappeared.
C) Colonial law increasingly reflected German law.
D) Legal practices increasingly resembled those of England.
E) Legal issues were increasingly decided in England.
What was a result of the Supreme Court’s Plessy v. Ferguson decision?
A) Segregation of schools and public transportation was deemed legal.
B) Integration of schools was to occur with deliberate speed.
C) Illiteracy among school-aged children would be eradicated.
D) De facto segregation could no longer occur.
E) Teachers at black schools were paid the same as their white counterparts.
The leader of the 1831 slave uprising in Southampton County, Virginia, was ________.
A) Denmark Vesey
B) Hinton R. Helper
C) George Fitzhugh
D) Daniel Webster
E) Nat Turner
The Treaty of Ghent ________.
A) awarded part of Canada to the United States
B) did little more than end hostilities and postpone issues for future negotiations
C) gave the British navigation rights on the Mississippi River
D) restored Quebec to France
E) was negotiated quickly and quietly, since there were no real debates
Which statement about Bacon’s Rebellion is FALSE?
A) Bacon would probably have been accepted into the ruling clique had he only waited.
B) Bacon led a rebellion to prevent Governor Berkeley from waging a war against the
Susquehannock Indians.
C) Bacon was perceived as a hero by the common people of Virginia.
D) Bacon and his men burned Jamestown to the ground.
E) Bacon, a member of a respectable English family, had only recently arrived in
Virginia.
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.
President Gerald Ford’s brief “honeymoon” with the American public ended when he
________.
A) confessed to taking steroids during his college football days at Michigan
B) suppressed declassified files pertaining to the Kennedy assassination
C) proposed normalizing relations with Castro’s Cuba
D) granted disgraced President Richard Nixon a full pardon
E) appointed liberal Republican Nelson Rockefeller as his vice president
Why was the 1807 federal slavery law unsatisfying for everyone?
A) On the one hand, slave owners felt it threatened their livelihood, but on the other
hand, abolitionists felt it did little to end slavery.
B) It did nothing to affect slavery or the slave trade in the U.S. and only frustrated
relations with European allies.
C) On the one hand it appeased anti-slavery European allies, but on the other hand it
frustrated U.S. slave owners.
D) It only granted African Americans freedom, not any voting or civil rights, yet it
infuriated their slave owners.
E) It appeased southern slave owners, but infuriated northern abolitionists.
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation that came very close to being a nuclear
conflict between which two nations?
A) Cuba and China
B) Cuba and the Dominican Republic
C) the United States and China
D) the United States and Russia
E) Russia and Cuba
Concerning women workers, the American Federation of Labor ________.
A) enthusiastically supported their needs
B) either ignored or opposed them as members
C) brought important changes in the work place
D) allowed them into leadership positions
E) encouraged all producing women to join