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
Why did the Populists nominate Tom Watson for vice president in the 1896 election?
A) because they felt him to be a stronger candidate than William Jennings Bryan
B) because they wanted a Republican vice president to balance the Democratic ticket
C) because Watson, unlike William Jennings Bryan, supported free coinage of silver
D) because they felt that choosing Watson would ensure the survival of the Populist
party
E) because they endorsed a Democrat for president and wanted a Populist for vice
president
Which statement best describes the Confederate constitution?
A) It was a loose collection of ideas rather than a formally drafted document.
B) It was very similar to the U.S. Constitution.
C) It was based on the British Constitution.
D) It was a subject of ongoing debate throughout the war.
E) It represented the desires of reactionary extremists in the South.
John Scopes was put on trial for _____.
A) sending package bombs during the Red Scare
B) evading the draft during World War I
C) shouting “fire” in a crowded theater
D) teaching the theory of evolution in a Tennessee high school
E) committing murder and a payroll robbery
Which of the following lists events in the correct chronological order?
A) Republican policy to regulate industry; the Panic of 1893; Republican policy to
promote industry
B) Republican policy to promote industry; Republican policy to regulate industry; the
Panic of 1893
C) Republican policy to promote industry; the Panic of 1893; Republican policy to
regulate industry
D) the Panic of 1893; Republican policy to promote industry; Republican policy to
regulate industry
E) Republican policy to regulate industry; Republican policy to promote industry; the
Panic of 1893
The George W. Bush administration initiated a new global strategy after the terrorist
attacks on the United States, and its critics called this policy ________.
A) unilateralism
B) bipolarism
C) containment
D) dtente
E) isolationism
What kind of programming became popular after television advertisers abandoned
dramas?
A) documentaries
B) cooking shows
C) quiz shows
D) talk shows
E) reality television
To its founding leaders, ____________ would be a “City on a Hill.”
A) Rhode Island
B) Connecticut
C) Maryland
D) Pennsylvania
E) Massachusetts
In what area did the Wilmot Proviso propose to ban slavery?
A) in the northern states
B) in the southern states
C) in territory acquired from Mexico
D) in any future U.S. territories
E) from all U.S. lands
What did the League of Nations do after the Italian invasion of Ethiopia?
A) It protected the southern half of the country from Mussolini’s army.
B) It halted Mussolini’s forces just before they crossed the Ethiopian border.
C) It authorized billions of dollars in aid for the Ethiopians.
D) It made halfhearted and unsuccessful efforts to stop Mussolini.
E) It recognized Italy’s authority and new government in Ethiopia.
In 1954, Indochina was divided at the 17th parallel, creating _______.
A) North and South Korea
B) Cambodia
C) North and South Vietnam
D) Indonesia
E) Cambodia and Vietnam
Which of these tainted President Grant’s first term in office?
A) the Teapot Dome scandal
B) congressional override of his veto
C) failure of the Wade-Davis Bill
D) the Crdit Mobilier scandal
E) kickbacks given to Grant for lands taken from former members of the Confederacy
Public schools in the 1870s and the 1880s ________.
A) placed greater value on educating females
B) vigorously stressed discipline and routine
C) ignored moral, religious education
D) emphasized egalitarianism between students and teachers
E) were considered better than factories by most students
Why did Kennedy authorize a covert mission in which more than a thousand Cuban
exiles invaded Cuba?
A) to check the island for nuclear weapons
B) to topple the regime of Fidel Castro
C) to gather information about Castro’s relationship with Khrushchev
D) to steal classified documents related to the conflict in Vietnam
E) to spark an anticommunist movement among the Cuban people
How did FDR help Great Britain after France fell to the Nazis?
A) He placed a total embargo on all trade to Nazi Germany and any countries allied
with Hitler.
B) He traded destroyers in exchange for the rights to build bases on British possessions
in the Western Hemisphere.
C) He negotiated an agreement with Hitler in exchange for American neutrality in the
war.
D) He supplied Great Britain with two hundred fighter planes and fifty military
advisors.
E) He brought the United States into World War II on the side of the Allied nations.
How did campaigning methods change in the election campaign of 1828?
A) Politicians campaigned at state and local levels, using parades, barbeques, and
eventually rumors and mudslinging.
B) Politicians did most of the campaigning themselves, going door-to-door in their
cities and soliciting support.
C) Politicians hired people called ‘supporters”; the name is ironic because they didn’t
necessarily believe in the candidate but were financially supported by him.
D) Politicians debated with opposing candidates in town squares, halls, and newspaper
forums.
E) Politicians relied predominantly on newspapers, writing essays and letters to editors
that were read nationwide.
How did the economic status of the United States change in the wake of World War I?
A) When the war began, the United States was a creditor nation. When the war ended,
the United States was a debtor nation.
B) When the war began, the United States was a debtor nation. When the war ended, the
United States was a creditor nation.
C) When the war began, the United States was an investor nation. When the war ended,
the United States was a lender nation.
D) When the war began, the United States was a lender nation. When the war ended, the
United States was an investor nation.
E) The economic status of the United States changed only minimally in the wake of
World War I and was nearly the same at the beginning and end of the war.
Andrew Johnson was impeached by the House for his violation of the _______.
A) Civil Rights Act of 1866
B) Tenure of Office Act
C) Wade-Davis Bill
D) Fourteenth Amendment
E) Loyalty Act
The Trail of Tears refers to ________.
A) the destruction of the national bank
B) passage of the “tariff of abominations”
C) the forced relocation of the Cherokees to Oklahoma
D) the nullification controversy
E) the Oregon Trail and westward expansion
Why didn’t Great Britain support the rest of the European continent in their Latin
American policies?
A) Independent Latin American countries offered better economic opportunities for
British products.
B) Great Britain didn’t want to lose its colonies in Africa, so it opposed any independent
colonies in Latin America.
C) Great Britain hoped to re-colonize most of the Latin American nations once the
Spanish and Portuguese were kicked out.
D) Great Britain had learned that colonial wars were expensive and impossible to win.
E) Great Britain respected Latin American nations’ rights.
Unlike the Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor ________.
A) believed workers would rise in stature
B) organized skilled and unskilled workers
C) emphasized economic goals for workers
D) organized a majority of the workers
E) hoped all workers could eventually become self-employed
Why did more black women work than white women in the early 1900s?
A) Black women had traditionally worked for white women.
B) Many companies hired black women over white women.
C) Black families often needed two incomes to survive.
D) Reformers hired black workers when they were available.
E) Black women had more education than white women.
Which of the following Native American groups were peaceful farmers and herdsmen?
A) the Sioux
B) the Kiowa
C) the Seminole
D) the Pueblo peoples
E) the Comanche
The cotton economy of the lower South ________.
A) benefited the lower classes and the upper classes equally
B) did not create uniform prosperity throughout the region
C) was free from general market fluctuations
D) led to greater southern self-sufficiency
E) encouraged industry and innovation
Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa ________.
A) worked to persuade the Indians of the Indiana Territory to hold onto their tribal
cultures and their land
B) represented themselves as tribal leaders and sold off huge tracts of land for whiskey
and trinkets
C) led an Indian rebellion which was crushed by Andrew Jackson at the Battle of
Horseshoe Bend
D) accepted President Jefferson’s promise of a vast Indian reservation west of the
Mississippi River
E) developed a written language for the Shawnees and worked for gradual assimilation
into white culture
How are expansion and migration after 1812 in the U.S. related?
A. As the U.S. expanded, people immigrated to these areas.
B. Expansion was caused primarily by the pressure of migration.
C. As the U.S. expanded its borders, people migrated to these new areas.
D. Expansion and migration are both direct results of improved water transportation
after 1812.
E. Expansion and migration are both direct results of improved land transportation after
1812.
England passed the Coercive Acts in response to the ________.
A) colonial boycott of the Stamp Act
B) Boston Tea Party
C) American victory at Saratoga
D) Declaratory Act
E) Tea Act
________ wrote the book Looking Backward, which described a future of socialism in
America.
A) Walter Rauschenbusch
B) Edward Bellamy
C) Richard Frick
D) Jane Addams
E) Henry George
How did working-class urban whites generally feel about the abolitionist movement?
A) They supported abolitionism because they thought the institution of slavery was
morally wrong.
B) They supported abolitionism because they thought it would lead to more economic
opportunities.
C) They resisted abolitionism because they sincerely believed that AfricanAmericans
were happier in slavery than they would be as free people.
D) They resisted abolitionism because they worried about the collapse of the cotton
industry.
E) They resisted abolitionism because they did not want to compete socially and
economically with African Americans.
At the time of Columbus’s first voyage in 1492, ________.
A) most educated Europeans believed the earth was flat
B) no European nation had any interest in exploration
C) most educated Europeans knew the world was round
D) no one thought he would find anything
E) the Catholic Church condemned this kind of exploration