What significance did the Freeport Doctrine have for the political career of Stephen
Douglas?
A) It made him unelectable in the South.
B) It forever ruined his chances to win the support of Northern Democrats.
C) It made him the hero of the western territories.
D) It closed the gap between him and his Republican rival Abraham Lincoln.
What did Nasser do in response to Eisenhower’s refusal to finance the Aswan Dam?
A) He invaded Israel.
B) He nationalized the Suez Canal.
C) He came to Washington and spoke before Congress.
D) He embraced communism.
Which of the following accurately describes Albert Gallatin?
A) A former general, he was the first cabinet member born west of the Appalachians.
B) Descendant of a renowned Boston family with deep roots in the American
Revolution, he had the solid support of New England.
C) He was a successful Pennsylvania grain merchant and the first Quaker in the cabinet.
D) Monroe’s secretary of the treasury, he urged the passage of Macon’s Bill No. 2.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall thought that manufacturing and business
should be __________.
A) sharply regulated by the government
B) free from the ancient doctrine of the ‘sanctity” of contracts
C) neither favored nor regulated by the government but simply left to the laws of the
marketplace
D) favored by the government since they promoted order and progress
What prompted workers to walk out in the Pullman strike?
A) George Pullman’s Palace Car Company had cut wages but did not reduce rents in its
company town.
B) The Pullman Palace Car Company was forcing workers to deliver the mail on the
rail lines in unpaid overtime.
C) President Grover Cleveland had come out in support of massive layoffs by the
Pullman Palace Car Company.
D) Workers at the Pullman Palace Car Company were striking in solidarity with the
brakeman of the American Railway Union.
In 1870, most American colleges were __________.
A) beginning to establish graduate programs based on the model of German universities
B) already well on their way to becoming major centers of research and innovation
C) just completing a decade of significant experiments in curriculum offerings and
teaching methods
D) small and intellectually stagnant with few professors of any intellectual repute
The major issue in the Spanish-American War was the independence of which country?
A) Venezuela
B) Cuba
C) Spain
D) Haiti
American land-grant railroads in the late nineteenth century __________.
A) seldom took advantage of their land rights
B) found frontier settlement too sparse to justify railroad construction
C) were often forced to return the land grants to state and federal governments
D) sent agents overseas to recruit likely settlers and purchasers of railroad land
What was the only transcontinental railroad built without land grants?
A) Southern Pacific
B) Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe
C) Union Pacific
D) Great Northern
Who challenged the broad political consensus led by Andrew Jackson that all lands east
of the Mississippi belonged to U.S. citizens?
A) John C. Calhoun
B) Martin Van Buren
C) James Polk
D) Davy Crockett
The modern method of organizing large enterprises, the corporation, was __________.
A) eagerly embraced by most American businesses
B) the basis of most manufacturing by 1830
C) an idea which had not yet occurred to investors in the 1820s
D) slow to develop before 1860
Who was the first widely popular professional boxer?
A) “Gentleman” Jim Corbett
B) Jack Johnson
C) Paddy Ryan
D) John L. Sullivan
Why did Spanish officials ask Franciscan missionaries to establish missions along the
California coastline in the 1760s?
A) They were concerned about the spiritual well-being of California Indians.
B) They wanted to create a network of support for the presidios in the region.
C) They wanted to cement Spanish claims on the region in light of Russian and British
colonization efforts.
D) They were eager to have the Franciscan order prove itself in its service to the king.
Early social workers who visited working-class homes in the late nineteenth century
discovered which of the following?
A) poverty and degradation primarily among the skilled workers in new industries
B) uniform prosperity among all working-class families and occupations
C) uniform poverty and degradation among all working-class families and occupations
D) considerable differences in the standard of living among families in the same
occupation
During the Great War, mere criticism of the government became cause for arrest and
imprisonment under the __________ Act.
A) Espionage
B) Sedition
C) Trading-with-the-Enemies
D) Homeland Security
A basic characteristic of the colonial family, especially in New England, was
_________.
A) large numbers of women never married because they worked full time
B) a family group that was both nuclear and patriarchal
C) the much lower status of women than in Europe
D) almost total equality between men and women
Urban-rural tensions of the twenties produced a resurgence of which of the following?
A) nostalgia for Old World values
B) religious fundamentalism
C) agrarian radicalism
D) urban progressivism
One of the few advocates of women’s rights who did not begin her career in the
abolitionist movement, and who made a frontal assault on all forms of sexual
discrimination in Women in the Nineteenth Century, was __________.
A) Lucretia Mott
B) Margaret Fuller
C) Sarah Grimk
D) Catherine Beecher
Why was the conduct of “Citizen” Gent unacceptable to the American government?
A) He was working to overthrow Washington’s administration.
B) He was licensing American vessels as privateers against British shipping.
C) He was involved in political intrigues with Governor Clinton of New York.
D) He was trying to enlist Americans to fight against Napoleon.
Which of the following was central to the success of the skyscraper?
A) dumbbell design
B) introduction of the streetcar
C) proliferation of suspension bridges
D) steel-frame construction
Which statement describes the House of Representatives during the late nineteenth
century?
A) It was controlled by a few long-term members.
B) It was disorderly and inefficient.
C) It was admired for its statesmanship.
D) It was more deliberative than the Senate.
Stating that nothing must interfere with the ability of Americans “to overspread the
continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying
millions,” New York journalist John L. O”Sullivan was describing which concept?
A) economic determinism
B) transcendentalism
C) manifest destiny
D) progressivism
Which of the following was a particularly ominous sign for organized labor at the end
of the century?
A) Industrial corporations refused to recognize unions.
B) Wages for unskilled labor were low.
C) Working conditions needed improvement.
D) The federal government based its injunctions against strikes on the Sherman
Antitrust Act.
Technological changes in the petroleum industry in the late nineteenth century
__________.
A) were retarded by the monopolistic control exerted by John D. Rockefeller
B) had little impact compared to those in iron and steel
C) occurred rapidly and put a premium on refining efficiency
D) were slow in coming because there was a limited consumer demand for petroleum
products
During the 1920s, how were immigrants from southern and eastern Europe affected by
the new quota system of immigration?
A) They continued to immigrate at the same rate as from 1900 to 1914.
B) They found it much more difficult to immigrate.
C) They found it much easier to immigrate.
D) There was a larger quota for them than they could use.
Generally speaking, the formation of monopolies during the 1870s caused which of the
following?
A) a rapid increase in chaos in those industries
B) a shortage of consumer goods
C) a drop in prices
D) a rapid increase in competition in those industries
Why were clipper ships popular?
A) They carried bulky loads, the mainstay of commerce.
B) They were superior to British steamships.
C) They carried cash crops from Southern ports.
D) They provided fast oceanic transportation.
In retrospect, the era of the 1920s seems to be clearly a period of which of the
following?
A) rapid transition during which the complex modern world was emerging
B) peace and tranquility during which Americans shared a fundamental agreement on
basic values and issues
C) foolish innocence during which the major issues confronting the country were
ignored
D) nostalgic retreat to the lost values of an earlier and simpler society
What ultimately happened to President Nixon?
A) He was impeached.
B) He resigned from office.
C) He was impeached by the House but found not guilty by the Senate.
D) He ended his full second term in office with the cloud of Watergate over his head.
The New York City draft riots in July 1863 were triggered by the Conscription Act of
1863 and __________.
A) racial backlash against the Emancipation Proclamation
B) anger over war profiteering by unscrupulous businesses
C) frustration with rampant inflation and stagnant wages
D) anger at New York Democrats who did not support Lincoln’s policies