Which of the following statements about Christendom in the fourteenth century is
accurate?
A) It dominated Europe as well as Northern Africa.
B) It had established cities and institutions of learning far superior to those of Islam or
China.
C) It was the only monotheistic religion in Eurasia at the time.
D) It stimulated a civilization far less consequential than those of China or Islam at the
time.
What was the divisive issue that emerged after the Mexican War?
A) restriction of the domestic slave trade
B) peonage of Mexican mine workers in the New Mexico territory
C) the legal status of former Indian slaves in California
D) allowing slavery in the new territories
Which of the following describes most middle-class families of the late nineteenth
century?
A) Almost no middle-class families were able to afford servants.
B) They lost some of the reforming zeal and moral fervor they typically had before the
Civil War.
C) They continued the trend of an increasing birth rate.
D) Children were encouraged to be independent and were often unsupervised.
Expansionists who wished to annex the Philippines seemed most interested in which of
the following?
A) establishing the Philippines as the gateway to Asian markets
B) extending constitutional rights to the inhabitants
C) preserving the integrity of the Open Door policy
D) spreading democracy and Christianity to “uncivilized” peoples
Why was the final Oregon Treaty between the United States and England so popular
with Americans?
A) America got all it demanded.
B) The war with Mexico had begun.
C) The Democrats saw a chance to get even with the Whigs.
D) Slavery was forbidden in the area.
After the Compromise of 1877, black freedmen __________.
A) gained economic and political power in the South
B) were condemned to poverty and indignity in the interests of sectional harmony
C) made no more dramatic political or economic gains until after World War II, but also
suffered no economic or political losses
D) continued to share in America’s growing wealth and power
The system of Navigation Acts originated in the 1650s in response to the stiff
commercial competition offered by the __________.
A) Dutch
B) French
C) Spanish
D) Portuguese
What was David Wilmot’s original intention with his proviso?
A) to assure that his home state of Pennsylvania would get the lion’s share of military
spending
B) to enlarge the U.S. army with the inclusion of black soldiers
C) to prohibit slavery in any territories gained in the war
D) to make sure that government appropriations for the war were generous but not
irresponsible
What was President Obama’s biggest legislative victory during his first term?
A) immigration reform
B) health care reform
C) government oversight of the banking industry
D) the removal of all combat troops from Iraq
What made Nixon’s foreign policy toward the communist bloc so different from that of
his predecessors?
A) He did not treat China and the Soviet Union as one bloc but negotiated with them
separately.
B) Instead of working toward peaceful coexistence, he negotiated on the assumption
that a nuclear war was winnable.
C) He withdrew U.S. diplomats from most communist nations and negotiated only with
the intellectual center of communism ” Moscow.
D) He deliberately tried to play China and Soviet Union against each other, employing
double agents in both nations to spread provocative information about the Communist
rival power.
Initially, the Powhatan Native Americans reacted to the Virginia colonists by
__________.
A) helping them survive
B) worshipping them as gods
C) eagerly accepting their religion
D) rapidly adopting their technology
What was the law which divided the western territories into six-mile-square townships?
A) Northwest Ordinance of 1787
B) Homestead Law of 1793
C) Land Ordinance of 1785
D) Township Act of 1784
Most Americans reacted to the growth of huge industrial and financial organizations
and the increasing complexity of economic relations by __________.
A) turning to local producers
B) joining socialists in their demands for government ownership of basic industries
C) fearing monopoly and welcoming new consumer goods
D) doing nothing, since most Americans were unaware of the vast changes in the
economy
When America refused to withdraw its armed forces, the Filipinos __________.
A) demanded to be included in the treaty negotiations
B) appealed to the Spanish for military aid
C) sent a special delegation to tour America and appeal directly to the people
D) launched a guerilla war against the American forces
What occurred as a result of a wave of hostile takeovers in the 1980s?
A) Companies took on huge debts to make themselves less attractive for acquisition.
B) Companies began shedding overseas assets so as to remain liquid in the case of a
challenge.
C) American corporations drastically shed their debt, throwing the bond market into a
tailspin.
D) Businesses rushed to settle labor disputes so as to protect their workforce against
eventual layoffs.
President Johnson alienated moderate Republicans when he __________.
A) vetoed the Freedmen’s Bureau and Civil Rights bills
B) supported the Fourteenth Amendment
C) made a compromise with Charles Sumner
D) ordered a trial of Jefferson Davis for treason
What connected colonists in the Middle Colonies to the slave regimes of the Caribbean?
A) Pennsylvania farmers often bought their slaves in the Caribbean.
B) New Jersey Quakers frequently bought rum from Jamaica plantations.
C) New York Dutch settlers often originated from the Dutch West Indies.
D) Mid-Atlantic wheat farmers typically exported their crop to the Caribbean where it
fed the slave populations.
The most drastic departure from past experience under the new constitution was the
creation of a __________.
A) directly elected Senate
B) national legislature
C) powerful presidency
D) directly elected House of Representatives
The reason Americans preferred a gold currency over greenbacks indicated that they
__________.
A) did not understand how currency worked
B) wanted a currency they could use overseas as well
C) did not trust the federal government with governing the currency
D) were deeply opposed to the power of banks and financial institutions
The American colonists’ view of imperial concerns can best be described as
__________.
A) narrow
B) broad
C) conservative
D) liberal
Who controlled much of the South’s cotton trade by the middle of the nineteenth
century?
A) New York capitalists
B) English merchants
C) Charleston bankers
D) Richmond textile companies
According to your text, which of the following best describes the relative impact of
Native American and European cultures on each other?
A) Europeans profited extensively; Native Americans gained nothing.
B) The influence of European culture was limited to those tribes in immediate contact
with colonies.
C) The Europeans and the Indians became interdependent.
D) Native American culture had no impact on Europeans, whereas European culture
totally transformed Native American societies.
Which statement about the Income Tax Act of 1986 is true?
A) It raised tax rates significantly for corporations and for capital gains.
B) It lowered the lowest taxable income rate from 30 to 10 percent.
C) It attempted to remedy the federal deficit with a tax increase.
D) It lowered tax rates significantly for corporations and the wealthy.
Reagan actively sought to overthrow the left-wing governments in which countries?
A) Nicaragua and Grenada
B) Indonesia and Thailand
C) Iraq and Iran
D) Venezuela and El Salvador
Formal education for average children in the southern colonies was __________.
A) almost nonexistent in their rural society
B) highly developed, with public funding of primary, secondary, and college levels
C) patterned after the village system used in New England
D) not valued, even by the wealthy planter elite
The episode involving Peace Democrat Clement L. Vallandigham from Ohio suggests
that __________.
A) wartime conditions had turned Lincoln into a dictator
B) the Union was unable to control public dissent
C) public consensus was a sufficient disciplinary tool against dissenters
D) President Abraham Lincoln was not a dictator
Along with the domestication of cows, pigs, goats, and sheep in Eurasia came
__________.
A) increased cases of heart disease
B) a prosperous leather industry in European cities
C) new strains of viruses and bacteria
D) early trends of obesity in the Eurasian population
For Thomas Jefferson, the ideal citizen was a(n) __________.
A) small independent farmer
B) prosperous planter
C) urban artisan
D) well-connected merchant
What did the Open Door policy ask?
A) It requested China to grant the United States exclusive and unrestricted access to its
markets.
B) It demanded China open negotiations over which the European empire would obtain
exclusive trading rights.
C) It asked European empires to respect all nation’s trading rights in China.
D) It asked European empires to abandon their trade relations in China by the end of the
century.
Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle exposed __________.
A) filthy conditions in Chicago slaughterhouses
B) corruption in Philadelphia’s police department
C) insider manipulations in the stock market
D) bribery and fraud in Boston elections
Which of the following assessments of the ratification debate is accurate?
A) Federalists generally favored free choice over power and tended to resent those who
sought and held power.
B) Antifederalists opposed the Constitution for primarily economic reasons.
C) Federalists used their superior political organization and persuasive abilities to great
advantage.
D) Antifederalists generally agreed on the need for a more energetic national
government.
Jefferson’s enthusiasm for the Louisiana Purchase revealed which of the following?
A) his imperialistic visions were much like those of Hamilton
B) his bellicose attitude toward Native Americans
C) his true desire for an expansion of the slavery
D) his disregard for the Constitution of the United States