Why were slave families in the upper South so often headed by women?
A) They were following African traditions.
B) Husbands often worked elsewhere.
C) Mortality rates were unusually high there.
D) Women tended to work inside the house.
E) Industry was more common in that region.
The founding of the NAACP grew out of ________.
A) race riots and lynchings
B) strikes at major industrial plants
C) differences between white and black reformers
D) political fighting over a civil rights amendment
E) northern reaction to southern politics
Which American president had little formal education as a child, but sharpened his
intellect through participation in debating societies and lyceums?
A) James K. Polk
B) John Quincy Adams
C) Abraham Lincoln
D) James Garfield
E) Franklin Pierce
Compared to Roosevelt, William Howard Taft _____.
A) was a reformer
B) was pro-business
C) was pro-union
D) was a hard worker
E) was a dynamic politician
Which federal law in 1902 used the proceeds from land sales to finance irrigation
projects in the West?
A) the National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act)
B) the Timber Culture Act
C) the Timber and Stone Act
D) the Homestead Act
E) the Western Watering Act
What effect did the American government have on industrial growth?
A) It followed a policy of laissez-faire.
B) It closely regulated the pace of growth.
C) It provided incentives for growth.
D) It balanced agrarian and industrial demands.
E) It increased taxes on industry.
Which of the following was advocated by Father Charles Coughlin?
A) the Social Security Act
B) the National Union for Social Justice
C) the Civilian Conservation Corps
D) the Federal Theatre Project
E) the “Share the Wealth” movement
The large increase in the national population reflected in the 1810 census resulted
mainly from ________.
A) the assimilation of whole tribes of Native Americans into the general population
B) natural biological increase
C) a huge increase in the importation of slaves from Africa
D) the immigration of many thousands of Europeans fleeing the Napoleonic wars
E) fabrication of census records by corrupt state officials who hoped to increase their
congressional representation
The Judiciary Act of 1789 ________.
A) was primarily the work of Oliver Ellsworth
B) set up a Supreme Court with one chief justice and five associate justices
C) defined the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
D) provided that the chief justice would be chosen by the Senate
E) established the power of judicial review
How did President Clinton change the experience of gays and lesbians in the military?
A) He launched an investigation to root out and prosecute homosexuals in the military.
B) He instigated a ban on homosexuals in the military.
C) He established the “Don”t ask, don”t tell” military policy.
D) He pressured the military to accept a small number of openly gay recruits.
E) He forced the military to accept homosexuals in every branch of the service.
What did the Female Labor Reform Association campaign for?
A) more jobs for women and children
B) more managerial positions for women
C) higher pay
D) shorter working hours
E) an end to all forms of sexual harassment
How did Great Britain and France respond to initial German aggression in 1938?
A) by immediately threatening war
B) by allying with the Soviet Union
C) by seizing German territory
D) by attempting to appease Hitler
E) by blockading German ports
What issue brought the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford to the Supreme Court?
A) A slave owner sued for damages because he was beaten severely by an abolitionist.
B) A slave owner sued for damages because abolitionists helped his slaves.
C) A slave sued for damages because he was beaten severely by a white owner.
D) An escaped slave sued for his freedom because he was caught in a free territory.
E) A slave sued on the grounds that he had lived in a free state and so he should be a
free man.
Initially, Lord Baltimore intended that Maryland be a haven for ________.
A) Quakers
B) Puritans
C) Catholics
D) Baptists
E) Separatists
The single greatest factor that caused the destruction of Native Americans after contact
with Europeans was ________.
A) warfare
B) planned genocide
C) disease
D) loss of farmland
E) enslavement
Which statement best describes Lincoln’s early military policy toward the Confederacy?
A) He wanted to take the South back by force as soon as possible.
B) He wanted the South to be responsible for starting the war.
C) He wanted the North to take the first military action.
D) He wanted the North to refrain from military action regardless of southern actions.
E) He wanted to start the war with a decisive Union victory in a key southern city.
Under whose intellectual guidance did the Constitutional Convention form a new
government?
A) Robert Morris
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) James Madison
D) Benjamin Franklin
E) Thomas Jefferson
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
In response to the successful American revolt in Hawaii in 1893, Grover Cleveland
________.
A) immediately annexed the islands
B) restored the queen to power
C) apologized to the Hawaiian people
D) refused to recognize the new government
E) tried, but failed, to restore the queen to power
Which of these did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s?
A) agriculture
B) department stores
C) the automotive industry
D) the chemical industry
E) the entertainment industry
The organization that symbolized most vividly the “white backlash” of the
Reconstruction era was _______.
A) the Union League
B) the Freedmen’s Bureau
C) the Redeemers
D) the White Citizens Council
E) the Ku Klux Klan
In which colony was the death rate for the early colonists most severe?
A) Massachusetts
B) New York
C) Rhode Island
D) Virginia
E) Pennsylvania
Which statement best describes a major disadvantage of the southern economy?
A) The South lacked the infrastructure to transport all the cotton it produced, so planters
were frequently forced to burn their crops.
B) Such a large percentage of arable land was devoted to cotton that there were frequent
food shortages in the South.
C) The focus on a single industry that was profitable only to a small minority prevented
industrial and commercial growth.
D) The excessive profits of the industry led to unchecked price inflation in southern
urban centers.
E) The profits of the industry were available to everyone, so the South underwent social
upheaval and class conflict.
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
The “new woman” of the 1880s and 1890s________.
A) won respect from the American society
B) developed from the economic changes of the times
C) quickly won political and civil rights
D) was usually married, working out of choice
E) still could not get a divorce
How did someone become a member of a church in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A) They became part of whatever church was in their community.
B) A person who already belonged to the church had to provide testimony for anyone
new who wanted to join.
C) A new member needed the testimony of neighbors before acceptance in a church.
D) A person had to perform community service before being allowed to join a
community church.
E) The church community would vote in order to decide whether to let a new member
in.
The Treaty of Tordesillas of 1494 resulted in ________.
A) war between Spain and Portugal
B) Portuguese control of what would become Brazil
C) English control of what is now Canada
D) French control of Martinique
E) the withdrawal of the Spanish from the New World
The founding of Georgia can be described as _______.
A) religiously-motivated
B) political
C) economically-motivated
D) idealistic
E) strategic
Who backed the first colonization efforts undertaken by the English in the New World?
A) Henry VII
B) Italians acting for the English monarch
C) Parliament
D) Catholic merchants
E) Elizabeth I
What was the significance of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
A) It established the American borders at the Appalachian Mountains.
B) It ensured Loyalists would not be compensated for their lands.
C) It did not provide a favorable conclusion to the war.
D) It allowed Americans the opportunity to form an independent nation.
E) It did not include compensation for Loyalists.
Which of the following was NOT a factor in the U.S. government’s abandonment of the
policy of one large reservation for Native Americans after 1851?
A) Wagon trains hoped to cross the Great Plains without hindrances.
B) Prospectors kept finding more gold and silver all over the West.
C) Indians had traditional rivalries and needed to be kept apart.
D) A transcontinental railroad was being planned across the land.
E) The government wanted to clear the way for settlement.