In the 1880s and 1890s, the common-law doctrine of femme couverte ________.
A) was revised to adapt to the changes of the period
B) provided women with freedom in their marriages
C) brought women new political rights
D) was strongly supported by women
E) was central to the idea of the new woman
Why were New England colonists more likely to maintain English customs than those
who migrated to Virginia and Maryland?
A) The New England colonists came from higher social ranks than those in the other
colonies and were more familiar with traditional English customs.
B) The New England colonists brought more English goods with them to America,
which helped keep the traditions alive.
C) The New England colonists tended to migrate as families and thus were able to keep
family and other traditions in the New World.
D) The New England colonists generally came to America as single men and women
and found that preserving their English customs comforted them.
E) The New England colonists were proud to be English, while the other colonists
wanted to reject their English traditions.
For many Americans, George Washington was ________.
A) a symbol of the new government
B) a routine, typical political leader
C) not a popular leader
D) a threat to proclaim himself king
E) a good general, but not necessarily a good politician
Which of the following revolutionized early Native American cultures?
A) the discovery of hunting
B) the development of agriculture
C) tribal political alliances
D) the emergence of a written language
E) the domestication of the horse
How did the consumer-goods revolution contribute to the great crash of 1929?
A) The production of durable goods, which did not need to be replaced, outpaced
demand and led to wide-scale layoffs.
B) Mass-produced consumer goods were of such poor quality that people eventually
stopped purchasing them and the industry began to falter.
C) The consumer goods revolution had contributed to a lack of confidence in the
strength of the American economic system.
D) The consumer goods revolution led to an increase in home construction that
eventually crashed due to overproduction.
E) The beneficiaries of the consumer goods revolution did not invest their money in the
stock exchange.
The first movement west ________.
A) headed for the Middle Plains region
B) focused on the Southwest
C) rushed to Oregon and California
D) followed the traditional path of earlier settlers
E) steered toward the Great Lakes region
Why did militants seize the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979?
A) The Carter administration had threatened war if the oil embargo wasn”t lifted
immediately.
B) The Carter administration had seized insurgents the week before and refused to
release them.
C) The Carter administration refused to end American involvement in Nicaragua.
D) President Carter publicly denounced their Ayatollah’s revolution.
E) Carter had allowed the exiled shah to seek medical treatment in the United States.
What was the 1961 “freedom ride”?
A) a march on Washington in which participants rode bicycles
B) a sit-in during which thousands of college students experimented with drugs
C) a protest in which college students blocked the routes of segregated buses and trains
D) a protest in which thousands of people crossed the United States on motorcycles
E) a protest that tested the desegregation laws on interstate transportation
The international oil organization most responsible for raising petroleum prices in the
1970s was ________.
A) ACT UP
B) OPEC
C) SALT
D) SDI
E) ERA
United States troops first went into combat against German troops in _______.
A) Italy
B) France
C) Greece
D) Poland
E) Africa
As a result of the actions taken by President Adams in 1799, ________.
A) he was overwhelmingly reelected in 1800
B) the United States resolved its differences with France
C) the Federalist Party remained the major party
D) France compensated the United States for ships taken
E) the French added even more restrictions on U.S. commerce
What was the approximate population of the U.S. in 1810?
A) 1 million
B) 7 million
C) 23 million
D) 80 million
E) 110 million
The American contribution in World War I _____.
A) was minor when compared to that of the other Allies
B) although relatively small, was vital to Allied success
C) played a predominant role throughout the war
D) was much greater than that of the other Allies
E) came too late to be of any real assistance
Colonial involvement in imperial wars began with ________.
A) the French and Indian War
B) King William’s War
C) King Philip’s War
D) the Thirty Years’ War
E) Queen Anne’s War
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 first modern trust was ________.
A) United States Steel
B) the Northern Securities Company
C) Standard Oil
D) Carnegie Steel
E) the Pennsylvania Railroad
In the 1850s, government policy changed toward Native Americans in that now the
government ________.
A) exterminated them
B) defined boundaries for each tribe
C) gave each Native American “40 acres and a mule” for farming
D) provoked intertribal warfare
E) ignored them and hoped they would eventually die out
The president of the United States during the depression that began in 1893 was
________.
A) Herbert Hoover
B) Grover Cleveland
C) Rutherford B. Hayes
D) William McKinley
E) Theodore Roosevelt
Which of the following was not a decision of the Marshall Court?
A) Gibbons v. Ogden
B) Dartmouth College v. Woodward
C) Dred Scott v. Sandford
D) McCulloch v. Maryland
E) Marbury v. Madison
Which of the following was NOT an aspect of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
A) No more slave states could be created north of the southern boundary of the
Missouri Compromise line.
B) Missouri was admitted as a slave state on the condition that slavery be phased out
over a period of time.
C) Maine was split off from Massachusetts and admitted as a free state.
D) Northern and southern congressmen split along sectional lines on this issue.
E) Adroit political maneuvering by Henry Clay got the compromise through the House
of Representatives.
Which executive order did President Ford give to the CIA in 1975?
A) He ordered the CIA to focus on domestic rather than international intelligence
operations.
B) He ordered the CIA to limit their surveillance to hostile nations.
C) He ordered the CIA to do whatever was necessary to topple Castro.
D) He outlawed assassinations as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
E) He outlawed covert surveillance as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
The primary focus of George H. W. Bush’s presidency was ________.
A) healthcare reform
B) reducing taxes
C) gay rights
D) education
E) foreign affairs
The term ‘smoked Yankee” in the Spanish-American War referred to ________.
A) northern artillery units
B) African-American infantry regiments
C) guerrilla fighters in Cuba
D) Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders
E) members of integrated units
During the Spanish-American War, African Americans in the military ________.
A) found segregation and discrimination similar to civilian life
B) were treated as equals and given opportunities for advancement
C) had little opportunity to distinguish themselves in battle
D) were able to pressure the government for civil rights reforms
E) were never allowed to assume command positions
What was President Truman’s primary motive for using atomic weapons against Japan?
A) to impress the Soviet Union
B) to kill as many Japanese as possible
C) to justify a secret government project
D) to completely destroy Japan
E) to end the war as quickly as possible
What was true about most southern African Americans who held political power during
Reconstruction?
A) They alienated whites by pushing for massive land restriction.
B) They concentrated their efforts on educational and political reforms.
C) They used the Freedmen’s Bureau to oppress ex-Confederates.
D) They pushed for educational integration.
E) They were more corrupt than their white counterparts.
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.
What effect did the Vietnam War have on future U.S. foreign policy?
A) It caused America to pursue a more active containment policy.
B) It caused America to abandon its policy of containment.
C) It caused America to return to an isolationist policy abroad.
D) It caused America to refuse to cooperate with Asian nations for a decade.
E) It embarrassed America into abandoning international efforts for a decade.
Large numbers of the first English settlers in the Carolinas came from ________.
A) Ireland
B) Barbados
C) Rhode Island
D) Jamaica
E) the Virgin Islands
Who profited most from the union of slavery and cotton production?
A) inventors and entrepreneurs
B) small business owners
C) non-slaveholders
D) small slaveholders
E) large plantation owners
For which of the following was Bill Clinton impeached by the Senate?
A) perjury and obstruction of justice
B) making unwelcome sexual advances to Paula Jones
C) having an affair with Monica Lewinsky
D) selling missile technology to China for campaign contributions
E) being involved in a crooked real estate scheme in Arkansas