What was a main Republican criticism of Obama’s immigration reform plan?
A) It did not include a “pathway to citizenship.”
B) It was too detailed and specific.
C) It ignored the desires of the Hispanic electorate.
D) It did not provide for adequate border policing and would encourage illegal
immigration.
Which Native American nation was forced to leave Georgia as a result of Jackson’s
policies?
A) the Seminole
B) the Cherokee
C) the Iroquois
D) the Choctaw
What did FDR propose to make the Supreme Court more “pro-New Deal” in 1937?
A) The number of justices should be increased.
B) Congress should be able to recall judges.
C) The four conservative justices should be forced to retire.
D) The justices should be reconfirmed by the Senate every four years.
In his autobiography and speeches, Frederick Douglass insisted that __________.
A) emancipation should be gradual
B) returning to Africa was the only hope for black Americans
C) blacks needed full social, political, and economic equality
D) violent revolts were necessary for slaves to obtain their freedom
Which of the following is true of the frontier farmers of the 1870s and 1880s?
A) Only the “bonanza” farmers survived the drought of the late eighties.
B) They farmed the land with little knowledge or concern for preventing erosion or
preserving fertility.
C) Cultivating the prairie grasslands was quite similar to their experience in Ohio and
Illinois.
D) Farmers who diversified their crops were most likely to fail.
How is Franklin Roosevelt best described?
A) far too inflexible to be an effective leader
B) cold and awkward in his relations with the public
C) one of the most effective chief executives in the nation’s history
D) an excellent administrator who created clear lines of authority and responsibility
In the late 1880s the Farmers’ Alliance established cooperatives in order to
__________.
A) buy fertilizer and other supplies at lower prices
B) get loans from banks
C) market their crops abroad
D) overcome the red tape that plagued agriculture
The Mississippi River was controlled by the Union after the fall of __________.
A) New Orleans
B) Mobile
C) Vicksburg
D) Louisville
During 1894 and 1895, at the beginning of Grover Cleveland’s presidency, the economy
__________.
A) floundered in one of the worst depressions in American history
B) was devastated by double-digit inflation
C) surged forward, bringing unrivaled prosperity to all sectors of the economy
D) finally stabilized after a decade of turbulence
Which Union general was noted for believing in and carrying out the doctrine of total
war?
A) Robert E. Lee
B) George B. McClellan
C) Lew Wallace
D) William T. Sherman
President Hoover’s assurance that “the business of the country is on a sound and
prosperous basis” preceded which of the following events?
A) U.S. signing of the Dawes Plan
B) stock market crash of October 1929
C) election of 1928
D) Ohio Gang scandals
How did unions first become legal in the United States?
A) They were found to be legal forms of organization in a state court.
B) Congress passed a law that legalized unions.
C) The president urged American workers to join unions.
D) States ratified a constitutional amendment that affirmed the right to organize.
In Marbury v. Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall cleverly established the power of
the Supreme Court to __________.
A) issue writs ordering governmental officials to perform certain duties
B) invalidate federal laws held to be in conflict with the Constitution
C) remove governmental officials who refused to perform their duties
D) award damages to governmental officials deprived of their jobs
Which factor tended to limit the modernization of American industry in the early
nineteenth century?
A) a lack of raw materials
B) a lack of markets
C) a lack of capital
D) political uncertainty
Why did the United States Supreme Court, in 1938, order the University of Missouri
law school to admit an African American student?
A) because segregation had no place in higher education
B) because Missouri could not afford to reject legal talent, whatever its color
C) because the principle of separate but equal was unconstitutional
D) because the state did not have a black law school and was violating the ‘separate but
equal” doctrine
The most notorious Peace Democrat was Ohio Congressman __________.
A) Benjamin Wade
B) Lambdin Milligan
C) John Slidell
D) Clement L. Vallandigham
What was the major purpose of the Proclamation of 1763?
A) to restrict colonial trade with England to British ships
B) to force the Native Americans of the Ohio Valley to submit to British authority
C) to check colonial expansion across the Appalachians
D) to promote colonial land development projects in the Ohio Valley
During the Cuban missile crisis, President Kennedy ordered which of the following?
A) a walkout at the United Nations
B) a naval blockade of Cuba
C) a plot to assassinate Castro
D) a secret invasion of Cuba
Social Gospelers held which of the following beliefs?
A) The church should focus on improving the spiritual lives of the poor by conducting
massive religious revivals.
B) God would provide for the faithful.
C) The church should focus on improving the lives of the poor, ending child labor, and
regulating the power of big corporations.
D) Poverty grew out of sin and therefore the poor were being punished for their evil
ways.
Why had President William McKinley sent the U.S.S. Maine to the port of Havana?
A) The crew was supposed to investigate a suspicion explosion in the port.
B) The United States had declared war against Spain, and the Maine was delivering the
first troops to the battlefield.
C) The Maine was on a humanitarian mission to evacuate Cuban revolutionaries.
D) McKinley sent the battleship to Havana to provide protection for American citizens
there.
In the mid-eighteenth century, German immigrants dominated which of the following
regions?
A) the modern-day Midwest
B) southeastern Pennsylvania
C) the Hudson River Valley
D) the Carolinas
The purpose of the __________ was to maintain Federalist control of the judicial
branch against Jeffersonianism.
A) Governmental Reorganization Act of 1799
B) Judiciary Act of 1801
C) Judicial Review Act of 1805
D) Federal Judiciary Act of 1789
What prompted President Lincoln to give General Ulysses S. Grant command of all
troops west of the Appalachians?
A) Lee’s victory at Gettysburg
B) Sherman’s defeat at Atlanta
C) Grant’s capture of Vicksburg
D) The Union’s capture of New Orleans
The most important American objection to the Tea Act of 1773 was that it __________.
A) made tea prohibitively expensive for American consumers
B) was coupled with the arrival of British regiments in Boston to enforce the trade laws
C) seemed to be a trick to trap Americans into paying the Townshend duty on tea
D) closed colonial ports which refused to import English tea
By the 1830s, non-agricultural work increasingly took place __________.
A) outside the home
B) on the farm
C) in the family household
D) in maritime trades
In addition to heading an informal network of Washington women in key posts, Eleanor
Roosevelt was noted for her special interest in better treatment for which of the
following?
A) children with handicaps
B) immigrants
C) African Americans
D) Native Americans
Who was chosen president in 1824 by the House of Representatives when no candidate
received a majority of votes in the Electoral College?
A) James Monroe
B) Andrew Jackson
C) John Quincy Adams
D) James Madison
The purpose of the __________ Amendment to the Constitution was to mollify those
who feared the states would be destroyed by the new government.
A) First
B) Fourth
C) Seventh
D) Tenth
The ability to finance the building of the railroad with money received from federal
land grants __________.
A) allowed the rail operators to come through an economic depression without
bankruptcy
B) caused the operators to be extravagant and sometimes even corrupt
C) meant that the railway operators could pay their workers much higher average wages
D) made the rail lines be conservative with operating costs
In the election of 1800, __________.
A) Jefferson’s vice presidential running mate was George Clinton
B) Jefferson was finally chosen president by the House of Representatives
C) Adams and Jefferson received the same number of electoral votes
D) Jefferson was finally chosen president by the Senate