Why did the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance end?
A) A posse of white Southerners lynched fifteen strikers.
B) The price of cotton increased significantly.
C) Southern planters used strike breakers in the cotton fields.
D) The Farmers’ Alliance expelled all African Americans from the group.
E) African Americans were integrated into the Farmers’ Alliance.
Which individual is incorrectly matched with the region of his greatest foreign policy
achievement?
A) James G. Blaine: Latin America
B) George Dewey: Russia
C) William Seward: Alaska
D) John Hay: China
E) John W. Foster: Hawaii
McCulloch v. Maryland involved questions regarding ________.
A) the national bank
B) internal improvements
C) the role of the U.S. Congress
D) the chartering of private corporations
E) timber rights
Why did people move to the West in the 1800s?
A) The federal government required poor immigrants to settle in the West.
B) The federal government gave large incentives to people who moved west.
C) Soldiers and their families moved west to control the Indian population.
D) People moved to farm on the rich soil.
E) The East had become unpleasantly overcrowded and industrialized.
The invention that permitted the great expansion of cotton cultivation was the
________.
A) railroad
B) cotton gin
C) cotton reaper
D) steel plow
E) mechanical seed planter
How did African-American activism change toward the late 1960s?
A) It cooled off after African Americans achieved all of their goals.
B) It became even more committed to nonviolent resistance to racism.
C) It became more militant and shifted focus from social goals to economic goals.
D) It focused less on protest in the streets and more on progress through the courts.
E) It focused less on domestic social change and more on international social change.
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder primarily because they were _____.
A) Russian immigrants
B) foreign-born
C) atheists
D) former criminals
E) African American
The Sherman Antitrust Act ________.
A) was vague and at the mercy of the courts
B) had little effect on antitrust policy
C) was only concerned with regulating railroads
D) did not have criminal penalties for violators
E) was used aggressively by the Justice Department
How did President Eisenhower deal with Joseph McCarthy?
A) He asked McCarthy to investigate military officers.
B) He ordered McCarthy to focus on celebrities, not government employees.
C) He openly attacked McCarthy and quickly ended his career.
D) He gave McCarthy his unconditional support.
E) He waited for McCarthy’s zeal to be his own undoing.
Which country came under Soviet control after World War II?
A) France
B) Norway
C) Hungary
D) the Philippines
E) Switzerland
In what ways was the War of 1812 strange?
A) It was fought on U.S. territory but between France and Great Britain.
B) Its goals were dubious, and none of them were achieved.
C) Great Britain was engaged in an expensive and taxing war with France but still
found resources to engage the U.S. on land and by sea.
D) It was a “paper” war of unenforced embargoes, wild rumors, and great lies.
E) It was mainly fought by merchants and pirates on the Atlantic Ocean rather than by
soldiers on land or naval officers at sea.
In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, the Supreme Court ruled that school
segregation _______.
A) was acceptable as long as the schools were actually equal
B) could not be banned as long as local voters supported it
C) violated the Fourteenth Amendment by creating feelings of inferiority
D) was necessary in order to foster a strong sense of racial identity
E) was protected by the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
The two most important leaders of the Great Awakening in colonial America were
________.
A) Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield
B) John Winthrop and Jonathan Edwards
C) John Locke and Benjamin Franklin
D) Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard
E) Cotton Mather and George Whitefield
The Navigation Acts established the principle that ________.
A) trade between the colonies of Spain and of England would be beneficial
B) Spain would have most-favored status in trading with England
C) free trade was good for all
D) the British colonies’ only trading partner was England
E) North American industry should be discouraged
What was the significance of the invention of the John Deere steel plow?
A) It allowed farmers to cultivate tough prairie soils.
B) It lowered the cost of steel plows.
C) It helped farmers plow loose soil in half the time of a cast-iron plow.
D) It allowed farmers to plow by hand without the aid of a farm animal.
E) It allowed farmers to plow more accurately than cast-iron plows.
In what way did the outcome of the Spanish-American War fulfill Theodore Roosevelt’s
hopes for the United States?
A) It gave the United States influence and eventually dominance in Latin America and
Western Europe.
B) It made the United States a world power, on equal footing to European imperialist
countries.
C) It gave the United States more foreign markets for their surplus of farm and factory
products.
D) It gave the United States influence in the Caribbean, helped further the annexation of
Hawaii, and was the impetus to create a powerful navy.
E) It freed Cuba, gave Americans something to consider other than material gain, and
provided practice for the army and navy.
How did the increase in British imports to the colonies in the 1700s affect American
culture?
A) The colonists produced fewer of their own homespun goods, which made them less
reliant on old traditions.
B) The colonists no longer relied on imports from other countries and became less
connected to French and Spanish cultures.
C) The same British goods were sold throughout the colonies, which gave colonists a
collective background and brought them into greater contact with each other.
D) The colonists of different colonies developed interests in different British imports,
which led to greater isolation and greater identification with their own region.
E) The colonists were introduced to new British traditions through the imports they
bought, and lost much of their original American culture.
What showed the weakness of Wilson’s “moral diplomacy”?
A) When a cabinet member was caught in a financial scandal, Wilson’s pride in his
morality was tested.
B) The exorbitant costs of moral reforms, such as Prohibition, tested Wilson’s resolve to
continue “purity” reforms.
C) The conflicts with Mexico and Germany demonstrated that U.S. morality would not
keep militarism under control.
D) The Hawaiian and Philippine annexations demonstrated to the world that U.S.
morality didn’t actually exist.
E) In his attitudes toward race relations, Wilson demonstrated that “morality” did not
mean equality for African Americans.
People’s attitude toward organized religion in the 1950s was _______.
A) positive and religious affiliation boomed
B) negative and churches lost large numbers of members
C) indifferent and it was seen as less important than in the past
D) indifferent as people focused more on spirituality than organized religion
E) indifferent as lives became too hectic to include religious services
Why was silver not just a political or economic issue but a social movement in the
1890s?
A) If you favored silver coinage, you identified with urbanization and industrialization.
B) Supporting the free coinage of silver meant rejecting all government intervention.
C) The unemployed tended to fight against the free and independent coinage of silver.
D) People who supported the free coinage of silver also supported other economic
reforms.
E) Advocates of silver felt that it spoke for the downtrodden and the dispossessed.
As a result of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, _______.
A) segregation in the South ended almost immediately
B) the slow process of integrating schools began
C) the civil rights movement ended quietly
D) African-American students were fully accepted by white teachers
E) African Americans could finally be teachers in the South
Roosevelt’s Hundred Days banking legislation aimed to _______.
A) remedy a banking crisis
B) decrease government regulation of U.S. banks
C) allow the government to take over the banking system
D) give bankers a place in his government
E) merge smaller banks with larger ones
What does the following quote mean? “In 1899, McKinley spoke of lowering tariff
barriers in a world that technology had made smaller.”
A) Advances in technology had connected the United States to the rest of the world, so
it made sense to lower taxes on goods to and from other countries.
B) The population of the United States had begun to decrease during the nineteenth
century, so it made sense to lower taxes on goods from other countries.
C) Since the United States was so dependent on technology from other countries, it
made sense to lower taxes on technological products from other nations.
D) Because taxes and tariffs had decreased by the end of the nineteenth century, the
exchange of new ideas and technology between countries had begun to flow.
E) Until taxes on goods exported to other countries were increased, the rest of the world
could not benefit from American technology.
How did mass production change life for Americans?
A) It created a split society of rich workers with skills and poor ones without skills.
B) It provided low wage jobs, so few Americans could buy the mass produced goods.
C) Unions had to control the conditions in all places where products were mass
produced.
D) The government created regulations for every part of daily life and employment.
E) It provided jobs, income and mass-produced products that workers could afford.
The old Northwest Territory was composed of what is today ________.
A) the Northeast
B) the Northwest
C) the West
D) the Rocky Mountain region
E) the Midwest
While the United States was home to only 6 percent of the world’s population, it was
responsible for ________ of the world’s energy consumption.
A) 9 percent
B) 22 percent
C) 40 percent
D) 75 percent
E) 90 percent
The first European nation to establish contact with sub-Saharan Africa was ________.
A) France
B) Italy
C) the Netherlands
D) Portugal
E) Spain
Why did South Carolinians protest the tariff of 1828?
A) They feared its effect on the price of cotton.
B) They saw it as an unfair “northern” law.
C) They used it as an excuse to exert a state veto of federal law.
D) They disliked Andrew Jackson.
E) Tariffs determined the prices that southerners could get for their manufactured
goods.
Why is the Navigation Act in 1660 considered the most important piece of imperial
legislation drafted before the American Revolution?
A) It allowed the development of the colonial navy into one of the most powerful in the
world.
B) It greatly strengthened the English mercantile empire.
C) It allowed colonists to trade with the Dutch, which eventually caused the British to
retaliate with acts that sparked the American Revolution.
D) It established France and Holland as allies of the colonies and enemies with
England.
E) Its passage directly led to the Boston Tea Party, which was the first act of rebellion
by the American colonists.
Which best describes how the colony of New York was settled?
A) New York originally was settled by the Duke of York and subsequently became
Dutch.
B) New York originally was settled by the Dutch and then taken by force by the
English.
C) New York was settled exclusively by the Dutch.
D) New York was settled originally by African Americans who were later pushed out by
the English.
E) New York was settled originally by the French who were later pushed out by the
Dutch.
Which of the following does NOT characterize the Young America movement of the
1840s and 1850s?
A) territorial expansion
B) an aggressive foreign policy
C) economic expansion and growth
D) technological progress
E) appraisal of American values