Which of the following elements contributed to the cohesion of Puritan village life in
New England?
A) substantial investments in bound labor
B) absence of women and children
C) cold and rainy weather
D) predominance of families
An important event influencing the U.S. decision to declare war with Spain in 1898 was
the
A) sinking of the battleship Maine.
B) Zimmermann Note.
C) Democratic victory in the mid-term election of 1898.
D) Republican defeat in the election of 1896.
E) sinking of the luxury liner Lusitania.
In response to Bacon’s Rebellion, Governor Berkeley of Virginia
A) sanctioned the attacks by Bacon against hostile Indians.
B) pardoned the rebel leaders upon their surrender.
C) declared Bacon a rebel and ordered him arrested.
D) refused the offer of aid from royal troops in England.
The impact of the Great Depression on family life in the United States resulted in
A) a decrease in the divorce rate.
B) an increase in the birthrate.
C) an increase in the marriage rate.
D) more happy marriages.
During the depression of the late 1830s, the
A) prices of flour, pork, and coal were cut in half.
B) slave population of the northern states revolted.
C) trade union movement steadily grew stronger.
D) wages of workers fell by 30 to 50 percent within two years.
In 1942, the Allies
A) suffered numerous military disasters.
B) won several major battles in Italy.
C) succeeded in defending the Philippines.
D) kept the Germans from invading the Soviet Union.
The reaction of the Senate investigating committee to Thomas O”Donnell’s testimony
concerning his living and working conditions indicated that the senators
A) were prepared to take immediate action to remedy his circumstances.
B) would support a public housing bill.
C) clearly understood and sympathized with his problems.
D) had little understanding of the world in which he lived.
The United States stopped authorizing new nuclear power plants in the year
A) 1970.
B) 1972.
C) 1974.
D) 1978.
The turning point of the French and Indian War in America occurred when
A) the French won the alliance of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.
B) General Edward Braddock claimed control of Fort Duquesne.
C) English Prime Minister William Pitt threw his nation’s full military might into the
American campaign.
D) American representatives approved a plan for intercolonial action.
Between 1759 and 1761, the ________ tribe fought against the British in North
America.
All of the following statements are true about Ginford Pinchot EXCEPT:
A) He was considered the most important conservationist in the country.
B) He advocated logging.
C) He advocated fire control.
D) He advocated allocating lands to Indian tribes.
All of the following are true about Queen Elizabeth I of England EXCEPT:
A) She ruled from 1558 to 1603.
B) She favored Protestantism.
C) She initially disfavored overseas expansion.
D) All of the above.
In the midterm elections of 1946, the American voters
A) demonstrated reservations about Truman’s competency.
B) indicated their enthusiasm for Truman’s leadership.
C) overwhelmingly endorsed the principles of the Fair Deal.
D) defeated Truman for reelection.
All of the following factors nourished an American conviction that California must
become part of the United States EXCEPT the
A) favorable position of California for the China trade.
B) ethos of Manifest Destiny.
C) desire of newcomers to blend into California society.
D) suspicion that other nations had designs on the region.
The Preemption Acts during the 1830s and 1840s
A) increased the minimum amount of public-land purchases.
B) reserved choice public lands for the political elite.
C) encouraged westward migration by protection of ‘squatters’ rights.”
D) offered free government land to prospective settlers.
The Immigration and Nationality Act
A) removed the long-standing ban on Japanese immigration.
B) established a quota of 100 immigrants a year for each Asian nation.
C) provided that first-generation Japanese Americans were now eligible for citizenship.
D) All of the above.
At the end of the Civil War, emancipated blacks
A) received ownership of 40 acres of land.
B) often changed their manners toward whites to demonstrate their freedom.
C) mostly remained on the plantations where they had been slaves.
D) immediately achieved full equality with southern whites.
In American society during the Truman and Eisenhower years,
A) sexuality was seldom discussed publicly.
B) white, well-educated women had little difficulty in reassuming their traditional roles.
C) the attitude toward women’s roles drastically changed.
D) black women frequently lost the jobs they had held during the war.
Which of the following new countries were created as part of the peace process of
World War I?
A) Poland
B) Czechoslovakia
C) Finland
D) All of the above.
Which of the following was a major mistake of Wilson’s and other Allied leaders during
the peace process?
A) the exclusion of Soviet Russia
B) the inclusion of France
C) the inclusion of England
D) the inclusion of American congressmen
During the 1920s, most of the novelists who achieved lasting importance
A) repudiated any allegiance to traditional American ideals.
B) wrote almost entirely about European subjects.
C) criticized values prevailing in America during the decade.
D) celebrated America’s achievements during World War I.
At the end of World War II, President Truman
A) abruptly ended the lend-lease program to all European nations.
B) aided the Soviets in rebuilding their war-torn economy.
C) continued lend-lease to the British but not the Soviets.
D) honored President Franklin Roosevelt’s pledge at Yalta to give economic aid to the
communist bloc countries.
By the early 1700s, the foremost slave-trading nation in the world was
A) India.
B) England.
C) Spain.
D) France.
Which of the following individuals was not an abolitionist?
A) Frederick Douglass
B) Wendell Phillips
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Henry Garnet
Wilson based his plan for peace among the warring nations on
A) the Fourteen Points.
B) American support for a Russian invasion of Germany.
C) the 10-Percent Plan.
D) unconditional surrender by Germany.
Women workers at the Lowell mills
A) occupied operative, as well as managerial, positions.
B) seldom formed close ties with one another.
C) lived in closely supervised company boardinghouses.
D) faced challenging and varied routines.
Many of the young men in the United States who eagerly sought to participate in the
Great War perceived it as
A) dull.
B) an unpleasant burden that they must perform for their country.
C) horrible.
D) romantic.
The election of a proslavery territorial legislature in Kansas in 1855
A) resulted from wholesale election fraud.
B) helped delay secession of the South.
C) was nullified by President Pierce.
D) accurately reflected popular sentiments.
Following the convergence of Nat Turner’s revolt and William Lloyd Garrison’s
publication of the abolitionist Liberator in 1831,
A) laws protecting slaves from overly severe treatment were repealed.
B) the material conditions for slaves worsened.
C) state laws prohibiting manumission were passed in the South.
D) the slaves’ expectations of freedom were heightened.
The election of 1852 was characterized by
A) a serious discussion of the issues.
B) widely divergent political choices.
C) voter apathy and lackluster campaigns.
D) the decisive nomination of party candidates.
Discuss the various attempts at establishing utopian communities in antebellum
America. Whether secular or religious, they all failed for similar reasons. Explain.
In contrast to Virginia, the colony of Massachusetts Bay thrived almost from the
beginning because the early Puritan settlers
A) chose a location uninhabited by hostile Indians.
B) arrived as young, single, and healthy males unburdened by family commitments.
C) were less educated and thus less easily dissatisfied.
D) came as freemen in families, possessed a strong work ethic, and valuable skills.