The urban ethnic neighborhoods of the late nineteenth century were __________.
A) ghettos in the European sense
B) crowded and unhealthy
C) destroyers of traditional immigrant culture
D) model communities with high living standards
With what was the American Party most closely associated?
A) national unity
B) constitutionalism
C) nativism
D) western expansion
In contrast to popular perceptions, the Underground Railroad __________.
A) was quite extensive and transported thousands of slaves out of captivity every year
B) mostly channeled runaway slaves from the South westward
C) was not as organized or extensive as the metaphor suggests
D) had less to do with slavery and more with the smuggling of illegal goods
The name given to the new political coalition that emerged to challenge Democratic
control in the 1830s was the __________.
A) Federalists
B) Republicans
C) Bull Moose party
D) Whigs
The California state constitution of 1849 banned slavery for primarily __________
reasons.
A) economic
B) moral
C) religious
D) political
How did Roman Catholic Church leaders respond to the problems of industrialism?
A) They were deeply concerned with the social causes of urban vice and misery.
B) They tended to see vice as a personal matter and poverty as an act of God.
C) They dominated the Social Gospel movement.
D) They strongly defended the right to strike.
Which state was considered the banner “progressive” state during the early years of the
twentieth century?
A) New York
B) California
C) Wisconsin
D) Massachusetts
What was Roosevelt’s response when Panama revolted against Colombia?
A) He dispatched the cruiser Nashville to Panama to help Colombia quell the revolt.
B) He stayed neutral even though he supported Panama.
C) He ordered the cruiser Nashville to Panama to prevent Colombia from subduing the
revolution.
D) He stayed neutral even though he supported Columbia.
Theodore Roosevelt formed a volunteer unit, the “Rough Riders,” and participated in
storming which of the following?
A) Manila Bay
B) Havana
C) Kettle Hill
D) San Juan Hill
The first effective law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages was
passed by which state?
A) Massachusetts
B) Maine
C) Virginia
D) New York
What danger do boomers pose to millennials for the future?
A) Their increasing entitlements to Social Security may exceed the contributions of
millennials.
B) The continued social activism of boomers may undermine boomers’ right to vote.
C) The boomers’ larger interest in religion may lead not just to generational clashes but
to church schisms.
D) The boomers’ lack of savings and earnings may make them dependents for millions
of young millennials.
Which of the following statements about the ‘second great migration” of blacks is true?
A) The northward shift in cotton cultivation was a contributing factor.
B) The migration affected fewer blacks than the number originally taken from Africa.
C) Sellers could get several hundred dollars more per slave in the Chesapeake than in
the Deep South.
D) Slaves were transferred from the seaboard states to areas surrounding the
Mississippi and Arkansas rivers.
Theodore Roosevelt believed that the most effective means of dealing with big
corporations was to __________.
A) rely on the laws of supply and demand
B) nationalize basic industries
C) regulate rather than eliminate them
D) take a hands-off approach
Democracy and fascism clashed in 1936 when civil war broke out in which country?
A) Italy
B) Spain
C) France
D) Austria
How did the long-standing immigration problem escalate in 2014?
A) A growing number of Syrian refugees arrived in the country.
B) The United States found itself forced to accept more and more Ukrainian asylum
seekers.
C) With growing resentment over their discrimination, illegal Mexican immigrants
began flocking to terrorist organizations.
D) Tens of thousands of Central American children fled drug wars, political instability,
and violence.
Which of the following assessments of voting patterns in the ratification of the federal
Constitution from 1787 to 1790 is accurate?
A) Southerners opposed the constitution whereas Northerners supported it.
B) Republican-dominated states supported the Constitution whereas Democratic states
tended to oppose the document.
C) The rich tended to oppose the Constitution whereas the poor universally embraced it.
D) Although opposition to the Constitution came from western provinces and support
from urban centers, this regional difference was not uniform.
During the first phase of the Affordable Care Act, how many Americans enrolled for
health insurance?
A) 1 million
B) 2 million
C) 5 million
D) 7 million
Which American writer’s works are filled with examples of wild imagination and
fascination with mystery, fright, and the occult?
A) Edgar Allan Poe
B) Ralph Waldo Emerson
C) Herman Melville
D) Walt Whitman
At war’s end more than 10 percent of Union soldiers were __________.
A) immigrants
B) loyal Southerners
C) conscripted slaves
D) African Americans
How did Christopher Columbus characterize the natives of San Salvador?
A) He described them as fierce and dangerous warriors.
B) He praised their intelligence and civilization.
C) He marveled at the women’s beauty and their suitability as wives for Spaniards.
D) He described them as poor warriors who could easily be subdued.
In order to build the Panama Canal on the terms he wanted, President Roosevelt
intervened militarily to aid the Panamanian revolt against which country?
A) Nicaragua
B) Honduras
C) Colombia
D) El Salvador
In 1636 the Massachusetts General Court appropriated funds for the first college in
America, which was later named __________.
A) Columbia
B) Yale
C) William and Mary
D) Harvard
Which statement regarding black males during World War II is true?
A) They were not allowed to serve in the armed forces.
B) They were not allowed to serve in the military overseas.
C) They were incorporated into the regular services without regard to race.
D) They were permitted to join the various military services, but were segregated.
If the reaction of Florida Indians to the landing of Sir Francis Drake’s crew at St.
Augustine is any indication, how did natives typically make sense of the deadly
diseases Europeans brought across the ocean?
A) The blamed their own failing healthcare practices.
B) They understood the deadly diseases as a divine power on the side of the Europeans.
C) They understood it for what it wasa communicable disease.
D) They blamed the weather and their own poor diet.
Who was the American general who pursued the Seminole Native Americans into
Florida and seized two Spanish forts?
A) Henry Dearborn
B) William Henry Harrison
C) Oliver Hazard Perry
D) Andrew Jackson
How did Southern whites respond to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of
Education?
A) They made their peace with the new law and accepted it peacefully.
B) They flouted the court’s decision and organized white citizens’ councils to fight the
ruling.
C) They quietly moved their students out of public schools into charter and private
schools.
D) They mounted a successful legal challenge to the ruling, got it briefly overturned,
and delayed progress for a generation.
How did horses become a vital part of Plains Indian culture?
A) American settlers reintroduced them in the early nineteenth century.
B) Wild horses had been part of the North American fauna since about 8000 BCE.
C) The Spanish reintroduced horses to the Plains.
D) Plains Indians acquired their horses in raids on native tribes in Canada.
As the 1938 elections approached, Roosevelt sought to “purge” which of the following?
A) liberal members of the Democratic Party
B) a number of conservative Democratic senators
C) Democrats who supported Congressman William Lemke for President in 1936
D) Cabinet members who leaked classified information to the newspapers
Why did Harriet Beecher Stowe write Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
A) Her visit with relatives in Georgia exposed her to the evils of slavery.
B) The daughter of an ardent abolitionist preacher, she had grown up to be a vigorous
critic of slavery.
C) Her travels with her merchant husband first introduced her to the evils of the slave
trade.
D) The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 had roused her conscience and prompted her to turn
to writing.
Available evidence seems to indicate that railroads in the West __________.
A) made comparably modest profits from the first sale of land grants
B) made most of their profits by transporting government goods and personnel
C) were far more efficient and frugal due to government involvement
D) had little incentive to encourage settlement in the West
The educator John Dewey insisted that __________.
A) education was the fundamental method of social progress
B) schools should only teach the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic
C) churches should assume a larger role in education
D) education should simply reflect the dominant social trends and values
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Douglas set out to make Lincoln look like an
__________.
A) abolitionist
B) ardent Free Soiler
C) eastern elitist
D) opportunist
What was most Americans’ attitude toward foreign affairs after the Civil War?
A) They wanted America to become a military ally of England.
B) They condemned imperialism and interference in other nations’ affairs by all nations
as immoral and undemocratic.
C) They gave little thought to foreign affairs.
D) They realized that the Monroe Doctrine was undemocratic.
Between the mid-1840s and the mid-1850s, the American economy __________.
A) experienced one of the most remarkable periods of growth in the history of the
world
B) continued to stagnate as the result of the Panic of 1837
C) reflected the general mood of caution and pessimism
D) suffered a series of severe depressions which halted and reversed previous economic
progress
The Puritan commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay was characterized by which of the
following?
A) true and complete democracy
B) practical democracy
C) communal holding of land
D) toleration for all religions