The economic salvation for the Virginia colony proved to be the
A) trade with the Powhatan Indians.
B) invention of the cotton gin.
C) mining of silver.
D) cultivation of tobacco.
Which areas benefited the most from the military expenditures of the 1950s and 1960s?
A) Atlantic Coast and Alaska Territory
B) New England and the Midwest
C) the Pacific Coast and the West
D) the mid and Deep South
A rivalry developed between Japan and the United States over Cuba.
As a result of their threat in 1941 to mobilize a march on Washington by 100,000
people, black leaders
A) obtained FDR’s agreement to initiate a policy eliminating discrimination in the
employment of defense workers.
B) were unable to obtain any concessions from President Roosevelt because of his
dependence on southern votes.
C) brought about an executive order immediately desegregating the United States
armed forces.
D) successfully ended discrimination in the United States.
The chief aim of municipal reform during the progressive era was to
A) implement the single tax.
B) encourage immigrants to maintain their ethnic traditions in order to make the city a
more interesting place to live.
C) modernize the city to benefit the business and professional classes.
D) achieve social justice.
The Dred Scott decision by the Supreme Court
A) prompted a harsh criticism from President Buchanan.
B) ruled that Scott was not a citizen.
C) settled the political issue of slavery in the territories.
D) insulted and infuriated most southerners.
Navajo Indian soldiers during World War II made excellent members of the Signal
Corps because
A) they were particularly talented in using electronic equipment.
B) the Navajos could learn Japanese more easily than other Americans.
C) they were more readily accepted by white soldiers than other minority soldiers.
D) the Japanese had difficulty understanding the Navajos’ native language.
In 1902, the state of Maryland
A) enacted the most advanced safety laws in the nation.
B) restricted women’s labor.
C) passed the first workers’ compensation act.
D) provided a model government for other states to imitate.
The crisis that ultimately sparked Shays’s Rebellion in Massachusetts began with the
A) passage of state ‘stay laws.”
B) removal of English goods from local markets.
C) collapse of a complicated pyramid of credit and debt.
D) public panic and runs on state banks.
Nineteenth-century Americans tended to believe that in world affairs the United States
A) should support the establishment of the League of Nations.
B) had a special mission.
C) should remain totally isolated.
D) should commit itself to maintaining world order.
In comparison to his predecessors, Dwight Eisenhower
A) had difficulty in getting people to work for him.
B) had little desire to be president.
C) was abrupt and aggressive in his actions.
D) had limited experience with everyday politics.
Which of the following revolutions first brought communism into the international
order?
A) Chinese
B) Russian
C) Vietnamese
D) French
Using the strategy of horizontal integration, ________ achieved a near monopoly of the
oil industry in late nineteenth-century America.
In which of the following categories did the Iroquois practice a communal lifestyle?
A) work
B) land use
C) hunting
D) All of the above.
Under President Reagan, the budget for military expenditures
A) had to be reduced because of tax cuts.
B) remained at the 1979 level.
C) increased immensely while spending for social programs decreased.
D) made tax reduction impossible.
All of the following statements are true about the outcome of the 1928 election
EXCEPT:
A) Hoover won in a landslide.
B) The campaign revitalized the Democratic party.
C) For the first time, the Democrats had carried the nation’s 12 largest cities.
D) The election was decided by the House of Representatives.
In 1904, Lincoln Steffens wrote
A) The Jungle.
B) Silent Spring
C) The Shame of the Cities.
D) Sister Carrie.
In trying to establish a policy for reconstruction of the South after the Civil War,
A) Congress readily agreed with Lincoln’s plan.
B) a conflict arose between Congress and the president about which had authority in the
matter.
C) Johnson finally forced Congress to adopt his plan.
D) Congress rejected Lincoln’s plan.
“Demographic disaster also struck the populous Inca peoples of the Peruvian Andes….”
Demographic refers to
A) population.
B) epidemic disease.
C) internal class revolt.
D) military conquest.
Which of these American presidents later pursued a Roosevelt-like policy of
intervention in Latin America?
A) Ronald Reagan
B) George Herbert Walker Bush
C) George W. Bush
D) All of the above.
Which of the following movements did President Wilson particularly fear after World
War I?
A) capitalism
B) Bolshevism
C) woman suffrage
D) self-determination
Which of the following tribes controlled the southern interior?
A) Cherokee
B) Creek
C) Choctaw
D) All of the above.
In response to the Revolution, the Cherokee Indians
A) launched raids in eastern Tennessee.
B) joined Americans in a military alliance.
C) remained aloof from the conflict.
D) fled the fighting to lands west of the Mississippi River.
The lesson Frederick Douglass learned to survive slavery was to
A) endure all suffering in silent dignity.
B) understand and outwit his oppressors.
C) obey every command of his master or mistress.
D) act defiantly at every opportunity.
Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude concerning war with Spain in 1898 was to
A) advise McKinley to avoid war at all costs.
B) urge caution in U.S. relations with Spain.
C) promote war with Spain.
D) rescind the secretary of navy’s message ordering Admiral Dewey to sail his fleet to
the Philippine Islands.
A major advocate for achieving national power through naval supremacy was
A) Josiah Strong.
B) William Jennings Bryan.
C) Alfred T. Mahan.
D) John Dewey.
Black women were often ambivalent about the women’s movement for all of the
following reasons EXCEPT
A) suspicion of middle-class views of white feminists.
B) the feeling that struggle for racial equality took precedence.
C) an involvement with minor issues like the title Ms.
D) gender was a greater problem than race.
By 1918, those who opposed the woman suffrage movement
A) argued that it would defeminize women.
B) argued that it would interfere with the war effort.
C) were led by Carrie Chapman Catt.
D) included President Woodrow Wilson.
Which of the following ethnic and racial groups were present in California during the
1850s?
A) Chinese
B) African Americans
C) Europeans
D) All of the above.
By the 1430s, Prince Henry’s captains had reached
A) the Hawaiian and Tahitian islands.
B) the Madeira, Azores, and Canary islands.
C) China.
D) India.
All of the following statements are true about the background of Dwight D. Eisenhower
EXCEPT:
A) He was born in Texas and raised in Kansas.
B) He trained soldiers in Texas during World War I.
C) He was considered an expert planner and organizer.
D) He was a brilliant field commander.
By 1956, the majority of workers in the United States
A) worked in factories.
B) were engaged in agricultural pursuits.
C) held white-collar jobs.
D) faced a decline in their living standards.
The Aztecs, one of the Meso-American empires, created a(n)
A) empire that controlled a population estimated at between 10 and 20 million people.
B) highly stratified society.
C) capital city that amazed the Spanish with its grandeur.
D) sophisticated agricultural system.
Discuss the events of the 1850s that fed northern suspicions of a conspiracy to extend
the power and influence of the South in government.
The key Republican senator responsible for gaining congressional support for the
Truman Doctrine was ________ of Michigan.
The Brown v. Board of Education case of 1954 originated in the state of________.
Evaluate the usefulness of political cartoons as historical sources, from cartoons of
“Boss” Tweed to Theodore Roosevelt.
Contrast the white perspective toward the Indians living on the Great Plains during the
late nineteenth century with the Indians’ view of white settlement in that area during the
same period.
W.E.B. Du Bois became the first black man to receive a Ph.D. from ________.
The conviction that America’s superior institutions and culture gave the United States a
God-given right, even an obligation, to spread its civilization across the continent was
expressed in the phrase ________.
At the urging of President Madison, Congress passed America’s first ________: a set of
duties on imported goods designed to protect American manufacturing.
Discuss the economic conditions of poor blacks and poor whites during the period of
Reconstruction.
Roosevelt appointed a(n) ________ that inventoried the nation’s natural resources.
Ex-slave ________ gave passionate public lectures in the northern states and Midwest
against slavery.
In his book, ________, John Steinbeck writes of the plight of Mexican migrant
workers.
Suppose you were an advocate of the women’s movement during the 1970s. What
would be your major grievances and what groups and leaders might you support in
pursuing your cause?
Explain how profits, piety, and politics affected American foreign policy in the late
nineteenth century.
The first ________ Conference was held in London in 1900.
Trace the major events in Europe between 1933 and the German invasion of Poland in
1939 that led to war and discuss the reaction of the American people and their
government to those events.
After the Civil War, southern state governments attempted to reestablish white
dominance by passing the ________.
Ross Perot captured __________ percent of the popular vote in the 1996 presidential
election.