The British defeat at Yorktown resulted largely from the __________.
A) inability of the British to persuade Tories to join them
B) French fleet winning control of Chesapeake Bay and preventing Cornwallis from
escaping from the peninsula by sea
C) ability of Washington to outmaneuver Cornwallis’ much larger army and force him
to retreat to the peninsula
D) failure of Cornwallis to receive General Clinton’s orders to withdraw
Northern feelings seemed to reach a boiling point on the Fugitive Slave Law with the
arrest and return of __________.
A) William and Ellen Craft
B) Frederick Jenkins
C) Euphemia Williams
D) Anthony Burns
Who was W. E. B. Du Bois referring to when he said: “He belittles the emasculating
effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our
brightest minds”?
A) Frederick Douglass
B) Marcus Garvey
C) Booker T. Washington
D) Carter G. Woodson
After recognizing the new Republic of Panama, Secretary Hay negotiated a treaty that
gave the United States control over a ten-mile wide Canal Zone for what length of
time?
A) 25years
B) 50 years and a day
C) 100 years
D) perpetuity
What was the immediate effect of the American Revolution upon slavery?
A) Slavery was abolished throughout America as inconsistent with the Declaration of
Independence.
B) Northern states moved toward emancipation of their slaves, and all states restricted
the importation of slaves.
C) Slavery came to be justified as a “positive good” by its defenders in the North and
South.
D) Because slavery was still too economically important in both the northern and the
southern states, the movement to abolish it failed everywhere.
What caused NASA programs to suffer a setback in 1968?
A) the decision by Reagan to appoint a political crony to head NASA
B) the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger
C) the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
D) the Glenn Committee investigations of corruption in the space agency
Who was the first openly gay man to run for office in California who also led the fight
against a California law that would fire gay teachers?
A) Barney Frank
B) Harvey Milk
C) George Moscone
D) Rock Hudson
Who compared nineteenth-century society to a stagecoach in which the favored few
rode in comfort while the masses pulled them along life’s route?
A) Henry Demarest Lloyd
B) Andrew Carnegie
C) Edward Bellamy
D) Henry George
What was Martin Van Buren’s chief goal as president?
A) End the Panic of 1837 through active government intervention in the economy.
B) Find an acceptable substitute for the state banks as a place to keep federal funds.
C) Increase the tariff in order to protect New England’s “infant industries.”
D) Institute federal funding for a national transportation network.
Which proslavery state bordered Kansas Territory on the east?
A) Illinois
B) Missouri
C) Nebraska
D) Arkansas
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announced that Soviet communism would do which of
the following?
A) no longer challenge capitalism for world domination
B) appeal to racial minorities around the world because of American racism
C) destroy capitalism in a future land war beginning in Europe
D) conquer capitalism through science and technology
Southerners saw secession as which of the following?
A) the rejection of democracy.
B) a necessary evil.
C) the right to self-determination.
D) a right explicitly granted in the constitution.
The 1920s saw immense changes in popular culture because of which two new
technologies?
A) telephones and telegraphs
B) phonographs and televisions
C) motion pictures and radios
D) microphones and typewriters
Who was the secretary of state under Eisenhower who advocated emphasizing massive
retaliation with nuclear weapons rather than containment with conventional forces?
A) John Foster Dulles
B) Sherman Adams
C) Dean Rusk
D) Dean Acheson
At the turn of the century, the new academic interest in the development of institutions
and their interactions with each other __________.
A) drew scholars out of their academic isolation and into practical affairs
B) pulled academics away from social concerns and into the political realm
C) bypassed American scholars but sparked a fire and yearning for overseas studies
among their students
D) significantly dulled intellectual life and made research more theoretical and less
practical
Blacks in the South were not totally disfranchised or segregated until __________.
A) Cleveland gave his approval in 1887
B) southern states enacted literacy tests and poll taxes in the 1890s
C) Radical Reconstruction ended in 1877
D) the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875
In which of the following did Great Britain and the United States agree to set a limit on
the number of armed vessels on the Great Lakes?
A) Rush-Bagot Agreement
B) Transcontinental Treaty
C) St. Lawrence Accord
D) Monroe Doctrine
The Ostend Manifesto was an American statement that America should buy or seize
__________.
A) Panama
B) Hawaii
C) Mexico
D) Cuba
What was the most important factor in pushing gender equality into the foreground of
American politics and culture?
A) the Great Depression
B) World War II
C) the Vietnam War
D) the Great Society
There was a tendency throughout the antebellum period for the ownership of slaves to
become __________.
A) more concentrated
B) more urban
C) less concentrated
D) less urban
What united Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun in 1834?
A) Their support for Andrew Jackson’s Indian policy.
B) Their opposition to President Jackson’s Force Bill.
C) Their condemnation of Jackson’s withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank of the
United States.
D) Their leadership of the Whig Party.
What was the main issue in the 2000 presidential campaign?
A) How deeply could the defense budget be cut with the end of the Cold War?
B) How should the United States deal with the threat of terrorism?
C) What should be done with enormous federal surpluses that were projected?
D) How can the United States help to bring peace to the Middle East?
Which popular politician was the greatest asset of religious fundamentalists
campaigning against the teaching of Darwin’s theory of evolution in the schools?
A) William Jennings Bryan
B) Warren G. Harding
C) Charles Evans Hughes
D) Theodore Roosevelt
President Madison did not reapply the non-intercourse policy to France __________.
A) even though his cabinet members strongly urged him to do so
B) because Napoleon had kept his word and no longer interfered with American
shipping
C) even though Napoleon defied Macon’s Bill No. 2 while publicly accepting it
D) because he had pledged to do so during his election campaign
Although the U.S. government had supplied them with money and weapons in the
1980s, ________ became the first target of George W. Bush’s “war on terror” because
he believed they were protecting Osama bin Laden.
A) Hezbollah in Lebanon
B) the Taliban in Afghanistan
C) the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Syria
D) Hamas in Palestine
Who was the low-key senator from Minnesota who challenged Lyndon Johnson for the
Democratic party’s nomination for the presidency in 1968?
A) George McGovern
B) Hubert Humphrey
C) Eugene McCarthy
D) Robert Kennedy
Which of the following can be considered Jefferson’s biggest weakness as a president?
A) his unwillingness to build a real navy
B) his lack of communication with Congress
C) his small-minded attitude and provincialism
D) his deliberate sabotage of the National Bank
The Watergate scandal began on June 17, 1972, when burglars known as “the plumbers”
were arrested while doing which of the following?
A) placing eavesdropping devices in the secret meeting rooms in the Pentagon
B) destroying records of illegal campaign contributions to President Nixon
C) placing illegal wiretaps on telephones of journalists critical of the Nixon
administration
D) installing eavesdropping devices at the Democratic party headquarters
What was the most significant aspect of the election of 1800?
A) Jefferson gained an overwhelming vote in the Electoral College.
B) The Federalists defeated the Republicans so easily.
C) It did not lead to revolution.
D) Jefferson was elected by irregular, if not illegal, means.
In the early 1790s General Anthony Wayne’s decisive defeat of the Native Americans in
Ohio in the Battle of __________ opened that territory to settlement.
A) Tippecanoe
B) Murfreesboro
C) Fallen Timbers
D) Cowpens