What was the significance of American Telephone and Telegraph?
A) It was the first telephone company in the United States.
B) It was formed in order to boost competition between local phone companies.
C) For many years, AT&T was the only phone company in the United States.
D) It combined various telegraph and telephone companies into a single monopoly.
E) It was an example of a holding company.
In the elections of 1894, ________.
A) Grover Cleveland had strong support for his policies
B) few voters supported a strong, active government
C) the Populist Party became a major political party
D) the deadlock between the Republicans and Democrats ended
E) Americans became more suspicious of government power
Cooperationists believed that the slave states ________.
A) should act as a unit rather than secede one at a time
B) should remain in the Union
C) should form a new union with northern states
D) and the free states should simply find a way to get along
E) should cooperate with Britain and France
Which identifies a key reason for the South’s defeat in the Civil War?
A) The Confederacy lacked a single competent general to lead its troops.
B) Southern planters were reluctant to start growing food crops instead of cash crops.
C) Confederate armies lacked the conviction to fight a prolonged war with the North.
D) The South was too industrialized to adapt well to a wartime economy.
E) The northern troops were better individual soldiers than Confederate troops.
Which prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains?
A) Navigation Act of 1772
B) Proclamation of 1763
C) Stamp Act of 1765
D) Townshend Acts of 1767
E) Settlement Act of 1765
United States troops first went into combat against German troops in _______.
A) Italy
B) France
C) Greece
D) Poland
E) Africa
What was true of most Northerners during the 1840s?
A) They disliked slavery, but opposed abolition.
B) They were fierce and loyal abolitionists.
C) They supported the institution of slavery.
D) They were apathetic about the slavery issue.
E) They felt that slavery was starting to spread to the North.
The institution of slavery became even more entrenched in the South because of the
increasing importance of ________.
A) rice
B) indigo
C) long-staple cotton
D) short-staple cotton
E) sugar cane
Why did some people in the 1890s, and even today, consider late nineteenth-century
American foreign policy to be an “aberration”?
A) As a democratic republic founded on the idea of freedom, the United States had no
right to deny independence to other countries by annexation.
B) The United States had never previously expanded its territory so rapidly.
C) The United States had once been a small country of just thirteen states, so expanding
to new lands and creating new states was considered an aberration.
D) As a democratic republic founded on the idea of freedom, the United States had the
obligation to seek the same rights for countries around the world.
E) As a former colony, the United States understood the challenges of gaining
independence and could better assist new nations than Europe could.
Which of the following identifies a key reason why society began focusing on
childhood in the nineteenth century?
A) Children were becoming a larger part of the national economy.
B) Urban couples saw large families as an economic asset.
C) Religious revivalism made birth control and abortions impossible.
D) Families were getting larger and individual children became more highly valued.
E) Families got smaller.
What erroneous advice did General MacArthur give President Truman during the
Korean War?
A) MacArthur advised Truman to authorize an invasion of North Korea.
B) MacArthur advised Truman to retreat from the 38th parallel to avoid a possible
Chinese counterattack.
C) MacArthur advised withdrawing troops from Korea altogether because he thought
that China and the Soviet Union would obliterate U.S. forces.
D) MacArthur advised Truman to use diplomacy to negotiate peace because he thought
military efforts would be ineffective.
E) MacArthur advised Truman to drop an atom bomb on Seoul.
Which of the following was true of seventeenth-century New England?
A) Most families had several servants.
B) There were wide gaps between the rich and the poor.
C) Land ownership was widespread.
D) Few colonists owned their own land.
E) All free males could vote.
The controversy which delayed ratification of the Articles of Confederation involved
________.
A) slavery
B) the disposition of western lands
C) American relations with European countries
D) regulating trade with British manufacturers
E) boundaries between the states
Which tribe was most successful at resisting conversion to Catholicism?
A) Pueblos
B) Coahuiltecans
C) Aztecs
D) Pimas
E) Conchos
Where did the “final fling” of settlement on the western frontier occur?
A) California
B) Oklahoma
C) Missouri
D) Oregon
E) Arizona
Where did the United States and the Soviet Union face their first Cold War
confrontation?
A) China
B) Japan
C) Vietnam
D) Korea
E) Cambodia
In his second term, Roosevelt was stung by all of the following EXCEPT _______.
A) strained relations with Congress in the wake of his “court packing” scheme
B) the defeat of minimum wage and maximum hour legislation
C) a serious economic relapse known as the “Roosevelt recession”
D) a Republican resurgence during the 1938 midterm elections
E) the emergence of a conservative congressional coalition
At the time of the Civil War, ________.
A) almost all Southerners owned at least one slave
B) most white Southerners owned three or more slaves
C) most white households had a house slave
D) one-quarter of white Southerners owned slaves
E) one-half of white Southerners owned slaves
What was the biggest factor in placing the United States on a collision course with the
Soviet Union?
A) the American commitment to stopping the spread of communism
B) the American commitment to spreading Christianity around the globe
C) the American commitment to improving international trade
D) the Soviet commitment to improving international trade
E) the Soviet commitment to spreading Catholicism around the globe
The Boston Massacre ________.
A) proved the importance of the British army in the colonies
B) raised the possibility of colonial armed resistance
C) had little effect on Anglo-colonial relations
D) had little support from colonial leaders
E) left fifty-three Americans dead
What made the Compromise of 1850 so difficult to pass?
A) President Taylor opposed the compromise, and congressmen kept granting key
concessions to rival parties.
B) President Taylor was for the compromise, but congressmen kept granting key
concessions to rival parties.
C) The compromise was broken into too many small and ineffective measures.
D) President Taylor died and was succeeded by Millard Fillmore, who opposed the
compromise.
E) President Taylor supported the compromise, but key senators kept proposing new
compromises before a vote could be taken.
Which component was NOT part of Nixon’s plan to end the war in Vietnam?
A) a gradual withdrawal of American troops
B) training South Vietnamese forces to take over
C) renewed bombing of North Vietnam
D) increased military spending
E) taking a hard line in negotiations with Hanoi
In which colony were religious reasons least important in its founding?
A) Massachusetts
B) Rhode Island
C) Maryland
D) Virginia
E) Pennsylvania
How did the Allies decide to divide reparations in postwar Germany?
A) The Soviet Union would take all the war reparations from Germany.
B) The United States would take all the war reparations from Germany.
C) Each country would take reparations from its own occupation zone.
D) The countries would divide reparations from all of Germany.
E) No country would take war reparations from Germany.
The defense policy statement known as NSC-68 _______.
A) proposed to cut funding from the American military
B) advocated a massive expansion of the American military
C) allocated funds to Western Europe to combat communism
D) prohibited the development of the hydrogen bomb
E) emphasized the need to rely on diplomacy to deal with the Soviets
Which of the following lists industrial developments in proper chronological order?
A) the completion of the first transcontinental railroad, formation of the first trust,
formation of U.S. Steel Corporation
B) the formation of U.S. Steel Corporation, formation of the first trust, completion of
the first transcontinental railroad
C) the formation of the first trust, completion of the first transcontinental railroad,
formation of U.S. Steel Corporation
D) the formation of the first trust, formation of U.S. Steel Corporation, completion of
the first transcontinental railroad
E) the formation of U.S. Steel Corporation, completion of the first transcontinental
railroad, the formation of the first trust
Actions in which area helped Truman win the 1948 election?
A) the Cold War
B) labor issues
C) civil rights
D) his handling of the Korean War
E) New Deal reforms
The most important result of the Annapolis Meeting of 1786 was ________.
A) that it added support for the Articles of Confederation
B) the establishment of new, more efficient trade regulations for the United States
C) the settlement of problems involving Spain’s control of the Mississippi River
D) the nationalists’ recommendation to Congress for a convention to revise the Articles
of Confederation
E) the growing political power and influence of James Madison
How did the religious beliefs of the Quakers compare to those of the Puritans?
A) Both rejected the Church of England and wanted to separate and form their own new
religions.
B) The Quakers rejected the Church of England in favor of their own form of worship;
the Puritans merely wanted to reform the Church of England.
C) Both considered all people equal in the sight of the Lord and saw no need for a
learned ministry.
D) The Quakers did not seek converts, but simply wanted to practice their own beliefs
peacefully; the Puritans sought to convert people throughout England.
E) Unlike the Quakers, the Puritans felt that there was no need for spiritual leaders,
since one person’s interpretation of the Bible was as valid as anyone else’s.
Which of the following was a consequence of the Nye Committee’s findings?
A) Congress passed the neutrality acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937.
B) Secretary of State Kellogg signed the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
C) The R.O.T.C. was temporarily disbanded on college campuses.
D) The pacifist movement in America dwindled significantly.
E) Congress banned the sale of guns inside the United States.
“Off-the-rack” clothes replaced what kind of clothing?
A) home-made clothes
B) designer clothing
C) working uniforms
D) “ready-to-wear” clothes
E) mail-order catalog clothes
In the 1850s, government policy changed toward Native Americans in that now the
government ________.
A) exterminated them
B) defined boundaries for each tribe
C) gave each Native American “40 acres and a mule” for farming
D) provoked intertribal warfare
E) ignored them and hoped they would eventually die out
What ultimately led to the Republican success in the election of 1860?
A) Republicans compromised on the issue of slavery.
B) Republicans were able to win decisively in the North.
C) Republicans won significant southern support.
D) Abraham Lincoln offered the potential for sectional harmony.
E) The Democrats dropped out of the race.
Why did some working class women oppose the Equal Rights Amendment?
A) They worried about losing the protections of state laws designed to help women.
B) They worried that their bosses would fire them if they openly supported it.
C) They thought it helped middle-class women but ignored working class women.
D) They feared that it would lead to the drafting of women into the military.
E) They mistrusted the National Organization for Women, which sponsored it.
Which of the following is NOT true of American politics in the 1870s and 1880s?
A) The Republicans dominated the Northeast.
B) The Democrats dominated the South.
C) National elections were usually decided in the swing states.
D) The influence of the Civil War generation had faded.
E) Nationally, the two parties were evenly balanced in strength.