The British invasion of the southern states was complicated by the
A) absence of Loyalist supporters.
B) jagged coastline and numerous inland rivers.
C) colonial use of local knowledge and unconventional tactics.
D) presence of a large slave population.
The majority of free blacks lived and worked in
A) ships.
B) towns.
C) hospitals.
D) plantations.
In his effort to mobilize the American economy for the war effort during World War II,
FDR
A) was generally successful in achieving his goals.
B) openly antagonized American businessmen.
C) refused to support a policy of rationing.
D) condemned the efforts of the War Production Board.
The founders of the National Organization for Women contended that
A) consciousness-raising was unimportant.
B) women were not treated as equal members of society.
C) women generally approved of traditional marriage relationships.
D) the Civil Rights Act of 1964 gave women equal opportunities.
What roles did women achieve during the war that stood outside of traditional domestic
life?
A) administration for soldier aid societies
B) making packages for soldiers at the front
C) making bandages
D) All of the above.
As a result of defense spending in the 1950s, all of the following occurred EXCEPT
A) aircraft and electronic industries were stimulated.
B) half the federal budget went to the armed forces.
C) most citizens protested the huge expenditures.
D) business-government ties grew stronger.
Actual fighting in the American Revolution began when the
A) British army, sent to seize colonial arms, was interrupted by colonists at Lexington.
B) British navy shelled the colonial port of Norfolk, Virginia.
C) colonial army under Washington forced the British to evacuate Boston.
D) colonial Minutemen attacked a British camp guarding an arsenal in Concord.
The first English attempts to colonize on Roanoke Island in the 1580s
A) received official approval and financing from Queen Elizabeth.
B) attracted significant interest from English merchants and noblemen.
C) threatened Spanish control of the Americas.
D) failed to establish successful relations with Native Americans.
Massachusetts responded to Shays’s Rebellion with a
A) reduction of taxes.
B) new issue of additional paper money.
C) moratorium on private debts.
D) dispatch of armed militiamen.
As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of 1911,
A) no official action was taken by either the city, state, or federal governments.
B) New York state abolished labor by children under 14 years of age.
C) the federal government passed a law preventing child labor.
D) New York City fined the company’s owners a substantial amount of money.
The Dawes Act was designed to
A) provide Indians with individual land ownership.
B) compensate Indians for past abuses by the whites.
C) guarantee blacks 40 acres and a mule.
D) help the Indian preserve tribal traditions.
For women in the United States, the 1950s was a period when
A) male attitudes significantly changed concerning their role in society.
B) they faced tremendous pressure to conform.
C) fewer married women worked.
D) they showed little resistance to returning to their traditional role in society.
As president, both Truman and Eisenhower
A) saw communism as a monolithic force.
B) feared Germany more than the Soviet Union.
C) had similar domestic programs.
D) subscribed to the Grand Alliance System.
In the late nineteenth century, the black leader who continued to press for full
citizenship rights for blacks in the United States was
A) Felix Haywood.
B) Benjamin “Pap” Singleton.
C) Frederick Douglass.
D) Benjamin Franklin.
Harboring presidential ambitions, Stephen Douglas hoped to win the support of
southern Democrats by recommending that the Kansas and Nebraska territories
A) contain the route of a transcontinental railroad.
B) protect the rights of slaveholders.
C) abide by the restrictions of the Missouri Compromise.
D) organize on the basis of popular sovereignty.
Much of the population growth in northeastern cities in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century came from
A) Latin America.
B) Asia
C) Northern Europe.
D) Southern and Eastern Europe.
Suppose you are a typical consumer of the postwar era. Describe your activities and
abundance.
What were the similarities between the Democrat and Republican party candidates for
president in 1928?
A) Both were self-made men.
B) Both were progressives.
C) Both favored organized labor.
D) All of the above.
At the time of early contact with Europeans, Africa was a continent marked by
A) primitive social organizations.
B) sparse and undeveloped settlements.
C) diverse and elaborate cultures.
D) backward and ignorant peoples.
According to the Democrats of the 1830s, the government should
A) actively promote policies of economic development.
B) allow Americans freedom to follow their individual interests.
C) change moral behavior and eradicate sin.
D) support a system of general public education.
During the 1950s, a group of authors who promoted unconventional values in their
writings were known as
A) litterateurs.
B) the Beat Generation.
C) conformists.
D) hippies.
In his popular Emigrants’ Guide to Oregon and California (1845),Lansford Hastings
A) maintained that California belonged rightfully to the United States rather than
Mexico.
B) applauded the concept of joint occupation of Oregon with the British.
C) defended the rights of Native Americans to certain lands of the Northwest.
D) provided both practical information as well as encouragement for frontier settlers.
All of the following are true about free black women EXCEPT
A) most worked as domestics.
B) many headed their own households.
C) many owned a large amount of property.
D) some took in boarders.
In 1988, Lauro Cavazos became the first
A) Latino Cabinet official.
B) Latino on the Supreme Court.
C) Latino head of a major university.
D) Latino head of the armed forces.
American soldiers who participated in World War I
A) except for blacks, served in separate units under American commanders.
B) because of their inexperience, failed to contribute significantly to the military effort.
C) were distributed among allied troops under European commanders.
D) served largely as service personnel to European combat soldiers.
The punishment of Loyalists during the Revolution
A) gained the support of the most conservative patriots.
B) raised concerns over the protection of individual liberty.
C) typically fell hardest upon members of the lower classes.
D) was tempered by feelings of kinship and affection.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
A) won widespread support from Whigs and abolitionists.
B) reopened the question of slavery in the territories.
C) ensured the orderly settlement of Kansas.
D) strengthened party lines on the issue of slavery.
All of the following statements are accurate regarding the career of Jesse Jackson in the
1980s EXCEPT:
A) He established the Rainbow Coalition in 1984 and ran for the presidency.
B) He lost the bid for the Democratic nomination for president.
C) In 1988 Jackson once again attempted to become the nominee, but failed.
D) Jackson was not allowed to speak at Democratic party conventions during the
decade.
All of the following statements are true about Herbert Hoover EXCEPT
A) He had made a fortune as a mining engineer before World War I.
B) He earned a reputation as a great humanitarian during World War I.
C) Many progressives supported him as a presidential candidate in 1920.
D) He did not support conservation.
The Indian Intercourse Act of 1790 dealt with
A) federal treaties and Indian land.
B) marriage rights on tribal land.
C) religious ceremonies in cities.
D) water rights for immigrant people.
In the 1970s, the most critical factor that disrupted the American economy was
A) wage and price controls.
B) spiraling food prices.
C) the war in Vietnam.
D) the oil embargo.
As a result of the Second Great Awakening, the ________ church became the largest
denomination in the United States by 1844, with over a million members.
Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of Andrew Jackson as president.
Compare Spanish experiences in their frontier outposts of Florida and New Mexico in
the late 1600s and early 1700s.
The outbreak of diseases such as __________ made urban living dangerous in the late
1800s.
On September 11, 2001, ________ hijacked airplanes slammed into the World Trade
Center and Pentagon.
Discuss the events that indicate the survival of progressivism during the 1920s.
The Emancipation Proclamation was one of the greatest political documents in
American history. Defend or refute that statement.
New York City’s political machine, Tammany Hall, was operated by the _________
party.
In early 2002, President __________ made his famous “axis of evil” speech, which
inflamed American relations with the Muslim world.
The key philosopher of progressive education during the first decades of the twentieth
century was ________.
The first European-controlled ________ were founded by the Portuguese .
Discuss President Lyndon Johnson’s leadership style and evaluate the success of his
Great Society programs.
Not all southern blacks were slaves, but even for free blacks, freedom seldom meant
equality. How and why were free blacks denied equality in the South from 1820 to
1860?
Explain how blacks responded to their former masters after the Civil War had ended.
Discuss the issue of American aid to the Allies at the end of World War II and explain
how the American position contributed to the development of Cold War with the Soviet
Union.
The ________-________ party opposed immigration, particularly of Catholics, and
especially the Irish.
The early struggle of the Civil War in the East focused on the capture of ________, the
Confederacy’s capital and one of the South’s most important railroad, industrial, and
munitions centers.
In 1936, the Republicans nominated Governor ________ of Kansas.
Approximately _________ people perished in the New York City and Pentagon terrorist
attacks on September 11, 2001.
As chief justice of the Supreme Court, President Nixon chose ________.