The documents published by the New York Times revealed the
A) disparity in training between U.S. and South Vietnamese troops.
B) fabrications and faulty assumptions that had guided the Vietnam War.
C) effectiveness of massive bombing.
D) participation by the Chinese in Vietnam.
Which of the following provisions was NOT a part of George Grenville’s program to
raise colonial revenue?
A) stamp duties on various colonial documents and products
B) prohibition of colonial currency
C) increased taxes on imported French molasses
D) an expanded list of enumerated commodities
Between 1790 and 1861, how much money did Europeans invest in the United States?
A) $10 million
B) $100 million
C) $500 million
D) $750 million
Discuss the major demographic trends and settlement patterns of the postwar era.
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852),
A) pictured slaves as basically happy and content.
B) achieved enormous popular success.
C) glorified northerners and vilified southerners.
D) enraged President Lincoln as dangerous propaganda.
What were the major concessions that Wilson had to give up at the Versailles peace
conference?
A) He agreed that Germany should pay high reparations.
B) He agreed to a mandate system of French and British takeover of German colonies.
C) He agreed that Germany would lose its oil and coal-rich regions.
D) All of the above.
France’s interior empire in North America
A) had many settlements that were mixed-race communities.
B) stressed farming more than trading, missionary work, or military efforts.
C) created an ineffective shield against British expansion.
D) contained no African slaves.
The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution
A) gained considerable support from President Johnson.
B) became the central issue of the midterm election, because Johnson spoke against
Republicans and Democrats appealed to voters’ prejudices.
C) generated little controversy; all Americans endorsed it.
D) joined Democrats and Republicans in a shared cause.
Once World War II was over, most American women
A) found attitudes toward them radically altered.
B) had many new opportunities for equal treatment in the workplace.
C) were expected to return to their traditional roles in the home.
D) fought to maintain the opportunities acquired during the war.
A favorite target of Christian missionaries in the late nineteenth century was
A) Europe.
B) China.
C) Canada.
D) Latin America.
Who replaced Thomas Hutchinson as governor of Massachusetts in 1774?
A) General George Washington
B) General Thomas Gage
C) Benjamin Franklin
D) King George III
All of the following were true about slave marriages and family life EXCEPT:
A) Slave marriages were rarely secure.
B) One spouse was often sold, resulting in the breakup of the marriage.
C) Few slaves experienced stable family lives.
D) Slaves easily forgot about loved ones lost to sale.
When Ho Chi Minh established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945, the
United States
A) sent troops to restore the former government.
B) refused to recognize the new state.
C) welcomed the creation of a new democratic country.
D) signed a peace treaty with the new state.
Marlene Garrett’s story reveals in part
A) the economic struggles of immigrants in the United States in the last quarter century.
B) the challenges of Reagan-era elites during the 1980s.
C) cultural issues associated with the rights of unwed mothers.
D) the U.S. prison system.
Why did the Cherokee sue for peace with the British in 1761?
A) They ran out of ammunition.
B) They were low on food.
C) They suffered a smallpox epidemic.
D) All of the above.
Discuss the characteristics and the primary goals of those who supported municipal
reform during the progressive era.
General Zachary Taylor earned a living in Louisiana as a
A) corn farmer.
B) factory owner.
C) shipping magnate.
D) slave owner.
The Bonus Army
A) formed to distribute aid to the poor.
B) was composed of veterans seeking their pay bonuses.
C) acted to prevent violent strikes.
D) broke up urban riots.
In the election of 1948, the Democratic Party
A) faced defections from the right and left wings of the party.
B) had no significant opposition from the Republicans.
C) was able to compromise satisfactorily on the civil rights issue.
D) refused to renominate Truman as their candidate.
Which president was particularly good at courting Latino votes but did not reward his
followers when elected in 1972?
A) Truman
B) Nixon
C) Kennedy
D) Ford
During the late nineteenth century, the Supreme Court
A) declared the concept of ‘separate but equal” to be unconstitutional.
B) strongly defended the rights of blacks under the Constitution.
C) decided no important cases involving black rights.
D) gradually abandoned support of black rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
The first atomic bomb dropped on Japan fell on
A) Tokyo.
B) Hiroshima.
C) Osaka.
D) Nagasaki.
All of the following statements are true regarding American voters in the late 1800s
EXCEPT:
A) All voters were men.
B) Local issues and a celebratory atmosphere drew men to the polls.
C) Voters showed an interest in emotional issues
D) Alcohol was not a major issue on election day.
Following the Glorious Revolution of 1688, England
A) tightened imperial controls over its American empire.
B) entered a political alliance with France.
C) forbade colonial merchants the right to engage in foreign trade.
D) relaxed customs regulations and reduced duties.
Between 1746 and 1769, six new ________ were created in British North America.
The primary goals of the typical worker in the United States in the last quarter of the
nineteenth century were
A) unlimited riches and benefits.
B) to support socialist revolutions.
C) respectable wages and humane conditions.
D) highly competitive workplaces.
From 1790-1820, the U.S. population increased by _______ percent.
A) 50
B) 60
C) 73
D) 84
For blacks, the progressive era
A) coincided with the years of greatest segregation in the South.
B) meant strong support from the executive branch.
C) brought a second Reconstruction.
D) brought an end to segregation.
The Chesapeake colonies of the early eighteenth century witnessed
A) increasing profitability of, and thus reliance upon, tobacco cultivation.
B) the emergence of a planter gentry as political and social leaders.
C) steady replacement of slave laborers by indentured servants.
D) virtual universal ownership of land and slaves.
The continuing urban growth of New York City from 1820 to 1860 resulted primarily
from its
A) access to waterpower.
B) manufacturing of textiles.
C) being an intersection of natural transportation routes.
D) role in domestic and foreign trade.
The novelist whose work helped encourage passage of the Meat Inspection Act and the
Pure Food and Drug Act was
A) William Dean Howells.
B) Lincoln Steffens.
C) Eugene Debs.
D) Upton Sinclair.
The doctrines of Protestant leader John Calvin
A) appealed only to the poorest and most oppressed peoples of Europe.
B) offered a system for both self-discipline and social control.
C) emphasized the need for a hierarchical church structure.
D) denied hope of salvation to most believers.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 did all of the following EXCEPT
A) protect the right to vote.
B) fail to eliminate discrimination.
C) outlaw racial discrimination in public accommodations.
D) prohibit discriminatory hiring practices in firms with more than 25 employees.
Plains tribes that stood in the path of Anglo American westward expansion included
A) Cheyenne.
B) Apache.
C) Arapaho.
D) All of the above.
The ________ Amendment guaranteed civil rights for blacks.
Assume you were a middle-class American man residing in an industrial city during the
late nineteenth century. Describe the values you might hold and the opportunities which
might be open to you.
Swine ________, along with cattle, helped to devastate grasslands in Central America
in the early 1500s.
In 1696, Parliament tightened imperial administration in America with the creation of
additional ________ courts, which functioned without juries, to prosecute smugglers
who evaded trade restrictions.
Discuss the philosophy of the three Republican presidents of the 1920s and evaluate
their handling of the major developments in American domestic and foreign policies
during their administrations.
Suppose you had been President Franklin Roosevelt at the Yalta Conference in February
1945. Explain what your concerns would have been regarding the war at the time of the
conference, what you hoped to achieve there, and to what extent you were able to
obtain your goals.
Discuss President Kennedy’s foreign policy with respect to Cuba and show how it led to
confrontation with the Soviet Union.
Farmers in the ________ valley were leaders in adopting scientific farming techniques
in the early 1800s.
In his effort to eliminate poverty in the United States, President Lyndon Johnson
encouraged Congress to pass the ________ Act of 1964.
Designed to help prevent economic hardship for Americans during their old age, the
________ Act was passed in l935.
Pretend that you are reporting for a contemporary women’s magazine concerning the
conditions of women during the 1920s. How would you describe the lifestyle of women
in each class of American society, and how would you evaluate the change, if any, in
the rights and opportunities for women in that period?
In 1837, Illinois blacksmith ________ developed a new steel plow that rapidly became
popular.
Discuss the economic changes that transformed the rural communities of the East and
the frontier of the Old Northwest and increasingly knit the two regions together in the
two decades preceding the Civil War.
How did the population of American cities change from 1880 to 1920?
What were the main components of Jefferson’s western strategy?
Perhaps no issue in American history has generated quite as much controversy or as
many interpretations as ________, the “peculiar institution.”
In 2005, a devastating ___________ struck New Orleans and the Gulf Coast.
Discuss the events from November 1860 to April 1861 that sparked the Civil War.
American critics of the war in the Philippines, known as ________, condemned
wartime atrocities on Filipino civilians.
In 1684, King Charles II annulled the ________ colonial charter.