The Allies dropped over 1.5 million tons of bombs on Europe to win World War II.
The early New Deal programs did much to assist the roughly 140,000 homeless women
in the nation.
Poor whites stayed poor because they developed a culture that opposed the middle-class
work ethic.
Thousands of Aztecs in Mexico died from a smallpox epidemic brought by the English
in 1520.
The Depression of the 1870s helped to galvanize the nation’s southern and western
farmers into action.
Many northerners responded to John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry with sympathy.
Swarms of camp followers surrounded Washington’s army and proved to always be of
vital assistance.
Because of the rapid growth of the economy during the late nineteenth century, there
was little unemployment among American workers during that period.
To Native American peoples, trade was not only an economic matter but also a way to
preserve reciprocity between individuals and communities.
At the end of the war, roughly 30 million African American slaves were free.
More women occupied high positions in government in the Roosevelt administration
than ever before in U.S. history.
A major objective of the attorney general during the Nixon administration was the
reshaping of the Supreme Court to make it more liberal.
During the 1920s, the American standard of living declined.
Frederick Douglass, who helped defeat slavery and cement blacks to the Republican
party, died in 1875.
U.S. corporate investments decreased sevenfold overseas during the decade.
Robert Fulton invented the railroad locomotive.
Slavery did not exist nor take root in New England cities during the 1600s.
In the 1950s, Detroit’s black population increased from 16 percent to 29 percent.
Of all the people arriving in the New World from the fifteenth to the eighteenth
centuries, the Africans were by far the most numerous, probably outnumbering
Europeans two to one.
The Republican Party attacked the liberal welfare state during the Reagan
administration.
President Woodrow Wilson, regarding the Treaty of Versailles, was more nave and
idealistic than his European counterparts.
Although it served as an ideology of rebellion in England, Puritanism in America
became an ideology of control.
Humans settled the Americas, Japan, and Scandinavia around 35,000 B.C.E.
The U.S. economy recovered in 1936 and continued to rise through World War II.
Africans had a different conception of slavery than did Europeans before 1492. .
Despite gains made in the 1990s, Native Americans remained the poorest group in the
nation.
The Interstate Commerce Act created the nation’s first regulatory commission, the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
George C. Marshall became the top general in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Probably the most important and valued region of the Spanish Empire in the Americas
was the northern borderlands, the present-day Sun Belt of the United States.
During the depression of the 1890s, American manufacturing production steadily
increased.
The Lower East Side of Manhattan witnessed the emergence of the first settlement
home.
Large-plantation agriculture was a dominant force in the antebellum South, but most
southern whites were not even slaveholders, much less large planters.
At the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, blacks received a highly
disciplined education based on the skilled and unskilled trades.
During the Six-Day war, Israel defeated
A) the Soviet Union.
B) Egypt.
C) Saudi Arabia.
D) Poland.
The election of 1866 was critical in determining the outcome of Reconstruction because
the
A) Democrats won a majority in Congress.
B) Republicans were defeated in the election.
C) president won great support from the people.
D) Republicans won an overwhelming victory.
During the 1920s, women
A) found the hopes and promises of prewar feminism unfulfilled.
B) eliminated the double standard in job opportunities.
C) had more children than women living before World War I.
D) experienced greater restrictions on their sexual freedom.
All of the following statements describe the relationship between the United States and
Germany EXCEPT:
A) Roosevelt attempted to make the German leadership think that the United States
supported Germany.
B) The Kaiser thought that Roosevelt was pro-German.
C) The United States was alarmed over growing German power across the globe.
D) The two nations went to war over Mexico in 1900.
“Some Taino women married Spanish men and produced the first mestizo society in the
Americas.” Mestizo refers to a
A) group of people who depend almost exclusively upon maize for their dietary needs.
B) culture blending Catholicism with Native American beliefs.
C) new language that combined Spanish with Taino.
D) person of mixed European and American Indian ancestry.
One of the most prominent Americans to resist the draft was
A) George Bush.
B) Muhammad Ali.
C) John McCain.
D) Ronald Reagan.
When James Meredith tried to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962,
A) the state’s governor supported his right to attend the university.
B) blacks decided to boycott the bus system in Oxford.
C) riots resulted.
D) the Supreme Court refused to support Meredith’s admission.
How did many rural blacks respond to southern problems?
A) They moved to northern cities.
B) They placed their children in better schools in southern cities.
C) They found better jobs in southern cities.
D) All of the above.
The Homestead strike included all of the following developments EXCEPT:
A) The outcome of the strike was a major blow for organized labor.
B) Frick hired private guards to keep workers away from the factory.
C) Andrew Carnegie, the owner of Homestead, was killed.
D) Carnegie and Frick wanted to break the new union at the plant.
During the progressive era, those who wanted to reform the American city
A) supported essentially the same goals as the social welfare reformers.
B) tried to limit the power of city bosses.
C) generally supported working-class values.
D) generally opposed the commission form of city government.
In 1992, President G.H.W. Bush refused to send a delegation to which of the following
UN-sponsored conferences in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil?
A) Kyoto Peace Conference
B) Earth Summit
C) Space Race
D) Nuclear Arms Reduction
As a result of Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980,
A) an inexperienced politician came into the White House.
B) the Democrats lost their majority in the House of Representatives.
C) New Deal liberalism gained a supporter in the White House.
D) the Republicans gained control of the Senate.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada by England in 1588
A) solidified Protestantism in England.
B) increased English interest in overseas exploration and colonization.
C) fanned a nationalistic spirit in England.
D) All of the above.
The consequences of sugar production in the New World included
A) colonizing Brazil.
B) revolutionizing European tastes.
C) stimulating the transport of millions of African slaves.
D) All of the above.
President Wilson led the American delegation to the negotiations in Paris in 1918
A) because he considered Secretary of State Lansing incompetent.
B) to reassure Henry Cabot Lodge that American interests would be protected at the
conference.
C) accompanied by the secretary of state, technical experts, and other advisers.
D) at the insistence of the Senate.
Settlement houses were formed for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to
A) gather data to alleviate social misery through legislation.
B) give college-educated women meaningful work.
C) assist American men adjust to new gender roles.
D) assist immigrants in adjusting to American life.
According to agreements made in 1818 and 1827, the United States and Great Britain
A) jointly occupied Oregon.
B) cooperated in the fur trade.
C) extended the slave trade.
D) engaged in joint explorations of the Northwest.
All of the following statements describe the Credit Mobilier scandal EXCEPT:
A) President Grant was involved in the scandal.
B) The scandal involved certain congressmen.
C) The scandal involved a dummy corporation building transcontinental railroads.
D) Congressmen received stock in the company in exchange for generous contracts.
Who were the Regulators?
A) frustrated farmers in North Carolina
B) upset urban workers in Boston
C) angry Native Americans in Ohio
D) vengeful planters in South Carolina
While the United States Senate debated whether to ratify the Treaty of Paris, American
soldiers in the Philippines
A) maintained a tense truce with the Filipino soldiers.
B) helped establish a Filipino-controlled government in the islands.
C) were being quietly withdrawn from the islands.
D) helped the Filipinos celebrate the expulsion of the Spanish from the islands.
Which of the following groups of blacks did NOT compose the Catholic population of
Baltimore and New Orleans?
A) former slaves
B) abolitionists from Boston
C) Haitian refugees
D) new converts
By 1960, most Americans tended to believe that the federal government should
A) abandon the philosophy on which the New Deal and Fair Deal had been based.
B) reduce its commitment to social welfare programs.
C) assume an active role in providing welfare benefits for the people.
D) radically reduce defense spending.
The most recent historical interpretations of slavery have viewed the institution
A) through life in the slave quarters.
B) through the interactions of masters and slaves.
C) as relatively humane and paternalistic.
D) as uniformly cruel and oppressive.
Which Latin American nation created a partnership with the United States to provide
labor during and after World War II?
A) Chile
B) Mexico
C) Peru
D) Panama
As a result of Mexican restrictions in Texas, American settlers there
A) freed their slaves.
B) disallowed further American immigration.
C) plotted a revolution.
D) converted to Roman Catholicism.
After the war, the generation of Americans who fought the Revolutionary War
A) preferred European to American newspapers.
B) became passionately absorbed by political debates.
C) focused on private rather than public affairs.
D) rejected religious notions of the nation’s destiny.
The passage of the Taft-Hartley Act
A) was an indicator of public reaction against unions.
B) reinforced the Democratic labor policies of the New Deal era.
C) gave federal protection for the concept of the “closed shop.”
D) had the strong support of Harry Truman.
An Esquire magazine article in 1954 asserted that
A) women deserved the advantages given to men.
B) working wives were a “menace.”
C) women should continue working in military plants.
D) lower-class women could attain middle-class affluence.
Harry Hopkins, director of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration,
A) showed little concern for the needs of young people.
B) preferred work relief to direct relief.
C) considered direct relief highly desirable.
D) believed the unfortunate in society should rely exclusively on private charity.
At the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee
A) captured control of northern territory between Philadelphia and Washington.
B) suffered losses so heavy that he could never mount another southern offensive.
C) surrendered his army and supplies to General George Meade.
D) ordered Pickett’s Charge as a daring escape to save his men.
A race riot between black soldiers and white civilians during the war took place
in________Texas, in 1917.
The ________ Act of 1917 boosted the tax rate sharply to finance the American war
effort.
Assume that you were Val Lorwin. Describe your position in relation to the United
States government from November 1950 through March 1952.
In 1860, ________ percent of the American people lived in cities.
The author ________ wrote novels such as As I Lay Dying in the early 1930s that
revealed southern racial problems.
Discuss the major factors that promoted the development of industrialization in the
United States during the late nineteenth century.
Suppose you were a Chinese communist leader in 1950. Explain how you would have
felt about the situation in China, as well as about the response of the United States to
that situation.
Analyze the “costs” of industrialization for the United States from 1820 to 1860.
Why did the number of European immigrants increase during the 1840s and 1850s?
Analyze the impact of these immigrants upon the American economy and society.
Discuss President Ford’s role as a “caretaker” president and evaluate his overall success.
In 1898, the city of __________ consolidated into a large metropolis.
At the mine of ________ in Bolivia, over 50,000 workers dug silver for the Spanish at
elevations of 13,000 feet.
African American men fought in the war in ________ units.
The individual who helped establish new management techniques for railroad
companies, and hence other American corporations, during the late nineteenth century
was ________.
President Kennedy met with Soviet leader ________ in Vienna to calm tensions over
Berlin in 1961.
Democrats called their victory in Louisiana, “________.”
On July 3, 1863, General Robert E. Lee sent about 15,000 men in a gallant but futile
assault, known as ________ against the Union center at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Discuss U.S. relations with Japan and Europe during the Theodore Roosevelt
administration.