The early confidence of both sides was rocked by the staggering casualties sustained in
1862 at __________.
A) Bull Run
B) Seven Pines
C) Shiloh
D) Vicksburg
Which author spent most of his adult life in Europe writing about the clash between
American and European values in a rarefied, overly subtle style?
A) William Dean Howells
B) Theodore Dreiser
C) Henry James
D) Stephen Crane
Who was the leader of the Filipino nationalist forces during the 1890s?
A) Depuy de Lme
B) Emilio Aguinaldo
C) Valeriano Weyler
D) Calixto Garcia
Campaigning on a “Contract with America,” Georgia Representative ________ led the
Republicans to victory in the congressional elections of 1994.
A) Newt Gingrich
B) Bob Dole
C) Kenneth Starr
D) John McCain
Andrew Carnegie was one of the first great tycoons to realize the importance of
__________.
A) cultivating foreign markets
B) developing technological improvements
C) controlling the source of manpower
D) outsourcing exogenous services
Which of the following statements about Andrew Johnson’s impeachment is true?
A) Given the narrow majority of Republicans in Congress, impeachment was never
likely.
B) Given President Johnson’s high crimes, his impeachment utterly deserved and
happened swiftly.
C) Support for the impeachment of President Johnson was divided both in the
Republican and the Democratic Party.
D) The Senate narrowly failed to impeach President Johnson by one vote.
Which group was most likely to settle in the backcountry of Pennsylvania?
A) Welsh
B) French
C) Scots-Irish
D) English
After Washington’s proclamation of neutrality in 1793, France __________.
A) and England each respected American shipping with the other
B) threatened to declare war unless America honored her treaty obligations
C) attacked American shipping, as did England, despite American neutrality
D) respected America’s freedom to trade, but England attacked all American shipping
New York was an English colony because the English __________.
A) planted a colony there before any other colonizing power
B) immigrants to the area gradually overwhelmed foreign interests
C) captured the area from the Dutch
D) defeated the French in the War of Spanish Succession
Which of the following was a seminal event in the gay and lesbian rights movement?
A) the Stonewall riot
B) disturbances at Haight-Ashbury
C) the American Psychiatric Association’s publication stating that homosexuality was a
mental illness
D) the Supreme Court’s decision in Reed v. Reed
Public pressure surrounding the Whitewater scandal led to the appointment of
________ as a special prosecutor.
A) Bernard Shaw
B) Janet Reno
C) Burt Lance
D) Kenneth W. Starr
In 1946, Bernard Baruch offered an American plan to the United Nations for doing
which of the following?
A) eliminating all barriers to international trade
B) outlawing atomic weapons
C) eradicating poverty and malnutrition in the world
D) transferring control of all atomic weapons to the United Nations
Whistler’s Mother is best described as __________.
A) vibrant in its use of watercolors
B) surgically accurate and merciless in its realism
C) almost cubistic in its embrace of scientific principles
D) spare and muted in tone
The so-called “birds of passage” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
were __________.
A) a majority of all who entered the United States
B) generally poor workers
C) usually Englishmen and Scotsmen
D) a substantial minority of all new arrivals
What angered southerners about the Tariff of 1828?
A) It threatened to impoverish the South with its excessively high rates.
B) The measure established rates on raw materials which were too low to protect
southern crops.
C) The law seemed to be designed to promote the candidacy of John Quincy Adams.
D) The tariff dramatically cut rates and flooded the South with cheap imported goods.
Taft got into political hot water in the 1910 Ballinger-Pinchot controversy, which dealt
with which of the following?
A) railroad legislation
B) life-insurance scandals
C) conservation
D) adulterated food
Which of the following was part of the Dawes Plan?
A) Germany had to pay a reduced reparations sum of $200 million to France.
B) The United States assumed German reparations and paid them directly to France and
Britain.
C) It scaled down German reparations that were set forth in the Young Plan.
D) The United States floated a $200 million loan to help Germany stabilize its currency.
Beginning in the 1650s, Parliament tried to prohibit foreign goods and vessels from
colonial ports and to channel colonial raw materials to England through which of the
following?
A) Mercantile Acts
B) Colonial Trade Office
C) Board of Trade
D) Navigation Acts
When were the last U.S. combat troops finally withdrawn from Iraq?
A) January 2009
B) January 2010
C) December 2011
D) June 2013
From the 1950s until his death in 1963, the United States backed the regime of which
South Vietnamese leader?
A) Chiang Kai-shek
B) Ho Chi Minh
C) Bao Dai
D) Ngo Dinh Diem
President Grant tried and failed to convince Congress to do which of the following?
A) annex the Dominican Republic
B) make a gentlemen’s agreement with Japan
C) purchase the Panama Canal
D) restore the defense budget to 1863 levels
During his first term, President Nixon thought his chief task was which of the
following?
A) solving the problem of the Vietnam War
B) reducing urban crime
C) balancing the federal budget
D) reassuring civil rights leaders that progress would continue
The first American factory was developed by __________.
A) Samuel Slater to spin cotton thread
B) Francis Lowell to weave woolen cloth
C) Robert Fulton to build steamboats
D) Eli Whitney to manufacture cotton gins
What prompted President Woodrow Wilson to go on a nationwide speaking tour in
September 1919?
A) He was campaigning on behalf of Democrats seeking reelection in midterm
elections.
B) He was hoping to convince Americans to ratify the Versailles Treaty at their annual
conventions.
C) He was hoping to rally popular support for the Versailles Treaty after the Senate had
failed to ratify it.
D) He was trying to recruit more volunteers for the war effort.
Which of the following statements about the case of Marbury v. Madison is true?
A) Marshall denied that Marbury had a right to his commission.
B) It established the concept of judicial review by declaring something unconstitutional
for the first time.
C) It bolstered the concept of checks and balances by providing an executive branch
“check” on judicial power.
D) It found that Congress could force Madison to give Marbury his commission.
In early 1941, FDR proposed aiding the financially exhausted British under the
__________ Act.
A) Burke-Wadsworth
B) Lend-Lease
C) War Resources
D) Neutrality
Voluntary associations in the early nineteenth century are best understood as
__________.
A) rivals to political parties
B) the first step toward a business corporation
C) a way for the middle class to avoid church affiliations
D) the third pillar of the emerging American middle class
“We ought not to consider ourselves as inhabitants of a particular state only, but as
Americans.” This statement typified the ideas of __________.
A) John M’Culloch
B) John Trumbull
C) Patrick Henry
D) Noah Webster
How could gender tensions have contributed to the increased conflicts between Indians
by around ad 1300?
A) Women’s increased participation in warrior culture made tribal warfare far deadlier.
B) Women’s resentment over their second-class status prompted them to practice war
against tribal men.
C) The reduction of women to chattel property turned tribal warfare into campaigns to
steal each other’s women.
D) The increased status of women in corn culture prompted men to reassert their
dominance in warfare.
Which of the following statements about Secretary of State Andrew Mellon is true?
A) He introduced the inheritance tax.
B) He grew the economy by running a federal deficit and enlarging the federal debt.
C) He reduced the tax rates of those with incomes under $66,000 to increase mass
consumption.
D) He lowered the taxes for the very rich in the hope that they would invest in
productive enterprises.
For what purpose did the London Company secure a charter?
A) to secure religious freedom
B) to spread Christianity
C) to relieve unemployment in England
D) to make money
Big-city bosses inadvertently played a major part in which of the following?
A) developing labor unions
B) causing revolutionary activities among their followers
C) creating slums
D) Americanizing immigrants