Which was NOT a reason why Scandinavian outposts in the New World were
eventually abandoned?
A) a colder climate
B) hostile groups of Native Americans
C) political upheavals in Scandinavia
D) poor communication
E) competition with Portuguese fishing groups
W. E. B. Du Bois ________.
A) supported the views of Booker T. Washington
B) advocated revolutionary tactics for African Americans
C) founded the Tuskegee Institute
D) believed educational advancement was the key to success
E) was the author of the Atlanta Compromise
What ultimately resulted from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A) It shattered sectional harmony.
B) It revived support for an expansionist foreign policy.
C) It strengthened the political power of the Whig Party.
D) It had little effect on sectional tensions.
E) It never got the congressional support it needed for passage.
Where was the capital of the Confederacy located?
A) Montgomery, Alabama
B) Atlanta, Georgia
C) Richmond, Virginia
D) Savannah, Georgia
E) Memphis, Tennessee
What eventually solved the economic problems of seventeenth-century Virginia?
A) the cultivation of tobacco
B) the reorganization of the joint-stock company
C) a successful agreement with the Native Americans
D) trading with Barbados
E) stopping the import of goods from England
By the mid”1700s, the colonial assemblies ________.
A) had surrendered most powers to royal assemblies
B) were gaining steadily in power
C) were able to elect the colonial governors
D) were completely independent in their actions from the mother country
E) were full of mid-level bureaucrats seeking better patronage jobs
Bush’s 2003 decision to go to war in Iraq initially seemed ________.
A) unwise because the U.S. military was consistently defeated by Hussein’s forces
B) necessary because Saddam Hussein was the mastermind of the September 11
terrorist attacks
C) wise because the military quickly succeeded in taking Baghdad
D) wise because he had intelligence that Saddam Hussein was planning a terrorist
attack on the U.S.
E) unwise because UN inspectors found weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at ________.
A) Fort Pickens
B) Fort Sumter
C) Manassas Junction
D) Fort Henry
E) Fort Donelson
President Wilson’s first reaction when war broke out in Europe in 1914 was to _____.
A) declare support for the Allies
B) condemn the actions of the German army
C) praise the assassination of the Austrian archduke
D) declare United States neutrality
E) begin formation of a sizable navy
Which of the following was NOT a popular sport that flourished in the 1920s?
A) boxing
B) baseball
C) college football
D) golf
E) soccer
Senator Barry Goldwater pushed for ________ during the presidential election of 1964.
A) establishing peace with the Soviet Union
B) making further advances in civil rights
C) increasing the size of the federal government
D) providing more aid to the unemployed
E) ending the welfare state in America
An important procedural decision approved at the opening of the Constitutional
Convention involved ________.
A) publicizing the convention’s meetings and debates
B) refusing to allow the small states to present their plans for constitutional revisions
C) the decision to keep deliberations as secret as possible
D) the election of James Madison as chairman
E) the requirement of a plurality rather than a simple majority to implement changes
Why did Truman establish a loyalty program in 1947?
A) to interrogate citizens suspected of being political activists
B) to investigate government employees who were potential Communists
C) to investigate accusations of cowardice and treason in the military
D) to reward veterans of the Korean War for bravery and valor
E) to appoint campaign contributors to positions of power
What do most modern historians believe was the underlying cause of the breakup of the
Union?
A) religious leaders promising salvation or damnation to each side
B) politicians and agitators stirring public opinion into a frenzy
C) ideological differences over the morality and utility of slavery
D) a clash of economic interests between agrarian and industrialized regions
E) infighting within political parties
In 1871, Congress ________.
A) stopped dealing with Native American tribes as sovereign nations
B) started dealing with Native American tribes as sovereign nations
C) tried to restore lands to Native Americans
D) rejected the Dawes Act
E) began a systematic slaughter of all Native Americans still living in tribes
Operation ________ was the U.S. and allied military campaign against Iraq in 1991.
A) Against Terror
B) Desert Storm
C) Afghanistan
D) Defeat Saddam
E) Liberate Kuwait
The greatest inventor of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America was
________.
A) Cyrus Field
B) Thomas A. Edison
C) Henry Bessemer
D) J. P. Morgan
E) Eli Whitney
What was the Underground Railroad?
A) a train line that many white Southerners used when hunting for escaped slaves
B) a formal network that helped return fugitive slaves to their masters
C) an organization that helped fugitive slaves escape to Mexico
D) an informal network of people that helped return fugitive slaves to their masters
E) an informal network that helped fugitive slaves make their way to the North
The most brilliant American political theorist of the post-revolutionary period was
________.
A) James Madison
B) George Washington
C) John Locke
D) John Adams
E) Thomas Jefferson
Why did the Homestead Act of 1862 not work as Congress had hoped?
A) It charged too much for government land.
B) The land allotments were insufficient for farming arid land.
C) It did not adequately convert Native Americans to farming.
D) Gold was discovered on land set aside for farming.
E) Too few settlers were willing to migrate to the West.
Which was NOT a consequence of the advent of advertising and large-scale retailing?
A) Chain stores spread across the country.
B) The demand for goods increased.
C) A new type of consumption united much of the country in a homogenous culture.
D) Most consumers felt threatened by new industrial goods.
E) Americans became aware of needs they didn’t realize they had.
The document in which the Pilgrims established a civil government for their Plymouth
colony has become known as the ________.
A) Bill of Rights
B) Mayflower Compact
C) Statement of Principles
D) Cambridge Agreement
E) Plymouth Agreement
Why was George H. W. Bush’s plan to bring down the federal budget deficit
unsuccessful?
A) His plan was never palatable to Congress.
B) His plan coincided with the beginning of a recession.
C) His plan included new taxes but no spending cuts.
D) His plan included spending cuts but no new taxes.
E) His plan did not include new taxes or spending cuts.
For the British, French intervention meant ________.
A) a change in military strategy
B) little change in their military strategy
C) little challenge to their empire
D) a new ally in the war effort
E) fighting a two-front war, both in the colonies and in Europe
In order to test the resolve of his American, British, and French opponents, in 1948
Stalin _______.
A) tested his first atomic bomb
B) invaded China
C) invaded France
D) initiated a blockade of Berlin
E) began shooting down American planes
Over the years, affirmative action policies were passed to ________.
A) secure the power of each branch of government
B) allow the president to reinstitute the military draft
C) limit the terms of those elected to governmental positions
D) ensure greater participation by minorities
E) give more decision-making power to the people
As early as 1863, Lincoln proposed a plan for restoring southern state governments if
_______ percent of the 1860 voting population took a loyalty oath to the Union.
A) 5
B) 10
C) 20
D) 25
E) 50
Where and why did the major demographic shift of the 1920s take place?
A) There was a mass movement of people from the cities to the suburbs.
B) There was a mass movement of people from the rural countryside to cities.
C) The development of mechanization in agricultural production drew populations from
urban centers to more rural areas.
D) People moved in large numbers from urban areas to rural areas.
E) Population shifted from the South to the North.
In their relations with the Native Americans, the French ________.
A) were as interested in Christian conversion as the Spanish
B) cultivated close cooperation in order to sustain their fur trade
C) were ruthless in their treatment of the Native Americans
D) drove Indians from their lands in order to set up plantations
E) were at a distinct disadvantage
By 1900, China ________.
A) had succeeded in resisting European influence
B) was the leading Asian power
C) had become vulnerable to European imperialism
D) had closed the door to the outside world
E) welcomed U.S. intervention
Beneath the surface, the two candidates in the election of 1928 _____.
A) were strikingly similar
B) were radically different
C) were somewhat alike
D) had little in common
E) despised each other
After General MacArthur’s victory at Inchon, Korea, Truman _______.
A) ordered UN troops to cross the Yellow Sea and attack China
B) ordered UN troops not to advance beyond the 38th parallel
C) withdrew UN troops from Korea because he had made his point to Stalin
D) shifted his military goal to unifying Korea
E) declared the Korean War over with a UN victory
British and French leaders met with Hitler in Munich in 1938 to discuss his demand for
_______.
A) the Rhineland
B) Austria
C) the Polish Corridor
D) the Sudetenland
E) Alsace and Lorraine