Fearing the nation’s loss of its moral compass, conservative leaders during the 1970s
and 1980s actively tried to implement the goals of which movement?
A) law and order
B) crime and punishment
C) civil rights
D) criminal justice
English thinker __________ was the most influential social Darwinist.
A) Lester Frank Ward
B) Aldous Huxley
C) Alfred Lord Tennyson
D) Herbert Spencer
All of the first three colonial wars (King William’s, Queen Anne’s, and King George’s)
__________.
A) started over essentially colonial issues and involved relatively little European
participation
B) resulted in considerable territorial gains for the English
C) resulted in considerable territorial gains for the French
D) arose over essentially European issues and involved relatively little colonial
participation
Which of the following is true regarding the Cult of True Womanhood?
A) It left the raising of children almost exclusively to women.
B) It forced unattainable conceptions of beauty on white women.
C) It urged black and other non-white women to emulate Protestant white women.
D) It made similarly strict demands on husbands and fathers.
The almost simultaneous developments in airplanes and automobiles in the early
twentieth century were due to the fact that both developments were stimulated by which
of the following?
A) extensive research funds provided by the federal government
B) growth of consumer culture
C) necessity for new weapons in the Great War
D) invention of the internal combustion engine
James Madison believed that a __________.
A) decentralized republic would attract leaders of great ability
B) republican form of government could operate efficiently in a large nation
C) decentralized republic would protect the country from the manipulations of special
interest groups
D) large country would need a less powerful central government
Civil and political equality for blacks __________.
A) became a new national consensus after the Civil War
B) more often had the support of poor southern whites than of Northerners
C) was only embraced in Congress by “ultra” Radical Republicans
D) was quickly becoming a reality in the American West
What was the World War II board that exercised complete control over domestic prices
and wages?
A) Office of War Mobilization
B) War Labor Board
C) War Industries Board
D) Office of Price Administration
Between the election of 1860 and his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln __________.
A) contacted Jefferson Davis several times
B) worked very closely with President Buchanan
C) made serious attempts to reassure the South
D) did not show much leadership
Who looked out of touch when he commented that “the fundamentals of our economy
are strong” on October 15, 2008, hours before the stock market fell 500 points?
A) George W. Bush
B) Barack Obama
C) Sarah Palin
D) John McCain
In the 1670s thousands of Pueblo rebelled to drive the __________.
A) Spanish from New Mexico
B) Americans out of Arizona
C) Spanish from Florida
D) French out of Texas
How did the Harding and Coolidge administrations handle foreign affairs?
A) They let the Senate make all the decisions.
B) They let the secretary of state determine foreign policy.
C) They abstained from foreign policy and even shrunk the diplomatic corps to half its
size.
D) They demonstrated a much stronger executive authority in foreign policy, setting a
precedent for the years after World War II.
Which of the following was a major economic development between 1897 and 1904?
A) the devaluation of the dollar
B) the acceleration of the tendency toward industrial concentration
C) the successful unionization of basic industries such as steel
D) the major depression brought on by Cleveland’s tight money policies
How did colonial legislatures exercise power over colonial governors?
A) They withheld their salary.
B) They voted him out of office.
C) They complained to Parliament
D) They appealed to the courts.
Which of the following best summarizes John L. Dewitt’s argument for Japanese
American internment?
A) The sabotage and mayhem in Hawaii is a stark reminder of the danger this
population poses.
B) The trust and goodwill that Californians continue to show Japanese Americans is
encouraging but misplaced.
C) As long as Americans continue to unfairly discriminate against Japanese Americans,
they are indeed much better off in camps.
D) The very absence of any acts of sabotage is proof that sabotage will take place in the
future.
The Tariff of 1828 was also known as the __________.
A) Tariff of No Return
B) Extravagant Tariff
C) Tariff of Abominations
D) Bloody Tariff
The best-known political leader of the North in the early 1820s, who served brilliantly
as Monroe’s secretary of state, was __________.
A) Daniel Webster
B) James Madison
C) Alexander J. Dallas
D) John Quincy Adams
Who was the aggressive secretary of state who instigated the purchase of Alaska and
pushed his expansionist policies?
A) Josiah Strong
B) John Fiske
C) Henry Cabot Lodge
D) William H. Seward
Who was the author of How the Other Half Lives (1890), the classic description of slum
conditions in the United States?
A) Henry George
B) Jacob Riis
C) H. L. Mencken
D) Edward Bellamy
What were the measures that, among other things, restricted former slaves to working in
farming and domestic service?
A) Reconstruction Acts
B) Scalawag Codes
C) Black Codes
D) Jim Crow laws
What had prompted Southerners to think that Andrew Jackson was an advocate of
states’ rights?
A) his record as an Indian killer and nemesis of the British army
B) his vigorous defense against Daniel Webster’s attacks
C) his long record of deference to the constitutional authority of Congress
D) his staunch position against the Cherokee Indians in western Georgia
Wilson believed that any weaknesses in the Versailles Treaty could be overcome by
which of the following?
A) Senate amendments
B) the World Court
C) the League of Nations
D) the Lodge Reservations
In his thesis, Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the frontier __________.
A) was dominated by large corporations
B) encouraged socialistic behavior
C) had inhibited democracy
D) gave Americans their unique character
The vacuity of American politics in the late nineteenth century may have stemmed from
which of the following?
A) the simmering class conflict which politicians could not face
B) the inability to deal with foreign threats
C) the prevailing sectional and political harmony
D) the complacency of the middle-class majority
In the election of 1848, what nickname was given to the supporters of Martin Van
Buren who opposed Lewis Cass?
A) Mugwumps
B) Locofocos
C) Railsplitters
D) Barnburners
President Calvin Coolidge publicly likened factories to which of the following?
A) temples
B) homes
C) schools
D) prisons
Who was the leader of the Republican opposition in the Senate to Wilson’s League of
Nations?
A) William G. McAdoo
B) Newton D. Baker
C) Henry Cabot Lodge
D) Warren G. Harding
As president, George H. W. Bush focused his crime-fighting initiative on which issue?
A) hospital fraud in Medicare and Medicaid
B) violence against women and children
C) the flow of illegal drugs across American borders
D) stock market manipulation by insiders
Which of the following is true under the decision in Roe v. Wade?
A) A baby in utero has a right to life starting at three months; prior to that the state
cannot prevent a woman from obtaining an abortion.
B) A mother’s right of privacy takes precedence until the final three months of
pregnancy, when a fetus could likely survive without the mother.
C) Abortions without restriction are legal.
D) Although a fetus does not have a right to life, its right to privacy begins at six
months.
What was a major conflict between American settlers in Texas and the Mexican
government before Texas gained its independence in 1836?
A) Mexico’s abolition of slavery
B) Mexico’s attempt to require Indians to speak Spanish
C) the effect of the Missouri Compromise on Mexico
D) the weakness of the Mexican central government
What was the cause of many of Carter’s political problems?
A) his unwillingness to reach out to average citizens
B) his poor grasp of economics
C) his willingness to rely upon the Washington “establishment” for advisors
D) his lack of follow-through with Congress
Which of the following accurately assesses the role of the Privy Council in Britain’s
mercantile economy?
A) The Council provided colonial governments with an opportunity to shape Atlantic
trade policies.
B) The Council assumed the responsibility of setting constitutional precedent for
mercantile trade law.
C) the Privy Council incurred the wrath of colonists with its vigorous interference in
intra-colonial trade.
D) The Council exercised its responsibility of annulling colonial laws without
coherence or regularity.
Theodore Roosevelt appointed William Howard Taft to which position?
A) president of the United States
B) vice president of the United States
C) governor of the Philippines
D) secretary of war
The work of muckrakers at the turn of the century suggested which of the following?
A) Only the middle class upheld national principles and morality.
B) There was something fundamentally immoral about many Americans.
C) It was workers who maintained the nation’s virtue and integrity only.
D) The nation was built on sound morals that reverberated through its institutions.