The arrival of large numbers of immigrants in the 1850s __________.
a. was a positive development for American cities
b. did not contribute measurably to city developments
c. worsened the already serious problems of the cities
d. increased the population of rural rather than urban areas
e. prevented the development of America’s first suburbs
Early in the 1890s, the Democrats succeeded in __________.
a. modestly reducing tariff levels
b. taking the United States off the gold standard
c. driving the economy to higher levels
d. correcting the abuses of stock speculators
e. increasing tariffs to protect American industry
Woodrow Wilson’s decision to invade Mexico in 1916 followed the murder of several
Americans by __________.
a. Vittorio Zapata
b. Pancho Villa
c. Francisco Madero
d. Victoriano Huerta
e. Carlo Ponti
How did women and minorities benefit from the organization of labor?
a. They were given a higher percentage of jobs because the government recognized that
they had been traditionally undervalued.
b. Their wages increased to equal those of white men because the government
recognized that they had been traditionally underpaid.
c. They were granted education and agricultural incentives to remove them from the
workplace and direct competition with white men.
d. Unskilled labor, which included many women and minorities, was represented along
with skilled labor by the CIO.
e. Membership in the AFL opened for women ad minorities as unions adopted more
enlightened policies of inclusion.
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have such an emotional impact Americans in the 1850s?
a. It portrayed southerners as greedy, immoral barbarians.
b. It portrayed northern abolitionists as heroic defenders of morality.
c. It showed that slaves were just as evil as the slave owners.
d. It portrayed slavery as a necessary evil that needed to be preserved.
e. It portrayed slavery as a threat to the family and the Cult of Domesticity.
Theodore Roosevelt resigned from his position as __________ to organize the Rough
Riders.
a. vice president
b. secretary of defense
c. assistant secretary of defense
d. secretary of the navy
e. assistant secretary of the navy
What was the focus in Frederick W. Taylor’s management methods?
a. keeping the employee happy and improving working conditions, wages, and hours
b. creating a comfortable working environment, which would make workers’
satisfaction, loyalty, and production increase
c. trusting the employee’s willingness to work and giving workers the power to
influence production positively
d. enforcement of work standards and cooperation to make processes more efficient
e. allowing the worker to develop the best solutions to problems, giving workers power
that even the unions did not provide
The Populist candidate for president in 1892 was __________.
a. William Jennings Bryan
b. James Weaver
c. Mary Lease
d. William McKinley
e. Grover Cleveland
The Free-Soil movement supported the exclusion of slavery from the territories because
__________.
a. it believed in racial justice
b. it believed in the immorality of slavery
c. it feared the outbreak of slave insurrections in the territories
d. of racial prejudice and fear of labor competition from freed slaves
e. most western land was unsuited for plantation agriculture
Why did Spain initially have little interest in settling California?
a. The region was full of Native American groups who fought any Europeans who tried
to settle there.
b. The region had so many French settlers that the Spanish did not want to fight over
land with them.
c. The region appeared to lack natural resources and was not easy to reach from Mexico
City.
d. The region was continually plagued by earthquakes, which frightened the settlers
away.
e. The region was too close to Mexico City and the Native American groups there.
The Grange was originally founded in 1867 to __________.
a. provide social, cultural, and educational activities for farmers
b. allow farmers to have a say in government
c. organize farmers into a union for collective bargaining
d. keep peace between farmers and cattlemen in the West
e. provide collective insurance for farmers and their land
At the end of the Seven Years’ War, American colonists could be characterized best as
__________.
a. hostile toward the British
b. optimistic about the future
c. apathetic about colonial-British relations
d. eager for independence from Great Britain
e. trying to rebuild
What was the significance of the Treaty of Paris of 1783?
a. It established the American borders at the Appalachian Mountains.
b. It ensured Loyalists would not be compensated for their lands.
c. It did not provide a favorable conclusion to the war.
d. It allowed Americans the opportunity for an independent nation.
e. It provided for fair treatment of Native Americans in America’s interior.
What was the role of economic factors in supporting U.S. neutrality in the early years of
World War I?
a. The United States was greatly weakened financially by WWI and saw entering the
war as an economic necessity.
b. The United States grew rich from its neutrality during WWI and saw joining the war
as a way of getting even richer.
c. U-boat attacks had increased commerce for the United States by eliminating the
competition, so continued neutrality benefited the nation’s economy.
d. U-boat attacks prevented the United States from trading freely with Europe and
required U.S. involvement.
e. U-boat attacks cost the German government millions of dollars, making them even
more eager to draw the United States into the war.
Which famous writer wrote proslavery polemics?
a. Edgar Allan Poe
b. Henry David Thoreau
c. Herman Melville
d. James Russell Lowell
e. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first great federal transportation project was the __________.
a. building of the National Road
b. Lancaster Turnpike
c. Erie Canal
d. transcontinental railroad
e. Union and Pacific Railroad
The man who became president of the United States after Lincoln’s assassination was
__________.
a. Robert Smalls
b. Andrew Johnson
c. Ulysses S. Grant
d. William H. Seward
e. Andrew Jackson
Who was the Delaware Prophet?
a. Cotton Mather
b. Pontiac
c. Charles Townshend
d. George Grenville
e. Neolin
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was designed to __________.
a. bring modernization and jobs to desolate areas of the rural upper South
b. help support continued control of electrical power by private companies
c. alienate troublesome conservationists in the president’s administration
d. test the authority of the Supreme Court
e. win votes in a largely Republican area of the country
Bush’s 2003 decision to go to war in Iraq initially seemed __________.
a. foolish because the U.S. military was consistently defeated by Hussein’s forces
b. necessary because Saddam Hussein had been the mastermind of the September 11
terrorist attacks
c. wise because the military quickly succeeded in taking Baghdad
d. wise because intelligence that Saddam Hussein was planning a terrorist attack on the
United States was discovered
e. wise because UN inspectors found weapons of mass destruction in Baghdad
The Taft-Hartley Act was a 1947 bill that outlawed __________.
a. some labor union activities
b. the formation of labor unions
c. racial discrimination in hiring practices
d. gender discrimination in hiring practices
e. many child labor practices
The greatest challenge facing the first Washington administration was __________.
a. foreign affairs
b. waging war with Native Americans
c. setting the government’s finances in order
d. territorial expansion
e. regulating interstate trade
Which of the following groups received the greatest rewards from industrialization?
a. white, native-born females
b. foreign-born males
c. African American males
d. white, native-born males
e. skilled workers in all categories
Why did America experience rapid economic development in the early nineteenth
century?
a. high level of federal support
b. establishment of transcontinental railroad
c. great national transportation system created by the nation’s river network
d. absence of international economic competition
e. development of web presses for printing money
What finally caused Kennedy to support racial justice openly?
a. He visited segregated schools in the South.
b. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.
c. Kennedy wanted a united country to fight the war in Vietnam.
d. Authorities attacked children in a segregation protest in Birmingham, Alabama.
e. The Democratic party threatened not to support him if he did not speak out.
The actions of Commodore Dewey in the Philippines __________.
a. had little effect on the outcome of the war
b. disproved Mahan’s theories regarding naval supremacy
c. provided the United States with an unexpected prize of war
d. showed the surprising strength of the Spanish fleet
e. were undeniably illegal, even if effective
Samuel Chase’s impeachment trial __________.
a. destroyed the authority of the courts
b. forced Marshall to resign
c. maintained the independence of the judiciary
d. showed Jefferson to be a conciliatory leader
e. was a rather dull affair
How was the Watergate Scandal similar to the Iran-Contra affair?
a. Both were excused by the American public because they were overshadowed by
significant progress in U.S.-Soviet relations.
b. Both ultimately restored the American public’s faith in the integrity of the federal
government.
c. They both brought the United States to the brink of nuclear war.
d. They both involved major errors in international diplomacy.
e. Both involved secret, illegal government actions that tarnished the president’s
reputation.
What caused the Gulf of Tonkin affair?
a. American support for covert operations in Vietnam led North Vietnam to attack a
U.S. ship.
b. American intervention in Cuban politics led Castro to urge the North Vietnamese to
attack U.S. ships.
c. American hostility to Russia caused Khrushchev to ask the North Vietnamese to
attack U.S. ships.
d. Russian hostility to North Vietnam caused Khrushchev to ask the United States to
seize North Vietnamese ships.
e. North Vietnam attacked South Vietnamese ships carrying valuable natural resources
to the United States, and the Americans retaliated.
Why did Washington view the Whiskey Rebellion as a serious threat?
a. The rebellious farmers elicited the help of Native Americans, creating a quasi-civil
war.
b. Because the governor refused to suppress the rebellion, Washington saw it as a state’s
refusal to pay taxes and as a violent protest against the government.
c. Because Britain supplied the rebellious farmers with money and arms, Washington
assumed that they were siding with the enemy.
d. Because France was having its own revolutionary war, Washington worried the
violence would lead to civil war.
e. The rebellious farmers began to ship and sell their whiskey to France and England,
breaking
U.S. trade agreements.
The first modern trust was __________.
a. U.S. Steel
b. the Northern Securities Company
c. Standard Oil
d. Carnegie Steel
e. the Pennsylvania Railroad