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Which religiously liberal group of the early nineteenth century denied the doctrine of
the Trinity?
A) Presbyterians
B) Congregationalists
C) Unitarians
D) Methodists
E) Mormons
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
What did state and local governments do to help the early railroads?
A) They gave them money and land.
B) They gave them the right to seize private property.
C) They gave them free labor to lay tracks.
D) They gave them legal immunity.
E) They backed railroad bonds.
In his approach to foreign affairs, Wilson could be described as _____.
A) a militarist
B) a moralist
C) an economist
D) a global strategist
E) a pacifist
Which of the following was true about the Compromise of 1850?
A) It temporarily restored sectional peace.
B) It failed to pass Congress despite revisions.
C) It prohibited slavery in the New Mexico territory.
D) It made it easier for escaped slaves to hide in the West.
E) It temporarily made California a slave state.
How were religion and foreign policy related in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries in the United States?
A) Many U.S. foreign ministers were religious leaders, using their diplomatic posts for
missionary access.
B) Many religious leaders believed that the United States was blessed with riches that
should be shared with the world's poor, making foreign policy mainly about charity.
C) Many religious leaders believed that the United States belonged to Christians, and
they should be content and not seek more riches throughout the world.
D) Many religious leaders believed that Americans should bring Christianity to the rest
of the world, so they advocated imperialist foreign policies.
E) Many religious leaders followed the "conversion by sword" example of Europe in
the Middle Ages, so they advocated military coups.
What action took place after proslavery adherents raided Lawrence, the free-state
capital of Kansas, in 1856?
A) John Brown and his followers killed five Native Americans in a land dispute.
B) A mob of angry settlers attacked and killed five escaped slaves.
C) An escaped slave killed a family of five white settlers.
D) John Brown killed eight abolitionists in Kansas.
E) John Brown and his followers killed five proslavery settlers in cold blood.
To what was French historian Alexis de Tocqueville referring when he wrote, "it is
possible to foresee that the freer the whites in America are, the more they will seek to
isolate themselves"?
A) The more rights and liberties whites obtain, the less willing they are to share those
rights with others such as African or Native Americans.
B) Democracy breeds in people (white Americans especially) an isolationist attitude,
causing them to eschew involvement in foreign affairs.
C) As all whites gain rights and liberties despite social or economic status, they will be
more willing to share those rights with nonwhites.
D) In order to gain rights and liberties, whites must oppress others, namely African and
Native Americans.
E) Because white Americans are isolated from African and Native Americans, they do
not see that they do not share the same rights and liberties.
Which tribe was most successful at resisting conversion to Catholicism?
A) Pueblos
B) Coahuiltecans
C) Aztecs
D) Pimas
E) Conchos
Anne Hutchinson's skillful self-defense at her trial before the magistrates of
Massachusetts Bay was ruined by ________.
A) her affinity for the dictum of works
B) her claim of personal revelation
C) her reliance on the Scriptures
D) her rejection of free grace
E) the fact that she was female
Why did the Free-Soil movement support the exclusion of slavery from the territories?
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) It feared labor competition from slaves.
E) Most western land was unsuited for plantation agriculture.
The ________ nation included peoples of both Native American and African origins.
A) Algonquin
B) Seminole
C) Cherokee
D) Apache
E) Choctaw
Whose action sparked the Montgomery bus boycott?
A) Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) Ella Baker
C) Rosa Parks
D) Thurgood Marshall
E) Orval Faubus
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
What was the most significant consequence of the Seven Years' War?
A) its virtual destruction of American Indians
B) Britain's staggering war debt
C) the remaining French toehold in Quebec
D) the assassination of George II
E) a distaste for further fighting by the colonists
Why did the Articles of Confederation give states more power than the central
government?
A) The delegates believed that powerful state governments were dangerous.
B) The delegates were mostly state governors, so they wanted to preserve their own
power.
C) The new central government had proven itself unworthy of power with corrupt
officials and systematic abuses.
D) Articles of Confederation by definition must give power to the states as it is a
state-wide document.
E) The delegates believed that powerful central governments were dangerous.
In what way was Taft more of a conservationist than Roosevelt?
A) He opposed Pinchot's sale of millions of acres of public land.
B) He opposed Ballinger's sale of Alaskan land to coal companies.
C) He instituted the nation's first recycling program.
D) He was a vegetarian and opposed to hunting animals.
E) He conserved more public land than his predecessor.
Why did the Knights of Labor fail?
A) A major defeat weakened the group.
B) It was unable to organize the workers.
C) It had no successful strikes.
D) It was unable to develop a set of objectives.
E) Terence Powderly was imprisoned.
The writings of Mark Twain ________.
A) reflected the mood of romanticism in literature
B) portrayed life in the tenements of the East
C) focused exclusively on adventure and escapism
D) included local dialects and regional stories
E) never gained international prominence
Why did Jeffersonians fear strong financial institutions?
A) Most were simple farmers who did not understand banking policy.
B) They resented Federalists, who tended to have more money.
C) They held firm religious beliefs about the sin of greed.
D) Most were anti-Semitic, believing that banks were controlled by Jewish interests.
E) They believed that banks were the root of corruption in the British government.
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
Who wrote the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique?
A) Jacqueline Kennedy
B) Rosa Parks
C) Ella Baker
D) Betty Friedan
E) Coretta Scott King
Which of these was most likely the principal reason Spain found its North American
border hard to hold?
A) lack of mineral resources
B) lack of arable land
C) its vastness
D) Spanish-British hostilities
E) the opposition of the Plains Indians
William Lloyd Garrison's stand on _________ led to an open break at the national
convention of the American Anti-slavery Society in 1840.
A) interracial marriage
B) African-American rights
C) religion
D) temperance
E) women's rights
As a result of revivalism, northern evangelicals were involved with each of the
following EXCEPT ________.
A) abolitionism
B) missionary and benevolent associations
C) the temperance movement
D) Indian removal
E) publication of religious tracts
The Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed that the best way to reform the Church of
England was to ________.
A) separate from it and reform it from the outside
B) rely on help from the English monarchy
C) remain in the Church and reform it from the inside
D) refuse to associate with it in any way
E) actively work to destroy the tenets with which they disagreed
How are expansion and migration after 1812 in the U.S. related?
A. As the U.S. expanded, people immigrated to these areas.
B. Expansion was caused primarily by the pressure of migration.
C. As the U.S. expanded its borders, people migrated to these new areas.
D. Expansion and migration are both direct results of improved water transportation
after 1812.
E. Expansion and migration are both direct results of improved land transportation after
1812.
In 1622, the Native American tribes of Virginia ________.
A) attacked the English settlements
B) formed an alliance with the Native American tribes of New England
C) established permanently good relations with the English settlers
D) learned from the English settlers how to grow tobacco
E) migrated westward to avoid future contact with settlers
Why did the Republican Party call for "free soil" in the territories rather than freedom
for African Americans?
A) Focusing on land rather than people would make it easier to pass legislation through
Congress.
B) The party knew that achieving its dream of liberating all African Americans was
unrealistic, so it settled on the compromise of "free soil."
C) The party was focusing on "free soil" as a first step in the eventual freedom of all
African Americans.
D) Putting the focus on the laws of the land rather than the freedom of African
Americans would prevent isolating the hard line racists in the party.
E) Abolitionism conflicted with the North's commitment to both white supremacy and
the original constitutional compromise about slavery.
________ caused the most important changes in voting patterns in the immediate
post-war years.
A) The tremendous loss of male lives
B) Western migration
C) The dramatically increased standard of living
D) The Articles of Confederation
E) The movement of state capitals to more central locations
