The architects of the Carolina colony
A) designed the most democratic of all the colonial governments.
B) intended to create a hereditary aristocracy of wealthy manor lords.
C) commissioned the capture of Indians for sale as slaves in New England and the West
Indies.
D) wished to pursue radical social experiments begun during the English civil war.
A major element of Nixon’s foreign policy was to
A) establish that communism was monolithic throughout the world.
B) concentrate American interests in the Western Hemisphere.
C) use Congress to foster new diplomatic initiatives.
D) foster new diplomatic relations with the communist countries.
Congress impeached President Johnson for
A) the Credit Mobilier scandals.
B) permitting blacks to vote.
C) extramarital affairs in office.
D) violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Radical abolitionist John Brown
A) beat Senator Sumner senseless with his cane.
B) delivered “The Crime Against Kansas” speech.
C) led a massacre at Pottawatomie Creek.
D) directed the sacking of Lawrence.
The Battle of Bull Run was a prophetic one in that it showed the
A) superior ability of Union generals.
B) poor discipline of Confederate troops.
C) possibility that victory would be neither quick nor easy.
D) certainty of their prospects for quick victory.
Discuss the beginnings of the women’s rights movement in antebellum America.
An important factor influencing industrial work in late nineteenth-century America was
A) increased demand for skilled labor as opposed to unskilled labor.
B) the decline of mass production.
C) ethnic diversity.
D) the ease with which native-born and immigrant workers cooperated.
All of the following describe the historical development of sugar within the Latin
American system of slavery EXCEPT:
A) Its output doubled at the beginning of the 1800s.
B) Slaves were indispensable to the growth of sugar in the Caribbean and Brazil.
C) Sugar was to Latin America what cotton was to the American South.
D) European demand for sugar declined over time before 1860.
Ed Coy, like more than 1,400 black men in the 1890s, was killed by a southern white
A) firing squad.
B) lynch mob.
C) sheriff.
D) child.
Mexican Americans who became soldiers in the United States Army during World War
II
A) constituted a very small percentage of the military.
B) often returned to civilian life with a new sense of self-esteem.
C) escaped from the prejudice they had experienced as civilians.
D) proved to be inferior fighters.
Public reaction to the series of strikes that occurred in the United States during 1919
tended to
A) condemn the actions of the attorney general.
B) support the justice of the strikers’ cause.
C) view the strikers as patriots exercising their right to assembly.
D) blame the communists for the unrest.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act, designed by the New Deal to confront the nation’s
agricultural crisis,
A) rejected the concept of “parity prices.”
B) successfully limited agricultural production.
C) helped the larger farmers more than the smaller farmers.
D) helped the smaller farmers more than the larger farmers.
During the Civil War, the northern army
A) treated black soldiers poorly.
B) paid blacks better than whites.
C) refused to recruit blacks.
D) considered blacks to be superior soldiers.
In 1885 in Chicago an architectural urban wonder appeared, known as the
A) Brooklyn Bridge.
B) skyscraper.
C) Chunnel.
D) Hoover Dam.
President Taft angered many Progressives with his
A) regulation of foods and drugs.
B) curbing Speaker Cannon’s powers.
C) policies on tariff and conservation.
D) opposition to municipal reform.
During the early years of the Civil War, the northern navy concentrated on
A) raiding southern merchant ships.
B) developing new weapons and ironclad vessels.
C) gaining footholds along the southern coast for a blockade.
D) freeing the slaves in southern ports.
Early American cities witnessed most Americans ________ to work.
A) walking
B) riding horses
C) riding in wagons
D) taking public trains
After learning of missiles in Cuba, Kennedy imposed
A) martial law.
B) a blockade.
C) a quarantine.
D) economic sanctions.
As a leader among Chicanos during the 1970s, Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales
A) avoided activities that might bring confrontation with the authorities.
B) enthusiastically supported the war in Vietnam.
C) pressed for return of land that the United States government had taken from
Mexicans years earlier.
D) founded the Crusade for Justice.
The conviction that a woman’s main role was still homemaking was used to
A) keep married women out of the workplace altogether.
B) redefine some occupations as acceptable for women.
C) justify lower wages and denial of promotions.
D) limit job choices to domestic work or child care.
In the colony of Maryland, the Calvert family intended to
A) initiate all colonial legislation.
B) carefully limit population growth.
C) offer a religious refuge to Catholics.
D) promote economic and social equality.
At the beginning of World War I, President Wilson
A) advocated an American alliance with England.
B) expressed support for a German victory.
C) declared a policy of neutrality.
D) recommended that the United States stop trading with the belligerent countries.
In 1805, in the case of Palmer v.Mulligan, the Court determined that
A) private property could be developed for business purposes.
B) Native Americans were domestic dependent nations.
C) the Supreme Court had final rule over state courts.
D) immigrants could not come to the United States in large numbers.
The Puritans of England
A) wished to rid the Church of England of all Catholic beliefs and practices.
B) shunned the notions of social reform and missionary activity.
C) welcomed changes sparked by England’s accelerating commercial activity.
D) loyally supported the rule of King Charles I.
As cities grew, new values took hold in British North America.
Prior to 1830, southerners generally defended slavery as a(n)
A) historical inevitability.
B) positive good.
C) necessary evil.
D) biblical injunction.
For southern white women, Mary Boykin Chestnut regarded “the sorest spot” of slavery
as the
A) excessive cruelty of the overseers.
B) social isolation and loneliness.
C) obligation to feed, clothe, and nurse additional children.
D) double standard of plantation sexuality.
During the 1890s, a group of men led by Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge
A) opposed American expansion outside the western hemisphere.
B) endorsed Bryan’s anti-imperialistic concepts.
C) promoted a highly nationalistic foreign policy for the United States.
D) endorsed a policy of “continentalism.”
Britain agreed to a division of the Oregon Territory at the 49th parallel so long as it
retained possession of
A) the Columbia River.
B) Vancouver Island.
C) the Puget Sound.
D) the Willamette Valley.
In its effort to mobilize the American economy for the war effort during World War I,
the Wilson administration
A) issued rationing stamps to limit food consumption.
B) quickly increased the construction of battleships.
C) failed to recognize the importance of women as consumers.
D) used the power of the government to control scarce materials.
Religious life in the colonies was marked by
A) tightly organized and disciplined congregations.
B) government compulsion to attend services.
C) scarcity of trained ministers.
D) discrimination against Anglicans.
Discuss the causes and consequences of Shays’s Rebellion in Massachusetts in
1786-1787.
France, Austria, and ________ fought against Great Britain and Prussia during the
French and Indian War.
Discuss the causes and results of economic expansion in the South from 1820 to 1860.
Immigrant workers in eastern cities and those who lived in the southern parts of the
Midwest had little sympathy for abolitionism or blacks, supporting the antiwar stance of
the Peace Democrats, often referred to as ________.
Assume you were a member of a working-class American family during the late
nineteenth century. Describe the conditions under which your family would probably
have lived.
Carter upset liberals in many areas, including the beginning of ________, or removal of
governmental controls in economic life.
How did Britain attempt to restructure its colonial empire from 1688 to 1763? Were the
years of the early eighteenth century a period of ‘salutary neglect”?
Analyze the types of problems faced by a reformer in challenging the status quo.
Explain the controversy surrounding the Alien and Sedition Acts.
The American Revolution gave rise to the idea of separating _________ and state.
If you had been a 20-year-old American Indian living in the 1960s and 1970s, what
changes might you have observed in the conditions of your people during that time?
Discuss the efforts made by the Franklin Roosevelt administration to mobilize the
American economy in support of the war effort after the United States entered World
War II in 1941.
The island of ________, by 1840, was the world’s largest producer of sugarcane.
In 1902, Congress passed the ________ Act.
The _____________ day became a cornerstone of the labor movement in the late
1800s.
From 1823 to 1845, Texas grew from a sparsely settled region of northern Mexico to an
independent republic to a state in the American Union. Discuss the reasons for and the
major events of this transformation.