The Quakers’ religious beliefs were based on which of the following?
A) submission to governmental authority
B) a hierarchical society led by a hereditary nobility
C) an educated and ordained ministry
D) direct, mystical experience of religious truth
In contrast to most Archaic Indian bands in North America, the people at Poverty Point
had a social structure that was __________.
A) egalitarian
B) hierarchical
C) nomadic
D) utopian
Which critic of FDR presented a popular scheme for old-age pensions?
A) Upton Sinclair
B) Father Charles Coughlin
C) Huey P. Long
D) Dr. Francis Townsend
What did Herbert Hoover respond when China asked for the United States to assist
against Japan’s capture of Manchuria?
A) Japan was a superior race and deserved new territory.
B) The League of Nations was more than capable of handling this international crisis.
C) China could count on U.S. assistance as long as that nation could promise to abstain
from Communism.
D) The United States was not a world policeman and the Nine-Power Treaty was solely
a moral instrument.
Compared to the early colonists in the Chesapeake, those in colonial New England had
which of the following?
A) undependable water supplies
B) a far healthier habitat
C) scattered and isolated settlements
D) many more deaths due to malaria
Between 1803 and 1806, the war between France and England did which of the
following?
A) stimulated the American economy dramatically, especially in foreign trade
B) deepened domestic political divisions between the Republicans and the Federalists
C) disrupted and almost destroyed American foreign trade
D) stimulated defense spending in preparation for war
Who was the brilliant and egocentric commander of American land forces in the
Pacific?
A) Chester Nimitz
B) George S. Patton
C) Bernard Montgomery
D) Douglas MacArthur
In the end, Jefferson justified the purchase of Louisiana by __________.
A) reminding the country of the dangers presented by foreigners in North America
B) appealing to the “manifest destiny” of the United States to expand westward to the
Pacific
C) amending the Constitution specifically to allow the addition of new territories
D) bowing to “the good sense of the country,” which seemed to demand the acquisition
despite constitutional difficulties
In 1869, Harvard introduced the __________ system and took the lead in reforming
higher education in the Gilded Age.
A) elective
B) intramural
C) German
D) honors
Who described the “problem that had no name” in her 1963 book The Feminine
Mystique?
A) Phyllis Schlafly
B) Norma McCorvey
C) Simone de Beauvoir
D) Betty Friedan
In 1818 the first regularly scheduled passenger and freight service between New York
and England was opened by __________.
A) the Hudson Bay Company
B) Hapag Lloyd
C) the Black Ball Line
D) the Virginia Company
Late-nineteenth-century feminists were handicapped in their campaign for woman
suffrage by which of the following?
A) strong opposition in western states
B) their demand for an equal rights amendment and an equal pay provision
C) the Victorian notion that women were pure guardians of home and family
D) their support for equal pay for equal work
In March 1939 Adolph Hitler broke his promise made at Munich and seized which
country?
A) Denmark
B) Sudetenland
C) Austria
D) Czechoslovakia
During the 1920s, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s political ideas were __________.
A) shaped by his extensive study of the writings of John Maynard Keynes
B) uniformly in agreement with the socialism of Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas
C) profoundly influenced by his experience of daily contact with the poor as a social
worker
D) consistent with the basic values of Coolidge prosperity
Who was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former
State Department official accused of being a communist?
A) Dr. Klaus Fuchs
B) Alger Hiss
C) Harry Gold
D) Julius Rosenberg
What was the most important southern crop in the 1840s and 1850s?
A) tobacco
B) wheat
C) sugar cane
D) cotton
The religious pamphlets and books distributed by the American Tract Society
__________.
A) played down denominational differences in favor of a generalized evangelical
Christianity
B) succeeded in converting many readers to Catholicism
C) were directed primarily at converting the various Native American tribes
D) stressed denominational differences because of the bitter disputes among various
churches
Who of the following was the most critical of laissez-faire economics?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) William H. Taft
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) J. P. Morgan
What was Taft’s major liability as president?
A) His sweeping use of executive power.
B) His total reversal of Roosevelt’s major policies.
C) His impetuous, aggressive, and spiteful personality.
D) His excessive weight.
What made the invention of the mechanical reaper so significant?
A) Few machines had been able to harvest cotton efficiently before.
B) Farmers could benefit even if they had only very small amounts of land.
C) It allowed farmers to bring in the harvest far more quickly.
D) It addressed the chronic labor shortage in the upper Mississippi Valley.
The government did which of the following to pay for almost 40 percent of the cost of
World War II?
A) borrowed from corporations
B) simply printed as much paper money as needed
C) increased taxes
D) borrowed from Great Britain
The invasion of which African country is demonstrative of the expansionist aims of
Italy during the 1930s?
A) Chad
B) Algeria
C) Sudan
D) Ethiopia
The Embargo Act of 1807 __________.
A) won public acclaim for Jefferson because “he kept us out of war.”
B) was resented and resisted by large numbers of Americans.
C) easily accomplished its purpose.
D) was not supported initially by many Americans, but they eventually saw the wisdom
of Jefferson’s policy.
In Aaron Burr’s trial for treason, __________.
A) Burr readily admitted his guilt
B) Hamilton antagonized Burr so much that they fought a duel in which Hamilton was
killed
C) neither President Jefferson nor Chief Justice Marshall acted impartially
D) Chief Justice Marshall displayed great impartiality in contrast to Jefferson’s
vindictive behavior toward Burr
Which of the following helps account for Andrew Jackson’s mass appeal?
A) He was as poor as the western settlers that flocked to the Democratic Party.
B) He had a charming and friendly personality that few found resistible.
C) His reputation as a killer of Indians endeared him to many voters.
D) His family’s aristocratic history prompted much admiration and respect.
Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 platform included __________.
A) political centralization
B) close economic integration
C) strict regulation and control of corporations
D) restoration of competition
President Van Buren attempted to “divorce” the government from all banking activities
through which of the following?
A) a “pet” banks network
B) the Independent Treasury Act
C) the Specie Circular
D) the Third National Bank
The Stamp Act was repealed in 1766 primarily because of the __________.
A) pressure from British merchants who had been hurt by the American boycott
B) recognition by Parliament that it had acted unconstitutionally
C) petition sent from the Stamp Act Congress
D) riots and disturbances in the colonies protesting the act
George Washington chose his cabinet __________.
A) without consulting John Adams, his vice president
B) from persons to whom he owed political favors
C) without regard to political affiliation or personal agreement with him
D) from his personal friends in Virginia
Alexander Hamilton’s Report on the Public Credit presented a plan deliberately
intended to do which of the following?
A) give a special advantage to the rich and thus win their support
B) penalize speculation in government securities
C) aid veterans of the Revolution in financing land purchases
D) provide help to debtor farmers
Clinton’s economic policies helped his political survival because the American
economy __________.
A) reduced its foreign trade deficit while increasing its exports
B) grew steadily while avoiding unemployment, inflation, and recession
C) concentrated on the emerging problems of global warming and the exhaustion of
fossil fuels
D) turned away from the globalization represented by the World Trade Organization
and the proposed North America Free Trade Agreement
The 1925 Dayton, Tennessee, “Monkey Trial” dealt with which of the following?
A) promoting free speech
B) limiting freedom of religion
C) halting cruelty to animals
D) teaching evolution in public schools
Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and Benjamin Wade were leaders of the
__________.
A) Radical Republicans
B) Copperheads
C) Lincoln Republicans
D) Peace Democrats
By the beginning of World War I, how did most Americans view their role in the world?
A) They had rejected the isolationism of earlier generations.
B) They were keenly aware of the implications of extending American influence into
underdeveloped nations.
C) They did as they wanted in foreign affairs, unlimited by any rational analysis of the
probable consequences.
D) They had a sophisticated understanding of the implications of America’s new status
as a world power.