Which of the following occurred under the Platt Amendment?
A) America promised it would not acquire the Philippines as a result of the
Spanish-American War.
B) Cuba was forced to promise to grant naval bases to America and to avoid treaties
with any foreign power which might compromise its independence.
C) America promised to grant independence to the Philippines by 1925.
D) Cuba promised to allow American businesses to do as they wished.
In November 1942, where did Allied forces made their first attack on Nazi-controlled
territory?
A) France
B) Italy
C) Sicily
D) French North Africa
What did Theodore Roosevelt call the progressive-era journalists who investigated
corruption and fraud in American business and politics?
A) muckrakers
B) yellow journalists
C) paper tigers
D) whistle blowers
What did the Coinage Act of 1873 do?
A) monetized silver
B) demonetized silver
C) demonized silver
D) restored the gold standard
After the election of 1892, it became clear that __________ was of utmost interest to
voters.
A) workers’ rights to unionize
B) the coinage of silver
C) civil service reform
D) black voting rights
In addition to closing its gates to eastern European immigrants in the 1920s, the United
States also __________.
A) prohibited immigration from Canada
B) experienced increasing anti-Semitism
C) prohibited immigration from Latin America
D) experienced decreasing anti-Catholicism
Which of Alexander Graham Bell’s interests led to the invention of the telephone?
A) deaf education
B) petroleum manufacturing
C) music and recording
D) electric lights
The American strategy in the Pacific called for which of the following?
A) a single drive from New Guinea toward the Philippines
B) a two-pronged drive from New Guinea toward the Philippines and from the central
Pacific toward Tokyo
C) a three-pronged drive from New Guinea toward the Philippines, from the central
Pacific toward Tokyo, and from Australia toward the Gilbert Islands
D) a single drive from the central Pacific toward Tokyo
The Vietcong __________ offensive in January caused great chaos throughout South
Vietnam.
A) Iron Triangle
B) Pleiku
C) Tet
D) My Lai
Railroad growth in the early part of the nineteenth century lagged due to __________.
A) direct competition with canals and riverboats
B) engineering problems related to the diverse American topography
C) excessive government regulation
D) the poor quality of American iron and steel
The Treaty of Ghent (1814) ending the War of 1812 __________.
A) required the British to stop the impressment of seamen
B) simply reestablished the status quo from before the war
C) clearly defined the rights of neutral nations
D) was merely a temporary halt in the ongoing violent conflicts between the British and
the American.
George Washington’s greatest strength as a national hero was his __________.
A) warm, outgoing personality
B) brilliant strategic and tactical abilities as a military commander
C) powerful oratorical and literary abilities
D) personal sacrifices and his obvious disinclination toward becoming a dictator
Which labor organization, led by John L. Lewis, fought to organize the semi-skilled and
unskilled workers in major mass production industries in the 1930s?
A) American Federation of Labor
B) Teamsters Union
C) Committee for Industrial Organization
D) Industrial Workers of the World
The ability of the Plains Indians to resist white expansion was severely damaged by
which of the following?
A) the introduction of the horse
B) the destruction of the buffalo
C) the blizzard of 1873
D) whites’ superior military training
Which small-town businessman led an “army” of the unemployed on a march to
Washington, D.C. in 1894?
A) Jacob Coxey
B) Eugene Debs
C) Terence Powderly
D) George Pullman
After Victoriano Huerta fled from power, President Wilson made a mistake regarding
his policy toward Mexico. What was it?
A) He maintained strict neutrality.
B) He supported the provisionary government because of their commitment to social
reform.
C) He landed the marines at Vera Cruz to restore stability.
D) He supported one of Huerta’s generals, Francisco “Pancho” Villa.
Why did President Kennedy establish the Peace Corps?
A) to help the CIA build spy networks in the developing world
B) to educate people in the Third World about the dangers of communism.
C) to give young Americans a chance to volunteer in the nation’s most underprivileged
classrooms
D) to get young Americans to provide technical assistance to the developing world
Which of the following best assesses Jefferson’s response to Hamilton’s fiscal structure
erected during the Adams presidency?
A) He utterly demolished the federal tax system.
B) He made no particular effort to erase Hamilton’s financial system.
C) He proved to be even more heavy-handed in federal taxation than Hamilton.
D) He promised his supporters the complete destruction of Hamilton’s fiscal structures
but secretly kept them in place.
Why did Americans seek land in the prairie West during the 1840s and 1850s?
A) They were looking for cheap land on which to buy their homes.
B) They were looking for sites to establish self-sufficient communities.
C) They were hoping to rival the southern cotton empire.
D) They wanted to take advantage of higher prices in commercial agriculture.
Most of the wealth from the mines in the West went into whose pockets?
A) original prospectors
B) large mining corporations
C) gamblers and desperadoes
D) regional railroads
In arguing for royal assistance for English colonization, Richard Hakluyt stressed which
of the following?
A) the military advantages of building forts to threaten Spanish treasure fleets
B) the likelihood of settling religious dissenters and criminals in the New World
C) the possibilities of jointly exploiting the New World with Spain
D) the need to prevent Dutch expansion
Which of the following explains the significance of the publication of Common Sense?
A) It delivered original arguments no one had made before.
B) It tempered the zealotry of patriots with measured and diplomatic language.
C) It assured colonists that their step into independence bore little risk.
D) It applied a simple but effective zealot rhetoric to the state of affairs.
Which of the following contributed to the success of the colony of Pennsylvania?
A) the presence of settled colonies nearby
B) a uniform group of settlers
C) the small number of settlers in the colony
D) the revolutionary democratic institutions established by Penn
By the 1850s, the common school movement had succeeded in establishing
__________.
A) free elementary schools and public institutions for teacher training in every state
B) laws requiring school attendance to the age of 16 in every state outside the South
C) free elementary and secondary schools in every state
D) free elementary schools and public institutions for teacher training in every state
outside the South
Who complained in 1824 that he had been the victim of a “corrupt bargain”?
A) Henry Clay
B) William Henry Harrison
C) John C. Calhoun
D) Andrew Jackson
Who was one of the most prominent black militants of the Progressive Era?
A) Booker T. Washington
B) W. E. B. Du Bois
C) Oswald Garrison Villard
D) William English Walling
How did Adolf Hitler’s brutal Aryan supremacist ideology affect the lives of African
Americans in the United States?
A) Because of Nazi ideology, German soldiers treated black POWs with particular
violence.
B) Hitler’s ideology attracted American followers who persecuted African Americans
with increasing violence.
C) African Americans recognized the extent of racist evil in Europe and recognized that
discrimination in the United States was comparatively mild.
D) The consequences of Hitler’s brutal views prompted white Americans to rethink their
racism, which prepared the ground for the black Civil Rights movement.
Alfred Thayer Mahan argued in the 1890s that national security and prosperity rested
on a powerful __________.
A) economy
B) Congress
C) president
D) navy
What was a major social effect of World War II on American life?
A) a declining marriage rate
B) a return of women to the role of full-time housewives
C) a general decrease in the income of workers and farmers
D) a tendency for the population to shift to the west
The __________ Treaty settled the boundary dispute between the United States and
Spain, but left out Texas.
A) Transcontinental
B) Clayton-Bulwer
C) Webster-Ashburton
D) Gadsden
Which of the following was domesticated by many tribes to form a staple of their diet
and contributed enormously to the success of the English colonies?
A) cattle
B) corn
C) rice
D) wheat
Why did General William Tecumseh Sherman pursue a ‘scorched earth” strategy in
Georgia?
What were the roots of the progressive movement in the late nineteenth century?
Why did some Americans fear the changes of the decade and how did they respond?
Explain the key principles of the Republican administrations of Harding and Coolidge.
How has the concept of community changed in the United States since the 1960s?
Explain the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act on the North in the wake of the
Compromise of 1850.
What broader economic developments led to Eurasian cultures that were notably
different from American ones?
Explain the advantages and dangers of the philosophy of pragmatism.
What distinguished the Whigs from the Jacksonians, and how were they
similar? Explain.
Discuss the failures and successes of George Washington’s foreign policy.
Explain the most important aspects of the Columbian exchange
If you were a free African American in the revolutionary period, would you have
supported the Constitution? Why, why not? Explain.
How did the Enlightenment help prepare colonists for national independence?
Explain the key features of the new political system that emerged with Andrew Jackson
in the late 1820s.
Explain why the United States entered World War I.
How did native-born, largely Anglo-Saxon Americans react to the growing number of
immigrants from southern and eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century?