The men largely responsible for Spain’s conquest of the New World were known as
________.
A) conquistadores
B) coureurs de bois
C) “Sea Dogs”
D) pirates
E) encomenderos
What was the role of the colonial militias?
A) They played a decisive role in several major battles.
B) They kept the slave population in line.
C) They maintained political control in areas not occupied by British troops.
D) They consisted mainly of African Americans.
E) They would sometimes switch sides if they did not get paid.
As a result of the war, how did the American society change?
A) The United States became a better place for large corporations.
B) The United States became more reliant on individuals and small producers for
economic progress.
C) The United States began to emulate nostalgic representations of life in the Old
South.
D) The United States became more socialistic, and began to address the needs of the
poor and the disadvantaged.
E) The United States became militantly anti-corporation.
How did John Marshall influence the United States?
A) He created the first commercial steam ship, proving that people and freight can
move by steam power.
B) He brokered the Adams-Ons Treaty, granting the U.S. the fertile land of Florida.
C) He influenced the future of the institution of slavery in the U.S. by convincing
congress to pass the Missouri Compromise.
D) He influenced the future of the U.S. and Latin America through his Supreme Court
rulings like the Monroe Doctrine.
E) He influenced the future of the U.S. economy through his Supreme Court rulings.
Which of the following individuals is INCORRECTLY matched with his or her reform
movement?
A) Lyman Beecher: temperance
B) Horace Mann: public schools
C) Theodore Dwight Weld: abolition
D) Elizabeth Cady Stanton: women’s rights
E) David Walker: prison reform
How could a territory become a state according to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787?
A) First a territory had to raise enough money to buy their land from the European
country that owned it, then the people could petition for statehood.
B) Once the people of the territory had successfully subdued the Native American
population, they could become a state.
C) Territories had to elect officials and then write Articles of Confederation in order to
become a full-fledged state.
D) Once population reached 60,000, residents could write a constitution and petition for
statehood.
E) After a period of eighteen years, territories could petition the federal government for
permission to become a state.
What can one conclude from Jackson’s response to the nullification crisis?
A) Jackson was a strong supporter of states’ rights.
B) Jackson believed that states were not truly sovereign.
C) Jackson supported the unlimited use of federal power.
D) Jackson supported higher tariffs especially on manufactured goods coming from
Europe.
E) Jackson supported lower tariffs especially on manufactured goods going from the
South to the North.
What was the center of the socioeconomic life of the Plains tribes?
A) the sun
B) grain cultivation
C) the buffalo
D) the elk
E) war
Most southern planters considered their slaves to be ________.
A) hard working and industrious
B) children who required constant supervision
C) skilled and motivated
D) dangerous malcontents
E) mere property
How did the Mexican-American War affect sectional tensions in the U.S.?
A) Tensions were appeased because of the expansion of slavery.
B) New ties between the Old and New Northwest increased national harmony.
C) Linked by railroads, the entire country entered a period of unprecedented harmony.
D) It eased North-South tensions because of the acquisition of new territory.
E) It exacerbated North-South conflicts because of the slavery issue.
In addition to reading, writing, and arithmetic, mid-nineteenth-century public schools
taught ________.
A) abolitionist ideals
B) the Protestant ethic
C) Catholicism
D) the evils of industrialization
E) the merits of science over religion
The Montgomery bus boycott _______.
A) moved Martin Luther King, Jr. away from his philosophy of passive resistance
B) sparked an outburst of violence against blacks all over the South
C) led to the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a civil rights leader
D) failed to change Montgomery’s strict segregation laws
E) ended when President Eisenhower sent in troops to stop the boycott
What can be assumed about attitudes toward foreign policy given the status of the
Republican Party in the early twentieth century?
A) The pro-isolationist Republicans were the most popular party, so it can be assumed
that expansionists were in the minority.
B) The anti-imperialist Republicans were the most popular party, so it can be assumed
that pro-imperialists were a minority.
C) The pro-isolationist Republicans were the most popular party, so it can be assumed
that interventionists were in the minority.
D) The pro-expansionist Republicans were the most popular party, so it can be assumed
that isolationists were in the minority.
E) The anti-imperialist Republicans were the most popular party, so it can be assumed
that isolationists were also popular.
With the outbreak of war in Europe in 1939, President Roosevelt _______.
A) immediately declared war on Germany
B) immediately loaned war supplies to Britain and France
C) declared American neutrality
D) warned Germany not to invade France
E) made a secret pact with the Russians
Hitler started World War II by invading ________ on September 1, 1939.
A) Austria
B) Poland
C) France
D) Czechoslovakia
E) Switzerland
Which of the following was NOT an important stimulus to American economic growth
in the late 1940s and early 1950s?
A) government relief aid
B) pent-up demand for consumer goods
C) heavy government spending during the Cold War
D) $37 billion in American savings
E) government spending during the Korean War
The central issue of the 2004 presidential election was ________.
A) the war in Iraq
B) the Cold War
C) the economy
D) family values
E) the war on drugs
Why did Congress refuse Reagan’s request for money and authority for further
intervention in Nicaragua?
A) They believed the Nicaraguan conflict was not a threat to the United States.
B) They wanted to block as many of Reagan’s foreign policy initiatives as possible.
C) They feared repeating the mistakes of the Vietnam War.
D) They feared angering the public in an election year.
E) There were no funds available due to expanding deficits.
In 1900, ________ founded the first industrial research laboratory.
A) Du Pont
B) General Electric
C) Standard Oil
D) Eastman Kodak
E) Westinghouse
Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom called for _____.
A) the expansion of government
B) less government regulation
C) business competition and small government
D) government restraint of competition
E) overseas expansion
Why did disputes erupt among the Republican Party when Taft took office?
A) Taft began to side with progressive Republicans, emphasizing the differences
between them and the Democrats.
B) Roosevelt’s forceful personality had concealed or managed the conflicts, but when
he left office the conflicts reemerged.
C) Just before leaving office, Roosevelt had sown seeds of discontent with his
conservation, labor, and education reforms.
D) Taft was an unlikable man who quickly created resentment from voters, even those
who were his supporters.
E) Taft was so strong-willed and opinionated that he alienated even members of his own
political party.
Lyndon Johnson’s reform program was called the ________.
A) Fair Deal
B) New Frontier
C) Great Society
D) Great Future
E) Morning in America
The president broke the Pullman strike on grounds that it ________.
A) had exposed the United States to foreign invasion
B) had interfered with the collection of taxes
C) had raised the possibility of open class warfare
D) had obstructed the delivery of the mail
E) had forced wealthy travelers to ride in ordinary passenger cars
The man who taught Virginians how to grow tobacco was ________.
A) Captain John Smith
B) Powhatan
C) John Rolfe
D) Sir Edwin Sandys
E) the Duke of Marlboro
The nation’s largest ethnic minority by 2002 was ________.
A) Asian Americans
B) African Americans
C) Hispanics
D) women
E) Chinese Americans
How did the Constitutional Convention affect slavery?
A) It allowed the slave trade to continue indefinitely.
B) It permitted Congress to outlaw the importation of slaves in 1808.
C) It provided for an immediate end to the importation of African slaves.
D) It declared slavery to be illegal as of 1808.
E) It declared that slaves could not be purchased in the United States after 1808.
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
How was Jackson’s Force Bill of 1833 connected with slavery?
A) South Carolina equated the extension of federal power with a threat to the institution
of slavery.
B) Many Northerners feared that if Southerners required the threat of force to pay tariffs
they would require physical violence to obey antislavery laws.
C) The Force Bill of 1833 surprised South Carolinians in that Jackson showed he was
willing to force abolitionist ideas on Southerners.
D) The Force Bill of 1833 required Southerners to pay tariffs on all manufactured
goods, including slaves traded from Africa and within the South.
E) The Force Bill of 1833 put a time limit not only on the slave trade but also the
institution itself.
In the election of 1808, the Federalist Party ________.
A) seemed unable to adapt to the changes in society
B) made impressive gains in Congress
C) had won new support in the West
D) was dominated by innovative new political leaders
E) nominated George Clinton for president
Which of the following was opposed to President Tyler’s plan for the annexation of
Texas?
A) northern antislavery Whigs
B) southern agricultural interests
C) New England merchants
D) Great Britain
E) railroad companies
What does the following quote mean? “The United States was born in the country and
moved to the city.”
A) The United States started out as a small country, but became extremely populated
over time.
B) Most Americans were uncomfortable with living in large cities until the nineteenth
century.
C) The size of the country grew exponentially larger once people started living in cities.
D) Most Americans preferred living in rural areas, but were forced to move to cities
because that was where most jobs were located.
E) The United States began as a rural country and then became much more urban over
time.
According to whose political theory is power dangerous and must be countered by
virtue?
A) Commonwealthmen
B) Whigs
C) Tories
D) Patriots
E) Loyalists
Who were the main conductors on the Underground Railroad?
A) sympathetic plantation owners in the South
B) freed slaves in the Southwest
C) free blacks in the North
D) affluent whites in the North
E) working-class whites
Thomas Jefferson felt it was important that the U.S. government ________.
A) foster strong ties with Great Britain
B) support business and industrial development
C) decrease the role agriculture played in the American economy
D) lean toward France in the event it clashed with Britain
E) expand the franchise
After Iraq invaded Kuwait, the George H. W. Bush administration felt pressured
because ________.
A) Kuwait had been on the other side of the Cold War
B) Iraq used U.S. intelligence for its attack on Kuwait
C) they feared their actions had inadvertently caused the crisis
D) Saddam Hussein’s regime was very repressive
E) The U.S. was the sole remaining superpower following the Cold War