By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the antebellum “walking city”
A) expanded.
B) remained the same.
C) disappeared.
D) declined slightly.
Who did the Democrats nominate in 1928 for president?
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Al Smith
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Clarence Darrow
Which of the following nations forced treaties on China in the late 1800s?
A) Britain
B) France
C) Germany
D) All of the above.
The administration of Ronald Reagan was characterized by
A) increasing hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union.
B) a reduction in federal taxation.
C) high ethical and moral standards among his appointees to federal office.
D) a decline in military spending.
As president, Andrew Jackson
A) asserted his power most dramatically through use of the veto.
B) favored significant increases in the levels of protective tariffs.
C) engaged in wholesale replacement of officeholders with his own supporters.
D) supported national funding for all internal improvement projects.
Democrats such as Stephen Douglas supported the annexation of Texas on the grounds
that it would
A) expand the institution of slavery.
B) ease sectional tensions within the United States.
C) secure the reelection of John Tyler.
D) spread the benefits of American civilization.
The majority of Republicans in the 1850s supported a government policy to
A) abolish slavery immediately throughout the United States.
B) grant equal rights for free northern blacks.
C) prevent the expansion of slavery in the territories.
D) extend and protect slavery in the territories.
By 1750, English colonists numbered approximately
A) 500,000.
B) 1.2 million.
C) 3 million.
D) 4 million.
Voter turnout in the 1880s hovered around _______ percent.
A) 78.5
B) 65
C) 54.5
D) 33.5
In Eisenhower’s perception of the function of the government,
A) the government should have a limited role in the economy.
B) the role of the president should be expanded.
C) economic activism was an important role for the government.
D) the size of the federal government should continue to grow to meet the needs of the
nation.
Which of the following issues faced the nation in 1849?
A) the rush of thousands of miners to California qualifying the nation for statehood.
B) the unresolved status of the Mexican cession
C) the existence of slavery and a slave market in the nation’s capital
D) All of the above.
In 1903, Du Bois published ____________a major analysis of race in America.
In early 1945, the United States recaptured
A) Hawaii.
B) Alaska.
C) the Philippines.
D) Australia.
Native Americans ceded land for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
A) trade goods.
B) annuity payments.
C) with the promise that no more lands would be desired by whites.
D) the desire of Indian tribes for African American slavery.
During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan
A) stressed religious as well as racial nativism.
B) supported Catholics but not Jews.
C) operated exclusively in the southern states.
D) became less influential.
In 1712, a major slave rebellion occurred in
A) Charleston, South Carolina.
B) New York, New York.
C) Boston, Massachusetts.
D) Baltimore, Maryland.
The dramatic improvement in transportation networks between 1810 and 1860
contributed to the
A) intervention of governmental controls.
B) trend toward regional specialization.
C) higher costs of transportation.
D) demise of American agriculture.
Which of the following values did self-help books emphasize in the early 1800s?
A) diligence
B) punctuality
C) deference
D) All of the above.
The African slave trade helped in the advancement of
A) crops.
B) agricultural techniques.
C) medical knowledge.
D) All of the above.
The bombing of Dresden
A) had no strategic purpose for the Allies.
B) was the most destructive bombing campaign of the war.
C) included three waves of planes dropping incendiary bombs, igniting major fires in
the city.
D) All of the above.
In contrast to the travel journal of Robert Bode, the travel journal of Mary Stuart Bailey
reveals a greater preoccupation with the
A) conditions of travel.
B) tools of survival.
C) availability of food.
D) absence of the familiar.
The Pueblos were pushed to the point of revolt when the Spaniards began to
A) assault their religion by seizing their kivas.
B) take more and more of their land.
C) burn down their villages.
D) use them as conscripted labor.
With the passage of the Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act),
A) labor-management strife came to an immediate end.
B) labor was left free to organize without interference from the federal government.
C) unions were imposed on many agricultural workers who did not want them.
D) labor obtained the support necessary for successfully organizing.
In 1965, Johnson dispatched 20,000 troops to the Latin American nation of
A) Mexico.
B) the Dominican Republic.
C) Cuba.
D) Panama.
In 1900, roughly 84 percent of African Americans worked in
A) the hotel industry.
B) manufacturing.
C) agriculture.
D) shipping.
By the end of the 1920s, African Americans
A) had fully assimilated into American society.
B) were returning to their earlier roles in southern society.
C) had only partly fulfilled the dreams with which they began the decade.
D) were pleased with the changes in their lifestyle.
An important factor in bringing about the Depression in 1929 was the
A) fact that only 2 percent of the American population owned any kind of stock in
1929.
B) excessive prices charged by American farmers during the 1920s.
C) shallow and superficial nature of prosperity during the 1920s.
D) extremely high cost of wages and raw materials during the 1920s.
The supporters of “free soil” in the territories made all of the following arguments
EXCEPT that
A) northern white farmers could not compete with large-scale slave labor.
B) blacks should be granted equality and allowed to seek western lands.
C) slavery was a moral evil and should not be extended.
D) free western land belonged to white men only.
In the years following the Civil War, weekly and monthly magazines
A) soared in number as illiteracy decreased and the publishing industry advanced.
B) appealed only to highly educated and cultured urban dwellers.
C) suffered decreasing popularity.
D) contained few, if any, illustrations.
A sympathy strike against Pullman was led by
A) Eugene Debs.
B) Nelson Rockefeller.
C) Andrew Carnegie.
D) Bill Gates.
The results of creating a more cohesive political confederacy for the Iroquois included
A) losing hunting grounds to neighboring tribes.
B) increasing village stability.
C) weakening the Iroquois as warriors.
D) population decrease as competition over resources increased.
One of the most famous settlement houses was created in Chicago by
A) Elizabeth Stanton.
B) Susan B. Anthony.
C) Jane Addams.
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
How many Africans do historians estimate were taken as slaves to the New World?
A) 96 million
B) 9.6 million
C) 1 million
D) 200,000
Discuss the major reasons for the development of the student movement during the
1960s and describe the chief ways in which the participants in the movement expressed
their objectives.
Suppose you were John Parker, the black Alabama sharecropper who moved north
during World War I. Describe the hopes related to your decision to move to the North
and analyze the degree to which you were able to fulfill those hopes during the 1920s.
Discuss the factors that brought about the failure of the United States to ratify the
Treaty of Versailles.
Analyze the impact of the Haitian Revolution on slavery and relations with the United
States.
The American traitor ________ laid waste to Virginia’s James River Valley.
Although Anthony Johnson arrived from Africa in 1621, he found it easier than his
grandchildren would to escape slavery. Why?
Discuss the general characteristics of the progressive movement in the United States
and indicate how successful you think the movement was in reforming American
society.
The ________ of 1688 ended forever the idea that kings ruled by divine right.
Contrast the views of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as expressed in the
Illinois debates of 1858 concerning slavery, abolitionism, and racial equality. Discuss
the political impact of these debates.
Discuss President Nixon’s characteristics as a political leader and evaluate his economic
and social programs.
President Clinton failed to enact _________reform during his time in office.
In 1916 Wilson ordered ________ to lead an expeditionary force into northern Mexico.
Police turned high-pressure hoses and dogs against black protesters in ________,
Alabama in 1963.
Analyze the costs and consequences of the Civil War for the United States.
It is 1859. As a northerner or southerner, write an article for your local newspaper,
expressing your views of the proper values and vision for the nation, and point out why
the views of the other section are improper and dangerous.
During the latter part of the seventeenth century, King Louis XIV attempted to make
________ the most powerful nation in Europe and to expand its empire in the New
World.
Discuss the major developments in U.S. relations with the Latin American countries
during the Theodore Roosevelt administration.
Discuss the conformities as well as changes for various levels of American women.
Compare the economic conditions of the South with the economic conditions of the
North during the period of Reconstruction.