The Underground Railroad __________.
A) was well-organized and extensive in both the North and the South
B) helped slaves escape to Mexico
C) endangered slavery by its explicit challenge to the South
D) aided tens of thousands of escaping slaves each year
Why did people in Western Pennsylvania protest the taxation of whiskey so violently?
A) They were mostly of Scots-Irish descent and considered whiskey their heritage.
B) They feared that the tax would give foreign rum producers an unfair advantage.
C) They considered the tax an example of the “nanny state” trying to enforce virtuous
behavior.
D) They resented the bureaucracy associated with the tax and were both consumers and
producers of whiskey.
Who was most responsible for the growth of the automobile industry?
A) Frank Stearns
B) Ramson E. Olds
C) Henry Ford
D) Rudolph Diesel
Which of the following best describes Jackson’s personnel changes in the federal
government?
A) He for the most part left the ranks of middle management alone.
B) His ruthless use of the spoils system left some branches of government without any
experienced personnel whatsoever.
C) His faith in “common people” served him poorly when he chose unqualified
outsiders for his top positions.
D) His bipartisan approach meant that Democrats and Whigs fought bitterly within his
very administration.
Which of the following assessments of French”Indian relations in the northern
hinterlands is most accurate?
A) Religious intolerance made it next to impossible for French settlers to communicate
with native tribes.
B) Native Americans were drawn to French culture and society and as a result
cooperated more willingly with them.
C) Fur traders often married Indians and learned their languages and cultural practices.
D) The largely urban settlements of the French remained almost completely isolated
from native tribes.
What happened when women entered the workforce during World War II?
A) Black women generally had fewer problems.
B) Male objections soon lost their force in the face of growing labor demands.
C) The government created an extensive daycare program for women with young
children.
D) Men welcomed them immediately because of the wartime crisis.
During the 1830s and 1840s, most white Americans thought William Lloyd Garrison’s
views were __________.
A) supported by scientific research
B) unconvincing and confrontational
C) consistent with the teachings of their churches
D) moderate and levelheaded
Which statement about the New Deal’s Tennessee Valley Authority is true?
A) It was promoted by private power companies.
B) It was short-lived and unsuccessful.
C) It became the model comprehensive regional planning organization.
D) It improved the living standards of millions of Americans.
As a result of the Missouri Compromise, which two states were admitted into the
Union?
A) Missouri and Maine
B) Missouri and Massachusetts
C) Arkansas and Kansas
D) Rhode Island and Kentucky
What was John Brown’s major goal in attacking Harpers Ferry?
A) to keep slavery out of Kansas
B) to seize the federal arsenal and arm the slaves
C) to cut communications between Washington and the South
D) to punish the citizens for their support of slave catchers
The Civil War caused the northern economy to experience which of the following?
A) soaring prices after 1862
B) high levels of unemployment
C) dramatic increases in immigration
D) relatively few strikes
Major John Wesley Powell believed that western lands should be divided into three
classes. Which of the following is one of these classes?
A) farm land
B) wet land
C) grass land
D) pasturage land
Jackson’s popularity and success were primarily the result of his __________.
A) expert knowledge of the issues
B) genius as an administrator
C) personality and leadership
D) open-mindedness to all sides of a question
What did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Griswold v. Connecticut?
A) that all-male colleges violated the constitution by enforcing segregation
B) that the Constitution secured a woman’s right to make her own healthcare decisions.
C) that free access to contraception violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual
punishment
D) that a state ban on contraceptives violated a couple’s right to privacy
The Battle of New Orleans in 1815 resulted in the __________.
A) negotiation of the Treaty of Ghent on terms favorable to the United States
B) acquisition of the area through the Louisiana Purchase
C) emergence of Andrew Jackson as a military hero
D) writing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key
George Whitefield’s greatest contribution to the Great Awakening was his __________.
A) intellectually rigorous theological system
B) insistence that the Church of England was the only true church
C) ability to stir an audience emotionally by his oratory
D) strong appeal to the religious establishment
The Supreme Court’s decision in Furman __________.
A) legalized capital punishment
B) found that juries needed more input in capital punishment decisions
C) found jury-imposed capital punishment racially biased and therefore unconstitutional
D) legalized capital punishment as long as juries had discretion
When the 1786 Annapolis Convention on trade and commerce was about to fail,
__________ proposed a convention in Philadelphia to deal with constitutional reform.
A) James Madison
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) Thomas Jefferson
Jackson’s policy toward the Native Americans was to do which of the following?
A) Give them citizenship.
B) Respect their culture and traditional homelands.
C) Place them on reservations in each state.
D) Remove them to lands west of the Mississippi.
The eventual success of the Virginia settlement depended largely upon the __________.
A) overthrow of Captain John Smith’s dictatorial leadership
B) negotiation of peace treaties with the Native Americans
C) voluntary withdrawal of the London merchants from involvement in the colony’s
affairs
D) cultivation of tobacco
Which of the following best describes the Republican Tea Party movement?
A) Led by conservative women, it has plenty of passion but little funding.
B) Known for its sole focus on fiscal issues, the Tea Party movement has stayed clear
from social issues.
C) It is a broadly based grassroots movement, and is funded by wealthy businessmen
such as the Koch brothers.
D) In honor of its historic inspiration, the Tea Party movement seeks to restore broadest
possible democratic participation.
Thaddeus Stevens was the most prominent congressional advocate of a plan to give
every adult male ex-slave which of the following?
A) a free education to the sixth grade
B) 100 dollars
C) 40 acres and a mule
D) free transportation to the West
Who was the British commander who sent his troops to capture patriot supplies in
Concord in April 1775?
A) Thomas Gage
B) William Howe
C) Thomas Hutchinson
D) John Burgoyne
Why did some anti-imperialists objected to annexing the Philippines?
A) It would increase the power of the Democrats in Congress.
B) It would limit immigration from Asia.
C) It would violate the constitution if the territory could not acquire statehood.
D) It would increase the power of the Republicans in Congress.
Why did Paleolithic people begin to move northeast in Asia?
A) Colder climates in Central Asia forced this migration.
B) They found themselves pushed out by Asiatic nomadic tribes.
C) The supply of big game was diminishing,
D) The failure of agricultural communities forced their return to nomadic practices.
Prior to Pearl Harbor, A. Philip Randolph threatened to do which of the following?
A) call for a national boycott to secure immediate integration of the armed forces
B) organize a march on Washington, D.C. to demand equal opportunities for black
workers in defense plants
C) organize sabotage operations in the U.S. army to bring about an end to segregation
in public schools, housing, and transportation
D) embarrass the president with details of his private life unless Roosevelt announced
an immediate entry into the war
How can the nullification crisis best be described?
A) South Carolina’s challenge to the tariff of 1832
B) New England’s opposition to Andrew Jackson’s presidency
C) Andrew Jackson’s fight against the Bank of the United States
D) the Cherokee’s fight against their forced removal from Georgia
When it was passed in 1913, the Federal Reserve Act __________.
A) gave the country a central banking system for the first time since Andrew Jackson
B) centralized and democratized the federal banking system
C) pinned America to the gold standard for the first time
D) immediately weakened the power of the great New York banks
What was the constitutional basis for the Supreme Court’s ruling in Roe v. Wade?
A) the due process clause of the fourteenth Amendment
B) the freedom of speech
C) the right to privacy
D) the prohibition against unreasonable searches
Who of the following was fearful of the Constitution, believing that it ‘squints toward
monarchy”?
A) John Jay
B) Gouverneur Morris
C) Patrick Henry
D) Samuel Adams
Why did steamships conquer the Atlantic routes far more slowly than the shorter river
routes?
A) Steam technology was still not reliable enough for oceanic travel.
B) The average speed of sailing ships remained superior on oceanic routes.
C) Oceanic steamships used a much larger share of their cargo capacity for fuel.
D) Conflicts over patents and preferred shipping companies turned steam travel
between the United States and Europe into a political quagmire.
Explain how the Second New Deal created more long-lasting changes in the American
economy.
What differences existed between skilled and unskilled workers beyond their
capabilities on the job?
How did the hunting practices of the Clovis complex culture shape the development of
native people in the Americas?
What explains the different cultural and economic developments among natives in
North and South America?
Explain how economic transformations shaped the family in the emerging middle class.
Assess the significance of the election of 1800.
Explain the impact of American settlers and the transcontinental railroad on native
tribes west of the Mississippi.
Explain the roots of Texan independence.
What made iron, oil, electricity, and the railroad industry so important for economic
growth?
What explains Jefferson’s long-lasting popularity?
What prompted the birth of the Republican Party?
Why did the Abolitionist movement prove so vital to the women’s rights
movement? Explain.
Why do you think Secretary of State John Hay described the Spanish-American conflict
as a ‘splendid little war?”
What major social changes did the 1920s witness? Provide at least three examples
Identify the key differences between the mythical West and the one that existed between
the Civil War and 1900.
How did the diffusion of corn change Native American cultures?
Why did the United States want to build an Empire in the Pacific?