The Moral Majority contributed funds to politicians who supported prayer in public
schools and limitation of abortion rights.
The primary reason for the Democrats’ return to power was violence.
New Amsterdam, founded by the Dutch, became New York after English conquest.
For nearly a century beginning in 1492, Spain enjoyed a near total domination of the
Americas.
The Knights of Labor denied African Americans entry into its ranks.
Slave cabins were crowded, usually housing more than one family.
In response to economic suffering, feminism increased during the 1930s.
Roosevelt made friendship with Spain a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy.
Roosevelt formed a new political party in 1910the Whig party.
The Free Soilers captured roughly 40 percent of the popular vote in 1848.
By the 1830s, southerners became increasingly defensive concerning the institution of
slavery, no longer claiming it as a “necessary evil,” but defending it as a “positive
good.”
People from Asia discovered the “New World” thousands of years before Christopher
Columbus.
Between 1834 and 1836, American workers struck some 168 times.
Anthropologists believe that the “agricultural revolution,” the process by which man
learned to domesticate plant life, occurred originally in Africa around 9,000 years ago.
The Pequot War took place in New England in 1667 because the Puritans wanted Indian
gold.
The Family Assistance Plan was a proposal to aid poor families through a
work-incentive program.
Using his executive authority, Roosevelt tripled the amount of national land reserved
for forests.
Northern farmers started using manure as fertilizer after 1800.
Like most progressives of that time, President Theodore Roosevelt was a racist.
For the final year and a half of his term, Wilson was incapacitated by a stroke.
Urban reformers were influenced by the teachings of Jesus Christ.
George Washington’s birthday unified the nation in the early 1800s.
In cases like Danbury Hatters, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of labor.
In 1905, Chinese nationalists at home rioted and demanded a more just U.S.
immigration policy.
The Second Great Awakening was confined to New England.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s confined its activities to segregating African
Americans.
During the 1950s, a government employee could be dismissed from his or her job if
accused of being a security risk, even if she or he was denied knowledge of the accuser.
Popular sovereignty appealed to some politicians because its ambiguity enabled people
to interpret it as they pleased.
In the Root-Takahira Agreement of 1908, the United States received reassurances from
Japan of American control of the Philippines.
The Pilgrims arrived at Cape Cod in 1620 aboard the Mayflower.
During the presidential campaign of 1988, George H. W. Bush carefully avoided
personal attacks on his opponent.
Native Americans continued to remain outsiders in the postwar years.
Which of the following qualities was NOT a part of Lincoln’s success as president?
A) his humanity
B) his awareness of the terrible cost of war
C) his penchant for political graft and corruption
D) his determination to save the Union
In July of 1943, the Allies invaded Russia.
One of the first businesses to reflect the advantages and problems associated with the
corporate structure was the ________ industry.
A) oil
B) railroad
C) steel
D) milling
During his first 100 days in office, Franklin Roosevelt
A) collected information and advice about curing the Depression.
B) continued Hoover’s policies without adding any new ones of his own.
C) rushed a bewildering number of bills through Congress.
D) did little to assist the nation.
Private companies resorted to state power to crush labor strikes during the era.
Members of the Moral Majority were
A) in favor of legalization of some narcotics.
B) interested in shaping American politics.
C) followers of Reverend Moon.
D) often corrupt.
During the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, in the Middle East the United
States
A) moved to protect Western access to oil supplies.
B) successfully cooperated with the Soviets.
C) supported the British effort to prevent Egypt from taking control of the Suez Canal.
D) refused to recognize the state of Israel.
For his cabinet, Lincoln selected
A) friends to whom he owed political debts.
B) only those men who agreed with his views.
C) important Republicans whether they agreed with him or not.
D) men of lesser political stature or ability.
Which of the following was NOT part of the long-term historical importance of the
Scott case?
A) The Court’s arguments about black citizenship infuriated northerners.
B) Prominent black leaders lost faith in the government but were galvanized by the
decision.
C) Many African American slaves rebelled after the decision.
D) President Buchanan endorsed the decision, further dividing the nation.
One of the New Deal programs designed specifically to help young people in the
United States during the Depression was the
A) Tennessee Valley Authority.
B) Wagner Act.
C) Civilian Conservation Corps.
D) National Industrial Recovery Act.
In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the southern states
A) contrasted starkly with the economic prosperity of the northern states.
B) readily accepted whatever reconstruction policy the North suggested.
C) had been affected only slightly by the war, both socially and economically.
D) quickly reestablished an industrial-based economy.
Jefferson Davis was observed by his contemporaries as too
A) insensitive to criticism.
B) unwilling to experiment.
C) lazy and easy-going.
D) preoccupied with details.
England declared war on Spain in 1739 because of a desire to
A) win commercial privileges from its ally France.
B) avenge Spanish piracy of English merchant ships.
C) end Spanish involvement in smuggling activities.
D) dominate trade in the Atlantic basin.
The strikes that occurred in the United States during 1919 indicated that most American
workers
A) hoped to overthrow the government.
B) followed the philosophy of A. Mitchell Palmer.
C) supported communism.
D) wanted higher wages.
In 1893 a World’s Columbian Exposition took place in the city of
A) New York.
B) Seattle.
C) New Orleans.
D) Chicago.
Opposition to the New Deal came mostly from
A) conservative labor leaders.
B) the poorer element of the South.
C) extreme left-wingers and extreme right-wingers.
D) the farmers.
Urban growth in many antebellum cities
A) outpaced the government’s provision of public services.
B) led to healthier and more comfortable living conditions.
C) followed an attractive and orderly plan.
D) made it the nation’s largest city by 1860.
An attempt by the New Deal to aid tenant farmers specifically was the
A) Rural Electrification Act.
B) Works Progress Administration.
C) McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill.
D) Resettlement Administration.
In 1962, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) issued the
A) Declaration of Sentiments.
B) Communist Manifesto.
C) Port Huron Statement.
D) White Paper.
An issue of particular importance to Theodore Roosevelt was
A) civil service reform.
B) woman suffrage.
C) creation of a federal reserve system.
D) the space race.
Which of the following groups did not make up the Roosevelt coalition in the election
of 1936?
A) organized labor
B) farmers
C) urbanites
D) elites and the rich
The West African empire of Ghana became noted for its
A) long-distance commerce.
B) elaborate sculpture and metalwork.
C) extensive urban settlement.
D) All of the above.
Most English Protestants considered Quakers as dangerous fanatics for all of the
following reasons EXCEPT refusal to
A) pay taxes in support of the Church of England.
B) defer to superiors in their customs and speech.
C) sign witnesses’ oaths on the Bible.
D) admit women, blacks, and Indians to church membership.
Washington’s first Secretary of War was
A) Thomas Jefferson.
B) Benjamin Franklin
C) Henry Knox
D) James Madison.
Unlike the Puritans, the Pilgrims
A) expected to convert a sinful world.
B) preferred to settle in Holland rather than America.
C) squabbled with local Indians.
D) separated from the Church of England.
Which of the following men was NOT an early subscriber to the Federalist philosophy?
A) Thomas Jefferson
B) Alexander Hamilton
C) George Washington
D) James Madison
In his negotiations with the Soviets concerning the postwar government in Poland,
President Truman
A) refused to discuss the matter with Stalin at the Potsdam conference.
B) agreed to the establishment of a communist-controlled government there.
C) demanded that the Soviets accept the American position.
D) indicated a willingness to compromise on the issue.
In 1914, relations between Germany and Great Britain led to
A) World War I.
B) World War II.
C) the Venezuelan crisis.
D) a 10-year peace.
In financing American involvement in World War I, the Wilson administration
A) did little to involve the average citizen directly.
B) refused to increase taxes.
C) adopted the approach Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase had used in
financing the Civil War.
D) increased taxes and borrowing.
The Pueblo people of the American Southwest, encountered by the Spanish in the
1540s,
A) built ceremonial mounds on which to worship their gods.
B) failed to develop agricultural techniques suitable for their arid environment.
C) used irrigation canals, dams, and hillside terracing to water their arid maize fields.
D) made their clothing and utensils from buffalo hides and bones.
With U.S. assistance, the South Vietnamese military assassinated President
A) Ho Chi Minh.
B) Nguyen Kao Ky.
C) Diem.
D) Viet Cong.
The typical master in colonial America wished to convert the slave into a(n)
A) mindless drudge who obeyed every command.
B) loving and faithful member of the plantation family.
C) independent worker who increased profits.
D) educated and skilled producer of goods.
The Democratic party in Mississippi used a special program known as the ________
Plan to thwart Republican rule in the state.
Although the slavery issue had been largely ignored in the election of 1848, several
problems forced political debate and a compromise in 1850. Discuss the provisions,
process, and consequences of the compromise.
The most important medium in determining the outcome of the election of 1960 was
________.
Discuss the general economic conditions of the United States in the decade and a half
after the end of World War II.
Among antebellum American inventions were the McCormick ________, the Colt
________, and Goodyear vulcanized ________ products.
By early 2008, the American death toll in Iraq had surpassed __________ people.
In 1984, ________ became the first woman to be nominated by a major party as a vice
presidential candidate.
Since the vast majority of southern whites owned few or no slaves, why did they
support the “peculiar institution”?
The public battle over __________in San Jose, California, in the 1870s illustrates the
passions the issue aroused in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
What factors contributed to the rise of modern Europe and an age of expansionism from
1000 to 1600 C.E.? Contrast the political and economic changes in England with those
of its European counterparts during this time.
Compare the development of agriculture in the New England, mid-Atlantic, and
southern colonies. How did different types of farming contribute to the formation of
different types of societies in the three regions?
However burdensome their lives from sunup to sundown, after work slaves established
a sense of self-worth and community. Discuss the factors that made this possible.
In New York City, the ____________Settlement campaigned for small parks and the
opening of schoolyards on weekends.
South Carolina’s ________was a War Hawk regarding the War of 1812.
The ________ of American slaves was 21.4 years in 1850.
The most valuable crop in California in the late 1800s was ________.
The Allied powers had decided to divide Germany into four occupation zones at the
________ Conference.