Situation-comedy television shows of the 1950s portrayed American families as
__________.
A) unimportant in American culture
B) white, polite, and happy
C) including two parents who worked in the professions
D) troubled and full of conflict
Which statement describes the American reaction to the Treaty of Versailles?
A) Senator Henry Cabot Lodge was the strongest supporter of the treaty in Congress.
B) Most Americans favored the Versailles treaty.
C) Irish-Americans celebrated the treaty’s designation of independence for Ireland.
D) The Democratic Party provided the strongest opposition against the treaty.
In 1942, __________ submarines dominated the North Atlantic.
A) American
B) British
C) Soviet
D) German
In the late 1990s and into the new century, __________ was the most networked state in
the United States.
A) New Hampshire
B) Alaska
C) Washington
D) Utah
In the wake of the Tet crisis __________.
A) American officials censored all television coverage of the war
B) the Republican Party overwhelmingly opposed the war
C) President Johnson decided to withdraw all American troops from Vietnam
D) advisers told Lyndon Johnson that the war was not winnable in traditional American
terms
Most development and production of American nuclear weapons took place in the
__________ United States.
A) western
B) southern
C) midwestern
D) northeastern
Militant laborers challenged traditional labor leaders by forming the __________.
A) Congress of Industrial Organizations
B) American Liberty League
C) American Federation of Labor
D) Knights of Labor
The leader of the Women’s Christian Temperance union argued that __________.
A) school prayer should be a vital aspect of public education
B) alcohol abuse was a result of poverty and social disorder
C) violent crime against women was not a serious social problem
D) the government should control the production of alcohol and tobacco
The use of sweatshops was most common in __________.
A) coal mining
B) new factories in the West
C) Andrew Carnegie’s steel plants
D) the garment industry
What was the purpose of the National Labor Relations Board?
A) to establish and regulate a national minimum wage
B) to protect the rights of workers to collectively bargain
C) to establish national maximum working hours rules
D) to facilitate the entry of women and minorities into the workforce
Regarding the increase of female workers, most Americans believed that __________.
A) a woman’s proper role was still caring for home and family
B) national legislation should ensure equal pay
C) daycare centers should be established to help working women
D) women deserved more jobs as professionals
The “progressive movement” was driven by __________.
A) the ideas of Eugene Debs
B) the leadership of the Populist Party
C) the contention that individualism, and not government help, could solve social ills
D) a general belief that moderate reforms were needed for social order and improved
socio-economic conditions
A common element among all tribes of the West was their __________.
A) belief that nature was to be shared and not privately owned
B) use of teepees as an efficient living unit
C) nomadic wandering, which relied on searching for dietary supplements
D) belief in the same gods
In the presidential election of 1972, Richard Nixon easily defeated the liberal Democrat
__________.
A) Hubert Humphrey
B) George McGovern
C) George Wallace
D) Jimmy Carter
In the early twentieth century, nearly __________ workers were injured at work each
year.
A) 5,000
B) 50,000
C) 250,000
D) 500,000
In what year was the number of births per 1000 women highest?
A) 1933
B) 1942
C) 1958
D) 1978
Which statement about the American presence in Haiti is true?
A) The Haitian constitution was altered to increase U.S. property rights.
B) Forced-labor policies were used to construct private projects.
C) Haiti’s schools and sanitation degraded under American rule.
D) The American government did not use the military to control Haiti.
By the mid-1890s, female reformers had succeeded in __________.
A) getting the federal government to outlaw child labor
B) electing several women to the U.S. Senate
C) gaining the right to vote for women in some western states
D) convincing the American Federation of Labor to accept women as members
Jimmy Carter won the election of 1976 because he __________.
A) was viewed as an alternative to Washington insiders
B) appealed to conservative Republicans
C) had been a leader in the antiwar movement
D) did not attempt to reassemble LBJ’s political coalition
President __________ was not supportive of American control of Hawaii.
A) Harrison
B) Cleveland
C) McKinley
D) Theodore Roosevelt
A particularly suspicious aspect of McCarthy’s accusations regarding the State
Department was __________.
A) that he never accused Democrats of being Communist subversives
B) that he constantly changed the number of people he was accusing
C) his insistence that President Eisenhower knew of subversive acts
D) his reluctance to talk about the accusations during televised committee meetings
After 1870, __________.
A) American inventiveness and technological progress flourished
B) America became more dependent on European technology
C) labor unions ceased being a factor in labor-management relations
D) American engineers only attended college in either Germany or England
Germany’s invasion of __________ on September 1, 1939 marked the start of World
War II.
A) Denmark
B) Britain
C) France
D) Poland
Of the following groups, which was most likely to be interned without any evidence
that the individual posed a threat to the United States?
A) German Americans
B) Italian Americans
C) Chinese Americans
D) Japanese American
Which statement would most likely have been said by a believer in Social Darwinism?
A) “Charity and the goodness of the affluent heart will lead this era of progress.”
B) “The government must regulate business if we are to help the working poor.”
C) “The laws of nature dictate the conditions of life for both rich and poor.”
D) “Nature’s mighty laws tell us that the rich must donate endowments for the poor.”
What were President Carter’s policies on the environment?
A) new proposals to solve the energy crisis and change the nation’s energy habits
B) proposed cuts in federal spending for the Environmental Protection Agency
C) tax credits for clean energy use
D) promoting recycling
Which of the following improved access to credit for many Americans?
A) Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act
B) Adamson Act
C) Federal Reserve Act
D) Currency Act
After the fall of Mussolini __________.
A) the Axis Powers withdrew all of their troops from central Europe
B) the British shifted their focus back to North Africa
C) bitter fighting for the control of Italy took place between the Allies and Germany
D) George Patton was able to invade eastern France
Millions of young people in the second half of the 1960s expressed their alienation
from American society by sampling drugs or chasing the rainbow of a youth culture;
this is referred to as __________.
A) the “yuppie culture”
B) the counterculture
C) consumerism
D) the “drug culture”
One disadvantage for American workers of the rise of corporations was __________.
A) corporations now controlled the conditions and nature of work
B) fewer jobs were provided because of automation
C) the government’s decision to cut off all immigration
D) corporations refused to work in coalition with investment banks
Ronald Reagan’s first foray into politics and governing occurred in 1966 when he
successfully ran for __________.
A) governor of California
B) state senator of Illinois
C) governor of Illinois
D) lieutenant governor of California