Which statement best characterizes Sherman’s march through Georgia?
A) Sherman defied Lincoln by refusing to implement a scorched-earth policy.
B) Sherman destroyed almost anything of military or economic value in his path.
C) Sherman destroyed cities, but was careful to do little damage to infrastructure.
D) Sherman avoided major population centers in order to travel as quickly as possible.
E) Sherman was careful not to alienate the local population.
What inspired the infamous protests at Kent State during which four students were
killed?
A) the bombing of Hanoi
B) the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
C) the U.S. invasion of Cambodia
D) the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam
E) the end of military draft deferments
Why were Antifederalists concerned about the new Constitution?
A) They worried that public officials would scheme to increase their power.
B) They knew that preservation of liberty required no vigilance.
C) They saw that smaller republics were prone to political corruption.
D) They feared that the new national government would be too strong.
E) They believed that constituents reflect the character of their elected officials.
In what way was the Spanish-American War fought by small-town America?
A) Most of the volunteer soldiers who served in the armed forces were from rural
America.
B) There were so many volunteers that each unit of soldiers was like a small town in
size and function.
C) The navy and army found that men worked better if they knew someone in their unit,
so they created a buddy system, pairing men from small towns.
D) Soldiers were organized into National Guard units by town, so they observed the
customs and relationships of their hometowns.
E) All of America was involved in the war effort, making uniforms, saving metal,
conserving food; the war was won by people back home in small towns.
Which of these made bonanza farms possible?
A) the Homestead Act
B) agricultural machinery
C) the National Reclamation Act
D) cattle drives
E) irrigation
The prosperity of the southern yeoman was limited by the lack of ________.
A) cash crops
B) land
C) transportation facilities
D) educational facilities
E) entrepreneurial spirit
The antimissile system based on the use of lasers and particle beams to destroy
incoming missiles from outer space was called ________.
A) IED
B) SALT I
C) SALT II
D) SDI
E) VIPER
Which of the following best describes the Knights of Labor?
A) a union of workers aimed at uplifting, utopian reform
B) a union of producers aimed only at improving wages and working conditions
C) a federation of industrial unions aimed at making each man his own employer
D) a federation of craft unions aimed only at improving wages and working conditions
E) a union of producers determined to make each man his own employer
What made Northerners so opposed to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
A) It permitted slavery in all the states west of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
B) It permitted slavery in all the states east of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
C) It permitted slavery in an area where it had previously been prohibited.
D) It made it much more difficult for escaped slaves to find freedom in the North.
E) It abolished slavery in all the states west of the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
Why did the Homestead Act of 1862 not work as Congress had hoped?
A) It charged too much for government land.
B) The land allotments were insufficient for farming arid land.
C) It did not adequately convert Native Americans to farming.
D) Gold was discovered on land set aside for farming.
E) Too few settlers were willing to migrate to the West.
The rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan began in 1915 in the state of _____.
A) Texas
B) Oregon
C) Illinois
D) Georgia
E) Alabama
What was true of most Northerners during the 1840s?
A) They disliked slavery, but opposed abolition.
B) They were fierce and loyal abolitionists.
C) They supported the institution of slavery.
D) They were apathetic about the slavery issue.
E) They felt that slavery was starting to spread to the North.
When President James Madison talked about the need for “internal improvements,” he
was referring to ________.
A) improved reservations for Native American tribes
B) reconstruction of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C.
C) construction of a national transportation system
D) more efficient method of moving proposed legislation through Congress
E) development of the land beyond the Appalachians
Which statement about American life in the late nineteenth century is NOT true?
A) Meals tended to be heavy and so did people.
B) Medical science was still hopelessly primitive.
C) Infant mortality declined between 1877 and 1900.
D) There were few hospitals and no hospital insurance.
E) Food prices were constantly getting lower.
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for _____.
A) women’s suffrage
B) prohibition
C) a federal income tax
D) direct election of senators
E) extending the franchise to eighteen-year-olds
At the time of the Civil War, ________.
A) almost all Southerners owned at least one slave
B) most white Southerners owned three or more slaves
C) most white households had a house slave
D) one-quarter of white Southerners owned slaves
E) one-half of white Southerners owned slaves
How were the majority of immigrants employed in the mid-1800s?
A) as yeoman farmers
B) as small business owners
C) as wage workers in factories
D) as skilled craftsmen
E) as prospectors
How did Mexican immigration in the early 1900s contribute to the change in the
Southwest?
A) These immigrants were the first to put the Mexican imprint on Southwestern culture.
B) Many of these immigrants became the unskilled workers who built the Southwest’s
irrigation, transportation and urban projects.
C) This new wave of Mexican immigrants displaced Native Americans from their lands.
D) Many of these immigrants were hired as skilled and professional workers in the
Southwest’s new cities and factories.
E) The Mexican immigrants did not stay nor did they have a lasting contribution on the
Southwest or its culture.
How did former slaves’ ideas about their freedom conflict with the ideas of their
northern allies?
A) Their northern allies wanted freed blacks to continue working on plantations for
white planters, but African Americans did not want to return to plantation life.
B) Freed blacks wanted to move to the North and begin new lives, but their northern
allies felt they needed to stay in the South.
C) Their northern allies felt that freed blacks should continue with their communal
work system, but freed blacks wanted to take part in the piecework system.
D) Freed blacks wanted to move to new land of their own, while their northern allies
felt they should remain on the land where their families had lived for generations.
E) Freed blacks wanted to continue with a family-based communal work system, but
northerners wanted them to become individual wage earners.
How did the Philadelphia Convention delegates ensure ratification of the Constitution?
A) They called for electing 13 state conventions and requiring only nine state
legislatures to ratify it.
B) They decided that a unanimous vote among the general public of all the states would
ratify it.
C) They decided that a unanimous vote among the state congresses would ratify it.
D) They called for electing James Madison as president so he could ratify it instead of
Congress.
E) They decided that three-fifths of all state legislators needed to ratify it.
Which of the following demonstrates that economics was a major motivation for
immigration?
A) the occupations of the immigrants
B) the kinds of labor needed in the United States
C) the peaks in immigration that correspond to times of economic prosperity
D) the wages paid to immigrants
E) the forms that immigrants filled out when they reached Ellis Island
The age of the American population relates to the economy because ________.
A) more older Americans need healthcare and receive social security
B) the increasing number of young workers in service jobs adds money to Social
Security
C) children are volunteering to pay more taxes to support retired Americans
D) with fewer elderly people, funding for programs in healthcare can be reduced
E) older Americans are spending more on travel and consumer goods
The Truman administration failed to establish the Fair Employment Practices
Commission because _______.
A) Truman himself secretly worked to defeat its passage
B) most people were against the idea of wives working
C) it was seen as a criticism of consumer culture
D) Southern politicians managed to block the legislation
E) the public thought the program was a socialist plot
What was considered to be the most important function of the school in the
mid-nineteenth century?
A) intellectual training
B) vocational training
C) moral indoctrination
D) child care
E) physical conditioning
The internal slave trade in the United States ran from ________.
A) the West to the upper South
B) the upper South to the West
C) the upper South to the lower South
D) the lower South to the upper South
E) the lower South to the West
In the early 1900s, why did the middle class have a powerful effect on production?
A) Most immigrants were working in factories and made many consumer goods.
B) The growing middle-class had influence as consumers of mass-produced goods.
C) The working class and reformers were pushing for better conditions in factories.
D) The poor and rich classes were increasing their demand for mass produced goods.
E) The growing middle class needed jobs, so production increased to end
unemployment.
During the great coal strike of 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt _____.
A) played no role at all in settling the dispute
B) sympathized completely with the company owners
C) turned his attention to the Pure Food and Drug Act instead
D) brought the two sides to the White House to come to an agreement
E) shut down the coal mines for two months
The leader of the American Expeditionary Force was _____.
A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) John J. Pershing
C) Alfred T. Mahan
D) Douglas MacArthur
E) Omar Bradley
The first large group of German immigrants moved to America seeking ________.
A) free land
B) religious tolerance
C) an opportunity to become wealthy farmers
D) markets for their craft products
E) work to bring their families from Europe
What campaign pledge did President George H. W. Bush have to break in 1990?
A) not to cooperate with Russian leader Gorbachev
B) not to lead America into war
C) not to raise taxes
D) to end the Cold War
E) to prohibit discrimination against the disabled