Confederate women played a vital role in caring for the sick and wounded during the
war.
Progressivism in the United States during the first two decades of the twentieth century
represented a unified approach to the solution of the nation’s social problems.
Columbus made three other major voyages to the New World between 1494 and 1504.
The Tet Offensive eroded the confidence of the American working and middle class
during the Vietnam War.
In 1939, the Soviet Union tested its first nuclear bomb.
Hate and intolerance were long-term legacies of the Versailles peace conference and
treaty.
The United States annexed Hawaii in 1898, and the Philippines in 1899.
Throughout its history, the United States has tried to influence other countries by
passively and patiently setting a good example for them.
Many prison inmates went mad or committed suicide stemming from reforms that
included tiny cells and solitary confinement in the mid-1800s.
During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, for the first time in American history the
federal government developed a program specifically designed to end poverty in the
United States.
The colonial clergy failed to support the cause of independence during the buildup to
revolution.
In January 1917, the German government attempted to get the United States to help
negotiate a peace settlement with its enemies.
The cost of moving the Cherokee Indians, which totaled $6 million, was deducted from
the $9 million awarded the tribe for their eastern lands, and of the 15,000 who set out,
perhaps a quarter died.
Blacks founded all-black towns in the Midwest, West, and even in Mexico, and most
towns are still going strong today.
Gold was discovered in California in the year 1849.
The stories of the Leepers and Ebbesons illustrate some of the problems confronting
rural America in the last part of the nineteenth century.
The United States dropped four atomic bombs on Japanese cities during World War II.
Class divisions among blacks in Louisiana helped to end Reconstruction there.
Frederick Douglass gave a famous Independence Day speech in 1852 that symbolized
the increasing stridency of free blacks against slavery.
The Cold War produced a reactionary period of hysteria that included a loyalty program
that violated civil liberties.
Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in Asia rather than the Western
Hemisphere in 1492.
Like Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson would become increasingly progressive while
president.
White sugar planters, with the help of U.S. gunboats and marines, staged a coup against
Hawaii’s Queen Lilioukalani in 1893.
Black slave women were not expected to work in the fields and complete as much labor
as enslaved men.
Just before Christmas in 1944, the Germans launched a major offensive known as the
“Battle of the Bulge” that stalled the Allied advance.
By the 1880s, African American school attendance had decreased from 40 to 5 percent.
The Tenement Reform Law of 1879 was designed to improve living conditions for
tenement dwellers.
Improved transportation in the 1840s and 1850s undermined the trend toward regional
specialization.
In the 1790s, the United States experienced a religious revival known as the Second
Great Awakening.
President Johnson vetoed Reconstruction Acts, hindered the work of the Freedman’s
Bureau, and undermined congressional Reconstruction efforts in many other ways.
In his dealings with the Latin American countries, President Wilson essentially reversed
the policies that Theodore Roosevelt had applied to those countries.
The Iroquois in the 1640s and 1650s engaged in “beaver wars” against the Huron.
In 1958, President Eisenhower changed the federal Indian policy of termination to
require tribal consent before tribes could be terminated and reservation lands sold.
In 1880, the California legislature passed a law banning intermarriage between a white
person and an Asian person.
The Republican Party completely united behind its war-weary president in the election
of 1864.
Although Columbus excited the Spanish court by returning with traces of gold and
silver from his voyage of 1492, the actual amount of precious metals in the New World
proved to be very disappointing.
In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848), the United States agreed to
A) guarantee the civil and political rights of former Mexican citizens.
B) pay $10 million for large tracts of land in New Mexico.
C) collect all outstanding American claims against Mexico.
D) receive $15 million in reparations from Mexico.
The slave conspiracies of Gabriel in 1800 and Vesey in 1822 were both thwarted by
A) random killing of innocent blacks.
B) mass executions of the leaders.
C) internal betrayal by fellow slaves.
D) white discovery of the plots.
Compared to her English counterpart, the eighteenth-century northern colonial woman
A) received fewer chances to marry if divorced or widowed.
B) pursued a daily routine less likely to overlap that of her husband’s.
C) enjoyed broader legal and property rights.
D) married at an older age and bore fewer children.
Which of the following scandals took place in Niagara Falls, New York, in 1969?
A) Three Mile Island
B) Chernobyl
C) Love Canal
D) Asbestos
An important factor in promoting the shift in American foreign policy after the Civil
War was
A) France’s invasion of Mexico.
B) support for Secretary of State Seward’s expansionist policy.
C) the search for markets for American products.
D) Great Britain’s refusal to pay the Alabama claims.
Success and upward mobility in late nineteenth-century America were generally
A) more available to native-born, middle-class whites.
B) unlimited and equal for anyone, regardless of background.
C) out of reach for hard-working immigrants.
D) mythic and had no basis in reality.
The development of agriculture in California during the late nineteenth century was
characterized by
A) small family farms.
B) a concentration on the production of cotton.
C) large profits for the original Mexican landholders.
D) large-scale farming.
During World War II, labor unions in the United States
A) failed to gain any wage increases for their members.
B) increased in membership.
C) in general, refused to cooperate with the war effort.
D) agreed fully with the government’s labor policy.
English settlers had ambivalent images and feelings about the natives of North America.
Analyze why this was so and what images/feelings seemed to prevail.
When the United States entered World War I, black leader W.E.B. Du Bois
A) suggested that blacks not register for military service.
B) volunteered to lead a black regiment in the war.
C) condemned American involvement.
D) urged blacks to support the war.
Which of the following hallmarks of American society might be traced to the Puritans?
A) celebration of religious and cultural diversity
B) individual freedom of thought and action
C) stress on literacy and education
D) separation of church and state
The first task facing pioneer farmers was to
A) plant a crop.
B) locate a suitable claim.
C) construct a crude shelter.
D) clear the land.
All of the following statements are accurate regarding the Manhattan Project EXCEPT:
A) It was organized in 1941.
B) It was a program to create a nuclear bomb before Germany.
C) The scientists working on the project assumed they were perfecting a military
weapon.
D) The program was public and not secret.
By 1947, United States policy regarding Germany
A) promoted the development of German economic strength.
B) placed emphasis on keeping Germany divided.
C) had strong support from the other wartime Allies.
D) was designed to keep Germany in a colonial status.
English colonizing ventures in the New World differed from previous Spanish and
Portuguese efforts in that English attempts were
A) immediate and major successes.
B) strictly coordinated and governed by the Crown.
C) met with little or no native resistance.
D) privately organized and financed.
In the period after the Civil War, southern industrial progress
A) failed to occur at all.
B) made the South more industrial than the North.
C) was impeded by southern loyalty to the past.
D) brought general prosperity to the poor people of the South.
What problems did black sharecroppers experience?
A) foreign competition
B) mechanization
C) eviction
D) All of the above.
Relative to the First New Deal, the Second New Deal
A) responded to the demand for more social justice.
B) promoted fewer programs for social reform.
C) attempted to cooperate more with American businessmen.
D) focused on economic rather than social reform.
After the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan in 1941,
A) the civil rights of German Americans and Italian Americans were restricted, as were
those of Japanese Americans, because Germany and Italy were allied with Japan.
B) the U.S. government carefully protected the civil rights of Japanese living in the
United States.
C) Japan launched an attack on the California coast.
D) the United States forced most Japanese in the United States to move from their
homes.
In 1808, the Cherokee adopted a legal code combining Indian and
A) Spanish law.
B) British law.
C) U.S. law.
D) French.
Following World War II, Puerto Ricans
A) were forced to immigrate to the United States.
B) settled primarily in the Southwest of the United States.
C) failed to enjoy the promise of the American dream as immigrant people.
D) enjoyed widespread wealth and prosperity.
All of the following describe the black church in northern cities EXCEPT
A) it provided day-care facilities.
B) it played an important role in sustaining black life.
C) it hosted Girl and Boy Scouts events.
D) it often rejected poor black families.
The Virginia Company attracted new settlers to its colony after 1609 by
A) offering them a share of the company’s profits.
B) advertising the benefits of Virginia’s healthy environment and comfortable living
conditions.
C) promising free land at the end of seven years’ labor for the company.
D) paying significantly higher wages than those prevailing throughout Europe.
In the republican worldview, governmental power
A) promoted public virtue.
B) controlled factionalism.
C) maintained order.
D) threatened liberty.
One effect of the Cold War was
A) to create a strong resistance to military pacts in the Senate.
B) a return of isolationist sentiments in the United States.
C) strong support for closer ties with the Soviet Union.
D) to commit the United States to involvement in European affairs.
In February 1791, Congress made a new tax law known as the
A) Cigarette Tax.
B) Whiskey Tax
C) Corn Tax
D) Rice Tax.
The containment policy of the Truman administration
A) had little support from policymakers in Washington.
B) fostered stronger relations between the United States and the Soviet Union.
C) had been designed by Dean Acheson.
D) became the basis for American foreign policy in the post-World War II period.
All of the following statements are true about the Kellogg-Briand pact EXCEPT:
A) The pact began as a suggestion by France for a treaty of mutual friendship with the
United States.
B) Britain refused to sign the pact.
C) Secretary of State Kellogg expanded the pact into a multinational treaty outlawing
war.
D) Sixty-two nations eventually signed the pact.
An early twentieth-century professional woman committed to solving the social
problems of American society was
A) Harriet Beecher Stowe.
B) Frances Kellor.
C) Geraldine Ferraro.
D) Madonna.
The Reagan and Bush administrations intervened on a number of occasions in Latin
America. Where and why did they intervene? How would you evaluate their actions?
Which of the following issues was NOT a contributing factor to Shays’s Rebellion?
A) Indian raids
B) taxation
C) debt
D) paper money
The end of the Seven Years’ War left the American colonies
A) economically prosperous.
B) reluctant to pursue western settlements.
C) more dependent upon British support and leadership.
D) debt-ridden and weakened in manpower.
In 1891, the second largest city in the West, behind San Francisco, was
A) Portland.
B) San Diego.
C) Los Angeles.
D) Medford.
The arrest in 1950 of which of the following couples led to a major communist
witchhunt trial?
A) Ronald and Nancy Reagan
B) George and Laura Bush
C) Ethel and Julius Rosenberg
D) Jane and John Goodall
Chicago’s counterpart in the West was _________, a city founded by the Gold Rush of
1849.
Discuss the background to the Polish question and illustrate how it became the first
confrontation in the Cold War.
Discuss the approach of the American government in promoting support for American
involvement in World War I among its citizens and evaluate the impact of these policies
on the activities of the American people.
The head of the Committee to Re-elect the President was former Attorney General
________.
Discuss the major problems of American society that concerned the social justice
progressives and explain how they tried to confront these issues.
Pretend that you were a typical 20-year-old Japanese American in 1942. Describe the
circumstances in which you lived at that time.
The beating of motorist ________ by the police in 1991 underscored the racial tensions
in the United States during the 1990s.
The Confederate States of America elected ________ from Mississippi as president.
In the battle of the ________ in May 1942, the United States inflicted heavy damage on
Japanese carriers.
Discuss Congress’s plan for Reconstruction and explain what Congress hoped to
achieve as a result of that plan.
Analyze the antebellum concept of domesticity. Did this outlook advance or restrict
women’s rights and “liberation”?
By 1800 in the Chesapeake, more than one in every _________blacks was free.
Justify American westward expansion in the 1840s.
Analyze the ways in which contact with the French, Spanish, and English transformed
life for Native Americans during the first half of the eighteenth century.
Discuss the political and social organization of the Iroquois.
The first inexpensive family car available to Americans during the 1920s was the
________.
Few Spanish settlers could be persuaded to settle the colony of ________.
The power of the colonial press was tested in 1733 by the _________ case.
While many Native Americans remained poor, the ________ of Mississippi
successfully gained tribal self-sufficiency.