As president, what was Jimmy Carter noted for?
A) surrounding himself with Washington insiders
B) working patiently and persistently with Congress to enact his programs
C) trying to set a tone of democratic simplicity and moral fervor
D) avoiding contact with average people and their concerns
Which of the following outlawed racial discrimination by employers and formal racial
segregation of all sorts in places of public accommodation?
A) the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
B) the Twenty-third Amendment
C) the Civil Rights Act of 1964
D) the Civil Rights Act of 1957
In January 1776, the British pushed the colonists toward independence by hiring
__________ mercenaries.
A) Hessian
B) Swiss
C) Prussian
D) Bavarian
What was President Wilson’s basic approach to foreign relations?
A) He favored aggressive military expansion by America.
B) He thought the Open Door policy and the Panama Canal should be abandoned as
imperialistic.
C) He wanted to spread the gospel of American democracy to enlighten the unfortunate
and ignorant.
D) He demonstrated a hard-headed, almost cynical, realism.
What made the French settlement project in Mississippi so difficult?
A) the resistance of Spanish marauders.
B) the smuggling practices of English merchants
C) the ferocious resistance of Plains Indians
D) the region’s maze of swamps and rivers
Who was in charge of immigration until the 1890s?
A) the Department of State
B) states
C) counties
D) the Immigration and Naturalization Service
What was the most conservative proposal before the First Continental Congress in
1774?
A) The Boston Manifesto, which denounced the crimes committed by the British
government since 1763.
B) The Continental Association, which called for boycotting British goods and cutting
off exports to Great Britain.
C) The plan from Joseph Galloway, which called for creating a general government for
America capable of blocking Parliament’s proposals.
D) The Albany Plan from Benjamin Franklin, which called for voluntary union among
the colonies.
What did the early experience of Jamestown in the Chesapeake teach the London
Company about colonial development?
A) Without Native American assistance, colonial settlements were doomed to fail.
B) Without African slavery, English colonial settlements would not survive.
C) Colonial societies could only prosper with diverse economic development and urban
centers.
D) A colony stood little chance at succeeding if its settlers were not allowed to own
their own land.
Who was the most formidable of the extremists opposing Roosevelt and leader of the
Share Our Wealth movement?
A) Norman Thomas
B) Father Charles E. Coughlin
C) Dr. Francis E. Townsend
D) Huey P. Long
Which of the following was one of the first books to treat sex forthrightly?
A) McTeague
B) Sister Carrie
C) A Modern Instance
D) The Portrait of a Lady
During his second term, when the progressive movement became steadily more liberal,
Theodore Roosevelt __________.
A) criticized it as socialistic
B) refused to advance beyond his earlier moderate reforms
C) also took more liberal positions
D) flirted with socialism
American inventor Robert Fulton perfected the first commercially successful
__________.
A) power loom
B) railroad
C) steamboat
D) steam engine
In evaluating the achievements of Reagan’s presidency, which of the following
statements is true?
A) He communicated so poorly that he had little impact on the political climate.
B) He encouraged a Darwinian chaos through deregulation.
C) He was directly responsible for the restructuring of American corporations.
D) He led the nation with first-rate organizational and administrative skills.
The Sherman Antitrust Act was drastically limited by the Supreme Court in which of
the following?
A) the Wabash Case
B) Munn v. Illinois
C) Reagan v. Farmers’ Loan & Trust Company
D) United States v. E. C. Knight Company
Who was the former mining engineer and head of the Belgian Relief Commission
whom Wilson named to mobilize America’s agricultural resources?
A) William Jennings Bryan
B) Herbert Hoover
C) William G. McAdoo
D) Frank P. Walsh
Cattle herds were driven across the unsettled grasslands of the __________ Trail on
their way to the railroad at Abilene, Kansas.
A) Pecos
B) Goodnight-Loving
C) Chisholm
D) Oregon
The creation of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887 __________.
A) provided immediate relief for the farmer
B) challenged the philosophy of laissez-faire
C) provided the railroads exactly what they desired.
D) failed so dramatically that the government abandoned this tactic
Which American crop which was easily cultivated and, in the form of liquor, easy to
transport and store?
A) potatoes
B) wheat
C) corn
D) pumpkins
What happened after a Khrushchev interview with publisher William Randolph Hearst,
Jr. was published?
A) Americans were relieved to hear about the Soviet Union’s peaceful intentions.
B) The Soviet Union’s many weaknesses became readily apparent.
C) Many Americans criticized Eisenhower for allowing a missile gap.
D) Eisenhower put the policy of massive retaliation into effect.
McKinley’s campaign manager Marcus Hanna __________.
A) rejected party organization
B) allowed McKinley to run his own campaign
C) relied almost exclusively on small donations from individuals
D) blanketed the country with campaign literature
Which of the following best sums up the Truman Doctrine of 1947?
A) The United States had an obligation to fight communism in all its forms at home and
abroad.
B) The United States had the obligation to assist free peoples in the fight against
oppression by armed minorities or outside forces.
C) The United States could never accept the legitimacy of the Soviet Union and would
pursue foreign affairs as if that nation did not exist.
D) It was in the interest of the United States to preemptively attack a communist nation
militarily, even if unprovoked.
Prior to the “democratizing” of politics during the age of Jackson, presidential
candidates were usually chosen by which of the following?
A) national convention
B) state legislature
C) congressional caucus
D) national electoral commission
Officially, the Korean War was a struggle between North Korea and the __________.
A) Americans
B) South Koreans
C) United Nations
D) NATO allies
Which statement about the Stimson Doctrine is true?
A) It determined that the United States was committed to minimizing the military
power of Germany.
B) It stated that the United States would never recognize the legality of any seizures in
violation of American treaties.
C) It made it mandatory for the U.S. Senate to appeal to the League of Nations in a case
of illegal seizures.
D) It made military intervention mandatory whenever a U.S. ally came under attack.
In 1804, a successful and bloody slave revolt led to the creation of the black republic of
__________.
A) Grenada
B) Liberia
C) Haiti
D) Sierra Leone
In The Cooperative Commonwealth, Laurence Gronlund __________.
A) defended the Granger laws as the only means by which the family farm could be
preserved
B) provided the first serious attempt to explain the ideas of Karl Marx to Americans
C) justified the mergers of gigantic corporations as the best way to increase harmony
and efficiency
D) called for a ‘single tax” to eliminate the profits from land speculation
“[C]hained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience!” is the way
__________ described the deplorable conditions of insane asylums to Massachusetts
state legislators.
A) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
B) Angelina Grimke
C) Clara Barton
D) Dorothea Dix
Which New Deal program provided billions of dollars for roads, stadiums, actors,
writers, and artists?
A) Tennessee Valley Authority
B) National Recovery Administration
C) Civilian Conservation Corps
D) Works Progress Administration
Both Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau __________.
A) worked actively in abolitionist organizations
B) sought truth through scientific research
C) engaged in civil disobedience to protest the Mexican War
D) objected to many of society’s restrictions on the individual
The Compromise of 1850 included admitting __________ as a free state.
A) California
B) New Mexico
C) Texas
D) Maine