In general, attempts to eliminate government use of the Confederate battle flag in the
South __________.
A) have garnered little attention from the media
B) have met with little success
C) showed that most white Southerners have little interest in the Confederate battle flag
D) have helped politicians who supported such attempts
A “rainbow coalition” that encouraged a wider commitment to social justice was led by
__________.
A) Jim Jones
B) Pat Robertson
C) Jesse Jackson
D) Jerry Falwell
In 1989, __________ became the first African American governor in the United States
since Reconstruction.
A) Douglas Wilder
B) Carl Stokes
C) Tom Bradley
D) Maynard Jackson
The aggressive tactics of John D. Rockefeller were supported by his __________.
A) strong support for the Knights of Labor
B) financial alliance with investment banker J. P. Morgan
C) belief in the “gospel of wealth”
D) refusal to adapt to new technological advances
The Indian Reorganization Act __________.
A) guaranteed religious freedom, and halted the sale of tribal lands
B) marked a return to the American governmental policies of the nineteenth century
C) received the full-fledged support of white missionaries who worked on reservations
D) weakened tribal control of local government
The increase in railroad building and mining helped to accelerate the development of
what industry?
A) steel
B) lumber
C) shipping
D) cotton
The significant outcome of the presidential election of 1876 was that it __________.
A) marked an end of the federal government’s commitment to Reconstruction reforms
B) signaled the beginning of an era in which the Democrats dominated the White House
C) rallied the forces of radical reform in the Republican Party
D) established that southern state laws would not be tolerated by the federal
government
The Baruch plan __________.
A) was opposed by the United States
B) was supported by the Soviet Union
C) called for an international agency to supervise and regulate uranium and nuclear
weapon production
D) called for all UN members to renounce the potential use of nuclear energy
What is the purpose of an antitrust law?
A) to prohibit unfair lending practices by financial institutions
B) to prohibit actions that restrict competition between companies in the market
C) to prohibit restraints on interstate commerce
D) to prohibit state regulation of commerce
Booker T. Washington emphasized __________.
A) vocational training as a way of establishing economic independence
B) the immediate rise of blacks into the professional class
C) the creation of interracial colleges and other public institutions
D) non-violent civil disobedience to gain legal reforms
In United States v. Cruikshank, the Supreme Court __________.
A) upheld all convictions in the Colfax Massacre
B) held that the Enforcement Act applied to individuals
C) held that the Enforcement Act applied to states
D) essentially overturned the Thirteenth Amendment
Which of the following had the highest population growth rate between 1940 and 1998?
A) suburbs
B) central cities
C) non-metropolitan areas
D) rural areas
During the Freedom Summer, __________.
A) students marched to Washington, D.C., to protest the Vietnam War
B) black and white activists registered black voters in Mississippi
C) activists were not victimized by violence
D) Sheriff Bull Connor ordered that dogs should be used against civil rights marchers
The purpose of the settlement house movement was to __________.
A) moderate poverty through neighborhood reconstruction
B) promote labor candidates for national political offices
C) involve congressmen in community service
D) support the cooperative ideals of the Knights of Labor
What was one of the delayed costs of the war in Iraq?
A) healthcare to Iraqi citizens
B) care for veterans
C) oil and other energy costs
D) technology to demilitarize weapons
In the case Roe v.Wade, the Supreme Court ruled that __________.
A) suburban areas needed wider representation in state governments
B) labor unions could not call strikes during the process of collective bargaining
C) state laws could not forbid abortions in the first three months of pregnancy
D) the federal government could make no laws that encourage integration
What was the first action of the Farmers’ Alliance?
A) organizing political rallies to protest credit inequities
B) pushing for government control of railroads
C) buying farmland from farmers facing foreclosure
D) organizing farmers’ cooperatives
Which of the following nations did not belong to the Central Powers?
A) Austria
B) Japan
C) Germany
D) Turkey
The FHA __________.
A) financed nearly 40 percent of all home mortgage debt between 1946 and 1950
B) required that labor leaders take oaths that they were not communists
C) began a trend that resulted in rampant inflation during the early 1950s
D) supported the third-party candidacy of Henry Wallace in 1948
President Johnson’s advisers convinced him that __________.
A) it was unwise to form a political alliance with Martin Luther King, Jr.
B) he should not pursue significant social reforms
C) the Air Force should not be used in Vietnam
D) controlled military escalation could secure Vietnam
Passed in California in 1978, __________ limited property taxes and continued into the
1990s.
A) Proposition 13
B) Proposition 187
C) Proposition 52
D) Proposition 113
The New Deal faced open dissent from __________.
A) Protestant religious leaders
B) women’s rights organizations
C) the Democratic Party
D) the Communist Party
The population of Los Angeles in the 1990s __________.
A) decreased faster than that of any city in the United States
B) included a significant sector of Mexican Americans
C) was not as diverse as populations in most American cities
D) contained very few Asian immigrants
When the Boston police went on strike, Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge
__________.
A) gave the police a raise
B) agreed to officially recognize a policemen’s union
C) fired the striking police
D) had the national guard imprison the strikers
Four students were killed by the National Guard at Kent State University during a
protest of __________.
A) Richard Nixon’s reelection
B) Lyndon Johnson’s decision to bomb North Vietnam
C) the Gulf of Tonkin resolution
D) the American bombing of Cambodia
What author wrote that there was no longer any meaning in the words ‘sacred, glorious,
and sacrifice.”
A) F. Scott Fitzgerald
B)Gertrude Stein
C) Sinclair Lewis
D) Ernest Hemingway
Proponents of the Social Gospel believed __________.
A) all Americans should worship in Protestant churches
B) religious ethics should be introduced into industrial relations
C) social Darwinism was compatible with Christian morality
D) that the Old Testament supported a class system
American investments in the Caribbean increased as a result of __________.
A) the Roosevelt Corollary
B) the Open Door Policy
C) dollar diplomacy
D) the Spanish-American War
Why did Columbia students begin the protests that became the “Red Spring”?
A) They thought that Columbia’s classes were too philosophically conservative.
B) They disagreed with Columbia’s support for the Vietnam War in allowing military
recruiters on campus.
C) They believed that tuition was too high.
D) They were unhappy with Columbia’s cooperation with a Pentagon-funded group and
rejected the construction of a gym on a public park.
The Treaty of Fort Laramie __________.
A) was negotiated in 1879
B) required the United States to abandon routes traveling through Sioux territory
C) was a major defeat for the Sioux
D) was respected by both sides for nearly three decades
Events in the Watts section of Los Angeles in 1965 showed that __________.
A) the Democratic Party was calming the anger of poor Americans
B) grass-roots democracy was succeeding by using non-violence
C) there was growing power in non-violent civil disobedience
D) racial unrest could result in violent riots
The loyalty program __________.
A) was used for intimidation, not personnel decisions
B) was strongly opposed by Truman’s Justice Department
C) resulted in the firings and resignations of many innocent Americans
D) was ruled unconstitutional in 1952
The American Protective Association specifically focused on __________.
A) promoting the colonization of blacks in Africa
B) defeating the goals of the Knights of Labor
C) attracting immigrant voters to the Republican Party
D) limiting the civil rights of Catholic Americans
Subsidies from the __________ helped the aviation industry to thrive.
A) U.S. Post Office
B) Federal Aviation Administration
C) Army
D) Treasury Department
The Harlem Renaissance _________.
A) was a movement among white liberals to achieve racial equality in America
B) failed to nurture the emergence of black cultural pride in northern cities
C) undermined the goals of the NAACP
D) featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era