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Slave spirituals reiterated one basic Christian theme: A) servants, obey your masters. B) if someone slaps you, turn the other cheek. C) a chosen people were held captive but would be delivered. D) do unto others as you would have […]

The documents published by the New York Times revealed the A) disparity in training between U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. B) fabrications and faulty assumptions that had guided the Vietnam War. C) effectiveness of massive bombing. D) participation by the […]

In reference to the Oregon question, President Polk A) recommended a continued joint occupation with Britain. B) supported a division of the territory at the 49th parallel. C) exercised great tact and skill in achieving compromise. D) demanded a “fifty-four […]

By the last quarter of the nineteenth century, the antebellum “walking city” A) expanded. B) remained the same. C) disappeared. D) declined slightly. Who did the Democrats nominate in 1928 for president? A) Theodore Roosevelt B) Al Smith C) Woodrow […]

All of the following influenced middle-class reformers in the United States EXCEPT A) Victor Hugo. B) Karl Marx. C) Leo Tolstoy. D) Adolph Hitler. The Federalists argued that a stronger national government was necessary to A) establish public credit. B) […]

Economic policy under President Washington was largely carried out by A) George Mason. B) Thomas Jefferson. C) John Jay. D) Alexander Hamilton. Nixon worked to undermine the liberal agenda by all of the following EXCEPT A) reshaping the Supreme Court. […]

Why did the Bay of Pigs invasion result in disaster for the United States? A) Castro held off troops coming ashore. B) An air strike failed to destroy Cuban air power. C) The Americans mistakenly assumed the Cuban people would […]

The architects of the Carolina colony A) designed the most democratic of all the colonial governments. B) intended to create a hereditary aristocracy of wealthy manor lords. C) commissioned the capture of Indians for sale as slaves in New England […]

All of the following represent theories of Enlightenment thinkers EXCEPT the notion that A) scientific laws might be applied to human institutions in order to improve society. B) systematic investigation would unlock the secrets of the physical universe. C) God […]

By 1720, the population of South Carolina A) shared common social and religious goals. B) enjoyed a relatively disease-free environment. C) consisted mostly of black slaves. D) engaged in a variety of economic pursuits. Herbert Hoover failed as a presidential […]

By 1820, the population of New York numbered _______ people. A) 50,000 B) 75,000 C) 100,000 D) 200,000 By 1760 the American colonies had a population of A) 3 million. B) 2 million. C) 1.75 million. D) 1 million. Answer: […]

The British invasion of the southern states was complicated by the A) absence of Loyalist supporters. B) jagged coastline and numerous inland rivers. C) colonial use of local knowledge and unconventional tactics. D) presence of a large slave population. The […]

The economic salvation for the Virginia colony proved to be the A) trade with the Powhatan Indians. B) invention of the cotton gin. C) mining of silver. D) cultivation of tobacco. Which areas benefited the most from the military expenditures […]

John Kennedy A) was the youngest man elected president. B) won the election with a wide margin of the popular vote. C) barely received enough electoral votes to win the election. D) had little prior political experience. Until 1902, the […]

In the “insular cases,” the Supreme Court determined that A) Congress had no right to restrict the freedom of any group controlled by the United States. B) Congress could treat some people under American control differently than it treated others. […]

The Compromise of 1850 delayed but did not prevent the outbreak of more serious sectional conflicts. Agriculture and farming represented a small part of the exports and livelihoods of early American people. Answer: FALSE Even though the United States had […]

The Moral Majority contributed funds to politicians who supported prayer in public schools and limitation of abortion rights. The primary reason for the Democrats’ return to power was violence. Answer: TRUE New Amsterdam, founded by the Dutch, became New York […]

John Muir helped to found Yellowstone National Park in California in the late 1800s. In developing his New Deal policies, President Franklin Roosevelt rejected all the programs that President Hoover had instituted. Answer: FALSE From 1951 to 1953, the United […]

France entered the American Revolutionary War on the American side in 1778. It was noted as early as the 1750s that the gap in population between England and her colonies was closing rapidly. Answer: TRUE Reflecting U.S. economic expansion, over […]

The gay and lesbian movement became less radical and militant in the 1970s. California was one of the most diverse places in the country during the 1850s. Answer: TRUE The Philadelphia militia failed to support the radical leaders of the […]

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 […]

The SNCC advocated using violence in pursuing civil rights. Brazil’s slave population reached over 15 million by 1860. Answer: FALSE In 1829 a northern free black man named Nat Turner published a pamphlet that called for slave rebellion. Answer: FALSE […]

The Allies dropped over 1.5 million tons of bombs on Europe to win World War II. The early New Deal programs did much to assist the roughly 140,000 homeless women in the nation. Answer: FALSE Poor whites stayed poor because […]

The ________Act of 1957 established a Civil Rights Commission. Despite Clinton’s presidential victory of 1996, the Republicans remained in control of ________. Answer: Congress Environmentalists were encouraged by the progressive environmental policies of Reagan and the first Bush presidencies. Answer: […]

What was the concern as millennials increasingly turned to Facebook and other social media? A) that Facebook would exercise too much power over the consumption patterns of Americans B) that television would soon become extinct as a medium C) that […]

The early confidence of both sides was rocked by the staggering casualties sustained in 1862 at __________. A) Bull Run B) Seven Pines C) Shiloh D) Vicksburg Which author spent most of his adult life in Europe writing about the […]

“Jersey negroes appear to be particularly adapted to this marketWe have the right to calculate on large importations in the future, from the success which hitherto attended the sale.” This quote from a Southern newspaper describes which of the following? […]

Why was the expansion of tobacco cultivation an economic problem in Virginia by the end of the seventeenth century? A) It led to a slump in prices. B) It prompted competition from New England. C) The availability of land in […]

The British defeat at Yorktown resulted largely from the __________. A) inability of the British to persuade Tories to join them B) French fleet winning control of Chesapeake Bay and preventing Cornwallis from escaping from the peninsula by sea C) […]

What was one of the major reasons for the popular appeal of the Protestant Reformation? A) Italian merchants realized it made fewer financial demands on them than Catholicism. B) Political figures could use its challenge to Rome’s spiritual authority in […]

The initiative in the Pacific shifted to the Americans as a result of which 1942 battles? A) Coral Sea and Midway B) Manila and Tarawa C) Saipan and Guadalcanal D) Okinawa and Iwo Jima What likely would have happened if […]

Which of the following was the key evidence in the Watergate Affair, several pieces of which were deliberately erased or disposed of? A) Nixon’s letters offering to pay the burglars to keep quiet B) Nixon’s nightly memos that detailed all […]

Who caused a major problem for the new government of the Articles of Confederation when it closed the lower Mississippi River to American commerce? A) Spain B) France C) Great Britain D) England Which of the following describes President Obama’s […]

By the day of FDR’s inauguration in 1933, banking operations __________. A) had been suspended in four-fifths of the states B) continued, despite several well-publicized failures C) had collapsed totally throughout the country D) remained largely unaffected by the Depression […]

The growing risk of exposure to sexual predators was one troubling side effect of which of the following? A) the law and order campaign B) the wave of new immigrants C) the anonymity of the Internet D) the age gap […]

How did the theories of Sigmund Freud affect the ideas and behavior of progressive intellectuals? A) They were especially influenced by Freud’s essentially dark view of human nature. B) They strongly agreed with his view that almost all human behavior […]

Who was the leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who used the slogan “Back to Africa”? A) Marcus Garvey B) W. E. B. Du Bois C) Booker T. Washington D) Langston Hughes What did American and British strategists decide […]

Illegal, often violent, resistance by the Sons of Liberty to __________ may be seen as marking the start of the revolution. A) the Proclamation of 1763 B) colonial assemblies C) the Boston Massacre D) the Stamp Act Like fellow westerners, […]

Which of the following was the basic difference between Lincoln and Davis as presidents? A) Lincoln could not stand criticism. B) Davis allowed personal feelings to distort his judgment. C) Lincoln failed to delegate authority. D) Davis was patient with […]

The urban ethnic neighborhoods of the late nineteenth century were __________. A) ghettos in the European sense B) crowded and unhealthy C) destroyers of traditional immigrant culture D) model communities with high living standards With what was the American Party […]

The Report on Manufactures can best be described as which of the following? A) an early example of economic research B) a bold call for economic planning C) a blue print for a Department of Commerce D) an argument of […]

Which of the following occurred in early 1895, when the Treasury’s gold reserves reached a desperately low point? A) President Cleveland devalued the dollar. B) President Cleveland ordered twenty million dollars worth of silver dollars coined even though this caused […]

What was a major factor in the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1920s? A) a distrust of foreigners, Catholics, blacks, and Jews B) a surge in socialist and union activism C) an increase in black civil […]

Which of the following accurately assesses the way most white Americans understood slavery? A) They saw it as a beneficial institution. B) They deplored it as an immoral sin. C) They ardently wished for its nationwide expansion. D) They understood […]

The discovery that cattle could feed on the prairie grasses of the public domain of the northern plains led to the development of which of the following? A) bonanza farms B) open-range ranching C) refrigerated railroad cars D) sharecropping The […]

The Homestead Strike __________. A) pitted private police against steelworkers near Pittsburgh B) involved rail yard workers west of Chicago C) illustrated the working-class consciousness of Midwestern farmers D) marked the beginning of the end for the Knights of Labor […]

Which of the following statements about Christendom in the fourteenth century is accurate? A) It dominated Europe as well as Northern Africa. B) It had established cities and institutions of learning far superior to those of Islam or China. C) […]

Johns Hopkins became the leader in graduate education by modeling itself after universities in which country? A) England B) France C) Italy D) Germany Why is it so difficult to generalize about the institution of slavery in the United States? […]

Fearing the nation’s loss of its moral compass, conservative leaders during the 1970s and 1980s actively tried to implement the goals of which movement? A) law and order B) crime and punishment C) civil rights D) criminal justice English thinker […]

Feminist Margaret Sanger was which of the following? A) a leader of divorce reform B) a strong proponent of birth control C) a major critic of an equal rights amendment D) a chief opponent of prohibition The major paradox of […]