Transcript US History EOC Review

NORTH CAROLINA
US History REVIEW
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What is the site of the first successful English colony?
A) Jamestown
B) Roanoke Island
C) Plymouth
D) Charleston
What was the reason that the English colonist
succeeded in becoming the ruling power in
America?
A)The English started colonizing before Spain and France.
B)Neither France or Spain were as aggressive as the
English
C)English settlers were interested in establishing
permanent settlements.
D)The English found more gold
than the Spanish or French
What saved the Jamestown colony from failure?
A)The importing of black
slaves
B) The cultivation of tobacco
C)a religious revival
D)Help from the Indians
Which colonies would most likely have access to good
harbors but be limited by rocky soil?
A)New York and New Jersey
B) Virginia and North Carolina
C) Massachusetts and Rhode Island
D) Connecticut and Georgia
Which colonies would most likely have staple crops and
large plantations?
A)New Jersey and Maryland
B)New York and Delaware
C) Massachusetts and Connecticut
D)Virginia and South Carolina
The most important cash crop of the Southern colonies
was?
A)corn
B) tobacco
C) cotton
D) rice
Which group of documents best demonstrates the
desire among colonists for self government?
A) Mayflower Compact, Of Plymouth Plantations,
Common Sense
B)Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, New England
Primer, Maryland Act of Toleration
C) Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Maryland
Act of Toleration, New England Primer
D) Mayflower Compact, Albany Plan of Union,
Declaration of Independence
The Virginia House of Burgesses marked and important
precedent because it
A) Failed
B) was abolished by James I
C) was the first representative government
in the colonies
D) forced James I to revoke the colony’s royal
charter and grant it self-government.
What was the original purpose of the Constitutional
Convention?
A) Revise the Constitution
B) Revise the Articles of Confederation
C) Revise the Mayflower Compact
D) Revise the Declaration of Independence
The 13 original state governments had all of the following,
except:
A) Monarchs
B) Bill of Rights
C) Legislative Branches
D) Executive Branches
Which of the following men first stated, “All men are
created equal”:
A) George Washington
B) Jean Jacque Rousseau
C) Thomas Jefferson
D) John Locke
What state did not send a delegate to the Constitutional
Convention?
A) North Carolina
B) Delaware
C) New York
D) Rhode Island
How did the Puritans treat other groups who settled in the
Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A) Although persecuted themselves, the Puritans accepted
other Protestants but not Roman Catholics or Quakers.
B) The Puritans did not accept other groups into the colony,
even after being persecuted themselves in England.
C) The Puritans accepted and converted Native
Americans who lived in the region.
D) The Puritans accepted French Huguenots at first, but
later forced them to leave.
Colonial legislatures were often able to bend the power of the
governors to their will because:
A) The governors often had a greater sense of loyalty to
their colony than to the king.
B) The governors were usually chosen by colonial legislatures
and could be removed from office by the legislatures.
C) Colonial legislatures controlled taxes and
expenditures that paid the governor’s salaries.
D) The king generally held the view of colonial legislatures
in higher regard than those of the governors.
The religious group which was against war and slavery was
the
A. Puritans
B) Separatists
C) Quakers
D) Anglicans
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams helped establish the
principle of :
A) Freedom of the press
B) Freedom of religion
C) Free education
D) Representative government
The jury decision in the John Peter Zenger case led to
A) Freedom of the Press
B) Freedom of trade
C) Freedom of religion
D) Freedom of assembly
The early colonist who worked for a specified number of
years in exchange for their passage to America were
called:
A) slaves
B) patrons
C) sharecroppers
D) Indentured servants
The chief occupation of most American colonists was:
A) manufacturing
B) farming
C) shipping
D) fishing
Following the economic theory of mercantilism, England
believed its colonies existed to :
A) Provide raw materials that could not be found in
the home country
B) Provide English settlers with political freedom
C) Provide English settlers with religious freedom
D) Enhance English prestige with the
acquisition of territory
The exchange of rum, molasses and slaves for
manufactured products between the colonies, the West
Indies, and Africa became known as
A) mercantilism
B) The Navigation Acts
C) French-American Trade Agreement
D) Triangular trade
The French and Indian War resulted in a conflict over
A) French control over the St.
Lawrence River
B) The turning over of the Louisiana Territory to the
British
C) The French occupation of the Ohio River Valley
D) French trade agreements with the Huron Indians
With the British and American victory during the
French and Indian War,
A) The American colonies grew closer to Britain
B) A new spirit of independence arose.
C) The Americans now feared the Spanish
D) Indians never again launched deadly attacks against
whites.
The American colonists objected to Parliament’s taxes
A) Only after the King closed the port of Boston
B) because taxes were excessively high
C) Until William Pitt became Prime Minister
D) Because they believed only the colonial assemblies
could tax.
The Intolerable Acts were passed as a result of the
A) Boston Massacre
B) Boston Tea Party
C) Writs of Assistance
D) Stamp Act Congress
In the pamphlet titled “Common Sense”, Thomas Paine
urges Americans to
A) Boycott British goods, especially tea
B) Petition the King for colonial representation in Parliament
C) Begin a system of communication within the colonies
about threats to American liberties.
D) To declare their independence from England and
create their own country.
The Declaration of Independence is based on the idea that
A) English laws are bad and no one needs to follow them.
B) Men have the right to punish those who have abused
them.
C) People do not have to follow any law that they do not
like.
D) People are entitled to certain rights that no one can
take away from them.
The Enlightenment philosopher who most influenced the
colonial leaders was
A) Jean Jacques Rouseau
B) Baron de Montesquieu
C) John Locke
D) Thomas Paine
If the Battle of Lexington and Concord was the
immediate cause of the beginning of the American
Revolution, what was the long-term cause?
A) The ideas of the Enlightenment studied by the colonial
leaders
B) The many taxes that caused a hardship for the
colonials
C) The English colonists’ desire for independence from
England’s tyrannical and self-serving rule
D) The lack of a colonial representation in Parliament
The Battle of Saratoga was a turning point for the patriot
forces because it
A) Led to an alliance between the Americans and the French
B) Taught General Burgoyne how to lead an
expedition through the forests
C) Taught the British how to fight in the countryside instead of on
the coast.
D) Caused the British so many losses that it weakened
the English Army
The American Revolution resulted in all of the following
except:
A) The end of British mercantilist restrictions
B) Economic problems
C) Recognition of the US as a world power
D) The recognition of the new independent United
States of America
After eleven years it became obvious that the Articles of
Confederation were not successful because:
A) It was a different kind of
government
B) Too much power was given to a central
government
C) Not enough power was given to a central
government
D) It favored some
states over others
What was the positive result of the Northwest Ordinance of
1787?
A) Resolved problems of representation between small
and large states
B) Established an orderly procedure for creating new states
C) Addressed the problem of slavery in the northern
states
D) Settled the boundary between the northwestern
states and Canada
The Constitution divides power between states and the
federal government. This is called:
A) Communism
B) Republicanism
C) Federalism
D) Democracy
The Federalist Papers were published
A) To urge voters to reject the Constitution
B) To suggest ways the Articles of Confederation could be
improved.
C) To urge voters to ratify the Constitution.
D) To suggest a way to amend the
Constitution.
Several states refused to ratify the Constitution unless:
A) The President was elected by the people
B) The Mayflower compact was repealed
C) A list of rights protecting liberties was added
D) There was a prohibition on taxes
The Electoral College Compromise dealt with which of the
following:
A) representation in Congress
B) Slave trade
C) Counting population
D) Choosing the President
What was the cause of “Shay’s Rebellion”?
A) High taxes
B) Unequal representation
C) Freedom of Speech
D) Right to bear arms
The final version of the Constitution is the result of
A) Washington’s Veto
B) Thomas Jefferson’s writings
C) Many compromises
D) The work of the electoral college
Most of the conflicts between whites and Indians on the
frontier were over
A) The rights to use the Mississippi River
B) Disease spread by the white settlers
C) Religious differences
D) Control and ownership of land
The first incident in which the Constitution proved its
strength and power to enforce the laws was the
A) Negotiation of Jay’s Treaty
B) Whiskey Rebellion
C) XYZ Affair
D) Battle of Tippecanoe
The first two political parties were formed as a result of
the controversy between which two leaders?
A) Washington and Hamilton
B) Madison and Jefferson
C) Hamilton and Jefferson
D) Washington and Madison
Which of the following did the Constitutional Convention
NOT come up with?
A) Bicameral legislature
B) Bill of rights
C) Judicial Branch
D) Executive Branch
Alexander Hamilton’s financial program including the
Bank of the United States seemed to favor which group of
Americans?
A) Southern Farmers
B) Northern Businessmen
C) Western frontiersmen
D) East Coast Fishermen
Which of the following compromises dealt with
representation in the national Congress?
A) Electoral College
B) Connecticut
C) Slave trade
D) 3/5
Which of the following court cases established governments
practice of separate but equal
A) Plessy v Ferguson
B) Rust v Sullivan
C) Korematsu v. U.S.
D) Marbury v. Madison
What was President Washington’s response when Great
Britain and France went to war against each other?
A) He issued the Monroe Doctrine
B) He allowed France to use American ports
C) He declared the Proclamation of Neutrality
D) He declared war on Great Britain
In George Washington’s Farwell Address, he warned
against all of the following except
A) Foreign alliances
B) Formation of political parties
C) Engaging in Europe matters
D) Building of colleges
The Judiciary Act of 1801 and so called “midnight judges”
were an attempt by the Federalists to
A) Weaken the Judicial branch of the government
B) Support of the policies of the incoming President, Thomas
Jefferson
C) Prolong their power by increasing their hold on the
judiciary
D) Do away with the Alien and Sedition Acts
When a local party organization becomes very powerful, it
is sometimes referred to as a_________________ .
A) Political machine
B) Convention
C) Caucus
D) none of the above
In the 1803 the United States suddenly doubled its size
when
A) It seized Louisiana from the Spanish empire
B) It bought Louisiana from Napoleon of France for $15
million
C) Daniel Boone cleared a road through a gap in eastern
Tennessee called the Wilderness Road
D) It bought Louisiana from Spain for $15 million
What is the most significant result of the Supreme Court
decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
A) Declared slavery open in all states
B) Limited the power of individual states
C) Expanded the power of the Bill of Rights
D) Established the Supreme Courts right to exercise judicial
review
The case of McCullough v. Maryland declared that
_____________ was constitutional
A) The National bank
B) Interstate trade
C) Westward expansion
D) The Fugitive Slave Law
Which of the following is the main reason the US declared
war on Great Britain during the War of 1812
A) Embargo Act, Proclamation of Neutrality, and War Hawks
B) Indian relations, national pride, and War Hawks
C) Treaty of Paris (1763) violations
D) Treaty of Paris (1783) violations
A group of young Congressmen called The War Hawks
wanted to
A) Declare war against France
B) Work out a new treaty with the Indians
C) Remove the Indians and declare war against England
D) Wipe out the Federalist party
Francis Scott Key was inspired to write “The Star–
Spangled Banner” by the
A) American victory at New Orleans
B) Triumphs of Old Ironside
C) Signing of the Treaty of Ghent
D) Defense of Baltimore at Fort McHenry
As a result of the War of 1812, the US
A) Became more dependent on Great Britain
B) Lost some of its national pride
C) Became less dependent on Europe
D) Gained land in Canada and Florida
Under the Treaty of Ghent, the United States and Great
Britain agreed to
A) Keep warships off the Great Lakes
B) Leave the Canadian boundary unfortified
C) Establish joint control over the Oregon Country
D) Resume peaceful relation
The nationalism during the War of 1812 is most clearly
evident in the
A) Appointment of John Marshall as Chief Justice
B) Support for the Hartford Convention
C) Support for the protective tariff
D) Refusal to purchase Florida
The issue of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase was settled
by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which declared that
A) Maine and Missouri would come in as slave states, but
from then on all states would be free
B) Maine would come in as a free and Missouri as a slave
state, from then on the settlers would vote to decide which
they wanted to be
C) Both Maine and Missouri would hold an election to decide
whether they wanted to be a slave state or free
D) Maine would come in as a free state and Missouri as a slave
state and that the rest of the territory would be divided
between slave and free states by the 36 30’ line
The Monroe Doctrine issued in 1823 by James Monroe
was an expression of United States’ expanding nationalism
when Monroe
A) Warned all European powers not to interfere with the
affairs in the Western hemisphere
B) Warned Napoleon to withdraw from his occupation of
Spain and Portugal
C) Told Mexico and Cuba that the United States intended to
take over their countries
D) Took over the Isthmus of Panama in order to build a short
route between the Atlantic and the Pacific
Why did the Tariff of Abominations, passed in 1828, so
enrage the Southerners?
A) Because it favored imported goods from Britain
B) Because it was passed over the protests of President John
Quincy Adams
C) Because the tariff was too high
D) Because it favored manufacturing in the northeast at the
expense of southern agriculture
The Tariff of Abominations resulted in which of the
following?
A) The Monroe Doctrine
B) Religious revivals
C) The concept of nullification
D) Establishment of labor unions
As a result of President Jackson’s policy, most Native
Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River
A) Lost the right to vote
B) Gained the right to sue in court
C) Were forced to give up land
D) Supported Jackson in his reelection
What is the modern-day equivalent of the Kitchen
Cabinet?
A) The Diplomatic Corps
B) The President’s personal advisors
C) The Central Intelligence Agency
D) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee
The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions
stated the position of a group of people who were seeking
equal rights for
A) People without property
B) women
C) immigrants
D) Freed slaves
What term best describes why Americans felt justified in
expanding its territory from on coast to the other?
A) Manifest destiny
B) Trail of Tears
C) Territorial expansion
D) Tariff of Abominations
The immediate cause of the Mexican War was
A) A debt owed by Mexico to the American government
B) The movement of American settlers into Mexican territory
C) A revolution in Mexico between the Mexican rebels and
Spain
D) A dispute over the southern boundary of Texas
All of the following were reasons Americans went west except
for
A) Gold and silver
B) Factory work
C) farmland
D) Religious freedom
The acquisition of territory that gave the US ownership of
land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was the
A) Mexican Cession
B) Louisiana Purchase
C) Gadsden Purchase
D) Texas annexation
One agent of the Underground Railroad, often called “The
Moses of her People,” was
A) Elizabeth Stanton
B) Elizabeth Blackwell
C) Harriet Tubman
D) Harriet Beecher Stowe
The American Temperance Union called for an end to
A) The North’s interfering in the affairs of the South
B) The excessive use of alcoholic beverages
C) Domestic violence and injustices against women
D) The abuse of the mentally ill in prison
Many Southerners strongly defended slavery because
A) Slaves were needed to build the South’s transportation
system
B) The Southern economy was based on slave labor
C) Immigrants were not willing to work on plantations
D) Slaves were needed to work on small southern farms
The term “popular sovereignty” refers to resolving the slave
issue by
A) A referendum in all slave states
B) Elections in Texas and California
C) A territorial election in the western territories
D) A vote in the House of Representatives
“Bleeding Kansas” refers to the mid-century violence in the
state of Kansas over:
A) Native American land rights
B) A high protective tariff that hurt the South
C) Slavery in the new states
D) Voting rights of non-property owners
In the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856),
Chief Justice Roger B. Taney expressed all of the following
ideas except
A) Slaves are property
B) Masters can take slaves anywhere
C) The Fugitive Slave Law is unconstitutional
D) The Missouri compromise is
unconstitutional
The event causing the first southern states to secede from the
Union was
A) The Dred Scott Decision
B) John Brown’s raid
C) Lincoln’s election as president
D) The Kansas-Nebraska Act
President Lincoln’s goal, after the Election of 1860 was to
A) Abolish slavery
B) Preserve the Union
C) Defeat the Confederacy
D) Leave slavery alone
Which of the following was a Confederate advantage at the
beginning of the Civil War?
A) More factories and people
B) More help from France
C) More experienced generals
D) More miles of railroad
The purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the
Constitution was to
A) Help black Americans achieve equal rights
B) Keep black Americans as slaves
C) End Reconstruction in the South
D) Ease the burden of Reconstruction on white Southerners
The black codes developed by the southern states were
designed to
A) Help former slaves obtain farmland
B) Help former slaves receive an education
C) Keep freed slaves subordinate to whites
D) Require freed slaves to vote for southern candidates
General Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” involved all of
the following except
A) Blockading Confederate ports
B) Dividing the Confederacy into three theaters of
war
C) Gaining control of the Mississippi River and of
New Orleans
D) Pushing north to capture Washington, D.C.
Which battle, fought in July 1863, was a turning point of the
Civil War?
A) Fredericksburg
B) Vicksburg
C) Pittsburgh
D) Gettysburg
Lincoln’s plan fro Reconstruction was:
A) A hope of peace without bitterness and a
restoration of southern economic and political
rights
B) Harsh treatment of the South, both
economically and politically
C) Vague because he did not have time to develop
his plan
D) Harsh politically, but economically easy
Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was:
A) Harsh and similar to the Radical Republican’s
plan
B) The same as Lincoln’s plan
C) A reflection of the demands of the southern
states
D) Harsher than Lincoln’s, but far short of what
was demanded by the Radical Republicans
Which of the following statements characterized big
business in the US during the “New Industrial Age”,
(approx. 1865-1900)?
A) Demand for government action to end
immigration
B) Pressure exerted on government to create
economic stability
C) Use of organizational power to control market
prices and eliminate competition
D) Opposition to the introduction of labor saving
devices
During the Gilded Age, many Americans opposed trusts
became
A) Trusts could destroy small companies
B) Trusts increased competition among businesses
C) Trusts allowed foreign investments
D) Unemployment in the cities increased
The court case Brown v. Board of Education dealt with
which of the following:
A) 1st Amendment
B) 2nd Amendment
C) 5th Amendment
D) 14th Amendment
The Interstate Commerce Act was the government’s
response to the problems of
A) farmers
B) railroads
C) Factory workers
D) immigrants
The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to stop the
growth of
A) Government regulations
B) railroads
C) monopolies
D) Holding companies
All of the following were demands of early labor unions
except
A) Higher wages
B) Better living conditions
C) A shorter workday
D) Increased use of unskilled workers
In the early 1900’s newly arrived immigrants usually worked
A) In skilled trades
B) At the lowest paying jobs
C) For higher pay than other Americans
D) On small farms in the South
Bosses in big-city political machines got votes for their
candidates by
A) Stealing from immigrants
B) Ignoring immigrants
C) Criticizing immigrants
D) Helping immigrants
The Jim Crow Laws passed by southern legislatures were
designed to segregate blacks socially. In 1896, the Supreme
Court supported such laws in the case of:
A) Munn v. Illinois
B) The Sherman Antitrust Act
C) Brown v. Topeka, Kansas
D) Plessy v. Ferguson
As a leader of the black community, Booker T. Washington,
did al of the following except
A) Advocated social equality
B) Helped found the NAACP
C) Discovered hundreds of uses for he peanut
D) Grudgingly agreed to segregation
The Homestead Act of 1862, completion of the
transcontinental railroad, ranching and “dry farming” all
helped shift part of the population of the US by
A) Forcing conditions of over-crowding in Northeast cities
B) Aiding in economic “reconstruction” of the South
C) Aiding in the settlement of the Great Plains
D) Shifting opportunities away from the New England States
Improvements in communication and transportation in the
late 1800s were important because:
A) It became more comfortable to travel
B) The telegraph made it possible to have more
efficient trains
C) The telephone allowed families to stay in touch
D) Inventions created new industries
Innovations that spurred industrial growth led to the
creation of large fortunes. Some philosophers applied the
survival of the fittest theory to defend the accumulation of
wealth by individuals. This theory was called:
A) Laissez-faire
B) Social Darwinism
C) The Trustee of Wealth Theory
D) The American Plan
The goal of the progressive movement was
A) Isolationism from Europe
B) Growth of industry
C) Reform of government
D) Prohibition of alcohol
Journalists who kept the public informed of wrongdoings in
business and government were known as
A) muckrakers
B) consumers
C) Yellow journalists
D) populists
All of the following are examples of muckraking journalism
except
A) Ida Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company
B) Lincoln Steffen’s The Shame of the Cities
C) Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds
D) Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives
During the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson the government
finally passed effective antitrust legislation in the form of the
A) Sherman Antirust Act
B) Underwood-Simmons Act
C) Mann-Elkins Act
D) Clayton Act
After 1898, how did the need for markets affect the
States
United
A) Eliminated poverty in the cities
B) Improved economic growth and political
prestige in world affairs
C) Decreased concern for minority and women’s rights
D) Limited involvement in world affairs
All of the following were reasons given by American
imperialists for US involvement in foreign lands except
A) To Christianize and civilize natives
B) To gain ports to improve US naval power
C) To spread the ideas of democracy
D) To slow immigration to the US
What was the common purpose of the Open Door Policy?
A) To prevent Europe from taking over islands in
the Pacific Ocean
B) To prevent European powers from gaining an
unfair advantage in China
C) To promote good will among all nations
D) To give America an advantage in gaining trading
routes to Asia
All of the following were colonial acquisitions in the late
1800s except
A) Cuba
B) Alaska
C) Hawaii
D) Samoa
An important result of the Spanish-American War was that it
A) Increased tension between the US and Russia
B) Forced Spain to recognize the Monroe Doctrine
C) Strengthened American control over the Caribbean
D) Made the US a leader of the “free world”
By the treaty ending the Spanish-American War the US
acquired
A) Puerto Rico
B) Guam
C) Philippines
D) All of the above
Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy was directed at
countries in the
A) Caribbean
B) Far East
C) Western Hemisphere
D) Soviet Union
President Taft’s foreign policy was most closely associated
with the term
A) Watchful waiting
B) Dollar diplomacy
C) Moral diplomacy
D) nonintervention and noncolonization
The immediate cause of World War I was
A) An Austro-Hungarian archduke and his wife
were assassinated
B) A strike by Serbians led to a violent riot
C) An Austro-Hungarian archduke and his wife
murdered a Serbian
D) Serbians refused to salute the Austro-Hungarian flag
Before the US entry into World War I, American opposition
to Germany increased because of Germany’s
A) Invasion of France by German troops
B) Continued unrestricted submarine attacks on
US ships
C) Kidnapping and murder of American diplomats
in Germany
D) Refusal to purchase American goods
President Wilson convinced the American people to enter
World War I by doing which of the following?
A) Appealing to our tradition of helping Great
Britain in her times of need
B) Promising to have the troops home for
Christmas
C) Convincing Americans that we would soon be
attacked by Germany
D) Pledging to fight “a war to end all wars” and
“make the world safe for democracy”
All of the following are reasons why the US entered World
War I except
A) The increasing threat to trade by the Allied
Powers
B) The renewal of unrestricted submarine
warfare by the Germans
C) A natural desire to assure victory by the Allies
D) The collapse of Russia which made Wilson fear
Germany would win
The only point of the Fourteen Points that Wilson
successfully saved was the provision
A) For a new state of Poland
B) For a League of Nations
C) For Germany to accept responsibility for the
war
D) For the total disarmament of Germany
After World War I, which of the following influences did we
see dominate American political thinking
A) internationalist, pro civil rights, and pro business
B) isolationist, pro civil rights, and anti-business
C) isolationist, anti-immigration, and pro business
D) internationalist, anti-immigration, and anti-business
In the 1920s the United States experienced which of the
following?
A) A period of great prosperity
B) A new period of isolationism
C) A Red Scare
D) All of the above
The prosperity of the 1920s was due to all of the following
except
A) Installment buying
B) Mass merchandising
C) Mass production
D) Higher prices for agricultural staples
The term “flappers” was used to describe the
A) Guns used by gangsters during the 1920s
B) “new” women of the 1920s
C) Blacks who moved North in search of jobs
D) Model T automobile
Religious fundamentalism was an issue in the
A) Arbuckle trial
B) Sacco-Vanzetti trial
C) Lindbergh trial
D) Scopes trial
The Harlem Renaissance describes
A) The migration of blacks to the North
B) Cultural revolution of blacks in America
C) A major literary movement by black authors
D) The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement
The group that suffered the most economically during the
prosperous 1920’s was the
A) Factory workers
B) Movie industry
C) immigrants
D) Farmers
All of the following were important effects of he automobile
on America in the 1920s except which one?
A) Consumers borrowed more money
B) Workers commuted longer distances
C) Families traveled more extensively
D) Industry experienced oil shortages
A wide disregard for the law in the 1920’s was brought
about by
A) anarchism
B) fundamentalism
C) prohibition
D) The “bonus march”
Why was the 1925 Scopes Trial called the greatest challenge
to religious fundamentalism in the 1920s?
A) Because Scopes was represented by the great defense
lawyer, Clarence Darrow
B) Because William Jennings Bryan assisted the State of
Tennessee in the prosecution
C) Because of the extensive press coverage of the trial
D) Because Darrow and Bryan made evolution, rather than
guilt or innocence, the real issue of the trial
One reason for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was that
A) Many people bought stocks on credit
B) Strict government regulations kept many people from
buying stocks
C) Banks closed and depositors lost their savings
D) American manufacturers were forced to lower prices
The most urgent task facing President Roosevelt in 1933 was
A) Protecting the nation’s territorial possessions
B) Tariff reform
C) Keeping the nation out of war
D) Relief for the unemployed
Which of the following was “new” about the New Deal?
A) Increased power of the president in legislation
B) First political advertising slogan
C) The authority of the executive branch over the judicial
branch
D) The expanded role of the federal government in
the lives of the citizens
The Bonus March to Washington DC was
A) A protest of American isolationism
B) A plea for an amendment giving women the right to vote
C) A demand for and increase in pay for members of the AFT
D) A demand for World War I pension payments
All of the following were components of the New Deal laws
except
A) A minimum wage
B) Bank loans to farmers
C) Regulations of the stock exchange
D) Lowering of taxes
A major criticism of the New Deal was that it
A) Greatly increased the size and power of the
federal government
B) Gave too many benefits to minorities
C) Brought about conditions that led to the “dust bowl”
D) Relied too much on advice from college
professors and business leaders
Which conditions are most characteristic of a depression
A) High production and high demand
B) Much money in circulation and high stock prices
C) Few jobs and little demand
D) Supply meeting demand and high unemployment
Which event did not occur between the World Wars
A) Great Depression
B) Great Migration
C) Rise of totalitarianism
D) Bootlegging and Jazz Age
The ___________ of 1928 outlawed war and ordered that all
disputes must be settled peacefully
A) non-aggression Pact
B) Treaty of Versailles
C) Kellogg-Briand Pact
D) Washing Conference
The Good Neighbor Policy of the U.S. in the 1930’s was
directed to
A) Canada
B) Latin America
C) England and France
D) Soviet Union
The response of the League of Nations to the aggression of
warlike countries during the 1930’s was to
A) Take military action against the aggressors
B) Force the aggressor nations out of the League
C) Give military supplies to nations that were
being attacked
D) protest, but avoid taking military action
In 1931, Japan took the first step in building an empire by
conquering
A) China
B) French Indochina
C) Malaya
D) Manchuria
Totalitarian governments gained control in Germany, Italy,
and Japan because of the
A) Poor economic conditions
B) Spread of communism
C) Fear of the military
D) Treaty of Versailles
How did the worldwide depression of the 1930’s contribute
most to the World War II?
A) Germans thought other countries were
vulnerable
B) Dictators were able to gain popular support by promising
to solve economic problems
C) Europeans became increasingly resentful of United States
demands for repayment of World War I debts
D) Major world powers were in severe competition for
scarce natural resources
World War II finally ended the Great Depression because
A) People were too concerned about the war to
worry about the economy
B) Roosevelt ordered the New Deal
C) Of the great demand for weapons and supplies
D) The United States began to purchase more
goods from European Nations
The US entered World War II after
A) The Germans attacked Great Britain
B) Italy controlled the Mediterranean
C) The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor
D) France fell to the Germans
The __________ policy gave money and supplies to the Allies
before the US entered World War II?
A) Cash and Carry
B) Open Door
C) Lend-Lease
D) Good Neighbor
The Allied Powers of World War II refers to all of the
following countries except
A) France, the United States, and Great Britain
B) France, Great Britain, and Italy
C) Great Britain, France, and Soviet Union
D) Belgium, France, and the United States
Turning points for the Allies in World War II refers to all of
the following except
A) El Alamein
B) Midway
C) Battle of the Bulge
D) Stalingrad
In the war against Japan in the central Pacific, the United
States forces
A) Used the strategy of island hopping
B) Took many Japanese prisoners
C) Often did not have enough supplies
D) Were usually outnumbered
The long awaited invasion of France on June 6th 1944 is
sometimes called
A) D-day
B) V-J day
C) V-E day
D) F-day
A violation of civil rights that occurred in the United States
during World War II was the
A) Arrests made as a result of the Palmer Raids
B) Passage of an open immigration law
C) Internment of Japanese Americans
D) Forced removal of Native American
Indians from their reservations
In the US during World War II, the role of women changed
at they
A) Were drafted and assigned military roles
equal to those held by men
B) Continued to work outside the home only
in jobs traditionally performed by women
C) Made major contributions to the war effort by
taking jobs in factories
D) Achieved positions of leadership in most
major industries
As World War II was ending, the US decided to join the
United Nations mainly because we
A) Sought to meet the American public’s
overwhelming demand for free trade
B) Wanted to continue to play the same role it
had in the League of Nations
C) Wanted to stop the growing influence of new independent
developing nations
D) Recognized that efforts to achieve world
peace required United States involvement
Which of the following best explains why the United States
did not return to isolationism after World War II
A) Fear of renewed Japanese aggression
B) Lack of leadership in Allied countries
C) Threat of Soviet expansion
D) American guilt for using the atomic bomb
All of the following are associated with American patriotism
during World War II except
A) Victory Gardens
B) War Bonds
C) hoarding
D) Scrap metal drives
What was the immediate affect of the end of World War II
on American family life?
A) Decrease in birth rate
B) Baby boom
C) Decline in living standards
D) Greater family instability
The GI Bill benefited veterans in all of the following ways
except
A) Money for college tuition
B) Loans in buying a house
C) Vocational training
D) Exemption from income taxes
Which of the following pairs are associated with the Harlem
Renaissance of the 1920s?
A) Sigmund Freud and Ernest Hemingway
B) Gertrude Ederle and Rudolph Valentino
C) Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen
On the Political spectrum Roosevelt’s domestic program for
relief, recovery, and reform was
A) At the far left between socialism and communism
B) At the far right between conservatism and fascism
C) Right of center between moderate and conservative
D) Left of center between moderate and liberal
In the early 1940’s, the “destroyers-for-military-bases deal”
with Great Britain and the Lend-Lease Act were evidence
that the United States
A) Followed its policy of neutrality more strictly
as World War II progressed in Europe
B) Recognized that its policy of neutrality conflicted with its
self-interests and the interests of our allies
C) Believed that the Allied policy of appeasement would
succeed
D) Wanted to honor the military commitments it had made
just after World War I
War measures adopted by the U.S. prior to the attack on
Pearl Harbor included all of the following except
A) Passage of the Lend-Lease Act
B) Repeal of the 1939 Neutrality Law
C) Assignment of African Americans to integrated army units
D) Arming of American merchant vessels to
combat Nazi submarines
Brown v. Board of Education is a significant Supreme Court
Decision because
A) It reaffirmed the legality of separate but
equal schooling for blacks and whites
B) It ended segregation of U.S. armed forces
C) It ruled that separate schools for blacks and whites were
illegal
D) It declared bussing to be a legal and necessary option to
achieve desegregation of schools
Martin Luther King, Jr. was all of these except
A) A Nobel Prize winner
B) An admirer of Mohandes Gandhi in his non-violent
protests
C) An ordained minister who was jailed sixteen time
D) A one time mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
Sputnik was launched on October 4, 1957. It was
A) A U.S. initiated space probe
B) The first man-made object to orbit the Earth
C) A Soviet Union space telescope
D) A joint U.S./ Russian communications satellite
In July 1969 Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small step for
man, one giant leap for mankind.” Why?
A) He was commenting on the progress of the Johnson civil
rights acts
B) He had just become the first person to land on the moon
C) He was commenting on U.S. victory in the Vietnam TET
offensive
D) He was inspired by Richard Nixon’s announced trip to
China
U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War can be traced to all of
the following except
A) We were allies of the French and gave economic aid to them
after World War II
B) We were trying to contain communism and were enthralled
by the “domino theory”
C) After a nation wide Vietnamese election we were asked to
send aid and assistance
D) We were very concerned about Ho-Chi-Minh’s support of
communism and his pro-Soviet leanings
Watergate is all of the following except
A) The scandal that brought down the Nixon administration
B) A hotel/apartment complex in Washington, DC
C) The tragic site of a botched burglary attempt by the
committee to reelect the president
D) The dam in Colorado that’s over-inflated price toppled and
led to Nixon’s impeachment
The Berlin Airlift was the significant and heroic response by
the US to
A) The Soviet Union’s attempted blockade of West Berlin
B) Anglo/French attempts to speed up German war reparations
C) The Soviet Union’s attempts to take over large portions of
West Germany
D) The German attempt at reviving Nazism after World
War II
The term “iron curtain” refers to all of the following except
A) Term coined in speech by Winston Churchill
B) The Soviet Union’s attempt to assert its control and create a
buffer zone with the west
C) The symbol for the distrust between the Soviets and the
west due to their felling of betrayal by the Allies during
World War II
D) President Truman’s attempt to isolate the Soviet Union as
exemplified by the Marshall Plan
The United States was the first country to recognize Israel
because
A) It was the right thing to do in principle
B) The Jewish state would serve as a strong voice of
democratic principles in the region
C) Israel’s strategic importance in the Middle East and its
potential as a natural ally of the US
D) All of the above
The Iran hostage crises was caused by
A) The overthrow of the Shah and creation of a fundamentalist
Islamic Republic
B) The Discovery of new oil resources coveted by the US
C) The Yom Kippur War
D) Richard Nixon’s insistence of aid for Iraq
The Cuban Missile crisis was
A) The armed US reaction to the tariff on Havana cigars
B) The Soviet attempt to place nuclear missile in Cuba
C) The creation of a communist state by Fidel Castro 90 mile
form Florida
D) The exiled Cuban population in Florida clamoring to
recapture their homeland
The TET offensive in Vietnam was all of the following
except
A) A well engineered strategic plan by General Ngo Vinhgiap
(hero of Dien Binh phu) to attack US bases
B) An overwhelming defeat of US forces with great US
casualties
C) An example of careless media reporting which directly led
to a feeling that the US was losing the war
D) An event which further polarized opinion in the US both for
and against the war
The civil rights acts of the mid 1960s were intended to
accomplish all of the following except
A) A disenfranchise the black minority in the north
B) Serve as an answer to desegregating in the south
C) Provide more equality of opportunity for all US citizens
D) Correct 100 years of racial injustice linked to ignoring
Amendments 13, 14, and 15 to the Constitution after the Civil
War
How did Senator Joseph McCarthy achieve his fame?
A) False accusations against members of the State Department
B) Running for president against Harry S. Truman in 1948
C) His use of the press to further Democratic goals
D) His opposition to the Korean War
The President who issued the executive order integrated the
armed forces was
A) John F. Kennedy
B) Harry S Truman
C) Lyndon B Johnson
D) Dwight D Eisenhower
Voting patterns in the post World War II era strongly
suggest that
A) African Americans and young people vote often
B) African Americans vote Republican
C) Most labor unions support the Republican party
D) Citizens over age fifty vote more often than other groups
Which president never won a presidential election?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Gerald Ford
C) George Bush
D) William Clinton
The government health program for the elderly is called
A) Peace Corps
B) Alliance for progress
C) Medicare
D) Medicaid
Geraldine Ferraro was
A) A senator from Maine
B) The first female candidate for Vice President of the U.S.
C) Head of Carlos Gambino’s mob family
D) Founder of the Women’s Rights movement
Television is largely responsible for all of the following
except
A) A deepening protest of the Vietnam War
B) Exposing the racial injustices during the 1960’s Civil Rights
movement
C) An increase in American enthusiasm for sports
D) Electing several of our most recent presidents
The computer is revolutionizing which area?
A) Business-the stock market
B) education-learning
C) Social-media and discourse
D) All of the above
All of the following were leaders in the 1960s civil rights
movement except
A) Martin Luther King
B) Medgar Evers
C) Bill Gates
D) Andrew Young
In which president’s administration did the following events
occur: escalation of Vietnam War; civil rights legislation;
Malcom X, Bobby Kennedy, and Martin Luther King
assassinations
A) Gerald Ford
B) Richard Nixon
C) Jimmy Carter
D) Lyndon Johnson
The breakdown of the family in the last thirty years has
been caused by all of the following except
A) High birth rates to unwed mothers
B) Moving of people to rural areas
C) Necessity for two income families
D) divorce
The Iran-Contra controversy during the Reagan
administration related to
A) The Naval build-up to bring down the “evil empire” Soviet
Union
B) A misguided attempt to trade arms for hostages
C) Reagan’s attempt to support Iraq against Iran
D) Reagan’s supply side economic plan for the Middle East
The Long Hot Summer’s race riots in Newark, Detroit, Los
Angeles, and other US cities was a direct result of
A) The Vietnam War
B) The election of Richard Nixon
C) Poverty and inequity long inherent in the black city
environment
D) Lyndon Johnson’s failure to support civil rights legislation
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was voided by the War
Powers Resolution. This is an example of
A) Checks and balances
B) Judicial review
C) federalism
D) An amendment
Long gas lines, high inflation, and high interest rates
occurred during which presidency
A) Jimmy Carter’s
B) Ronald Reagan’s
C) John F Kennedy’s
D) Richard Nixon’s
One of the most significant deterrents to nuclear war during
the Cold War was
A) Numerous peace conferences with the Soviet Union
B) The United Nations
C) The vast number and sheer destructive power of the
nuclear weapons
D) Other great powers serving as intermediaries
The United Nations has supported the US in all of the
following except
A) Bosnian peace keeping
B) Korean War
C) Gulf War
D) Vietnam War
Colin Powell is famous for which of the following
A) Harlem Congressman who was censured by House of
Representatives officials
B) Vietnam draft resistor and heir to Martin Luther King’s
non-violent philosophy
C) First African-American chairman of joint chiefs of staff
D) First African-American astronaut
Sally Ride is known for achievements in which field
A) aeronautics
B) innovations
C) politics
D) business
Thurgood Marshall achieved his fame as
A) The lawyer who argued Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka before the US Supreme Court
B) Early civil rights spokesman and leader
C) First African American Supreme Court Justice
D) All of the above
The Democratic convention in Chicago in 1968 is famous
for
A) Protests and riots over the Vietnam War
B) The re-nomination of Lyndon B Johnson
C) Racial riots
D) The nomination of Richard Nixon as the party candidtae
A social trend in the United States that has been increasing
in the last forty years is
A) The growth of the Libertarian Party
B) A movement of people into the city
C) A new wave of immigration from northern and western
Europe
D) A movement of people into suburbia
The largest population growth in the United States in the
1990s has been in
A) The Northeast
B) The Midwest
C) The South and Southwest
D) The West
All of the following are social trends that have increased in
the last quarter of the twentieth century except
A) Crime, especially violent crime, as an important issue to
Americans
B) A rising African American middle class
C) An increase in immigration of Asian and Hispanics
D) An increase in poverty throughout the nation
Famous occurrences during the Vietnam War included all
of the following except
A) Gulf of Tonkin incident and resolution
B) National Guard shooting, student protests at Kent State
C) The intervention of the Chinese across the demilitarized zone
D) The TET offensive
Apollo, Mercury, and Voyager, Gemini and Pioneer are all
A) US computer invention
B) New technological inventions
C) Names of NASA programs and US space crafts
D) Joint US/Soviet exploration of space initiatives
The Camp David agreement was the significant
achievement of Jimmy Carter’s presidency. It was a
settlement between Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar
Sadat of
A) Syria
B) Saudi Arabia
C) Lebanon
D) Egypt
In 1976 celebrations occurred throughout the United States
because
A) The Red Sox and Cubs finally made the World Series
B) The US won the Olympics
C) It was our bicentennial year
D) The Vietnam War officially ended
In 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor achieved her place in history
because she
A) Became the first female governor of California
B) Became the first female Justice on the US Supreme Court
C) Became the first female astronaut
D) Became the first female head of a major US company
President Ford created controversy by pardoning Richard
Nixon. Who did Jimmy Carter pardon in 1977 that caused
him difficulties?
A) Spiro Agnew
B) The Watergate “plumbers”
C) Mob leader John Gotti
D) Vietnam War draft evaders
Woodstock became famous in 1969 because it was
A) The biggest peace demonstration ever held in the US
B) The largest music festival ever held in the US
C) The largest civil rights protest march
D) The site of the women’s rights movement congerence
Who was Rosa Parks?
A) The woman who started the first company owned and
managed solely by a woman
B) The first female cadet at West Point
C) The woman who started the boycott of Montgomery,
Alabama bus lines
D) The woman whose tapes led to the downfall of Richard
Nixon
The significant Twenty Second Amendment to the
Constitution was enacted in 1951
A) The US getting involved in Korea without a declaration of
war
B) Martin Luther King’s peaceful protest marches
C) Ronald Reagan running for a third term
D) Richard Nixon’s impeachment
To what does this cynical post World War II jingle refer:
“There will always be a USA, If we don’t give it away.”
A) The “Trickle Down” Theory
B) Domino Theory
C) Perkins Plan
D) Marshall Plan
Generally, when did the Cold War begin?
A) just after the Russian Revolution
B) When Communist came to power in China
C) When the Berlin Wall was constructed
D) Just after WWII
Which problem most likely cause the US space program to
reconsider its direction in the 1980’s?
A) Space exploration costs
B) The Challenger explosion
C) The Hubble Space telescope performance
D) Political posture of the Presidents during the 1980’s
Which is a major difference between immigration to the US
during the period of 1860-1920 and immigration since
1970?
A) The primary areas of origin have changed dramatically
B) Immigrants today are not likely to experience
discrimination.
C) There is a greater need for unskilled labor
D) Today’s immigrants tend to be middle-class
How did the invention of the atom bomb affect the post war
world?
A) European nations were afraid to stand up to US aggression
B) The UN become symbolic, having no real power
C) The Japanese continued to defy the US
D) An arms raced developed between the US and USSR.
The Three-Mile Island incident was
A) A near nuclear reactor disaster in Pennsylvania
B) A demand for payment on money promised to war
vets
C) A failed attempt in building a bridge from the Soviet
Union to the US
D) A nuclear fallout shelter that proved to be faulty
during testing
A)