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29	us_history	Which of the following wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers?	Benjamin Franklin	Alexander Hamilton	John Jay	James Madison	George Washington	B
30	us_history	Why did the delegates agree to keep the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention secret?	They knew their work would be unpopular with their constituents.	They did not want to be subjected to any outside pressures or influences.	They had received a number of threats to their lives.	They knew there were many foreign spies hoping to betray them.	They did not want to provoke an uprising among the people.	B
31	us_history	All the following were important influences on the framers of the Constitution EXCEPT:	the Magna Carta	the English Bill of Rights	the Roman republic	The Spirit of the Laws	the Federalist Papers	E
32	us_history	Around which two central figures were the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties organized?	George Washington and John Adams	Alexander Hamilton and John Adams	Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Jefferson and James Madison	John Adams and Thomas Jefferson	C
33	us_history	What was the major aim of George Washington's foreign policy?	To remain friendly with but neutral toward all nations	To support the French monarchy during the French Revolution	To support the revolutionaries during the French Revolution	To stake a claim to the Louisiana territory	To settle the Northwest Territory as soon as possible	A
34	us_history	What was the Democratic-Republican response to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?	The Treaty of Ghent	The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions	The Battle of Tippecanoe	The Judiciary Act	The Embargo Act	B
35	us_history	All the following major changes first occurred in U.S. society between 1790 and 1825 EXCEPT:	More than 100,000 Americans migrated westward.	The Industrial Revolution changed the economy and the way people worked.	The Erie Canal was completed.	Voting rights were expanded to include white men who did not own property.	Political leaders began disagreeing over the question of slavery.	E
36	us_history	The Missouri Compromise stated all the following EXCEPT:	Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slaveholding state.	Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state.	Slavery would be outlawed north of Missouri's southern border, except in Missouri itself.	No future state would be admitted to the Union as a slaveholding state.	The balance of power in Congress would remain even, with 12 free states and 12 slaveholding states.	D
37	us_history	How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the South?	Planters divided their large plantations into smaller farms.	The economy boomed because one gin could do the work of 1,000 slaves.	Slavery began to be less profitable and started to die out.	Southerners began to build textile mills and make their own cloth for export and trade.	Southerners began building factories to manufacture more cotton gins.	B
38	us_history	What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?	To support democracy all over the world	To ally the United States with European interests	To encourage Latin American revolutionaries to rise up against the European colonial powers	To warn European nations not to invade or colonize the western hemisphere	To declare American neutrality in relations between Latin America and Europe	D
39	us_history	Who among the following did not belong to the literary community in Concord, Massachusetts?	Louisa May Alcott	Nathaniel Hawthorne	Bronson Alcott	Edgar Allan Poe	Henry David Thoreau	D
40	us_history	What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?	A constitutional amendment was passed granting women the right to vote.	A Declaration of Sentiments listing women's grievances was signed and published.	A riot broke out between those who supported and those who opposed women's rights.	The president of the United States pledged to make women's rights a major campaign issue.	Newspaper articles supporting the abolition of slavery were read and discussed.	B
41	us_history	The rebellion of Nat Turner had all the following effects EXCEPT:	Fifty or sixty white people were killed.	The Southern states passed harsh new laws limiting the rights of slaves.	Southerners blamed William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator for the uprising.	Nat Turner and several of his followers were hanged as criminals.	The rebellion inspired other successful uprisings throughout the South.	E
42	us_history	The Second Great Awakening gave rise to or supported all the following movements EXCEPT:	women's education	temperance	abolition	women's suffrage	the Whig Party	E
43	us_history	All these inventions helped revolutionize the U.S. economy in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT:	the cotton gin	the locomotive	the incandescent lightbulb	the steamboat	the spinning jenny	C
44	us_history	Which of the following social classes did NOT make up a significant part of Southern society?	Wealthy planters	Immigrants	Slaves	Small farmers	Poor whites	B
45	us_history	Which of the following was the primary reason for the wave of Irish immigration in the 1840s?	Desire to buy land	Desire for economic opportunity	Widespread starvation in the wake of the potato famine	Religious oppression	Political oppression from Great Britain	C
46	us_history	Between 1830 and 1850, the United States gained land that would become all the following present-day states EXCEPT:	California	North Dakota	Washington	Oregon	Texas	B
47	us_history	The Gold Rush of 1849 had all the following immediate effects on California society EXCEPT:	The population became more ethnically diverse.	Many entrepreneurs made their fortunes from the miners.	The population grew by many thousands.	More and more people turned to farming to make a living.	Society became violent and lawless.	D
48	us_history	The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it legal to do which of the following?	Prevent an African American from testifying in his or her own defense	Help a slave escape to a free state	Become a free person simply by crossing the border into a free state	Join the Free-Soil Party and speak out in favor of abolition	Execute any slave who was proved to have escaped from his or her owner	A
49	us_history	The immediate cause of Southern secession from the Union was	the raid on Harpers Ferry	the Pottawatomie Massacre	the election of Abraham Lincoln	the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act	the determination of Kansas to be a free state	C
50	us_history	In his opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Taney stated all the following EXCEPT:	The Fifth Amendment protected slaveowners' rights to their property.	The Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional because it violated slaveowners' property rights.	The framers of the Constitution clearly had not intended the Constitution to apply to anyone of African descent.	Slave status did not depend on geography but traveled everywhere with a person who was a slave.	As long as society provided separate but equal opportunities to African slaves, it did not have to do anything more for them.	E
51	us_history	Why did Thoreau and other abolitionists praise John Brown?	They approved of using violence to change laws.	They looked forward eagerly to a war between North and South.	They wanted to see as many slavers killed as possible.	They admired his long history of helping African Americans and dealing fairly with them.	They felt that Brown had taken an appropriate revenge for Congressman Brooks's attack on Senator Sumner.	D
52	us_history	The Union strategy for winning the war included all the following EXCEPT:	dividing the Confederacy along the Mississippi River and conquering both halves in turn	taking control of the Mississippi so that the South could not use it for trade or communication	blockading Confederate ports so that no supplies or reinforcements could come in	capturing and killing Confederate President Jefferson Davis	capturing the capital city of Richmond, Virginia	D
53	us_history	The Union was more likely to win a war of attrition because	it had a larger pool of available reinforcements and could resupply its troops	the Confederates had not been able to march farther north than Maryland	the Confederate officers did not know how to fight a war of attrition	African Americans fought only on the Union side	its military leaders had no command of strategy and tactics	A
54	us_history	The Emancipation Proclamation, by implication, extended which of the following offers to Confederate states?	They could keep their slaves if they abandoned the Confederacy and rejoined the Union.	The war would continue until they freed their slaves.	The Union would pay them for their slaves if they would agree to free them.	The Union would surrender if they agreed to free their slaves.	The Confederacy could exist as an independent nation if it would build an impregnable border between its territory and that of the United States.	A
55	us_history	Andrew Johnson was impeached primarily because he	dismissed Edwin M. Stanton from a cabinet post	disagreed with the congressional majority on domestic policy	committed high crimes and misdemeanors	prevented Congress from enacting any legislation that would propel Reconstruction forward	failed to carry out any projects that President Lincoln had planned to enact	B
56	us_history	Southern Democrats did all the following to bar likely Republican voters from the polls EXCEPT:	threatened them with violence	charged a poll tax they could not afford	made them take a literacy test they were likely to fail	shot them to death	passed laws that denied them the right to vote	E
57	us_history	Many active supporters of the women's suffrage movement opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because	the women's movement did not care about the rights of African Americans	white suffragists thought that their concerns were more important than those of African Americans	women were angry that the Fifteenth Amendment did not give them the right to vote	suffragists did not want African Americans to have voting rights	women were afraid that the Fifteenth Amendment would jeopardize their fight for women's suffrage	C
58	us_history	The U.S. government insisted on moving Native Americans to reservations primarily because	settlers from the East were greedy for the Native Americans' ancestral lands	Native American hunting practices threatened the survival of the buffalo	Native Americans were better at farming and technology than were Americans of European descent	settlers from the East did not understand Native American languages	government authorities were afraid of a planned Native American rebellion	A
59	us_history	The Pacific Railway Act had all the following effects EXCEPT:	the arrival in California of thousands of Chinese immigrants	a rise in the national rate of employment	an increase in westward migration by people in search of jobs with the railroad	the sale of surplus railroad land to homesteaders	a decline in production in the steel industry	E
60	us_history	African Americans traveled west after the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	to work on the railroad	to escape racial segregation	to work in the fur-trading industry	to mine gold and silver	to claim homesteads for themselves and their families	C
61	us_history	All the following inventions were developed during the Second Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:	the lightbulb	the telephone	the air brake	the cotton gin	the typewriter	D
62	us_history	In a dispute with owners or management, workers had all the following advantages EXCEPT:	There were far more of them.	No business could function without them.	They could form unions to help them survive financially during strikes.	Owners stood to lose substantial profits if workers refused to work.	They could not be replaced easily.	E
63	us_history	In the early 1900's, nativists supported restrictions on immigration for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	They did not want U.S. culture changed.	They did not want to learn to speak foreign languages.	They feared that immigrants would lower the working wage.	They thought immigrants might bring in ideas, values, and ways of thinking that would not fit in.	They feared that immigrants would take jobs away from workers born in the United States.	B
64	us_history	The settlement-house movement had all the following goals EXCEPT:	to train young women for careers in education or social work	to integrate city school systems	to provide a day-care center for the young children of working parents	to provide a social gathering place in a neighborhood	to offer classes in English and other subjects for children and adults	B
65	us_history	The Populist Party was founded with all the following goals EXCEPT:	to support the coinage of silver	to return to the gold standard	to push for government ownership of the railroads	to regulate the banks	to restrict immigration	B
66	us_history	In the late 1870s, the Republican Party was divided primarily over the issue of	the gold standard	civil-service reform	racial segregation	women's rights	raising taxes	B
67	us_history	Theodore Roosevelt believed that big business should be regulated federally primarily because	it was wrong for so few people to control so much money and property	owners would not take proper care of the welfare of their workers or customers unless forced to by law	businesses were not efficiently run or profitable	too many people bought imported goods rather than goods made in the United States	businesses were destroying too great a proportion of the nation’s natural resources	B
68	us_history	The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, established which of the following?	Secret ballots in local elections	A direct primary	Direct popular election of senators	An eight-hour workday	A federal minimum wage	C
69	us_history	Conservatives supported environmental legislation under Roosevelt and Taft because	they did not want the natural resources of the United States to die out or be used up	they wanted a place in which to go hunting	they always sided with the owners in labor disputes	they opposed regulation of big business	they did not want certain rare species of birds or animals to become extinct	A
70	us_history	The United States became an imperialist nation in the late 1800s for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	desire to establish new markets for U.S. goods	interest in acquiring naval bases in strategic locations	need to obtain inexpensive access to certain goods that the United States could not produce for itself, such as sugar and rubber	desire to put an end to tyranny in foreign nations	wish to be considered a powerful force in world affairs	D
71	us_history	By 1920 the United States had acquired partial or total control over all the following EXCEPT:	the Canal Zone	Puerto Rico	China	the Philippines	Guam	C
72	us_history	Which of the following did the Roosevelt Corollary modify?	The Monroe Doctrine	The Platt Amendment	The Hawaiian constitution	The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty	The Open Door Policy	A
73	us_history	All of the following nations were allied with the Central Powers EXCEPT:	France	Germany	Turkey	Bulgaria	Austria-Hungary	A
74	us_history	The United States came out of World War I in a strong international position primarily because	it had founded the League of Nations	it had lost relatively few of its fighting forces and its economy was prosperous	it had had a successful socialist revolution	it was geographically isolated from Europe	it had dictated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles	B
75	us_history	The Treaty of Versailles stated all the following EXCEPT:	Germany would have to pay reparations to Allied nations.	Alsace-Lorraine would be returned to France.	New nations called Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would be established.	Russia would be known as the Soviet Union.	Germany would accept total blame for the war.	D
76	us_history	All the following characterized the 1920s EXCEPT:	a rise in organized crime	a wave of prolabor legislation	the development of mass entertainment	technological advances such as the radio	the rise in popularity of the automobile	B
77	us_history	Who were "the Untouchables"?	Chicago White Sox baseball players who threw the World Series in 1919	Organized criminals who worked for Al Capone	The murderers involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre	Characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway	FBI detectives who worked on cases involving violations of Prohibition	E
78	us_history	All the following characterized the flapper EXCEPT:	bobbed hair	short skirts	participation in sports	political activism	cigarette smoking	D
79	us_history	All the following were contributing causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:	margin buying	frequent fluctuations in share prices	widespread bank failures	the existence of Hoovervilles	widespread business failures	D
80	us_history	Which of the following New Deal programs was intended to ensure that no Great Depression could occur again in the future?	Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation	Farm Credit Administration	Tennessee Valley Authority	Public Works Administration	Civilian Conservation Corps	A
81	us_history	After they drove west from the Dust Bowl seeking work in California, most farmers	found good jobs and soon returned to prosperity	competed with thousands like themselves for poorly paid work	got arrested protesting unfair working conditions	crossed the border into Mexico to find work	petitioned the White House for help in fighting the growers' association	B
82	us_history	All the following nations were under Axis control by the end of 1940 EXCEPT:	Poland	the Soviet Union	France	Italy	the Netherlands	B
83	us_history	All the following were U.S. victories in the Pacific EXCEPT:	Bataan	Guadalcanal	Coral Sea	Midway	Solomon Islands	A
84	us_history	Which of the following was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act?	To guarantee the territorial integrity of China	To permit Roosevelt to run for a third presidential term	To set limits on the size of the British and Japanese navies	To spell out the war aims of the Allied Powers	To provide military aid to defend Britain and other Allied countries	E
85	us_history	The Battle of the Bulge took place when Allied troops	invaded North Africa	approached Germany's western border	fought German troops in Italy	landed on the beaches of Normandy	fought the Japanese at Iwo Jima	B
86	us_history	Which of the following was among the reasons why President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan?	He wanted to free the Philippines from Japanese occupation.	He feared a Japanese invasion of the United States.	He believed the bombing would shorten the war and save U.S. lives.	He wanted to impress the British with U.S. strength.	He wanted to destroy every city in Japan.	C
87	us_history	The Potsdam Conference provided for all the following EXCEPT:	the division of Germany into four occupied zones	the payment of reparations to the Allies	the reorganization of the Soviet government	the acknowledgment that Poland could keep the German territory it had claimed	the conversion of the German economy to agriculture and light industry.	C
88	us_history	Which of the following prompted the first use of UN military forces?	Tension between the Soviet Union and the United States	The nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States	The North Korean invasion of South Korea	The international agreement to put Nazi officials on trial for their crimes	Anticommunist hysteria in the United States	C
89	us_history	The primary purpose of the Marshall Plan was to	reestablish democratic governments in Western Europe	provide military assistance to Britain and its empire	offer financial aid for reconstruction to European nations	help Japan rebuild its cities and its economy	increase U.S. power in the world	C
90	us_history	All the following advances were made in race relations in the United States between 1940 and 1960 EXCEPT:	In Brown Vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.	Public transportation was desegregated.	Major league baseball was desegregated.	The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed.	A voting rights act was passed.	E
91	us_history	The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had all the following provisions EXCEPT:	It banned racial, gender, religious, and ethnic discrimination in employment.	It removed certain voter-registration restrictions.	It made segregation illegal in all public places.	It allowed the federal government to sue public schools that did not desegregate.	It integrated the federal government and the armed forces.	E
92	us_history	The Cuban missile crisis ended when	the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles from Cuba if U.S. missiles were withdrawn from sites in Turkey	President Kennedy ordered the U.S. Navy to turn back Soviet ships headed for Cuba	a CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles was defeated at the Bay of Pigs	President Kennedy was assassinated	the East German government built a wall around the perimeter of West Berlin	A
93	us_history	All the following characterized the civil rights movement EXCEPT:	advocating legislation that would outlaw segregation	nonviolent demonstrations	sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and restaurants	police brutality against civil rights marchers	violent attacks on segregated restaurants and other public facilities	E
94	us_history	All the following are programs of the Great Society EXCEPT:	the National Organization for Women	Head Start	the Corporation for Public Broadcasting	Medicare	Medicaid	A
95	us_history	A major achievement of the civil rights movement in the 1960s was	equality in pay for white and African-American workers doing the same jobs	a huge increase in the number of African-American voters in the South	equal access to higher education for African Americans	appointment of African Americans to leading posts in major corporations	election of African-American majorities in state legislatures	B
96	us_history	President Johnson called for a voting rights bill in 1965 after	Martin Luther King., Jr., was assassinated	he defeated the Republican Barry Goldwater in a landslide election	Betty Friedan and others formed the National Organization for Women	racial disturbances broke out in Detroit and Los Angeles	a protest march let by Martin Luther King, Jr., was met with violence	E
97	us_history	Which of the following presidents sent troops to Vietnam?	Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy	Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon	Johnson and Nixon	Kennedy and Johnson	Johnson	B
98	us_history	Which of the following was NOT settled in the U.S.–North Vietnamese peace agreement of 1973?	An exchange of prisoners of war	The political future of South Vietnam	The withdrawal of U.S. troops	The end of U.S. military aid to South Vietnam	A cease-fire	B
99	us_history	All the following turned people in the United States against the Vietnam War EXCEPT:	the Kent State and Jackson State massacres	publication of the Pentagon Papers	disclosure of the bombing of Cambodia	repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution	revulsion against the horrors of war as shown on television news broadcasts	D
100	us_history	Nixon's foreign policy of détente was meant to improve relations between the United States and	North Vietnam	Cambodia	Taiwan	China	the Soviet Union	E
101	us_history	The "energy crisis" of 1973 started when	Arab countries refused to ship petroleum to countries friendly to Israel	Congress refused to authorize oil drilling in Alaska	oil reserves in Texas and Oklahoma began to run dry	the public refused to support the building of nuclear power plants	the United States decided to end all imports of foreign petroleum	A
102	us_history	The Watergate burglars were	newspaper reporters investigating a crime story	FBI agents looking for evidence of wrongdoing by Nixon	thieves looking for money in the Democratic Party offices	operatives in the pay of Nixon's reelection committee	Democratic Party members looking for evidence to discredit Republicans	D
103	us_history	President Jimmy Carter helped work out a peace agreement between	Palestine and Israel	Israel and Egypt	Egypt and Jordan	Iraq and Kuwait	East Germany and West Germany	B
104	us_history	The Cold War ended primarily because	Germans destroyed the Berlin Wall	Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced new policies	the United States defeated communism in Vietnam	the United States created a rebel army in Nicaragua	the workers of Poland staged a series of strikes	B
105	us_history	The Gulf War of 1991 was fought to liberate	Iran	Israel	Kuwait	Saudi Arabia	Nicaragua	C
106	us_history	President Bill Clinton suffered defeat in Congress when he	sought to reform the nation's largely private system of health-care insurance	attempted to reduce the federal government's financial deficit	tried to impose strict requirements on recipients of public assistance	sought passage of an act requiring corporations to provide workers with unpaid leave to cope with family medical emergencies	chose Senator Al Gore to be his vice president	A
107	us_history	The presidential election of 2000 was decided when	a recount of votes in Florida showed that Bush had won the popular vote	a recount of electoral votes was ordered by the Supreme Court	a vote recount in Florida was barred by the Supreme Court, effectively making Bush president	a recount of the popular vote nationwide showed that Gore was the loser	Republicans agreed to permit a recount of the popular vote in Florida	C
108	us_history	The Bush administration launched the war in Iraq in 2003 in alliance with	the United Nations Security Council	Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries	Germany, France, and other major U.S. allies	Great Britain, along with token forces from several smaller countries	no other countries or international organizations	D
109	us_history	At the start of his term, President Barack Obama faced all the following challenges in office EXCEPT:	a housing and mortgage crisis	flood relief for the city of New Orleans	a war in Iraq	a crashing stock market	soaring unemployment	B
110	us_history	"Slavery now stands erect, clanking its chains on the territory of Kansas, surrounded by a code of death, and trampling upon all cherished liberties." This statement was most likely made by a(n)	Whig	muckraker	plantation owner	Democrat	abolitionist	E
111	us_history	The president's power to veto a bill is checked by Congress's power to	override the veto with a two-thirds majority vote	filibuster	call for a referendum	petition the states	impeach	A
112	us_history	The Olmec, the Maya, the Toltec, the Aztec, and the Inca are the earliest major civilizations of the Americas and are termed the	Paleolithic migrations	cultures of "blue men"	Mesoamerican cultures	Tewa nations	sun worshippers	C
113	us_history	Even though the Tea Act of 1773 lowered the price of East India tea, the colonists opposed it primarily because	the British were selling the colonies inferior tea	the price of the tea included a tax the colonists did not want to pay	the Dutch threatened to stop trading with the colonies	the act gave trading privileges to Dutch merchants over colonial merchants	the British colonial governors took the tea for themselves	B
114	us_history	Most European immigrants at the turn of the nineteenth century passed through:	Castle Garden, New York	Roosevelt Island, New York	The Port of Boston, Massachusetts	Ellis Island, New York	Plymouth, Massachusetts	D
115	us_history	Henry Clay's proposal that Maine enter the Union as a free state and Missouri enter as a slave state was called	the Maine Compromise	the Missouri Compromise	the Clay Compromise	Clay's Folly	the Know-Nothing Agreement	B
116	us_history	In a 1906 speech, Theodore Roosevelt described a man with a muckrake who "fixes his eyes . . . only on that which is vile and debasing." His speech gave rise to the new word muckrakers, referring to	farmers in lowland areas	trial lawyers	religious leaders	judges in criminal courts	investigative journalists	E
117	us_history	The only United States president who was not a member of a Protestant sect was	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Harry S Truman	Dwight D. Eisenhower	John F. Kennedy	Lyndon B. Johnson	D
119	us_history	In the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination, a commission was formed to review the evidence and publish a report. The commission was headed by	Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson	Pierre Salinger	Senator J. William Fulbright	Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy	Chief Justice Earl Warren	E
120	us_history	The Fourteen Points, presented in January 1918, were	Winston Churchill's plans for dealing with Hitler	American suffragists' demands for women's rights	Woodrow Wilson's plan for building peace in the post-World War I world	sections of the income tax amendment to the Constitution	the Socialist Party's proposal for economic fairness	C
121	us_history	White Southerners were opposed to Northerners who trav eled south after the Civil War to work for racial justice and/or make money. They called these people:	mugwumps	Whigs	dog robbers	Southern sympathizers	carpetbaggers	E
122	us_history	President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, warning European powers not to establish new colonies in the western hemisphere. This policy was supported by	Spain	Russia	England	France	Cuba	C
123	us_history	The voyage that brought African captives across the Atlantic to the Americas and the West Indies is referred to as the	Middle Passage	Northwest Passage	China Passage	Passage to India	Bermuda Passage	A
124	us_history	Gifford Pinchot is associated with a movement that began in the nineteenth century and focused on protecting the country's natural environment. Thismovement is called the	Greenpeace movement	emancipation movement	enfranchisement movement	conservationist movement	emigration movement	D
125	us_history	"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" was a campaign slogan in the presidential election of 1840. "Tippecanoe" refers to	John Tyler	Andrew Jackson	Benjamin Harrison	William Henry Harrison	George Rogers Clark	D
126	us_history	Beginning in 1663 with Carolina, a second wave of colonization in British North America was facilitated by	the restoration of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans to power in Great Britain	King George II of Great Britain	the restoration of the monarchy in Britain and land grants in the New World from Charles II to his supporters	the voyages of exploration by John Cabot	peace pacts between French missionaries and Native American tribes	C
127	us_history	Jazz, flappers, bathtub gin, red-hot flannels, speakeasies, and radio stations were all elements of the era known as	the Gay Nineties	the Roaring Twenties	the Fabulous Sixties	Reconstruction	the turn of the century	B
128	us_history	The first U.S. military response to a suspected terrorist act came in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan ordered a bombing attack on which country?	Syria	Pakistan	Turkey	Uganda	Libya	E
129	us_history	Automation in the 1950s and 1960s brought about what two significant economic changes in the United States?	Increased hiring and tax cuts	An increase in manufacturing jobs and lower unemployment	Reductions in farm employment and elimination of factory jobs	Higher taxes and inflation	No changes	C

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Which of the following wrote the majority of the Federalist Papers?

Benjamin Franklin

Alexander Hamilton

John Jay

James Madison

George Washington

B

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Why did the delegates agree to keep the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention secret?

They knew their work would be unpopular with their constituents.

They did not want to be subjected to any outside pressures or influences.

They had received a number of threats to their lives.

They knew there were many foreign spies hoping to betray them.

They did not want to provoke an uprising among the people.

B

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All the following were important influences on the framers of the Constitution EXCEPT:

the Magna Carta

the English Bill of Rights

the Roman republic

The Spirit of the Laws

the Federalist Papers

E

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Around which two central figures were the Federalist and Democratic-Republican parties organized?

George Washington and John Adams

Alexander Hamilton and John Adams

Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson

C

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What was the major aim of George Washington's foreign policy?

To remain friendly with but neutral toward all nations

To support the French monarchy during the French Revolution

To support the revolutionaries during the French Revolution

To stake a claim to the Louisiana territory

To settle the Northwest Territory as soon as possible

A

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What was the Democratic-Republican response to the passage of the Alien and Sedition Acts?

The Treaty of Ghent

The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions

The Battle of Tippecanoe

The Judiciary Act

The Embargo Act

B

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All the following major changes first occurred in U.S. society between 1790 and 1825 EXCEPT:

More than 100,000 Americans migrated westward.

The Industrial Revolution changed the economy and the way people worked.

The Erie Canal was completed.

Voting rights were expanded to include white men who did not own property.

Political leaders began disagreeing over the question of slavery.

E

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The Missouri Compromise stated all the following EXCEPT:

Missouri would be admitted to the Union as a slaveholding state.

Maine would be admitted to the Union as a free state.

Slavery would be outlawed north of Missouri's southern border, except in Missouri itself.

No future state would be admitted to the Union as a slaveholding state.

The balance of power in Congress would remain even, with 12 free states and 12 slaveholding states.

D

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How did the invention of the cotton gin affect the South?

Planters divided their large plantations into smaller farms.

The economy boomed because one gin could do the work of 1,000 slaves.

Slavery began to be less profitable and started to die out.

Southerners began to build textile mills and make their own cloth for export and trade.

Southerners began building factories to manufacture more cotton gins.

B

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What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?

To support democracy all over the world

To ally the United States with European interests

To encourage Latin American revolutionaries to rise up against the European colonial powers

To warn European nations not to invade or colonize the western hemisphere

To declare American neutrality in relations between Latin America and Europe

D

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Who among the following did not belong to the literary community in Concord, Massachusetts?

Louisa May Alcott

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Bronson Alcott

Edgar Allan Poe

Henry David Thoreau

D

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What happened at the Seneca Falls Convention?

A constitutional amendment was passed granting women the right to vote.

A Declaration of Sentiments listing women's grievances was signed and published.

A riot broke out between those who supported and those who opposed women's rights.

The president of the United States pledged to make women's rights a major campaign issue.

Newspaper articles supporting the abolition of slavery were read and discussed.

B

41

us_history

The rebellion of Nat Turner had all the following effects EXCEPT:

Fifty or sixty white people were killed.

The Southern states passed harsh new laws limiting the rights of slaves.

Southerners blamed William Lloyd Garrison and The Liberator for the uprising.

Nat Turner and several of his followers were hanged as criminals.

The rebellion inspired other successful uprisings throughout the South.

E

42

us_history

The Second Great Awakening gave rise to or supported all the following movements EXCEPT:

women's education

temperance

abolition

women's suffrage

the Whig Party

E

43

us_history

All these inventions helped revolutionize the U.S. economy in the early nineteenth century EXCEPT:

the cotton gin

the locomotive

the incandescent lightbulb

the steamboat

the spinning jenny

C

44

us_history

Which of the following social classes did NOT make up a significant part of Southern society?

Wealthy planters

Immigrants

Slaves

Small farmers

Poor whites

B

45

us_history

Which of the following was the primary reason for the wave of Irish immigration in the 1840s?

Desire to buy land

Desire for economic opportunity

Widespread starvation in the wake of the potato famine

Religious oppression

Political oppression from Great Britain

C

46

us_history

Between 1830 and 1850, the United States gained land that would become all the following present-day states EXCEPT:

California

North Dakota

Washington

Oregon

Texas

B

47

us_history

The Gold Rush of 1849 had all the following immediate effects on California society EXCEPT:

The population became more ethnically diverse.

Many entrepreneurs made their fortunes from the miners.

The population grew by many thousands.

More and more people turned to farming to make a living.

Society became violent and lawless.

D

48

us_history

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it legal to do which of the following?

Prevent an African American from testifying in his or her own defense

Help a slave escape to a free state

Become a free person simply by crossing the border into a free state

Join the Free-Soil Party and speak out in favor of abolition

Execute any slave who was proved to have escaped from his or her owner

A

49

us_history

The immediate cause of Southern secession from the Union was

the raid on Harpers Ferry

the Pottawatomie Massacre

the election of Abraham Lincoln

the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act

the determination of Kansas to be a free state

C

50

us_history

In his opinion in the case of Dred Scott v. Sanford, Chief Justice Taney stated all the following EXCEPT:

The Fifth Amendment protected slaveowners' rights to their property.

The Missouri Compromise had been unconstitutional because it violated slaveowners' property rights.

The framers of the Constitution clearly had not intended the Constitution to apply to anyone of African descent.

Slave status did not depend on geography but traveled everywhere with a person who was a slave.

As long as society provided separate but equal opportunities to African slaves, it did not have to do anything more for them.

E

51

us_history

Why did Thoreau and other abolitionists praise John Brown?

They approved of using violence to change laws.

They looked forward eagerly to a war between North and South.

They wanted to see as many slavers killed as possible.

They admired his long history of helping African Americans and dealing fairly with them.

They felt that Brown had taken an appropriate revenge for Congressman Brooks's attack on Senator Sumner.

D

52

us_history

The Union strategy for winning the war included all the following EXCEPT:

dividing the Confederacy along the Mississippi River and conquering both halves in turn

taking control of the Mississippi so that the South could not use it for trade or communication

blockading Confederate ports so that no supplies or reinforcements could come in

capturing and killing Confederate President Jefferson Davis

capturing the capital city of Richmond, Virginia

D

53

us_history

The Union was more likely to win a war of attrition because

it had a larger pool of available reinforcements and could resupply its troops

the Confederates had not been able to march farther north than Maryland

the Confederate officers did not know how to fight a war of attrition

African Americans fought only on the Union side

its military leaders had no command of strategy and tactics

A

54

us_history

The Emancipation Proclamation, by implication, extended which of the following offers to Confederate states?

They could keep their slaves if they abandoned the Confederacy and rejoined the Union.

The war would continue until they freed their slaves.

The Union would pay them for their slaves if they would agree to free them.

The Union would surrender if they agreed to free their slaves.

The Confederacy could exist as an independent nation if it would build an impregnable border between its territory and that of the United States.

A

55

us_history

Andrew Johnson was impeached primarily because he

dismissed Edwin M. Stanton from a cabinet post

disagreed with the congressional majority on domestic policy

committed high crimes and misdemeanors

prevented Congress from enacting any legislation that would propel Reconstruction forward

failed to carry out any projects that President Lincoln had planned to enact

B

56

us_history

Southern Democrats did all the following to bar likely Republican voters from the polls EXCEPT:

threatened them with violence

charged a poll tax they could not afford

made them take a literacy test they were likely to fail

shot them to death

passed laws that denied them the right to vote

E

57

us_history

Many active supporters of the women's suffrage movement opposed the Fifteenth Amendment because

the women's movement did not care about the rights of African Americans

white suffragists thought that their concerns were more important than those of African Americans

women were angry that the Fifteenth Amendment did not give them the right to vote

suffragists did not want African Americans to have voting rights

women were afraid that the Fifteenth Amendment would jeopardize their fight for women's suffrage

C

58

us_history

The U.S. government insisted on moving Native Americans to reservations primarily because

settlers from the East were greedy for the Native Americans' ancestral lands

Native American hunting practices threatened the survival of the buffalo

Native Americans were better at farming and technology than were Americans of European descent

settlers from the East did not understand Native American languages

government authorities were afraid of a planned Native American rebellion

A

59

us_history

The Pacific Railway Act had all the following effects EXCEPT:

the arrival in California of thousands of Chinese immigrants

a rise in the national rate of employment

an increase in westward migration by people in search of jobs with the railroad

the sale of surplus railroad land to homesteaders

a decline in production in the steel industry

E

60

us_history

African Americans traveled west after the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

to work on the railroad

to escape racial segregation

to work in the fur-trading industry

to mine gold and silver

to claim homesteads for themselves and their families

C

61

us_history

All the following inventions were developed during the Second Industrial Revolution EXCEPT:

the lightbulb

the telephone

the air brake

the cotton gin

the typewriter

D

62

us_history

In a dispute with owners or management, workers had all the following advantages EXCEPT:

There were far more of them.

No business could function without them.

They could form unions to help them survive financially during strikes.

Owners stood to lose substantial profits if workers refused to work.

They could not be replaced easily.

E

63

us_history

In the early 1900's, nativists supported restrictions on immigration for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

They did not want U.S. culture changed.

They did not want to learn to speak foreign languages.

They feared that immigrants would lower the working wage.

They thought immigrants might bring in ideas, values, and ways of thinking that would not fit in.

They feared that immigrants would take jobs away from workers born in the United States.

B

64

us_history

The settlement-house movement had all the following goals EXCEPT:

to train young women for careers in education or social work

to integrate city school systems

to provide a day-care center for the young children of working parents

to provide a social gathering place in a neighborhood

to offer classes in English and other subjects for children and adults

B

65

us_history

The Populist Party was founded with all the following goals EXCEPT:

to support the coinage of silver

to return to the gold standard

to push for government ownership of the railroads

to regulate the banks

to restrict immigration

B

66

us_history

In the late 1870s, the Republican Party was divided primarily over the issue of

the gold standard

civil-service reform

racial segregation

women's rights

raising taxes

B

67

us_history

Theodore Roosevelt believed that big business should be regulated federally primarily because

it was wrong for so few people to control so much money and property

owners would not take proper care of the welfare of their workers or customers unless forced to by law

businesses were not efficiently run or profitable

too many people bought imported goods rather than goods made in the United States

businesses were destroying too great a proportion of the nation’s natural resources

B

68

us_history

The Seventeenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, established which of the following?

Secret ballots in local elections

A direct primary

Direct popular election of senators

An eight-hour workday

A federal minimum wage

C

69

us_history

Conservatives supported environmental legislation under Roosevelt and Taft because

they did not want the natural resources of the United States to die out or be used up

they wanted a place in which to go hunting

they always sided with the owners in labor disputes

they opposed regulation of big business

they did not want certain rare species of birds or animals to become extinct

A

70

us_history

The United States became an imperialist nation in the late 1800s for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

desire to establish new markets for U.S. goods

interest in acquiring naval bases in strategic locations

need to obtain inexpensive access to certain goods that the United States could not produce for itself, such as sugar and rubber

desire to put an end to tyranny in foreign nations

wish to be considered a powerful force in world affairs

D

71

us_history

By 1920 the United States had acquired partial or total control over all the following EXCEPT:

the Canal Zone

Puerto Rico

China

the Philippines

Guam

C

72

us_history

Which of the following did the Roosevelt Corollary modify?

The Monroe Doctrine

The Platt Amendment

The Hawaiian constitution

The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty

The Open Door Policy

A

73

us_history

All of the following nations were allied with the Central Powers EXCEPT:

France

Germany

Turkey

Bulgaria

Austria-Hungary

A

74

us_history

The United States came out of World War I in a strong international position primarily because

it had founded the League of Nations

it had lost relatively few of its fighting forces and its economy was prosperous

it had had a successful socialist revolution

it was geographically isolated from Europe

it had dictated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

B

75

us_history

The Treaty of Versailles stated all the following EXCEPT:

Germany would have to pay reparations to Allied nations.

Alsace-Lorraine would be returned to France.

New nations called Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia would be established.

Russia would be known as the Soviet Union.

Germany would accept total blame for the war.

D

76

us_history

All the following characterized the 1920s EXCEPT:

a rise in organized crime

a wave of prolabor legislation

the development of mass entertainment

technological advances such as the radio

the rise in popularity of the automobile

B

77

us_history

Who were "the Untouchables"?

Chicago White Sox baseball players who threw the World Series in 1919

Organized criminals who worked for Al Capone

The murderers involved in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Characters in a novel by Ernest Hemingway

FBI detectives who worked on cases involving violations of Prohibition

E

78

us_history

All the following characterized the flapper EXCEPT:

bobbed hair

short skirts

participation in sports

political activism

cigarette smoking

D

79

us_history

All the following were contributing causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

margin buying

frequent fluctuations in share prices

widespread bank failures

the existence of Hoovervilles

widespread business failures

D

80

us_history

Which of the following New Deal programs was intended to ensure that no Great Depression could occur again in the future?

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Farm Credit Administration

Tennessee Valley Authority

Public Works Administration

Civilian Conservation Corps

A

81

us_history

After they drove west from the Dust Bowl seeking work in California, most farmers

found good jobs and soon returned to prosperity

competed with thousands like themselves for poorly paid work

got arrested protesting unfair working conditions

crossed the border into Mexico to find work

petitioned the White House for help in fighting the growers' association

B

82

us_history

All the following nations were under Axis control by the end of 1940 EXCEPT:

Poland

the Soviet Union

France

Italy

the Netherlands

B

83

us_history

All the following were U.S. victories in the Pacific EXCEPT:

Bataan

Guadalcanal

Coral Sea

Midway

Solomon Islands

A

84

us_history

Which of the following was the purpose of the Lend-Lease Act?

To guarantee the territorial integrity of China

To permit Roosevelt to run for a third presidential term

To set limits on the size of the British and Japanese navies

To spell out the war aims of the Allied Powers

To provide military aid to defend Britain and other Allied countries

E

85

us_history

The Battle of the Bulge took place when Allied troops

invaded North Africa

approached Germany's western border

fought German troops in Italy

landed on the beaches of Normandy

fought the Japanese at Iwo Jima

B

86

us_history

Which of the following was among the reasons why President Truman decided to drop atomic bombs on Japan?

He wanted to free the Philippines from Japanese occupation.

He feared a Japanese invasion of the United States.

He believed the bombing would shorten the war and save U.S. lives.

He wanted to impress the British with U.S. strength.

He wanted to destroy every city in Japan.

C

87

us_history

The Potsdam Conference provided for all the following EXCEPT:

the division of Germany into four occupied zones

the payment of reparations to the Allies

the reorganization of the Soviet government

the acknowledgment that Poland could keep the German territory it had claimed

the conversion of the German economy to agriculture and light industry.

C

88

us_history

Which of the following prompted the first use of UN military forces?

Tension between the Soviet Union and the United States

The nuclear arms race between the Soviet Union and the United States

The North Korean invasion of South Korea

The international agreement to put Nazi officials on trial for their crimes

Anticommunist hysteria in the United States

C

89

us_history

The primary purpose of the Marshall Plan was to

reestablish democratic governments in Western Europe

provide military assistance to Britain and its empire

offer financial aid for reconstruction to European nations

help Japan rebuild its cities and its economy

increase U.S. power in the world

C

90

us_history

All the following advances were made in race relations in the United States between 1940 and 1960 EXCEPT:

In Brown Vs. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that segregated public schools were unconstitutional.

Public transportation was desegregated.

Major league baseball was desegregated.

The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed.

A voting rights act was passed.

E

91

us_history

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had all the following provisions EXCEPT:

It banned racial, gender, religious, and ethnic discrimination in employment.

It removed certain voter-registration restrictions.

It made segregation illegal in all public places.

It allowed the federal government to sue public schools that did not desegregate.

It integrated the federal government and the armed forces.

E

92

us_history

The Cuban missile crisis ended when

the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles from Cuba if U.S. missiles were withdrawn from sites in Turkey

President Kennedy ordered the U.S. Navy to turn back Soviet ships headed for Cuba

a CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles was defeated at the Bay of Pigs

President Kennedy was assassinated

the East German government built a wall around the perimeter of West Berlin

A

93

us_history

All the following characterized the civil rights movement EXCEPT:

advocating legislation that would outlaw segregation

nonviolent demonstrations

sit-ins at segregated lunch counters and restaurants

police brutality against civil rights marchers

violent attacks on segregated restaurants and other public facilities

E

94

us_history

All the following are programs of the Great Society EXCEPT:

the National Organization for Women

Head Start

the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Medicare

Medicaid

A

95

us_history

A major achievement of the civil rights movement in the 1960s was

equality in pay for white and African-American workers doing the same jobs

a huge increase in the number of African-American voters in the South

equal access to higher education for African Americans

appointment of African Americans to leading posts in major corporations

election of African-American majorities in state legislatures

B

96

us_history

President Johnson called for a voting rights bill in 1965 after

Martin Luther King., Jr., was assassinated

he defeated the Republican Barry Goldwater in a landslide election

Betty Friedan and others formed the National Organization for Women

racial disturbances broke out in Detroit and Los Angeles

a protest march let by Martin Luther King, Jr., was met with violence

E

97

us_history

Which of the following presidents sent troops to Vietnam?

Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy

Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon

Johnson and Nixon

Kennedy and Johnson

Johnson

B

98

us_history

Which of the following was NOT settled in the U.S.–North Vietnamese peace agreement of 1973?

An exchange of prisoners of war

The political future of South Vietnam

The withdrawal of U.S. troops

The end of U.S. military aid to South Vietnam

A cease-fire

B

99

us_history

All the following turned people in the United States against the Vietnam War EXCEPT:

the Kent State and Jackson State massacres

publication of the Pentagon Papers

disclosure of the bombing of Cambodia

repeal of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution

revulsion against the horrors of war as shown on television news broadcasts

D

100

us_history

Nixon's foreign policy of détente was meant to improve relations between the United States and

North Vietnam

Cambodia

Taiwan

China

the Soviet Union

E

101

us_history

The "energy crisis" of 1973 started when

Arab countries refused to ship petroleum to countries friendly to Israel

Congress refused to authorize oil drilling in Alaska

oil reserves in Texas and Oklahoma began to run dry

the public refused to support the building of nuclear power plants

the United States decided to end all imports of foreign petroleum

A

102

us_history

The Watergate burglars were

newspaper reporters investigating a crime story

FBI agents looking for evidence of wrongdoing by Nixon

thieves looking for money in the Democratic Party offices

operatives in the pay of Nixon's reelection committee

Democratic Party members looking for evidence to discredit Republicans

D

103

us_history

President Jimmy Carter helped work out a peace agreement between

Palestine and Israel

Israel and Egypt

Egypt and Jordan

Iraq and Kuwait

East Germany and West Germany

B

104

us_history

The Cold War ended primarily because

Germans destroyed the Berlin Wall

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev introduced new policies

the United States defeated communism in Vietnam

the United States created a rebel army in Nicaragua

the workers of Poland staged a series of strikes

B

105

us_history

The Gulf War of 1991 was fought to liberate

Iran

Israel

Kuwait

Saudi Arabia

Nicaragua

C

106

us_history

President Bill Clinton suffered defeat in Congress when he

sought to reform the nation's largely private system of health-care insurance

attempted to reduce the federal government's financial deficit

tried to impose strict requirements on recipients of public assistance

sought passage of an act requiring corporations to provide workers with unpaid leave to cope with family medical emergencies

chose Senator Al Gore to be his vice president

A

107

us_history

The presidential election of 2000 was decided when

a recount of votes in Florida showed that Bush had won the popular vote

a recount of electoral votes was ordered by the Supreme Court

a vote recount in Florida was barred by the Supreme Court, effectively making Bush president

a recount of the popular vote nationwide showed that Gore was the loser

Republicans agreed to permit a recount of the popular vote in Florida

C

108

us_history

The Bush administration launched the war in Iraq in 2003 in alliance with

the United Nations Security Council

Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries

Germany, France, and other major U.S. allies

Great Britain, along with token forces from several smaller countries

no other countries or international organizations

D

109

us_history

At the start of his term, President Barack Obama faced all the following challenges in office EXCEPT:

a housing and mortgage crisis

flood relief for the city of New Orleans

a war in Iraq

a crashing stock market

soaring unemployment

B

110

us_history

"Slavery now stands erect, clanking its chains on the territory of Kansas, surrounded by a code of death, and trampling upon all cherished liberties." This statement was most likely made by a(n)

Whig

muckraker

plantation owner

Democrat

abolitionist

E

111

us_history

The president's power to veto a bill is checked by Congress's power to

override the veto with a two-thirds majority vote

filibuster

call for a referendum

petition the states

impeach

A

112

us_history

The Olmec, the Maya, the Toltec, the Aztec, and the Inca are the earliest major civilizations of the Americas and are termed the

Paleolithic migrations

cultures of "blue men"

Mesoamerican cultures

Tewa nations

sun worshippers

C

113

us_history

Even though the Tea Act of 1773 lowered the price of East India tea, the colonists opposed it primarily because

the British were selling the colonies inferior tea

the price of the tea included a tax the colonists did not want to pay

the Dutch threatened to stop trading with the colonies

the act gave trading privileges to Dutch merchants over colonial merchants

the British colonial governors took the tea for themselves

B

114

us_history

Most European immigrants at the turn of the nineteenth century passed through:

Castle Garden, New York

Roosevelt Island, New York

The Port of Boston, Massachusetts

Ellis Island, New York

Plymouth, Massachusetts

D

115

us_history

Henry Clay's proposal that Maine enter the Union as a free state and Missouri enter as a slave state was called

the Maine Compromise

the Missouri Compromise

the Clay Compromise

Clay's Folly

the Know-Nothing Agreement

B

116

us_history

In a 1906 speech, Theodore Roosevelt described a man with a muckrake who "fixes his eyes . . . only on that which is vile and debasing." His speech gave rise to the new word muckrakers, referring to

farmers in lowland areas

trial lawyers

religious leaders

judges in criminal courts

investigative journalists

E

117

us_history

The only United States president who was not a member of a Protestant sect was

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

D

119

us_history

In the aftermath of President Kennedy's assassination, a commission was formed to review the evidence and publish a report. The commission was headed by

Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson

Pierre Salinger

Senator J. William Fulbright

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy

Chief Justice Earl Warren

E

120

us_history

The Fourteen Points, presented in January 1918, were

Winston Churchill's plans for dealing with Hitler

American suffragists' demands for women's rights

Woodrow Wilson's plan for building peace in the post-World War I world

sections of the income tax amendment to the Constitution

the Socialist Party's proposal for economic fairness

C

121

us_history

White Southerners were opposed to Northerners who trav eled south after the Civil War to work for racial justice and/or make money. They called these people:

mugwumps

Whigs

dog robbers

Southern sympathizers

carpetbaggers

E

122

us_history

President James Monroe issued the Monroe Doctrine in 1823, warning European powers not to establish new colonies in the western hemisphere. This policy was supported by

Spain

Russia

England

France

Cuba

C

123

us_history

The voyage that brought African captives across the Atlantic to the Americas and the West Indies is referred to as the

Middle Passage

Northwest Passage

China Passage

Passage to India

Bermuda Passage

A

124

us_history

Gifford Pinchot is associated with a movement that began in the nineteenth century and focused on protecting the country's natural environment. Thismovement is called the

Greenpeace movement

emancipation movement

enfranchisement movement

conservationist movement

emigration movement

D

125

us_history

"Tippecanoe and Tyler, too" was a campaign slogan in the presidential election of 1840. "Tippecanoe" refers to

John Tyler

Andrew Jackson

Benjamin Harrison

William Henry Harrison

George Rogers Clark

D

126

us_history

Beginning in 1663 with Carolina, a second wave of colonization in British North America was facilitated by

the restoration of Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans to power in Great Britain

King George II of Great Britain

the restoration of the monarchy in Britain and land grants in the New World from Charles II to his supporters

the voyages of exploration by John Cabot

peace pacts between French missionaries and Native American tribes

C

127

us_history

Jazz, flappers, bathtub gin, red-hot flannels, speakeasies, and radio stations were all elements of the era known as

the Gay Nineties

the Roaring Twenties

the Fabulous Sixties

Reconstruction

the turn of the century

B

128

us_history

The first U.S. military response to a suspected terrorist act came in 1986 when President Ronald Reagan ordered a bombing attack on which country?

Syria

Pakistan

Turkey

Uganda

Libya

E

129

us_history

Automation in the 1950s and 1960s brought about what two significant economic changes in the United States?

Increased hiring and tax cuts

An increase in manufacturing jobs and lower unemployment

Reductions in farm employment and elimination of factory jobs

Higher taxes and inflation

No changes

C