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130 | us_history | The U.S. pressured Cuba to accept the Platt Amendment in 1901. It made Cuba a protectorate of the United States. A protectorate is a | U.S. possession | country that promises to help protect the United States | country that contributes soldiers to the U.S. Army | country that accepts U.S. protection in exchange for the right of the United States to intervene in its affairs | country that is protected from U.S. aggression | D |
131 | us_history | The Fifteenth Amendment tried to ensure the right of black men to vote. The first presidential election after the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment was in | 1864 | 1920 | 1860 | 1960 | 1872 | E |
133 | us_history | The Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa, the first European to cross the isthmus of Panama, saw a body of water he thought was the South Sea. It was actually the | Atlantic Ocean | Pacific Ocean | Gulf of Mexico | Indian Ocean | Caribbean Sea | B |
134 | us_history | The route known as the Oregon Trail followed the Platte River | across the Appalachians and into Ohio | across the Rio Grande and up the California coast to Oregon | across the Great Plains to the Rocky Mountains and then into Oregon along the Snake River | across the Mississippi and along the Missouri River to the Badlands and into Canada | across the desert and up the Sierra Nevadas to Oregon | C |
135 | us_history | Ralph Nader became prominent during the 1960s as an advocate for | transportation improvements | education reform | consumer interests | congressional term limits | vegetarianism | C |
136 | us_history | On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made a radio broadcast from the White House to explain his reasons for closing U.S. banks for a few days. This grew into a regular series of broadcasts that became known as | fireside chats | The FDR Hour | The State of the Union | America Today | This Week in the News | A |
137 | us_history | The "British Invasion" of 1964 refers to | an attack by Great Britain on the U.S. Virgin Islands | an increase in British immigration to Canada | the sale of British-made automobiles in the United States | the introduction of popular British rock bands to U.S. audiences | the broadcast of British television shows in the United States | D |
138 | us_history | The first union of skilled workers, founded by Samuel L. Gompers in 1886, was called the | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) | U.S. Department of Labor | International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) | American Federation of Labor (AFL) | Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) | D |
139 | us_history | The first shots of the Revolutionary War were fired in which colony? | Massachusetts | Virginia | New Hampshire | Pennsylvania | New York | A |
140 | us_history | In The American Crisis, no. 1, Thomas Paine referred to "the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot." Whom did he mean? | Traitors to the U.S. Army | People who had supported independence before the war but changed their minds once it began | Colonists who had remained loyal to Great Britain all along | Soldiers who fired on the mobs during the Boston Massacre | Redcoats who fired on the minutemen, who were British subjects like themselves | B |
141 | us_history | Which of the following was NOT a primary aim of the Progressive movement of the early 1900s? | Passing laws that would improve slum conditions in large cities | Teaching immigrants to read, write, and speak English | Supporting the passage of legislation that would make the workplace safer | Creating public baths, parks, and playgrounds in urban areas | Making English the official language of the United States | E |
142 | us_history | The 1938 panic in which people thought that the earth was being attacked by hostile aliens from Mars was caused by a | radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater | series of swaths cut into mysterious symbolic shapes in Midwestern cornfields | power blackout that darkened the Northeast from Boston to Washington, D.C. | series of tornadoes in the Southeast in which many people disappeared | mysterious cloud formation hovering over the face of the moon | A |
143 | us_history | Why did the writer Gertrude Stein describe Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and other artistic and literary Americans as a "lost generation" during the 1920s? | They preferred to live in Europe, not the United States. | They had fought recently on the losing side in World War I. | They were disillusioned by the experience of World War I. | They had lost all feeling of American patriotism. | They despised society and lived isolated lives. | C |
144 | us_history | The Emancipation Proclamation of January 1, 1863, | freed all slaves in the United States | freed all slaves in the Confederate States | required all slaves to register with the government | gave all adult male slaves the right to vote | gave all adult male slaves the right to enlist in the Union Army | B |
145 | us_history | "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent." The phrase "iron curtain," coined in 1947, refers to the | Marshall Plan, which provided millions of dollars in U.S. aid to any nation in Europe that requested it | Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II | borderline between nations under Soviet communist influence and the rest of the world | borderline between Northern and Southern Europe | concrete wall that divided East Berlin from West Berlin | C |
146 | us_history | Jane Addams opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889 for all the following reasons EXCEPT: | providing meaningful career opportunities for young women | improving living conditions in the immediate neighborhood | providing a day-care center for the young children of working parents | teaching English and other subjects to newly arrived immigrants | eliminating racial segregation throughout the city of Chicago | E |
147 | us_history | "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." Which of the following would the speaker of this quotation most likely support? | Prohibition | Socialism | Segregation | Progressivism | Capitalism | B |
149 | us_history | People in the United States lost confidence in President Herbert Hoover primarily because | his policies did not bring about an economic recovery | the Hoover Dam was an environmental disaster | the judges he appointed to the Supreme Court were incompetent | he outlawed membership in the Socialist and Communist parties | he established the Federal Farm Board in 1929 | A |
150 | us_history | The primary purpose of the Lewis and Clark expedition of 1804–1806 was to | make accurate maps of the Louisiana Territory | search for a water route across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific | register all the Native American tribes living in the Louisiana Territory | study the various types of plant and animals in the Louisiana Territory | establish friendly relations with the Native American tribes of the Pacific Coast | B |
151 | us_history | Which of the following would give a historian the clearest insight into the reasons for the way the Constitution was written? | Minutes and transcripts of debates to the Constitutional Convention | The diary of a Convention delegate such as James Madison or Benjamin Franklin | A copy of the Federalist Papers | Newspaper editorials published during the Constitutional Convention | A copy of the Constitution | A |
152 | us_history | Which of the following facts supports the theory that the War of 1812 brought about economic prosperity in the United States? | The USS Constitution destroyed several British warships. | Andrew Jackson led his troops to victory in the Battle of New Orleans. | Great Britain and the United States became allies after the war ended. | Trade embargoes forced U.S. manufacturers to expand operations. | The Treaty of Ghent strengthened U.S. control over the Northwest Territory. | D |
153 | us_history | What took place during the Saturday Night Massacre? | A mob of Bostonians threw stones at British troops, who retaliated by firing on them. | General George Armstrong Custer and all his troops were killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn. | Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus resigned rather than obey President Nixon's order to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. | George Washington and his troops captured and imprisoned the entire Hessian force at Trenton, New Jersey. | The stock market crashed on October 24, 1929, and some prominent people who had lost their fortunes committed suicide. | C |
154 | us_history | Which nation was NOT involved in the 1921 FourPower Treaty, an agreement to respect territorial claims in the Pacific? | France | Great Britain | Japan | The Netherlands | The United States | D |
155 | us_history | Which novel was a catalyst for reform in the meatpacking industry under President Theodore Roosevelt? | Manhattan Transferby John Dos Passos | The Jungle by Upton Sinclair | Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis | The Octopusby Frank Norris | The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck | B |
156 | us_history | African Americans moved west in large numbers after the Civil War for all the following reasons EXCEPT: | to look for greater racial tolerance and economic opportunity | to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the Harlem Renaissance | to escape violent persecution by angry white Southerners | to acquire farmland that the Homestead Act made available for free to the first people to claim it | to work on building the railroad that soon would connect the East Coast and the West Coast | B |
157 | us_history | Which of the following was NOT proposed in 1850 to the U.S. Senate as a compromise between proslavery and antislavery factions? | Admission to the United States of California as a free state | Continuation of slavery in the District of Columbia | Passage of tougher fugitive slave legislation | Purchase of its claim to New Mexico Territory from Texas | Division of Texas into two new territories: New Mexico and Utah | E |
158 | us_history | Which of the following most aptly supports the assertion that Native Americans have suffered the worst discrimination of all groups in U.S. history? | Native Americans taught the colonists to grow corn and gather plants that were safe and nutritious to eat. | European explorers and colonists introduced Native Americans to the horse as a working animal and to pigs and chickens as sources of food. | Native Americans and Europeans had different cultural values. | Congress did not grant universal U.S. citizenship for Native Americans until 1924. | The European invaders and colonists of North America refused to learn Native American languages. | D |
159 | us_history | Which war did young Americans protest by burning their draft cards and draft notices, fleeing to Canada, and demonstrating against the administration? | Korean War | Vietnam War | Persian Gulf War | War in Afghanistan | Iraq War | B |
160 | us_history | Which statement most aptly supports the theory that the Black Sox scandal of 1919 was a result of the exploitation of labor by management? | F. Scott Fitzgerald referred to the scandal as "playing with the faith of fifty million people." | The baseball players were in effect indentured servants with no right to strike or to accept offers from other teams. | The eight White Sox players accused of conspiring to cheat were acquitted in a jury trial. | Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis permanently banned the eight "Black Sox" from professional baseball. | Millions of Americans were cheated in their expectation of seeing a fairly contested World Series. | B |
161 | us_history | Which of the following is the correct chronological order of the three Civil War battles? | Antietam, Gettysburg, Shiloh | Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam | Shiloh, Gettysburg, Antietam | Gettysburg, Antietam, Shiloh | Shiloh, Antietam, Gettysburg | E |
162 | us_history | "And the dispossessed, the migrants, flowed into California, two hundred and fifty thousand, and three hundred thousand. Behind them new tractors were going on to the land and the tenants were being forced off. And new waves were on the way, new waves of the dispossessed and the homeless, hardened, intent, and dangerous." The author of this quotation is describing | pioneers riding westward along the Oregon Trail | prospectors hurrying to California during the Gold Rush of 1849 | farmers leaving the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression | Mexicans crossing the Rio Grande into the United States | African Americans migrating west during Reconstruction | C |
163 | us_history | What was the most significant result of the Battle of Little Bighorn? | The U.S. Army redoubled its efforts to move Native Americans to reservations. | The U.S. 7th Cavalry troops were all killed in the battle. | The 7th Cavalry attacked the Lakota at dawn after riding all night. | The Lakota felt more confident about their ability to fight the U.S. Army. | The Native American tribes of the southern plains agreed to move to Indian Territory. | A |
164 | us_history | Everyday life in the United States changed after the Second Industrial Revolution in all the following ways EXCEPT: | More people worked in factories. | Electricity changed the way people worked and played. | People could travel longer distances in a fraction of the time. | Instant long-distance communication became commonplace. | The percentage of women working in offices declined as factory work opened up opportunities for women. | E |
165 | us_history | The Mexican-American War was caused primarily by | a border dispute between Mexico and Texas | an unpaid debt that Mexico owed the United States | the involvement of the United States in the 1836 Texas revolution | the overthrow of the Mexican administration and its replacement by a military regime | the Texan siege of the Spanish mission/fort known as the Alamo | A |
166 | us_history | The primary reason the Confederate Army lost the Battle of Gettysburg was that | the Union troops did not have sufficient reinforcements to win the battle | Confederate General Robert E. Lee was a strategically gifted commander | the Union forces were able to hold the high ground northwest of Gettysburg | the Confederate troops retreated south after Pickett's Charge | Union troops vastly outnumbered the Confederates | C |
167 | us_history | The earliest example of republican government in North America is the | Mayflower Compact | Articles of Confederation | Iroquois Confederacy | Gettysburg Address | U.S. Constitution | C |
169 | us_history | As the Constitutional Convention ended, Benjamin Franklin commented about a half-sun with its rays painted on George Washington's chair that "now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun." Franklin meant these words as | a criticism of the delegates to the Convention who did not share his faith in the Constitution | an indication that he knew that the fight for the ratification of the Constitution would be difficult | a joke about the poor quality of the furniture in Independence Hall | an expression of hope and optimism for the new government he had helped design | a criticism of the painter of the chair | D |
171 | us_history | The Farmers' Alliance of the 1870s was founded with all the following goals EXCEPT: | organizing cooperatives to buy equipment and market farm products | offering farmers low-cost insurance | lobbying for tougher bank regulations | helping members in times of hardship such as drought | supporting private ownership of national railroads | E |
172 | us_history | Pocahontas's friendship with the Jamestown colonists was historically important because she | encouraged trust and good relations between Native Americans and colonists | set other Native American women an example by marrying John Rolfe of Jamestown | made it possible for the Native Americans and colonists to trade with one another | ensured that the colonists granted the Native Americans full equal legal rights | permanently ended hostilities between the Native Americans and colonists | A |
173 | us_history | Which factor contributed most to the rise of membership in labor unions between 1915 and 1920? | The efforts of progressive reformers | The expansion of the open shop | The fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company | The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment | The exclusion of unskilled workers | A |
174 | us_history | Which event did NOT lead directly to the annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. territory in 1898? | Passage of the McKinley Tariff of 1890 | Formation of the Secret Hawaiian League in 1886 | Election of William McKinley to the presidency in 1898 | Rebellion of Hawaiian supporters of annexation in 1893 | Coronation of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii in 1891 | E |
175 | us_history | What is the significance of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment of the Union Army? | It began the Civil War by firing on Fort Sumter. | It was composed entirely of African-American soldiers and officers. | It was the first African-American regiment to play a major role in a military campaign. | It was an aristocratic regiment whose officers refused any pay. | It included a number of women who disguised themselves as men in order to take part in combat. | C |
176 | us_history | Which of the following best supports the theory that the United States had imperialist ambitions as of the end of the nineteenth century? | The establishment of the Open Door Policy in 1899 | The Russo-Japanese War of 1904 | The annexation of Hawaii in 1898 | The popularity of yellow journalism in 1890s | The start of Mexican Revolution in 1910 | C |
177 | us_history | Spanish and Spanish-sponsored parties explored and/or settled all the following areas of North America EXCEPT: | the northern Atlantic coast | the Gulf of Mexico | the Pacific coast | the Southwest | the Mississippi valley | A |
178 | us_history | Soon after World War I broke out in Europe, people in the United States became outraged against Germany because of the 1915 sinking of the | Titanic | Maine | Lusitania | Constitution | Hindenburg | C |
179 | us_history | The development of atomic technology affected daily life in the United States in all the following ways EXCEPT: | encouraging schools to teach more math and science classes | contributing to the popularity of science-fiction literature and movies | leading to widespread fears of a nuclear attack | reinforcing the fear of former allies France and Great Britain | spurring people to build or make bomb shelters | D |
180 | us_history | Which of the following is NOT guaranteed in the Bill of Rights? | Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment for crimes | Possession of rights other than those listed in the Constitution | Protection against search and seizure of property without a warrant | The right to remain silent if arrested and tried for a crime | The right to vote for all free males age 21 or over | E |
183 | us_history | "Fourscore and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." To which of the following events is the speaker of this quotation alluding? | Signing of the Declaration of Independence | Ratification of the Constitution | Passage of the Bill of Rights | Repeal of Prohibition | Passage of the Civil Rights Act | A |
184 | us_history | "We believe that America had something better to offer mankind than those aims she is now pursuing.... She has lost her unique position as a potential leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place simply as one of the grasping and selfish nations of the present day." The speaker of this quotation most likely opposed the | Lewis and Clark expedition | California gold rush | annexation of the Philippines | Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition | passage of the Nineteenth Amendment | C |
185 | us_history | Congress passed the War Powers Act in response to the | Korean War | Vietnam War | Persian Gulf War | Six-Day War | Iraq War | B |
186 | us_history | The 1783 Treaty of Paris granted the United States all the following EXCEPT: | British recognition of the United States as an independent nation | all territory between the 13 states and the Mississippi River | the right to maintain a standing army in the former colonies | British acceptance of U.S. payment of all debts owed by the colonies | fishing rights in the Gulf of St. Lawrence | C |
187 | us_history | Which of the following made it possible for the United States to govern and control the Canal Zone in Panama? | The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | The Platt Amendment | The Jones Act | The Foraker Act | The Roosevelt Corollary | A |
188 | us_history | "I think we came, without really knowing it, to make the memorial our wailing wall. We came to find the names of those we lost in the war, as if by tracing the letters cut into the granite we could find what was left of ourselves ...." The speaker most likely is referring to the | Ellis Island memorial | Lincoln Memorial | Vietnam War Memorial | Washington Monument | Tomb of the Unknown Soldier | C |
189 | us_history | All the following people were key figures in the Watergate scandal EXCEPT: | Richard M. Nixon | John Dean III | James McCord | Robert Bork | Robert S. McNamara | E |
190 | us_history | "Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United Sates as a hostile regime." These words most likely were spoken by which president? | Abraham Lincoln | Ulysses S. Grant | Woodrow Wilson | Franklin Roosevelt | George W. Bush | E |
191 | us_history | What was the connection between political machines of the late 1800s and the need for city services? | Political bosses often supported public projects. | Voters who wanted city services boycotted the polls on election day. | The federal government took over public works projects during the New Deal era. | The New York City subway system was built by the Tweed political machine. | The political machines refused all interest in public-works projects. | A |
192 | us_history | "Reformation must be effected; the foundation of southern institutions, both political, municipal, and social must be broken up and relaid, or all our blood and treasure have been spent in vain. . . . Without this, this government can never be, as it has never been, a true republic." The author of the above statement most likely opposed the | Black Codes | Civil Rights Act | Platt Amendment | Seneca Falls Convention | Tenure of Office Act | A |
193 | us_history | Which of the following women is NOT famous for her activities in wartime? | Clara Barton | Mary Ludwig Hayes | Deborah Sampson | Susan B. Anthony | Tokyo Rose | D |
194 | us_history | The maintenance of the peace and safety of the United States was the stated aim of the | XYZ Affair | Alien and Sedition Acts | Bill of Rights | Federalist Papers | Louisiana Purchase | B |
195 | us_history | To which author did Abraham Lincoln jokingly say, on meeting her, "So you're the little lady who started this great war"? | Edith Wharton | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Zorah Neale Hurston | Louisa May Alcott | Mary Mapes Dodge | B |
196 | us_history | Which of the following happened for the fist time during the presidential election of 1828? | A Federalist won the election. | Free African Americans voted. | The voters, not the state legislatures, chose the electors. | Native Americans voted. | A war hero won the election. | C |
197 | us_history | Which president's domestic programs were collectively known as the Great Society? | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Harry S. Truman | Dwight D. Eisenhower | John F. Kennedy | Lyndon B. Johnson | E |
198 | us_history | Over which issue did Congress agree to permit or withhold statehood from territories that applied for it between 1828 and 1860? | Free public education | Land grants to farmers | Slavery | Temperance | Woman suffrage | C |
199 | us_history | At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, which country did NOT claim any land in North America? | France | Great Britain | Holland | Spain | United States | C |
200 | us_history | The Reconstruction amendments affected the right to suffrage of | African-American voters | female voters | voters between the ages of 18 and 21 | Native American voters | Ku Klux Klan members | A |
201 | us_history | Which of the following authors was NOT a member of the "Lost Generation"? | John Dos Passos | F. Scott Fitzgerald | Ernest Hemingway | John Steinbeck | Jack Kerouac | E |
202 | us_history | Which of the following supports the thesis that George Washington was unique among U.S. presidents? | He was from Virginia. | He was the universal choice for president among politicians of all parties. | He had served with distinction in the military. | He warned the nation against involvement in foreign wars. | He easily might easily have been elected to a third term if he had run for reelection. | B |
204 | us_history | What did the Platt Amendment of 1902 establish? | U.S. sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone | Panama's status as an independent nation | General Leonard Wood as governor of Cuba | Cuba's status as a protectorate of the United States | Puerto Ricans' status as U.S. citizens | D |
205 | us_history | What was one major purpose of the settlement-house movement of the 1880s and 1890s? | To provide day care for the young children of working parents | To lead the fight for woman suffrage | To organize a fight for racial integration in major cities | To lead rent strikes against slum landlords | To publish newspapers that revealed political graft and corruption | A |
206 | us_history | Jackie Robinson's first appearance in a Brooklyn Dodgers uniform in 1947 struck an important blow for civil rights because he | won the first rookie of the year award after the 1947 season | brought the Negro League style of play to the major leagues for the first time | proved to thousands of fans every day that there was no legitimate reason to exclude African American players from major league baseball | received death threats from people who believed that baseball and society should remain segregated | was honored by having his number retired by major league baseball in 1997 | C |
207 | us_history | Which two painters are considered the originators of a typically American style of painting? | Diego Rivera and Grant Wood | Andy Warhol and Thomas Nast | Marcel Duchamp and Jackson Pollock | Matthew Brady and Robert Henri | Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer | E |
208 | us_history | Which of the following journalists played a key role in the disclosure of criminal activity in the Nixon administration? | Theodore H. White | Bob Woodward | Ida Tarbell | Walter Winchell | Hunter S. Thompson | B |
209 | us_history | The Lewis and Clark expedition set out with all the following purposes EXCEPT: | finding a water route across North America to the Pacific Ocean | making accurate maps of the Louisiana Territory | establishing friendly relations with Native American tribes living in the Louisiana Territory | identifying appropriate sites for major cities to be founded and built | cataloging species of plants and animals as yet unknown in the United States | D |
210 | us_history | Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in, to keep them from leaving us. The speaker most likely made this speech during which of the following conflicts? | World War I | World War II | Cold War | Korean War | Vietnam War | C |
211 | us_history | Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, belief in a nonviolent approach to achieving civil rights for African Amer icans was influenced primarily by | Buddha | John Locke | Mohandas Gandhi | Plato | Confucius | C |
212 | us_history | The huge influx of European immigrants throughout the nineteenth century helped give rise to which of the following forms of entertainment in the United States? | Opera | Baseball | Television | Tennis | Horse racing | A |
213 | us_history | All the following are included in the "Four Free doms" President Franklin D. Roosevelt described to Congress in 1941 EXCEPT: | freedom to worship in one's own way | freedom from fear | freedom of speech and expression | freedom to overthrow a tyrannical government | freedom from want | D |
214 | us_history | Which important legal principle did Chief Justice John Marshall establish in Marbury v. Madison? | Presumption of innocence | Right to remain silent | Majority rule | Judicial review | Constitutional law | D |
215 | us_history | Which nineteenth-century author created the proto type of the strong, silent American hero of fiction and drama, who keeps his own counsel and relies only on his own judgment? | Edgar Allan Poe | James Fenimore Cooper | Herman Melville | Walt Whitman | Nathaniel Hawthorne | B |
216 | us_history | The phrase "conspicuous consumption" was first used to describe the upper classes during the | 1890s | 1920s | 1940s | 1960s | 1980s | A |
217 | us_history | In what way was the purchase of the Louisiana Territory inconsistent with Thomas Jefferson's polit ical beliefs? | He did not think it was right to take any more land from the Native Americans. | He did not think the United States should continue expanding to the west. | He believed the Constitution should be interpreted according to the letter. | He believed that the French would attack the United States after the sale of the land. | He felt it was his duty as president to take advantage of the opportunity to buy the land. | C |
218 | us_history | What was the immediate U.S. response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? | An invasion of Afghanistan | An invasion of Iraq | The disbanding of the United Nations | The introduction of a military draft | The suspension of the current session of Congress | A |
219 | us_history | Which treaty granted the United States full sovereignty over the Panama Canal Zone? | Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | Brest-Litovsk Treaty | Treaty of Versailles | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty | Treaty of Tordesillas | D |
220 | us_history | Promontory Point, Utah, is historically significant as the site of the | realization by Lewis and Clark that there was no water route to the Pacific Ocean | tests for the first atomic weapons created by the United States | meeting of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads | first permanent settlement built by the Anasazi | colony of Mormons established by Brigham Young and his followers | C |
221 | us_history | Which of the following was the primary cause of the Boston Massacre? | Passage of the Stamp Act | Passage of the Sugar Act | Boston Tea Party | Revocation of the royal charter of Massachusetts | Installation of British troops in Boston during peacetime | E |
223 | us_history | The Progressive movement of the early 1900s had all the following goals EXCEPT: | creating public parks and playground in cities | providing recent immigrants with an opportunity to learn English | supporting legislation against urban slum landlords | fighting for laws that would make the urban workplace safer | preventing racial segregation in American cities | E |
224 | us_history | Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist. The speaker of this quotation most likely is referring to which of the following? | The Lend-Lease Act | The Marshall Plan | The Schlieffen Plan | The Embargo Act | The War Powers Act | B |
225 | us_history | To check the executive's power to veto a bill passed by Congress, the legislative branch of the government can | impeach the president | filibuster the veto | petition the states | amend the Constitution | override the veto | E |
226 | us_history | Which of the following did Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" speech to Congress NOT call for? | Reduction of national armaments | Return of Alsace-Lorraine to France | Formation of an association of nations | Restoration of the Russian monarchy | Freedom of navigation in international waters | D |
227 | us_history | The survival of the fittest is simply the survival of the strong, which implies and would better be called the destruction of the weak. If nature progresses through the destruction of the weak, man progresses through the protection of the weak. The speaker of the above quotation most likely opposed | progressivism | Social Darwinism | Prohibition | labor unions | woman suffrage | B |
228 | us_history | Which of the following inventions was necessary to the success of the multistory skyscraper? | Giuseppe Marconi's radio telegraph | Thomas Edison's lightbulb | Elisha Otis's elevator | Henry Ford's Model-T automobile | Alexander Graham Bell's telephone | C |
229 | us_history | Follow the money, "Deep Throat," and "expletive deleted" are all phrases associated with the | Watergate scandal that brought about the resignation of President Nixon | impeachment of President William Clinton | XYZ Affair of the Adams administration | impeachment of President Andrew Johnson | Teapot Dome scandal of the Harding administration | A |
230 | us_history | The 1921 Four-Power Treaty stated that France, Great Britain, Japan, and the United States would | respect one another's claims to territory in the Pacific | maintain navies of equal size | provide aid if any of the other three nations were attacked by a foreign power | work together to establish free trade with China | eliminate tariffs on imports from the other three nations signing the treaty | A |
231 | us_history | All the following suggest that President Theodore Roosevelt did not support the interests of large corporations EXCEPT: | He signed laws that broke up monopolies into smaller business. | He ordered an investigation into the practices of the food-processing and food-manufacturing industry. | He allowed U.S. Steel to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company during the panic of 1907. | He signed laws that gave the government the authority to regulate the railroads. | He encouraged arbitration of labor disputes. | C |
232 | us_history | Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Mexican-American War? | U.S. support of Texas in the 1836 Texas Revolution | Nonpayment of the debt owed by Mexico to the United States | Border disputes between Mexico and Texas | U.S. desire for California | The Mexican siege of the Alamo | E |
233 | us_history | Which advantage did the Union NOT have over the Confederacy at the beginning of the Civil War? | Control over the majority of the nation's industry and material resources | Location of major national railroads in Union states | Loyalty and support of the U.S. Navy | A larger population and thus a larger pool of available soldiers | Superior, more experienced military leaders | E |
234 | us_history | The late nineteenth-century revolution in industry and technology affected the nature of work in U.S. society in all the following ways EXCEPT: | Workers migrated to cities to find jobs, shifting the population. | The growth of industry meant increasing num bers of women left the workforce and returned to domestic work. | The long-distance communications industry was created. | There was an increasing division between work life and home life. | More jobs became available in the railroad industry. | B |
235 | us_history | The United States declared war on Germany directly after | sinking of the Lusitania by German U-boats | signing of the Sussex Pledge by Germany | passage of the National Defense Act of 1916 | establishment of the International Red Cross Organization | publication of the Zimmerman Telegram in U.S. newspapers | E |
236 | us_history | Northerners who opposed the Civil War showed their opposition by | joining the Confederate Army | leaving the country for Canada and Great Britain | flying the Confederate flag | protesting the draft and starting antiwar riots with speeches and articles | trying to nullify the election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency | D |
237 | us_history | Patrick Henry showed his support for the cause of independence primarily by | writing pamphlets | making speeches against the British Crown | writing the Declaration of Independence | printing seditious newspaper articles in defiance of the colonial authorities | organizing the Boston Tea Party | B |
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