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238	us_history	By the early 1930s, the U.S. film industry had made which of the following major changes?	From silent films to talking pictures	From black-and-white to color film	From a studio system to an independent film industry	From filming primarily in Hollywood to filming on location all over the country	From Cinemascope to Kinescope	A
239	us_history	[There is] a contest between the producing classes and the money power of the country. . . . Working men are entitled to a just proportion of the proceeds of their labor. Which of these men made this state ment in 1894?	Banker J. P. Morgan	Auto manufacturer Henry Ford	Railroad owner George Pullman	Labor leader Eugene V. Debs	President Grover Cleveland	D
240	us_history	The economy of the antebellum South was primarily dependent on	shipping and trade	manufacturing and skilled labor	government employment	land and slaves	foreign investment	D
241	us_history	The Anasazi are the ancestors of which Native American nation?	Iroquois	Pueblo	Cherokee	Seminole	Choctaw	B
242	us_history	The United States adopted neutrality laws in the 1930s as a response to the rise of which form of government in Europe?	Anarchy	Autocracy	Communism	Monarchy	Fascism	E
243	us_history	This atrocious decision furnishes final confirmation of the already well-known fact that, under the Constitution and government of the United States, the colored people are nothing and can be nothing but an alien, disenfranchised, and degraded class. The speaker of the above quotation probably was reacting to which of the following Supreme Court decisions?	Dred Scott v. Sanford	Powell v. Alabama	Korematsu v. United States	Sweatt v. Painter	Gideon v. Wainwright	A
244	us_history	Which one of the following men did NOT succeed to the presidency when the president under whom he served was assassinated?	Theodore Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Lyndon B. Johnson	Andrew Johnson	Chester A. Arthur	B
245	us_history	Which of the following American regional novelists is known for his or her stories of the Great Plains states?	Willa Cather	Mark Twain	Bret Harte	Jack London	Edith Wharton	A
246	us_history	Brigham Young is significant in U.S. history because he	led a migration of Mormons to settle in the territory of Utah in the late 1840s	denounced the U.S. treaty with Mexico after the Alamo	led settlers to California in the 1830s	denounced the Mormon practice of polygamy	led an attack on the Ute nation in aid of non-Mormon settlers in 1857	A
247	us_history	Which of the following was a 1912 Olympic competi tor called at the time "the greatest athlete in the world"?	Jim Brown	Jesse Owens	Bob Mathias	Jim Thorpe	Rafer Johnson	D
248	us_history	The emphasis of the Great Awakening of the mid-1700s was on individual salvation by	separation of church and state	predestination	faith in the absolute power of God	the nonexistence of heaven or hell	the divinity of the English monarch	C
249	us_history	All the following have been traditional targets of Ku Klux Klan violence EXCEPT:	African Americans	Catholics	Jews	immigrants	Lutherans	E
250	us_history	Which new technology had the most profound effect on U.S. society in the 1980s?	The fuel-injection engine	The SST	The Challenger space shuttle	The DVD player	The personal computer	E
251	us_history	Which quote below is from Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address?	We have called by different names, brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.	Let me assert my firm belief that we have nothing to fear but fear itself	Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.	Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.	It is time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden.	A
253	us_history	See to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more was Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 campaign promise to	map out square lots of free land in the Okla homa Territory	limit trusts, promote public health, and improve working conditions	balance the federal budget	grant oil companies the right to buy smaller companies	institute a flat-rate income tax	B
254	us_history	The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Educationmade it illegal to	have an abortion	teach evolution in public schools	segregate public schools by race	pray in a public school	recite the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school	C
255	us_history	The usual reaction of the stock market to a political crisis is	for the Stock Exchange to close for a week	a rise in stock prices and an increase in buying	the stoppage of payment on government bonds	a fall in stock prices and an increase in selling	an increase in foreign investment	D
256	us_history	Beware, commies, spies, traitors, and foreign agents! Captain America, all loyal free men behind him, is looking for you. This quotation refers to a	vaudeville star	presidential radio announcement	newspaper column	radio drama	comic book superhero	E
257	us_history	The success of which of these nineteenth-century inventions was a direct result of the growth of the railroads?	Telephone	Automobile	Threshing machine	Telegraph	Colt revolver	D
258	us_history	A two-thirds majority in each house of Congress and a national convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures are the two ways of initially	proposing an amendment to the Constitution	recalling the president	ratifying an amendment to the Constitution	repealing an amendment to the Constitution	declaring war on a foreign power	A
259	us_history	During the Age of Exploration, Christopher Columbus and other explorers planned their voyages by studying the charts of geographers and	mathematicians	astronomers	military generals	astrologers	alchemists	B
260	us_history	The temperance movement began in the 1820s as an attempt to	bring about more lenient sentences for criminals	lessen the restrictions on immigration from Ireland	persuade Congress to be tolerant of Native American religious practices	bring reform to insane asylums and prisons	persuade people to limit their consumption of alcohol	E
261	us_history	Which of the following was NOT created or passed under the New Deal?	Works Progress Administration	Social Security Act	Civil Rights Act	Securities and Exchange Commission	Civilian Conservation Corps	C
262	us_history	In which state did no Civil War battles take place?	New York	Pennsylvania	Maryland	Virginia	South Carolina	A
263	us_history	All the following statements about the mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s are true EXCEPT:	They were strictly supervised at all times.	They worked more than 70 hours in a normal week.	Most of them came from wealthy families.	They wrote and published their own magazine.	Nearly all of them were female.	C
264	us_history	All the following foreign travelers to the United States wrote famous books on their observations of American society EXCEPT:	Alexis de Tocqueville	Frances Trollope	Fanny Kemble	Charles Dickens	Oscar Wilde	E
265	us_history	During the Kennedy administration, the United States was involved in armed hostilities with all the following countries EXCEPT:	the Congo	Laos	Vietnam	Cuba	North Korea	E
266	us_history	The cry "Remember the Maine!" is associated with the	Mexican War	Civil War	Spanish-American War	First World War	Cuban Missile Crisis	C
267	us_history	How did the colonists react to the passage of the Tea Act of 1773?	They tarred and feathered the stamp inspectors.	They drank only tea that had been smuggled in from Holland.	They called for the revocation of the royal charter of Massachusetts.	They began cultivating coffee since they could no longer drink tea.	They called for delegates from all the colonies to meet in Philadelphia.	B
268	us_history	Why did the Pony Express last for only 18 months?	Too many of the riders and horses died from exhaustion and abuse.	The mail the riders carried was too valuable to be put at constant risk of attack from robbers.	The completion of the transcontinental tele graph system made the Pony Express obsolete.	The mail service became too expensive for the owners to continue with it.	The Civil War put an end to all mail service in the United States.	C
269	us_history	What was the purpose of the colonial committees of correspondence?	To keep the public informed of British violations of colonial rights	To maintain a mail-delivery service among the 13 colonies	To write letters to Parliament protesting the unpopular measures it passed	To circulate anonymous letters accusing specific British officials of crimes	To convene a national convention of delegates to discuss colonial independence from Britain	A
270	us_history	The impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 was	a reduction of the tariff on imports from Germany that caused public outrage	a lower duty on Canadian goods that caused hard times in the Great Lakes states	high tariffs that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930s	an export tax on tobacco	higher salaries for senators	C
271	us_history	The Star-Spangled Banner was composed during the War of 1812 and celebrates the survival of	Fort Ticonderoga in New York	Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania	Fort McHenry in Maryland	Fort Sumter in South Carolina	Fort Vincennes in Ohio	C
272	us_history	The term "dogfights" refers to what kind of fighting in what war?	Hand-to-hand combat in Korea	Naval skirmishes in the War of 1812	Canine corps actions by Germany and the United States in World War II	Jungle battles in the Spanish-American War	Aerial combat in World War I	E
273	us_history	Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1952 on his promises to	boost the economy, reform government, and end the Korean War	bring peace to Europe and end the Great Depression	establish a United Nations and abolish the income tax	stop the growth of labor unions and attack communist Cuba	implement the Great Society and sign an alliance with the Soviet Union	A
274	us_history	President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy in 1977 primarily in response to the	depletion of U.S. coal resources	growth of kerosene as a heat source	surplus of electrical power	popularity of nuclear power plants	skyrocketing price of foreign oil	E
275	us_history	All the following were activists for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment EXCEPT:	Harriet Stanton Blatch	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Susan B. Anthony	Carrie Chapman Catt	Alice Paul	B
276	us_history	The American colonists dubbed all the following meas ures of Parliament the "Intolerable Acts" EXCEPT:	the Administration of Justice Act	the Boston Port Act	the Massachusetts Government Act	the Quartering Act	the Stamp Act	E
277	us_history	All the following are Mesoamerican cultures EXCEPT:	the Aztec	the Olmec	the Maya	the Toltec	the Sioux	E
278	us_history	The Monroe Doctrine states that the United States will	not allow any European power to colonize U.S. territory	view any attempt to colonize Latin America as hostile toward the United States	encourage Latin American colonies to rebel against their European mother countries	actively support Latin American revolutions and wars for independence	support European powers that want to colonize Latin America	B
279	us_history	What caused the United States to agree to sign the Atlantic Charter with Great Britain in 1940?	Germany's conquest of Belgium and France	Germany's invasion of Austria	Hitler's rise to power in Germany	Mussolini's rise to power in Italy	Switzerland's declaration of neutrality	A
280	us_history	Which source would give a historian the most accurate information about race relations in the Mississippi Valley in the years after the Civil War?	A copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain	The song lyrics of Stephen Foster	The diary of the governor of Arkansas during that period	Tax rolls of the region	Records of local and state laws of the region	E
281	us_history	Which of the following was an important cultural symbol of the 1920s?	Bathtub gin	Bread lines	Rosie the Riveter	Bomb shelters	Poodle skirts	A
284	us_history	What does the rise in U.S. manufacturing during the War of 1812 suggest about that war's effect on the U.S. economy?	The economy prospered as people in the United States became less dependent on imports.	The economy plummeted as trade levels fell to record lows.	The economy began shifting from agriculture to manufacturing.	The economy became dependent on the health of the national bank and the stock market.	The economy suffered from a rise in imports and a lack of markets for exports.	A
285	us_history	Which colony wrote the 1776 resolution stating that "these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states"?	Massachusetts	Pennsylvania	Rhode Island	New York	Virginia	E
286	us_history	The Proclamation of 1763 required which of the following?	That fur traders obtain permission before settling in the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains	That no Native Americans be permitted to settle along the colonial frontier	That Britain give up control of all the land between the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi River	That France give up Haiti to Britain	That Spain give up its North American colonies to Britain	A
287	us_history	Why did the Iroquois decide to throw their support behind Britain near the end of the French and Indian War?	The British had treated the Iroquois better than the French had treated them.	The Iroquois felt some personal loyalty to the British.	The Iroquois accurately predicted that the British would win the war, and they did not want to side with the losers.	The Iroquois had planned all along to betray the French at a strategic moment.	The Iroquois were determined to drive the French out of Canada.	C
288	us_history	Which region of the country did NOT vote heavily for Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860?	Southeast	Great Lakes	Northeast	Pacific Coast	Mid-Atlantic	A
289	us_history	At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, all the following countries claimed territory in North America EXCEPT:	France	Great Britain	Holland	Spain	United States	C
290	us_history	The civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., advo cated and practiced nonviolent protests in the manner of	David Duke	Mahatma Gandhi	Golda Meir	Toussaint L'Ouverture	David Ben-Gurion	B
291	us_history	American colonists opposed the Tea Act for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	the high price of tea from the East India Com pany compared to other tea available in America	the tax added to the price of the East India tea	the advantage the Tea Act gave to British merchants over colonial ones	the fact that they had never voted on the Tea Act	the belief that if they accepted the East India tea, Parliament would begin taxing other products	A
293	us_history	The Missouri Compromise proposed that	the United States remain evenly balanced between slaveholding states and free states	slavery would be allowed only in territories and states south of the northern border of Missouri	the slave trade would end permanently, but slaveholding states would not have to change their status	all slaves would be emancipated, but would continue working on plantations for wages	plantation owners could keep their slaves but would sign legal agreements to treat them humanely	A
294	us_history	. . . if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened,the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was referring to the	outbreak of the Civil War	bombing of Pearl Harbor	break-in at the Democratic national headquar ters in the Watergate buildings	assassination of President John F. Kennedy	fixing of the 1919 World Series	E
295	us_history	The Northwest Territory included which present-day states?	Oregon and Washington	Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico	Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio	Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota	Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont	C
296	us_history	The Federalist Papers were written to persuade people to support the ratification of the	Constitution	Declaration of Independence	Bill of Rights	Treaty of Paris	Northwest Ordinance	A
297	us_history	I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still work ing and shaping the policy of the State Department. This statement began a brief period in U.S. history that became known for	reform	Reconstruction	McCarthyism	Watergate	Reaganomics	C
298	us_history	Which major legal precedent was established in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison?	An accused person would be presumed innocent until proved guilty.	The United Sates would fight in the defense of any Latin American nation being attacked or invaded by an outside power.	A president would not be allowed to declare war on a foreign nation without the consent of Congress.	The Supreme Court would have the right to decide whether a law was constitutional and to strike it down if it was not.	Any person accused of a crime would have the right to refuse to testify in court.	D
299	us_history	Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul are all famous for leading the fight for	temperance	Prohibition	woman suffrage	civil rights	education reform	C
300	us_history	The "Hollywood Ten" were	scriptwriters who were blacklisted in Holly wood for refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee	California beatniks who refused to obey laws against selling and smoking marijuana	actors and actresses who appeared in propaganda films during World War II	movie-studio owners who conspired to run their industry on a system of indentured servitude of the performers	movie-studio technicians who led a famous labor strike that resulted in better wages and working hours across the film industry	A
301	us_history	Because they investigated the seamy underside of U.S. business and society, some journalists of the first decade of the twentieth century were known as	muckrakers	mugwumps	communists	socialists	carpetbaggers	A
302	us_history	Which U.S. president ordered two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945?	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Harry S. Truman	Dwight D. Eisenhower	John F. Kennedy	Lyndon B. Johnson	B
303	us_history	What did President Richard Nixon do to bring about the Saturday Night Massacre?	Ordered a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate buildings	Ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor who was investigating the administration	Demanded that Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee fire reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward	Refused to surrender taped Oval Office conversations to the Senate committee holding hearings on Watergate	Appointed Gerald R. Ford vice president of the United States	B
304	us_history	The stock market crash of October 29, 1929, had all the following effects EXCEPT:	Shareholders were forced to sell their stocks at huge losses.	Businesses failed when banks called in loans they could not repay immediately.	Brokers demanded immediate payment of money owed to them for stocks purchased on margin.	Borrowers began defaulting on their loan payments to banks, triggering widespread bank failures.	More and more people began buying on credit because there was a shortage of cash.	E
305	us_history	When President Andrew Jackson stated that he wanted to expel all Native Americans from the United States because he was concerned for their safety, all the following facts suggest that he was not sincere EXCEPT:	The Southeastern tribes owned some of the best cotton-growing land in the region.	As a general, Jackson had led an illegal war against the Seminole tribes in Florida and profited financially and politically from the resulting peace treaty.	Jackson had a long reputation as an Indian fighter dating back to his defeat of the Creek in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.	In 1814 General Jackson had forced Creek tribes to sell lands to him and his friends for much less than it was worth.	The Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast had developed societies similar to the European ones that had invaded and conquered their lands.	E
306	us_history	All the following factors combined to cause the high death rate in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire EXCEPT:	The business occupied the upper three floors of the building, well above ground level.	The fire doors were locked from the outside.	The only fire escape gave way beneath the weight of the escaping workers.	The only owners did not enact any of the safety regulations the workers' union had requested repeatedly.	A large strike by women's shirtwaist makers in 1909 began at the Triangle Company.	E
307	us_history	Which president's domestic and foreign policy pro grams were collectively known as the New Frontier?	John F. Kennedy	Lyndon Johnson	Gerald R. Ford	Jimmy Carter	Bill Clinton	A
308	us_history	All the following were important figures in the civil rights movement of the 1960s EXCEPT:	Jesse Jackson	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Fannie Lou Hamer	Medgar Evers	Jim Crow	E
309	us_history	In which present-day state did the Union Pacific meet the Central Pacific to complete the first trans continental railroad?	Kansas	Nebraska	Missouri	Colorado	Utah	E
310	us_history	Industrialization developed slowly in the South for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	Most Southerners preferred to invest in land and slaves, not factories.	There was no way to transport cotton upstream to the Northern textile mills.	Planters did not want to pay taxes that might have promoted manufacturing.	Immigrants who might have staffed factories did not travel to the South because the region relied on slave labor.	The majority of the Southern population had little or no money to spend on manufactured goods.	B
311	us_history	Which of the following was NOT a factor in ending the cattle boom of the late 1800s?	The supply of cattle became too great for the demand, bringing prices down.	The use of barbed wire to fence off land led to range wars among ranchers.	Severe weather conditions in the period 1885-1887 killed hundreds of cattle.	The U.S. government set aside some of the best grazing land for displaced Native American tribes.	Once the open range was fenced off, ranchers had to buy land, and that ate up their profits.	D
312	us_history	All the following facts support the thesis that the Puritan society in New England was a theocracy EXCEPT:	Only men were allowed to be ministers.	Only church members were eligible for political office.	Only church members could vote on political issues.	Religious dissenters were banished from the colony.	Moral offenses were considered civil crimes and punished as such.	A
313	us_history	Upwards of 100 gallons of spirits were poured not down people's throats but on the sand and I believe there is now none in the place. This statement most likely describes the actions of a	political boss	temperance advocate	yellow journalist	suffragist	war protester	B
314	us_history	The "gag rule" of 1837 prevented which issue from being discussed or debated in the House of Representatives?	Abolition	Secession	Reform	Censorship	Taxation	A
315	us_history	All the following facts about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 inspired many Northerners to take an active role in the fight against slavery EXCEPT	Slaves would carry their slave status with them even when escaping to a free state.	Thousands of African Americans crossed the border into Canada to avoid being pursued by slave owners.	Northerners resented being forced to obey the Dred Scott decision without getting something in return.	Court commissioners would receive more money when they decided a dispute in the slave owner's favor.	No African American accused of being an escaped slave was permitted to testify in his or her own defense.	C
316	us_history	The Five Civilized Tribes forcibly ejected from the Southeast under the Indian Removal Act included all the following EXCEPT:	Choctaw	Creek	Seminole	Cherokee	Osage	E
317	us_history	Malcolm X championed African-American sepa ratism and the use of violence in self-defense in a movement known as	pan-Africanism	black nationalism	civil rights	black pantheism	back to Africa	B
318	us_history	What was the main purpose of the naval blockade of the South during the Civil War?	To capture the capital city of the Confederacy	To force Jefferson Davis to emancipate all Southern slaves	To prevent shiploads of imported goods and supplies from reaching the people of the South	To prevent the Confederate Army from using the Mississippi River to travel north	To take control of the railroad system	C
319	us_history	The Haymarket Riot of 1886 had all the following effects EXCEPT:	Eight anarchists were arrested for conspiracy, and four of them were hanged.	Activism among workers decreased.	Employers blacklisted people with reputations for organizing their fellow workers.	Skilled and unskilled workers broke apart into two groups.	Union membership immediately skyrocketed in protest.	E
320	us_history	All the following are classic novels of U.S. partici pation in war EXCEPT:	One of Ours by Willa Cather	The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane	Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut	A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway	Hiroshimaby John Hersey	E
321	us_history	After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods . . . till I was forced to return wet, cold, and starving, with every man's hand against me, I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.... This diary entry most likely was written by which of the following?	John Wilkes Booth	Nathan Hale	Benedict Arnold	Robert E. Lee	Frederick Douglass	A
322	us_history	President John F. Kennedy did all the following to oppose the spread of communism in the world EXCEPT:	establish the Peace Corps	establish the Alliance for Progress	continue the buildup of nuclear arms begun under Eisenhower	work with the cabinet on a plan to invade the Soviet Union	create the Green Berets	D
323	us_history	Which advantage did the Confederacy have over the Union at the beginning of the Civil War?	Control over the majority of U.S. industry and material resources	A larger population and thus larger pool of available soldiers	The location of major national railroads in Confederate states	Assurance of support, supplies, and troops from France and Great Britain	Superior, more experienced military leaders	E
324	us_history	The Freedmen's Bureau accomplished all the following EXCEPT:	Founded African-American schools through out the South	Supervised polling places so that African Americans were ensured of the right to vote	Helped establish African-American colleges	Settled contract disputes between planters and African-American wage laborers	Provided food, clothing, and medical care to Southerners made destitute by the Civil War	B
325	us_history	All the following happened as a direct result of the Boston Massacre EXCEPT:	Samuel Adams demanded that all British troops immediately leave Boston.	John Adams agreed to defend the British soldiers arrested after the riot.	Paul Revere distributed an engraving of the riot that was circulated throughout the colonies.	Thomas Hutchinson disbanded the Massachusetts legislature.	John Hancock commissioned a portrait of Samuel Adams that was used for propaganda purposes.	D
326	us_history	It had been, to say the least, an interesting and chal lenging situation. The two most powerful nations of the world had squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. The speaker of the above quotation probably is referring to which of the following?	The Battle of Gettysburg	The Gulf of Tonkin affair	The Cuban missile crisis	The Congress of Versailles	The fall of Saigon	C
327	us_history	A historian researching the immediate effects of the Intolerable Acts on the American colonies probably would find the most accurate information in a diary written by which of the following?	Patrick Henry	Benjamin Franklin	Abigail Adams	John Paul Jones	John Dickinson	C
328	us_history	Which of the following major U.S. enterprises enjoyed an exemption from antitrust legislation?	Standard Oil of Ohio	Bethlehem Steel	Microsoft	Major league baseball	Pennsylvania Railroad	D
329	us_history	Which of the following led Congress to reduce immigration quotas in 1921 and again in 1924?	Racism	Nationalism	Nativism	Communism	Fascism	D
330	us_history	This man, although he many not actually have com mitted the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is an enemy of our existing institutions. Which of the following was sent to his death by the judge who spoke these words at his trial?	Julius Rosenberg	Bartolomeo Vanzetti	Charles Guiteau	Edward Slovik	Lee Harvey Oswald	B
331	us_history	Which is the correct chronological sequence of these three Revolutionary War battles?	Brandywine, Brooklyn, Trenton	Brooklyn, Trenton, Brandywine	Trenton, Brandywine, Brooklyn	Brandywine, Trenton, Brooklyn	Brooklyn, Brandywine, Trenton	B
333	us_history	All the following reforms were enacted during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson EXCEPT:	the Clayton Antitrust Act	the Federal Reserve Act	the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote	the Twentieth Amendment shortening the "lame duck" period	the Keating-Owens Child Labor Act	D
334	us_history	By what name were the Intolerable Acts of 1774 known in Great Britain?	Townshend Acts	Stamp Acts	Coercive Acts	Boston Port Acts	Retaliatory Acts	C
335	us_history	All the following were aspects of the Union's military strategy to win the Civil War EXCEPT:	preventing the Confederacy from using the Mississippi River to travel north or receive supplies in trade	capturing the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia	blockading Southern ports to prevent exporta tion and importation of goods	controlling the railroad system	establishing a military alliance with Great Britain and France	E
336	us_history	Which would be the best source material for a histo rian who wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams?	Adams's personal papers, such as diaries and correspondence	Acts of Congress passed during Adams's years in the White House and Senate	Newspaper articles written about Adams during his lifetime	Other historians' biographies of Adams	The script of a television miniseries about several generations of the Adams family	A
337	us_history	Millions of people whose parents or grandparents had never dreamed of going to college saw that they could go.... Essentially I think it made us a far more democratic people. To which of the following does the above quotation refer?	The GI Bill of Rights	The desegregation of the public schools	The Fair Employment Practices Committee	The National Defense Education Act	The Internal Security Act	A
338	us_history	Why did neither John Adams nor Thomas Jefferson take part in the Constitutional Convention of 1787?	Neither was willing to approve of a design for government that had no bill of rights.	Both had died by the time the Convention was called.	Both were representing the United States on diplomatic missions in Europe.	Both stayed away to protest the excision from the Declaration of Independence of the passage criticizing slavery as a "cruel war against human nature."	Neither was nominated to attend the Convention by the people of his state.	C
339	us_history	Who was the first African-American to publish a book?	Phillis Wheatley	Olaudah Equiano	Frederick Douglass	Crispus Attucks	Venture Smith	A
340	us_history	Which of the following wrote a multivolume auto biography describing the pioneer experience in the Midwest in the 1870s and 1880s?	Maya Angelou	Laura Ingalls Wilder	Willa Cather	Joseph Conrad	Stephen Crane	B
342	us_history	The 1870s and 1880s saw a flood of European immi gration to the American West for all the following reasons EXCEPT:	work for wages building the railroads	escape from enforced military service at home	the chance to own land given away by the government	the search for economic opportunity	the ease of getting rich quickly without effort	E
343	us_history	During the Revolutionary War the U.S. Army had help from allies from all the following nations EXCEPT:	France	Poland	Germany	Spain	Italy	E

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By the early 1930s, the U.S. film industry had made which of the following major changes?

From silent films to talking pictures

From black-and-white to color film

From a studio system to an independent film industry

From filming primarily in Hollywood to filming on location all over the country

From Cinemascope to Kinescope

A

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[There is] a contest between the producing classes and the money power of the country. . . . Working men are entitled to a just proportion of the proceeds of their labor. Which of these men made this state ment in 1894?

Banker J. P. Morgan

Auto manufacturer Henry Ford

Railroad owner George Pullman

Labor leader Eugene V. Debs

President Grover Cleveland

D

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The economy of the antebellum South was primarily dependent on

shipping and trade

manufacturing and skilled labor

government employment

land and slaves

foreign investment

D

241

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The Anasazi are the ancestors of which Native American nation?

Iroquois

Pueblo

Cherokee

Seminole

Choctaw

B

242

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The United States adopted neutrality laws in the 1930s as a response to the rise of which form of government in Europe?

Anarchy

Autocracy

Communism

Monarchy

Fascism

E

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This atrocious decision furnishes final confirmation of the already well-known fact that, under the Constitution and government of the United States, the colored people are nothing and can be nothing but an alien, disenfranchised, and degraded class. The speaker of the above quotation probably was reacting to which of the following Supreme Court decisions?

Dred Scott v. Sanford

Powell v. Alabama

Korematsu v. United States

Sweatt v. Painter

Gideon v. Wainwright

A

244

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Which one of the following men did NOT succeed to the presidency when the president under whom he served was assassinated?

Theodore Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Lyndon B. Johnson

Andrew Johnson

Chester A. Arthur

B

245

us_history

Which of the following American regional novelists is known for his or her stories of the Great Plains states?

Willa Cather

Mark Twain

Bret Harte

Jack London

Edith Wharton

A

246

us_history

Brigham Young is significant in U.S. history because he

led a migration of Mormons to settle in the territory of Utah in the late 1840s

denounced the U.S. treaty with Mexico after the Alamo

led settlers to California in the 1830s

denounced the Mormon practice of polygamy

led an attack on the Ute nation in aid of non-Mormon settlers in 1857

A

247

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Which of the following was a 1912 Olympic competi tor called at the time "the greatest athlete in the world"?

Jim Brown

Jesse Owens

Bob Mathias

Jim Thorpe

Rafer Johnson

D

248

us_history

The emphasis of the Great Awakening of the mid-1700s was on individual salvation by

separation of church and state

predestination

faith in the absolute power of God

the nonexistence of heaven or hell

the divinity of the English monarch

C

249

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All the following have been traditional targets of Ku Klux Klan violence EXCEPT:

African Americans

Catholics

Jews

immigrants

Lutherans

E

250

us_history

Which new technology had the most profound effect on U.S. society in the 1980s?

The fuel-injection engine

The SST

The Challenger space shuttle

The DVD player

The personal computer

E

251

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Which quote below is from Thomas Jefferson's first inaugural address?

We have called by different names, brethren of the same principle. We are all Republicans, we are all Federalists.

Let me assert my firm belief that we have nothing to fear but fear itself

Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure.

It is time to reawaken this industrial giant, to get government back within its means, and to lighten our punitive tax burden.

A

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See to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more was Theodore Roosevelt's 1904 campaign promise to

map out square lots of free land in the Okla homa Territory

limit trusts, promote public health, and improve working conditions

balance the federal budget

grant oil companies the right to buy smaller companies

institute a flat-rate income tax

B

254

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The Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Educationmade it illegal to

have an abortion

teach evolution in public schools

segregate public schools by race

pray in a public school

recite the Pledge of Allegiance in a public school

C

255

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The usual reaction of the stock market to a political crisis is

for the Stock Exchange to close for a week

a rise in stock prices and an increase in buying

the stoppage of payment on government bonds

a fall in stock prices and an increase in selling

an increase in foreign investment

D

256

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Beware, commies, spies, traitors, and foreign agents! Captain America, all loyal free men behind him, is looking for you. This quotation refers to a

vaudeville star

presidential radio announcement

newspaper column

radio drama

comic book superhero

E

257

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The success of which of these nineteenth-century inventions was a direct result of the growth of the railroads?

Telephone

Automobile

Threshing machine

Telegraph

Colt revolver

D

258

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A two-thirds majority in each house of Congress and a national convention called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures are the two ways of initially

proposing an amendment to the Constitution

recalling the president

ratifying an amendment to the Constitution

repealing an amendment to the Constitution

declaring war on a foreign power

A

259

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During the Age of Exploration, Christopher Columbus and other explorers planned their voyages by studying the charts of geographers and

mathematicians

astronomers

military generals

astrologers

alchemists

B

260

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The temperance movement began in the 1820s as an attempt to

bring about more lenient sentences for criminals

lessen the restrictions on immigration from Ireland

persuade Congress to be tolerant of Native American religious practices

bring reform to insane asylums and prisons

persuade people to limit their consumption of alcohol

E

261

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Which of the following was NOT created or passed under the New Deal?

Works Progress Administration

Social Security Act

Civil Rights Act

Securities and Exchange Commission

Civilian Conservation Corps

C

262

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In which state did no Civil War battles take place?

New York

Pennsylvania

Maryland

Virginia

South Carolina

A

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All the following statements about the mill workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s are true EXCEPT:

They were strictly supervised at all times.

They worked more than 70 hours in a normal week.

Most of them came from wealthy families.

They wrote and published their own magazine.

Nearly all of them were female.

C

264

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All the following foreign travelers to the United States wrote famous books on their observations of American society EXCEPT:

Alexis de Tocqueville

Frances Trollope

Fanny Kemble

Charles Dickens

Oscar Wilde

E

265

us_history

During the Kennedy administration, the United States was involved in armed hostilities with all the following countries EXCEPT:

the Congo

Laos

Vietnam

Cuba

North Korea

E

266

us_history

The cry "Remember the Maine!" is associated with the

Mexican War

Civil War

Spanish-American War

First World War

Cuban Missile Crisis

C

267

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How did the colonists react to the passage of the Tea Act of 1773?

They tarred and feathered the stamp inspectors.

They drank only tea that had been smuggled in from Holland.

They called for the revocation of the royal charter of Massachusetts.

They began cultivating coffee since they could no longer drink tea.

They called for delegates from all the colonies to meet in Philadelphia.

B

268

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Why did the Pony Express last for only 18 months?

Too many of the riders and horses died from exhaustion and abuse.

The mail the riders carried was too valuable to be put at constant risk of attack from robbers.

The completion of the transcontinental tele graph system made the Pony Express obsolete.

The mail service became too expensive for the owners to continue with it.

The Civil War put an end to all mail service in the United States.

C

269

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What was the purpose of the colonial committees of correspondence?

To keep the public informed of British violations of colonial rights

To maintain a mail-delivery service among the 13 colonies

To write letters to Parliament protesting the unpopular measures it passed

To circulate anonymous letters accusing specific British officials of crimes

To convene a national convention of delegates to discuss colonial independence from Britain

A

270

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The impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 was

a reduction of the tariff on imports from Germany that caused public outrage

a lower duty on Canadian goods that caused hard times in the Great Lakes states

high tariffs that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930s

an export tax on tobacco

higher salaries for senators

C

271

us_history

The Star-Spangled Banner was composed during the War of 1812 and celebrates the survival of

Fort Ticonderoga in New York

Fort Duquesne in western Pennsylvania

Fort McHenry in Maryland

Fort Sumter in South Carolina

Fort Vincennes in Ohio

C

272

us_history

The term "dogfights" refers to what kind of fighting in what war?

Hand-to-hand combat in Korea

Naval skirmishes in the War of 1812

Canine corps actions by Germany and the United States in World War II

Jungle battles in the Spanish-American War

Aerial combat in World War I

E

273

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Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1952 on his promises to

boost the economy, reform government, and end the Korean War

bring peace to Europe and end the Great Depression

establish a United Nations and abolish the income tax

stop the growth of labor unions and attack communist Cuba

implement the Great Society and sign an alliance with the Soviet Union

A

274

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President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Energy in 1977 primarily in response to the

depletion of U.S. coal resources

growth of kerosene as a heat source

surplus of electrical power

popularity of nuclear power plants

skyrocketing price of foreign oil

E

275

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All the following were activists for the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment EXCEPT:

Harriet Stanton Blatch

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Susan B. Anthony

Carrie Chapman Catt

Alice Paul

B

276

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The American colonists dubbed all the following meas ures of Parliament the "Intolerable Acts" EXCEPT:

the Administration of Justice Act

the Boston Port Act

the Massachusetts Government Act

the Quartering Act

the Stamp Act

E

277

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All the following are Mesoamerican cultures EXCEPT:

the Aztec

the Olmec

the Maya

the Toltec

the Sioux

E

278

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The Monroe Doctrine states that the United States will

not allow any European power to colonize U.S. territory

view any attempt to colonize Latin America as hostile toward the United States

encourage Latin American colonies to rebel against their European mother countries

actively support Latin American revolutions and wars for independence

support European powers that want to colonize Latin America

B

279

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What caused the United States to agree to sign the Atlantic Charter with Great Britain in 1940?

Germany's conquest of Belgium and France

Germany's invasion of Austria

Hitler's rise to power in Germany

Mussolini's rise to power in Italy

Switzerland's declaration of neutrality

A

280

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Which source would give a historian the most accurate information about race relations in the Mississippi Valley in the years after the Civil War?

A copy of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The song lyrics of Stephen Foster

The diary of the governor of Arkansas during that period

Tax rolls of the region

Records of local and state laws of the region

E

281

us_history

Which of the following was an important cultural symbol of the 1920s?

Bathtub gin

Bread lines

Rosie the Riveter

Bomb shelters

Poodle skirts

A

284

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What does the rise in U.S. manufacturing during the War of 1812 suggest about that war's effect on the U.S. economy?

The economy prospered as people in the United States became less dependent on imports.

The economy plummeted as trade levels fell to record lows.

The economy began shifting from agriculture to manufacturing.

The economy became dependent on the health of the national bank and the stock market.

The economy suffered from a rise in imports and a lack of markets for exports.

A

285

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Which colony wrote the 1776 resolution stating that "these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states"?

Massachusetts

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

New York

Virginia

E

286

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The Proclamation of 1763 required which of the following?

That fur traders obtain permission before settling in the territory west of the Appalachian Mountains

That no Native Americans be permitted to settle along the colonial frontier

That Britain give up control of all the land between the Atlantic coast and the Mississippi River

That France give up Haiti to Britain

That Spain give up its North American colonies to Britain

A

287

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Why did the Iroquois decide to throw their support behind Britain near the end of the French and Indian War?

The British had treated the Iroquois better than the French had treated them.

The Iroquois felt some personal loyalty to the British.

The Iroquois accurately predicted that the British would win the war, and they did not want to side with the losers.

The Iroquois had planned all along to betray the French at a strategic moment.

The Iroquois were determined to drive the French out of Canada.

C

288

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Which region of the country did NOT vote heavily for Abraham Lincoln in the election of 1860?

Southeast

Great Lakes

Northeast

Pacific Coast

Mid-Atlantic

A

289

us_history

At the time of the Louisiana Purchase, all the following countries claimed territory in North America EXCEPT:

France

Great Britain

Holland

Spain

United States

C

290

us_history

The civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., advo cated and practiced nonviolent protests in the manner of

David Duke

Mahatma Gandhi

Golda Meir

Toussaint L'Ouverture

David Ben-Gurion

B

291

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American colonists opposed the Tea Act for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

the high price of tea from the East India Com pany compared to other tea available in America

the tax added to the price of the East India tea

the advantage the Tea Act gave to British merchants over colonial ones

the fact that they had never voted on the Tea Act

the belief that if they accepted the East India tea, Parliament would begin taxing other products

A

293

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The Missouri Compromise proposed that

the United States remain evenly balanced between slaveholding states and free states

slavery would be allowed only in territories and states south of the northern border of Missouri

the slave trade would end permanently, but slaveholding states would not have to change their status

all slaves would be emancipated, but would continue working on plantations for wages

plantation owners could keep their slaves but would sign legal agreements to treat them humanely

A

294

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. . . if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely happened,the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people-with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe. Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was referring to the

outbreak of the Civil War

bombing of Pearl Harbor

break-in at the Democratic national headquar ters in the Watergate buildings

assassination of President John F. Kennedy

fixing of the 1919 World Series

E

295

us_history

The Northwest Territory included which present-day states?

Oregon and Washington

Colorado, Wyoming, Arizona, and New Mexico

Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio

Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and North Dakota

Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont

C

296

us_history

The Federalist Papers were written to persuade people to support the ratification of the

Constitution

Declaration of Independence

Bill of Rights

Treaty of Paris

Northwest Ordinance

A

297

us_history

I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still work ing and shaping the policy of the State Department. This statement began a brief period in U.S. history that became known for

reform

Reconstruction

McCarthyism

Watergate

Reaganomics

C

298

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Which major legal precedent was established in the Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison?

An accused person would be presumed innocent until proved guilty.

The United Sates would fight in the defense of any Latin American nation being attacked or invaded by an outside power.

A president would not be allowed to declare war on a foreign nation without the consent of Congress.

The Supreme Court would have the right to decide whether a law was constitutional and to strike it down if it was not.

Any person accused of a crime would have the right to refuse to testify in court.

D

299

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul are all famous for leading the fight for

temperance

Prohibition

woman suffrage

civil rights

education reform

C

300

us_history

The "Hollywood Ten" were

scriptwriters who were blacklisted in Holly wood for refusing to answer questions posed by the House Un-American Activities Committee

California beatniks who refused to obey laws against selling and smoking marijuana

actors and actresses who appeared in propaganda films during World War II

movie-studio owners who conspired to run their industry on a system of indentured servitude of the performers

movie-studio technicians who led a famous labor strike that resulted in better wages and working hours across the film industry

A

301

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Because they investigated the seamy underside of U.S. business and society, some journalists of the first decade of the twentieth century were known as

muckrakers

mugwumps

communists

socialists

carpetbaggers

A

302

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Which U.S. president ordered two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945?

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Harry S. Truman

Dwight D. Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon B. Johnson

B

303

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What did President Richard Nixon do to bring about the Saturday Night Massacre?

Ordered a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate buildings

Ordered the attorney general to fire the special prosecutor who was investigating the administration

Demanded that Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee fire reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward

Refused to surrender taped Oval Office conversations to the Senate committee holding hearings on Watergate

Appointed Gerald R. Ford vice president of the United States

B

304

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The stock market crash of October 29, 1929, had all the following effects EXCEPT:

Shareholders were forced to sell their stocks at huge losses.

Businesses failed when banks called in loans they could not repay immediately.

Brokers demanded immediate payment of money owed to them for stocks purchased on margin.

Borrowers began defaulting on their loan payments to banks, triggering widespread bank failures.

More and more people began buying on credit because there was a shortage of cash.

E

305

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When President Andrew Jackson stated that he wanted to expel all Native Americans from the United States because he was concerned for their safety, all the following facts suggest that he was not sincere EXCEPT:

The Southeastern tribes owned some of the best cotton-growing land in the region.

As a general, Jackson had led an illegal war against the Seminole tribes in Florida and profited financially and politically from the resulting peace treaty.

Jackson had a long reputation as an Indian fighter dating back to his defeat of the Creek in the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in 1814.

In 1814 General Jackson had forced Creek tribes to sell lands to him and his friends for much less than it was worth.

The Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeast had developed societies similar to the European ones that had invaded and conquered their lands.

E

306

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All the following factors combined to cause the high death rate in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire EXCEPT:

The business occupied the upper three floors of the building, well above ground level.

The fire doors were locked from the outside.

The only fire escape gave way beneath the weight of the escaping workers.

The only owners did not enact any of the safety regulations the workers' union had requested repeatedly.

A large strike by women's shirtwaist makers in 1909 began at the Triangle Company.

E

307

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Which president's domestic and foreign policy pro grams were collectively known as the New Frontier?

John F. Kennedy

Lyndon Johnson

Gerald R. Ford

Jimmy Carter

Bill Clinton

A

308

us_history

All the following were important figures in the civil rights movement of the 1960s EXCEPT:

Jesse Jackson

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Fannie Lou Hamer

Medgar Evers

Jim Crow

E

309

us_history

In which present-day state did the Union Pacific meet the Central Pacific to complete the first trans continental railroad?

Kansas

Nebraska

Missouri

Colorado

Utah

E

310

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Industrialization developed slowly in the South for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

Most Southerners preferred to invest in land and slaves, not factories.

There was no way to transport cotton upstream to the Northern textile mills.

Planters did not want to pay taxes that might have promoted manufacturing.

Immigrants who might have staffed factories did not travel to the South because the region relied on slave labor.

The majority of the Southern population had little or no money to spend on manufactured goods.

B

311

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Which of the following was NOT a factor in ending the cattle boom of the late 1800s?

The supply of cattle became too great for the demand, bringing prices down.

The use of barbed wire to fence off land led to range wars among ranchers.

Severe weather conditions in the period 1885-1887 killed hundreds of cattle.

The U.S. government set aside some of the best grazing land for displaced Native American tribes.

Once the open range was fenced off, ranchers had to buy land, and that ate up their profits.

D

312

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All the following facts support the thesis that the Puritan society in New England was a theocracy EXCEPT:

Only men were allowed to be ministers.

Only church members were eligible for political office.

Only church members could vote on political issues.

Religious dissenters were banished from the colony.

Moral offenses were considered civil crimes and punished as such.

A

313

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Upwards of 100 gallons of spirits were poured not down people's throats but on the sand and I believe there is now none in the place. This statement most likely describes the actions of a

political boss

temperance advocate

yellow journalist

suffragist

war protester

B

314

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The "gag rule" of 1837 prevented which issue from being discussed or debated in the House of Representatives?

Abolition

Secession

Reform

Censorship

Taxation

A

315

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All the following facts about the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 inspired many Northerners to take an active role in the fight against slavery EXCEPT

Slaves would carry their slave status with them even when escaping to a free state.

Thousands of African Americans crossed the border into Canada to avoid being pursued by slave owners.

Northerners resented being forced to obey the Dred Scott decision without getting something in return.

Court commissioners would receive more money when they decided a dispute in the slave owner's favor.

No African American accused of being an escaped slave was permitted to testify in his or her own defense.

C

316

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The Five Civilized Tribes forcibly ejected from the Southeast under the Indian Removal Act included all the following EXCEPT:

Choctaw

Creek

Seminole

Cherokee

Osage

E

317

us_history

Malcolm X championed African-American sepa ratism and the use of violence in self-defense in a movement known as

pan-Africanism

black nationalism

civil rights

black pantheism

back to Africa

B

318

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What was the main purpose of the naval blockade of the South during the Civil War?

To capture the capital city of the Confederacy

To force Jefferson Davis to emancipate all Southern slaves

To prevent shiploads of imported goods and supplies from reaching the people of the South

To prevent the Confederate Army from using the Mississippi River to travel north

To take control of the railroad system

C

319

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The Haymarket Riot of 1886 had all the following effects EXCEPT:

Eight anarchists were arrested for conspiracy, and four of them were hanged.

Activism among workers decreased.

Employers blacklisted people with reputations for organizing their fellow workers.

Skilled and unskilled workers broke apart into two groups.

Union membership immediately skyrocketed in protest.

E

320

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All the following are classic novels of U.S. partici pation in war EXCEPT:

One of Ours by Willa Cather

The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Hiroshimaby John Hersey

E

321

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After being hunted like a dog through swamps, woods . . . till I was forced to return wet, cold, and starving, with every man's hand against me, I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.... This diary entry most likely was written by which of the following?

John Wilkes Booth

Nathan Hale

Benedict Arnold

Robert E. Lee

Frederick Douglass

A

322

us_history

President John F. Kennedy did all the following to oppose the spread of communism in the world EXCEPT:

establish the Peace Corps

establish the Alliance for Progress

continue the buildup of nuclear arms begun under Eisenhower

work with the cabinet on a plan to invade the Soviet Union

create the Green Berets

D

323

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Which advantage did the Confederacy have over the Union at the beginning of the Civil War?

Control over the majority of U.S. industry and material resources

A larger population and thus larger pool of available soldiers

The location of major national railroads in Confederate states

Assurance of support, supplies, and troops from France and Great Britain

Superior, more experienced military leaders

E

324

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The Freedmen's Bureau accomplished all the following EXCEPT:

Founded African-American schools through out the South

Supervised polling places so that African Americans were ensured of the right to vote

Helped establish African-American colleges

Settled contract disputes between planters and African-American wage laborers

Provided food, clothing, and medical care to Southerners made destitute by the Civil War

B

325

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All the following happened as a direct result of the Boston Massacre EXCEPT:

Samuel Adams demanded that all British troops immediately leave Boston.

John Adams agreed to defend the British soldiers arrested after the riot.

Paul Revere distributed an engraving of the riot that was circulated throughout the colonies.

Thomas Hutchinson disbanded the Massachusetts legislature.

John Hancock commissioned a portrait of Samuel Adams that was used for propaganda purposes.

D

326

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It had been, to say the least, an interesting and chal lenging situation. The two most powerful nations of the world had squared off against each other, each with its finger on the button. The speaker of the above quotation probably is referring to which of the following?

The Battle of Gettysburg

The Gulf of Tonkin affair

The Cuban missile crisis

The Congress of Versailles

The fall of Saigon

C

327

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A historian researching the immediate effects of the Intolerable Acts on the American colonies probably would find the most accurate information in a diary written by which of the following?

Patrick Henry

Benjamin Franklin

Abigail Adams

John Paul Jones

John Dickinson

C

328

us_history

Which of the following major U.S. enterprises enjoyed an exemption from antitrust legislation?

Standard Oil of Ohio

Bethlehem Steel

Microsoft

Major league baseball

Pennsylvania Railroad

D

329

us_history

Which of the following led Congress to reduce immigration quotas in 1921 and again in 1924?

Racism

Nationalism

Nativism

Communism

Fascism

D

330

us_history

This man, although he many not actually have com mitted the crime attributed to him, is nevertheless morally culpable, because he is an enemy of our existing institutions. Which of the following was sent to his death by the judge who spoke these words at his trial?

Julius Rosenberg

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Charles Guiteau

Edward Slovik

Lee Harvey Oswald

B

331

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Which is the correct chronological sequence of these three Revolutionary War battles?

Brandywine, Brooklyn, Trenton

Brooklyn, Trenton, Brandywine

Trenton, Brandywine, Brooklyn

Brandywine, Trenton, Brooklyn

Brooklyn, Brandywine, Trenton

B

333

us_history

All the following reforms were enacted during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson EXCEPT:

the Clayton Antitrust Act

the Federal Reserve Act

the Nineteenth Amendment giving women the right to vote

the Twentieth Amendment shortening the "lame duck" period

the Keating-Owens Child Labor Act

D

334

us_history

By what name were the Intolerable Acts of 1774 known in Great Britain?

Townshend Acts

Stamp Acts

Coercive Acts

Boston Port Acts

Retaliatory Acts

C

335

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All the following were aspects of the Union's military strategy to win the Civil War EXCEPT:

preventing the Confederacy from using the Mississippi River to travel north or receive supplies in trade

capturing the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia

blockading Southern ports to prevent exporta tion and importation of goods

controlling the railroad system

establishing a military alliance with Great Britain and France

E

336

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Which would be the best source material for a histo rian who wanted to write a biography of John Quincy Adams?

Adams's personal papers, such as diaries and correspondence

Acts of Congress passed during Adams's years in the White House and Senate

Newspaper articles written about Adams during his lifetime

Other historians' biographies of Adams

The script of a television miniseries about several generations of the Adams family

A

337

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Millions of people whose parents or grandparents had never dreamed of going to college saw that they could go.... Essentially I think it made us a far more democratic people. To which of the following does the above quotation refer?

The GI Bill of Rights

The desegregation of the public schools

The Fair Employment Practices Committee

The National Defense Education Act

The Internal Security Act

A

338

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Why did neither John Adams nor Thomas Jefferson take part in the Constitutional Convention of 1787?

Neither was willing to approve of a design for government that had no bill of rights.

Both had died by the time the Convention was called.

Both were representing the United States on diplomatic missions in Europe.

Both stayed away to protest the excision from the Declaration of Independence of the passage criticizing slavery as a "cruel war against human nature."

Neither was nominated to attend the Convention by the people of his state.

C

339

us_history

Who was the first African-American to publish a book?

Phillis Wheatley

Olaudah Equiano

Frederick Douglass

Crispus Attucks

Venture Smith

A

340

us_history

Which of the following wrote a multivolume auto biography describing the pioneer experience in the Midwest in the 1870s and 1880s?

Maya Angelou

Laura Ingalls Wilder

Willa Cather

Joseph Conrad

Stephen Crane

B

342

us_history

The 1870s and 1880s saw a flood of European immi gration to the American West for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

work for wages building the railroads

escape from enforced military service at home

the chance to own land given away by the government

the search for economic opportunity

the ease of getting rich quickly without effort

E

343

us_history

During the Revolutionary War the U.S. Army had help from allies from all the following nations EXCEPT:

France

Poland

Germany

Spain

Italy

E