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The expansion of the United States States in the late 1800s differed differed from that of earlier decades in that it involved A) all of the answers below B) islands, rather than areas adjacent to existing U.S. territory C) densely populated areas not suitable for massive new settlement D) possessions that few Americans expected to become states E) an increasing importance on foreign trade In arguing for their their policies, the new American expansionists expansionists of the late 1800s offered all of the following economic and social reasons except A) the United United States would soon need to find new sources for the natural resources that it was rapidly using up B) the United States needed to acquire new overseas markets for its products C) the United States needed to find new sources of immigrants who would work in its factories for low wages D) the United United States needed an aggressive foreign policy to take take people’s people’s minds off internal internal problems problems and frustrations frustrations E) the United States needed to expand due to the ―closing of the frontier.‖ To justify their policies, policies, the new American expansionists of the late 1800s offered all of the following reasons except A) strong nations were destined by natural law to dominate weak ones B) the United United States had a duty to spread spread its superior institutions to less civilized people C) the United United States should try to create a community community of nations nations to guarantee world peace D) a strong navy was was the key to becoming a great nation, and colonies would serve as bases for such a navy E) selling goods in foreign nations would bolster the economy economy
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ablest and most effective apostle of imperialism imperialism was was William Jennings Bryan Charles Darwin Alfred Thayer Mahan Frederick Jackson Turner Andrew Carnegie
In 1900, the nation that had the third third largest naval force was A) Great Britain B) France C) Italy D) Germany E) the United States
Pan-American Pan-American Congress Congress of 1889 resulted in the the all of the answers below creation of an inter-American customs union establishment of arbitration procedures to resolve hemispheric disputes D) creation of an agency agency that distributed information to member American nations E) peaceful resolution of imperial claims in Cuba
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The United States took took control of part of the Samoan islands after a long dispute with A) Great Britain and Germany B) Germany and France C) France and Spain D) Spain and Great Britain E) Germany and Spain
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In the 1890s, Spain Spain and the United United States gradually moved toward toward war over Cuba for all of the following reasons except A) a change in U.S. U.S. tariff tariff policy hurt the Cuban economy economy and made the Cuban people ready for revolt B) when the Cuban Cuban revolt revolt broke out, the the American American press printed sensational, one-sided stories about it C) during the Cuban revolt, the Spanish committed numerous atrocities, whereas the Cubans usually behaved humanely D) Cubans living living in the the United United States States popularized popularized their side of of the revolt with the American people E) sensationalized press coverage stirred a fervor for war
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The United States States was finally finally pushed into war with with Spain by all of the following developments except A) the American American press press printed printed a private private letter letter of the Spanish ambassador that insulted the U.S. president B) an American American battleship blew up in the harbor of Havana, Cuba C) Spain refused to negotiate with the Cuban rebels D) Cubans living living in America America stirred stirred up support for a war E) Spain ignored U.S. diplomatic requests in regard to Cuba Answer: E Page: 561 – 563 563 Difficulty: Medium
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The United States acquired the Hawaiian islands as a result of all the following factors except A) American citizens developed a sugar sugar industry in the the islands
The U.S. president who who asked for a declaration of war against Spain in 1898 was A) William McKinley B) Grover Cleveland C) Benjamin Harrison D) Theodore Roosevelt E) William Howard Taft Answer: A Page: 563 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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In the mid-1890s, U.S. involvement involvement in a boundary dispute between between British Guiana and Venezuela led to the A) United States protesting British actions in the area, but but refusing to take any other a ctions B) president threatening war before Britain agreed to arbitrate the dispute C) United States providing financial aid to Venezuela during a short border war with Britain D) president sending marines to help Venezuela force Britain out of the disputed territory E) United States expressing full support for Britain’s policy in Venezuela
the U.S. government built a naval station there Americans staged a revolution revolution to depose the native native rulers President Cleveland sent marines to ensure that nothing stopped annexation from taking place the domination of the Hawaiian economy by American settlers
The U.S. war effort effort in Cuba Cuba suffered suffered from all of the following following problems except A) a shortage of modern rifles and ammunition B) heavy, cold-weather uniforms in a hot climate C) inadequate medicine and food D) lack of popular support E) poor racial relations in the U.S. Army Answer: D Page: 563 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
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During the fighting of the the Spanish-American Spanish-American War, A) American troops had experienced commanders B) more American American fighting fighting men died died of disease than were killed in action C) regular army units units did did more more of the fighting fighting than did did National National Guard units D) the U.S. Army conducted a competent and efficient mobilization E) Spain won many battles to prolong the war Answer: B Page: 563 Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard
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The black soldiers who who fought in the Spanish-American War War faced all of the following problems except A) the U.S. Army kept them in segregated units B) the people people of the South treated them poorly while the troops troops were training there C) they experienced difficulties in combat because most of them had never been under fire before
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Theodore Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy, ordered ordered an attack on the Philippines for all of the following reasons except A) he was an ardent imperialist B) he did did not regard the the military military chain of of command of any any great great importance C) he was an active proponent of war D) he wanted Filipino independence E) he wanted to strike against the Spanish Empire
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The first major victory victory for the United States in the SpanishAmerican War occurred A) in Havana Harbor, Cuba B) in Manila Bay, the Philippines Philippines C) near Santiago, Cuba D) near San Juan, Puerto Rico E) at Guantanomo Bay Answer: B Page: 564 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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Americans won won the struggle for Cuba during the SpanishSpanishAmerican War because A) the Spanish Spanish forces forces quit after putting putting up a stiff stiff but brief fight B) the American forces used incredible brutality and terror tactics to overwhelm the Spanish C) the American forces displayed both high efficiency and great great military genius during the campaign D) the Spanish forces had already surrendered to Cuban revolutionaries revolutionaries before the Americans arrived E) the Spanish Spanish suffered from having neither a navy nor a trained army
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After the Spanish-American War, Puerto Puerto Rico Rico experienced experienced all of the following developments except A) Puerto Ricans became more dependent on imported food B) the island became an American colony C) the island’s sugar industry grew rapidly D) Americans acquired control of much of the island’s economy E) the island’s inhabitants generally accepted the American presence without protest
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On the question of of annexing the Philippines, Philippines, President President McKinley McKinley thought that A) all of the answers below B) returning the Philippines to Spain would be ―cowardly‖ C) the United United States could not turn turn the islands islands over to another another imperialist power D) the Filipinos were not ready for independence E) the United States needed to educate and uplift Filipino culture
The anti-imperialists anti-imperialists of the 1890s opposed U.S. U.S. acquisition acquisition of an empire for all of the following reasons except A) the vast majority of Americans opposed such empire
The Platt Amendment, incorporated into the Cuban Cuban constitution, constitution, gave Cuba A) full independence B) economic independence C) nominal political independence D) an American colonial government E) an equal partnership with American interests Answer: C Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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In the territories with large large land areas that the United United States acquired in the late 1800s, the federal government A) quickly gave the inhabitants inhabitants full U.S. citizenship and complete control over their local affairs B) slowly gave the inhabitants inhabitants most of of the the rights rights of citizenship and partial local control C) eventually gave the inhabitants partial citizenship and a small amount of local control D) never gave the inhabitants any rights rights as citizens citizens and no local local control E) put citizens under strict military rule Answer: B Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard
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In the decade following following its victory in the Spanish-American War, the United States gave partial independence to A) Cuba B) Puerto Rico C) Guam D) the Philippines E) Haiti Answer: A Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
The Rough Riders were A) all of the answers below B) commanded by Arthur MacArthur C) involved in bold, reckless charges during the fighting in Cuba D) a cavalry regiment in the regular army E) Cuban-Americans who supported a free Cuba Answer: C Page: 565 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
William Jennings Jennings Bryan Bryan wanted the U.S. Senate to ratify ratify the peace treaty with Spain because A) the United United States would be able to build build naval bases in the new territories B) he hoped hoped to become governor of one of the territories territories C) the war war would would be over, and the Democrats could make Republican imperialism a campaign issue D) he believed believed that that the inhabitants of the the territories territories would be better off under U.S. protection E) the acquisition acquisition of sugar plantations would bolster the U.S. economy Answer: C Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
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building acquiring Pacific territories would bring ―inferior‖ Asian races into the nation a s potential citizens an empire empire would require a large standing army and entangling foreign alliances imperialism was simply immoral, a repudiation of America’s commitment to human freedom imperialism contradicted the republican foundations of the nation
In the Philippine War of 1898 to 1902, the the United States A) easily put down the insurrection insurrection of a small minority of Filipino people B) with great difficulty suppressed a full-scale revolt that the majority of the Filipino people supported C) defended the islands against the attempt of the former Spanish rulers to retake them D) protected the inhabitants inhabitants from the efforts efforts of the Japanese to take over the islands E) emerged as freedom freedom fighters in the minds of most Filipinos Answer: B Page: 568 – 570 570 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
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The Philippine Philippine War of 1898 to 1902 saw the United States States A) all of the answers below B) use only only humane and moderate methods in response to the guerrilla tactics of the enemy C) create a military government that ruled ruled the country country for many
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the fully integrated Cuban rebel forces that they fought beside reinforced their sense of racial injustice strict segregation of facilities when the soldiers trained in the South
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Theodore Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the navy, ordered ordered an attack on the Philippines for all of the following reasons except A) he was an ardent imperialist B) he did did not regard the the military military chain of of command of any any great great importance C) he was an active proponent of war D) he wanted Filipino independence E) he wanted to strike against the Spanish Empire
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The first major victory victory for the United States in the SpanishAmerican War occurred A) in Havana Harbor, Cuba B) in Manila Bay, the Philippines Philippines C) near Santiago, Cuba D) near San Juan, Puerto Rico E) at Guantanomo Bay Answer: B Page: 564 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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Americans won won the struggle for Cuba during the SpanishSpanishAmerican War because A) the Spanish Spanish forces forces quit after putting putting up a stiff stiff but brief fight B) the American forces used incredible brutality and terror tactics to overwhelm the Spanish C) the American forces displayed both high efficiency and great great military genius during the campaign D) the Spanish forces had already surrendered to Cuban revolutionaries revolutionaries before the Americans arrived E) the Spanish Spanish suffered from having neither a navy nor a trained army
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On the question of of annexing the Philippines, Philippines, President President McKinley McKinley thought that A) all of the answers below B) returning the Philippines to Spain would be ―cowardly‖ C) the United United States could not turn turn the islands islands over to another another imperialist power D) the Filipinos were not ready for independence E) the United States needed to educate and uplift Filipino culture
The anti-imperialists anti-imperialists of the 1890s opposed U.S. U.S. acquisition acquisition of an empire for all of the following reasons except A) the vast majority of Americans opposed such empire
The Platt Amendment, incorporated into the Cuban Cuban constitution, constitution, gave Cuba A) full independence B) economic independence C) nominal political independence D) an American colonial government E) an equal partnership with American interests Answer: C Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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In the territories with large large land areas that the United United States acquired in the late 1800s, the federal government A) quickly gave the inhabitants inhabitants full U.S. citizenship and complete control over their local affairs B) slowly gave the inhabitants inhabitants most of of the the rights rights of citizenship and partial local control C) eventually gave the inhabitants partial citizenship and a small amount of local control D) never gave the inhabitants any rights rights as citizens citizens and no local local control E) put citizens under strict military rule Answer: B Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard
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In the decade following following its victory in the Spanish-American War, the United States gave partial independence to A) Cuba B) Puerto Rico C) Guam D) the Philippines E) Haiti Answer: A Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
The Rough Riders were A) all of the answers below B) commanded by Arthur MacArthur C) involved in bold, reckless charges during the fighting in Cuba D) a cavalry regiment in the regular army E) Cuban-Americans who supported a free Cuba Answer: C Page: 565 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
William Jennings Jennings Bryan Bryan wanted the U.S. Senate to ratify ratify the peace treaty with Spain because A) the United United States would be able to build build naval bases in the new territories B) he hoped hoped to become governor of one of the territories territories C) the war war would would be over, and the Democrats could make Republican imperialism a campaign issue D) he believed believed that that the inhabitants of the the territories territories would be better off under U.S. protection E) the acquisition acquisition of sugar plantations would bolster the U.S. economy Answer: C Page: 568 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
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building acquiring Pacific territories would bring ―inferior‖ Asian races into the nation a s potential citizens an empire empire would require a large standing army and entangling foreign alliances imperialism was simply immoral, a repudiation of America’s commitment to human freedom imperialism contradicted the republican foundations of the nation
In the Philippine War of 1898 to 1902, the the United States A) easily put down the insurrection insurrection of a small minority of Filipino people B) with great difficulty suppressed a full-scale revolt that the majority of the Filipino people supported C) defended the islands against the attempt of the former Spanish rulers to retake them D) protected the inhabitants inhabitants from the efforts efforts of the Japanese to take over the islands E) emerged as freedom freedom fighters in the minds of most Filipinos Answer: B Page: 568 – 570 570 Difficulty: Difficulty: Medium
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The Philippine Philippine War of 1898 to 1902 saw the United States States A) all of the answers below B) use only only humane and moderate methods in response to the guerrilla tactics of the enemy C) create a military government that ruled ruled the country country for many
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Most of the territory territory that the United United States acquired in the 1890s was in the A) Atlantic Ocean B) Pacific Ocean C) Caribbean Sea D) Gulf of Mexico E) Mediterranean Sea
The group of crusading journalists of the late 1800s 1800s and early early 1900s who attacked corruption in business and government were called A) yellow journalists B) Wobblies C) muckrakers D) mugwumps E) scandal mongers Answer: C Page: 576 Difficulty: Difficulty: Easy
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The United States suggested suggested the Open Open Door policy for China to A) all of the answers below B) keep the great powers from completely destroying China by dividing it among themselves C) allow U.S. merchants to trade in China without the interference of foreign governments D) achieve a foreign foreign policy policy victory without using military force E) promote the economic ideal of free markets Answer: A Page: 570 – 571 571 Difficulty: Hard
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The Boxer Boxer Rebellion Rebellion of 1900 came to an end when when A) the Chinese Army suppressed all secret societies, including the Boxers B) all foreign powers agreed to stop interfering in internal Chinese affairs C) a multinational multinational armed force rescued the foreign diplomats trapped in Peking by the Boxers D) the Japanese Army attacked China, and the Boxers Boxers joined other Chinese in defending their country E) the United States expressed support for the Boxers
Gabriel Kolko Kolko argued in his 1963 book book that progressivism was an attempt by A) labor leaders to use political power to force force companies companies to meet their demands B) the lower lower classes to seize part of the wealth in the hands of the upper classes C) city bosses bosses to use the reform movement to gain gain votes votes for for their corrupt political machines D) businessmen to use the power power of the government government to protect protect themselves against competition E) big business to establish a laissez-faire economy Answer: D Page: 578 Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard
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The favorite favorite targets of the muckrakers included included all of the following except A) the violence used against unions B) the excessive practices of the railroads C) the corruption of the business trusts D) the seamy side of boss rule E) the waste of natural resources Answer: A Page: 576 – 577 577 Difficulty: Medium
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After the end of the Spanish-American Spanish-American War, War, the United States changed its military system by A) all of the answers below B) creating a general staff to to act as advisors advisors to the secretary of war C) decreasing the size of the regular army D) reducing federal control over the National Guard E) placing less emphasis on foreign military actions Answer: B Page: 571 Difficulty: Difficulty: Hard Practice Quiz on Progressivism
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Although the progressives progressives often differed differed about about what progressivism meant, most agreed that A) all of the answers below B) it was a particular set of political reforms C) it was a group group of moral and humanitarian goals D) government should play a role in correcting society’s ills E) ―natural law‖ of the marketplace could stabilize society
According to historians writing writing in the 1970s and 1980s, the the progressive movement resulted in A) the rise of both both political political parties and interest groups as the vital players in public life B) the decline decline of of interest interest groups groups and the the rise of political political parties C) the rise of political political parties at the expense of of special interest groups D) the decline decline of of political political parties and the rise of of interest interest groups groups E) the decline of both political parties and interest groups in public life Answer: D Page: 578 – 579 579 Difficulty: Hard
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In the late 1800s, 1800s, a group group of Christian reformers started started a movement that acquired the name of the Social Gospel. One organization that originated as a result of this movement was the A) American Medical Association B) General Federation of Women’s Clubs C) Tammany Hall D) Salvation Army E) Knights of Labor
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progressive progressive approach to reform reform was influenced influenced by all of the answers below an opposition opposition to monopolies in business a belief belief in the interdependence interdependence of the the individual and society society a rejection rejection of party bosses in favor favor of organized and efficient efficient leaders a devotion to achieve social cohesion
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One of the most important members of the Social Gospel movement of the late 1800s was A) Andrew Carnegie B) Lincoln Steffens C) William Graham Sumner D) Walter Rauschenbusch E) Charles Evans Hughes
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The traditional traditional view of progressivism progressivism described it as a movement by the ―people‖ ―people‖ to curb curb the power power of the A) all of the answers below B) special interests C) immigrants
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Father John Ryan focused on A) protesting the massive violence of World War I B) alleviating imperialism in the Far East C) expanding the scope of welfare for the poor
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Hull House, a settlement house designed to aid immigrants, was started by A) Alice Paul B) Margaret Sanger C) Carrie Chapman-Catt D) Jane Addams E) Mary Elizabeth Lease
All of the following were women’s organizations of the progressive era except A) General Federation of Women’s Club B) National Association of Colored Women C) Women’s Trade Union League D) National Organization for Women E) National Woman’s party Answer: D Page: 584 – 586 Difficulty: Medium
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As a result of the increasing demands for reform in medicine by the progressives, the medical profession A) all of the answers below B) opened the field to all practitioners C) established the American Medical Association, to represent the field as a whole D) fought against the passage of state and local laws requiring the licensing of all physicians E) called for universal health care for American citizens
Most progressive reformers advocated suffrage for women because they thought it would A) make it easier for women to get a divorce B) strengthen the forces of reform C) preserve the natural order to society D) automatically lead to equal rights for men and women E) reinforce traditional gender roles Answer: B Page: 586 Difficulty: Medium
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The most radical and militant women’s suffrage leader who advocated both the vote for women and the Equal Rights Amendment was A) Alice Paul B) Carrie Chapman Catt C) Jane Addams D) Ida Tarbell E) Florence Kelly Answer: A Page: 587 Difficulty: Easy
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The growing demand for reform by the progressives in the newly developing professions was the result of their attempts to A) all of the answers below B) defend the professions from the untrained and the incompetent C) protect those already in the professions from excessive competition D) exclude blacks, women, immigrants, and other socalled ―undesirables‖ from their ranks E) lend prestige to middle-class professional status
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As a result of their attempts to regulate the medical profession, doctors such as William H. Welch revolutionized the teaching of medicine by A) requiring students to join the American Medical Association B) moving students out of the classrooms and into laboratories and clinics C) creating more rigorous standardized examinations D) building more medical schools to allow more people to enter the medical profession E) excluding working-class participation in medical schools
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The so-alled ―women’s professions‖ of the progressive era included all of the following except A) nurse B) social worker C) teacher D) librarian E) secretary Answer: E Page: 582 – 583 Difficulty: Easy
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To be more actively involved in the progressive effort to remake American society, the great majority of American women A) took up professional careers B) organized within existing political parties C) joined women’s clubs D) abandoned their roles as wives and mothers
The progressives attempted to challenge the dominance of the two major political parties through all of the following methods except A) supporting a third party B) introducing the secret ballot C) working with the urban political bosses D) increasing the number of nonpartisan, nonelective officials in government office E) writing articles that attacked greed and corruption Answer: C Page: 588 Difficulty: Hard
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Most progressives agreed that the only societal institution that could provide the regulation and control necessary to modern society was the A) corporation B) church C) government D) labor union E) corporation
Most urban working people opposed the actions of the progressives against the party machines because A) the machines were a source of jobs and services B) the bosses tended to be of the same nationality as the progressives C) they felt that the progressives were meddling, middle-class snobs who did not understand their lives D) they had been threatened with violence by the bosses if they supported the progressives E) they felt the progressives were dangerous anarchists Answer: A Page: 588 Difficulty: Medium
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The progressive belief that government must remain untainted by the corrupting influence of politics led to the creation of the form of municipal government known as A) commission government B) mayor government C) elected trusts D) city manager government E) city machine government
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Progressives introduced reforms that attempted to make government more responsive to the people. Those reforms included all of the following except A) recall B) party nominating conventions C) initiative and referendum D) direct primaries E) limiting corporate influence
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The progressive measure that gave voters the right to remove a public official from office through special election was A) initiative B) referendum C) direct primary D) recall E) commission
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Progressives came to regard one state as the center of reform and its governor as the leading progressive. The most progressive state and governor were A) New Jersey/Woodrow Wilson B) Wisconsin/Robert La Follette C) California/Hiram. Johnson D) New York/Charles Evans Hughes E) Ohio/William McKinley
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During the progressive era, New York’s Tammany Hall was an example of A) all of the answers below B) a city political machine C) a vehicle for social welfare D) corrupt and incompetent municipal government E) using political power to gain reforms
The death toll in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was much higher than it should have been because A) an arsonist had deliberately set the fire to start at the worst possible time of the day B) union organizers started the fire in the exits in an attempt to take revenge against scab workers C) the management of the company had locked the emergency exits so that employees could not sneak away from work D) the company stored gasoline on the same floors as the working areas of the factory E) management refused to call the New York City fire department
Although many progressives felt that the elimination of alcohol from American life was a necessary step in remaking American society, the primary group in society who pushed for prohibition was A) religious leaders B) immigrants C) women D) the working class E) labor unions Answer: C Page: 594 Difficulty: Easy In the progressive push to adopt the Eighteenth Amendment in 1917, only Connecticut and Rhode Island refused to ratify it because A) the liquor trusts had significant influence there B) they had primarily Catholic immigrant populations C) they had few progressives; D) they wanted a stricter prohibition law E) they felt the law was unconstitutional Answer: B Page: 595 Difficulty: Medium
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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People approach to obtaining civil rights for black Americans included A) all of the answers below B) using the federal courts to gain equal tights C) seeking immediate restoration of civil rights as opposed to waiting for them D) advocating university education, rather than trade or agricultural education, for blacks E) urging blacks to aspire to the professions
In adopting the Eighteenth Amendment, progressives felt the federal government had taken a step toward the elimination of A) all of the answers below B) the liquor industry C) the saloon D) family violence E) poor work performance Answer: A Page: 594 – 595 Difficulty: Hard
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Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist? A) ―American Indians should be allowed to return to their tribal lands.‖ B) ―Voting rights should be extended to all American citizens.‖ C) ―American purity is being harmed by the immigration of non-Anglo- Saxon people.‖ D) ―Alcohol has brought great social problems to American culture.‖ E) ―Labor unions must pursue the right to organize and make closer ties with the Socialist party.‖
Answer: C Page: 591 Difficulty: Medium Answer: C Page: 595 Difficulty: Hard 30.
Western progressives wanted the federal government to help their states by A) all of the answers below B) settling conflicts between states over water rights C) building federal dams and water projects D) subsidizing the construction of roads and highways E) lobbying for subsidies from the federal government
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The black leader who became the chief spokesman for the new civil rights movement and who helped to found the Niagara movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was A) Booker T. Washington B) Frederick Douglass C) Alain Locke D) W. E. B. Du Bois
Progressives used all of the following reasons to justify immigration restriction except A) the introduction of immigrants was polluting the nation’s racial stock B) newer immigrant groups had proven themselves less adaptable to American society than earlier groups C) immigrants were a source of cheap labor and thus were forcing down the wages of average Americans D) the flow of immigrants into urban areas was creating social unrest E) there was a need to preserve the dominance of Anglo and Nordic culture Answer: C Page: 595 – 596 Difficulty: Hard
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The Dillingham Report concluded that A) lynchings had become a major social problem in America
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newer immigrants were not efficient at assimilating to American culture big business had become so corrupt that government regulation was needed rural Americans were in need of economic assistance the International Workers of the World were not a communist organization
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In the early 1900s, the man who became famous as the leader of the Socialist party and who was its perennial presidential candidate was A) William ―Big Bill‖ Haywood B) Henry Cabot Lodge C) Walter Lippman D) Lincoln Steffens E) Eugene V. Debs
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Answer: E Page: 596 Difficulty: Easy In the early 1900s, supporters of socialism argued that the main problem of American society was not the abuse of the economic system by big business but the A) all of the answers below B) economic system as a whole C) abuses of the national government D) lack of equality among all classes E) apathy on the part of American voters Answer: B Page: 596 Difficulty: Medium
All progressives were in agreement that A) laissez-faire orthodoxy was inadequate for dealing with social problems B) racism was the number one social problem in the United States C) it was time for the Socialist party to become a major political force D) Teddy Roosevelt should be impeached because he blocked reforms E) farmers represented what was best in the American spirit
The Progressive movement switched emphasis from the state to the federal level because A) it encountered failure in tying to regulate business at the state level B) it wanted to expand its success in reforming state governments to the federal government C) the Supreme Court had overturned its state reforms D) the trusts had gained influence over Congress E) the federal government experienced a loss of power after 1900 Answer: A Page: 601 Difficulty: Hard
The Wobblies were a group of A) all of the answers below B) labor union members C) socialists D) radicals E) critics of capitalism
The one branch of the U.S. government capable of providing leadership to the national reform movement of the early 1900s was the A) Supreme Court B) House of Representatives C) Senate D) presidency E) district courts
Answer: A Page: 596 – 597 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: D Page: 601 Difficulty: Easy
Louis D. Brandeis, who was a brilliant lawyer, Supreme Court justice, and author, was associated with the economic viewpoint that A) government should allow small-scale private enterprise to thrive while nationalizing major industries B) government should not discourage economic concentration because it enhanced efficiency; government should, however, guard against corruption and irresponsibility C) government must control all businesses (large or small) to assure consumers of fair, stable prices D) government must regulate competition in such a way as to ensure that large trusts did not emerge E) government should take a ―hands -off‖ approach to the national economy
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President Teddy Roosevelt’s philosophy is best described as A) Populism B) Socialism C) Social Darwinism D) conservative Progressivism E) radical Progressivism Answer: D Page: 602 Difficulty: Easy
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President Roosevelt saw his reforms as a way to A) bring prosperity to the working class B) return America to the path intended by the Founding Fathers C) prevent radicalism from taking control in the future D) end corruption in government E) pass England as an economic power
Answer: D Page: 598 Difficulty: Hard Answer: C Page: 602 Difficulty: Hard 43.
Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book The Promise of American Life was one of the most influential progressive documents, expressed a ―nationalist‖ position on the American economy. This nationalist policy called for A) breaking up large business combinations and enforcing a balance between competition and the need for ―bigness‖ B) guarding against abuses of power by large institutions by distinguishing between ―good trusts‖ and ―bad trusts‖ C) endorsing the virtues of competition D) nationalizing all major industries E) creating a partnership between the military and government
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Answer: B Page: 602 Difficulty: Medium 6.
Answer: B Page: 598 Difficulty: Hard 44.
The president who became the most powerful symbol of the reform impulse at the national level was A) Woodrow Wilson B) William Howard Taft C) Theodore Roosevelt D) William McKinley E) Grover Cleveland
President Teddy Roosevelt believed that corruption in big business could be controlled by A) destroying corporate power completely B) applying the pressure of an informed public C) breaking up all trusts D) allowing market forces to function E) extending suffrage rights
At heart Teddy Roosevelt was a A) trust buster B) trust regulator C) trust builder D) trust monopolist E) trust killer Answer: B Page: 602 Difficulty: Easy
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President Teddy Roosevelt’s economic program was hampered in
his first term by A) conservatives in Congress B) accusations of accepting illegal payments C) his preoccupation with winning re-election D) a general strike in 1902 E) uncooperative state agencies
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Answer: C Page: 603 Difficulty: Easy 8.
In the election of 1904, President Teddy Roosevelt won an overwhelming victory for all of the following reasons except A) he maintained the federal government’s policy of supporting employer demands in labor strikes B) he had neutralized his opposition from within the Republican party C) the Democrats fielded a weak candidate D) he pursued business reforms without antagonizing financial leaders E) he argued that Americans had been provided a ―square deal‖
Answer: E Page: 604 Difficulty: Hard 16.
Answer: A Page: 603 Difficulty: Hard 9.
In the election of 1904, Teddy Roosevelt ran against A) William McKinley B) Mark Hanna C) William Jennings Bryan D) Alton B. Parker E) John Muir
President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 reform program was called the A) New Federalism B) Square Deal C) Fair Deal D) New Frontier E) New Deal Answer: B Page: 603 Difficulty: Easy
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One reform that was passed during Teddy Roosevelt’s secon d term was A) the Emergency Banking Act B) the National Securities Act C) the Sheppard-Towner Act D) the National Recovery Act E) the Pure Food and Drug Act
Answer: E Page: 603 Difficulty: Medium 12.Support for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was generated by Upton Sinclair’s novel, A) The Jungle B) Progress and Poverty The Shame of the Cities C) The Bitter Cry of Children D) E) How the Other Half Lives
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In 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt proposed all of the following measures except A) eight-hour work days B) increased compensation for victims of industrial accidents C) deregulation of the stock market D) inheritance and income taxes E) broader compensation for injured workers
The Panic of 1907 showed A) the need for looser banking regulations B) the largely uncontrolled nature of banking and the stock market C) the extent to which demand for American goods had outstripped supply D) the weakness of a government-regulated economy E) the strength and consistency of the stock market
Answer: B Page: 608 Difficulty: Easy 18. For the election of 1908, William Howard Taft enjoyed the support of all of the following except A) the Progressives B) the Conservatives C) William Jennings Bryan D) Teddy Roosevelt E) the Republican party Answer: C Page: 608 Difficulty: Easy 19.
Taft differed from Teddy Roosevelt in all of the following ways except A) he was a passive man B) he was less dynamic C) he was an obese man D) he believed in following the letter of the law E) he believed in completely conservative principles Answer: E Page: 608 Difficulty: Hard
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Answer: A Page: 603 Difficulty: Easy 13.
President Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation policies were influenced by A) J. P. Morgan B) William Howard Taft C) Upton Sinclair D) Robert La Follette E) Gifford Pinchot Answer: E Page: 604 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: D Page: 603 Difficulty: Easy 10.
President Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation policy showed his desire to A) all of the answers below B) preserve all public lands in the United States C) side with conservatives in Congress D) halt construction of dams on western rivers E) put the government in charge of natural resource management
The A) B) C) D) E)
main result of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 was to end protective tariffs completely raise tariff rates significantly make little change in the tariff rates lower tariff rates substantially discourage further use of tariffs
Answer: C Page: 608 – 609 Difficulty: Medium 21.
During his first year in office, President Taft showed himself to be A) all of the answers below B) an aggressive reformer C) in tune with public opinion D) less progressive than some people had thought E) a charismatic and idealistic leader
Answer: C Page: 603 Difficulty: Hard Answer: D Page: 608 – 609 Difficulty: Medium 14.
The reaction by Congress to President Teddy Roosevelt’s reform programs revealed A) the need for more drastic measures B) the impatience of people with the complex reform process C) a growing split in the Republican party D) the inability of Democrats to take the initiative E) a lack of any opposition to his policies Answer: C Page: 603 Difficulty: Hard
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President Taft fired Gifford Pinchot for A) turning over public lands to private developers B) leaking internal administration matters to the press C) refusing to release some forest land for development D) asking Teddy Roosevelt to intervene in an administration matter E) accepting illegal campaign contributions
Answer: B Page: 609 Difficulty: Hard 23.
In 1910, Teddy Roosevelt reacted to Taft’s actions as president by A) traveling to Washington to confer with Taft B) supporting Taft for reelection C) switching to the Democratic party D) setting out on a speaking tour to announce his position E) urging La Follette to run against Taft
Answer: E Page: 610 Difficulty: Medium 31.
As a politician, Woodrow Wilson possessed all of the following characteristics except A) he was willing to compromise B) he was self-righteously moral C) he was energetic and firm D) he was a dynamic leader E) he was committed to reform
Answer: D Page: 609 Difficulty: Medium Answer: A Page: 611 – 612 Difficulty: Medium 24.In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt reacted to President Taft’s actions by A) announcing his own candidacy B) supporting William La Follette C) supporting Woodrow Wilson D) supporting Taft for reelection E) announcing his conversion to socialism
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Woodrow Wilson’s program was called the A) New Nationalism B) New Freedom C) New Frontier D) Square Deal E) New Deal
Answer: A Page: 610 Difficulty: Easy Answer: B Page: 611 Difficulty: Easy 25.
The New Nationalism referred to the A) need for patriotism B) granting of more power to state governments C) need for an isolationist foreign policy D) need for federal work relief programs E) call for a strong federal government
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Answer: E Page: 609 Difficulty: Medium 26.
In Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism speech, he called for all of the following reforms except A) an end to all trusts B) an income tax C) workers’ compensation D) tariff revision E) regulation of child labor
Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt differed fundamentally on the issue of A) antitrust laws B) income tax C) presidential power D) conservation E) a close alliance with England Answer: A Page: 611 – 612 Difficulty: Easy
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Wilson won the election of 1912 because A) America split along ideological lines B) he won all of the debates C) Teddy Roosevelt became involved in a scandal D) Teddy Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote E) Teddy Roosevelt withdrew from the race
Answer: A Page: 609 Difficulty: Medium Answer: D Page: 612 Difficulty: Easy 27.
The A) B) C) D) E)
congressional elections of 1910 showed that the people all of the answers below wanted a return to reform supported Taft were unhappy with the Progressive insurgents rejected the ideals of progressivism
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Answer: B Page: 609 – 610 Difficulty: Hard 28.
Teddy Roosevelt opposed Taft’s handling of the antitrust suit against U.S. Steel because A) U.S. Steel was not a major violator B) breaking up U.S. Steel would hurt the economy C) it reflected badly on Roosevelt’s presidency D) Taft acted too slowly E) he believed trusts should be banned Answer: C Page: 610 Difficulty: Hard
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In the election of 1912, Teddy Roosevelt A) lost the Republican nomination and supported Taft for reelection B) lost the Republican nomination and supported the Democrat for president C) lost the Republican nomination and ran as a third-party candidate D) won the Republican nomination but lost to the Democrat in the general election E) failed to gain any support as a third-party candidate
Answer: A Page: 612 – 613 Difficulty: Hard 36.In its first two years, the Wilson administration persuaded Congress to pass legislation that took all of the following actions except A) creating an income tax B) regulating the banking industry C) establishing an agency to regulate trade D) lowering protective tariffs substantially E) instituting a series of new antitrust cases Answer: E Page: 612 – 613 Difficulty: Hard 37.
Answer: C Page: 610 Difficulty: Medium 30.To progressives, the Republican party convention of 1912 symbolized the A) triumph of the progressive spirit in America B) lack of clear leadership within the party C) power of the common man in American politics D) downfall of Teddy Roosevelt E) the victory of party leaders over the rank and file
President Wilson wielded his power in all of the following ways except A) he used the veto liberally B) he delegated little authority to others C) he used his position as head of the Democratic party to influence Congress D) he held close control over his cabinet E) he aggressively pursued passage of reforms
Woodrow Wilson’s most important piece of domestic legislation was the A) Federal Trade Commission Act B) Taft Labor Act C) Federal Reserve Act D) Underwood-Simmons Tariff E) Clayton Antitrust Act Answer: C Page: 612 Difficulty: Easy
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The Federal Reserve System represented A) firm federal control over the banking industry B) an attempt to decentralize banking C) a compromise between public and private interests D) a means of instituting the subtreasury system E) an attempt to weaken the Bank of the United States
Answer: C Page: 612 Difficulty: Hard Answer: A Page: 616 Difficulty: Medium 39.
The Federal Trade Commission Act allowed business regulation through all of the following means except A) the seizure of corporations engaged in monopolistic activities B) advising of corporations on whether their behavior was acceptable to the government C) the investigation of corporate behavior D) the outlawing of ―unfair trade practices‖ E) an increase in the government’s authority in business issues
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Answer: A Page: 613 Difficulty: Hard 40.
After backing away from further reforms in late 1914, Wilson began pushing reforms again because A) the Supreme Court overturned some of his previous reform measures B) a new round of major business scandals occurred C) the economy turned downward D) the United States entered World War I in 1914 E) Democrats lost heavily in the 1914 elections
The term ―Dollar Diplomacy‖ refers to the A) efforts of the Taft administration to gain the support of small Latin American countries by paying off their debts B) paying of bribes to Latin American politicians C) policy of using investment to further U.S. economic interests in Latin America D) spreading of goodwill by U.S. tourists in the Caribbean E) creation of heavily regulated markets in Asia Answer: C Page: 616 Difficulty: Medium
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President Wilson used ―morality‖ to justify intervention in all of the following nations except A) Haiti B) Guatemala C) Dominican Republic D) Nicaragua E) Mexico Answer: B Page: 616 – 618 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 613 Difficulty: Medium 48. 41.
President Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy was dominated by his belief that A) all peoples should be granted the right of self-determination B) it is the right and duty of civilized nations to intervene in the affairs of uncivilized nations for the common good C) only free trade can ensure a stable world economy D) the United States’ support of Japan in its rise as an industrialized world power would help ensure world peace E) isolation from foreign affairs would maintain prosperity at home
Answer: A Page: 617 – 618 Difficulty: Medium 49.
Answer: B Page: 613 Difficulty: Hard 42.
In 1905, Teddy Roosevelt intervened to force a peace in a war between A) Russia and Japan B) Japan and China C) China and Britain D) Britain and Russia E) Russia and Germany Answer: A Page: 614 Difficulty: Easy
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President Teddy Roosevelt secured the Canal Zone in Panama by A) engineering a Panamanian revolt against Colombia B) threatening Panama with the use of force C) negotiating a treaty with Colombia D) invading the capital of Colombia E) urging the English navy to attack Panama
In Europe, World War I had all of the following consequences except A) it forever shattered the century-old balance of power among nations B) it introduced the concept of total war, involving entire societies C) it destroyed a large portion of an entire generation of European youth D) it brought fifty years of peace to the continent E) it severely damaged centuries of social and economic traditions Answer: D Page: 621 Difficulty: Medium
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The United States originally planned for its inter-ocean canal to go through the country of A) Colombia B) Nicaragua C) Mexico D) Guatemala E) El Salvador Answer: B Page: 616 Difficulty: Easy
The work of George Marsh led Americans to fear that deforestation would cause all of the following environmental disasters except A) deforested land might become a desert B) deforested land might lose its topsoil C) streams on deforested land might dry up D) deforested land might cause global warming E) deforested land might lose its stabilizing influence on the natural environment Answer: D Page: 606 – 607 Difficulty: Medium
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that A) European nations could use force to collect debts in Latin America B) the United States would not allow any new European investments in Latin America C) European ships would have to pay for the privilege of using the Panama Canal D) the United States could intervene in the internal affairs of Latin American nations to preserve stability E) free trade was no longer a major facet of American foreign policy Answer: D Page: 615 Difficulty: Medium
During the period 1900 – 1915, the United States offered support to the Mexican leader A) all of the answers below B) Venustiano Carranza C) Pancho Villa D) Victoriano Huerta E) Porfirio Diaz
Before World War I, the Triple Alliance consisted of A) Britain, France, and Russia B) Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Italy C) Britain, France, and Italy D) Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the Ottoman Empire E) France, Britain, and the United States Answer: B Page: 622 Difficulty: Easy
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The A) B) C) D) E)
immediate cause of World War I was an international rivalry between Britain and Germany a border dispute between France and Germany the Communist Revolution in Russia the bitter outcomes of the Russo-Japanese War an internal conflict between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbian nationalists
Answer: E Page: 622 Difficulty: Hard Answer: C Page: 623 Difficulty: Hard 4.
Although the United States proclaimed neutrality at the start of World War I, Americans were not completely impartial because A) exaggerated reports circulated about German atrocities in Belgium B) Irish-Americans hated the Germans C) the United States and Germany had similar political ideals D) the German government threatened to cut off trade with the United States E) American citizens in Turkey had been murdered
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Answer: A Page: 622 – 623 Difficulty: Hard 5.
When President Wilson referred to ―neutral rights,‖ he meant A) all of the answers below B) the right of any neutral nation to trade with any and all nations involved in the war C) the right to inspect prisoner-of-war camps for Geneva Convention violations D) the right to evacuate America citizens from war zones E) the right of America to remain loyal to its alliance with Germany
Answer: A Page: 623 Difficulty: Hard 12.
Answer: B Page: 623 Difficulty: Medium 6.
Many Americans became outraged at Germany after it began to A) shell major cities like Paris B) use Russian prisoners of war as forced labor C) engage in submarine warfare D) imprison European Jews E) invade neutral countries like the Netherlands
The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was A) given ample warning B) sailing into German waters C) armed with deck guns D) trying to blockade German food supplies E) carrying munitions to Great Britain
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In 1915, when the Germans began to use submarine warfare to ―sink on sight‖ vessels carrying supplies to Britain, President Wilson responded by A) asking Congress to declare war on Germany B) declaring that the United States would hold Germany to strict accountability for unlawful acts C) withdrawing diplomatic recognition from Germany D) forbidding U.S. ships to travel into enemy waters E) declaring an embargo on all foreign trade
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In 1916, the German Navy temporarily suspended submarine warfare against U.S. ships because of A) British antisubmarine mines in the North Sea B) heavy losses caused by the introduction of sonar by the Royal Navy C) the fear that it would lead to intervention by the United States D) the defeat of the Royal Navy at Jutland, which made such tactics unnecessary E) the skilled diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt
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President Wilson’s actions during the first two years of the war showed that he was A) looking for an excuse to enter the war B) trying to provoke German aggression against the United States C) trying not to upset either the peace faction or the war faction D) more concerned with his domestic reform program E) determined to stay out of the war no matter what the cost
After entering World War I, the first actions of the U.S. military involved A) securing the U.S.-Mexico border against a possible attack B) aiding the British Navy in its efforts to end the submarine threat to Allied shipping C) rounding up German and Irish-Americans suspected of being disloyal D) deploying troops to Russia to prevent a Communist takeover E) reinforcing overmatched French forces in Turkey Answer: B Page: 624 – 625 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: C Page: 623 Difficulty: Hard 10.
The Zimmermann telegram stirred up anti-German sentiment in the United States because it revealed German plans to A) destroy the Panama Canal B) deploy submarines along the Atlantic coast of the United States C) return to Mexico her lost provinces in the American Southwest in exchange for a Mexican declaration of war on the United States D) recruit German and Irish-Americans for use as spies and saboteurs in the United States E) subvert the Open Door policy in the Far East Answer: C Page: 624 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: B Page: 623 Difficulty: Hard 9.
President Wilson asked for a Declaration of War in April, 1917, largely because of the A) all of the answers below B) public outcry after the release of the Zimmermann telegram C) overthrow of the Russian Czar D) torpedoing of three U.S. ships in March E) belief that progressive world order must prevail Answer: A Page: 624 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: E Page: 623 Difficulty: Easy 8.
Before he could ask for a Declaration of War against Germany in 1917, Wilson needed A) proof of German atrocities in Belgium B) a justification that would unify public opinion behind him C) a period of waiting while U.S. forces prepared for war D) a formal request for U.S. troops from the government of France E) a recovery from the recession that plagued the United States Answer: B Page: 624 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: C Page: 623 Difficulty: Easy 7.
The presidential election of 1916 was one of the closest in American history. All of the following factors helped Wilson win re-election except A) the Republican party split between pro-war Theodore Roosevelt and pacifist Charles Evans Hughes B) the Democratic party portrayed Wilson as having kept the United States out of war C) the war caused an economic boom in the United States D) Wilson promised peace and progressivism E) many voters believed his opponent would be more likely to lead the nation into the war
Although Americans believed that only naval assistance would be required of the United States, the situation changed when A) the British and French summer offensives failed B) the Italian army suffered a series of defeats at the hands of the Austrian army C) the Ottoman Empire declared war on Britain and France D) Russia pulled out of the war, allowing a large number of German troops to be moved west E) the Germans invaded eastern Europe Answer: D Page: 625 Difficulty: Hard
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The majority of the men who served in the American armed forces during World War I
A) B) C) D) E)
were drafted volunteered accepted a bounty to serve were already in the army when war broke out were over thirty years old
organized it on the basis of A) all of the answers below B) geographic region — the Southeast, Northeast, etc. C) economic function — railroads, fuel, etc. D) political division — Texas, California, etc. E) social division — race, class, etc.
Answer: A Page: 625 Difficulty: Easy Answer: C Page: 629 Difficulty: Medium 18.The group that was allowed to enlist in the armed forces for the first time during World War I was A) blacks B) Hispanics C) women D) Indians E) Irish-Americans
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Answer: C Page: 626 Difficulty: Easy 19.
During World War I, the status of African-Americans changed in all of the following ways except A) thousands moved from the rural South and found jobs in Northern industrial cities B) thousands served in the armed forces, some in combat in Europe C) the patriotism of wartime temporarily diminished the racism that usually afflicted them D) tensions developed between rural blacks and urban blacks over cultural differences E) they were able to see other societal models in places such as France
The exceptionally well-run Food Administration Board brought into the national spotlight a future president by the name of A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Calvin Coolidge C) Herbert Hoover D) Warren G. Harding E) Dwight D. Eisenhower Answer: C Page: 629 Difficulty: Easy
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The war economy exhibited all of the following characteristics except A) the war boards worked in partnership with industry to increase corporate profits B) labor unions cooperated in the effort and received important concessions in return C) some industries performed well, but many met only a small fraction of wartime needs D) the head of the War Industries Board functioned as an allpowerful czar of American industry E) the war boards revealed the strengths of a managed economy Answer: D Page: 629 – 631 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: C Page: 626 Difficulty: Hard 27. 20.
The combat role of American troops in World War I A) was virtually nonexistent because the United States was unable to get troops to Europe before the war ended B) was limited to small skirmishes because the United States only got small numbers of troops there before fighting stopped C) included major involvement in only the final month-long battle that ended the war D) involved over six months of hard fighting to stop the final German offensives of the war E) began immediately after the German invasion of France
Answer: D Page: 632 Difficulty: Easy 28.
Answer: D Page: 626 – 627 Difficulty: Easy 21.
In the last months of World War I, the Allies launched a 200-mile attack against the Germans in the Battle of A) the Somme River B) the Marne C) Gallipoli D) Chateau-Thierry E) the Argonne Forest Answer: E Page: 627 Difficulty: Medium
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Before 1917, the peace movement in the United States included many members of all the following groups except A) Socialists B) women activists C) Irish-Americans D) African-Americans E) Quakers
To unite public opinion behind the war effort, the Committee on Public Information used all of the following methods except A) pressuring newspapers into printing only positive accounts of the war B) banning the distribution of foreign journals C) issuing innumerable patriotic posters D) producing and showing pro-war propaganda films E) asking citizens to report on neighbors that they suspected of disloyalty Answer: B Page: 633 – 634 Difficulty: Hard
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All of the following were new technologies in World War I except A) airplanes B) poisonous gas C) rifled artillery D) tanks E) flame throwers
The government used the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act as an excuse to A) all of the answers below B) ban opposition groups from using the U.S. mail C) eliminate public criticism of the president D) crack down on the Socialist party and the I.W.W. E) arrest Socialist leader Eugene Debs Answer: A Page: 633 – 636 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: C Page: 627 – 628 Difficulty: Medium 30. 23.
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Answer: C Page: 629 Difficulty: Easy
In response to the government’s calls for unity, many Americans A) formed volunteer groups to help large numbers of war refugees to immigrate to the United States B) treated immigrants well, because they had chosen to be Americans over their previous nationality C) joined the coast watchers to look for German submarines operating near major ports D) joined peace parties that opposed internationalism E) started vigilante groups to punish citizens reported to be disloyal
The war boards that ran the economy during World War I finally
Answer: E Page: 636 Difficulty: Medium
The U.S. government used all of the following methods to finance the war effort except A) Liberty bonds B) higher income taxes C) a national sales tax D) taxes on excess corporate products E) loans from the American people
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President Wilson’s Fourteen Points were an expression of A) conservatism B) internationalism C) isolationism D) rationalism E) existentialism
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Answer: B Page: 636 Difficulty: Easy 32.
The Fourteen Points included A) self-determination for all peoples B) a world bank to help rebuild Europe C) a ban on the use of poison gas in warfare D) economic aid for former German colonies E) the creation of the United Nations
The A) B) C)
economic downturn in 1920 was caused by the all of the answers below rapid rise in prices after the war sudden cancellation of government contracts at the end of the war D) abrupt ending of government controls on the economy E) decline in the gross national product Answer: A Page: 640 – 641 Difficulty: Hard
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Answer: A Page: 636 Difficulty: Medium 33.
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The Fourteen Points included all of the following provisions except A) the right of self-determination B) a league of nations C) impartial mediation of colonial claims D) reduction of arms E) the rights of the individual
The labor unrest that followed the end of the war had all of the following causes except A) some employers reneged on promises they had made to labor during the war B) high inflation had cut workers’ buying power C) union power had increased significantly during the war D) many people suffered bad working conditions and long hours E) the postwar recession caused unemployment to rise Answer: C Page: 641 – 642 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 636 – 637 Difficulty: Medium 41. 34.
The Fourteen Points were flawed by their failure to address sufficiently A) the rising power of Japan B) the need for an international currency C) the methods of implementing them D) the growing troubles in Palestine E) the existence of free trade Answer: C Page: 637 Difficulty: Easy
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During World War I and its aftermath, President Wilson alienated the Republican party by A) all of the answers below B) asking the voters to defeat Republicans who had loyally supported his war efforts C) making war aims the key issue in the mid-term elections of 1918 D) not appointing any important Republicans to his negotiating team for the peace treaty E) refusing to yield to any of Senator Lodge’s reservations about the peace treaty
Answer: A Page: 642 Difficulty: Easy 42.
Effects of the reparations payment after World War I included A) America’s firm commitment to in ternationalism B) the re-election of Woodrow Wilson C) the dominance of the French military on the European continent D) Germany’s inability to make the full reparations payment E) America’s entry into the League of Nations
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The main factor that doomed the Treaty of Versailles in the U.S. Senate was A) a loss of public interest in European affairs B) a Republican filibuster C) President Wilson’s refusal to compromise D) conflicts between the treaty and the Monroe Doctrine E) the breakdown of diplomatic relations with France Answer: C Page: 639 – 640 Difficulty: Medium
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The A) B) C)
only nation not to join the League of Nations was the United States France Italy
The urban riots of the summer of 1919 differed from previous such occurrences in that A) they were the first based solely on racial tension B) blacks fought back in significant numbers for the first time C) the death toll was the highest it had ever been D) black nationalists incited some of the riots for the first time E) whites showed little aggression toward blacks Answer: B Page: 642 – 643 Difficulty: Hard
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Answer: D Page: 638 – 639 Difficulty: Medium 37.
Upon returning home from the war, black veterans A) were welcomed as heroes by all Americans B) became disillusioned when they received no significant opportunities for advancement C) were given jobs over nonveterans D) became the leaders of the black nationalism movement E) were awarded a special payment to offset their poor treatment Answer: B Page: 642 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: A Page: 637, 639 Difficulty: Hard 36.
Black workers who migrated north to find jobs A) found hostility in the North as bad as in the South B) made significant economic gains C) gradually became accepted D) found the North to be far less racist E) were able to quickly attain middle-class status
The Red scare began in 1919 as a response to A) all of the answers below B) the creation of the Comintern to export Communist revolution from the Soviet Union to the West C) acts of violence against American businessmen and politicians D) the bombing of U.S. Attorney General Palmer’s house E) the success of the Russian Revolution Answer: A Page: 643 – 644 Difficulty: Medium
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The Red scare resulted in all of the following actions except A) the federal government arrested thousands for possession of explosives and weapons B) the government summarily deported many radicals who were not citizens C) mobs committed acts of violence against supposed radicals D) state governments arrested and jailed hundreds on sedition charges E) the government prosecuted anarchists such as Sacco and
Vanzetti Answer: A Page: 644 – 646 Difficulty: Hard 46.
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The end of the progressive era occurred because A) the failure of the League of Nations caused many progressive leaders to abandon the movement B) the addition of millions of women voters to the electorate pushed the country in a conservative direction C) wartime repression drove reformers into retirement or exile D) the Republican party took over the leadership of what was called ―new progressivism‖ E) uncertainty and disillusionment made stability more attractive than idealism
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The closing of over 9000 American banks between 1930 and 1933 resulted in A) a decrease in the money supply B) an increase in the price level C) a decrease in unemployment D) an increase in purchasing power E) a decrease in interest rates
In the Scottsboro case of the 1930s, all of the following events occurred except A) the youths eventually were acquitted by one of the juries that heard the case B) eight young blacks were sentenced to death C) an organization associated with the Communist party came to the aid of the youths D) all of the youths eventually gained their freedom E) the Supreme Court overturned the original convictions Answer: A Page: 685 Difficulty: Hard
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Answer: D Page: 677 – 678 Difficulty: Hard
During the Depression, black Americans suffered special hardships, which were caused by A) all of the answers below B) unemployed whites seeking positions formerly held by blacks C) the sharecropping system becoming unprofitable D) blacks not receiving their fair share of relief benefits E) continuing racial prejudice in the nation Answer: A Page: 684 – 685 Difficulty: Easy
The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors except A) prosperity was dependent on a few basic industries B) too few Americans were able to purchase goods produced by American industries C) some of the major banks did not have enough reserves to withstand an economic downturn D) American industries and banks were not involved in the European economy E) there was an overwhelming maldistribution of wealth
The collapse of the international credit structure in the early 1930s was fostered by the U.S. policy of A) granting a moratorium on European war debts B) refusing to repay loans to Germany and Austria C) lowering tariffs on European goods entering the United States D) loaning less money to foreign countries E) subsidizing the German economy with large payments
Between 1929 and 1932, farmers in the Dust Bowl of the South and Midwest experienced all of the following problems except A) high temperatures B) a decline in rainfall C) rapidly rising prices D) overproduction in agriculture E) losses of land to foreclosures Answer: C Page: 682 – 683 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: D Page: 676 – 678 Difficulty: Hard 4.
During the Depression, people who lived in the industrial Northeast and Midwest experienced A) unemployment rates considerably lower than in rural areas B) no problems affording food for themselves and their families C) the collapse of city and state relief systems D) an influx of ―Okies‖ who took jobs from professional workers E) an increase in private charity sufficient to meet their needs Answer: C Page: 681 Difficulty: Medium
The steady rise in stock prices between the spring of 1928 and the fall of 1929 was caused by A) the easy credit policies of brokerage firms B) the vast increase in the earning power of corporations C) the withdrawal of the middle-income class from the stock market D) the increase of interest rates by the Federal Reserve E) the production decline in major industries Answer: A Page: 676 Difficulty: Medium
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Between May 1928 and September 1929, the prices of the stocks of the major industries A) doubled in value B) rose 25 percent C) remained roughly the same D) lost about half of their value E) set record figures for low values Answer: A Page: 676 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: C Page: 679 – 681 Difficulty: Easy
During the Depression, the cause of equal rights for blacks was advanced when A) blacks were permitted to share public accommodations with whites B) many blacks were allowed to join labor unions C) the Supreme Court ruled that separate educational facilities were unequal D) Congress became more sensitive to the plight of minorities E) a voting rights act ensured the right to vote in the South
Answer: B Page: 685 Difficulty: Hard 12.Although blacks and Hispanics suffered similar hardships during the Depression, the Hispanics encountered the additional problem of A) receiving less relief than whites B) suffering social discrimination C) having little access to public schools and hospitals D) being the last hired and first fired E) unequal allocation of New Deal funds Answer: C Page: 685 Difficulty: Hard 13.
Answer: A Page: 679 Difficulty: Hard 6.According to a crude estimate, the unemployment rate in 1932 at the height of the Depression was A) 15 percent B) 20 percent C) 25 percent D) 30 percent E) 40 percent
One A) B) C)
of the goals of the Japanese-Americans Citizen League was to seek college loans for high-achieving Nisei form a union for Japanese-American railway workers encourage Nisei to become more assimilated to American culture D) protest government favoritism toward African-Americans E) support a Nisei candidate for governor of California Answer: C Page: 686 Difficulty: Medium
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All of the following statements about women in the Depression are
true except A) a higher percentage of women were working by the end of the Depression B) there was a general belief that women should not work if their husbands had jobs C) black women in the South experienced massive unemployment due to a great reduction in domestic service jobs D) unemployment for women who were sales clerks and stenographers was generally lower than it was for male industrial workers E) women experienced a significant increase in gaining opportunities for jobs in professional fields of work
B) C) D) E)
Answer: C Page: 688 Difficulty: Medium 21.
Answer: E Page: 686 Difficulty: Hard 15.
During the Depression, women in the workforce experienced a change in their situation, in that A) more women were entering the professions B) 30 percent more women were working C) men were taking over traditional nonprofessional women’s jobs D) the National Woman’s party served as women’s labor union E) the percentage of black women who worked dropped below that of whites
By the end of the 1930s, the American feminist movement had A) made significant gains in obtaining equal rights legislation B) gained support from the idea that women should be economically and professionally independent C) achieved some success in obtaining ―protective‖ legislation D) managed to gain the election of three women to the U.S. Senate E) reached its lowest point in nearly a century
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In response to the Depression, American social values A) became radical in nature B) suffered from the extreme economic deprivations C) began to reflect radical socialism D) seemed to change relatively little E) began, once again, to reflect the Victorian Age
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A sociological study of Muncie, Indiana, in the mid-1930s found that A) the independence of many Americans had been undermined by the availability of federal relief B) Americans still remained committed to the traditional value of individualism C) Americans believed that conformity to the old standards of society was no longer effective in achieving success D) most Americans were so distressed by the failure of the democratic process that they were willing to listen to leftist propaganda E) individualism had been replaced by dependence on ―economic royalists‖
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Answer: A Page: 688 Difficulty: Hard 20.
Dale Carnegie’s 1936 best seller, How to Win Friends and Influence People promoted the principle that A) individualism and self-integrity are the keys to financial
The American Communist party of the 1930s was engaged in promoting all of the following activities except A) the formation of the Lincoln Brigade B) a challenge to the Soviet policies of Stalin C) the Washington, D.C., hunger march of 1931 D) an alliance of anti-fascist groups E) the support of Republicans in the Spanish Civil War Answer: B Page: 691 – 693 Difficulty: Medium
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During the Depression, many Americans reacted by A) all of the answers below B) accusing corporate moguls and international bankers of causing much of the distress C) blaming themselves for their economic difficulties D) looking to the government for assistance in a situation that was essentially society’s problem E) showing shame over their inability to find work
The most popular radio shows, movies, and literature of the Depression reflected America’s desire to A) learn about the social difficulties of the country B) conform to traditional American values C) analyze growing tensions in Europe D) receive political and economic information E) escape the economic problems of the day Answer: E Page: 689 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 687 – 688 Difficulty: Medium 19.
Commercial films of the 1930s were A) realistic depictions of life during the Depression B) usually based on classical literature C) militaristic in tone D) experiencing a large drop off in attendance E) often deliberately and explicitly escapist Answer: E Page: 690 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: D Page: 687 Difficulty: Medium 18.
Literary works of the 1930s that addressed the social problems of the Depression included all of the following novels except A) Harvey Allen’s Anthony Adverse B) John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath C) John Dos Passos’s U.S.A. trilogy D) Clifford O det’s Waiting for Lefty E) Erskine Caldwell’s Tobacco Road Answer: A Page: 688 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 687 Difficulty: Medium 17.
During the Depression, intellectual writers, popular writers, and photographers portrayed the distress of certain groups of Americans. The primary group addressed by these efforts was the A) small businessmen B) Southern tenant farmers and sharecroppers C) urban immigrants D) blacks and Hispanics of the Southwest E) Native Americans Answer: B Page: 688 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 686 Difficulty: Medium 16.
success nonconformity is the vehicle to self-esteem adaptability to one’s environment and making others feel important are the more effective routes to success aggressiveness and individual initiative are harmful to society the old American work ethic must be replaced by cooperative sharing of wealth
During the 1930s, the Socialist party of America was led by A) H. L. Mitchell B) John L. Lewis C) John Dos Passos D) Eugene V. Debs E) Norman Thomas Answer: E Page: 693 Difficulty: Easy
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Herbert Hoover’s early response to the Depression included all of the following actions except A) trying to persuade businessmen not to cut production or lay off workers B) asking Congress for an increase in spending on public works programs C) creating a federal program to help farmers raise agricultural prices
D) E)
lowering tariffs in order to encourage foreigners to buy American products promoting voluntarism as a way of easing economic woes
D) E)
Answer: D Page: 695 – 696 Difficulty: Hard 28.
The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 failed to improve conditions for farmers because A) the government refused to fund the program sufficiently B) farmers ignored government recommendations to increase production C) the program relied on voluntary cooperation rather than on federal control D) foreign agricultural products continued to pour into the country E) farmers had voted overwhelmingly for Al Smith in 1928
Answer: B Page: 697 Difficulty: Hard 35.The purpose of the ―Bonus Army‖ march into Washington, D.C., in 1932 was to A) gain crop subsidies for Midwestern farmers B) seek recruits for the antifascist forces in Spain C) demand that the government admit to profiteering during World War I D) persuade Congress to approve the early payment of bonuses due to World War I veterans E) lobby Congress for increased medical and retirement benefits for war veterans
Answer: C Page: 695 – 696 Difficulty: Hard 29.
During 1930 and 1931, Hoover’s situation deteriorated even further because A) all of the answers below B) the Republicans lost heavily in the 1930 elections C) many Americans were holding him personally responsible for the crisis D) the banking structure in Europe collapsed E) Americans began using the term ―Hoovervilles‖ to describe shanty towns of the unemployed
Answer: D Page: 697 Difficulty: Easy 36.
Answer: A Page: 695 – 696 Difficulty: Hard 30.
Following the 1931 collapse of the largest bank in Austria, European nations reacted by A) returning to the gold standard B) purchasing shares in American companies C) increasing the value of their currency D) withdrawing their gold from American banks E) refusing to engage in deficit spending
Hoover responded to the domestic crisis in 1931 by asking Congress to A) establish the Federal Emergency Relief Administration B) authorize loaning federal funds to small businessmen C) increase funding for financial institutions to prevent mortgage foreclosure D) pass legislation providing strong regulation of the banks E) create work relief programs for urban Americans
The final outcome of the ―Bonus Army‖ march was that Congress gave the marchers A) everything they wanted, and they held a giant celebration before going home B) part of what they wanted, and they went home peacefully C) nothing, but they went home peacefully anyway D) nothing, and the president authorized the use of military force to make them leave E) immediate payment of the bonus that was promised them Answer: D Page: 697 Difficulty: Easy
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Answer: D Page: 696 Difficulty: Hard 31.
market staging public protests in the nation’s capital forming an organization to support their rights
The election of 1932 saw all of the following events except A) the Democrats nominated Franklin D. Roosevelt in jubilant anticipation of victory B) the Republicans dumped Herbert Hoover in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat C) the Democrats captured control of both houses of Congress D) the victorious candidate narrowly escaped assassination just before inauguration E) Franklin D. Roosevelt won in a landslide victory Answer: B Page: 698 – 699 Difficulty: Medium
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During the election of 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt gained the public’s attention by emphasizing all of the following ideas except A) a definite plan for economic recovery B) a balanced budget C) progressive reform principles D) a jaunty, optimistic approach to life E) the importance of addressing economic distress
Answer: C Page: 696 Difficulty: Hard Answer: A Page: 698 – 699 Difficulty: Medium 32.
The A) B) C) D)
purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation was to provide funding for the construction of federal buildings create schools to retrain the unemployed purchase the stocks of failing institutions provide federal loans to troubled banks, railroads, and other big businesses E) encourage a massive construction program for public works
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Answer: D Page: 696 Difficulty: Easy 33.
One of the Hoover administration’s major failings in dealing with the Depression was its A) inability to win the support of Congress B) lack of concern for the troubles of the American people C) reluctance to spend large amounts of federal funds D) dedication to the principle of not interfering in the economy E) refusal to recognize the Depression’s effects in rural areas
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Answer: C Page: 696 Difficulty: Easy 34.
During 1932, the bad conditions produced by the Depression caused some farmers to engage in a ll of the following actions except A) lobbying Congress for a guaranteed return on their crops B) destroying their crops in an attempt to limit production C) organizing a strike in an effort to keep their crops from
Between the election in late 1932 and the inauguration in early 1933, A) Hoover took decisive steps to ease the economic crisis B) the Depression began to ease somewhat C) the banking industry began to collapse D) Roosevelt assured the public that he would take no drastic action E) war began to break out in Europe Answer: C Page: 699 Difficulty: Easy During World War II, the majority of Americans experienced A) all of the answers below B) profound changes in the social and political structure of their country C) massive destruction in many of the military installations in the United States D) serious shortages of food, medicine, shelter, and other necessities of life E) a continuance of job shortages and a struggling economy Answer: B Page: 749 Difficulty: Medium
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor led to the U.S. entry into World War II, A) Japan chose to wait almost a year before making another
B) C) D) E)
major military assault the United States avoided any major military activity in the Pacific for over a year because it was too weak Japan inflicted major defeats on U.S. forces in the next few months the United States achieved several important victories over the Japanese in the next few months the alliance of the United States and Great Britain nearly achieved victory in the Pacific
E)
Answer: B Page: 752 – 753 Difficulty: Medium 9.
Answer: C Page: 750 Difficulty: Medium 3.
During World War II, the first important Allied victory in the Pacific occurred A) in the Philippines B) near Midway Island C) on Guadalcanal Island D) at the Battle of Coral Sea E) on the island of Okinawa
During 1942, the United States launched its first major effort against the Germans when it A) sent troops to prevent the Germans from using oil fields inside the Soviet Union B) invaded Italy in an effort to open a second front in Europe C) worked with the British in launching a major offensive in North Africa D) used political and economic pressure to persuade Spain to withdraw from its alliance with Germany E) broke through German defenses surrounding the Soviet Union
10.
The Allied invasion of France was postponed until 1944 for all the following reasons except A) the British were opposed to an earlier invasion of France B) losses to the Japanese required diverting troops to the Pacific C) the North African campaign tied up large amounts of Allied resources D) the invasion of Italy required so much time and effort that it set the Allied timetable back a year E) Franklin Roosevelt knew the liberation of France would need a great deal of planning
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When the Americans and the British inflicted major defeats on the Italian Army during 1943, the Italians responded by A) reorganizing their army and tying to regain the lost territory B) removing Mussolini from power and switching to the Allied side C) asking the Germans to reinforce key positions in Italy D) allowing the Allies to occupy the rest of their country without a fight E) invading France by attacking from Belgium
By the beginning of 1944, the production of American industry for military needs was A) all of the answers below B) failing to meet allied needs C) under the complete control of a single government superagency D) evenly divided between large corporations and small businesses E) supplying more than the government needed Answer: D Page: 756 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: A Page: 750 – 751 Difficulty: Easy 7.
To keep prices from rising too much during World War II, the U.S. government A) all of the answers below B) imposed a system of rationing that tried to keep Americans from buying too much of certain products C) established wage and price controls that set limits on increases D) borrowed and taxed large sums from Americans, which left them less money for buying goods E) created the office of Price Administration Answer: A Page: 755 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: B Page: 750 Difficulty: Hard 6.During 1942 and 1943, a major Allied defeat occurred A) at Kasserine Pass in Tunisia B) near the Egyptian city of El Alamein C) near the Soviet city of Stalingrad D) on the Italian island of Sicily E) at the Battle of the Bulge
During World War II, the U.S. government used all the following means to control unions except A) getting unions to agree to a ―no -strike‖ pledge B) limiting wage increases to 15 percent C) passing a law to give the president the power to seize a struck war plant D) allowing the president to draft workers into government service E) requiring unions to wait thirty days before striking Answer: D Page: 755 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: C Page: 750 – 751 Difficulty: Medium 5.
During World War II, changes to American domestic life included A) a continuation of the Great Depression B) a significant decrease in personal income C) a drop in pay for most workers D) a rapid industrialization of some of the western states E) a major decline in union membership Answer: D Page: 754 – 755 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: D Page: 750 Difficulty: Easy 4.
Allied advantages during World War II included A) all of the answers below B) American mass production techniques C) the improvement of radar technology D) the improvement of sonar technology E) the inability of the Axis Powers to bomb American weapons factories Answer: A Page: 756 Difficulty: Medium
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One was A) B) C)
Answer: B Page: 751 Difficulty: Easy 8.
During the Nazi program of exterminating the Jews in Europe, American officials A) knew nothing about Hitler’s campaign against the Jews B) were more concerned with the larger goal of winning the war than with the fate of the Jews C) were able to do nothing since Allied land and air forces were not within reach of any of the death camps D) increased the number of visas permitted by law to admit as
many as possible of the Jewish refugees fleeing the horrors of Europe convinced British officials to protect million of Jewish refugees
D) E)
area in which the Allies had superior technological quality in the success of creating effective code-breaking technology in building better artillery guns than the Germans in designing fighter-bombers, a style of plane the Germans did not possess in producing a more durable helmet for infantry men in building more powerful tanks than the Germans had
Answer: A Page: 758 Difficulty: Medium 15.
During American involvement in World War II, African-American leaders tried to end discrimination by A) all of the answers below B) using black unions and threatening marches to apply
C) D) E)
pressure on companies with government contracts forcing the government to organize a commission to investigate discrimination mobilizing mass popular resistance in the form of sit-ins and demonstrations organizing to demand integration in war-production industries
D) E)
Answer: D Page: 760 – 761 Difficulty: Medium 23.
Answer: A Page: 758 – 759 Difficulty: Hard 16.
For African-Americans, World War II led to a significant decrease in A) factory jobs for those in Northern cities B) their numbers in the armed forces C) the number willing to accept a status of second-class citizen D) racial tensions in Northern cities E) segregation in the Deep South
Because of angry emotions stirred by World War II, Americans treated harshly immigrants to the United States from the enemy country of A) all of the answers below B) Japan C) Germany D) Italy E) Austria Answer: B Page: 764 Difficulty: Easy
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Answer: C Page: 758 – 759 Difficulty: Medium 17.
teenagers enrolled in high school people who got married and had children
World War II changed Native Americans (Indians) by A) all of the answers below B) bringing them into intimate contact with white society C) creating among them a taste for the material benefits of life in capitalist America D) providing many of them with jobs in industry E) causing some to leave reservations for new opportunities
The U.S. government interned many Japanese Americans in ―relocation camps‖ because A) some of them had engaged in conspiracies on behalf of their homeland B) many American military leaders unjustly regarded them as a threat to the security of the West Coast C) they refused to serve in the U.S. armed forces D) they were mainly first-generation immigrants who were born in Japan and retained Japanese culture E) many had helped pave the way to the attack on Pearl Harbor Answer: B Page: 764 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: A Page: 759 Difficulty: Medium 25. 18.
During World War II, Mexican Americans experienced A) a decrease in the number of farm jobs available to them B) the successful passage of civil rights bill C) the loss of a significant number of factory jobs D) a sudden shrinkage of their neighborhoods in some western cities E) a small number of violent clashes between them and AngloAmerican residents of the West
Answer: E Page: 765 Difficulty: Medium 26.
Answer: E Page: 759 Difficulty: Hard 19.
The increase in the number of Mexican Americans employed in the United States during the early 1940s resulted from A) better relations between them and the Anglo-American population B) wartime labor shortages C) better living conditions in the cities D) large-scale government programs to reduce discrimination E) a New Deal program targeted to aid Mexican Americans
Compared with women who worked outside the home before 1939, the new working women of World War II were more likely to be A) all of the answers below B) employed in rural areas C) single rather than married D) younger than in the past E) engaged in heavy industrial work
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During the final years of World War II, the New Deal programs of the Roosevelt administration were A) strengthened B) left as they had been before the war C) partially eliminated D) completely dismantled E) increased at an unprecedented pace Answer: C Page: 766 Difficulty: Easy
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During World War II, women who worked outside the home concentrated in A) governmental jobs B) industrial jobs C) food preparation jobs D) military jobs E) educational jobs
During the election of 1944, all of the following events occurred except A) the Democrats retained control of the House and the Senate B) the Democrats nominated a moderate in place of the liberal vice president C) the Republicans attempted to take advantage of the people’s unhappiness with wartime regimentation D) the Democrats won the presidency and maintained control of both houses of Congress E) the Republicans suggested that the president had done a poor job of conducting the war
Answer: A Page: 760 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: E Page: 766 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: E Page: 760 Difficulty: Medium 21.
During World War II, the status of Chinese Americans in American society A) improved considerably B) remained roughly the same C) declined slightly D) declined significantly E) improved but declined after 1942 Answer: A Page: 765 – 766 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 759 Difficulty: Easy 20.
In the case Korematsu v. U.S. , the Supreme Court ruled that A) Hideki Tojo should be tried for war crimes B) labor unions could not enlist foreign-born workers C) women could work in war-industry positions of skilled labor D) the attack on Pearl Harbor should not have been a surprise E) the internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional
In the United States, World War II brought a number of important social consequences, including a decrease in the number of A) children who stayed at home alone while their mothers worked B) young people who became involved in criminal activities C) high-school graduates who joined the military
29.
During 1944 and 1945, in an attempt to end the war in western Europe, Allied forces A) all of the answers below B) weakened the German airforce in large air battles C) destroyed German cities with massive bombing raids D) invaded France with a gigantic naval, air, and land force
E)
attacked German forces in central Europe with large armies of tanks and infantry
Answer: C Page: 771 – 773 Difficulty: Hard 36.
Answer: A Page: 766 – 769 Difficulty: Medium 30.
During the final days of World War II, German troops mounted their last serious resistance in western Europe at the Battle of A) Normandy B) Kasserine Pass C) the Bulge D) Remagen E) the Rhine
Answer: A Page: 774 Difficulty: Easy
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Among the root causes of the hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was A) all of the answers below B) the brutality of the Soviet government toward its own people C) the Soviet mistreatment of eastern Europeans during World War II D) the United States refusal to deal with the Soviet Union during the 1920s E) the fundamental difference between the nations’ vision of the postwar world
Answer: B Page: 768 Difficulty: Easy 31.
During World War II, the Allies split Europe into two theaters of operation, with A) the Americans and the British fighting in the eastern half and the Soviets fighting in the northern half B) the Americans and the British fighting in the northern half and the Soviets fighting in the southern half C) the Americans and the British fighting in the southern half and the Soviets fighting in the northern half D) the Americans and the British fighting in the eastern half and the Soviets fighting in the western half E) the Americans and the British fighting in the western half and the Soviets fighting in the ea stern half
Answer: A Page: 778 Difficulty: Medium 2.
Answer: E Page: 768 Difficulty: Hard 32.
During 1943 and 1944, the war on the Asian mainland saw all of the following developments except A) Allied troops established a land supply route between India and China B) the allies were frustrated regarding Chiang Kai- Shek’s strategic use of troops C) Japanese forces continued to drive deep into the Chinese interior D) Allied forces drove the Japanese out of the outlying Chinese province of Manchuria E) Chinese leaders devoted much of their efforts to fighting Chinese communists instead of Japanese troops
3.
In 1944, the Japanese lost their capacity to continue a serious naval war at the Battle of A) Guam B) Okinawa C) Iwo Jima D) Leyte Gulf E) Saipan
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The United States began development of the atomic bomb because its leaders A) were afraid the Nazis would develop one first B) wanted a way to stop the Soviet Union from expanding after the war C) saw the possibilities for punishing the Japanese for their conduct during the war D) needed a weapon that could bring a quick end to the war E) were determined to show an example of American ingenuity Answer: A Page: 770 Difficulty: Hard
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When the United States used the atomic bomb against Japan at the end of World War II, the president A) all of the answers below B) failed to warn the Japanese that utter devastation was about to strike them C) apparently acted to end the war quickly without having to invade Japan D) ignored the fact that the Japanese cabinet had already voted unanimously to accept unconditional surrender. E) felt that he was saving up to one million American lives
Over the years, some historians have argued that the Cold War was the result of A) all of the answers below B) Soviet communist expansionism C) American capitalist expansionism D) ignorance and misconception on the part of both the Soviets and the Americans E) Soviet paranoia about the intentions of the West Answer: A Page: 780 – 781 Difficulty: Medium
4. Answer: D Page: 769 Difficulty: Easy
The historians who analyzed the Cold War offered all of the following interpretations of its beginning except A) the Cold War resulted from the aggressive Soviet policies of expansion B) the Cold War started because the ideologies of limited government and unlimited government were fundamentally incompatible C) the United States caused the Cold War by insisting that the whole world be open to American trade and influence D) neither side was really to blame for the Cold War because the two most powerful nations in the world were bound to clash E) both sides contributed to the basic causes of the Cold War Answer: B Page: 780 – 781 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: D Page: 769 Difficulty: Hard 33.
During World War II, American forces A) all of the answers below B) helped liberate North Africa C) drove back the Japanese in the Pacific D) joined other Allied forces in the liberation of France E) helped liberate Italy from German occupation
Despite disagreement among historians concerning the origins of the Cold War, many of them have come to accept the postrevisionist interpretation that A) both countries helped to create an atmosphere of tension and suspicion that touched off the Cold War B) the United States initiated the Cold War when it intervened in the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 C) the Soviet Union was merely responding to the military aggressiveness of the United States D) the Soviet Union’s demand for reparations from Germa ny at the end of World War II was the most obvious origin of the Cold War E) the creation of the Warsaw Pact was an unneeded act of Soviet aggression
Answer: A Page: 780 – 781 Difficulty: Hard 5. As the Allies entered the last year of World War II, all of the principles outlined by the Atlantic Charter were strongly supported by A) all of the answers below B) Churchill C) Clemenceau D) Roosevelt E) Stalin Answer: D Page: 778 Difficulty: Easy
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Despite a wartime alliance, postwar Soviet-American relations deteriorated for all of the following reasons except A) their disagreement about the political structure of postwar Europe B) their mutual distrust of each other’s motives C) Roosevelt’s belief that the Soviet government was inflexible and that Stalin was unreasonable D) Stalin’s determination to control central and eastern Europe E) their dispute about the nature of Poland’s postwar government
except A) Soviet entrance into the Pacific war after Germany had been defeated B) creation of a democratic government in Poland with equal representation of procommunist and pro-western Poles C) creation of a United Nations to preserve world peace after the end of the war D) the division of Germany into four zones of occupation based on the positions of troops at the end of the war E) the formation of the Security Council as a way of balancing power
Answer: C Page: 778 – 781 Difficulty: Hard Answer: B Page: 778 – 779 Difficulty: Hard 7.
The Atlantic Charter outlined a vision of the postwar world that would A) set up a system of military alliances and spheres of influence B) organize spheres of influence in international trade C) reestablish a system vaguely similar to the traditional European balance of power D) set up an international organization serving as the arbiter of disputes E) allow the Soviet Union to control central and eastern Europe as a buffer against future invasions
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Answer: D Page: 778 Difficulty: Medium 8.
At the meeting of the Allies at Casablanca in January 1943, Roosevelt and Churchill A) decided to open an immediate second front in Europe to relieve pressure on the Soviet front B) announced that they would accept nothing less than the unconditional surrender of the Axis powers C) decided to invade Europe before North Africa D) refused to listen to Stalin’s views on matters E) chose to momentarily halt research and production of the atomic bomb
Answer: D Page: 779 Difficulty: Medium 14.
Answer: B Page: 778 Difficulty: Medium 9.
Allied wartime diplomacy illustrated that A) Roosevelt and Stalin consistently joined forces against Churchill B) the Big Three could not agree on the principle of a postwar international peace organization C) Roosevelt and Churchill consistently joined forces against Stalin D) a free and united Poland was a major goal for all three nations E) the Big Three could not settle their basic disagreements
Roosevelt and Churchill had a major disagreement with Stalin at the Teheran Conference regarding A) possible use of atomic weapons to end the war B) the future status of Poland C) the creation of a second front against Germany in eastern Europe D) invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa E) the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Answer: B Page: 778 Difficulty: Hard
11.In deciding the issue of Poland a t the Teheran Conference in November 1943, the Big Three decided to A) refuse to allow the Soviets to annex any territory historically belonging to Poland B) allow the Soviets to install a procommunist government in Poland C) divide Poland into zones of occupation with a procommunist government in the eastern half and a pro-western government in the western half D) encourage a self-determination referendum for Polish voters E) leave the issues concerning Poland unresolved
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When Harry Truman assumed the Presidency after Franklin Roosevelt’s death, he believed that A) Roosevelt had kept him well informed on international issues B) Stalin was essentially a good man who could be reasoned with C) the Soviet Union was a backward nation that posed no threat to the United States D) Stalin and the Soviet Union were fundamentally untrustworthy E) the Soviet Union’s military weakness harmed its commitment to expansion Answer: D Page: 780 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: E Page: 778 – 781 Difficulty: Hard 10.
The final agreement at Yalta concerning the future of Germany was that Germany would be A) reconstructed and reunited but would remain under strict supervision of the Allies B) divided in half, with East Germany controlled by the Soviets and West Germany controlled by the United States C) allowed to hold a binding vote regarding its preference of either capitalism or communism D) divided into four zones based on the position of troops at the end of the war E) reunited and allowed to hold free elections to set up its own government
In dealing with the Soviets during his first few months in office, President Truman A) rejected the notion of ―getting tough‖ with the Soviet Union B) enjoyed great diplomatic leverage concerning eastern Europe C) consented to Soviet demands for reparation payments from all zones of Germany D) agreed to let Stalin determine the political makeup of Germany E) chastised the Soviets for violating the Yalta agreements Answer: E Page: 780 – 781 Difficulty: Easy
16.During the struggle in China between nationalists and communists after World War II, the United States A) continued to support Chiang Kaishek with money and weapons even when it became clear his cause was lost B) supported the communist leader Mao Zedong, hoping that a communist China friendly to the United States would help stop Soviet aggression C) supported Ho Chi Minh, a compromise leader D) intervened militarily to put an end to the struggle E) tool a ―hands off‖ approach by encouragin g China to solve its own problems Answer: A Page: 781 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: E Page: 778 Difficulty: Easy
Truman’s policy of ―containment‖ called for the United States to A) use aggressive military action to overthrow communist governments in eastern Europe B) support free people who were resisting communist expansion C) return to the isolationism of the 1920s and 1930s D) do as little as possible to maintain the fragile peace E) cut off all foreign aid to nations outside western Europe
At Yalta, the Big Three agreed on all of the following issues
Answer: B Page: 782 Difficulty: Medium
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Above all other reasons, policy makers supported the Marshall Plan because they A) had a humanitarian concern for the European people B) feared that Europe would remain an economic drain on the United States if not quickly rebuilt C) desired a strong European market for American goods D) feared that the shaky pro-American governments in western Europe might fall under communist control E) worried that a revitalized Japan would threaten American trade
E)
Answer: B Page: 784 – 785 Difficulty: Hard 25.
Answer: D Page: 782 – 783 Difficulty: Hard 19.
The Marshall Plan adopted policies toward communist countries that A) excluded the Soviet Union from assistance B) excluded the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites from assistance C) offered assistance to the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites, but they refused D) offered assistance to the Soviet Union and its eastern European’ satellites, and they eagerly accepted E) included financial aid for Japan but not the Soviet Union
The A) B) C) D) E)
Economic Cooperation Administration was also known as the Truman Doctrine United Nations Marshall Plan North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Council
Answer: C Page: 783 Difficulty: Easy 21.The Marshall Plan accomplished all of the following except A) caused a few successful pro-western coups B) weakened communist support in member states C) increased European industrial production D) revived opportunities for American trade E) sparked an economic revival in western Europe
26.
The National Security Act of 1947 contained all of the following provisions except A) creating the Atomic Energy Commission to oversee and speed atomic research B) combining the functions of the War and Navy Departments into a new Department of Defense C) creating the Central Intelligence Agency D) expanding the president’s power to pursue the nation’s international goals E) establishing a new Department of Defense
Answer: B Page: 786 – 787 Difficulty: Medium 28.
In 1948, Stalin initiated the Berlin Blockade in response to A) the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization B) allegations that Alger Hiss was stealing and sending diplomatic secrets to the Soviet Union C) the launching of the Marshall Plan D) the buildup of the American military in Japan E) the merging of the American, British, and French zones of Germany to create a new West German Republic
29.
The history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization involved all of the following events except A) the members declared that an armed attack against one member would be considered an attack on all B) the United States Senate did not ratify the charter until a decade after the organization was formed C) the crisis in Berlin accelerated the formation of the organization D) the Soviet Union responded to its formation with the creation
After the end of World War II and the return of demobilized forces to the workforce, women A) all of the answers below B) left the workforce in large numbers C) shifted to jobs in other areas of the economy D) wanted to remain in their wartime positions E) faced exclusion from industrial jobs Answer: A Page: 786 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: E Page: 784 Difficulty: Easy 24.
The strikes by the United Mine Workers and the nation’s railroads in 1946 were settled when A) Truman invited the disagreeing parties to the White House and mediated the dispute B) Truman either ordered or threatened government control C) management agreed to the demands of labor D) management called in strikebreakers E) unions agreed to surrender collective bargaining rights Answer: B Page: 786 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: A Page: 783 Difficulty: Hard 23.
The National Security Council report represented A) an abandonment of America’s containment policy B) a relaxation of America’s containment policy C) an affirmation of America’s containment policy D) a strengthening of America’s containment policy E) a return to pre-World War II isolationism
Answer: D Page: 785 Difficulty: Easy 27. Post – World War II America exhibited all of the following economic characteristics except A) a continuation of economic growth in the first year after the war B) a depression after the effects of wartime spending wore off C) several years of serious inflation D) labor unrest and a reshuffling of the labor force E) the rejection of Harry Truman’s first Fair Deal
Answer: A Page: 783 Difficulty: Medium 22.
The National Security Council report resulted from all of the following events except A) the invasion of South Korea by communist North Korean forces B) the fleeing of Chiang Kai-shek and his followers to Taiwan (Formosa) C) the victory of Mao Zedong and his communist forces in China D) the detonation of an atomic bomb by the Soviet Union E) the general belief by the United States that the communists were expansionist Answer: A Page: 785 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: C Page: 782 – 783 Difficulty: Easy 20.
of the Warsaw Pact the members agreed to maintain a standing military force in Europe
One A) B) C) D) E)
major purpose of the Taft-Hartley Act was to promote human rights abroad place an embargo on trade with communist nations limit the power of labor unions provide reforms of the campaign finance system urge an end to the Korean War
Answer: C Page: 787 Difficulty: Easy 31.
The A) B) C) D) E)
Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 was supported by most workers and union leaders President Truman liberal Democrats in Congress conservative Republicans in Congress civil rights activists
Answer: D Page: 787 Difficulty: Easy
32.
In the election of 1948, Southern conservatives bolted the Democratic party because A) they objected to Truman’s slow and ineffective domestic policies B) they wanted to nominate Dwight D. Eisenhower to be the Democratic candidate instead of Truman. C) they resented Truman’s confrontational stand against the Soviet Union D) they rejected the New Deal philosophies of the Fair Deal E) they disapproved of Truman’s proposed civil rights bill
because MacArthur A) failed to stabilize the front in Korea B) ordered the bombing of communist forces massing north of the Chinese border C) publicly indicated his dissatisfaction with Truman’s policy on Korea D) invaded North Korea despite Truman’s orders to halt at th e 38th parallel E) did not share Truman’s desire to invade China Answer: C Page: 792 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: E Page: 788 Difficulty: Medium 40. 33. In the election of 1948, Truman employed all of the following political tactics except A) becoming more aggressive in attacking his opponent B) telling the public that the Republicans had abandoned the common people C) keeping a low profile once he gained a large lead in the polls D) recreating much of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition E) assailing the Republican Congress for its economic failures Answer: C Page: 788 Difficulty: Medium 34.
In the election of 1948, Truman A) did little campaigning, because he believed he could not win once some Democrats deserted to form their own parties B) defeated Republican candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower by a narrow but decisive margin C) refused to attack the flaws of the opposition party D) won the presidency, but Republicans retained control of both houses of Congress E) won the presidency, and the Democrats also won both houses of Congress
Answer: B Page: 792 Difficulty: Hard 41.
Answer: E Page: 788 Difficulty: Easy 35.
In the late 1940s, Truman managed to push through Congress all of the following Fair Deal legislation except A) a new minimum wage law to increase the rates B) a national health insurance plan to provide medical care to the poor C) an expansion of the Social Security system D) a National Housing Act to provide construction of lowincome housing E) an extension of Social Security benefits to more Americans
On the issue of racial discrimination, Truman managed to A) begin dismantling segregation within the armed forces B) make lynching a federal crime C) abolish the poll tax D) establish a new Fair Employment Practices Commission to reduce racial discrimination in hiring E) get passage of a comprehensive civil rights bill
42.
The film style of film noir emphasized A) musical themes that encouraged optimism B) personal biographies that edified traditional American values C) rejection of American political goals in third-world countries D) comedy as a way of causing Americans to forget their troubles E) the alienation of individuals in an impersonal world
43.
39.
The Korean War began when A) Japanese forces invaded South Korea B) Soviet troops invaded South Korea C) Chinese troops invaded South Korea D) North Korean forces invaded South Korea E) Vietnamese forces invaded South Korea Answer: D Page: 790 Difficulty: Easy President Truman relieved Douglas MacArthur from command
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of transferring atomic secrets to the Soviets, were A) convicted and deported to the Soviet Union B) convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment C) convicted, sentenced to death, and executed, despite two years of appeals and public protests D) convicted and sentenced to death, but released after two years of appeals and public protests E) convicted but released when key witnesses admitted to lying Answer: C Page: 793 – 794 Difficulty: Easy
44.
Answer: E Page: 789 Difficulty: Hard 38.
The conviction of Alger Hiss resulted in all of the following developments except A) linking liberal Democrats with communist subversion B) elevating Richard Nixon to national prominence C) repealing the statute of limitations for espionage so that Hiss could be tried D) encouraging the public’s fear that communists had infiltrated the government E) leading to other investigations of communist infiltration Answer: C Page: 792 – 795 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: A Page: 788 Difficulty: Hard 37.
In the early 1950s, the campaign against domestic communism in the United States resulted from a ll of the following developments except A) the stalemate in Korea B) the death of Mao Zedong C) the Soviet deployment of the atomic bomb D) the fall of China to communism E) the despotic image of Joseph Stalin Answer: B Page: 792 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 788 Difficulty: Hard 36.
The Korean War resulted in all of the following developments except A) a boost to American economic growth at a point when many believed it was about to decline B) an increased confidence in America’s position as a world power dedicated to stopping the spread of communism C) the creation of the office of Defense Mobilization to fight inflation, hold down prices, and discourage union wage demands D) a military stalemate that dragged on until 1953 E) the death or wounding of over 100,000 Americans
45.
The nation’s most prominent leader of the crusade against domestic subversion was A) J. Edgar Hoover B) Whittaker Chambers C) Joseph McCarthy D) Richard M. Nixon E) Robert F. Kennedy Answer: C Page: 794 Difficulty: Easy In his crusade against domestic subversion, Joseph McCarthy used all of the following means except A) boldly claiming to have a list of known communists working in the American State Department B) intimidating most of the people opposing him C) claiming that the Democrats had been responsible for ―twenty years of treason‖ D) producing conclusive evidence that several federal
E)
employees had communist ties badgering witnesses and ruining established careers
D) E)
Answer: D Page: 794 – 795 Difficulty: Hard 46.
The Republican candidate, Dwight Eisenhower, won the presidential election of 1952 because much of the public A) was satisfied with the military conduct of the Korean War B) no longer feared communist subversion C) liked the geniality and statesmanlike quality of Eisenhower D) perceived the Democratic candidate as too conservative E) felt that the Democrats had lacked leadership on civil rights
social reform and balanced budgets judicial reform and fiscal conservatism
Answer: C Page: 833 – 834 Difficulty: Hard 8.
Answer: C Page: 795 – 796 Difficulty: Medium
In 1965, the twenty-year debate over national health care culminated in the passage of Medicare, whose recipients were to be A) welfare clients of all ages B) children who lived in rural poverty C) those who had served in the armed services or defense industries during World War II and the Korean War D) elderly Americans who were poor E) all elderly Americans regardless of need Answer: E Page: 833 – 834 Difficulty: Medium
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The major candidates for president in 1960 were A) Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower B) Dwight Eisenhower and John Kennedy C) Richard Nixon and Harry Truman D) John Kennedy and Richard Nixon E) Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson
9.
Answer: D Page: 832 Difficulty: Easy 2.
Kennedy’s election to the presidency was notable because of his A) all of the answers below B) religion C) youth D) narrow plurality in the popular vote E) appealing public image
Answer: C Page: 834 Difficulty: Hard 10.
Answer: A Page: 832 Difficulty: Medium 3.
Kennedy encountered difficulty getting his legislative proposals passed by Congress because A) Republicans controlled both houses of Congress B) he had lost the support of the western liberals C) Southern conservatives tended to vote against them D) his programs were too conservative for the Democratic party E) of the unpopularity of the Vietnam War
The Warren Commission reviewed the Kennedy assassination and concluded that A) Kennedy was killed on orders from Castro B) Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin and acted alone C) the Soviet Union financed the assassination plot D) the CIA participated in the plot to kill Kennedy E) the assassination was planned by organized crime
11.
The A) B) C) D) E)
reform program of Lyndon Johnson became known as the Square Deal Fair Deal New Frontier New Federalism Great Society
12.
13.
Unlike Kennedy, Johnson was successful in getting Congress to approve his legislative proposals because A) all of the answers below B) he was an effective lobbyist C) his party had huge majorities in both houses of Congress D) he capitalized upon the emotional aftershock of the Kennedy assassination E) he possessed great abilities as a coalition builder
7.
Johnson’s domestic program centered upon the issues of A) government efficiency and decreasing the national debt B) economic strength and reducing the federal bureaucracy C) social welfare and economic strength
The reforms of the Immigration Act of 1965 included a provision requiring that A) the ―national origins‖ system be eliminated B) immigration must continually decrease on a yearly basis C) all immigrants must pass an English literacy test D) immigration be based on a proportion of the number of immigrants from that country already in the U.S. population E) restrictions be maintained only on immigration from northern and western Europe Answer: A Page: 835 Difficulty: Medium
14. Answer: A Page: 833 Difficulty: Medium
Federal aid to schools provided in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 was A) available only to public schools B) based upon the economic conditions of the students, not the schools C) equally distributed between public and private schools D) based on levels of local property taxes E) proportionally distributed among the states Answer: B Page: 835 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 833 Difficulty: Easy 6.
As a result of the assault on poverty during the 1960s, A) local governments became supporters of community action B) poverty levels remained unchanged C) the level of poverty increased D) many minority leaders received valuable training and experience E) the government eliminated De facto segregation Answer: D Page: 834 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: B Page: 833 Difficulty: Medium 5.
The domestic programs of President John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson A) all of the answers below B) were often weak from an administration viewpoint C) resulted in significant increases in federal spending D) delegated authority extensively to community leaders E) addressed often-ignored social ills Answer: A Page: 833 – 836 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: C Page: 832 Difficulty: Medium 4.
President Johnson’s job-training program, administered by the Office of Ec onomic Opportunity, A) was one of the most effective programs of the Great Society B) was very successful in the ghettos of large cities C) fell short of eliminating poverty because of program weaknesses and the lack of funds D) was essentially unsuccessful in achieving its goals E) failed to encourage community participation
One of the legacies of the Great Society was very high budget deficits that were caused by A) decreased tax revenues and an unfavorable balance of trade B) rapidly rising government expenditures C) American dependence upon foreign manufactured and agricultural goods D) the decreasing rate of economic growth
E)
the refusal to implement a tax cut
A) B) C) D) E)
Answer: B Page: 835 – 836 Difficulty: Hard 15.
The ―sit-in‖ movement of racial protest in the early 1960s resulted in A) all of the answers below B) the creation of the Black Panthers C) the demise of student activist organizations D) the integration of some public eating facilities E) the sending of federal marshals to some Southern restaurants
Answer: B Page: 839 Difficulty: Easy 23.
Answer: D Page: 836 Difficulty: Hard 16.
―Freedom riders‖ in the early 1960s aimed at A) the integration of public schools B) the desegregation of bus stations C) an end to discrimination in employment D) the promotion of voting rights for all E) the injustice of lynchings Answer: B Page: 836 Difficulty: Easy
17.
24.
Prominent officials who resisted efforts to end discrimination against blacks in the South included all of the following men except A) Ross Barnett B) Eugene Connor C) Jim Clark D) George Wallace E) Medgar Evers
The high-water mark of peaceful interracial civil rights demonstrations was the A) 1961 ―sit-in‖ in North Carolina B) Albany Movement of 1962 C) Selma March of 1965 D) August 1963 March on Washington, D.C. E) 1964 Freedom Summer
26.
Events of the Freedom Summer included A) an antiwar march of over 100,000 protestors in Washington, D.C. B) Martin Luther King’s antisegregation march on Birmingham C) the brutal murder of three young civil rights activists D) violent riots in Watts; Detroit; and Newark, New Jersey E) thousands of young people streaming into the HaightAshbury district of San Francisco
27.
The A) B) C) D) E)
Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to all of the answers below ensure the voting rights of blacks provide blacks equal access to public accommodations end discrimination in employment install voluntary voting codes in the South
Answer: B Page: 838 Difficulty: Medium 22. De facto segregation resulted from
Black power advocates included all of the following activists except A) Martin Luther King, Jr. B) Huey Newton C) Bobby Seale D) Malcolm X E) Elijah Muhammed Answer: A Page: 840 – 841 Difficulty: Easy
28.
Answer: C Page: 838 Difficulty: Medium 21.
The tenets of the philosophy of ―black power‖ led to all of the following developments except A) the fostering of racial pride B) the attempt to exclude sympathetic whites from the movement C) the emergence of the Black Panthers D) the consolidation of civil rights organizations E) the increase in young people choosing radical alternatives Answer: D Page: 840 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: D Page: 837 – 838 Difficulty: Easy 20.
The Commission on Civil Disorders issued a report in 1968 that recommended A) increased law enforcement in the ghettos B) an end to the war on poverty C) federal legislation to protect urban dwellers D) more coercive measures to halt violence E) massive spending to improve conditions in the ghettos Answer: E Page: 840 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: D Page: 837 Difficulty: Hard 19.
During the 1960s, major race riots erupted in all of the following cities except A) New York B) Los Angeles C) Kansas City D) Detroit E) Chicago Answer: C Page: 840 Difficulty: Easy
25.
Following the racial violence in Alabama and Mississippi in 1962 and 1963, President Kennedy A) resisted making a commitment to reform B) issued an executive order that ended segregation in the armed forces C) ordered that public schools be desegregated D) introduced legislation to end segregation in public accommodations E) decided to rely on the judicial system to enforce civil rights
―Affirmative action‖ is best des cribed as the legal requirement that A) employers abandon practices that deny employment to blacks B) employers be forced to obey federal and state laws that protect the civil rights of all C) employers take positive measures to recruit minorities to compensate for past injustices D) employers establish racial quotas for their workforce E) employers hire workers who belong to Community Action organizations Answer: C Page: 839 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 836 – 838 Difficulty: Medium 18.
state and federal laws residential housing patterns judicial decisions presidential orders ineffective immigration laws
Kennedy believed that the future struggle against communism would occur mainly in the A) industrialized nations of western Europe B) wealthy nations of Asia C) Soviet satellites of eastern Europe D) developing countries of the Third World E) trade zones of China and Japan Answer: D Page: 841 Difficulty: Easy
29.
President Kennedy’s proposals calling for an ―Alliance for Progress‖ reflected his desire to A) all of the answers below B) expand American influence through peaceful means C) counter Communist aggression through an atomic weapons program
D) E)
use American volunteers to destabilize Latin America promote violent overthrows of communist regimes
36.
Answer: B Page: 841 Difficulty: Easy 30.
Success for the 1961 American-aided invasion of Cuba depended on A) an anti-Castro uprising in Cuba B) the destruction of Russian missile sites C) support from the United States Navy D) American air support E) the cooperation of the British Navy
Answer: B Page: 845 Difficulty: Hard 37.
Answer: A Page: 841 Difficulty: Easy 31.
Kennedy decided to remove Diem from the presidency of South Vietnam when A) Diem massacred a large number of Viet Cong B) Diem launched attacks on the country’s Buddhists C) Diem refused to allow American soldiers to engage in combat D) Diem had his own brother shot for treason E) Diem announced he would no longer accept American aid
The Cuban Missile Crisis was resolved when A) the United States launched an air attack on Cuba B) Kennedy accepted Khrushchev’s offer to remove the missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy’s pledge not to invade the island C) the Soviet Union agreed to remove the missile bases from Cuba in exchange for an agreement on arms limitation D) the U.S. Senate refused to sanction the blockade and Kennedy had to remove the ―quarantine‖ E) the United States invaded Cuba with a force of Cuban exiles.
Since the fall of Vietnam in 1975, historians have offered all of the following explanations for U.S. involvement there except A) the United States was tying to save Vietnam from the evils of communism B) the United States was selflessly attempting to save its friends from foreign aggression C) the United States wanted to preserve its own economic interests by keeping Vietnamese natural resources available to American industries D) the United States wanted to impose its own political and economic system on the Vietnamese E) the United States involved as a logical step in its vision of containment Answer: C Page: 846 – 847 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: B Page: 842 – 843 Difficulty: Hard 38. 32.
A positive effect of the Cuban Missile Crisis was A) the negotiation of a treaty to ban atmospheric nuclear weapons testing B) Khrushchev’s replacement by a more reform -minded leader C) the slower development of nuclear weapons by the Soviets D) the destruction of the Berlin Wall E) Johnson’s reduction of defense spending
The American commitment in Vietnam increased substantially when A) President Eisenhower sent military forces into combat to aid Diem B) President Johnson asked for and Congress approved the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution C) President Nixon initiated ―Vietnamization‖ D) President Kennedy sent the Special Forces into Vietnam E) President Truman ordered an attack of North Vietnam
Answer: A Page: 843 Difficulty: Hard Answer: B Page: 847 Difficulty: Medium 33.
The First Indochina War resulted from A) the French decision to move back into Vietnam after World War II B) the British effort to recapture their former colony during the early 1950s C) the Chinese attempt to seize the area immediately following China’s fall to the Communists D) the American move toward preventing a Communist takeover in the early 1950s E) the German’s refusal to open free trade in Manchuria
39.
Answer: A Page: 844 Difficulty: Medium 34.
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Answer: D Page: 847 – 852 Difficulty: Hard
North Vietnam and South Vietnam differed from one another in that A) the North was a newly settled area, while the South was much older B) the North was underpopulated, while the South was overpopulated C) the North was extremely nationalistic, while the South was much less so D) the North essentially had a factionalized culture, while the South was much more homogeneous E) the North was highly industrialized, while the South relied on large commercial farming
40.
Answer: C Page: 844 Difficulty: Hard
41.
The Viet Cong were A) North Vietnamese guerrillas who attacked South Vietnam B) North Vietnamese army regulars who attacked South Vietnam C) South Vietnamese guerrillas who attacked their own government D) South Vietnamese army regulars who staged a coup against their own government E) South Vietnamese guerrillas who opposed the Viet Minh Answer: C Page: 845 Difficulty: Easy
Escalation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s included all of the following steps except A) American soldiers began playing an active combat role B) American planes began bombing targets in North Vietnam C) American forces began increasing rapidly in number D) American officials began governing the country in place of the Vietnamese E) American generals began ordering more aggressive actions against the Viet Cong
One of the primary reasons that the United States could not fully win the Vietnam War was A) the United States employed conventional warfare techniques in an unconventional war B) American military forces were inexperienced and understaffed C) Congress would not allocate sufficient funds to finance the war D) the United States refused to bomb North Vietnam E) American forces won few of the major battles Answer: A Page: 849 Difficulty: Hard The United States tried all of the following war strategies in Vietnam except A) attrition B) pacification C) detente D) relocation E) bombing Answer: C Page: 849 – 852 Difficulty: Easy
42.
One of the earliest and most powerful opponents of the Vietnam War was A) J. William Fulbright B) Robert McNamara
C) D) E)
McGeorge Bundy Dean Rusk William Westmoreland
A) B) C) D) E)
Answer: A Page: 852 Difficulty: Easy 43.
Public opinion turned radically against the Vietnam War after the A) United States began to bomb North Vietnam B) Communists captured the capital of South Vietnam C) American troops invaded North Vietnam D) Viet Cong launched the 1968 Tet Offensive E) Diem regime collapsed due to corruption
Answer: D Page: 856 Difficulty: Medium 50.
Answer: D Page: 852 – 853 Difficulty: Easy 44.
The massive racial unrest and rioting that erupted in more than sixty American cities in 1968 occurred as a result of the assassination of A) Robert Kennedy B) Malcolm X C) John F. Kennedy D) Martin Luther King, Jr. E) Medgar Evers Answer: D Page: 853 Difficulty: Easy
45.
All of the following are true about the assassination of Robert Kennedy except A) his death was a shattering experience for many idealistic Americans B) it came at a time when he, more than John, had come to shape the ―Kennedy legacy‖ C) he was murdered by a Palestinian who was angry with Kennedy’s pro-Israeli stance D) it occurred at a time when Kennedy’s momentum in the presidential campaign was faltering E) it brought sorrow to many blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans who had come to identify with Kennedy’s ideals
The violence outside the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago resulted from A) a race riot in the Southside of Chicago B) demonstrations against the Vietnam War C) the nomination of George Wallace D) the acceptance of the Kennedy and McCarthy war planks in the party platform E) the refusal of Johnson to drop out of the race
All of the following events took place in 1968 except A) the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. B) violence at the Democratic Convention in Chicago C) the combined attack of the Viet Cong and the Viet Minh in the Tet Offensive D) the killing of four students at Kent State University E) the assassination of Robert Kennedy Answer: D Page: 852 – 854 Difficulty: Medium
1.In the 1970s, Americans experienced the ―age of limits,‖ a period of lowered expectations characterized by all of the following problems except A) economic decay B) defeat in Vietnam C) the Watergate crisis D) loss of hope E) loss of governmental credibility Answer: D Page: 893 Difficulty: Medium 2.
Answer: D Page: 853 Difficulty: Hard 46.
pursue social reform correct the ills of society maintain the status quo restore stability and law and order improve a struggling economy
Among the major accomplishments of the Ford administration was A) all of the answers below B) a significant decline in the inflation rate C) the signing of an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union D) the prosecution of former President Nixon for crimes committed while in office E) an impressive restoration of antipoverty programs Answer: C Page: 894 Difficulty: Hard
3.
One of the major contributing factors to the rising inflation of the Ford administration during the 1970s was A) dependence on foreign oil supplies B) a major cut in tax rates C) a sharp drop in interest rates D) a significant decrease in federal spending E) the decreasing importance of the national bank Answer: A Page: 894 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 854 Difficulty: Medium 4. 47.
The presidential campaign of George Wallace promoted A) fewer social welfare programs and a halt to the forced busing of students B) increased federal aid for social programs and a pullout from the Vietnam War C) desegregation of public schools and the reform of the criminal justice system D) an expansion of the Vietnam War and increased federal aid to schools E) racial equality and a commitment to ending poverty Answer: A Page: 854 – 855 Difficulty: Medium
48.
Richard M. Nixon was able to win the presidency in 1968 because A) all of the answers below B) he mobilized the ―silent majority‖ of middle America C) of the unpleasant, violent spectacle of the Democratic Convention D) of the attractiveness of his plans for stability, law and order, government retrenchment and ―peace with honor‖ E) of his reluctance to continue the pursuit of vast social change Answer: A Page: 855 – 856 Difficulty: Hard
49.
The election of Richard Nixon to the presidency in 1968 indicated that the American people wanted to
Contenders for the presidency in 1976 included all of the following except A) Jimmy Carter B) Ronald Reagan C) Eugene McCarthy D) John Anderson E) Gerald Ford Answer: D Page: 895 Difficulty: Easy
5.
By the end of the Carter administration, the economy was plagued by all of the following economic conditions except A) unemployment in excess of 10 percent B) inflation running at over 10 percent C) interest rates near 20 percent D) a major fuel shortage E) high prices imposed by OPEC Answer: A Page: 895 Difficulty: Hard
6.In his ―malaise‖ speech, Jimmy Carter said that A) federal spending for public works should be reduced and taxes increased B) the United States should denounce the Salt II agreements and seek peace between Egypt and Israel C) America was experiencing a ―crisis of confidence‖ and needed to decrease its dependence on foreign oil
D) E)
civil rights a war on poverty were the major issues of his administration America should give foreign aid to the Arab countries and attempt to form political alliances with the oil-producing countries
Answer: D Page: 900 Difficulty: Easy 13.
Answer: C Page: 895 – 896 Difficulty: Medium 7.
President Carter’s diplomatic efforts in relieving the tensions between Egypt and Israel resulted in A) the return of the West Bank to the Palestinian Arabs B) an initial movement toward peace but an inability to formulate a final peace treaty C) the Egyptian occupations of the Golan Heights D) an agreement to reduce tensions by placing U.S. troops on the West Bank E) a formal peace treaty between Egypt and Israel
Answer: E Page: 900 – 901 Difficulty: Easy 14.
Answer: E Page: 896 Difficulty: Medium 8.
The Salt II arms control agreement met with opposition from conservatives in the Senate because A) the Senate had not been consulted on the formulation of the treaty B) they were hoping that the agreement would halt all production of nuclear weapons C) it would take control of defense spending away from Congress D) of a lingering and fundamental distrust of the Soviet Union E) there was no limit on the number of long-range missiles, bombers, or nuclear warheads that the Soviets could have
Well-known evangelical Christians of the 1970s and 1980s included all of the following men except A) Billy Graham B) Oral Roberts C) Jerry Falwell D) Jimmy Carter E) Edward Kennedy
The ―Christian right‖ of the late 1970s and early 1980s opposed all of the following ideas except A) the teaching of evolution B) the censorship of pornography C) the right of abortion D) the growth of feminism E) the development of secular humanism Answer: B Page: 901 Difficulty: Easy
15.
As the New Right developed in the 1970s and 1980s, it opposed the activities of men such as A) Gerald Ford B) Barry Goldwater C) Ronald Reagan D) Jesse Helms E) Richard Viguerie Answer: A Page: 901 – 902 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: D Page: 896 – 897 Difficulty: Medium 16. 9.
From the 1950s until the 1970s, U.S. policy toward Iran emphasized A) military assistance to the Islamic clergy in an effort to overthrow the Shah B) military and financial support of democratic forces attempting to overthrow the government C) political and military support of the Shah D) support of anticommunist guerrillas fightin g in Iran’s mountainous regions E) refusal to recognize the Iranian government
Answer: B Page: 902 Difficulty: Easy 17.
Answer: C Page: 897 Difficulty: Easy 10.
In response to the Iranian hostage crisis, President Carter took the action of A) sending a Marine division to the capital of Iran B) returning the Shah of Iran to Iran in exchange for the hostages C) negotiating the release of the hostages after more than a year of captivity D) getting the Soviet Union to intervene in Iran on behalf of the hostages E) ordering air strikes against Tehran
18.
The conservative resurgence of the late 1970s was strongest in the state of A) New York B) Michigan C) Massachusetts D) California E) Illinois
The election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980 signaled a change in American politics that was also evident in A) a shift in rural voters from the Republican to the Democratic party B) a Democratic majority in Congress C) the African-American shift away from the Democratic party D) the highest voter turnout since 1936 E) Republican control of the Senate Answer: D Page: 903 Difficulty: Hard
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Answer: B Page: 898 – 899 Difficulty: Medium 12.
During the presidential campaign of 1980, Ronald Reagan took advantage of A) all of the answers below B) the spreading tax revolt C) President Carter’s uninspired campaigning D) his ability to appear amiable on television E) President Carter’s inability to solve the Iran hostage crisis Answer: A Page: 902 – 903 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: C Page: 897 Difficulty: Medium 11.The conservative populists of the Southeast and Southwest that rose to prominence in the late 1970s a nd early 1980s supported all of the following political concepts except A) opposition to the growth of government B) commitment to the protection of minority rights C) resentment of the proliferating environmental laws D) support of the virtues of the rugged individual E) rejection of regulations on land use
In the battle over Proposition 13 during the late 1970s, California conservatives discovered the effective new political tactic of attacking A) Social Security B) taxes C) welfare programs D) environmentalism E) civil rights
The Reagan coalition of the early 1980s included a group of A) all of the answers below B) wealthy Americans who opposed antibusiness government regulation C) neoconservative intellectuals who opposed destructive radicalism D) populist right-wingers who opposed centralized government power E) powerful elite who believed that markets cured economic ills Answer: A Page: 903 – 904 Difficulty: Hard
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During his years as president, Ronald Reagan exhibited all of the
following traits except A) a well-informed administrator who knew his policies and programs in great detail B) a vigorous and resilient person who bounced back quickly from disease and injury C) an excellent public speaker who was a master of television D) an overall leader who decided general policy, but stayed out of the day-to-day operations of government E) a spokesman for wealthy and conservative Americans
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The new ―glasnost‖ and ―perestroika‖ policies in the Soviet Union introduced A) the concept of individual rights plus freedom of the press B) a new state-controlled economy and increased government repression of free speech C) the abolition of all collectives along with the opening of all secret records D) the right to oppose government policy and moved the country toward economic reform E) a hard-line interpretation of Marxist doctrine
Answer: A Page: 904 – 905 Difficulty: Hard Answer: D Page: 910 Difficulty: Medium 21.
―Reaganomics,‖ or ―supplyside‖ economics, operated from the assumption that the woes of the American economy were largely the result of A) interest rates B) foreign causes C) corporate welfare D) excessive taxation E) inadequate government spending
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Answer: D Page: 905 Difficulty: Medium 22.
Economic recovery during 1983 was a result of all of the following developments except A) a decrease in the rate of inflation B) increased interest rates by the Federal Reserve Board C) a sharp drop in oil prices D) federal budget deficits E) the tight money policies of the Federal Reserve Board
Answer: D Page: 910 Difficulty: Medium 29.
Answer: B Page: 905 – 906 Difficulty: Hard 23.
President Reagan sought to achieve deficit reduction by lowering ―discretionary‖ domestic spending A) on military and defense programs B) for food stamps and federal subsidies for low-income housing C) for Social Security and Medicare benefits D) on interest payments for the national debt E) on subsidies for large corporations
During the Reagan administration, relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were marked by A) all of the answers below B) a series of military conflicts between both nations C) aggressive American efforts to reduce tensions at all costs D) ratification of the Salt II arms control agreement E) American efforts to link armament reduction with Soviet behavior on other issues
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The Reagan doctrine of American activism in the Third World was most particularly exercised in A) Grenada and Nicaragua B) the Philippines and South Africa C) Iran and Saudi Arabia D) Venezuela and the Dominican Republic E) Korea and Vietnam 32.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the dominant factor in foreign affairs was A) the ending of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union B) a lessening of the tensions between the United States and China C) a substantial increase in terrorist activity in the world D) renewed diplomatic clashes between the United States and the Soviet Union E) new missile crisis in Eastern Europe Answer: A Page: 910 Difficulty: Easy
During the 1980s, Congress cooperated with the Reagan administration by A) eliminating regulations on national banks so that easy credit would enhance business expansion B) reducing regulatory controls over troubled savings and loan banks C) keeping the same level of regulations to keep from disrupting a secure savings and loan industry D) enacting stiff new banking regulations to control the activities of the national banks E) supporting strict regulations of financial markets and banking Answer: B Page: 911 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: A Page: 908 – 909 Difficulty: Easy 26.
Negotiations between the Reagan administration and the Gorbachev regime resulted in A) all of the answers below B) a 50 percent reduction in U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals C) the elimination of American and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear forces from Europe D) the re-election of Gorbachev as leader of the Soviet Union E) the removal of American and Soviet troops from Germany Answer: C Page: 911 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: E Page: 907 Difficulty: Hard 25.
A 1991 attempted coup by Communists in the Soviet Union led to A) all of the answers below B) the collapse of the coup C) the breakup of the Soviet Union D) the outlawing of the Communist party E) the declaring of independence by some republics Answer: A Page: 911 Difficulty: Hard
Answer: B Page: 906 Difficulty: Hard 24.
The demonstrations in Beijing on June 3, 1989, resulted in A) an expansion of democracy in China and the lessening of tensions between China and the Soviet Union B) reunification of the Chinese Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of China C) hardline Chinese Communists being overthrown and the installation of a free market economy D) the democratic movement being crushed and a renewed period of repression E) free elections being held to determine China’s status as a communist nation
The Iran-contra scandal seriously damaged the Reagan administration’s reputation when it revealed that the United States A) sent funds to Iranian terrorists to finance their attacks on the Muslim government B) sent funds to Iraq to support the country in its war with Iran C) used the money from the sale of arms to Iran to aid the contras in Nicaragua D) used government funds to purchase arms for the rebels in Iran E) was involved in supporting the communist revolution in Nicaragua Answer: C Page: 911 Difficulty: Medium
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George Bush defeated Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election by identifying him with
A) B) C) D) E)
outlandish increases in military expenditures all of the unpopular social and cultural stances Americans identified with liberals an inability to deal with pressing social problems an aggressive and warlike stand on foreign policy the conservative racial stances of the Democratic party
E)
Answer: A Page: 919 Difficulty: Medium 2.
Answer: B Page: 911 – 912 Difficulty: Medium 34.
During the presidential campaign of 1988, George Bush A) had a big lead at the start of the campaign and kept it all the way to win a big victory B) had a big lead at the start but lost most of it as the campaign progressed and won by only a small margin C) was far behind at the start of the campaign but came on strong at the end to achieve a substantial victory D) was far behind at the start but recovered sufficiently by the end of the campaign to win a close contest E) was able to maintain a close margin of victory throughout the campaign
The most serious domestic problem that faced the Bush administration, causing the erosion of its popularity before the 1992 election, was the A) administration’s failure to provide adequate funding for AIDS research B) involvement of the vice president in the Iran-contra scandal C) failure to bring an end to the 1990 recession D) allegation that the president had used the influence of his wealthy family to avoid military service E) belief that the president meant to overturn the Voting Rights Act
The Clinton administration experienced early problems in all of the following areas except A) gays in the military B) high-level appointments C) personal banking ventures D) failure to pass health care reform E) tax increases Answer: E Page: 920 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: C Page: 911 Difficulty: Hard 35.
―jihad‖ the revelation of the complex implications for the United States in a new age of globalism
The Clinton administration experienced early successes in getting Congress to pass all of the following measures except A) tax credits for low-income families B) unpaid leaves for employees of private companies C) the North American Free Trade Agreement D) substantial Social Security benefit increases E) approval of a budget unlike those of Bush and Reagan Answer: D Page: 920 Difficulty: Medium
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America sent peacekeeping troops to Bosnia because A) Russian troops threatened American interests in the region B) Serbia threatened to use nuclear weapons against Croatia C) Serbs and Muslims were involved in a bloody civil war D) French peacekeeping troops were pinned down behind Serbian lines E) Afghani and Albanian refugees were pouring into the region Answer: C Page: 920 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: C Page: 913 Difficulty: Easy 5. 36.
During the Gulf War, the United States and its allies fought the forces of A) Iraq B) Iran C) Saudia Arabia D) Kuwait E) Syria
In response to the 1994 elections, Bill Clinton shifted his political position to A) all of the answers below B) the left to accommodate feminists C) the right with emphasis on law and order D) a radical stance on health care reform E) to the center calling for tax cuts and a balanced budget Answer: E Page: 922 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: A Page: 913 Difficulty: Easy 37.
U.S. involvement in the Gulf War A) all of the answers below B) produced remarkably few allied and American casualties C) was sanctioned by the U.S. Congress and the United Nations D) featured the largest use ever of highly sophisticated military technology E) resulted in the withdrawal of Saddam Hussein’s troops from Kuwait Answer: A Page: 913 – 914 Difficulty: Hard
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In the 1992 presidential election A) George Bush became the first incumbent president to be defeated by a challenger B) Ross Perot finished second behind Bill Clinton C) Ross Perot became the first third-party candidate to receive any electoral votes D) Ross Perot had the best showing of any third-party or independent candidate since Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 E) George Bush won the popular vote, but lost the electoral vote
6.Bill Clinton’s greatest strength in his first term was A) his definitive foreign policy B) his high ethical standards and personal morality C) the Democrats’ success at retaining control of Congress D) the success of the economy and reduced federal budget E) the active use of Vice President Al Gore in the war against drugs Answer: D Page: 922 Difficulty: Medium 7.
Answer: A Page: 922 Difficulty: Medium 8.
Answer: D Page: 914 – 915 Difficulty: Medium
1.Effects of the events on September 11, 2001, include A) all of the answers below B) the deaths of about 3000 Americans C) the recognition that anti-American terrorism was possible within the United States D) the illustration of how far militants would go in the name of
By forging an issue-based coalition with congressional Republicans, Bill Clinton was able to A) reduce the federal budget deficit to its lowest point in thirty years B) provide universal health care for all legal citizens C) eliminate cost overruns in military spending D) provide a constitutional amendment guaranteeing term limits E) promote civil rights as a main priority
Bill Clinton became the first two-term Democratic president since A) Woodrow Wilson B) Franklin Roosevelt C) Jimmy Carter D) Dwight D. Eisenhower E) John F. Kennedy Answer: B Page: 923 Difficulty: Medium
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The midterm elections of 1998 resulted in A) a show of disapproval for an embattled President Clinton
B) C) D) E)
a huge gain for the Republicans in the House a huge defeat for the Democrats in the Senate a gain of seats in the House for the Democrats a deadlock of 50 – 50 in both the House and Senate
A) B) C) D) E)
a new resistance to seek corporate mergers heavy investment in technology businesses seeking to reduce labor costs businesses taking a harder line against unions many companies moving their operations to poor nations
Answer: D Page: 923 Difficulty: Medium Answer: A Page: 927 Difficulty: Hard 10.
The presidential scandal surrounding President Clinton showed that A) most Americans supported his impeachment B) personal lives were now seen by the media as political stories C) the Republican party would win midterm elections for years to come D) partisan politics was no longer a major factor in American politics E) the role of the independent counsel was weak and ineffective
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The decline of the Enron Corporation A) indicated that the Bush administration was hostile to big business B) cast a harsh light on the aggressive business practices of the previous decade C) occurred at a time when the company’s stock prices were rising D) led to a severe recession E) caused Americans to have faith in the ethics and practices of large corporations
Answer: B Page: 924 Difficulty: Medium Answer: B Page: 927 – 928 Difficulty: Medium 11.
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In 1999 world opinion was aroused by A) terrorist attacks on American embassies in South America B) the contradictions that emerged in the outcome of the American presidential election C) NATO’s refusal to discuss violent conflicts in the world D) a series of attacks on Israel by Syria and Egypt E) the gruesome nature of the civil war in Kosovo Answer: E Page: 924 Difficulty: Easy All of the following are true about the presidential election of 2000 A) B) C) D) E)
Al Gore won the popular vote by over 500,000 votes Some television networks originally expressed that Al Gore would win the state of Florida the third-party candidacy of Ralph Nader had an impact on some closely contested states both candidates were seen as unthreatening but bland by many voters Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris immediately called for a quick recount
18.By 1995, the average salary of high school graduates versus the a verage salary of college graduates showed A) little difference between the two groups B) that high school graduates actually earned higher starting salaries C) little change when compared with the figures of earlier decades D) that advanced degrees in science and technology were of little value E) that college graduates were earning increasingly higher salaries Answer: E Page: 928 Difficulty: Medium 19.
From 1971 to 2000, the trade balance of the United States A) has consistently favored the United States B) is no longer viewed as an economic indicator C) has only favored the United States in two years D) caused American presidents to abandon support for fee trade E) has been the major issue in many presidential elections
Answer: E Page: 924 – 925 Difficulty: Hard Answer: C Page: 929 Difficulty: Medium 13.
One outcome of the election of 2000 was A) the defeat of Hillary Rodham Clinton in the New York senatorial race B) the Republican party lost control of the House of Representatives C) the validity of electoral technology was called into question D) the overwhelming support for the fairness of the electoral college E) the belief that the outcome was not really very controversial Answer: C Page: 925 Difficulty: Medium
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In the presidential election of 2000, the vote count in Florida was ultimately decided by A) a new round of voting by the citizens of Florida B) a handshake deal that was struck between supporters of Gore and Bush C) Katherine Harris’s personal supervision of a thorough recount D) a vote by the members of the Florida state legislature E) the U.S. Supreme Court in a very close decision
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New business practices of the 1990s and early twenty-first century included all of the following except
The invention and development of the personal computer has had all of the following effects except A) revolutionizing bookkeeping B) replacing typewriters across the nation C) showing a quick presence in schools and homes D) narrowing the economic gap between the poor and wealthy E) creating enormous corporate wealth in northern California Answer: D Page: 930 Difficulty: Medium
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In the 1990s, a virtual monopoly on computer-operating systems was achieved by A) Apple B) Compaq C) J. C. R. Licklider D) Microsoft E) Pentium Answer: D Page: 930 Difficulty: Easy
One of George W. Bush’s first moves as president was to push for A) civil rights B) a tax cut C) a return to social programs like those of the Great Society D) an increase in federal funding of public education E) equal rights for women Answer: B Page: 926 Difficulty: Medium
NAFTA and GATT treaties showed political support for the reduction of nuclear arms a fresh commitment for civil rights in Africa promoting free trade and open markets an equal rights amendment for homosexuals environmental regulations across the globe
Answer: C Page: 929 Difficulty: Medium
Answer: E Page: 925 Difficulty: Easy 15.
The A) B) C) D) E)
By the turn of the century, the use of the Internet in the United States A) had dropped off from a high point in the mid-1990s B) caused the downfall of over half of America’s magazines C) exhibited minimal impact on middle-class American culture
D) E)
was a part of life for over 100 million Americans was not accompanied by an increase in personal Web sites
A) B) C) D)
Answer: D Page: 931 Difficulty: Easy 24.In 1997, scientists in Scotland announced that they had A) transplanted a heart from one species of mammal to another B) cloned a sheep from one cell of an adult ewe C) discovered a cure for bipolar syndrome and psychotic depression D) decided not to further their study of human genetics E) created a lens that will eventually end blindness
E)
Answer: E Page: 936 Difficulty: Easy 32.
Answer: B Page: 932 Difficulty: Medium 25.
The Human Genome Project set out to A) send a manned mission to Mars by the year 2010 B) invent a home computer that will be linked to one universal network C) identify over 100,000 human genes D) find a cure for AIDS by using biofeedback E) protest the ethics of new trends in scientific research Answer: C Page: 932 Difficulty: Medium
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The effects of stem-cell research A) all of the answers below B) may lead to a cure for Alzheimer’s disease C) utilizes the stem cells from fetuses that would otherwise be discarded D) causes some scientists to believe that there may be a cure for ALS E) included being an issue in the presidential election of 2000
A new demographic profile of the American population emerged during the 1970s and 1980s as the A) death rate increased B) proportion of elderly citizens grew markedly C) amount of immigrants from central Europe reached an alltime high D) total population declined E) population less than age 21 increased substantially
One aspect of the O. J. Simpson trial was A) the common public belief that there was not enough evidence to indict Simpson B) the reinforcement of the belief that Hollywood stars and the wealthy are treated unfairly C) Simpson’s open admission that he had committed the murders, but in self-defense D) the public’s disagreement about the trial was clearly divided along racial lines E) that the American public was uninterested in watching legal proceedings on television Answer: D Page: 937 Difficulty: Medium
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Answer: A Page: 933 Difficulty: Medium 27.
1944 Zoot-suit riots 1965 Watts race riots 1968 reaction to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. 1970 antiwar demonstration on the campus of Kent State University 1992 south central Los Angeles rioting
During the 1980s, the use of illegal drugs A) rose sharply among the rich B) decreased significantly among the urban poor C) increased among the middle class D) virtually ended on college campuses E) helped to spread the new disease of AIDS Answer: E Page: 936 Difficulty: Medium
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As a A) B) C) D) E)
result of AIDS research, scientists have also discovered a cure for Parkinson’s disease the use of drugs is no longer needed to treat the disease scientists believe that the disease originated in the United States the amount of new cases in the United States has dropped scientists believe they will never find a cure for the disease
Answer: D Page: 938 Difficulty: Medium Answer: B Page: 933 Difficulty: Hard 35. 28.
The most striking change in the immigration patterns of the 1970s and 1980s was A) the increase in the numbers of Hispanics and Asians B) the growing presence of white European immigrants C) the declining number of illegal immigrants D) the rapid increase in the number of African immigrants E) the dramatic drop in the total number of immigrants Answer: A Page: 934 Difficulty: Medium
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Beginning in the early 1990s, crime in America A) was not a concern among American voters B) began to drop for the first time in decades C) rose dramatically in cities, but fell overall D) experienced a rise in serious crimes E) was affected by a sharp rise in unemployment Answer: B Page: 938 – 939 Difficulty: Medium
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In the 1980s, Asian immigrants to the United States were likely to A) move to the Northeast B) place a high value on education C) become welfare recipients D) be political refugees from Japan E) settle in rural areas
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, those members of the New Right who campaigned against abortion called themselves A) pro-choice activists B) the right-to-life movement C) the anti-murder crusade D) the moral majority E) the Christian Coalition Answer: B Page: 940 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: B Page: 935 Difficulty: Easy 37. 30.By the end of the twentieth century, the black population of the United States A) all of the answers below B) experienced more of its members attending college C) had about one third of its number living in poverty D) saw less than half of its students graduate from urban high schools E) had about one-half of its number living in the middle class
In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that a state may prohibit any institution receiving state funds from performing abortions in the case of A) Roe v. Wade Plessy v. Ferguson B) Planned Parenthood v. Casey C) D) Webster v. Reproductive Health Services E) Massachusetts General v. Kelley Answer: D Page: 940 Difficulty: Easy
Answer: A Page: 935 – 936 Difficulty: Hard 38. 31.
The worst urban violence in the 1900s occurred in the
Both the achievements and the limits of the progress of women on the issue of sexual harassment were evident in the sensational
