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Many Mexicans migrated to the United States during the First World War because

revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation

Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier hypothesis" focused on the importance of

the existence of cheap unsettled land

Alexander Hamilton's economic program was designed primarily to

) establish the financial stability and credit of the new government

Which of the following best characterizes the stance of the writers associated with the literary flowering of the 1920s, such as Sinclair Lewis and F . Scott Fitzgerald?

Advocacy of cultural isolationism

Which of the following has been viewed by some historians as an indication of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the presidential election of 1928?

Alfred E . Smith's failure to carry a solidly Democratic South

Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance

An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity

The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT

Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following

Declared the United States to be the "policeman" of the Western Hemisphere .

The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?

It disrupted American shipping .

Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778

It influenced the British to offer generous peace terms in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 .

Which of the following colonies required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing

Massachusetts

Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era?

She generally lost control of her property when she married .

In the period 1890-1915, all of the following were generally true about African Americans EXCEPT

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) endorsed the Back-to-Africa movement .

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:

The South's superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North .

Which of the following constitutes a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?

The division of the tribal lands among individual members

By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?

They were a majority in many church congregations .

The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of "separate spheres" for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT

accepting women as intellectual equals of men

Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were similar as presidential candidates in that both

capitalized on their status as Washington outsiders

The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in 1966 in order to

challenge sex discrimination in the workplace

All of the following concerns were addressed during the "Hundred Days" of the New Deal eXcePT

court restructuring

Brown v . Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that

declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal

The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it

forestalled the possibility of European intervention

One of the principal reasons the "noble experiment" of Prohibition failed was that it led to an enormous increase in

law enforcement challenges

Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had no power to

levy taxes

Conservative Republican opponents of the Treaty of Versailles argued that the League of Nations would

limit United States sovereignty

The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of

promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest

During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, farmers complained about all of the following EXCEPT

rising commodity prices

The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized

skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains

The high inflation rates of the late 1960s and early 1970s were due in part to

spending on social-welfare programs and the Vietnam War

Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the

spread of corn cultivation

The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of

states' rights

"This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren .'' These sentiments are most characteristic of

the Gospel of Wealt

The Tet offensive of 1968 during the Vietnam War demonstrated that

the Vietcong could attack major cities throughout South Vietnam

Conscription policies in the First and Second World Wars differed significantly in that in the Second World War

the draft began before the United States entered the conflict

The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT

the renewed persecution of witches

Liberty of conscience was defended by Roger Williams on the grounds tha

the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit

Joseph McCarthy's investigative tactics found support among many Americans because

there was widespread fear of communist infiltration of the United States

The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of

transporting African Americans to Africa


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