Practice Exam MC (1)

What is true about the antebellum mining frontier?

-Few miners were interested in permanently settling in the west -Miners persecuted the native tribes of the West -Mining towns were often disorderly, lawless -Some foreign miners competed with Americans for gold

Sussex pledge

A statement by Germany promising to stop unrestricted U-boat warfare. This came form Germany wanting to keep America out of the war because Germany kept sinking passenger vessels

What is true about the Whig Party?

Emerged in the 1830s as an anti-Jackson party. Absorbed elements of "know-nothing" party. Supported maintenance of the Bank of the United States, road construction, tariffs to protect American industries. Won in 1840,48. By 1850s, many Southern Whigs supported the expansion of slavery into the territories, while their Northern counterparts opposed expansion.

In order to limit opposition to his liberal domestic programs, who attempted to expand the size of the Supreme Court from 9 to 12 justices?

FDR

"Abolish slavery in all its forms and aspects, advocate universal emancipation, exalt the standard of public morality, and promote the moral and intellectual improvement of the colored people, and hasten the day of freedom to the Three Millions of our enslaved fellow countrymen." The preceding quotation comes from the masthead of the abolitionist newspaper The North Star. Its founder was

Frederick Douglass

During the Civil War, the Peninsular Campaign (1862) revealed

George McClellan's tentativeness

Which of the following best explains why President Andrew Jackson resisted annexing Texas during his administration

He feared that debates over annexation would exacerbate sectional strife.

What best supports Charles Beard's interpretation of the Constitution?

In "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" (1913), Beard says that the Constitution reflected the interests of the upper class of American society.

What was a foreign affairs issue during Jimmy Carter's Presidency?

Iranian hostage crisis

What is the Trade Expansion Act?

It lowered tariffs to promote trade between the US and European nations

What statement about President Thomas Jefferson's administration isn't true?

Jefferson consistently acted as a strict constructionist

What was true about the election of Nixon in 1972?

Nixon was the first Republican candidate to carry the "Solid South". His conservative "southern strategy" emphasizing his opposition to busing, enabled him to win votes in the solidly Democratic South, also benefited from lingering divisions within the Democratic Party.

The "Saturday Night Massacre" refers to

President Richard Nixon's attempts to remove special prosecutor Archibald Cox from the Watergate investigation.

"Stagflation," an economic problem characterized by high inflation at a time of slow economic growth, plagued the administration of

Richard Nixon

As governor of the state of Wisconsin, which of the following instituted Progressive reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and state income tax?

Robert La Follette

In "Babbitt", which of the following authors criticized the shallow materialism of his or her contemporaries

Sinclair Lewis

Which of the following statements best describes Chief Justice Roger B. Taney's decision in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge (1837)?

Taney expanded economic opportunity and the powers of a state government.

McCarthyism spawned a hysteria that swept over the nation during the early Cold War. Accusations of links to communism ruined numerous people and their careers. The decline of Joe McCarthy came after his televised hearings with

The Army

Demonstrating a significant shift in government policy toward organized labor, which of the following presidents sided with anthracite coal miners in their strike against mine owners?

Theodore Roosevelt

WPA

Works Progress Administration expanded relief efforts during the New Deal, and financed diverse activities from road and building construction to projects for writers and artists.

The Annapolis Convention succeeded in

convincing Confederation leaders to call a constitutional convention, began in 1786 to improve interstate commerce, realized AoC sucked

At the turn of the (19th) century, the US favored the Open-Door Policy in order to

ensure that it would have its share in China's trade

Jane Addams was significant for

establishing the Hull House, which strove to help immigrant families adapt to the language and traditions of the US

Although criticized by 1960s conservatives, the Supreme Court case of "Gideon v. Wainwright" ensured that those accused of crimes

were entitled to a lawyer even if they could not afford one

In response to the sinking of the USS Panay and three American commercial vessels in 1937, the American public urged President Franklin Roosevelt to

withdraw American ships from China