Semester Final 1

The graph above refutes which of the following statements?

Most southern families held slaves.

The Hartford Convention was a manifestation of

New England Federalist opposition to the War of 1912

The Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka directly contradicted the legal principle established by

Plessy v. Ferguson

The Proclamation of 1763 did which of the following?

Set a boundary along the crest of the Appalachians beyond which the English colonists were forbidden to settle

The greatest achievement of the government under the Articles of Confederation was its establishment of

a system for orderly settlement of the West

In the antebellum period, free African Americans were

able to accumulate some property in spite of discrimination

Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana had its origins in his desire to

acquire a port to provide an outlet for western crops

As originally ratified, the United States Constitution provided for

an electoral college

The intent of the Dawes Act of 1887 was to

assimilate American Indians into the mainstream of American culture

In 1861, the North went to war with the South primarily to

avenge political defeats and insults inflicted by the South

The Declaration of Independence did all the following EXCEPT

call for the abolition of the slave trade

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

capitalized on their status as Washington outsiders

All of the following concerns were addressed during the "hundred days" of the New Deal EXCEPT

court restructuring

D.W. Griffith's epic film "The Birth of a Nation" (1915) became controversial because of its

depiction of Ku Klux Klan activities as heroic and commendable

Richard Nixon's 1968 political comeback to win the presidency can be partly attributed to

dissension within the Democratic party over Vietnam

All of the following account for nativist sentiment against the "new immigrants" of the late nineteenth century EXCEPT that the immigrants

dominated the professions of law, medicine, and engineering

All of the following led Congress to impose Radical Reconstruction measures EXCEPT the

election of former Confederates to Congress

President Herbert Hoover approached the task of caring for unemployed workers during the Great Depression by

emphasizing the importance of private charities

The support for former Alabama governor George Wallace in the 1968 presidential campaign best illustrates the

exploitation of race as a national political issue

The goals of educational reformers in the antebellum years included all of the following EXCEPT

federal financing of secondary education

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

imposition of poll taxes

All of the following characterized the economy during the Carter administration EXCEPT

increased union membership

In Marbury v. Madison, the United States Supreme Court affirmed

its right to determine the constitutionality of congressional enactments

Settlers who established the British colony in Virginia during the seventeenth century were primarily seeking to

profit economically

The principal motivation for drafting the Bill of Rights was the desire to

protect rights not specified in the Constitution

Which of the following statements about American cities between 1890 and 1930 is correct?

Area of residence increasingly became an indicator of social class

The primary purpose of the Stamp Act was to

raise revenues to support British troops stationed in America

In negotiations to end the Cuban Missile Crisis, President Kennedy promised to

refrain from a military invasion of Cuba

Students staged a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960 to protest

segregation of public facilities

The high inflation rates of the 1960s and 1970s were primarily the result of

spending on social-welfare programs and the Vietnam War

The farmers' protest movement lost momentum at the end of the 1890's for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the absorption of the populists by the AFL (American Federation of Labor)

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

In his farewell address, President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned Americans about the dangers of

the military-industrial complex

By the time of the American Revolution, most patriots had come to believe that, in republican governed, sovereignty was located in

the people

The 1970's and 1980's saw an increase in all of the following EXCEPT

the percentage of two-parent households

Andrew Jackson supported all of the following EXCEPT

the right of nullification

The issuance of the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?

Asserted American independence in the realm of foreign policy

Woodrow Wilson hardened Senate opposition to the Treaty of Versailles by his refusal to compromise on the issue of

the unconditional adherence of the United States to the charter of the League of Nations

The North American colonies took advantage of Great Britain's policy of salutary neglect to

work out trade arrangements to acquire needed products from other countries

Helen Hunt Jackson's "A Century of Dishonor" was significant because it aroused public awareness of the

wrongs that the federal government had inflicted on American Indians

In the early 1830s, the majority of workers in the textile mills of Massachusetts were

young unmarried women from rural New England

Which of the following was primarily responsible for the declining death rate in American cities at the end of the nineteenth century?

Cities built sewers and supplied purified water.

During the First World War, the Committee on Public Information issued propaganda to persuade the American people of all of the following EXCEPT:

Congress should reject the League of Nations

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

Criticism of middle-class conformity and materialism

Accounts of North Vietnamese torpedo-boat attacks on United States destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin during the summer of 1964 were used to justify which of the following United States actions in Vietnam?

Escalation of the American war effort

During the 1930's, the Roosevelt administration did which of the following?

Formally renounced the right to intervene in Latin America

President Washington's Neutrality Proclamation of 1793 was issued in response to

French diplomatic overtures to invoke the Franco-American Alliance

Which of the following contributed most to the American victory in the Revolution?

French military and financial assistance

Which of the following beliefs was central to eighteenth-century Deism?

God created a universe governed by natural law

Which of the following is a correct statement about Harry S. Truman?

He proposed, through Fair Deal, to continue and expand the aims of the New Deal.

The map shows the United States as it appeared in

1821

Which of the following led immediately and directly to Theodore Roosevelt's issuance of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

American fear that financial instability in the Dominican Republic would lead to European intervention

Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance?

An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity

Which of the following supplied the largest number of immigrants to the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century?

Ireland

Which of the following statements about the Tennessee Valley Authority is correct?

It built dams that made rural electrification possible.

Which of the following is true of the Sherman Antitrust Ace of 1890?

It had little immediate impact on the regulation of large corporations.

Which of the following was true of the first Great Awakening?

It resulted in divisions within both the Congregational and the Presbyterian churches

Which of the following statements about the "American System" is correct?

It was designed to meet the nation's need for economic progress and self-sufficiency

Which of the following stressed the importance of individual inspiration, self-reliance, dissent, and nonconformity?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon's policies did which of the following?

Reduced income-tax rates for the wealthy to release money for private investment.

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

She generally lost control of her property when she was married

Which of the following labor organizations endorsed the philosophy of "bread and butter" unionism by concentrating on demands for higher wages, shorter hours, and improved working conditions?

The American Federation of Labor

In the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of slavery in British North America?

The number of slaves increased rapidly in the last quarter of the century

Which of the following statements about woman suffrage is true?

The only states with complete woman suffrage before 1900 were west of the Mississippi

When Thomas Jefferson said in 1802, "We are all republicans--we are all federalists," he meant that

The principles of American government were above party politics

Which of the following statements best describes the clothing industry in the late nineteenth century?

The sewing machine made mass manufacturing of clothing possible and clothing more affordable.

Which of the following provisions of the Compromise of 1850 provoked the most controversy in the 1850's?

The strengthened Fugitive Slave Law

All of the following statements about higher education in the United States from 1865 to 1917 are correct EXCEPT:

The teaching of religion became increasingly important at major northeastern institutions.

Which of the following was true of the Northeast American Indian tribes at the time Europeans first began colonization?

Their political and linguistic differences hindered their united opposition to the Europeans

Which of the following best describes the experience of Americans of Japanese descent during the Second World War?

They were forced from their homes and businesses on the West Coast into detention camps

Which of the following had integration rather than Black separatism as a goal?

W. E. B. Du Bois and the Niagara movement

The assembly-line production of Henry Ford's Model T automobile resulted in which of the following by the end of the 1920s?

Widespread purchase of automobiles by average American families

In 1840 the American Antislavery Society split into factions because

William Lloyd Garrison's advocacy of women's rights and pacifism alienated some members

The financial programs of Alexander Hamilton included all of the following EXCEPT

nullification of all private debts to the states

"We have pacified some thousands of the islanders and buried them; destroyed their fields; burned their villages, and turned their widows and orphans out-of-doors; subjugated the remaining ten millions by Benevolent assimilation... And so, by these Providences of God--and the phrase is the government's, not mine--we are a World Power." The statement above was probably made in reference to United States policy in the

occupation of the Philippines

The Open Door policy of the early twentieth century called for

open access to China for American investment and commercial interests

The objective of the Bonus Expeditionary Force that marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 was to obtain

payment of money to veterans of the First World War

The era from the end of the Civil War to the outbreak of the First World War was characterized by

periodic economic panic and depression

When the Emancipation Proclamation was issued at the beginning of 1863, its immediate effect was to

strengthen the moral cause of the Union

The area marked X on the map was part of

the Lousiana Purchase