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
