APUSH COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW Jeopardy Template

Period 1 and 9 (-1607; 1980-)

Period 2: (1607-1754)

Period 3 and 5 (1754-1800; 1844-1877)

Period 4: (1800-1848)

Period 6: (1865-1900)

Period 7: (1898-1945)

Period 8: 1945-Present)

100

Most archaeologists and historians believe that the first peoples who colonized the Americas came from:

A). Asia

B). Africa

C). western Europe

D). Australia

E). the Mediterranean

A).

100

The introduction of tobacco during the early

1600s in the Virginia colony led to the

(A) devastating period of disease called the

starving time

(B) use of indentured servants, and later enslaved

Africans, for agricultural labor

village communities

(D) emergence of peaceful and cooperative

relationships with neighboring American

Indian peoples

(E) development of a diversified economy

B).

100

During the American Revolution, many women contributed to the cause of independence by

A). serving in Continental Army as soldiers

B). forming Committees of Correspondence

C). collecting money, medicine, and food to supply the Continental Army

D). petitioning the Continental Congress to give women the vote

E). protecting Loyalists from mob violence

C).

100

Andrew Jackson vetoed the recharter of the Bank of the United States partly because he believed that the bank

A). concentrated too much power in the hands of a few people

B). gave too many loans to assist unstable state and local banks

C). was secretly funding the abolitionist movement

D). was overly subsidized by state tax monies

E). planned to create new paper money unsupported by gold or silver

A).

100

7. The method of mass production that developed

during the nineteenth century was a process that

(A) relied on the use of power-driven machinery

(B) utilized wireless communications to improve

efficiency

supervision, and the chance to be creative

(D) relied on guilds to train artisans

(E) promoted more cooperation between labor

unions and factory owners

A).

100

The term "muckrakers" was used in the early twentieth century to refer to

A). laborers who worked in the meatpacking industry

B). baseball players who lost important games on purpose to collect large bribes

C). writers who wrote articles sympathetic to big business

D). captains of industry who defended the accumulation of wealth in lectures and pamphlets

E). journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

E).

100

The unanimous Supreme Court decision in

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka stated

that segregated schools were unconstitutional

because

(A) parallel school systems for White and Black

children resulted in wasteful duplication of

government services

(B) the Soviet Sputnik satellite made it clear

that the segregated public school system

had contributed to the decline of scientific

skills in the United States

constituted inherently unequal treatment

(D) racial injustice made it difficult for the

United States to appeal to peoples of

recently decolonized countries in Africa

and Asia during the Cold War

(E) the Court could no longer tolerate southern

senators’ filibustering of civil rights

legislation

C).

200

Which of the following statements about the population of

North America at the time of Christopher Columbus’ voyages

is supported by the map above?

(A) The American Indian population was distributed

uniformly throughout North America.

(B) The most densely populated regions of North America

would eventually become part of New Spain.

would eventually become part of New France.

(D) Compared with other areas of North America, relatively

few American Indians lived in the Southeast.

(E) The American Indian population was concentrated on

the Great Plains.

B).

200

All of the following groups of nonEnglish

colonists migrated into the

British North American colonies

in large numbers throughout the

eighteenth century EXCEPT

(A) Germans

(B) Russians

(D) Irish

(E) Dutch

B).

200

Which of the following was true of the South

in the post–Civil War period?

(A) A large immigrant population moved to

the region.

(B) Big business and railroads came to dominate

the Southern economy just as they did in

the North.

and tenant farming.

(D) The cotton market experienced a twenty-year

boom.

(E) A strong labor movement emerged in the

textile industry.

C).

200

The United States went to war in 1812 for

all of the following reasons EXCEPT to

(A) end British claims for repayment

of Loyalist debt

(B) prevent France from recapturing the

Louisiana Territory

seizing American ships

(D) appease members of Congress who

advocated war

(E) deal with conflicts between settlers and

American Indians in the Northwest

Territory

B).

200

In the late nineteenth century, state governments

in the South were largely successful in restricting

(A) African Americans’ voting rights guaranteed

by the Fifteenth Amendment

(B) the power of the Democratic Party

in the region

to own property

(D) corruption in the federal government

(E) antitrust laws regarding textile

manufacturing

A).

200

Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson were all similar in that they

A). followed a style of painting called Cubism

B). organized labor unions during the Gilded Age

C). were persecuted by Senator Joseph McCarthy

D). protested Untied States involvement in the Vietnam War

E). contributed to the Harlem Renaissance

E).

200

The decade of the 1970s was marked by all

of the following economic conditions in the

United States EXCEPT

(A) rising oil prices for businesses and consumers

(B) greater participation by women in the paid

workforce

and Japan

(D) simultaneous inflation and recession, known

as stagflation

(E) increased labor union membership among

autoworkers

E).

300

The Reagan Revolution of the early 1980s

entailed

(A) tax cuts for low-income Americans and

expansion of social welfare programs

(B) tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans and

increases in defense spending

(D) national health insurance

(E) a balanced federal budget

B).

300

The early success of the Pennsylvania colony

was due in large part to which of the following?

(A) Wars that forced American Indians out

of the area

(B) William Penn’s careful planning and

his policy of selling land to settlers

in the climate of Pennsylvania

(D) William Penn’s policy of allowing only

selected Quakers to settle there

(E) Restrictions on religious liberty that

reduced controversy and conflict

300

“We do not know whether free laborers ever

sleep. . . . The free laborer must work or starve.

He is more of a slave than the negro, because he

works longer and harder for less allowance than

the slave, and has no holiday, because the cares of

life with him begin when its labors end. He has no

liberty, and not a single right.”

George Fitzhugh, Cannibals All! or, Slaves

Without Masters, 1857

The excerpt above reflects the common argument

in the antebellum South that

(A) slavery was immoral

(B) capitalism was the economic system most

likely to generate wealth and happiness

for the most people

(D) slaves lived better than northern factory

workers

(E) industrialists took care of their workers’

welfare

D).

300

The Louisiana Purchase proved politically

troubling for Thomas Jefferson because of his

(A) previous support for a strict interpretation

of the Constitution

(B) veto of funding for Meriwether Lewis

and William Clark’s expedition

(D) devotion to new methods of cartography

(E) disdain for involvement in a foreign

country’s affairs

A).

300

In Horatio Alger’s books, the hero is successful

primarily as a result of his

(A) religious piety

(B) formal education

(D) influential relatives

(E) inherited wealth

C).

300

Which of the following is a major change in the

status of women that occurred in the 1920s?

(A) They began to vote in national elections.

(B) They achieved income equality with men.

proceedings.

(D) They began to serve in the armed forces.

(E) They were elected to federal office in large

numbers.

A).

300

Richard Nixon’s diplomatic overtures to the

People’s Republic of China were motivated

in part by his belief that China

(A) was ready to embrace a capitalist economy

and democratic government

(B) was a more legitimate representative of the

Chinese people than was Taiwan

could not be ignored

(D) might form an alliance with South Korea and

Japan against the United States

(E) was likely to shun cultural and educational

exchanges with Western European natio

C).

400

During the 1970s and 1980s, the New Right

appealed strongly to all of the following groups

EXCEPT those who were

(A) concentrated in suburbs in the South and

Southwest

(B) evangelical Protestants

(D) afraid that the Soviet Union represented a

growing menace

(E) opposed to government intervention in

the economy

400

“[God’s] wrath towards you burns like fire; He

looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but

to be cast into the fire . . . you are ten thousand

times more abominable in His eyes, as the most

hateful and venomous serpent is in ours. You

have offended Him infinitely more than ever

a stubborn rebel did his prince. And yet, it is

nothing but His hand that holds you from falling

into the fire every moment.”

The quote above is an example of the rhetoric

from the

(A) Puritan migration of the 1630s

(B) Salem witch trials of the 1690s

(D) American Revolution of the 1770s

(E) Mormon migration of the 1840s

C).

400

Which of the following is true of the Virginia

and the New Jersey plans that were presented

at the Constitutional Convention?

(A) They illustrated the struggle between states

for representation and power in the creation

of the new government.

(B) They were attempts to settle the status

of slaves in the southern states.

federal taxes would be collected by the

new government.

(D) They illustrated the conflicts between states

with primarily agricultural and commercial

economies.

(E) They were alternative plans to admit new

territories to the Union.

A).

400

During the 1800s the most common form of

resistance to slavery by slaves themselves was

(A) rebelling openly, using weapons,

and planning confrontations

(B) organizing petitions and demonstrations

against slavery

Underground Railroad

(D) working slowly and breaking tools

(E) cooperating with the abolitionist movement

to advocate laws to end slavery

D).

400

Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth was

based on the belief that wealthy industrialists

should use their wealth to

(A) acquire additional landholdings in the West

(B) create new businesses

(D) pay workers better wages and benefits

(E) live in luxury

C).

400

Which of the following messages did the

United States government most likely intend

to impart in the Second World War poster

pictured above?

(A) Promotion of union membership for workers

in war industries

(B) Encouragement of greater acceptance of

African American workers in wartime

industrial jobs

of racial integration in the armed forces

(D) Response to criticism that corporate

profiteering undermined United States

war efforts

(E) Counterpoint to the Rosie the Riveter image

by showing that men, as well as women,

worked in war industries

B).

400

Which of the following statements would best

describe the point being made in the cartoon

above about Richard Nixon’s administration?

(A) In order for integration policies to work,

Nixon needed to pick up the support of the

silent majority.

(B) The Nixon administration was arguing that

integration was no longer a relevant policy.

integration made in the 1960s.

(D) Nixon needed to attract more Black votes in

order to move forward in civil rights.

(E) Nixon supported busing as a means to

integration.

C).

500

The Pueblo revolt of 1680 was caused by

A). the Spanish Mission System

B). the Spanish Encomienda System

C). the establishment of trading post forts by the Jesuits

D). the policy of the English covenant chain

E). battles of native hegemony with the Iroquois

B).

500

In the period 1650–1750, all of the following

contributed to British North American colonists’

sense of identity as British subjects EXCEPT the

(A) growth of commerce across the Atlantic

Ocean

(B) increased circulation of London newspaper

articles reprinted in the colonies

frontier regions

(D) availability of British manufactured goods

in the colonies

(E) warfare against the French and their

American Indian allies

C).

500

Historians have argued that all of the following

were causes of the Civil War EXCEPT

(A) the clash of economic interests between

agrarian and industrializing regions

(B) the actions of irresponsible politicians and

agitators in the North and the South

slavery

(D) the growing power of poor Southern Whites

who resisted planter dominance and sought

to abolish slavery

(E) a constitutional crisis pitting states’ rights

against federal power

D).

500

“Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as

you conform your life to the pure idea in your

mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A

correspondent revolution in things will attend

the influx of the spirit.”

The 1836 passage above exemplifies which

of the following intellectual trends?

(A) Evangelicalism

(B) Transcendentalism

(D) Mormon theology

(E) Pragmatist philosophy

B).

500

The chart above supports which of the following conclusions regarding economic conditions in the United States

during the last third of the nineteenth century?

(A) Americans with relatively stable incomes found it increasingly difficult to make ends meet.

(B) Wheat farming became more lucrative.

(D) Cheap foreign goods were the primary cause for the decline in prices.

(E) Industrial workers refused to demand higher wages due to declining prices.

C).

500

The years 1930–1980 have been described by

one historian as a period that saw the “rise and

fall of the New Deal Order.” What is meant here

by the phrase “New Deal Order”?

(A) An arrangement in which the United States

government took an active role in regulating

the economy and in mediating disputes

between labor and management

(B) A plan to allow increased free trade between

the United States and Europe

Republicans intent on encouraging family

values and moral behavior

(D) A program intended by congressional

Democrats to promote the growth of small

businesses at the expense of major

corporations

(E) A scheme designed to pave the way for a

single, worldwide governing body

A).

500

Betty Friedan’s best-selling book of the 1960s

observed that

(A) racism blocked the Civil Rights movement

(B) environmental problems plagued the country

(D) conflicts increased between supporters of

Black separatism and supporters of

integration

(E) many middle-class housewives and mothers

felt frustration and a lack of fulfillment

E).

600

Spanish and French colonization efforts most differed from British colonization

A). in that they formed interracial societies

B). in that they were less harsh than the British

C). in that they conquered and controlled less land

D). in that they only converted natives to protestant Christianity

E). in that they refused to encourage native assimilation to European culture

A).

600

Which of the following characterizes the

relationship between church and state for the

Puritans who settled the Massachusetts Bay

Colony in the seventeenth century?

(A) The colonial government officially supported

religious toleration.

(B) Colonial officials strictly separated church

and state.

incorporate Catholic elements of worship.

(D) Ministers held most elected offices.

(E) Church membership was required for voting

and holding public office.

E).

600

Which of the following most profoundly

transformed the lives of slaves in the South in

the mid-1700s?

(A) The reluctance of White slaveholders to

move west and settle in the Ohio River

valley

(B) The growing popularity of antislavery

sentiment among White Americans

African American population

(D) The prevalence of slave rebellions on large

plantations

(E) The passage of gradual emancipation laws

in the upper South

C).

600

Politics in the antebellum United States changed

dramatically because

(A) expanded White male suffrage broadened

participation in elections

(B) female suffrage became a topic of debate in

the House of Representatives

election of senators

(D) the power of the federal government

expanded to ensure the equal protection of

all citizens

(E) the government sought to assimilate

American Indians in the West

A).

600

Frederick Jackson Turner’s theory emphasized the

significance of the frontier for all of the following

reasons EXCEPT:

(A) An open frontier led to the development of

the unique American character.

(B) Free land promoted freedom of opportunity

on the frontier.

institutions.

(D) The western frontier had land that could be

distributed to former slaves.

(E) The frontier was a safety valve for the excess

population of eastern cities.

D).

600

Which of the following correctly describes

the Committee on Public Information?

(A) It was the first organization to

oppose legalizing abortion.

(B) It was a business lobby against

Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

support for the war effort during the First

World War.

(D) It was the effort led by Samuel Adams to

rally colonists against British taxes.

(E) It was an antislavery group that formed after

the Compromise of 1850.

C).

600

In her influential 1962 work Silent Spring,

Rachel Carson warned

(A) that discrimination against deaf Americans

violated civil rights laws

(B) that many cars built in the United States

were unsafe

(D) that poverty in the United States threatened

the overall economy

(E) about noise pollution

C).

700

What do the convincing election victories by FDR, LBJ, Nixon, and Reagan all have in common?

A). they all suffered scandals in their second terms

B). they were all impeached

C). they all became involved in a war

D). they all emphasized strong economic regulation of the economy

E). they all enjoyed more successful second terms than first terms

700

Someone who favored George Washington’s

approach to foreign policy would be most likely

to object to which of the following United States

policies?

(A) Declaration of neutrality at the beginning

of the First World War

(B) Selling surplus wheat to the Soviet Union

in the 1970s

Organization

(D) Participation in international scientific

conferences

(E) Trade with the European Common Market

nations

C).

700

Thomas Jefferson disagreed with Alexander

Hamilton’s economic plan primarily because he

feared that it would

(A) make the new nation dependent on foreign

markets for its exports

(B) prevent the expansion of slavery to new states

against revolutionary France

(D) lead to heavy taxes on whiskey producers

in Pennsylvania

(E) promote urban mercantile interests at the

expense of agricultural interests

E).

700

William Lloyd Garrison and the American

Anti-Slavery Society were known for

(A) advocating immediate and uncompensated

emancipation

(B) advocating colonization by former slaves in

West Africa

purchase slaves from slaveholders

(D) opposing women’s participation in public

abolitionist meetings

(E) supporting the Kansas-Nebraska Act’s

provisions regarding slavery

A).

700

Although the Sherman Antitrust Act was

originally intended to inhibit the growth of

business monopolies, courts initially used its

provisions successfully against

(A) urban political machines

(B) banks

(D) labor unions

(E) immigrants

D).

700

Which of the following was Harry Truman’s

stated reason for authorizing the use of the

atomic bomb against Japan?

(A) Using the atomic bomb would prevent

the need for a costly invasion of Japan.

(B) Dropping the atomic bomb would

demonstrate United States military

capability to the Soviets.

Japan had been unsuccessful.

(D) The development of the atomic bomb

had been expensive.

(E) The United States should retaliate in response

to Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor.

A).

700

From 1984 to 1986, Reagan administration

officials secretly sold arms to Iran to illegally

finance

(A) a rebellion against the Sandinista government

in Nicaragua

(B) a coup against the Castro regime in Cuba

(D) Great Britain’s pursuit of the Falkland

Islands War

(E) a leftist revolt in El Salvador

A).

800

Which of the following best characterizes rural

women in the New England colonies?

(A) Many left their farms in order to work in

textile mills.

(B) They used their influence over the domestic

sphere as a basis for promoting social

reform.

(D) They performed a large amount of farm labor

and produced goods for their families.

(E) A large number of them were teachers in oneroom

schoolhouses.

D).

800

Five of the thirteen states voted for ratification of

the Constitution only after

(A) slavery was allowed to continue without

federal interference

(B) several slave revolts rocked the Carolinas

and Virginia

would have the power of judicial review

(D) they were assured that a Bill of Rights would

be added shortly after ratification

(E) the other states threatened to organize the

government without them

D).

800

One distinguishing feature of the new middle

class that emerged in the 1830s and 1840s was

(A) its members’ tendency to be tolerant of

religious diversity

(B) the separation of economic production from

the home and family life

attended graduate and professional schools

(D) its members’ support for ending legal

immigration from eastern Europe

(E) the fact that most married women worked

outside the home to provide income for

their families

B).

800

“If they dare to come out in the open field and

defend the gold standard as a good thing, we will

fight them to the uttermost. Having behind us the

producing masses of this nation and the world,

supported by the commercial interests, the

laboring interests, and the toilers everywhere, we

will answer their demand for a gold standard by

saying to them: You shall not press down upon

the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall

not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.”

William Jennings Bryan, 1896

Which of the following groups would most likely

agree with the quote above?

(A) Urban workers

(B) Railroad executives

(D) Midwestern farmers

(E) White-collar and professional workers

D).

800

Many anti-imperialists opposed the annexation of

the Philippines in 1898 because they believed that

(A) the Philippines should be returned to Spain

(B) United States colonialism in the Philippines

was incompatible with the American belief

in self-determination

with United States agriculture

(D) the Philippine government was planning

an alliance with Mexico

(E) the United States would be drawn into a war

with Japan over Pacific territories

B).

800

In the early 1960s, Malcolm X challenged the

leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., in the

Civil Rights movement by arguing that

(A) African Americans must defend themselves

against racism by using violence if

necessary

(B) nonviolent protest could succeed only when

African American and White activists

cooperated

and cultural ties with African nations

(D) African Americans could move toward

political equality by first developing

stronger vocational skills

(E) court litigation was a more effective strategy

to gain civil rights than were sit-ins or mass

protest rallies

A).

900

The Virginia Slave Codes of 1705 were passed in correlation to

A). increasing western migration

B). increasing gradual emancipation by states

C). increasing slave rebellions

D). increasing trans-Atlantic slave trade

E). increasing evangelism of the First Great Awakening

D).

900

Shays’ Rebellion is significant because it

(A) inspired southern states to tighten slave codes

to prevent future uprisings

(B) strengthened the movement for a new

constitution

officials from Maryland

(D) led to the establishment of the Anglican

church as the official church in the colonies

(E) led to the establishment of a new government

in New York

B).

900

The role of women expressed in the cult

of domesticity had its roots in

(A) Progressive Era urban reform

(B) mid-nineteenth-century nativism

movement

(D) republican motherhood

(E) the reaction against feminism after

the Second World War

D).

900

From the 1880s to the New Deal, the dominant

United States government policy toward

American Indians was to try to

(A) strengthen tribal authority

(B) relocate all tribes to Oklahoma

(D) preserve native languages and customs

(E) assimilate them into White culture

E).

900

During the late nineteenth century, members of

which of the following groups were most likely

to advocate settlement houses as a means of

social reform?

(A) African Americans leaders

(B) Educated middle-class women

(D) Labor leaders

(E) Democratic politicians

B).

900

The “Declaration of Constitutional Principles”

(Southern Manifesto) of 1956 and

George Wallace’s campaigns for the

presidency in 1968 and 1972 all endorsed

(A) tax cuts for middle-income Americans

(B) civil rights for Black people

matters

(D) a constitutional amendment requiring an

annual balanced federal budget

(E) allowing display of the Confederate battle

flag on state capitol grounds

C).

1000

Members of the American (Know-Nothing)

Party of the 1850s typically supported

(A) universal manhood suffrage

(B) restoration of a national bank

(D) homesteads in the western territories

(E) restrictions on Catholics’ holding

public office

E).

1000

The United States gained which of the following

from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?

(A) An undisputed claim to Oregon

(B) Control of the sugar trade with Cuba

Southwest

(D) Possession of the Philippines

(E) The right to construct a canal across the

Isthmus of Panama

C).

1000

After the Civil War, some businesspeople and

newspaper editors—such as the Atlanta

Constitution’s Henry Grady—promoted the idea

of a New South. Which of the following best

describes their vision for the southern states?

(A) An agricultural region consisting of small

farms focused on growing food crops

(B) An industrial region whose economic

mainstays would be the mining and

smelting of minerals and metals

growing cotton, tobacco, and rice, worked

by sharecroppers

(D) A mixed economy no longer primarily

dependent on cash crops

(E) A postindustrial region whose economy

revolved around health care, insurance, and

financial services

D).

1000

“The Department of Justice will pursue the attack

of these ‘Reds’ upon the Government of the

United States with vigilance, and no alien,

advocating the overthrow of existing law and

order in this country, shall escape arrest and

prompt deportation.”

The declaration above was made by

(A) Louis D. Brandeis

(B) William Howard Taft

(D) Theodore Roosevelt

(E) Robert M. La Follette

C).

1000

Which of the following migration patterns had

the greatest impact on United States society in

the 1950s?

(A) Immigration of eastern and southern

Europeans to the United States

(B) Migration of Mexican Americans to

midwestern cities

(D) Migration of Americans from urban centers

to the suburbs

(E) Migration of American Indians from the

Dakotas to California

D).

1100

79. Which of the following did NOT contribute to

the perception of many White Southerners that

antislavery sentiment was spreading in the 1850s?

(A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin drew enthusiastic

audiences of Northern readers and

theatergoers.

(B) Groups like the New England Emigrant Aid

Company worked to make Kansas a free

state.

Henry David Thoreau praised John Brown’s

raid on Harpers Ferry.

(D) The Republican Party attracted an increasing

number of supporters.

(E) Congress voted to end the interstate slave

trade.

1100

W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from

Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed

(A) African Americans should pursue immediate

and full equality

(B) economic success would lead to political

equality

than formal education

(D) civil rights would come through local efforts

rather than national organization

(E) segregation was a southern problem more

than a national one

A).

1100

President Calvin Coolidge and his secretary of the

Treasury, Andrew Mellon, pursued an economic

policy that featured

(A) a sustained downward revision of the tariff

(B) tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations

farmers

(D) a bimetallic monetary standard

(E) effective regulation of the stock market and

Wall Street

C).

1100

The chart above illustrates the effect of President Richard

Nixon’s policy of

(A) Vietnamization

(B) escalation

(D) containment

(E) appeasement

A).

1200

The Federalist papers were written in order to

(A) mobilize popular support for keeping the

Articles of Confederation

(B) persuade voters to support Thomas Jefferson

in the election of 1800

loyalty of the Southwest

(D) persuade the Continental Congress to declare

independence

(E) attain ratification of the Constitution

1200

Although Progressive Era reformers held different (YES I KNOW THIS IS PERIOD 7)

opinions about many issues of the day, they

shared a belief in

(A) the creation of a classless society

(B) the capacity of trained professionals to find

rational, scientific solutions to society’s

problems

through voluntary organizations rather than

increasing government power

(D) the expanding role of the United States as an

imperial power

(E) the creation of an organization to promote

international peace

1200

“Chronic wrongdoing, or an impotence which

results in a general loosening of the ties of

civilized society, may in America, as elsewhere,

ultimately require intervention by some civilized

nation, and in the Western Hemisphere the

adherence of the United States to the Monroe

Doctrine may force the United States, however

reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrongdoing

or impotence, to the exercise of an international

police power.”

The foreign policy statement above came to be

known as

(A) dollar diplomacy

(B) the Roosevelt Corollary

(D) the Good Neighbor policy

(E) the Alliance for Progress

B).

1200

When the Soviet Union successfully launched

the first artificial satellite Sputnik in 1957,

Congress responded by

(A) ending diplomatic relations with the

Soviet Union

(B) opening talks with China

(D) passing Title IX of the Federal Education

Amendments

(E) proposing the Strategic Arms Limitation

Treaty

C).

1300

Which of the following would most likely have

opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

(A) A Missouri slaveholder

(B) Stephen Douglas

Pacific-to-Chicago railroad line

(D) A Southern supporter of popular sovereignty

(E) A New England abolitionist

E).

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One stated objective of Woodrow Wilson’s plan

for peace after the First World War was to

(A) ensure the military dominance of the

United States over the European powers

(B) ensure that the Central Powers paid the

Allied nations for war damages

(D) promote the right of national selfdetermination

(E) provide monetary assistance to rebuild

Europe

D).

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Which of the following is most characteristic of

President Eisenhower’s Cold War strategy?

(A) It caused him to restrict covert operations

of the Central Intelligence Agency.

(B) It relied on a massive buildup of conventional

troops.

retaliation.

(D) It utilized counterinsurgency tactics to control

communist-influenced rebellions in the

developing world.

(E) It drastically restricted any further

development of the United States nuclear

arsenal.

A).

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According to the graph above, the largest decrease in the

percent of Americans living below the poverty line

accompanied which of the following federal policy

initiatives?

(A) The New Deal

(B) The Fair Deal

(D) Supply-side economics

(E) Welfare to Work

C).