Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Combination 1
Combination 2
100
Laws passed that included the following provisions: California being added as a free state, fugitive slave law, the slave trade ended in the nation’s capital, etc.
A. Wilmot Proviso
B. Compromise 1850
C. Kansas-nebraska act
D. Freeport doctrine
B. Compromise 1850
100
Which of the following best explains a connection between the economic development of the West in the mid-1800s and in the late 1800s?
A. In both periods, the end of conflicts with American Indians encouraged many Southerners to migrate to the West.
B. In both periods, the West offered a large existing labor force eager for work in mining and railroads.
C. In both periods, the expansion and improvement of railroads facilitated transportation in the West.
D. In both periods, the federal government encouraged immigrants from abroad to settle in the West.
C. In both periods, the expansion and improvement of railroads facilitated transportation in the West.
100
Which of the following best explains a conclusion about United States foreign policy in the early 1900s supported by the point of view expressed in the excerpt
A. Americans supported the goals of nationalists in the Philippines.
B. Americans expressed little opposition to acquiring new colonial possessions.
C. Political leaders usually did not consider the economic effects of overseas ventures.
D. Political leaders continued to promote the earlier idea of predestined national expansion.
D. Political leaders continued to promote the earlier idea of predestined national expansion.
100
Which of the following aroused the greatest controversy in the United States at the end of the Spanish American War?
A. Payment of a $20 million indemnity to Spain
B. Humanitarian efforts on behalf of concentration camp victims
C. Acquisition of the Philippine Islands
D. Liberation of Cuba from Spanish control
C. Acquisition of the Philippine Islands
100
The purpose of the Liberty Loan Campaign illustrated in the drawing above was to
A. encourage young men to enlist in the army
B. finance American involvement in the First World War
C. support the establishment of Boy Scout troops throughout the nation
D. aid in the implementation of New Deal programs
B. finance American involvement in the First World War
200
A series of violent politcal confrontation in the united states involving anti-slavery “Free- Stater” and pro-slavery “Border Ruffians”
A. Emancipation Proclamation
B. Compromise of 1850
C. Bleeding Kansas
D. Freeport Doctrine
C. Bleeding Kansas
200
Which of the following developments helps to explain the change in agriculture depicted in the graph?
A. The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods.
B. The growth of an internal slave trade provided an enlarged workforce whose labor helped increase agricultural production.
C. Farmers’ cooperative organizations reduced consolidation in the agricultural markets in order to increase production.
D. Increased migration from the West for industrial jobs in eastern cities led to increased consumption of agricultural goods
A. The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods.
200
In the late 1800s, many Americans came to support a United States empire overseas because they
A. wanted the United States to assist British and German colonization
B. viewed colonies as places where African Americans could be resettled
C. thought that importing foreign products would stimulate the United States economy
D. sought to spread Protestantism and Anglo-Saxon values
D. sought to spread Protestantism and Anglo-Saxon values
200
Which of the following developments best explains changes in agricultural production in the United States during the 1880s and 1890s?
A. New systems of transportation integrated farming into national markets.
B. Farmers established new plantations for commercial crops such as cotton and tobacco.
C. The Civil War devastated farms in large portions of the South.
D. Commercial farms increasingly relied on labor provided by immigrants.
A. New systems of transportation integrated farming into national markets.
200
Between 1890 and 1910, the United States most strongly pursued a foreign policy promoting
A. isolationism in world affairs
B. close military alliances with Great Britain and France
C. a sphere of influence in Africa
D. commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia
D. commercial involvement in both Latin America and eastern Asia
300
Abolitionist who turned to violence for the cause of ending slavery.
A. William Loyd Garrison
B. Harriet B. Stowe
C. John Brown
D. Frederick Douglas
C. John Brown
300
At the end of the nineteenth century, the desire of American business to control supplies of raw materials led to
A. automation of industry
B. horizontal integration
C. vertical integration
D. development of the factory system
C. vertical integration
300
Wilson’s Fourteen Points incorporated all of the following EXCEPT
A. open diplomacy
B. freedom of the seas
C. recognition of Allied economic and territorial agreements made during the war
D. creation of an international organization to preserve the peace and security of its members
C. recognition of Allied economic and territorial agreements made during the war
300
An attempt made by Congress to settle the conflict between the North and the South
A. Fugitive slave act
B. Compromise of 1850
C. Popular sovereignty
D. Civil war
B. Compromise fo 1850
300
The photograph above was most directly a result of
A. Republicans’ effort to change southern racial attitudes and culture
B. The citizenship and equal protection of the laws granted to african americans in the 14th and 15th amendments
C. The 13th amendment abolishing slavery
D. Lincoln’s decision to issue the emancipation proclamation
D. Lincoln’s decision to issue the emancipation proclamation
400
Commanding General of the Union Army and the 18th President of the United States
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Jefferson Davis
C. Robert E. Lee
D. Ulysses S. Grant
D. Ulysses S. Grant
400
The Ghost Dance, a religious movement that developed in the late nineteenth century, emerged from which of the following?
A. American Indians’ distress over loss of tribal authority
B. African Americans’ efforts to cope with Jim Crow laws
C. Southern White peoples’ reactions to their loss of authority during Reconstruction
D. Western migrants’ nostalgia for life in the East
A. American Indians’ distress over loss of tribal authority
400
Which of the following occurred on the home front during the First World War?
A. The United States public expressed widespread anti-German sentiment.
B. Military commanders desegregated the armed forces.
C. The United States government placed Japanese Americans in relocation camps.
D. Women joined the military in large numbers.
A. The United States public expressed widespread anti-German sentiment.
400
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following?
A. Prohibited United States intervention in the Caribbean.
B. Warned against European seizure of the Panama Canal.
C. Sought to end the wave of nationalization of American-owned property in the Caribbean.
D. Declared the United States to be the “policeman” of the Western Hemisphere.
D. Declared the United States to be the “policeman” of the Western Hemisphere.
400
In an 1858 campaign speech, Abraham Lincoln
A. Defended the Dred Scott decision as the only practical solution to the problems engendered by slavery
B. Assured the public that the Union could remain divided as free and slave states with little to no consequence
C. Warned that the nation could not endure as “house divided against itself,” that is, half slave and half free
D. Predicted that the free states would defeat the slave states if a civil war broke out
C. Warned that the nation could not endure as “house divided against itself,” that is, half slave and half free
500
An amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons
A. 13th amendment
B. 14th amendment
C. 15th amendment
D. 16th amendment
B. 14th Amendment
500
The precipitating factor in the 1894 Pullman strike was Pullman’s
A. dismissal of union workers
B. introduction of scrip in part of payment wages
C. retraction of its promise to provide an employee insurance and retirement plan
D. cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
D. cutting of wages without proportionate cuts in company housing rents
500
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.
C. It was established to mobilize domestic 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.
C. It was established to mobilize domestic support for the war effort during the First World War.
500
Members of which of the following groups were most likely to support the Populist Party?
A. Industrialists in the Midwest
B. Chinese railroad workers from the West
C. Bankers from the East
D. Sharecroppers from the South
D. Sharecroppers from the South
500
Why was it necessary to add the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the U.S Constitution following the Civil War?
A. The Constitution outlawed the federal government’s interference with state laws
B. The Bill of Rights gave state laws precedence (higher importance) over federal laws
C. The Constitution had condoned slavery and allowed states to set voting requirements
D. It wasn’t necessary; they were passed merely for emphasis and propaganda
C. The Constitution had condoned slavery and allowed states to set voting requirements