Generation Y
Created in 2009 by:
· Central Organizer:
Chelsea Spyres
· Unit I – V Multiple Choice coordinator:
Chelsea Spyres
· Unit VI – X Multiple Choice coordinator:
Coleen McCarren
· Document Based Question coordinator:
Justin Coger
· Essay coordinator:
Julie Arnold
UNITED STATES HISTORY
SECTION I
Time – 55 minutes
80 Questions
Directions: Each of the questions or incomplete statements below is followed by five suggested answers or completions. Select the one that is best in each case and then fill in the corresponding oval on the answer sheet.
1. Match each individual on the left with the correct description:
A. Francis Drake / 1. “sea dog” who plundered the treasure ships of the Spanish MainB. Walter Raleigh / 2. adventurer who tried but failed to establish a colony in Newfoundland
C. Humphrey Gilbert / 3. explorer whose voyage in 1498 established England’s territorial claims in the New World
4. courtier whose colony at Roanoke Island was abandoned in the 1580s
5. the colonizer who helped establish tobacco as a cash crop in Georgia
a. A-2, B-1, C-3
b. A-1, B-4, C-2
c. A-3, B-2, C-1
d. A-4, B-3, C-2
e. A-5, B-4, C-1
2. Unlike the English colonies in America, in New France
a. there were no popularly elected assemblies.
b. the crown refused to promote the welfare of French colonization.
c. the population grew very rapidly.
d. no valuable resources for exploitation existed.
e. the colonists practiced religious toleration.
3. Match the individual with his office in the new government.
A. Thomas Jefferson / 1. attorney generalB. Alexander Hamilton / 2. secretary of state
C. Henry Knox / 3. secretary of war
4. secretary of treasury
a. A-1, B-3, C-2
b. A-3, B-1, C-4
c. A-2, B-4, C-3
d. A-4, B-2, C-l
e. A-1, B-4, C-3
4. By the 1840s new techniques of politicking included all of the following except
a. the use of banners.
b. free drinks.
c. parades.
d. baby kissing.
e. deference.
5. In the 1896 case of Plessey v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. African-Americans could be denied the right to vote.
b. Segregation was unconstitutional.
c. “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
d. the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to African-Americans.
e. literacy tests for voting were constitutional.
6. Teddy Roosevelt promoted the “Bad Neighbor” policy primarily by
a. building the Panama Canal
b. making Puerto Rico a U.S. colony
c. involving the United States in the borders dispute between Venezuela and Britain
d. adding the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
e. sending U.S. troops to the Dominican Republic
7. The Federal Farm Board, created by the Agricultural Marketing Act, lent money to farmers primarily to help them to
a. organize producers’ cooperatives
b. learn a new and more profitable trade
c. open new land to cultivation
d. purchase expensive new farm machinery
e. take land out of production
8. The Supreme Court began to advance the cause of civil rights in the 1950s because
a. the Court was the only branch of government with the Constitutional authority to do so.
b. the courts were dominated by New Deal liberals.
c. President Eisenhower had requested the Court’s assistance.
d. Congress had abdicated its responsibilities by refusing to deal with the issue.
e. the Constitution clearly prohibited any segregation.
9. To control creeping inflation in the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon
a. imposed a ninety-day wage-and-price freeze.
b. put the United States back on the gold standard.
c. sought a system of international currency stabilization.
d. lowered Social Security payments.
e. pressured the Federal Reserve Board to raise interest rates.
10. The special characteristics of New England’s population led to the observation that these colonists “invented”
a. premarital sex.
b. grandparents.
c. family life.
d. religious piety.
e. women’s rights.
11. The American colonial exponents of republicanism argued that a just society depends on
a. a powerful central government.
b. a weak army.
c. a strong aristocratic tradition.
d. support for hierarchical institutions.
e. the willingness of all citizens to subordinate their private interests to the common good.
12. The major problem of the 1876 presidential election centered on
a. who would be the Speaker of the House.
b. the two sets of election returns submitted by Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana.
c. Samuel Tilden’s association with corrupt politicians.
d. President Grant’s campaign for a third term.
e. Failure to use the secret “Australian ballot” in some places.
13. The “Gentlemen’s Agreement” that Teddy Roosevelt worked out with the Japanese
a. concluded the Russo-Japanese War
b. helped him to win the 1906 Nobel Peace Prize
c. caused Japan to halt the flow of laborers to America in return for the repeal of a racist school decree by the San Francisco School Board
d. put a stop to the racist “yellow journalism” being practiced in the United States
e. restricted Japanese immigration to upper-class gentlemen
14. President Hoover’s approach to the Great Depression was to
a. leave the economy alone to work itself out of trouble
b. nationalize major industries
c. encourage the states to stimulate spending
d. blame it on big business
e. adopt unprecedented federal initiatives to combat it
15. As part of his “New Look” foreign policy, President Eisenhower
a. sought an alliance with China
b. refused to talk with leaders of the Soviet Union
c. called for “open skies” over both the United States and the Soviet Union
d. sent help the Hungarian freedom fighters
e. allied with Israel against the Arab states
16. Construction of an isthmian canal was motivated mainly by
a. a desire to improve the defense of the United States.
b. the Panamanian Revolution.
c. continued volcanic activity in Nicaragua.
d. the British rejection of the Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
e. American economic interests in Central America.
17. Bob La Follette’s Progressive party advocated all of the following except
a. government ownership of railroads.
b. relief for farmers.
c. opposition to anti-labor injunctions.
d. opposition to monopolies.
e. increased power for the Supreme Court.
18. The leader of the nationalist movement in Vietnam since World War I was
a. Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung).
b. Ngo Dinh Diem.
c. Dienbienphu.
d. Ho Chi Minh.
e. Nguyen Cao Ky.
19. Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) Arab oil embargo (B) Iranian hostage crisis (C) fall of Saigon (D) invasion of Afghanistan.
a. B, A, C, D
b. A, C, B, D
c. D, B, A, C
d. C, B, D, A
e. D, A, C, B
20. The first federal regulatory agency designed to protect the public interest from business combinations was the
a. Federal Trade Commission
b. Interstate Commerce Commission
c. Consumer Affairs Commission
d. Federal Anti-Trust Commission
e. Federal Communications Commission
21. In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
a. child labor under the age of fourteen should be prohibited
b. the federal government should regulate occupational safety and health
c. factory labor should be limited to ten hours a day five days a week
d. female workers should receive equal pay for equal work
e. female workers required special rules and protection on the job
22. Franklin Roosevelt’s “managed currency” aimed to
a. stimulate inflation
b. reduce the price of gold
c. restore confidence in banks
d. reduce the amount of money in circulation
e. shake up the Federal Reserve Board
23. The 1962 Trade Expansion Act
a. cut taxes to increase American purchasing power
b. provided incentives to American overseas investments
c. made the United States a member of the Common Market
d. raised the minimum-wage and Social Security benefits of most working-class Americans
e. reduced American tariffs
24. In “Bleeding Kansas” in the mid-1850s, ______was/were identified with the proslavery element, and ______was/were associated with the antislavery Free-Soilers.
a. Beecher’s Bibles; border ruffians
b. John Brown; Preston Brooks
c. the Pottawatomie massacre; the sack of Lawrence
d. the Lecompton Constitution; the New England Immigrant Aid Society
e. Stephen A. Douglas; William Sumner
25. In the 1896 case of Plessey v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that
a. African-Americans could be denied the right to vote.
b. segregation was unconstitutional.
c. “separate but equal” facilities were constitutional.
d. the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to African-Americans.
e. literacy tests for voting were constitutional.
26. Match each act below with the correct description.
A. Sugar Act / 1. first British law intended to raise revenues in the coloniesB. Stamp Act / 2. asserted Parliament’s absolute power over the colonies
C. Declaratory Act / 3. required colonists to lodge British troops in their homes
4. generated the most protest in the colonies.
a. A-3, B-2, C-l
b. A-1, B-4, C-3
c. A-1, B-4, C-2
d. A-4, B-1, C-2
e. A-2, B-1, C-4
27. The Glass-Steagall Act
a. took the United States off the gold standard.
b. empowered President Roosevelt to close all banks temporarily.
c. created the Securities and Exchange Commission to regulate the stock exchange.
d. permitted commercial banks to engage in Wall Street financial dealings.
e. created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits.
28. America’s first billion-dollar corporation was
a. General Electric (GE)
b. Standard Oil
c. American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)
d. The Union Pacific Railroad
e. United States Steel
29. While president, Theodore Roosevelt
a. greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency
b. showed no skill and little interest in working with Congress
c. was a poor judge of public opinion
d. was surprisingly unpopular with the public
e. held rigidly to ideological principles
30. The Federal Securities Act aimed to
a. halt the sale of stocks on margin
b. force stockbrokers to register with the federal government
c. control public holding companies
d. force stock promoters to give investors information regarding the soundness of their stocks
e. stop insider trading on the New York Stock Exchange
31. The most serious blow to Lyndon Johnson’s Vietnam policy
a. came with the bombing of Cambodia
b. occurred when Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigned
c. was the Tet offensive of 1968
d. occurred when Senator J. Williams Fulbright’s Foreign Relations Committee held public hearings on the war
e. came with the revelation that the Tonkin Gulf attacks had been provoked
32. The Sedition Act
a. threatened First Amendment freedoms.
b. established criteria for deporting dangerous foreigners.
c. changed naturalization requirements for new citizens.
d. was never enforced.
e. was found by the Supreme Court to be unconstitutional.
33. Match each individual below with the correct invention.
A. Samuel F. B. Morse / 1. telegraphB. Cyrus McCormick / 2. mower-reaper
C. Cyrus Field / 3. steamboat
D. Robert Fulton
a. A-3, B-1, D-2
b. A-1, B-2, D-3
c. A-1, C-2, D-3
d. B-2, C-1, D-1
e. A-2, B-1, D-3
34. The panic of 1857 resulted in
a. a demand to end the government policy of giving away farmland.
b. the extension of slavery to the territories.
c. price supports for farmers.
d. calls for restrictions on land and stock speculation.
e. clamor for a higher tariff.
35. Agreements between railroad corporations to divide the business in a given area and share the profits were called
a. pools.
b. trusts.
c. rebates.
d. interlocking directorates.
e. holding companies.
36. According to the social gospel,
a. workers should be content with their station in life
b. the church should not concern itself in the social affairs of the world.
c. clergy should try to reach the socially prominent
d. Christianity would replace socialism
e. the lessons of Christianity should be applied to solve the problems manifest in slums and factories
37. Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism
a. pinned its economic faith on competition
b. opposed consolidation of labor unions
c. favored the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets
d. supported a broad program of social welfare
e. favored state rather than federal government activism
38. President Franklin Roosevelt’s foreign-trade policy
a. lowered tariffs to increase trade
b. encouraged trade only with Latin America
c. continued the policy that had persisted since the Civil War
d. was reversed only after World War II
e. sought protection for key U.S. industries
39. The “three p’s” that largely explain the cultural upheavals of the 1960s are
a. poverty, political radicalism, and protest against authority
b. public schools, parietal rules, and parental restrictions
c. population bulge, protest against Vietnam, and prosperity
d. patriotism, prowar enthusiasm, and perfectionism
e. the “pill,” pot and popular rock music
40. Thomas Jefferson’s presidency was characterized by his
a. unswerving conformity to Republican party principles.
b. rigid attention to formal protocol at White House gatherings.
c. moderation in the administration of public policy.
d. ruthless use of the patronage power to appoint Republicans to federal offices.
e. inability to get legislation passed by Congress
41. Deists like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin endorsed the concept of
a. revelation.
b. original sin.
c. the deity of Christ.
d. a Supreme Being who created the universe.
e. the imminent end of the world.
42. Sexual differences were strongly emphasized in nineteenth-century America because
a. frontier life necessitated these distinctions.
b. men were regarded as morally superior beings.
c. it was the duty of men to teach the young how to be good, productive citizens
d. the market economy increasingly separated men and women into distinct economic roles.
e. women believed this emphasis brought them greater respect.