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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.
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1. The ideals that the colonists cherished as synonymous with American life included reverence for all of the following except
a. individual liberty.
b. self-government.
c. opposition to slavery.
d. religious tolerance.
e. economic opportunity.
2. The Franco-American alliance of 1778
a. was ended by mutual agreement in 1789.
b. bound the United States to neutrality in the event of war between France and Britain.
c. bound the United States to help the French defend their West Indies.
d. was invoked by the French to obtain American aid in France’s war with Britain after 1793.
e. led the United States to war with Great Britain in 1812.
3. Match each individual below with the correct description.
A. Andrew Jackson
B. Henry Clay
C. John C. Calhoun
D. William Crawford
1. was vice president on the ticket of two presidential candidates in 1824
2. received more popular votes than any other candidate in 1824
3. was eliminated as a candidate when the election of 1824 was thrown into the House of Representatives
a. A-2, B-3, C-1
b. A-2, B-1, D-3
c. B-1, C-3, D-2
d. A-3, C-2, D-1
e. A-1, B-2, D-3
4. For his position in his Seventh of March speech, Daniel Webster was viciously condemned by
a. northern Unionists.
b. northern banking and commercial interests.
c. abolitionists.
d. Henry Clay.
e. John C. Calhoun.
5. In the late nineteenth century, those political candidates who campaigned by “waving the bloody shirt” were reminding voters
a. of the “treason” of the Confederate Democrats during the Civil War.
b. that the Civil War had been caused by the election of a Republican president.
c. of the graft-filled “radical” regimes in the Reconstruction South.
d. that radical Republicans catered to freed slaves during Reconstruction.
e. of Ku Klux Klan violence against blacks.
6. The United States gained a perpetual lease on the Panama Canal Zone in the
a. Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty.
b. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty.
c. Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
d. Gentlemen’s Agreement.
e. Teller Amendment.
7. America’s European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the United States made to them during World War I because
a. the United States had owed them about $4 billion before the war.
b. the amount of money involved was not significant.
c. they had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair for the United States to write off the debt.
d. the United States was making so much money from Mexican oil that it did not need extra dollars.
e. Germany was not paying its reparations to them, so they could not afford to pay off the loans.
8. Richard Nixon was selected as Dwight Eisenhower’s vice-presidential running mate in 1952 as a concession to the
a. isolationists.
b. liberal Republicans.
c. hard-line anticommunists.
d. moderate Republicans.
e. southern Republicans.
9. All the middle colonies were
a. founded by proprietors.
b. established by joint-stock companies.
c. notable for their fertile soil.
d. intended as religious havens.
e. dependent on slave labor.
10. The United States acquired free navigation of the Mississippi River in
a. the Treaty of Greenville.
b. Jay’s Treaty.
c. the Convention of 1800.
d. the Pinckney Treaty.
e. the Treaty of Paris.
11. The “Tippecanoe” in the Whigs’ 1840 campaign slogan was
a. Daniel Webster.
b. Martin Van Buren.
c. William Harrison.
d. Nicholas Biddle.
e. Henry Clay.
12. Stephen A. Douglas proposed that the question of slavery in the Kansas- Nebraska Territory be decided by
a. popular sovereignty.
b. making Kansas a free territory and Nebraska a slave territory.
c. the Supreme Court.
d. admitting California, Kansas, and Nebraska to the Union as free states.
e. the winner of the next presidential election.
13. Labor unrest in the 1870s and 1880s resulted in
a. Congress’s passing legislation supporting the formation of unions.
b. a ban on Irish immigration.
c. the use of federal troops during strikes.
d. congressional acts to ban strikes.
e. growing middle class support for labor.
14. Teddy Roosevelt’s role in the Panamanian Revolution involved
a. using American naval forces to block Colombian troops from crossing the isthmus and crushing the revolt.
b. ordering an economic embargo of Colombia.
c. remaining perfectly neutral.
d. sending in American ground troops.
e. funding the Panamanian rebels.
15. 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.
16. Senator McCarthy first rose to national prominence by
a. revealing that Communist spies were passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
b. charging that there was extensive Communist influence in Hollywood and elsewhere in the media.
c. asserting that General George Marshall was part of a Communist conspiracy within the U.S. Army.
d. mobilizing Republicans to demand a stronger anticommunist foreign policy in East Asia.
e. charging that dozens of known Communists were working within the U.S. State Department.
17. All of the following conditions caused many Scots to migrate to Northern Ireland and thence to America except
a. the poor quality of farmland in Scotland.
b. the spread of commercial farming.
c. extremely high rent increase.
d. persecution for their Catholic religion.
e. paying taxes to support the Anglican church.
18. Match the individual with his office in the new government.
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Alexander Hamilton
C. Henry Knox
1. attorney general
2. secretary of state
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
19. The sentiment of fear and opposition to open immigration was called
a. the cult of domesticity.
b. nativism.
c. Unitarianism.
d. rugged individualism.
e. patriotism.
20. Match each candidate in the 1856 election below with the correct party.
A. John C. Frémont
B. Millard Fillmore
C. Martin Van Buren
D. James Buchanan
1. Democratic
2. Republican
3. Know-Nothing
a. A-2, B-3, C-1
b. B-1, C-2, D-3
c. A-2, B-3, D-1
d. A-3, C-1, D-2
e. A-1, B-3, C-2
21. The steel industry owed much to the inventive genius of
a. Jay Gould.
b. Henry Bessemer.
c. John P. Altgeld.
d. Thomas Edison.
e. Henry Clay Frick.
22. The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they
a. counted on drastic political change to fight social wrongs.
b. thrived on publicity rather than social change.
c. believed that the cure for the ills of American democracy lay in less democracy and more government control.
d. sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic controls.
e. refused to look beyond middle-class concerns.
23. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the “farm problem” by
a. reducing agricultural production.
b. inflating the currency.
c. encouraging farmers to switch to industrial employment.
d. helping farmers to pay their mortgages.
e. creating farm cooperatives
24. As a 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 to the Hungarian freedom fighters.
e. allied with Israel against the Arab states.
25. The primary economic pursuit of early settlers in New France was
a. farming.
b. fishing.
c. mining.
d. fur trapping.
e. rum manufacturing.
26. Thomas Jefferson saw his election and his mission as president to include all of the following except
a. to return to the original spirit of the revolution.
b. restore the republican experiment.
c. check the growth of the republican experiment.
d. halt the decay of virtue.
e. support the establishment of a strong army.
27. In general, _____ tended to bind the West and South together, while ______and ______connected West to East.
a. steamboats, canals, railroads
b. railroads, canals, steamboats
c. canals, steamboats, turnpikes
d. turnpikes, steamboats, canals
e. turnpikes, railroads, steamboats
28. The North’s greatest strength in the Civil War was its
a. ethnic unity.
b. military leadership.
c. navy.
d. high morale.
e. economy.
29. The ___ Amendment was especially helpful to giant corporations when defending themselves against regulation by state governments.
a. Fifth
b. Fourteenth
c. Fifteenth
d. Sixteenth
e. Seventeenth
30. The Seventeenth Amendment called for ______, and the Eighteenth called for ______.
a. prohibition; woman suffrage
b. direct election of senators; prohibition
c. woman suffrage; income taxes
d. income taxes; direct election of senators
e. woman suffrage; direct election of senators.
31. President Roosevelt’s “Court-packing” scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court
a. more conservative.
b. more independent of Congress.
c. more sympathetic to New Deal programs.
d. less burdened with appellate cases.
e. more respectful of the Constitution’s original intent.
32. John F. Kennedy’s strategy of “flexible response”
a. was an updated version of John Foster Dulles’s doctrine of massive retaliation.
b. was used in his battle with the leadership of the steel industry.
c. called for a variety of military options that could be matched to the scope and importance of a crisis.
d. required increased spending on a variety of nuclear weapons systems to be deployed around the world.
e. cut back nuclear weapons in favor of guerilla forces.
33. The Proclamation of 1763 was issued mainly to
a. oppress the colonists.
b. punish the Indians.
c. show the power of Parliament.
d. allow western settlement by the colonists.
e. work out a fair settlement of the Indian problem.
34. After killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel, Aaron Burr
a. fled to France.
b. fled to England.
c was arrested and found guilty of murder.
d. was arrested and found innocent of murder.
e. engaged in a plot to separate the western part of the United States from the east.
35. One strong prejudice inhibiting women from obtaining higher education in the early nineteenth century was the belief that
a. they would gain political and economic power through education.
b. women were inherently conservative and opposed to social reform.
c. children should grow up without the influence of educated women.
d. the Constitution prohibited women from attending colleges.
e. too much learning would injure women’s brains and ruin their health.
36. During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by
a. the incompetence of Charles Francis Adams, the United States ambassador to London.
b. Britain’s refusal to observe the Union’s blockade of Southern ports.
c. the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ship.
d. Napoleon III’s effort to place Maximilian on the Mexican throne.
e. British working class support for the South.
37. Americans offered growing support for a free public education system
a. to combat the growing strength of Catholic parochial schools.
b. when the Chautauqua movement began to decline.
c. because they accepted the idea that a free government cannot function without educated citizens.
d. when private schools began to fold.
e. as a way of identifying an intellectual elite.
38. In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except call for
a. antitrust legislation.
b. monetary reform.
c. dollar diplomacy.
d. tariff reductions.
e. support for small business.
39. By the mid-1930s, there was strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to
a. increase the size of the Supreme Court.
b. limit a president to two terms.
c. ban arm sales to foreign nations.
d. require the president to gain Congressional approval before sending U.S. troops overseas.
e. forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless first approved by a popular referendum.
40. The Cuban missile crisis resulted in all of the following except
a. U.S. agreement to abandon the American base at Guantanamo.
b. the removal of Nikita Khrushchev from power in the Soviet Union.
c. a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.
d. an ambitious program of military expansion by the Soviet Union.
e. withdrawal of U.S. missiles in Turkey.
41. A new relationship between Britain and its American colonies was initiated in 1763 when ______assumed charge of colonial policy.
a. Charles Townshend
b. George Grenville
c. Lord North
d. William Pitt
e. King George III
42. The battle of Tippecanoe resulted in
a. defeat of the British.
b. a Shawnee loss and a Creek victory.
c. a declaration of war by the United States on Great Britain.
d. the expulsion of the British from Florida.
e. William Henry Harrison becoming a national hero.
43. A genuinely American literature received a strong boost from the
a. wave of nationalism that followed the War of 1812.
b. writing of Charles Wilson Peale.
c. religious writings of the Second Great Awakening.
d. federal support for the arts.
e. none of the above.
44. As a result of the Union loss in the Peninsula Campaign,
a. Lincoln named George McClellan commander of the Union forces.
b. the North backed away from total war.
c. Lincoln began to draft the Emancipation Proclamation.
d. Winfield Scott was relieved of his command.
e. the war was forced off southern soil.
45. The National American Woman Suffrage Association