Deck 50: US History

Question 1

Which European power practiced "plantation settlement" in the New World, a policy that required the removal of the indigenous populations?

A)England
B)Spain
C)France
D)Portugal

Answer 1

England

Question 2

What kept the American Indians from uniting in opposition to European colonists?

A)Physical distance between tribal camps.
B)Political and linguistic differences between tribes.
C)The Europeans immediately began campaigns to turn tribes against each other to keep joint opposition from occurring.
D)Many tribes initially believed they could negotiate peace with the Europeans.

Answer 2

Political and linguistic differences between tribes.

Question 3

Who was the first European explorer to reach mainland North America during the Age of Discovery and what country commissioned him?

A)Christopher Columbus: Spain
B)Vasco de Gama: Portugal
C)John Cabot: England
D)Jacques Cartier: France

Answer 3

John Cabot: England

Question 4

What was the name for British colonies in North America that were founded by joint-stock companies?

A)Charter colonies
B)Royal colonies
C)Proprietary colonies
D)Self-governing colonies

Question 5

What was the primary motive for English colonization of North America?

A)Economic development.
B)To search for gold.
C)To establish a safe haven for religious outcasts.
D)To expand Protestantism under the Church of England.

Question 6

In 1676, Bacon's Rebellion took place in Jamestown, leading to the reduced use of:

A)Taxation.
B)Indentured servants.
C)Slaves.
D)Force against the American Indians.

Question 7

Which of the following was NOT a result of the First Great Awakening?

A)Spread of missionary efforts
B)An increase in the number of colleges and universities
C)An increase in trials for witchcraft
D)Separation from established churches

Question 8

What compelled Arthur Miller to write about the Salem witch trials?

A)His forefathers' participation in the trials.
B)His views on the women's movement and the oppression of women.
C)His work in the civil rights movement.
D)His experience testifying to the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Question 9

In what order were the following British taxes levied against the American colonists? I. Stamp Act
II) Townshend Acts
III) Sugar Act
IV) Intolerable Acts

A)III, I, II, IV
B)II, III, IV, I
C)II, IV, III, II
D)I, III, II, IV

Question 10

What was the most significant factor in the United States' victory in the American Revolution?

A)Support from Canadian militias.
B)Aid from France.
C)Aid from Spain.
D)The Loyalists' decision not to mount a counter-effort on the home front.

Question 11

At the time the Founders created the new government, most Americans believed that sovereignty belonged in the hands of:

A)The federal government.
B)State governments.
C)The people.
D)A small select group of government officials.

Question 12

Before any amendments were added, the U.S. Constitution called for:

A)A presidential cabinet.
B)Direct election of senators.
C)Political parties.
D)An Electoral College.

Question 13

At the dawn of the republic, Alexander Hamilton created financial plans for all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Nullifying private debts to the states.
B)Paying-off the national debt.
C)Establishing a national bank.
D)Assuming all of the states' war debts.

Question 14

George Washington issued the Proclamation of 1793 to declare neutrality in:

A)Dutch economic activity on the high seas.
B)The conflict between France and Great Britain.
C)Western Hemisphere territorial conflicts between Spain and Portugal.
D)British Canadian conflicts with American Indian tribes.

Question 15

What legislation is considered the biggest failing of John Adams' presidency?

A)The Espionage Act
B)The Indian Removal Act
C)The Alien and Sedition Acts
D)The Coercive Acts

Question 16

What was the ultimate result of the Hartford Convention?

A)The Missouri Compromise
B)The Compromise of 1850
C)The humiliation and demise of the Whig Party
D)The humiliation and demise of the Federalist Party

Question 17

What was the outcome of the War of 1812?

A)It ended in stalemate.
B)The British won.
C)The Americans won.
D)The British won on one front while the Americans won on the other front.

Question 18

Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to end a territorial dispute with:

A)The Sioux Indians
B)The Cherokee Nation
C)The Canadian government
D)The French government

Question 19

In the political cartoon above, what does the monster symbolize?

A)Jackson's cabinet
B)Henry Clay
C)The National Bank
D)The American Indians

Question 20

The United States acquired California at the end of which war?

A)The War of 1812
B)The Spanish-American War
C)The Civil War
D)The Mexican-American War

Question 21

Which president annexed Texas?

A)John Tyler
B)James K. Polk
C)Zachary Taylor
D)Millard Fillmore

Question 22

The Compromise of 1850 is MOST associated with:

A)The Hartford Convention.
B)The passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
C)"54-40 or fight!"
D)Bleeding Kansas.

Question 23

In 1848, 300 men and women held a convention in Seneca Falls, New York to discuss:

A)The temperance movement.
B)The creation of the Republican Party.
C)Women's rights.
D)The abolition of slavery.

Question 24

Which of the following is regarded as the father of the Transcendentalist movement and was known for advocating self-reliance, education, individualism, appreciation for nature, and gender and racial equality?

A)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B)Henry David Thoreau
C)James Fenimore Cooper
D)Ralph Waldo Emerson

Question 25

Why was Uncle Tom's Cabin historically significant?

A)It was an anti-slavery novel that fueled the abolitionist movement.
B)It was a propaganda pamphlet about a man who lived alone in the woods in a cabin he built himself, arguing for a "return to nature."
C)It was an anti-war treatise that argued for secession.
D)It was a pro-slavery pamphlet that encouraged the popular sovereignty movement.

Question 26

What was the tipping point that caused the Southern states to secede and start the Civil War?

A)The Emancipation Proclamation
B)The election of Abraham Lincoln
C)The admission of Kansas as a free state
D)The admission of Oregon as a free state

Question 27

The North was aided during the Civil War by its access to what technology?

A)The telephone
B)The steam engine
C)The telegraph
D)The locomotive

Question 28

Sherman's March to the Sea is MOST closely associated with:

A)Scorched earth policy.
B)The Battle of Antietam.
C)Trench warfare.
D)The Battle of Gettysburg.

Question 29

Which of the following beliefs was NOT central to Manifest Destiny?

A)The use of land for settled agriculture would be more desirable than nomadic agriculture.
B)The expansion of agriculture would stifle industrialization, which was too rapid for urban centers to handle.
C)Expanding the nation westward was an inevitability.
D)America was God's chosen land and people.

Question 30

Which of the following was not a commonly held belief in the South at the outset of the Civil War?

A)The South was fighting for a noble and just cause.
B)Northerners were too materialistic to fight an idealistic war.
C)The South's industrial might would help the Confederates win the war.
D)Great Britain would intervene on the South's behalf to protect its commercial cotton sources.

Question 31

Which battle gave Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation and ended any chance of European support for the Confederacy?

A)The Battle of Vicksburg
B)The First Bull Run
C)The Battle of Gettysburg
D)The Battle of Antietam

Question 32

Which of the following was NOT one of the reasons why Congress implemented Radical Reconstruction legislation?

A)The mass migration of former slaves from the South to the North and West.
B)Black Codes in former Confederate states.
C)The election of former Confederate legislators to government office.
D)Race riots in Southern cities.

Question 33

Who among the following encouraged U.S. imperialist activity in the Gilded Age?

A)Andrew Carnegie
B)William McKinley
C)Mark Twain
D)Grover Cleveland

Question 34

The Populist Party eventually evolved into what turn-of-the-century political party?

A)Democratic Party
B)Libertarian Party
C)Progressive Party
D)Socialist Party

Question 35

"Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter around it. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or, I fought at
Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word."
Who wrote the passage above?

A)Marcus Garvey
B)Booker T. Washington
C)Frederick Douglass
D)W)E.B. DuBois

Question 36

Dorothea Dix advocated on behalf of:

A)The mentally ill.
B)Immigrants.
C)The poor.
D)Children.

Question 37

Ida Tarbell was a journalist who gained notoriety for covering what famed robber baron?

A)Cornelius Vanderbilt
B)John D. Rockefeller
C)J)P. Morgan
D)Andrew Carnegie

Question 38

Who among the following was a pioneer of the settlement house movement?

A)Carrie Chapman Catt
B)Susan B. Anthony
C)Jane Addams
D)Nellie Bly

Question 39

Over which of the following did the United States NOT gain control as a result of the Spanish-American War?

A)The Philippines
B)Guam
C)Cuba
D)Hawaii

Question 40

The Turner thesis of 1893 argued that:

A)The American character was defined by the frontier.
B)African-Americans should "return" to Africa in colonies created for their benefit.
C)Immigrants should segregate themselves into communities that are like their native countries rather than trying to assimilate into American society.
D)The United States should maintain an isolationist, non-interventionist foreign policy.

Question 41

In what city did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire take place?

A)San Francisco
B)New York City
C)Chicago
D)Philadelphia

Question 42

Who among the following was not a Harlem Renaissance writer?

A)Zora Neale Hurston
B)Countee Cullen
C)Cab Calloway
D)Langston Hughes

Question 43

In A Century of Dishonor, Helen Hunt Jackson raised awareness about the plight of:

A)Working children
B)Eastern European immigrants
C)Former slaves
D)American Indians

Question 44

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was primarily about:

A)The working immigrant's experience.
B)American industry.
C)Financial corruption.
D)Politics.

Question 45

Which of the following statements about living conditions during the Gilded Age is TRUE?

A)Large suburban communities grew rapidly outside of major cities.
B)The type of community in which a person lived was a strong indicator of their social class.
C)The poor became segregated outside of cities.
D)Neighborhoods became less ethnically segregated.

Question 46

Which of the following statements about the Sherman Antitrust Act is TRUE?

A)It has been one of the few legislative acts in American history to go without significant criticism since its enactment.
B)It was named for Treasury Secretary John Sherman of Pennsylvania.
C)It has been used to thwart acts of competition inhibition committed by a range of corporations from Standard Oil to Microsoft.
D)It was signed into law in 1890 by President Grover Cleveland.

Question 47

Participants in the Farmers' Revolt complained about all of the following EXCEPT:

A)Large profits for middlemen.
B)High freight costs.
C)High interest rates.
D)Rising commodity prices.

Question 48

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of the American Federation of Laborers under Samuel Gompers?

A)Organization of skilled and unskilled laborers.
B)Campaign for a shorter workweek.
C)Campaign for higher wages.
D)Campaign for safer working conditions.

Question 49

How did the Roosevelt Corollary change the nature of U.S. foreign policy as it existed under the Monroe Doctrine?

A)The Roosevelt Corollary stated that the United States had the right to make any Latin American nation a protectorate.
B)The Roosevelt Corollary allowed for the U.S. use of military force.
C)The Roosevelt Corollary declared that all trade deals between European and Latin American nations had to receive U.S. approval to be recognized as legitimate.
D)The Roosevelt Corollary stipulated that European nations had to petition for the right to even enter the Western Hemisphere.

Question 50

Why was D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation controversial?

A)It showed children working in factories under harsh conditions.
B)It attempted to portray women as intellectual superiors to men.
C)It attempted to portray the Ku Klux Klan favorably.
D)It was critical of Theodore Roosevelt's "Big Stick" diplomacy.

Question 51

S. involvement in World War I was instigated by the Zimmerman Telegram between which two nations?

A)Austria-Hungary and The Philippines
B)Austria-Hungary and Great Britain
C)Germany and Great Britain
D)Germany and Mexico

Question 52

During the First World War the U.S. government disseminated propaganda to the American public through what office?

A)Committee on Public Information
B)Office of Censorship
C)United States Office of War Information
D)Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

Question 53

Which of the following is the best way to characterize the writing of the 1920s, BEST demonstrated by authors such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and T. S. Eliot?

A)Championing social justice for African-Americans and women.
B)Escapist, non-conformist, critical of materialism.
C)Sympathetic toward America's Puritan forbears.
D)Cultural isolationism and nostalgia.

Question 54

At the 1924 Democratic Convention the Ku Klux Klan played a significant role in defeating Al Smith's presidential nomination because:

A)Smith was pro-union.
B)Smith championed gender equality.
C)Smith was Catholic.
D)Smith was African-American.

Question 55

Why did the Bonus Expeditionary Force march on Washington in 1932?

A)To volunteer to aid in the British World War II effort.
B)To get housing aid.
C)To get unemployment benefits.
D)To get back pay owed to World War I veterans.

Question 56

What did Herbert Hoover do to ease unemployment during the early days of the Great Depression?

A)He encouraged private charities to aid the out-of-work and displaced.
B)He activated monetary public assistance programs.
C)He expanded the federal payroll to employ more government workers.
D)He didn't do anything.

Question 57

Which of the following was NOT one of FDR's New Deal "alphabet agencies?"

A)AAA
B)EPA
C)SEC
D)NRA

Question 58

The drafts for the First and Second World Wars differed in that the draft for World War II:

A)Conscripted women.
B)Recognized conscientious objectors.
C)Began before the United States officially entered the conflict.
D)Accepted African-American soldiers.

Question 59

Which president and platform is matched correctly?

A)Franklin D. Roosevelt: Great Society
B)Lyndon B. Johnson: Square Deal
C)Theodore Roosevelt: New Deal
D)Harry S. Truman: Fair Deal

Question 60

Why was Sputnik significant to the United States?

A)It marked the Soviets' step ahead at the beginning of the Space Race.
B)It was the first American attempt to send a spacecraft to the Moon.
C)It was the United States' first step in the Space Race.
D)It was the Soviets' final failed attempt to send a cosmonaut to the Moon.

Question 61

"This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened. Today we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. When Americans are sent to Vietnam or West Berlin, we do not ask for whites only. It ought to be possible, therefore, for American students of any color to attend any public institution they select without having to be backed up by troops." Who made the statement above?

A)Martin Luther King Jr.
B)John F. Kennedy
C)Lyndon B. Johnson
D)Richard Nixon

Question 62

"Whereas these attackers are part of a deliberate and systematic campaign of aggression that the Communist regime in North Vietnam has been waging against its neighbors and the nations joined with them in the collective defense of their freedom . . . now, therefore be it resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the Congress approves and supports the determination of the President, as Commander in Chief, to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." The passage above was written in response to what event?

A)The bombing of Cambodia
B)The My Lai Massacre
C)The Gulf of Tonkin incident
D)The Tet Offensive

Question 63

The "Weathermen" and Chicago Seven were associated with:

A)The Manhattan Project.
B)Iran-Contra.
C)Organized crime during Prohibition.
D)The Hippie movement.

Question 64

Daniel Ellsberg is associated with:

A)The Pentagon Papers.
B)Watergate.
C)Iran Contra.
D)The Iranian hostage crisis.

Question 65

President Ronald Reagan's administration became engulfed in a scandal when they were found to have illegally sold weapons to:

A)Nicaragua.
B)Iran.
C)The Soviet Union.
D)Afghanistan.