All of the following are true about the Cherokee EXCEPT A the Cherokee adopted farming and converted to Christianity B the Cherokee had a written constitution and a form of government si
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Indepen-dence was
(A) the Proclamation of Rebellion
(B) Lee’s Resolution
(C) Suffolk Resolves
(D) Declaration of Rights and Grievances
(E) Olive Branch Petition
38 The Fourth Amendment grew out of the
colonists’ grievance against the British
practice of
(A) quartering troops at the expense of the
colonists
(B) writs of assistance
(C) strict libel laws
(D) courts of admiralty
(E) supporting the Church of England as the
established church
39 All of the following are true about the
Cherokee EXCEPT
(A) the Cherokee adopted farming and
converted to Christianity
(B) the Cherokee had a written constitution
and a form of government similar to that
of the United States
(C) Jackson sided with the Cherokee against
Georgia
(D) in Worcester v Georgia, the Supreme
Court ruled in favor of the Cherokee
(E) the Cherokee supported the Confederacy
in the Civil War
40 Reduction of the tariff, restoration of the
independent treasury, settlement of the
Oregon boundary, and acquisition of
Califor-nia were the four goals of
(A) James K Polk
(B) William Henry Harrison
(C) Henry Clay
41 The Wilmot Proviso supported
(A) popular sovereignty to determine whether a state created from the Louisiana Territory would be free
or slave (B) the argument of Southern senators that Congress had no constitutional power to forbid slavery in the territories
(C) a moratorium on the admission of any new states to the Union until a perma-nent solution would be found
(D) a ban on slavery in any state created out
of land acquired from Mexico (E) a ban on the slave trade in Washington, D.C
42 Who wrote the influential muckraking book
History of the Standard Oil Company?
(A) Ray Stannard Baker (B) Ida B.Wells
(C) Frank Norris (D) Upton Sinclair (E) Ida Tarbell
43 Which of the following was NOT a cause of
the U.S.’s declartion of war against Spain in 1898?
(A) The desire on the part of U.S business interests to protect their $50 million investment in Cuba
(B) Americans’ desire to see the Cubans’ free
of Spanish rule (C) The influence of yellow journalism (D) The propaganda campaign waged by Cubans in exile in the United States
(E) The explosion on board the USS Maine
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of the following was a “combination in
restraint of trade”?
(A) Sherman Antitrust Act
(B) AFL
(C) Grange Movement
(D) Standard Oil Company
(E) Northern Securities Company
45 Which of the following was a U.S program
that was meant to provide aid to
poverty-stricken countries anywhere in the world
fighting communism?
(A) Marshall Plan
(B) NATO
(C) Square Deal
(D) Point Four
(E) Alliance for Progress
46 By the mid-1700s, the largest city in the
colonies was
(A) New York
(B) Boston
(C) Philadelphia
(D) Charleston
(E) Wilmington, Delaware
47 All of the following were obstacles to
ratification of the Constitution EXCEPT
(A) lack of a Bill of Rights
(B) the federal structure established by the
Constitution placed the national
govern-ment over state governgovern-ments
(C) Rhode Island’s boycott of the
Constitu-tional Convention
(D) ratification by a special convention in
each state rather than by the states’
legislatures
(E) lack of leadership among Federalists
48 The defeat of which Native American leader
made William Henry Harrison’s presidential ambitions possible?
(A) The Prophet (B) Tecumseh (C) Cochise (D) Chief Joseph (E) Blue Jacket
49 Which of the following recommended that
the United States offer Spain $120 million for Cuba and, if rejected, take the island by force?
(A) Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty (B) Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy (C) Ostend Manifesto
(D) Gadsden Purchase (E) Seward’s Folly
50 Organized labor would have supported
which of the following demands in the
“Omaha Platform” of the Populist Party in the 1892 election?
(A) An increase in currency resulting from the free and unlimited coinage of silver (B) Government ownership of railroads (C) 8-hour workday
(D) Graduated income tax (E) Direct election of senators
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American life, this expansion westward with
its new opportunities, its continuous touch
with the simplicity of primitive society,
furnish the forces dominating American
character The true point of view in the
history of this nation is not the Atlantic
coast, it is the great West.”
The person who wrote this would most
likely NOT have agreed with
(A) the passage of the Pacific Railway Acts
(B) the Mexican War
(C) internal improvements bills
(D) the Gadsden Purchase
(E) the establishment of the Indian Territory
52 The major difference between W.E.B Du
Bois and his fellow African Americans Booker
T Washington and Marcus Garvey was Du
Bois’s
(A) appeal to the Talented Tenth
(B) belief that education alone would correct
all injustices
(C) disinterest in all things African
(D) focus on economic equality
(E) use of white politicians to gain an
audience for African American causes
53 The administration of Warren G Harding was
most notable for
(A) pressing the Supreme Court to find
boycotts organized by labor to be legal
(B) supporting business interests
(C) passing the Fordney-McCumber Act,
which raised tariffs to an all-time high
(D) reducing the excess profits tax
(E) supporting McCarthyism
54 All of the following were accomplishments
of the New Deal EXCEPT the (A) establishment of Social Security (B) right of collective bargaining (C) establishment of a program to fund low-cost mortgages
(D) passage of a civil rights act (E) funding of farm mortgages through the Farm Credit Administration
55 During wartime conferences, the Allies
agreed to all of the following EXCEPT (A) a combined U.S.-British invasion of France
(B) Japan must agree to unconditional surrender
(C) a nonbinding vote for permanent members of the Security Council (D) the Soviet Union’s entrance into the war against Japan
(E) Stalin’s support for the Nationalist Chinese
56 Which of the following third parties
partici-pated in the 1948 presidential election? (A) Know-Nothing
(B) Communist (C) Populist (D) Dixiecrat (E) Bull Moose
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foreign policy initiatives are NOT correctly
paired?
(A) Lyndon Johnson: “two China” policy
(B) Harry Truman: Point Four Program
(C) Ronald Reagan: “Star Wars” antiballistic
missile system
(D) John F Kennedy: Alliance for Progress
(E) Jimmy Carter: agreement to return the
Panama Canal Zone to Panama
58 Which statement best describes Richard
Nixon’s attitude toward Watergate?
(A) He did not believe that wiretapping the
Democratic National Headquarters and
trying to cover it up were serious
enough to be impeached over
(B) He felt he was being unjustly prosecuted
by political adversaries in both parties
(C) He did not believe that there was
anything wrong with wiretapping the
Democratic National Headquarters
(D) He felt that Vice President Spiro Agnew
should have been impeached for his
role
(E) He left office for the good of the country
while continuing to maintain his
innocence
59 Over time, colonial Maryland developed an
economy very similar to that of
(A) Pennsylvania
(B) Virginia
(C) New Jersey
(D) Georgia
(E) Massachusetts
60 Even while the Revolutionary War was being
fought, it was clear that attitudes about a number of things had changed All of the following are true about this period EXCEPT (A) interest in extending civil and political rights to women was apparent in New England
(B) the hold of religion on people’s lives had declined
(C) titles of nobility were eliminated by state legislatures
(D) interest in abolishing slavery in some areas of the nation was growing (E) most new state constitutions called for a strong legislative branch and a weak executive
61 According to the Navigation Acts,
(A) goods did not have to be shipped through England so long as customs duties were paid
(B) enumerated goods could be sold only to England
(C) hatmakers in the colonies could sell their beaver hats to England or to the colonies (D) colonists could export raw wool, yarn,
or wool cloth to countries other than England if customs duties were paid (E) smugglers would be tried in admiralty courts
62 All of the following were provisions of the
Constitution as originally ratified EXCEPT (A) indirect election of senators
(B) the counting of three fifths of slaves for purposes of determining representation
in the House (C) abolition of the internal slave trade (D) enumerated powers
(E) the elastic clause
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the War of 1812?
(A) Macon’s Bill No 2
(B) Westerners’ interest in seizing Canada
(C) Impressment of U.S sailors
(D) U.S attack on the Chesapeake
(E) British repeal of the Orders in Council
64 The underlying cause for the depression that
lingered after the Panic of 1837 was
(A) the high tariff
(B) cheap money
(C) overspeculation in Western lands
(D) a corresponding depression in European
markets
(E) Van Buren’s independent treasury system
65 Which of the following statements best
describes the purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment?
(A) The Fourteenth Amendment overrode the provision of Article I, counting African Americans as three fifths of a person for apportioning representatives
in the House
(B) The federal government has used the Civil War amendments to prosecute civil rights cases in the twentieth century (C) The Fourteenth Amendment limits the power of the federal government in cases involving a citizen’s civil rights within a state
(D) The Fourteenth Amendment protects citizens from acts of the states
(E) Together, the Fourteenth and Seven-teenth Amendments have extended the franchise to all Americans of voting age
66 Which of the following issues cost both
Hayes and Arthur their party’s renomination
as president?
(A) Tariff reform (B) Cheap money (C) Proposed regulation of big business (D) Civil service reform
(E) Their use of federal troops to intervene
in strikes
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67 The photograph captures the significance of
the election of 1920 because it shows
(A) Harding running his “front porch”
campaign
(B) the absence of African Americans in the
crowd
(C) Harding running his “Rose Garden”
campaign
(D) the presence of women in the crowd
(E) the lack of enthusiasm from both
Harding and the crowd
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re-nounced war as a vehicle of national policy?
(A) Five-Power Treaty
(B) Treaty of Versailles
(C) United Nations Charter
(D) Kellogg-Briand Pact
(E) Rush-Bagot Agreement
69 The War Powers Act of 1973 was passed in
response to Johnson’s use of his power as
commander in chief to send troops into
Vietnam Which of the following presidents
also used his authority as commander in
chief to send troops to fight without asking
Congress’s approval?
(A) Harry Truman
(B) Franklin Roosevelt
(C) Dwight Eisenhower
(D) Woodrow Wilson
(E) Jimmy Carter
70 Critics of Reagan’s economic program
(A) complained that an increase in taxes
would damage economic growth
(B) advised “priming the pump”
(C) were supply-siders
(D) believed that he was passing the
problem of the huge federal deficit to
future generations
(E) urged a tax cut to jump-start the
economy
71 All of the following were associated with
colonial Pennsylvania EXCEPT
(A) Quakers
(B) theocratic government
(C) varied economy
(D) diverse population
(E) Lower Counties
72 Speaker I: The Constitution provides a
framework for what we should do and how
we should do it, but we—and future generations—will need that elastic clause to cover ideas we’ll never think of in 1794 Speaker II: We are too weak as a nation and too dependent on trade with Great Britain to join the French—even if they did help us in the Revolution
Speaker III: We need some way to carry out the financial powers listed in the Constitu-tion, such as collecting taxes, but a national bank is not the way to do it
Which of the above statements is INCONSIS-TENT with the Federalists’ position?
(A) I only (B) I and II (C) I and III (D) II and III (E) III only
73 All of the following are characteristics of
Transcendentalist thought and writing EXCEPT
(A) the unity and divinity of nature and humankind
(B) the use of nationalist themes and symbols
(C) a belief in the importance of intuition (D) an interest in mysticism
(E) belief in a Supreme Being
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INCOR-RECTLY paired with his or her interest?
(A) Dorothea Dix: women’s suffrage
(B) Horace Mann: education
(C) Thomas Gallaudet: deaf and hearing
impaired
(D) Frederick Douglass: abolition
(E) Robert Owen: utopian society
75 The end of the excess profits tax in the
1920s was meant to
(A) help people continue buying on credit
by reducing interest rates
(B) stimulate investment by the wealthiest
members of society
(C) end the buying of stocks on margin
(D) “prime the pump”
(E) provide money for the average person to
begin setting aside a retirement fund
76 Which of the following statements is TRUE
about Franklin Roosevelt’s relations with the
Supreme Court?
(A) Once the so-called “court-packing
scheme” went through, Roosevelt named
so many justices that it became known
as the “Roosevelt Court.”
(B) Roosevelt was concerned that the
Supreme Court might overturn the Social
Security Act, so he asked Congress to
enlarge the number of judges in the
Circuit Court and justices on the
Supreme Court
(C) The Supreme Court did less harm to his
programs than Roosevelt claimed
(D) Roosevelt made the record of the
Supreme Court a campaign issue in
1936
(E) The lower courts actually had more
impact on the New Deal than the
Supreme Court had, but Roosevelt was
determined to punish the higher court
77 Since World War II, the trend in population
movement in the United States has been (A) from the Rust Belt to the Sunbelt (B) from all sections of the country to the Sunbelt
(C) from the Northeast to the Southeast (D) from the Snowbelt to the Sunbelt (E) relatively stable
78 “I have always believed that, in order for a
movement to be lasting, it must be built on the people Money by itself will not get the job done If workers are going to do anything, they need their own power They need to involve themselves in meaningful ways.”
All of the following would most likely agree with these words EXCEPT
(A) César Chavez (B) Herbert Spencer (C) Samuel Gompers (D) Eugene V Debs (E) Martin Luther King, Jr
79 The significance of the Immigration Act of
1965 is that the Act (A) abolished the national quota system for immigration
(B) reinstated the elements of the Gentle-men’s Agreement of 1906
(C) continued the system of preferences for skilled workers and relatives of U.S citizens
(D) provided an amnesty under which undocumented aliens could become legal citizens
(E) made it easier for the INS to deport illegal aliens
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campaign issue in the 1992 election?
(A) the “Contract with America”
(B) health care
(C) the economy
(D) gun control
(E) aid to education
81 The writings of which of the following led to
the end of the encomienda system?
(A) King Ferdinand
(B) Fray Junípero Serra
(C) Hernán Cortés
(D) Bartolomé de Las Casas
(E) Fray Eusebio Kino
82 The major reason that slavery did not
develop in New England was
(A) the presence of natural resources more
suited to industrial development
(B) the presence of a large pool of
native-born women as workers
(C) Puritan teachings that opposed slavery
(D) its climate and land features were less
adaptable to large-scale farming
(E) that New England merchants did not
mind selling slaves but did not want to
be reminded by the presence of slaves
83 “Everything that is right or reasonable pleads
for separation The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, ‘Tis Time to Part!’ ”
The above statement, which deeply affected the delegates to the Second Continental Congress, is from
(A) Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania
by John Dickinson
(B) Poor Richard’s Almanack by Ben
Franklin
(C) Letters from an American Farmer by
Hector St John de Crevécoeur
(D) Common Sense by Thomas Paine
(E) A letter from Abigail Adams
84 All of the following are examples of the
concept that third parties often develop out
of some radical approach to a problem EXCEPT
(A) Populists (B) Progressives (C) Know-Nothings (D) Democrats (Andrew Jackson era) (E) Republicans (founded in 1854)
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85 Which of the following statements best describes the significance of
the 1860 election data?
(A) Lincoln was a minority president
(B) Douglas’s electoral percentage does not adequately reflect his popularity
(C) Voters did not vote by regional interest
(D) While Douglas won the states with few electoral votes, he won the majority of popular votes
(E) The two Democratic candidates out- polled Lincoln in electoral votes
Percent Popular Vote
Bell Constitutional Union Party Breckinridge
Democrat (S) Douglas Democrat (N) Lincoln Republican
Electoral Vote
by State
Popular Vote
Percent Popular Vote 39
72 12 180
592,906 848,356 1,382,713 1,865,593
13%
18%
29.5%
39.5%
ELECTION OF 1860
13%
18%
29.5%
39.5%
Bell Breckinridge Lincoln
Douglas
Percent Electoral Vote
13%
24%
4%
59%