Which of the following is generally true about immigration to the British colonies in North America?. During the Civil War, all of the followingwere true of the Union policy toward Afric
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answer sheet
1 A major characteristic of the Anasazi culture
in what is today the U.S Southwest was
(A) the building of large mounds for burial
grounds
(B) potlatch ceremonies to display one’s
wealth
(C) sheepherding
(D) the erection of long houses
(E) the building of cliff dwellings
2 The primary reason that the British
govern-ment was interested in chartering Georgia
was to
(A) earn profits for its proprietors who were
friends of the king
(B) provide a buffer between South Carolina
and Spanish Florida
(C) establish a colony for the poor who
were imprisoned for debt
(D) establish a colony of small farms rather
than slave-run plantations
(E) experiment with rice agriculture
3 Which of the following is generally true
about immigration to the British colonies in
North America?
(A) Most immigrants in the 1600s were
non-English
(B) Religion was not a factor in the
immigra-tion of non-English colonists
(C) By the time of the Revolutionary War,
the colonies were still predominantly
English
(D) The New England colonies had the least
diverse population in the 1600s
(E) The largest group of non-English
immigrants over time were French
4 The major stumbling block between the
colonies and Great Britain was (A) King George’s refusal to believe that the colonists were loyal subjects
(B) Parliament’s insistence on the theory of virtual representation
(C) the Boston Tea Party (D) the Townshend Acts (E) the Proclamation of Rebellion
5 The development of the United States as an
industrial giant was implicit in the policies of (A) Hector St John de Crèvecoeur
(B) Thomas Jefferson (C) Alexander Hamilton (D) John C Calhoun (E) Patrick Henry
6 All of the following were elements of U.S.
foreign relations with Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century EXCEPT (A) Rush-Bagot Agreement
(B) War of 1812 (C) settlement of the boundary dispute over Oregon
(D) purchase of Alaska (E) Webster-Ashburton Treaty
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were true of the Union policy toward African
Americans EXCEPT
(A) many African Americans saw duty only
as teamsters, cooks, and laborers
(B) the Union refused to allow African
Americans to enlist until there was a
shortage of recruits
(C) African Americans fought in segregated
units
(D) the Union commissioned some African
Americans as officers, but most black
troops fought under white officers
(E) African Americans were integrated into
white regiments
8 “The working class and the employing class
have nothing in common There can be no
peace so long as hunger and want are found
among millions of working people and the
few, who make up the employing class, have
all good things in life.”
The above quotation is most likely from the
constitution of the
(A) Greenback Party
(B) Knights of Labor
(C) Grange
(D) Industrial Workers of the World
(E) CIO
9 Which actions were part of Theodore
Roosevelt’s “big stick” foreign policy?
I Platt Amendment
II support of Panamanian rebels seeking
independence from Colombia
III intervention in Mexico
(A) I, II, and III
(B) I and II only
(C) II and III only
(D) I only
(E) II only
10 The Harlem Renaissance can best be
de-scribed as a period in which (A) a wide audience was exposed to jazz (B) white as well as black audiences became interested in African American literature, art, and music
(C) the concept of the “New Negro”
underlay African American cultural works
(D) poets and novelists wrote about black pride and black protest
(E) African American painters and sculptors exhibited their works to appreciative audiences
11 Which of the following was NOT created
during Roosevelt’s first “Hundred Days” in office?
(A) Public Works Administration (B) Agricultural Adjustment Administration (C) Civilian Conservation Corps
(D) Social Security Administration (E) Tennessee Valley Authority
12 All of the following were elements of
Richard Nixon’s foreign policy EXCEPT (A) the “two China” policy
(B) détente with the Soviet Union (C) cease-fire agreement with the North Vietnamese
(D) nuclear nonproliferation treaty with the Soviet Union
(E) Marshall Plan
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Plan of Union EXCEPT
(A) each colonial legislature would select
representatives to a Grand Council
(B) it was based on the Iroquois League of
Six Nations
(C) the plan was the first step toward
uniting the colonies
(D) a purpose of the Union was to organize
and act together for common defense
(E) the Grand Council would elect the
governor-general
14 Alexander Hamilton advocated all of the
following policies EXCEPT
(A) a protective tariff
(B) a national banking system
(C) an excise tax on whiskey
(D) an income tax on the wealthy
(E) assumption of all state debts arising from
the Revolutionary War
Questions 15 and 16 relate to the following map.
15 In the election of 1824, which two
candi-dates won the Western states?
(A) Adams and Jackson (B) Clay and Crawford (C) Adams and Clay (D) Clay and Jackson (E) Crawford and Jackson
16 In which region of the country was Adams
the strongest?
(A) Western (B) Southern (C) New England (D) Middle Atlantic (E) Frontier
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growth of U.S industry between 1800 and
1850 EXCEPT
(A) the availability of a large pool of
immi-grant labor
(B) the introduction of the factory system
(C) the introduction of the cotton gin
(D) a series of protective tariffs
(E) passage of federal internal improvements
bills
18 Which of the following men is NOT correctly
paired with the policy he advocated?
(A) Stephen Douglas: advocated allowing
people in a territory to decide for
themselves whether to approve the
extension of slavery into their territory
(B) Abraham Lincoln: advocated allowing
slavery to continue in the South while
banning its extension into the Western
territories
(C) Henry Clay: advocated allowing
Califor-nia and the New Mexico and Utah
Territories to decide for themselves
whether to allow slavery
(D) John C Calhoun: advocated secession if
the North would not agree to extending
slavery into Western territory
(E) David Wilmot: advocated outlawing
slavery in any territory acquired from
Mexico
19 Andrew Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Act
of 1866 primarily because he believed
(A) its provisions were already covered in
the Fourteenth Amendment
(B) it violated states’ rights
(C) it should have included women’s rights
(D) it would be unnecessary once
Recon-struction went into effect
(E) it was not strong enough to counteract
the black codes
20 Which of the following did NOT contribute
to the Great Depression?
(A) buying stocks on margin (B) consumer installment buying (C) underconsumption of goods (D) underproduction of goods (E) U.S insistence on collecting its war debts
21 The Alliance for Progress can best be
described as an attempt to (A) counteract among other Latin Americans the appeal of Fidel Castro’s Cuban communism
(B) provide arms to rebel forces in Nicaragua (C) intervene in Chilean elections
(D) establish economic and social programs across Latin America
(E) establish a process for turning over control of the Panama Canal to Panama
22 All of the following were elements of the
“war on poverty” EXCEPT (A) Voting Rights Act of 1965 (B) Office of Economic Opportunity (C) Medicare
(D) Elementary and Secondary School Act (E) Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA)
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Trang 623 Jimmy Carter won the 1976 election for all
of the following reasons EXCEPT
(A) his ability to put together a coalition of
the industrial Northeast and the South
(B) his strategy of campaigning as an
outsider
(C) the Watergate scandal
(D) his promise to balance the budget
(E) his promise to lower inflation by raising
employment
24 “ We whose names are underwritten,
having undertaken, for the glory of country,
a voyage to plant the first colony in the
Northern parts of Virginia, do solemnly
and mutually in the presence of God, and
one of another, covenant and combine
ourselves together into a civil body politic
; and by virtue hereof to enact,
consti-tute, and frame such just and equal laws,
ordinances, acts, and constitutions, and
offices, from time to time, as shall be
thought most meet and convenient for the
general good of the Colony .”
The above statement was most probably
written by the founders of
(A) Massachusetts Bay
(B) Maryland
(C) Plymouth Colony
(D) Pennsylvania
(E) Georgia
25 Which of the following rebellions was caused
by frontier settlers and landless former
indentured servants angered by the policies
of Virginia’s government?
(A) the Stono Uprising
(B) Nat Turner’s Rebellion
(C) the Whiskey Rebellion
(D) Shays’s Rebellion
(E) Bacon’s Rebellion
26 The purpose of the Declaratory Act is best
summarized by which of the following statements?
(A) Loyal subjects of George III should oppose rebellion in the colonies
(B) All colonists should weigh the need to separate themselves from Great Britain (C) Parliament has the right to make laws for the colonists in all matters
(D) The colonists should resist the Townsh-end Acts
(E) As the precursor to the Declaration of Independence, the act lists all the basic rights of the colonists as British subjects
27 The Judiciary Act of 1789
(A) established the principle of judicial review
(B) designated the Supreme Court as the court to hear disputes involving federal laws
(C) established the office of Attorney General and the Department of Justice (D) created the federal court system (E) was invoked by Andrew Jackson in the
dispute over Worcester v States of
Georgia
28 The Monroe Doctrine was issued primarily
(A) to protect U.S business interests in Latin America
(B) to warn that the United States would not tolerate any attempt by European nations
to intervene in affairs of their former colonies in the Western Hemisphere (C) to assert that the United States had the right to ensure that acceptable govern-ments were in place in nations of the Western Hemisphere
(D) as part of the recall of troops from Nicaragua and Haiti
(E) to forestall a similar declaration by Great Britain
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which type of record would be LEAST
useful?
(A) plantation account books
(B) local school-attendance records
(C) oral traditions of the families of the
plantation’s former slaves
(D) diaries of the plantation’s owners and
their families
(E) records of auction houses and merchants
who sold Africans to the plantation
30 All of the following added to the growing
tension between the North and the South
prior to the Civil War EXCEPT
(A) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
(B) Plessy v Ferguson
(C) raid on Harper’s Ferry
(D) California’s request for statehood
(E) Underground Railroad
Questions 31 and 32 relate to the following cartoon.
31 The large cartoon figures represent Wall
Street giants Who does “Jack” represent? (A) Herbert Hoover
(B) William McKinley (C) Franklin Roosevelt (D) Theodore Roosevelt (E) Warren G Harding
32 What would be the most appropriate label
for the sword?
(A) In God We Trust (B) In the Public Service (C) Silver
(D) Gospel of Wealth (E) Social Darwinism
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developed which of the following strategies
to help the Allies?
(A) Good Neighbor Policy
(B) gunboat diplomacy
(C) Neutrality Act of 1935
(D) Roosevelt Corollary
(E) Lend-Lease
34 Medicaid is
I a federally funded program
II a private insurance program
III a state-funded program
(A) I and II
(B) I, II, and III
(C) I and III only
(D) II and III only
(E) I only
35 The Great Society was the name given to the
domestic policies of
(A) John F Kennedy
(B) Lyndon Johnson
(C) Richard Nixon
(D) Ronald Reagan
(E) George Bush
36 The significance of the Fundamental Orders
of Connecticut was that it
(A) established representative government
through election to the House of
Burgesses
(B) provided that any white man owning
property could vote
(C) separated church and state
(D) established the Great Court
(E) outlawed slavery in the colony
37 American policy toward France during
Washington’s administration can best be described as an attempt to
(A) honor the commitment to France that the new nation had made in 1778 when the two became allies
(B) play France off against Great Britain (C) keep the United States out of a war that
it was ill-equipped to fight (D) protect U.S trade with Great Britain (E) placate Napoleon in order to purchase Louisiana
38 Which of the following statements best
describes the Lowell experiment of the 1820s?
(A) The Boston Associates were more interested in profits than in the well-being of their workers
(B) Native-born women workers were replaced by lower-paid Irish immigrants (C) The Boston Associates attempted to operate Lowell without the labor abuses
of the English factory system
(D) Lowell women mill workers organized into successful unions
(E) Lowell was one of the earliest mills to use water power
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degree, appreciated the truth, that the
unexampled prosperity of the State—its
comfort, its competence, its general
intelli-gence and virtue—is attributable to the
education, more or less perfect, which all its
people received Education, then,
beyond all other devices of human origin, is
the great equalizer of the conditions of
men—the balance-wheel of the social
machinery.”
The above statement was most probably
written by:
(A) Benjamin Franklin
(B) Woodrow Wilson
(C) Frederick Douglass
(D) Dorothea Dix
(E) Horace Mann
40 “Manifest destiny” was a term coined to
apply to the
(A) principle of popular sovereignty
(B) theory of Social Darwinism
(C) belief that the United States should
extend across the continent from the
Atlantic to the Pacific
(D) extension of slavery into the newly
acquired Western territories
(E) U.S.’s entrance into World War I
41 Reconstruction ended in the South as a
direct result of
(A) the collapse of the remaining carpetbag
governments in Florida, South Carolina,
and Louisiana
(B) ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment
(C) increased activities of white supremacist
groups
(D) Democrats’ acceptance of Hayes as
president in exchange for the
with-drawal of troops from the South
(E) general Northern fatigue with the
programs of the Radical Republicans
42 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe
Doctrine was first applied (A) to the British and German blockade of Venezuela
(B) in recognizing Panama’s independence (C) to the withdrawal from Nicaragua of U.S troops who had been sent to collect debt payments
(D) to Cuba when the military occupation ended in 1901
(E) in the Dominican Republic when the United States assumed responsibility for collecting Dominican debts to pay off creditors
43 Which of the following movies was
contro-versial at the time because of its portrayal of African Americans?
(A) The Jazz Singer (B) Gone With the Wind (C) Inherit the Wind (D) Birth of a Nation (E) On the Road
44 Which of the following did NOT occur on
the home front during World War II?
(A) There was little internal migration in the nation because of the rationing of gas and tires
(B) Japanese nationals and Japanese Ameri-cans were interned in detention camps
in the United States
(C) Wage and price controls were estab-lished
(D) Women in record numbers took over men’s jobs in industry
(E) The Fair Employment Practices Commis-sion was established to end discrimina-tion in hiring in the defense industry
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foreign policy immediately after World
War II?
I Marshall Plan
II “dollar diplomacy”
III Point Four
(A) I only
(B) II only
(C) I and II only
(D) II and III only
(E) I and III only
46 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was based on
what false information?
(A) The North Vietnamese were sending
troops into South Vietnam
(B) North Vietnam had fired on U.S
destroy-ers that were aiding South Vietnam in
electronic spying of the North
(C) The Vietcong had little or no support in
rural areas and, therefore, could be easily
subdued
(D) North Vietnam had fired on two
destroy-ers in an unprovoked attack
(E) The North Vietnamese were using
napalm against U.S soldiers
47 Which of the following colonies was
self-governing?
(A) Maryland
(B) Pennsylvania
(C) Rhode Island
(D) Georgia
(E) New York
48 The revenue from which of the following
acts was to be used to pay the salaries of the royal governors, thus negating the power of the purse?
(A) Tea Act (B) Stamp Act (C) Sugar Act (D) Currency Act (E) Townshend Act
49 Which of the following statements about the
Declaration of Independence is NOT true? (A) The Declaration was based on the philosophy of the Enlightenment
(B) All references to George III’s part in the slave trade were deleted in the final version
(C) By declaring independence, the new nation established that the rules of war had to be observed, thus protecting its soldiers
(D) The Declaration listed various ways in which George III had taken away the rights of the colonists
(E) The Declaration established the organiza-tion of the new naorganiza-tion
50 Which of the following was adopted to
resolve the issue of representation in the House and Senate?
(A) Three-Fifths Compromise (B) New Jersey Plan
(C) direct election of senators (D) Great Compromise
(E) Virginia Plan