What was the main goal of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
a. To put an immediate end to slavery throughout the nation
b. To give citizenship to former slaves in Northern states
c. To keep a balance in the Senate between slave states and free states
d. To stop the importation of slaves throughout the nation
Why did the United States government pass the Homestead Act of 1862?
a. To encourage people to move west
b. To permit missionary work among Native Americans
c. To allow territories to become states
d. To encourage better trade with Asia
The use of standardized time and time zones were introduced in order to benefit
a. telephone and telegraph operators.
b. railroad companies.
c. manufacturers who dealt in interstate trade.
d. factory owners who had set schedules.
Which factor led to the rapid development of industry in the United States during the last half of the
19th century?
a. The increasing competition in the oil business
b. The increased availability of capital
c. The decrease in the stability of the economic cycle
d. The increase of government regulation in the business sector
Lincoln Steffens targeted what group of people, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the
Cities"?
a. The United States Senate
b. African Americans living in the urban slums
c. Corporate bosses and municipal government
d. Stock market investors
In his book The Influence of Sea Power Upon History (1890), Alfred T. Mahan argued which of the
following?
a. Great empires are based on naval supremacy.
b. Colonial empires are a drain on the nations’ resources.
c. Land forces are more important than naval forces.
d. Naval bases are unnecessary for the protection of colonial possessions.
What was a chief reason for the failure of the Articles of Confederation?
a. The lack of a separation of powers within the federal government
b. The failure to control the executive branch
c. The inability of Congress to effectively create laws
d. The failure to provide women and blacks with the right to vote
How did the 14th Amendment affect post-Civil War society?
a. It prohibited slavery in the U.S.
b. It guaranteed equal protection under the law for every American citizen.
c. It prohibited any state from denying an American citizen the right to vote based on race/ethnic
background, color, or having previously been a slave.
d. It provided Congress with the power to establish and collect income taxes.
The "Gospel of Wealth," as advanced by Andrew Carnegie, promoted the concept that people with
wealth should
a. give aid directly to the poor.
b. devote time to the public welfare.
c. use their resources to help society.
d. donate the bulk of their wealth to religious institutions.
Why were Europeans who came to the United States after 1880 described as "new" immigrants?
a. Because they were considered physically and mentally superior to earlier immigrants.
b. Because they arrived before the closing of the frontier and settled farms in the West.
c. Because they came chiefly from northern and western Europe.
d. Because they came generally from different countries than most of the earlier immigrants.
Jane Addams is most closely associated with which of the following?
a. Temperance reform
b. Higher education for women
c. Women’s suffrage
d. Settlement houses
The Spanish-American War resulted in which of the following?
a. A guerilla war between Americans and Filipinos
b. The American colonization of Cuba
c. Theodore Roosevelt's election as president in 1900
d. The independence of Puerto Rico
Expressions such as "liberty cabbage" and "liberty sausage," used during World War I, were an
indication of which of the following?
a. Food shortages
b. American hostilities toward all things German
c. American efforts to feed their allies
d. American patriotic fervor to increase the food supply by planting home "victory gardens"
Which group benefited least from Progressive reforms?
a. Organized labor unions seeking protection and rights
b. African Americans seeking political and social reform
c. Women suffragists seeking the right to vote
d. Consumers seeking government protection
At the beginning of World War I, most Americans
a. preferred to remain neutral.
b. sided with the Central Powers.
c. sided with the Allied Powers.
d. were struggling economically.
The main goal of the Americanization movement was to
a. limit the number of immigrants entering the country.
b. assimilate people of various cultures into the dominant culture.
c. improve the living conditions in America’s largest cities.
d. encourage people to move from the country to the city.
Of the following statements, the one that best reflects an anti-imperialist attitude is which?
a. “It is not necessary to own people to trade with them.”
b. “The expansion of or trade and commerce is the pressing problem.”
c. “Is there no nation wise enough, brave enough, to aid this blood-smitten land?”
d. “Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours…”
Which of the following is true of the Gentlemen’s Agreement?
a. It decreased Japanese immigration.
b. It resulted in segregated classrooms.
c. It caused Anti-American riots in Japan.
d. It prohibited aliens from working in industrial jobs.