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1. Which of the following events happened in the three years immediately following the
Civil War?
A. President Johnson exiled, imprisoned, or executed many former Confederate
leaders.
B. Intense and unparalleled political conflicts dominated the national scene.
C. Demobilized Confederate soldiers continued armed resistance to federal
occupation forces.
D. Freedmen took revenge on their former owners and the rest of the southern white
community.
E. Radical Republicans ordered the execution of all Confederate officials holding a
cabinet rank or higher.
2. Which of the following was not a feature of Lincoln's 10 percent plan?
A. State governments could be formed when at least 10 percent of those who had
voted in 1860 had sworn allegiance to the Union and accepted emancipation.
B. Confederate officials needed presidential pardons before they could participate in
the new governments.
C. Confederate army and navy officers needed presidential pardons before they could
participate in the new governments.
D. Southern plantations were to be confiscated and divided among the blacks who
had formerly worked there as slaves.
E. Freedmen were excluded from participation because they had not been voters in
1860.
3. What was the key difference between the Lincoln and Johnson plans for
Reconstruction?
A. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan barred from political participation any exConfederate with taxable property worth $20,000 or more.
B. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan excluded freedmen from participating in the
new Reconstruction governments.
C. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan required that southerners take oaths of
allegiance to the United States.
D. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan was designed to bring the southern states
back into the Union as quickly as possible.
E. Unlike Lincoln's plan, Johnson's plan prohibited former Confederate military
officers from serving in the U.S. military.
4. How did the Thirteenth Amendment change the Constitution?
A. It declared secession illegal.
B. It abolished slavery.
C. It guaranteed freedmen the right to vote.
D. It declared former slaves to be citizens.
E. It disqualified former Confederate officers from running for office.
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5. By the end of 1865, under President Johnson's Reconstruction policies,
A. all southern states had ratified the Thirteenth Amendment and repudiated their
Confederate debts.
B. most southern states had passed special industrial codes to help the freedmen
become economically independent.
C. former Confederate congressmen, state officials, and generals had been elected to
serve in Congress.
D. southern states were moving toward rebellion and secession once again.
E. the southern states had been divided into a series of military districts.
6. What brought the Radical and moderate Republicans together in an alliance against
President Johnson?
A. President Johnson vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau bill and the Civil Rights Act of
1866.
B. Moderate Republicans realized that Johnson was delaying readmission of the
former Confederate states.
C. Many Republicans feared the president's proposal for an agency that would
provide relief, rations, and medical care for impoverished southerners.
D. President Johnson sent a message to northern Democrats that they could work
together to rebuild the South.
E. Moderate Republicans feared that the president was going to bolt the Republican
Party for the Democratic Party.
7. Which of the following descriptions provides an accurate assessment of the success of
Reconstruction?
A. It succeeded in giving blacks equal rights.
B. Although making initial progress, it failed to provide lasting improvements for
blacks.
C. It established southern state governments that were dominated by northerners until
the twentieth century.
D. It ended the practice of segregation in both the North and the South.
E. It led to the adoption of legislation that guaranteed the civil rights of all
Americans.
8. Why did the battle over black suffrage ultimately divide the women's rights
movement?
A. A large part of the women's rights movement did not believe that a constitutional
amendment was necessary in order to gain the vote.
B. Half of the movement advocated focusing on the rights of black women, while the
other half emphasized that first priority should be on the rights of black men.
C. Some advocates of women's rights refused to support black suffrage without
attendant woman suffrage.
D. The women's rights movement had always avoided the debate over slavery, and
many now feared being drawn into the new debate over black rights.
E. The leaders of the women's rights movement were racists who believed that black
suffrage was a mistake.
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9. Why was President Andrew Johnson impeached?
A. He refused to dismiss his vice president after he joined the Ku Klux Klan.
B. He attempted to fire Secretary of War Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of
Office Act.
C. He accepted a bribe from the Credit Mobilier Corporation.
D. He pardoned several Confederate generals, including Robert E. Lee.
E. He nominated several black men to his cabinet.
10. The Ku Klux Klan was established after the Civil War to
A. protect the rights of small farmers from northern land speculators.
B. terrorize blacks into submissive behavior.
C. pressure the North to end the military occupation of the South.
D. frighten whites into electing former slaves to public office.
E. None of these.
11. Which of the following was not an accomplishment of the new governments
established under congressional Reconstruction?
A. They created public-school systems.
B. They instituted ambitious programs of public works.
C. They confiscated land and redistributed it more equitably.
D. They expanded state bureaucracies and increased salaries for state employees.
E. They increased state debts and taxes.
12. Black codes were
A. unwritten laws in the South that allowed blacks to work only in agriculture.
B. agreements in northern states to keep blacks from moving into certain
neighborhoods.
C. federal laws that clearly presented the rights that former slaves had.
D. the guidelines that southern judges followed in making decisions involving blacks.
E. laws passed by southern state legislatures to restrict the freedoms of blacks.
13. Which of the following was not one of the reasons why only a small proportion of
blacks were able to own farms by the end of Reconstruction?
A. Most blacks lacked the capital to buy the land and equipment.
B. White southerners did not want to sell their land to blacks.
C. Southern industrialists needed laborers to work in their new urban factories.
D. Neither Congress nor the states imposed large-scale land reform.
E. Southern planters needed a source of cheap labor to work on their plantations.
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14. What was the purpose of the Enforcement Acts?
A. They were passed to give federal troops authority to police former Confederate
soldiers in the South.
B. They were designed to curb vigilante violence.
C. They were created to enforce restrictions that were placed on blacks.
D. They had the purpose of ensuring that the South accepted the outcome of the Civil
War.
E. They were passed to limit the scope of Reconstruction.
15. What did Ulysses S. Grant's election in 1868 suggest?
A. Reconstruction was not popular anywhere in the country.
B. Sound money was the first priority for most voters.
C. Republicans needed the newly enfranchised southern freedmen to ensure national
victories.
D. American voters were tired of corruption in government.
E. Americans were wary of military men in politics.
16. The civil rights cases of 1883 were significant because the Supreme Court concluded
that
A. the black codes were constitutional.
B. segregation was constitutional.
C. states, not individuals, were prohibited from discriminating under the Fourteenth
Amendment.
D. Abraham Lincoln's proclamation ending slavery was unconstitutional.
E. the citizenship rights of black Americans could not be denied because of the color
of their skin.
17. What doctrine did the Supreme Court enunciate in the Slaughterhouse cases of 1873?
A. Where civil courts were functioning, civilians could not be tried by military courts
or commissions.
B. Congress had the power to ensure that each state had a republican form of
government.
C. The Fourteenth Amendment only protected the basic rights of national citizenship,
not rights that fell to citizens by virtue of their state citizenship.
D. The Fifteenth Amendment did not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone.
E. Congressional Reconstruction governments were unconstitutional because they
had been forced upon the South.
18. How did sharecropping work?
A. Poor farmers would rent land from large landowners in exchange for half the crop
produced on the land.
B. Poor farmers would work as wage laborers on the farms of large landowners.
C. Poor farmers would do handiwork on large farms in exchange for food.
D. Poor farmers would receive a share of the crop from a large farm in an early
version of a welfare system.
E. Poor farmers pooled their land and shared whatever crops they produced.
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19. In order to convince southern Democrats to accept the election of Rutherford B.
Hayes as president, what did Republican backers of Hayes promise?
A. They promised to remove the remaining federal troops from the South.
B. They promised to allow Democrats to take over the last of the Republican
Reconstruction governments.
C. They promised to recognize and have the federal government help pay off the
Confederate war debt.
D. They promised to give more federal patronage to southern Democrats.
E. They promised to give federal aid to building railroads and other internal
improvements in the South.
20. Which of the following individuals was considered a Radical Republican?
A. Susan B. Anthony
B. Thaddeus Stevens
C. Andrew Johnson
D. Horatio Seymour
E. Lorenzo Thomas
21. Which statement accurately describes southern black education during
Reconstruction?
A. It was a national priority.
B. It advanced but remained quite limited.
C. It made rapid strides toward integration.
D. It focused exclusively on the elementary level.
E. It declined rapidly.
22. Which statement concerning Republican rule in the former Confederate states is true?
A. It was permanently established through the new state constitutions approved by
Congress.
B. In most states, it lasted until the Democrats were able to recapture the White
House in 1884.
C. It lasted a maximum of about eight years, but in most states it lasted much less
time.
D. It revolutionized southern politics and destroyed the Democratic Party.
E. None of these.
23. The term Grantism referred to
A. the heroism shown by soldiers on the frontier.
B. government corruption.
C. the ideal appointees to the federal government.
D. the failure of the Democratic Party to rule effectively in the 1870s.
E. none of these.
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24. Machine politics was
A. a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated
urban areas.
B. a form of urban politics where the boss of an unofficial political organization
controlled a particular party or faction in office.
C. a social theory in which all interest groups in society meshed together like the
parts of a machine.
D. the derisive term given to voting machines when urban reformers first introduced
them.
E. a form of urban politics influenced by the ideas of reformers.
25. Which of the following functions was not typically performed by political bosses
and precinct captains?
A. They delivered votes at election time.
B. They ran settlement houses.
C. They served as informal welfare agents for the needy.
D. They protected the troubled in the neighborhood.
E. They dispensed patronage jobs, contracts, and other political favors.
26. Who was Thomas Nast mocking in his famous cartoon “Let Us Prey”?
A. Industrialists
D. President Grant
B. Fundamentalist preachers
E. Boss Tweed
C. The New York City police force
27. Where did the new immigrants of the late nineteenth century originate?
A. Western Europe
D. China and Japan
B. Southern and eastern Europe
E. Latin America
C. North Africa and the Middle East
28. Where was the Democratic Party strongest in the late nineteenth century?
A. The South
D. West Coast
B. Upper Midwest
E. Great Plains
C. New England
29. Why was the 1892 election significant to U.S. history?
A. Theodore Roosevelt won his first presidential term.
B. The Populist party showed it was a potential threat to the Republican and
Democratic parties.
C. The election led to the end of Reconstruction.
D. Black Americans voted in a presidential election for the first time.
E. Southerners voted for the Republican Party in their largest numbers since before
the Civil War.
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30. Which of the following statements accurately describes voter participation during the
late nineteenth century?
A. It was generally very high––usually from 80 percent up to 95 percent.
B. It was generally low because the major political parties were not discussing real
issues.
C. It varied from election to election––sometimes very high, sometimes very low.
D. It was very high on the local level but very low on the national level.
E. It was very high on the national level but very low on the local level.
31. Why did the federal government tend to ignore the social consequences of
industrialization during the late nineteenth century?
A. Local party bosses refused federal government assistance.
B. Congressmen believed only the president had the constitutional authority to
regulate societal issues.
C. Americans believed that volunteer Christian organizations should take care of
societal problems.
D. Most American leaders, regardless of party, believed in the laissez-faire doctrine
and did not support a large governmental role in the economy.
E. Most leaders believed in communism's focus on individual decision making and
not government-directed policy.
32. Who became famous for the “Cross of Gold” speech in the 1896 presidential
election?
A. William Jennings Bryan
D. Eugene Debs
B. Theodore Roosevelt
E. Teddy Roosevelt
C. William McKinley
33. The civil-service reformers of the late 1870s and early 1880s wanted
A. a government bureaucracy that would help free immigrants from poverty.
B. a civil service staffed by gentlemen who needed nothing and wanted nothing from
government except the satisfaction of using their talents.
C. a federal law that would appoint Roscoe Conkling director of government
personnel.
D. laws that would help to sustain the dignity of the federal civil service.
E. individual contributions to a political campaign capped at $500.
34. What did the Pendleton Act do?
A. It initiated civil-service reform.
B. It required the use of silver as well as gold to back paper currency.
C. It started the policy of having separate but equal facilities for blacks and whites.
D. It raised tariff rates.
E. It gave Congress the power to investigate and oversee railroad activities.
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35. Which of the following statements is(are) true concerning the 1884 presidential
campaign?
A. Mugwumps bolted from the Republican Party.
B. Cleveland admitted he had fathered an illegitimate child.
C. A clergyman denounced Democrats as the party of “rum, Romanism, and
rebellion.”
D. The Republicans nominated a candidate who “wallowed in spoils like a rhinoceros
in an African pool.”
E. All of these
36. What happened to James Garfield's presidency?
A. Historians consider it the only successful presidency in the late nineteenth
century.
B. It never really got started because he was assassinated soon after coming to office.
C. He supervised the greatest civil-service reform in American history.
D. He annexed Hawaii.
E. He proved a weak president and even lost the support of his own Republican
Party.
37. Why did Grover Cleveland propose a reduction of the tariff rates?
A. He thought that the government had no right to meddle in the economy.
B. He believed that lower tariffs would encourage the growth of industry in the
United States.
C. The tariff was feeding a large and growing federal budget surplus.
D. The tariff worked to the disadvantage of small farmers.
E. The farm lobby had been a major contributor to his presidential campaign.
38. Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?
A. A record-high tariff
B. The decision to cease government purchases of silver
C. Government attacks on entrenched economic interests
D. The decline of political activism in the agrarian South and West
E. The worst economic depression in the nineteenth century
39. Which statement below concerning the farmers' alliance movement is true?
A. The movement was restricted to the agrarian South because agriculture was
prosperous elsewhere.
B. The movement initially advocated farmers' cooperatives and eventually turned to
politics.
C. It was never able to build a large membership.
D. The movement failed to win many supporters because of its virulent racism.
E. It limited itself to a social and educational role and attempted to remain as
noncontroversial as possible to gain maximum support in Congress.
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40. What did Southern Alliance leader Charles Macune argue?
A. The federal government was to establish a series of branch banks to hold federal
deposits and help to control the money supply.
B. Late-nineteenth-century American capitalists attempted to corner all the silver that
was held outside the federal treasury.
C. Farmers should be able to store crops in government warehouses and then borrow
against those crops until prices rose.
D. Farmers should “raise less corn and more hell.”
E. The federal government should provide special agricultural loans from a fund
created out of grain excise taxes.
41. Which of the following was not a goal of the Populist party?
A. It wanted the government to nationalize the railroads.
B. It wanted an increased money supply.
C. It wanted to raise the protective tariff.
D. It wanted to elect U.S. senators directly.
E. It wanted to enact a graduated income tax.
42. Which of the following was not a tool that southern states used to disenfranchise
blacks after Reconstruction?
A. Outright legal prohibitions
D. Grandfather clauses
B. Literacy tests
E. Property requirements
C. Poll taxes
43. In late-nineteenth-century cases dealing with the rights of blacks, what did the
Supreme Court decide?
A. The Fourteenth Amendment protected citizens from private acts of discrimination
but not from governmental acts.
B. Racial segregation was constitutional as long as each race had equal facilities.
C. Poll taxes and literacy tests were illegal.
D. The civil-rights clauses of the Fifteenth Amendment were unconstitutional.
E. Racism in government programs was constitutional but not in private businesses.
44. How were blacks treated in the North during the late nineteenth century?
A. Public opinion sanctioned widespread de facto discrimination.
B. The influence of northern labor unions kept northern society racially integrated
and equal.
C. Most Democratic politicians in northern cities used their political machines to
make white supremacy the official policy.
D. The abolitionist legacy was still strong in the North and so most northerners
continued to strive for an egalitarian society.
E. As a result of race riots and hard economic times, blacks were pressured to move
to southern cities.
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45. In the 1892 election, what happened to the Populist party?
A. It became the first so-called third party in American history to win the presidency.
B. It received over 1 million votes across the nation.
C. It won by a large margin in New England and the traditionally Republican farm
regions of the Midwest.
D. It swept every state of the former Confederacy.
E. It failed to elect its candidate for president, but its candidate received more votes
than the Republican candidate did.
46. What impact did the McKinley tariff have on tariff rates?
A. It lowered most rates.
B. It offset higher tariffs on some products with lower tariffs on others.
C. It raised tariffs to the highest levels in American history up until that time.
D. It kept tariff rates the same but introduced a national income tax.
E. It raised tariffs on agricultural products but lowered them on industrial ones.
47. In the 1896 election, which area was a center of William McKinley's political
support?
A. The Southeast
B. The Southwest
C. Sparsely settled Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states
D. Urban areas
E. The Atlantic seaboard
48. By the mid-1920s, which of the following was true concerning the use of electricity?
A. Most Americans resisted new-fangled appliances.
B. It was becoming more common because 60 percent of new homes were wired for
electricity.
C. It was nearly universal in the United States.
D. It was mainly used in factory production.
E. It was mostly found on farms, where mechanization was needed first.
49. Which of the following statements accurately describes the automobile in the 1920s?
A. It was still just a plaything of the rich.
B. It lost much of its potential market when people turned to the new forms of mass
transit available.
C. It was produced mostly for the overseas market because Americans could not
afford the high-priced American models.
D. It became common in most American socioeconomic groups when cheap
Japanese models flooded the market.
E. It saw a big increase in popularity, with the number of vehicle registrations
jumping dramatically.
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50. How did Henry Ford lead the way in industry?
A. He pioneered a style of management that delegated corporate decisions to
professionals in specialized divisions.
B. He instituted worker-management teams to share decision making about
production.
C. He paid his workers higher wages to encourage consumerism.
D. He broke labor unions and replaced them with industry worker associations.
E. He paid his workers low wages to increase the profit margin.
51. American foreign policy toward Europe during the 1920s was characterized by
A. a willingness to forgive the World War I debts owed to the U.S. government by
former allies.
B. a desire to lead the League of Nations.
C. by general attitudes of independent internationalism with an occasional
willingness to enter into arms-control treaties.
D. a commitment to the World Court.
E. complete isolation from other countries.
52. The key issue in the Scopes trial was whether which of the following subjects should
be taught in the public schools?
A. Evolution
D. Racial equality
B. Sex education
E. Biology
C. Creationism
53. What happened in the 1920s Teapot Dome scandal?
A. President Herbert Hoover was caught having an affair with one of the secretaries
in the White House.
B. Interior Secretary Albert Fall received bribes to lease naval oil reserves to two
private companies.
C. Secretary of the Treasury William Clinton invested federal funds in the
Whitewater land deal.
D. President Calvin Coolidge used federal funds to buy his wife a fancy tea-serving
set.
E. Senator George Scott diverted federal funds to guerilla fighters in Panama.
54. Which of the following examples reveals the nativism in the United States in the
1920s?
A. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as much for their ethnic origins as for
their crimes.
B. President Harding issued an executive order limiting the number of non-British
immigrants.
C. Congress passed a law in 1924 that strictly limited immigration.
D. White citizen councils increased in membership by stressing antiblack and
antiforeigner messages.
E. President Calvin Coolidge publicly supported the lynching of immigrants in
certain circumstances.
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55. What did the Fordney-McCumber tariff and Smoot-Hawley tariff reveal about
America's commitment to free trade?
A. They proved that the United States was committed to laissez-faire economics.
B. They indicated that the United States was willing to raise tariffs to protect
domestic manufacturers.
C. They showed that the United States wanted to maintain lower tariffs.
D. They revealed that the concept of free trade would never be abandoned.
E. They showed America's complete abandonment of the principles of free trade.
56. Which of the following statements concerning the equal rights amendment advocated
by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party is true?
A. It unified the feminist movement in the 1920s, which had become splintered after
women won the vote.
B. It attracted the support of young women, who looked up to the feminists for their
civic idealism.
C. It was supported by an alliance of professional women and labor activists.
D. It turned out to be the deciding issue in the 1928 presidential election.
E. It was opposed by many young women.
57. At the Washington Naval Arms Conference, the major naval powers agreed to halt
the construction of which of the following for ten years?
A. Nuclear weapons
D. Destroyers
B. Submarines
E. Battleships
C. Aircraft carriers
58. What happened to mass culture—magazines, books, radio, and movies—in the
1920s?
A. It became increasingly standardized because the same amusements were available
in all parts of the country.
B. It retained regional favor in the South, New England, the Southwest, and other
areas with strong cultural traditions.
C. It was available only to the middle class, who could afford it.
D. It became less important as Americans placed renewed emphasis on
individualism.
E. It was strongly influenced by the radical, bohemian art world.
59. What is the stereotype of the Jazz Age flapper?
A. She was a rebellious, sexually active woman in the 1920s.
B. She drove the success of the Harlem Renaissance.
C. She was the spiritual sister of the suffragist because both suffragists and flappers
supported feminist political action.
D. She was the product of publicists and advertising agencies.
E. She was the evangelical Christian woman who followed the teachings of Billy
Sunday.
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60. Which three writers expressed hostility to the moralistic pieties of the old order and
the business pieties of the new?
A. Bruce Barton, Theodore Dreiser, and Ernest Hemingway
B. H. L. Mencken, Lewis Mumford, and Horatio Alger
C. William Jennings Bryan, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Alfred Stieglitz
E. Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, and H. L. Mencken
61. The purpose of the 1924 National Origins Act was to increase the number of
immigrants coming from
A. eastern Europe.
B. Asia.
C. South America.
D. all of these.
E. none of these.
62. Which of the following statements concerning the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s is not
true?
A. The Klan was made up of ordinary Americans.
B. The Klan targeted blacks, Catholics, or Jews, depending on the region.
C. The Klan dropped the elaborate rituals, titles, and costumes of the Reconstruction
era to attract a mass membership.
D. Estimates of Klan membership in the 1920s range from 2 to 5 million Americans.
E. It promised to restore the nation's lost racial, ethnic, religious, and moral purity.
63. Marcus Garvey, founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association,
advocated that blacks should
A. return to Africa.
B. return to the rural South because northern migration had led only to the ghetto.
C. integrate into white society.
D. focus on the acquisition of practical skills while temporarily accepting secondclass status.
E. exercise political power by voting.
64. In the early 1920s religious fundamentalists focused especially on which of the
following issues?
A. Eradicating slum conditions in cities
B. The sexual revolution
C. The theory of evolution
D. Equal rights for women
E. Restricting the immigration of Catholics and Jews
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65. Why is Aimee Semple McPherson significant?
A. She confronted the American Civil Liberties Union in a conflict over the theory of
evolution.
B. She anticipated the television evangelists of a later day in her theatrical sermons.
C. She promoted the Social Gospel, which emphasized social service.
D. She founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
E. She was the author of This Side of Paradise.
66. What did the Sacco-Vanzetti case expose in American society?
A. The growing division over the use of the death penalty
B. The strong ethnic bias in the United States
C. The growing ties between immigrants and blacks
D. The corruption in Boston's Little Italy
E. The need for immigration restrictions
67. Many Americans feared the election of Al Smith in 1928 because they thought he
would
A. answer to the pope.
B. enforce Prohibition.
C. give too much away to the socialists.
D. have a kitchen cabinet made up of women advisers.
E. make Christianity America's official religion.
68. Who won the 1928 presidential election?
A. Al Smith
B. Calvin Coolidge
C. Warren Harding
D. Herbert Hoover
E. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
69. Why did Prohibition fail?
A. Organized crime provided a ready supply of liquor.
B. It proved impossible to enforce rules of behavior with which a significant portion
of the population disagreed.
C. The Volstead Act was underfunded and weakly enforced.
D. All of these.
E. None of these.
70. Which of the following writers is not correctly identified with one of his or her
books?
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
B. Sinclair Lewis, Main Street
C. Henry Mencken, Mercury Station
D. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
E. Victor Margueritte, La Garçonne
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71. What was the social philosophy of Herbert Hoover, as expounded in his book
American Individualism?
A. Big business was the answer to America's problems.
B. He saw unfettered competition as the life force of capitalism.
C. He advocated a cooperative, socially responsible economic order shaped by the
voluntary action of capitalist leaders.
D. He supported direct government intervention in the economy.
E. He argued in favor of higher wages and higher personal income taxes.
72. During the 1920s, what attitude did most Americans have toward environmental
issues?
A. America's energy resources had limits and had to be conserved.
B. Unchecked technology was dangerous.
C. Political corruption was an inevitable result of government management of natural
resources.
D. The nation was poisoning itself and had to stop.
E. Pollution and vanishing wilderness were small prices to pay for material comforts.
73. Which statement best describes Franklin Roosevelt's position concerning the
depression in the 1932 presidential campaign?
A. He clearly outlined specific programs that would end the depression.
B. He called for the United States to abandon the gold standard.
C. He promoted a policy of massive spending by the federal government.
D. He promised to end the depression but offered only vague plans describing how
he was going to do it.
E. He claimed the depression was just an economic cycle and would eventually
correct itself.
74. Which of the following was not true concerning the election of 1936?
A. The Republican candidate was earnest but inept.
B. Roosevelt beat Alfred Landon in the most crushing victory since 1820.
C. Third-party candidates siphoned off an alarming number of Democratic votes.
D. The Democrats increased their majorities in the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
E. Roosevelt reached out to farmers, union members, blacks, and women.
75. What happened to Roosevelt's court-packing plan?
A. It met with approval from Congress, including New Deal supporters and many
conservatives who felt it was time for a change.
B. It was rejected by the American people in a referendum.
C. It proved unnecessary because Roosevelt was able to replace four members of the
Supreme Court who died or retired.
D. It turned out to be one of Roosevelt's greatest triumphs.
E. It was the issue that enabled the Republicans to retake control of the Senate in the
1938 election.
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1. B
2. D
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. A
7. B
8. C
9. B
10. C
11. C
12. E
13. C
14. B
15. C
16. C
17. C
18. A
19. C
20. B
21. B
22. C
23. B
24. A
25. B
26. E
27. B
28. A
29. B
30. A
31. D
32. A
33. B
34. A
35. E
36. B
37. C
38. A
39. B
40. C
41. C
42. A
43. B
44. A
45. B
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Take Home Test • 1865 - 1945
C
D
B
E
C
C
A
B
B
B
E
E
A
A
E
E
C
A
C
B
B
A
D
D
C
C
E
D
C
C
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