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US History REVIEWInstructions for use:

A) click mouse and a question will appear with possible answers.

B) select your answer and click on it.

C) you will be shown the correct answer.

D) click again and the next question will appear

There are approximately 175 prompts in the review, if you can not finish the review in one setting use the scroll bar to remember where you left off.

The Constitution divides power between states and the federal government. This is called:

A) Communism

B) Republicanism

C) Federalism

D) Democracy

Several states refused to ratify the Constitution unless:

A) The President was elected by the people

B) The Mayflower compact was repealed

C) A list of rights protecting liberties was added

D) There was a prohibition on taxes

The Electoral College Compromise dealt with which of the following:

A) representation in Congress

B) Slave trade

C) Counting population

D) Choosing the President

Most of the conflicts between whites and Indians on the frontier were over

A) The rights to use the Mississippi River

B) Disease spread by the white settlers

C) Religious differences

D) Control and ownership of land

The first incident in which the Constitution proved its strength and power to enforce the laws was the

A) Negotiation of Jay’s Treaty

B) Whiskey Rebellion

C) XYZ Affair

D) Battle of Tippecanoe

The first two political parties were formed as a result of the controversy between which two leaders?

A) Washington and Hamilton

B) Madison and Jefferson

C) Hamilton and Jefferson

D) Washington and Madison

Which of the following did the Constitutional Convention NOT come up with?

A) Bicameral legislature

B) Bill of rights

C) Judicial Branch

D) Executive Branch

Alexander Hamilton’s financial program including the Bank of the United States seemed to favor which group of Americans?

A) Southern Farmers

B) Northern Businessmen

C) Western frontiersmen

D) East Coast Fishermen

Which of the following compromises dealt with representation in the national Congress?

A) Electoral College

B) Connecticut

C) Slave trade

D) 3/5

Which of the following court cases established governments practice of separate but equal

A) Plessy v Ferguson

B) Rust v Sullivan

C) Korematsu v. U.S.

D) Marbury v. Madison

What was President Washington’s response when Great Britain and France went to war against each other?

A) He issued the Monroe Doctrine

B) He allowed France to use American ports

C) He declared the Proclamation of Neutrality

D) He declared war on Great Britain

In George Washington’s Farwell Address, he warned against all of the following except

A) Foreign alliances

B) Formation of political parties

C) Engaging in Europe matters

D) Building of colleges

The Judiciary Act of 1801 and so called “midnight judges” were an attempt by the Federalists to

A) Weaken the Judicial branch of the government

B) Support of the policies of the incoming President, Thomas Jefferson

C) Prolong their power by increasing their hold on the judiciaryD) Do away with the Alien and Sedition Acts

When a local party organization becomes very powerful, it is sometimes referred to as a_________________ .

A) Political machine

B) Convention

C) Caucus

D) none of the above

In the 1803 the United States suddenly doubled its size when

A) It seized Louisiana from the Spanish empire

B) It bought Louisiana from Napoleon of France for $15 million

C) Daniel Boone cleared a road through a gap in eastern Tennessee called the Wilderness RoadD) It bought Louisiana from Spain for $15 million

What is the most significant result of the Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison (1803)?

A) Declared slavery open in all states

B) Limited the power of individual states

C) Expanded the power of the Bill of Rights

D) Established the Supreme Courts right to exercise judicial review

The case of McCullough v. Maryland declared that _____________ was constitutional

A) The National bank

B) Interstate trade

C) Westward expansion

D) The Fugitive Slave Law

Which of the following is the main reason the US declared war on Great Britain during the War of 1812

A) Embargo Act, Proclamation of Neutrality, and War Hawks

B) Indian relations, national pride, and War Hawks

C) Treaty of Paris (1763) violations

D) Treaty of Paris (1783) violations

A group of young Congressmen called The War Hawks wanted to

A) Declare war against France

B) Work out a new treaty with the Indians

C) Remove the Indians and declare war against England

D) Wipe out the Federalist party

Francis Scott Key was inspired to write “The Star–Spangled Banner” by the

A) American victory at New Orleans

B) Triumphs of Old Ironside

C) Signing of the Treaty of Ghent

D) Defense of Baltimore at Fort McHenry

As a result of the War of 1812, the US

A) Became more dependent on Great Britain

B) Lost some of its national pride

C) Became less dependent on Europe

D) Gained land in Canada and Florida

Under the Treaty of Ghent, the United States and Great Britain agreed to

A) Keep warships off the Great Lakes

B) Leave the Canadian boundary unfortified

C) Establish joint control over the Oregon Country

D) Resume peaceful relation

The nationalism during the War of 1812 is most clearly evident in the

A) Appointment of John Marshall as Chief Justice

B) Support for the Hartford Convention

C) Support for the protective tariff

D) Refusal to purchase Florida

The issue of slavery in the Louisiana Purchase was settled by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which declared that

A) Maine and Missouri would come in as slave states, but from then on all states would be free

B) Maine would come in as a free and Missouri as a slave state, from then on the settlers would vote to decide which they wanted to beC) Both Maine and Missouri would hold an election to decide whether they wanted to be a slave state or freeD) Maine would come in as a free state and Missouri as a slave state and that the rest of the territory would be divided between slave and free states by the 36 30’ line

The Monroe Doctrine issued in 1823 by James Monroe was an expression of United States’ expanding nationalism

when Monroe

A) Warned all European powers not to interfere with the affairs in the Western hemisphere

B) Warned Napoleon to withdraw from his occupation of Spain and Portugal

C) Told Mexico and Cuba that the United States intended to take over their countriesD) Took over the Isthmus of Panama in order to build a short route between the Atlantic and the Pacific

Why did the Tariff of Abominations, passed in 1828, so enrage the Southerners?

A) Because it favored imported goods from Britain

B) Because it was passed over the protests of President John Quincy Adams

C) Because the tariff was too high

D) Because it favored manufacturing in the northeast at the expense of southern agriculture

The Tariff of Abominations resulted in which of the following?

A) The Monroe Doctrine

B) Religious revivals

C) The concept of nullification

D) Establishment of labor unions

As a result of President Jackson’s policy, most Native Americans who lived east of the Mississippi River

A) Lost the right to vote

B) Gained the right to sue in court

C) Were forced to give up land

D) Supported Jackson in his reelection

What is the modern-day equivalent of the Kitchen Cabinet?

A) The Diplomatic Corps

B) The President’s personal advisors

C) The Central Intelligence Agency

D) The Senate Foreign Relations Committee

The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions stated the position of a group of people who were seeking

equal rights forA) People without property

B) women

C) immigrants

D) Freed slaves

What term best describes why Americans felt justified in expanding its territory from on coast to the other?

A) Manifest destiny

B) Trail of Tears

C) Territorial expansion

D) Tariff of Abominations

The immediate cause of the Mexican War was

A) A debt owed by Mexico to the American government

B) The movement of American settlers into Mexican territory

C) A revolution in Mexico between the Mexican rebels and Spain

D) A dispute over the southern boundary of Texas

All of the following were reasons Americans went west except for

A) Gold and silver

B) Factory work

C) farmland

D) Religious freedom

The acquisition of territory that gave the US ownership of land from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was the

A) Mexican Cession

B) Louisiana Purchase

C) Gadsden Purchase

D) Texas annexation

One agent of the Underground Railroad, often called “The Moses of her People,” was

A) Elizabeth Stanton

B) Elizabeth Blackwell

C) Harriet Tubman

D) Harriet Beecher Stowe

The American Temperance Union called for an end to

A) The North’s interfering in the affairs of the South

B) The excessive use of alcoholic beverages

C) Domestic violence and injustices against women

D) The abuse of the mentally ill in prison

Many Southerners strongly defended slavery because

A) Slaves were needed to build the South’s transportation system

B) The Southern economy was based on slave labor

C) Immigrants were not willing to work on plantations

D) Slaves were needed to work on small southern farms

The term “popular sovereignty” refers to resolving the slave issue by

A) A referendum in all slave states

B) Elections in Texas and California

C) A territorial election in the western territories

D) A vote in the House of Representatives

“Bleeding Kansas” refers to the mid-century violence in the state of Kansas over:

A) Native American land rights

B) A high protective tariff that hurt the South

C) Slavery in the new states

D) Voting rights of non-property owners

In the Supreme Court case of Dred Scott v. Sanford (1856), Chief Justice Roger B. Taney expressed all of the following

ideas except

A) Slaves are property

B) Masters can take slaves anywhere

C) The Fugitive Slave Law is unconstitutional

D) The Missouri compromise is unconstitutional

The event causing the first southern states to secede from the Union was

A) The Dred Scott Decision

B) John Brown’s raid

C) Lincoln’s election as president

D) The Kansas-Nebraska Act

President Lincoln’s goal, after the Election of 1860 was to

A) Abolish slavery

B) Preserve the Union

C) Defeat the Confederacy

D) Leave slavery alone

Which of the following was a Confederate advantage at the beginning of the Civil War?

A) More factories and people

B) More help from France

C) More experienced generals

D) More miles of railroad

The purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution was to

A) Help black Americans achieve equal rights

B) Keep black Americans as slaves

C) End Reconstruction in the South

D) Ease the burden of Reconstruction on white Southerners

The black codes developed by the southern states were designed to

A) Help former slaves obtain farmland

B) Help former slaves receive an education

C) Keep freed slaves subordinate to whites

D) Require freed slaves to vote for southern candidates

General Winfield Scott’s “Anaconda Plan” involved all of the following except

A) Blockading Confederate ports

B) Dividing the Confederacy into three theaters of war

C) Gaining control of the Mississippi River and of New Orleans

D) Pushing north to capture Washington, D.C.

Which battle, fought in July 1863, was a turning point of the Civil War?

A) Fredericksburg

B) Vicksburg

C) Pittsburgh

D) Gettysburg

Lincoln’s plan fro Reconstruction was:

A) A hope of peace without bitterness and a restoration of southern economic and political rightsB) Harsh treatment of the South, both economically and politically

C) Vague because he did not have time to develop his plan

D) Harsh politically, but economically easy

Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction was:

A) Harsh and similar to the Radical Republican’s plan

B) The same as Lincoln’s plan

C) A reflection of the demands of the southern states

D) Harsher than Lincoln’s, but far short of what was demanded by the Radical Republicans

Which of the following statements characterized big business in the US during the “New Industrial Age”,

(approx. 1865-1900)?

A) Demand for government action to end immigrationB) Pressure exerted on government to create economic stability

C) Use of organizational power to control market prices and eliminate competition

D) Opposition to the introduction of labor saving devices

During the Gilded Age, many Americans opposed trusts became

A) Trusts could destroy small companies

B) Trusts increased competition among businesses

C) Trusts allowed foreign investments

D) Unemployment in the cities increased

The court case Brown v. Board of Education dealt with which of the following:

A) 1st Amendment

B) 2nd Amendment

C) 5th Amendment

D) 14th Amendment

The Interstate Commerce Act was the government’s response to the problems of

A) farmers

B) railroads

C) Factory workers

D) immigrants

The purpose of the Sherman Antitrust Act was to stop the growth of

A) Government regulations

B) railroads

C) monopolies

D) Holding companies

All of the following were demands of early labor unions except

A) Higher wages

B) Better living conditions

C) A shorter workday

D) Increased use of unskilled workers

In the early 1900’s newly arrived immigrants usually worked

A) In skilled trades

B) At the lowest paying jobs

C) For higher pay than other Americans

D) On small farms in the South

Bosses in big-city political machines got votes for their candidates by

A) Stealing from immigrants

B) Ignoring immigrants

C) Criticizing immigrants

D) Helping immigrants

The Jim Crow Laws passed by southern legislatures were designed to segregate blacks socially. In 1896, the Supreme Court supported such laws in the case of:A) Munn v. Illinois

B) The Sherman Antitrust Act

C) Brown v. Topeka, Kansas

D) Plessy v. Ferguson

As a leader of the black community, Booker T. Washington, did al of the following except

A) Advocated social equality

B) Helped found the NAACP

C) Discovered hundreds of uses for he peanut

D) Grudgingly agreed to segregation

The Homestead Act of 1862, completion of the transcontinental railroad, ranching and “dry farming” all

helped shift part of the population of the US byA) Forcing conditions of over-crowding in Northeast cities

B) Aiding in economic “reconstruction” of the South

C) Aiding in the settlement of the Great Plains

D) Shifting opportunities away from the New England States

Improvements in communication and transportation in the late 1800s were important because:

A) It became more comfortable to travel

B) The telegraph made it possible to have more efficient trains

C) The telephone allowed families to stay in touch

D) Inventions created new industries

Innovations that spurred industrial growth led to the creation of large fortunes. Some philosophers applied the survival of the fittest theory to defend the accumulation of wealth by individuals. This theory was called:

A) Laissez-faire

B) Social Darwinism

C) The Trustee of Wealth Theory

D) The American Plan

The goal of the progressive movement was

A) Isolationism from Europe

B) Growth of industry

C) Reform of government

D) Prohibition of alcohol

Journalists who kept the public informed of wrongdoings in business and government were known as

A) muckrakers

B) consumers

C) Yellow journalists

D) populists

All of the following are examples of muckraking journalism except

A) Ida Tarbell’s History of the Standard Oil Company

B) Lincoln Steffen’s The Shame of the Cities

C) Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds

D) Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives

During the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson the government finally passed effective antitrust legislation in the form of the

A) Sherman Antirust Act

B) Underwood-Simmons Act

C) Mann-Elkins Act

D) Clayton Act

After 1898, how did the need for markets affect the United States

A) Eliminated poverty in the cities

B) Improved economic growth and political prestige in world affairs

C) Decreased concern for minority and women’s rights

D) Limited involvement in world affairs

All of the following were reasons given by American imperialists for US involvement in foreign lands except

A) To Christianize and civilize natives

B) To gain ports to improve US naval power

C) To spread the ideas of democracy

D) To slow immigration to the US

What was the common purpose of the Open Door Policy?

A) To prevent Europe from taking over islands in the Pacific Ocean

B) To prevent European powers from gaining an unfair advantage in China

C) To promote good will among all nations

D) To give America an advantage in gaining trading routes to Asia

All of the following were colonial acquisitions in the late 1800s except

A) Cuba

B) Alaska

C) Hawaii

D) Samoa

An important result of the Spanish-American War was that it

A) Increased tension between the US and Russia

B) Forced Spain to recognize the Monroe Doctrine

C) Strengthened American control over the Caribbean

D) Made the US a leader of the “free world”

By the treaty ending the Spanish-American War the US acquired

A) Puerto Rico

B) Guam

C) Philippines

D) All of the above

Theodore Roosevelt’s “Big Stick” policy was directed at countries in the

A) Caribbean

B) Far East

C) Western Hemisphere

D) Soviet Union

President Taft’s foreign policy was most closely associated with the term

A) Watchful waiting

B) Dollar diplomacy

C) Moral diplomacy

D) nonintervention and noncolonization

The immediate cause of World War I was

A) An Austro-Hungarian archduke and his wife were assassinated

B) A strike by Serbians led to a violent riot

C) An Austro-Hungarian archduke and his wife murdered a Serbian

D) Serbians refused to salute the Austro-Hungarian flag

Before the US entry into World War I, American opposition to Germany increased because of Germany’s

A) Invasion of France by German troops

B) Continued unrestricted submarine attacks on US ships

C) Kidnapping and murder of American diplomats in Germany

D) Refusal to purchase American goods

President Wilson convinced the American people to enter World War I by doing which of the following?

A) Appealing to our tradition of helping Great Britain in her times of need

B) Promising to have the troops home for Christmas

C) Convincing Americans that we would soon be attacked by Germany

D) Pledging to fight “a war to end all wars” and “make the world safe for democracy”

All of the following are reasons why the US entered World War I except

A) The increasing threat to trade by the Allied Powers

B) The renewal of unrestricted submarine warfare by the Germans

C) A natural desire to assure victory by the Allies

D) The collapse of Russia which made Wilson fear Germany would win

The only point of the Fourteen Points that Wilson successfully saved was the provision

A) For a new state of Poland

B) For a League of Nations

C) For Germany to accept responsibility for the war

D) For the total disarmament of Germany

After World War I, which of the following influences did we see dominate American political thinking

A) internationalist, pro civil rights, and pro business

B) isolationist, pro civil rights, and anti-business

C) isolationist, anti-immigration, and pro business

D) internationalist, anti-immigration, and anti-business

In the 1920s the United States experienced which of the following?

A) A period of great prosperity

B) A new period of isolationism

C) A Red Scare

D) All of the above

The prosperity of the 1920s was due to all of the following except

A) Installment buying

B) Mass merchandising

C) Mass production

D) Higher prices for agricultural staples

The term “flappers” was used to describe the

A) Guns used by gangsters during the 1920s

B) “new” women of the 1920s

C) Blacks who moved North in search of jobs

D) Model T automobile

Religious fundamentalism was an issue in the

A) Arbuckle trial

B) Sacco-Vanzetti trial

C) Lindbergh trial

D) Scopes trial

The Harlem Renaissance describes

A) The migration of blacks to the North

B) Cultural revolution of blacks in America

C) A major literary movement by black authors

D) The beginning of the Civil Rights Movement

The group that suffered the most economically during the prosperous 1920’s was the

A) Factory workers

B) Movie industry

C) immigrants

D) Farmers

All of the following were important effects of he automobile on America in the 1920s except which one?

A) Consumers borrowed more money

B) Workers commuted longer distances

C) Families traveled more extensively

D) Industry experienced oil shortages

A wide disregard for the law in the 1920’s was brought about by

A) anarchism

B) fundamentalism

C) prohibition

D) The “bonus march”

Why was the 1925 Scopes Trial called the greatest challenge to religious fundamentalism in the 1920s?

A) Because Scopes was represented by the great defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow

B) Because William Jennings Bryan assisted the State of Tennessee in the prosecution

C) Because of the extensive press coverage of the trial

D) Because Darrow and Bryan made evolution, rather than guilt or innocence, the real issue of the trial

One reason for the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was that

A) Many people bought stocks on credit

B) Strict government regulations kept many people from buying stocks

C) Banks closed and depositors lost their savings

D) American manufacturers were forced to lower prices

The most urgent task facing President Roosevelt in 1933 was

A) Protecting the nation’s territorial possessions

B) Tariff reform

C) Keeping the nation out of war

D) Relief for the unemployed

Which of the following was “new” about the New Deal?

A) Increased power of the president in legislation

B) First political advertising slogan

C) The authority of the executive branch over the judicial branch

D) The expanded role of the federal government in the lives of the citizens

The Bonus March to Washington DC was

A) A protest of American isolationism

B) A plea for an amendment giving women the right to vote

C) A demand for and increase in pay for members of the AFT

D) A demand for World War I pension payments

All of the following were components of the New Deal laws except

A) A minimum wage

B) Bank loans to farmers

C) Regulations of the stock exchange

D) Lowering of taxes

A major criticism of the New Deal was that it

A) Greatly increased the size and power of the federal government

B) Gave too many benefits to minorities

C) Brought about conditions that led to the “dust bowl”

D) Relied too much on advice from college professors and business leaders

Which conditions are most characteristic of a depression

A) High production and high demand

B) Much money in circulation and high stock prices

C) Few jobs and little demand

D) Supply meeting demand and high unemployment

Which event did not occur between the World Wars

A) Great Depression

B) Great Migration

C) Rise of totalitarianism

D) Bootlegging and Jazz Age

The ___________ of 1928 outlawed war and ordered that all disputes must be settled peacefully

A) non-aggression Pact

B) Treaty of Versailles

C) Kellogg-Briand Pact

D) Washing Conference

The Good Neighbor Policy of the U.S. in the 1930’s was directed to

A) Canada

B) Latin America

C) England and France

D) Soviet Union