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1.	The Farmers' Alliances of the 1880s appealed primarily to
	A.	small farmers in the Northeast who found themselves unable to compete with large Western farms.
	B.	Southern and Great Plains farmers frustrated with low crop prices and mired in the sharecrop and crop lien systems.
	C.	established and well-to-do farmers who desired to limit production in order to sustain high prices.
	D.	owners of the giant "bonanza" farms of the northern plains states who sought special advantages from the government.
	E.	Chinese immigrants serving as agricultural workers with low pay and poor working conditions, primarily in the Eastern states.

2.	All of the following were among President Andrew Jackson's objections to the First Bank of the United States EXCEPT
	A.	it allowed the economic power of the government to be controlled by private individuals.
	B.	it threatened the integrity of the democratic system.
	C.	it was preventing the government from achieving its policy of creating inflation.
	D.	it could be used irresponsibly to create financial hardship for the nation.
	E.	it benefited a small group of wealthy and privileged persons at the expense of the rest of the country.

3.	Which of the following statements is correct about the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
	A.	They were accused of giving atomic secrets to Germany during World War II.
	B.	They were exposed as spies by former Communist agent Whitaker Chambers.
	C.	They were convicted of espionage, condemned, and electrocuted.
	D.	They were convicted but were later pardoned by President Eisenhower because public opinion did not favor harsh treatment of accused Communist spies.
	E.	They confessed to having carried out espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union.

4.	Which of the the following was most responsible for the change shown between between 1815 and 1830?
	A.	The development of practical steam-powered railroad trains
	B.	The development of a network of canals linking important cities and waterways
	C.	The growth in the nation's mileage of improved roads and turnpikes
	D.	Improvements in the design of keelboats and flatboats
	E.	The development of steamboats

5.	The Molasses Act was intended to enforce England's mercantilist policies by
	A.	forcing the colonists to export solely to Great Britain.
	B.	forcing the colonists to buy sugar from other British colonies rather than from foreign producers.
	C.	forbidding the colonists to engage in manufacturing activity in competition with British industries.
	D.	providing a favorable market for the products of the British East India Company.
	E.	creating an economic situation in which gold tended to flow from the colonies to the mother country.

6.	Which of the following regions was most heavily represented among immigrants to the United States during the years from 1865 to 1890?
	A.	Northern and Western Europe
	B.	Southern and Eastern Europe
	C.	Asia
	D.	Africa
	E.	Central and South America

7.	All of the following were weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation government EXCEPT
	A.	it lacked the power to levy taxes.
	B.	it lacked the power to regulate commerce.
	C.	it lacked the power to borrow money.
	D.	it could not compel the states to abide by the terms of international treaties it had made.
	E.	it lacked a strong executive.

8.	In its decision in the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court held that
	A.	separate facilities for different races were inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional.
	B.	no black slave could be a citizen of the United States.
	C.	separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional.
	D.	Affirmative Action programs were acceptable only when it could be proven that specific previous cases of discrimination had occurred within the institution or business in question.
	E.	imposition of a literacy test imposed an unconstitutional barrier to the right to vote.

9.	The main issue of the 1850s Free-Soil party was that
	A.	the federal government should permit no further spread of slavery in the territories.
	B.	a homestead act should be passed, granting 160 acres of government land in the West free to anyone who would settle on it and improve it for five years.
	C.	the federal government should oversee immediate and uncompensated abolition of slavery.
	D.	freed slaves should be provided with 40 acres and two mules to provide them the economic means of independent self-support.
	E.	the United States should annex Cuba.

10.	Emilio Aguinaldo was
	A.	the commander of the Spanish fleet defeated at Manila Bay.
	B.	the Spanish general whose harsh tactics against Cuban rebels helped bring on the Spanish-American War.
	C.	the leader of the Philippine insurrection against first Spanish and then U.S. occupation.
	D.	the commander of the Spanish fleet destroyed at Santiago.
	E.	the Spanish foreign minister who negotiated the treaty ending the Spanish-American War.

11.	"We have nothing to fear but fear itself." This statement is from
	A.	Woodrow Wilson's 1917 message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Germany.
	B.	a speech by President Herbert Hoover two weeks after the October 1929 stock market crash.
	C.	Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address.
	D.	Franklin D. Roosevelt's message to Congress asking for a declaration of war against Japan, December 8, 1941.
	E.	Harry S. Truman's announcement of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

12.	The underlying issue that led to the outbreak of war between the United States and Japan in 1941 was
	A.	Japanese aid to the Germans in their war against Britain.
	B.	U.S. desire to annex various Pacific islands held by Japan.
	C.	Japanese desire to annex the Aleutian Islands.
	D.	Japanese desire to annex large portions of China.
	E.	American resentment of Japanese trading policies and trade surpluses.

13.	Which of the following is true of W.E.B. Du Bois?
	A.	He founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
	B.	He was the chief author of the Atlanta Compromise.
	C.	He was an outspoken critic of the Niagara Movement.
	D.	He believed that blacks should temporarily accommodate themselves to the whites.
	E.	He worked closely with Booker T. Washington.

14.	In the Second World War the Allied strategy, agreed upon by the U.S. and Great Britain, was to
	A.	concentrate on defeating Japan first before turning on Germany.
	B.	divide all resources equally between the war against Japan and that against Germany.
	C.	fight only against Japan, leaving the Russians to fight Germany alone.
	D.	take a passive role and limit operations to reacting to Axis moves.
	E.	concentrate on defeating Germany first before turning on Japan.

15.	When colonial Massachusetts' Governor Thomas Hutchinson attempted to force the sale of taxed tea in Boston in 1773, Bostonians reacted with the
	A.	Boston Massacre.
	B.	Boston Tea Party.
	C.	Declaration of Independence.
	D.	Articles of Confederation.
	E.	Massachusetts Circular Letter.

16.	The Homestead Act provided
	A.	that Indians should henceforth own their lands as individuals rather than collectively as tribes.
	B.	160 acres of free land within the public domain to any head of household who would settle on it and improve it over a period of five years.
	C.	large amounts of federal government land to Great Plains cattle ranchers who would contract to provide beef for the Union army.
	D.	40 acres of land to each former slave above the age of 21.
	E.	that the land of former Confederates should not be confiscated.

17.	Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, and Edward Hopper were all
	A.	American painters of the 1920s.
	B.	pioneers in the field of a distinctly American music.
	C.	known for their abstract paintings of flowers and other objects.
	D.	pioneers in the building of skyscrapers.
	E.	American literary figures of the first decade of the twentieth century.

18.	The Berlin Airlift was America's response to:
	A.	The Soviet blockade of West Berlin from land communication with the rest of the western zone.
	B.	the acute war-time desctruction of roads and railroads, making land transport almost impossible.
	C.	the unusually severe winter of 1947.
	D.	the widespread work stoppage by German transportation workers in protest of the allied occupation of Germany.
	E.	the increased need for flu vaccine in the midst of a serious epidemic.

19.

The sectional compromises of the first half of the nineteenth century were not in fact compromises but rather "sectional sellouts" in which the North gave in to the insistent demands of the slaveholding South.

Evaluate this Statement.

20.

Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal represented a radical departure from previous American traditions in government and political economy.

Evaluate this statement.

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