1. The ideas expressed in the excerpt most likely clearly reflect the ideals of which of the following? (Why Women should Vote)
a) States’ rights
b) Conservatism
c) Progressivism
d) Expansionism
C
2. Which of the following would have been likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt?
(Why Women should Vote)
a) Southern Democrats
b) Know-Nothings
c) Machine Republicans
d) Settlement house workers
D
3. Addams’ ideas expressed in the excerpt have most in common with which of the following historical views about women? (Why Women should Vote)
a) The argument of some nineteenth-century advice books that women’s sphere was restricted to the home and family
b) The seventeenth-century Puritan belief that women must be governed by their husbands and fathers
c) The rejection of traditional gender roles by feminists in the mid-twentieth century
d) The belief of some mid-seventeenth-century reformers that women could act as the moral voice in society
C
The concerns Addams raises in the excerpt were most likely directly a reaction to which of the following?
a) Fears about the growing number of immigrants in the United States
b) The transformation of rural society by mechanized agriculture
c) Social injustice and rising economic inequality
d) The expansion of government regulation of corporations
C
The excerpt is best understood as a response to which of the following historical developments?
a) Reconstruction
b) The Great Depression
c) The first Red Scare
d) Industrialization
D
By the 1910s, the conditions described in the excerpt were most likely addressed by
a) Governments through payment programs
b) Acceptance of immigrants by native-born Americans
c) Consolidation of large corporations
d) Efforts of middle-class reformers
D
Studies similar to Riis' were most effective in promoting action by the federal government during the
a) 1960's
b) 1940's
c) 1920's
d) 1950's
C
Based on the Map, which of the following is the most accurate statement about the 1948 presidential election?
a) The Republican Party had ended its long streak of electoral failures in the former Confederate States by 1948.
b) The Democratic Party derived the majority of its support from the solid south in the 1948 election.
c) The New Deal coalition that had elected Franklin D. Roosevelt four times had begun to weaken by 1948.
d) Republicans had great success in California and the Pacific Northwest.
C
Throughout United States history, which of the following groups most typically opposed the perspectives expressed in the public service announcements?
a) Members of industrial labor unions
b) Urban political leaders
c) Advocates for greater economic equality
d) Business executives concerned about economic growth
D
The methods used to express the ideas in the public service announcements have the most in common with those of female activists who
a) participated in the Great Awakening
b) engaged in the Progressive Era reform movements
c) promoted the ideal of Republican Motherhood
d) advocated on behalf of the 14th Amendment
B
The perspectives expressed in the public service announcements suggest that popular interest in environmental issues such as smog control emerged most directly from
a) the heightened atmosphere of crisis caused by inflation and a stagnant economy
b) a greater awareness of the impacts of abuses of natural resources
c) growing concerns about population pressures in major industrial cities
d) the expansion of suburbs, which was allowing middle-class residents to move out of the cities
B
Beveridge's speech was written in the context of
a) debates in the aftermath of war with Spain
b) war with Great Britain during the James Madison administration
c) the decision to avoid war with France during the John Adams administration
d) efforts to gain concessions from Mexico during conflict
A
Based on the excerpt, Beveridge would have most likely opposed which of the following?
a) Senator Henry Dawes’ program to reform American Indian policy through forced assimilation
b) The doctrine of survival of the fittest as applied to society
c) The Chinese Exclusion Act, and limits on immigration
d) Antiexpansionist groups that advocated Filipino independence
D
Beveridge's ideas in the excerpt best support which of the following positions commonly expressed at the time?
a) Mexico and Canada have no right to question or check United States expansion
b) A smaller federal government was necessary to face foreign policy challenges of the 20th century.
c) The United States Foreign Policy has always been isolationist and reluctant to interfere abroad.
d) The right of the United States to assert power over foreign lands is God Given
D
The speech's point of view can best be used to support which of the following historical arguments about the early 1900s? (Theodore Roosevelt)
a) Most Americans believed that the United States should continue in isolationist foreign policy
b) Most Americans asserted that American Indians were unjustly harmed by federal policy toward them
c) Some Americans advocated economic development of overseas countries in order to justify imperialism
d) Some Americans appealed to racial theories in order to oppose efforts to acquire new territorial possessions
C
Which of the following best explains a result of the developments described in the excerpt? (equal rights stuff)
a) African Americans entered the military because they could not find work owing to the Great Depression.
b) African Americans migrated North in hopes of finding more agricultural opportunities and better working conditions.
c) New employment opportunities opened up for African Americans in industrial and defense industries.
d) The United States government allowed African American enlistment only after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
C
Which of the following groups would have been most likely to support the ideas expressed in the image? (end the war)
a) Managers and owners of business enterprises
b) Radical labor movements such as the Industrial Workers of the World
c) African American migrants to Northern cities
d) Isolationists and opponents of the First World War
A
After the war, propaganda such as that employed by the image was used to help justify which of the following policies?
a) Red Scare prosecutions
b) Literacy requirements for voting rights
c) The pursuit of more open international trade
d) The expansion of compulsory education
A
The poster advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?
a) Promote the idea that labor unions exist primarily for the purpose of supporting the arts.
b) Portray the strikers as the heroic champions of workers and ordinary people.
c) Advocate employment for striking workers.
d) Warn the community about the union's communist connections
B
The restrictions imposed by the Schenck decision most directly contradicted which of the following earlier developments in the United States?
a) Protection of liberties through the adoption of the Bill of Rights in 1791
b) Arguments for self-government asserted in the Declaration of Independence
c) Expansion of voting rights during President Andrew Jackson’s administration
d) Assertion of federal power over states’ rights in the 1819 McCulloch v. Maryland decision
A
The federal government most enhanced its legal authority to address threats considered a clear and present danger during which of the following later periods?
a) In the 1970s, following antiwar protests against the United States' involvement in Vietnam
b) In the 2000s, following the terrorist attacks in the United States
c) In the 1980s, following renewed United States concerns over the Soviet threat
d) In the 1990s, following United States military interventions in Somalia
B
The Schenck case emerged most directly from the context of which of the following?
a) Critiques by radicals of United States foreign policy
b) Nativist resistance to migration from abroad
c) Challenges by women to their prescribed status in society
d) African American migration from the rural South to the urban North
A
Which of the following can best be concluded about United States involvement in the First World War based on the point of view expressed in the excerpt?
a) Americans did not assert rights of neutrality early in the war.
b) Joining the war was a departure from the traditional foreign policy of nonintervention.
c) Cultural connections made Americans sympathetic toward the Allied Powers.
d) The vast majority of popular opinion was in favor of declaring war.
B
The point of view in the excerpt best supports which of the following historical arguments about United States involvement in the First World War before 1917?
a) United States policies favorable to Great Britain undercut American neutrality.
b) German attacks on American ships provoked a United States military response.
c) The actions of Germany promoted the democratic principles of the United States.
d) Great Britain was defending humanitarian ideals shared with the United States.
A
25. Which of the following messages did the United States government most likely intend to impart in the Second World War poster pictured above?
a) Celebration of the United States policy of racial integration in the armed forces
b) Encouragement of greater acceptance of African American workers in wartime industrial jobs
c) Promotion of union membership for workers in war industries
d) Counterpoint to the Rosie the Riveter image by showing that men, as well as women, worked in war industries
B
26. Which of the following developments best represents a logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?
a) The rise of Social Darwinism in the late nineteenth century
b) The increasing support for the annexation of overseas territory
c) The expansion of participatory democracy in the Progressive Era
d) The rise of big business in the Gilded Age
C
Emerson’s remarks in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following developments during the early nineteenth century?
a) The expansion of a market economy
b) The emergence of a national culture
c) The Second Great Awakening
d) The growth of national political parties
B
Which of the following most immediately increased enthusiasm in the United States for upholding the freedoms outlined in the excerpt?
a) The growing number of women working in defense manufacturing
b) The successful detonation of an atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project
c) The passage of a federal law providing veterans with financial aid in housing and education
d) The attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor
D
Which of the following most directly contributed to Roosevelt’s view that “freedom from want” was necessary?
a) The inspiration of Woodrow Wilson’s vision for an international democratic order
b) The fear of the Soviet threat to spread communism to nations in the West
c) The memory of federal agencies violating some Americans’ civil liberties in the 1920s
d) The experience of domestic and global economic upheavals during the 1930s
D
Roosevelt’s speech most likely intended to increase public support for:
a) Aiding the Allies in Europe during the Second World War
b) Enhancing rights protected by the United States Constitution
c) Extending New Deal Programs to guarantee unemployment benefits
d) Integrating the United States armed forces
A
Which of the following contributed most to the trend in African American migration from the South between 1940 and 1949?
a) The passage of laws in the North and the West against racial segregation
b) The availability of industrial employment during the Second World War
c) The internment of people thought to be national security threats
d) The economic dislocation of farmers caused by the Great Depression
B
Technological development such as that depicted in the advertisement most directly contributed to which of the following trends in the early twentieth century?
a) A greater awareness of regional and national cultures
b) Greater purchasing power for working-class families
c) Increased personal mobility for most Americans
d) Increased participation in traditional leisure activities
A
The advertisement best reflects which of the following economic transformations during the period?
a) An emphasis on families as the primary drivers of the economy
b) An increase in the production and sale of consumer goods
c) The shift from an industrial economy to a service-based one
d) The federal efforts to regulate the trade practices of large corporations
B
Expanding popular culture during the period of the advertisement was most directly accompanied by which of the following changes?
a) The federal government relaxed restrictions on immigration
b) Liberalism reached a high point at acceptance in national politics
c) Civil rights activists achieved some legal victories over segregation
d) Social tensions intensified over gender roles, race, and modern values
D
The reference to “those blues from Memphis” most likely indicates which of the following historical situations in which the advertisement was created?
a) Nativist organizations increased membership and gained national influence
b) Internal migration led to new art forms and expression of regional identities
c) Suburban communities spread throughout the Sun Belt Region
d) New technologies gave rise to cinema as mass entertainment
B