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   families with young children
   
2. 
   indentured servants
   
3. 
   wealthy gentlemen
   
4. 
   merchants and craftsmen
   
5. 
   disfranchised Catholics
   

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   A belief that the course of each individual’s life is predestined by God
   
2. 
   A concept of toleration advanced by Quaker preachers
   
3. 
   The belief that God had created the world but allowed it to operate through the laws of nature
   
4. 
   A principle taught in colonial New England colleges
   
5. 
   A radical theory encouraging free love and communal living
   

1. 
   was working to establish democratic rule in European countries
   
2. 
   saw the war as an opportunity to end the international slave trade
   
3. 
   wanted to weaken the British empire
   
4. 
   was allied with Spain, which had already joined the colonists’ cause
   
5. 
   had long been the primary trading partner of the North American colonies
   

1. 
   the comparatively small numbers of American Indians in the old Northwest
   
2. 
   the low price and easy availability of land
   
3. 
   freedom from the threat of Spanish authorities
   
4. 
   a desire to escape overcrowded cities along the Atlantic coast
   
5. 
   promises of tax breaks for those willing to establish frontier settlements
   

1. 
   threatened the free press
   
2. 
   disrupted trade with the West Indies
   
3. 
   closed the colonial courts
   
4. 
   enriched corrupt officials
   
5. 
   taxed them without their consent
   

1. 
   exodusters
   
2. 
   homesteaders
   
3. 
   scalawags
   
4. 
   jayhawkers
   
5. 
   the Colored Farmers’ National Alliance
   

1. 
   endorsing the economic policies of the Federalists
   
2. 
   discouraging permanent alliances with foreign nations
   
3. 
   endorsing the two-party system
   
4. 
   calling for strict term limits for federal officeholders
   
5. 
   calling for the adoption of universal suffrage
   

1. 
   States have the authority to nullify acts of Congress.
   
2. 
   The Bank of the United States is constitutional under the implied powers clause.
   
3. 
   States may not interfere with interstate commerce.
   
4. 
   The Supreme Court has the authority to determine the constitutionality of congres­sional acts.
   
5. 
   Government contracts cannot be repealed by popular majority.
   

1. 
   Most White families owned slaves.
   
2. 
   Slaveholders believed that slaves were inferior and required White guardianship.
   
3. 
   Slavery was condoned in the Bible.
   
4. 
   White plantation owners feared abolition would destroy the South’s economy.
   
5. 
   Poor White farmers feared the economic competition of four million freed persons.
   

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   urban areas of the North
   
2. 
   seacoast cities of the South
   
3. 
   rural sections of the Old Northwest
   
4. 
   California
   
5. 
   Appalachia 11. A distinguishing feature of American society in the early nineteenth century was the
   

1. 
   increasing readership of newspapers
   
2. 
   lack of enthusiasm for religious reform
   
3. 
   embrace of an aristocratic hierarchy
   
4. 
   creation of original forms of art and architecture
   
5. 
   dislike of voluntary associations
   

1. 
   elimination of convict leasing
   
2. 
   expansion of southern industry
   
3. 
   creation of a southern literature critical of the Old South
   
4. 
   elimination of Jim Crow segregation
   
5. 
   limitation on West Indian migration to the United States
   

1. 
   unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
   
2. 
   monopolization and consolidation in the railroad industry
   
3. 
   railroad freight rates
   
4. 
   insider trading on the stock market
   
5. 
   unsafe drug products
   

1. 
   They enabled the urban middle class to participate more effectively in politics.
   
2. 
   They provided some welfare for poor immigrants in exchange for political support.
   
3. 
   They encouraged racial integration of residential neighborhoods.
   
4. 
   They discouraged railroad and highway construction to prevent people from moving out of urban areas.
   
5. 
   They promoted prohibition and the abolition of prostitution.
   

1. 
   establish a United States colony in China
   
2. 
   encourage the Chinese to adopt Western culture
   
3. 
   protect United States economic interests in China
   
4. 
   prevent European nations from establishing a presence in Chinese territory
   
5. 
   assure the right of the Unites States to intervene in China whenever necessary
   

1. 
   American Party
   
2. 
   Greenback Labor Party
   
3. 
   Populist Party
   
4. 
   Socialist Party
   
5. 
   Progressive Party
   

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   fear of communism and radicalism
   
2. 
   formation of the American Federation of Labor
   
3. 
   enforcement of prohibition
   
4. 
   rise of racial unrest in the Midwest
   
5. 
   enforcement of child labor laws
   

1. 
   decline in marriage and birth rates
   
2. 
   rapid growth of suburbs
   
3. 
   movement from urban to rural communities
   
4. 
   great migration from the South and West to the Northeast
   
5. 
   rapid increase in the average age of Americans
   

1. 
   James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time
   
2. 
   Michael Harrington’s The Other America
   
3. 
   Alice Walker’s In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens
   
4. 
   Jack Kerouac’s On The Road
   
5. 
   Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
   

1. 
   the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   
2. 
   urban riots in major cities across the country
   
3. 
   antiwar demonstrations at the Democratic national convention in Chicago
   
4. 
   the refusal of most Republicans to support Richard Nixon as their presidential candidate
   
5. 
   the strong showing of George Wallace’s American Independent Party in southern states and some northern urban centers
   

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   France for its failure to support the colonial war effort
   
2. 
   Parliament for its continued opposition to the king of England
   
3. 
   Politicians who believed a small island could not effectively rule a distant continent
   
4. 
   The king of England and the principle of monarchy
   
5. 
   The authors of the Declaration of Independence
   

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   It consisted of loosely organized
   

2. 
   Its economy was dependent on large-scale farming and trading.
   
3. 
   Life was centered in clustered villages with farmland surrounding the villages.
   
4. 
   Most people lived in large cities.
   
5. 
   Villages and small towns were tightly organized around an artisan community.
   

1. 
   create a government that would be satisfac­tory to both slave and free states
   
2. 
   create a government that would be satisfac­tory to both large and small states
   
3. 
   create a strong central government that would not threaten the sovereignty of the states
   
4. 
   establish a balance of power between the three branches of the national government
   
5. 
   determine provisions to be included in the Bill of Rights
   

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   require the North American colonies to pay a greater share of the empire’s administrative expenses
   
2. 
   end slavery in the North American colonies
   
3. 
   encourage colonial expansion into the Ohio Valley by moving all American Indian peoples further west
   
4. 
   strengthen the French colonial holdings in Canada and the northwest to discourage Spanish expansion
   
5. 
   convert all Catholic colonists to the beliefs of the Anglican Church
   

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   have the right to vote
   
2. 
   hold public office
   
3. 
   be educated to raise their children to be good citizens
   
4. 
   be encouraged to seek employment
   
5. 
   have as many children as possible
   

1. 
   provided for the gradual emancipation of slaves in Missouri
   
2. 
   excluded slavery from all territory north of the Ohio River and east of the Mississippi River
   
3. 
   prohibited slavery from future territorial acquisitions
   
4. 
   condemned the fugitive slave law
   
5. 
   closed most of the Louisiana Purchase to slavery
   

1. 
   of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
   
2. 
   terrible fires had followed the clear-cut logging by pioneers in that part of the state
   
3. 
   the area had not recovered from the devastation of the War of 1812
   
4. 
   American Indian settlements had been completely destroyed as settlers moved in and took over the land
   
5. 
   the region’s economy had never revived after the hardships that followed the Whiskey Rebellion
   

1. 
   all nations and states in the Americas were territories of the United States
   
2. 
   European powers should not pursue any future colonization in the Americas
   
3. 
   Cuba, Texas, and Puerto Rico were protectorates of the United States
   
4. 
   Haiti would be established as a colony to be settled by formerly enslaved people from the United States
   
5. 
   the United States Congress could overrule the president’s foreign policy initiatives in Latin America
   

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   diversified, with more industry and more mechanized agriculture
   
2. 
   produced more cotton and other crops but did not develop much industry
   
3. 
   depended on immigrant labor
   
4. 
   produced tobacco and sugar rather than cotton
   
5. 
   depended on the North for raw materials
   

1. 
   Residents of territories could decide on the basis of popular sovereignty whether to have slavery.
   
2. 
   Slavery could remain where it existed but should not be extended into territories or new states.
   
3. 
   The federal government should abolish slavery.
   
4. 
   The federal government should purchase slaves from their masters and relocate them to the west coast of Africa.
   
5. 
   Slavery was a state issue, and the federal government should play no role in its regulation.
   

1. 
   A strong national army is essential to keep order in the United States.
   
2. 
   The farmer is the backbone of American society.
   
3. 
   The government is best that governs least.
   
4. 
   The president should practice republican simplicity.
   
5. 
   Freedom of speech is essential in a republic.
   

1. 
   Puritan theology
   
2. 
   transcendentalism
   
3. 
   the American Revolution
   
4. 
   the Civil War
   
5. 
   the frontier
   

33. The quotation above is an example of

1. 
   transcendentalism
   
2. 
   existentialism
   
3. 
   the Gospel of Wealth
   
4. 
   the Social Gospel
   
5. 
   Reform Darwinism
   

1. 
   bar obscene materials from the United States mail system
   
2. 
   organize the transfer of urban orphans to homes in rural areas
   
3. 
   publicize poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements
   
4. 
   establish special homes for juvenile delinquents
   
5. 
   pass federal laws to end prostitution
   

1. 
   creation of large commercial and banking centers
   
2. 
   spread of sharecropping
   
3. 
   rise of large-scale commercial farming
   
4. 
   decline of the textile industry
   
5. 
   emergence of the cotton economy
   

1. 
   replace capitalism with socialism
   
2. 
   transform the United States into an agrarian republic
   
3. 
   use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions
   
4. 
   eliminate class differences in the
   

5. 
   bring about racial integration in public accommodations
   

1. 
   favoring free trade
   
2. 
   substituting a parliamentary for federal system of government
   
3. 
   averting United States entanglement in Europe’s wars
   
4. 
   favoring the interests of the propertied and monied classes
   
5. 
   establishing gold as the sole backing of United States currency
   

1. 
   enforcement of a new fugitive slave law
   
2. 
   decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case
   
3. 
   imposition of a gag rule in the House of Representatives
   
4. 
   proposal of the Ostend Manifesto
   
5. 
   passage of the Wilmot Proviso
   

1. 
   expand slavery into new territories to preserve its economic viability
   
2. 
   improve diplomatic relations with European nations by allowing free immigration
   
3. 
   develop a national economy by improving transportation
   
4. 
   create more interest in politics by eliminating voting restrictions
   
5. 
   remove American Indians to lands west of the Mississippi River to prevent further conflicts
   

1. 
   Booker T. Washington
   
2. 
   Theodore Roosevelt
   
3. 
   Robert M. La Follette
   
4. 
   Ida B. Wells
   
5. 
   Susan B. Anthony
   

1. 
   They weakened the protections given to African Americans under the Fourteenth Amendment.
   
2. 
   They weakened the protections given to women under the Fourteenth Amendment.
   
3. 
   They were reversed in Plessy v. Ferguson.
   
4. 
   They were concerned with the constitution­ality of the Emancipation Proclamation.
   
5. 
   They were deplored by President Grant.
   

century would most likely have engaged in all of the following EXCEPT

1. 
   establishing day nurseries for working mothers
   
2. 
   offering literacy and language classes for immigrants
   
3. 
   publishing reports on deplorable housing conditions
   
4. 
   teaching classes on cooking and dressmaking
   
5. 
   organizing women workers into labor unions
   

independence, made him a pioneer. He excels

all others in pushing his way into new countries.”

Americans advocating the ideas expressed in the passage above would be most accurately described as

1. 
   transcendentalists
   
2. 
   Populists
   
3. 
   scientific managers
   
4. 
   Social Darwinists
   
5. 
   Mugwumps
   

1. 
   It created American Indian reservations for the first time.
   
2. 
   It was intended to recognize the contributions of American Indian peoples.
   
3. 
   It eliminated most tribal land ownership in favor of ownership by individuals.
   
4. 
   It led directly to the Battle of Wounded Knee.
   
5. 
   It indicated that the federal government had abandoned the goal of American Indian assimilation.
   

1. 
   creation of a sharecropping system in the South
   
2. 
   legislation that ensured the voting rights of African American males
   
3. 
   use of military forces to keep order in the South
   
4. 
   reliance on female workers in Northern factories
   
5. 
   redemption of greenback dollars for gold currency
   

1. 
   emergence of a viable third party
   
2. 
   landslide win by Republicans in the Congress
   
3. 
   shift of African American voters from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party
   
4. 
   move of intellectuals to Alf Landon and the Republican ticket
   
5. 
   decline in support for the New Deal
   

1. 
   Passage of civil rights legislation
   
2. 
   Passage of bills to create health insurance for the aged and to increase aid to education
   
3. 
   Extension of diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China
   
4. 
   Passage of the Alliance for Progress to provide economic aid for Latin America
   
5. 
   Passage of the Economic Opportunity Bill
   

1. 
   granting of government subsidies to encourage the export of manufactured goods
   
2. 
   establishment of a high tariff to protect American industry from foreign competition
   
3. 
   organization of a national banking system to provide a uniform national currency
   
4. 
   provision of government loans and land grants to private companies to construct a trans­continental railroad
   
5. 
   passage of the Homestead Act
   

1. 
   James Weldon Johnson
   
2. 
   Langston Hughes
   
3. 
   Zora Neale Hurston
   
4. 
   Josephine Baker
   
5. 
   A. Philip Randolph
   

1. 
   The taking of American hostages in Iran
   
2. 
   The Cuban missile crisis
   
3. 
   The bombing of the United States
   

4. 
   The invasion of Grenada
   
5. 
   The crisis in Nicaragua
   

1. 
   excessive government control of business and industry
   
2. 
   overproduction in the manufacturing and farm sectors
   
3. 
   the budget deficit incurred after the First World War
   
4. 
   withdrawal of foreign investments from the United States
   
5. 
   the implementation of free-trade policies after the First World War
   

1. 
   Gloria Steinem
   
2. 
   Phyllis Schlafly
   
3. 
   Betty Friedan
   
4. 
   Marabel Morgan
   
5. 
   Shirley Chisholm
   

1. 
   the Soviet Union launching Sputnik
   
2. 
   Egypt seizing the Suez Canal
   
3. 
   the Soviet Union shooting down an American U-2 spy plane
   
4. 
   Fidel Castro gaining control of Cuba
   
5. 
   the Soviet Union blockading river, road, and rail traffic into West Berlin
   

1. 
   subsidized colonial merchants
   
2. 
   encouraged the colonists to trade with other foreign countries
   
3. 
   encouraged the colonies to become economically self-sufficient
   
4. 
   regulated colonial shipping and tobacco production
   
5. 
   barred trade with American Indians
   

1. 
   the growth of religious conformity
   

2. 
   an increase in attacks on American Indian peoples
   
3. 
   the establishment of Harvard College in Massachusetts
   
4. 
   splits among existing religious denominations and the rise of new churches
   
5. 
   the growth of hysteria in Massachusetts over witchcraft
   

1. 
   Conflict between Loyalist supporters of Great Britain and United States citizens
   
2. 
   Concerns about increasing numbers of slaves in Massachusetts
   
3. 
   Economic frustration of New England farmers who had trouble paying debts in hard currency
   
4. 
   State governments’ restrictions on westward expansion into the Ohio River Valley
   
5. 
   Rivalries between merchants and shipbuilders in the Atlantic trade
   

1. 
   To stop illegal aliens from voting
   
2. 
   To intimidate critics of Adams’ foreign policy toward France and England
   
3. 
   To prosecute Democratic-Republicans who violated American neutrality
   
4. 
   To prepare for war against Great Britain
   
5. 
   To keep France from selling Louisiana to Spain
   

1. 
   measure’s endorsement of popular sovereignty
   
2. 
   admittance of Missouri as a slave state and the establishment of the 36°30' line
   
3. 
   passage of a tougher national fugitive slave act
   
4. 
   admittance of Texas as a slave state
   
5. 
   legislation permitted the surveying of a southern transcontinental railway line
   

1. 
   a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel signed at Camp David
   
2. 
   the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt
   
3. 
   the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat
   
4. 
   an energy crisis sparked by OPEC’s embargo of oil to the Western world
   
5. 
   international recognition of an independent country of Israel
   

1. 
   The passage of the Black Codes
   
2. 
   A permanent shift of Southern voters to the Republican Party
   
3. 
   The creation of a new industrial base in a majority of Southern states
   
4. 
   The formation of the Ku Klux Klan
   
5. 
   Widespread redistribution of confiscated land to former slaves
   

The passage above was most effectively used for

1. 
   Supporting the goals of Social Darwinists
   
2. 
   Restricting the power of monopolies and trusts
   
3. 
   Limiting the power of labor unions
   
4. 
   Regulating railroads and grain storage silos
   
5. 
   Upholding the powers of the Interstate Commerce Act
   

1. 
   take over the colony and end slavery in it
   
2. 
   return to Africa by commandeering boats
   
3. 
   flee to Florida where the Spanish offered freedom
   
4. 
   run away to join Maroon groups living in the backcountry
   
5. 
   escape to the North where they would be free
   

1. 
   racially integrated residential neighborhoods in Northern cities
   
2. 
   increased educational opportunities resulting from affirmative-action programs
   
3. 
   recruitment efforts by labor unions
   
4. 
   expanded job opportunities in Northern factories
   
5. 
   encouragement by White Protestant churches in the North
   

1. 
   a nuclear test ban treaty with the Soviet Union
   
2. 
   the signing of the Camp David Accords
   
3. 
   a joint Apollo-Soyuz space mission with the Soviet Union
   
4. 
   a visit to Angola to help the African nation resist communist guerrillas
   
5. 
   a visit to China in February 1972
   

1. 
   a United States commitment to free Eastern Europe from communism
   
2. 
   a change in United States investment policies to limit the possibility of involvement in world conflict
   
3. 
   an all-out campaign to destabilize the Soviet Union
   
4. 
   a plan to give Western Europe greater political power and economic independence from the United States
   
5. 
   efforts by the United States to block the expansion of the Soviet Union’s influence
   

1. 
   European folk music
   
2. 
   nineteenth-century American ballads
   
3. 
   cowboy songs
   
4. 
   African American rhythm and blues
   
5. 
   Scotch-Irish ballads
   

1. 
   encourage private investment through tax cuts for businesses and the wealthy
   
2. 
   redistribute income to the bottom fifth of wage earners
   
3. 
   reduce the United States nuclear arsenal
   
4. 
   restrict immigration from Mexico
   
5. 
   outsource United States manufacturing to Asian countries
   

1. 
   efforts to organize migrant workers
   
2. 
   surprise election to the Senate
   
3. 
   criticism of traditional gender roles
   
4. 
   support for early childhood education
   
5. 
   opposition to the war in Vietnam