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1. In the last third of the nineteenth century, farmers complained about all of the following EXCEPT
(A) high interest charges
(B) large middleman profits
(C) high storage costs
(D) rising oil prices
(E) high freight rates
2. Which of the following was a signi?cant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?
(A)The beginnings of negotiations with individual tribes
(B)The start of a removal policy
(C)The abandonment of the reservation system
(D)The admission of all American Indians to the full rights of UnitedStates citizenship
(E)The division of the tribal lands among individual members
3. Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance?
(A)The rehabilitation of a decaying urban area
(B)An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity
(C)The beginning of the NAACP
(D)The most famous art show of the early twentieth century
(E)The establishment of the back-to-Africa movement
4. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of thefollowing?
(A)Prohibited United States intervention in the Caribbean.
(B) Warned against European seizure of the Panama Canal.
(C)Sought to end the wave of nationalization of American-ownedproperty in the Caribbean.
(D)Declared the United States to be the "policeman" of the WesternHemisphere.
(E)Provided United States military support for democraticrevolutions in Latin America.
5. One of the principal reasons the "noble experiment" of Prohibitionfailed was that it led to an enormous increase in
(A)drinking among minors
(B)absenteeism among factory workers
(C)the divorce rate
(D)child abuse
(E)law enforcement costs
6. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized
(A) all industrial, mining and agricultural workers into "one big union"
(B) skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains
(C) intellectuals and workers into a labor party for political action
(D) unskilled workers along industrial lines
(E) workers into a fraternal organization in support of communism
7. "We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected."
This line of reason is most typical of
(A) transcendentalism
(B) existentialism
(C) Social Darwinism
(D) the Social Gospel
(E) French impressionism
8. The policy of isolation and neutrality after World War I had which of the following effects on the United States?
(A) It left the armed forces underprepared for a potential war against Japan
(B) It encouraged American involvement in the League of Nations
(C) It enabled the global economy to fully recover from the war
(D) It discouraged Italy and Germany's plans for territorial expansion
(E) It provided windfall profits to American defense industries
9. One of the principal reasons for the failure of Reconstruction was
(A) the return of the Democratic Party as a prominent political force
(B) the inability of African Americans to become prosperous
(C) the refusal of ex-Confederates to run for state office
(D) the migration of African Americans to the urban North and South
(E) the waning of support for Reconstruction from Radical Republicans
10. Southern state governments achieved all of the following during Reconstruction EXCEPT
(A) the creation of separate public universities for African Americans
(B) the development of free public schools for African Americans and poor whites
(C) the inclusion of African American males in the political process for the first time
(D) the rewriting of state constitutions that forbade slavery and pledged allegiance to the United States Constitution
(E) the provision of funds for rebuilding and expanding Southern transportation networks
11. In the period 1890-1915, all of the following were generally true about
African Americans EXCEPT:
(A) Voting rights previously gained were denied through changes instate laws and constitutions.
(B)The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People(NAACP) endorsed the Back-to-Africa movement.
(C)African American leaders disagreed on the principal strategy forattaining equal rights.
(D)Numerous African Americans were lynched, and mob attacks onAfrican American individuals occurred in both the North and theSouth.
(E)African Americans from the rural South migrated to both southern and northern cities.
12. Republican opponents of the Treaty of Versailles argued that the League of Nations would
(A)isolate the United States from postwar world affairs
(B)prevent the United States from seeking reparations fromGermany
(C)violate President Wilson's own Fourteen Points
(D)limit United States sovereignty
(E)give England and France a greater role than the United Statesin maintaining world peace
13. Which of the following best characterizes the stance of the writersassociated with the literary ?owering of the 1920's, such as SinclairLewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
(A)Sympathy for Protestant fundamentalism
(B)Nostalgia for the "good old days"
(C)Commitment to the cause of racial equality
(D)Advocacy of cultural isolationism
(E)Criticism of middle-class conformity and materialism
14. Which was NOT an effect of the Homestead Act of 1862?
(A) The successful protection of Native American lands
(B) The opening up of the Great Plains for further settlement
(C) The availability of cheap land for railroad companies and other business concerns
(D) The policy of removing American Indians from lands west of the Mississippi
(E) The emergence of the Great Plains as the US breadbasket
15. Which new technology revolutionized advertising and was the basis for a new consumer culture in the 1920s?
(A) Television
(B) Radio
(C) Newspapers
(D) Billboards
(E) Catalogues
16. Mass immigration to the US between 1870 and 1914 involved all of the following groups EXCEPT
(A) Vietnamese
(B) Chinese
(C) Italians
(D) Poles
(E) Jews
17. The purpose of the 13th Amendment was to
(A) grant ex-slaves the right to vote
(B) limit the presidency to two terms
(C) establish a federal income tax
(D) abolish the institution of slavery
(E) maintain that corporations are people
18. Mark Twain called the era between 1870 and 1900 "The Gilded Age" because
(A) it was a period of great material benefit for American workers
(B) of the large numbers of strike that occurred
(C) it was an age in which the wealthy flaunted their riches like never before
(D) gold and silver were the dominant themes of this era.
(E) architects made heavy use of gold and silver to build skyscrapers and libraries
19. Urban growth in the US accelerated between 1870 and 1920 for all of the following reasons EXCEPT
(A) mass immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe
(B) much higher birth rates than in previous periods in US history
(C) the Second Industrial Revolution and its need for millions of unskilled workers
(D) the use of steel to build taller buildings for business and residential development
(E) the use of epidemiological knowledge to make cities' water supply healthier
20. Which constitutional amendment guaranteed a woman's right to vote?
(A) 16th
(B) 17th
(C) 18th
(D) 19th
(E) 20th
21. US intervention in Colombia in 1902 led to the independence of which of the following countries?
(A) Cuba
(B) Puerto Rico
(C) Chile
(D) Brazil
(E) Panama
22. Between 1870 and 1890, railroad companies colluded to
(A) share equipment and terminals for greater efficiency
(B) inflate the value of assets and profits before selling their stock
(C) increase competition by dividing up large companies into smaller ones
(D) provide higher wages to unionized workers
(E) fix prices and divide business for greater profits
23. African Americans migrated to the cities of the urban North and Midwest for all the following reasons EXCEPT:
(A) greater opportunities for industrial jobs
(B) Northern Whites welcomed them with open arms
(C) the lack of economic opportunities in the South
(D) better conditions for educating their children
(E) the high risk of violence from Southern Whites
24. Fashionable White women in the 1920s were commonly known as:
(A) Womanists
(B) Suffragists
(C) Flappers
(D) Feminists
(E) Divas
25. Which Supreme Court decision was the basis for establishing legal racial discrimination in the South after 1896?
(A) Marbury v. Madison
(B) Griswold v. Connecticut
(C) Plessy v. Ferguson
(D) Standard Oil v. United States
(E) Brown v. Board of Education