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Review
Unit by Unit Review
For each of the following units complete the chart that follows.
1. Identify the major change over time during each time period. Express this change
over time in a clear, concise thesis statement. Thesis statements should always take a
position and include categories (in this case at least three).
2. For each of your categories, write a clear, concise sentence that expresses the major
change over time for that category AND directly supports your thesis statement (topic
sentence).
3. List ten bits of important specific factual information (in descending order of
importance) under each category that could be used to support both your topic
sentence and your thesis statement. For five bits of specific factual information in
each category, write out interpretative commentary that both identifies the term and
shows how and why the information supports your thesis in a single sentence.
1607-1763
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1763-1789
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1789-1820 (1823)
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1824-1850 (Exclusive of slavery)
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1830-1877
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1870-1900
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1900-1920
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1920-1941
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1940-1960
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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1960-Present
Major change over time
Sub theme 1
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 2
Specific factual information
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Interpretative commentary.
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Sub theme 3
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Interpretative commentary.
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Generating Topical Generalizations
In ONE clear, concise sentence, directly state the major change over time for
each of the following topics within the stated decade. Then, list five to eight bits
of specific factual information from that decade that support your change over
time.
DECADE: __________
Political History:
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Social History:
Economics:
Cultural/Intellectual trends:
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Science and Technology:
Decade by Decade with SFI
In ONE clear, concise sentence, directly state the major change over time for each of the
following decades. Then, list five bits of specific factual information from that decade that
support your change over time, in descending order of importance. For ONE piece of
information from EACH group, write a clear direct statement (interpretive commentary) that
shows HOW or WHY that specific factual information proves your change over time.
1600-1650
Change over time
1.
2.
4.
5.
3.
Interpretive commentary
1650-1700
Change over time
1.
2.
4.
5.
Interpretive commentary
3.
1700-1750
Change over time
1.
2.
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5.
3.
Interpretive commentary
1750s
Change over time
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2.
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5.
Interpretive commentary
3.
1760s
Change over time
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2.
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3.
Interpretive commentary
1770s
Change over time
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2.
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Interpretive commentary
3.
1780s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1790s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1800s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1810s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1820s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
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1830s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1840s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1850s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1860s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1870s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1880s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1890s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1900s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1910s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1920s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1930s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1940s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1950s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1960s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1970s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
3.
1980s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
1990s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
2000s
Change over time
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Interpretive commentary
3.
Decade Association
Place the correct decade, or group of years, beside each group of specific factual information. Remember,
some items can fit into more than one decade so be sure to read through and consider the entire group.
Don’t simply go through the exercise mindlessly. Think about
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what each item is
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how it relates to that particular decade
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what other terms could be associated with it
Each member of your group must know every term in the cluster for your group to receive credit for
that item, even if the decade is correct.
Use the following groups of years in place of decades for the colonial period
1600-1650
1650-1700
1700-1750s
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After the 1750s use normal decades
Decade Association
____ ("long hot summers”, Freedom Summer, Greensboro sit-ins, U-2 incident, détente)
____ ("lost generation", Warren G. Harding, Henry Ford, Sacco and Vanzetti, Marcus Garvey)
____ (Agricultural Adjustment Adm. (AAA), phony war, Congress of Industrial Organization, brain trust, Huey
Long (Kingfish))
____ (Alger Hiss, NSC 68, NATO, Casablanca Conference, Henry Wallace)
____ (American Colonization Society, Missouri Compromise, Era of Good Feelings, Tariff of Abominations,
South Carolina Exposition)
____ (American Federation of Labor, Dawes Act, Alfred Thayer Mahan, horizontal integration/vertical
integration,Haymarket Square Incident)
____ (baby boomers, Sputnik, beat generation, Brown v Board of Education, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg)
____ (bank holiday, National Recovery Administration, destroyer deal, Scottsboro boys, Wagner Act)
____ (Bank of the United States, Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions, XYZ Affair, Whiskey Rebellion, Jay Treaty)
____ (Bank war, spoils system/rotation in office, Second Great Awakening, Transcendentalism, gag rule)
____ (Battle of Saratoga, Thomas Paine/Common Sense, Coercive/Intolerable Acts, Olive Branch Petition,
Boston Tea Party)
____ (Bay of Pigs, Malcolm X, War on Poverty, Warren Commission, Ralph Nader (Unsafe at any Speed))
____ (Bland-Allison Act, Thomas Nast, Henry George (Progress and Poverty), Munn v Illinois, "Crime of
'73")
____ (Dingley Tariff, Coxey's Army, Frederick Olmstead, Teller Amendment, Wounded Knee)
____ (Chataugua movement, Freedmen's Bureau, Battle of Little Bighorn, "waving the bloody shirt", Boss
Tweed)
____ (Committee on Public Information, League of Nations, Federal Reserve System, International Workers
of the World, 16th, 17th, 18th Amendments)
____ (Connecticut (Great) Compromise, Virginia/New Jersey Plans, disestablishment, Barbary Pirates,
Treaty of Paris)
____ (Creel Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge, "Birth of a Nation"/D.W. Griffith, Article X, Wobblies)
____ (cult of domesticity/true womanhood, Manifest Destiny, James K. Polk, Neal Dow, Lucretia Mott)
____ (Dred Scott v Sandford, Fugitive Slave Law, Gadsden Purchase, bleeding Kansas, Sumner-Brooks
Affair)
____ (Emancipation Proclamation, Trent Affair, Homestead Act, Battle of Antietam, Crittenden Compromise)
____ (F. Scott Fitzgerald, cultural isolation, quota system, Harlem Renaissance, Washington Naval
Conference)
____ (Fair Deal, Japanese interment, Truman Doctrine, Yalta Conference, Taft-Hartley Act)
____ (Fair Labor Standards Act , New Deal, Bonus March, 21st amendment, dole)
____ (Federal Highway Act, Montgomery bus boycott, Eisenhower Doctrine, Korean War, Alan Ginsberg
(The Howl))
____ (Freeport Doctrine, Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, Lincoln-Douglas debates, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Nashville
Convention)
____ (French and Indian War, Albany Plan, mercantilism, Salutary neglect, William Pitt)
____ (Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, normalcy, "Back to Africa movement", Albert Fall)
____ (Hinton Helper/Impending Crisis, Stephen Douglas, popular sovereignty, Ostend Manifesto,
Lecompton Constitution)
____ (hundred days, America First Committee, Elijah Mohammad (Black Muslims), Keynesian economics,
National Labor Relations Act)
____ (Insular Cases, "good and bad" trusts, Charles and Mary Beard, Great White Fleet, Square Deal)
____ (Jackie Robinson, GI Bill of Rights, Berlin Airlift, Marshall Plan, San Francisco Conference)
____ (Jacob Riis, Northern Securities Case, Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones, Muller v Oregon, Robert
LaFollette)
____ (Jimmy Carter, Watergate, Roe v Wade, affirmative action, Gerald Ford)
____ (John C. Calhoun, abolitionists, Charles River Bridge case, DeTocqueville/Democracy in America,
removal of deposits)
____ (Kellogg-Briand Pact, Herbert Hoover, H.L. Menken, Charles Lindbergh, Scopes trial)
____ (Know Nothing/American Party, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Republican party/3rd Am. Party Sys,,
antebellum,Underground Railroad)
____ (Langston Hughes, Andrew Mellon, National Origins Act, Ku Klux Klan, Calvin Coolidge)
____ (Lewis and Clark, Orders in Council, yeomen farmers, Gabriel Prosser's Rebellion, Judicial Review)
____ (Little Rock school crisis, National Defense Education Act, dynamic conservatism, Jack Kerouac (On
the Road),
____ (loose/strict constructionism, cotton gin/Eli Whitney, Citizen Genet, Bill of rights, Alien and Sedition
Acts)
____ (Marbury v Madison, Embargo Act, Louisiana Purchase, impressment, interchangeable parts)
____ (Margaret Sanger, Thomas Hart Benton, Teapot Dome/Elk Hills Scandals, Universal Negro
Improvement Assc.,"Spirit of St. Louis)
____(Miranda v Arizona, John F. Kennedy (New Frontier), Huey Newton (Black Panthers), Michael
Harrington (The Other America, Cuban Missile Crisis)
____ (Molly McGuires, "forty acres and a mule", National Labor Union, crop lien system, Granger Laws)
____ (Monroe Doctrine, corrupt bargain, Erie Canal, Lowell/Walthan System/Lowell girls, Gibbons v Ogden)
____ (Morrill Land Grant Act, National Banking Act, nature of the union, 13th, 14th, 15th amendments,
radical reconstruction)
____ (National Industrial Recovery Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC), TVA (Tennessee Valley
Authority),
Franklin Roosevelt, bonus march)
____ (new immigrants, Plessy v Ferguson, Joseph Pulitzer, Populist (People's) Party, Turner (Frontier)
Thesis)
____ (New Nationalism, Mann-Elkins Act, "Black Jack" John Pershing, insurgent's revolt, New Freedom)
____ (open range, Interstate Commerce Act, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Mugwumps)
____ (Oregon Territory, John Slidell, Commonwealth v Hunt, Horace Mann, Webster-Ashburton Treaty)
____ (Palmer Raids, Schenck v U.S., Clayton Anti-trust Act, Keating-Owen Child Labor Act, preparedness)
____ (Panama Canal, W.E.B. DuBois (Niagara movement), Dollar Diplomacy, Open Door Policy, Roosevelt
Corollary)
____ (Peace Corps, Betty Friedan (The Feminine Mystique), Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Stokely Carmichael
(Black Power), Great Society)
____ (Pendleton (Civil Service) Act, Samuel Gompers, Gilded Age, Farmer's Alliances, Chinese Exclusion
Act)
____ (Peter Zenger trial, Great Awakening, James Oglethorpe, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards)
____ (Pilgrims/Separatists, Anne Hutchinson, headright system, Freedom of conscience, city on a hill)
____ (Platt amendment, Louis Sullivan, Progressive movement, Russo-Japanese War, Hay-Buneau-Varilla
Treaty)
____ (pragmatism (William James), Salvation Army, John Dewey, Young Men's Christian Association,
Edward Bellamy (Looking Backward)
____ (Prigg v Pennsylvania, Mexican American War, Mormons, free soilers, American Anti-slavery Society)
____ (Quartering Act, Stamp Act, Paxton Boys, Sugar Act, no taxation without representation)
____ (SALT I Treaty, hippies, Camp David Accords, Mayaguez incident, Bakke v Board of Regents)
____ (Samuel Slater, Federalist/First American Party System, Pinckney Treaty, undeclared naval war, full
funding/assumption)
____ (Securities and Exchange Commission, Neutrality acts, court packing scheme, "share the wealth",
Indian Reorganization Act)
____ (Seneca Falls Convention, Maine Laws, Irish immigration, Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, Wilmot
Proviso)
____ (Servicemen's Readjustment Act, Ralph Bunche, George Kennan, United Nations, Korematsu v U.S.)
____ (settlement house movement, William Jennings Bryan, Atlanta Compromise, jingoism, Sherman Silver
Purchase Act)
____ (Shay's Rebellion, Northwest Ordinance, Three-fifths Compromise, Articles of Confederation,
Annapolis Convention)
____ (Social Gospel, Knights of Labor, Jim Crow Laws, A Century of Dishonor, social Darwinism)
____ (Spanish-American War, Booker T. Washington, Gospel of Wealth, yellow journalism, Sherman Antitrust Act)
____ (spheres of influence, Big Stick Policy, Lochner v New York, Gentlemen's Agreement, muckrakers)
____ (Stamp Act Congress, Sons of Liberty, non-importation agreements, Pontiac's Rebellion, Townshend
Acts)
____ (supply-side economics, Iran-Contra, Geraldine Ferraro, Oliver North, “evil empire”)
____ (Tea Act, Boston Massacre, Gaspee Affair, First/Second Continental Congress, Crisis Papers)
____ (the Grange, Crédit Moblier Scandal, long drives, Horatio Alger, Chief Joseph)
____ (Theodore Roosevelt, Upton Sinclair (The Jungle), Emilio Aguinaldo, Pure Food and Drug Act,
Anthracite Coal Strike)
____ (Trade and Navigation Acts, Bacon's Rebellion, King Philip's War, Salutary neglect, Halfway Covenant)
____ (Trail of Tears, Dorothea Dix, nullification, William Lloyd Garrison/Liberator, Worcester v Georgia)
____ (Treaty of Ghent, Hartford Convention, Adams-Onis Treaty, War Hawks, American System)
____ (Treaty of Versailles, Federal Trade Commission, irreconcilables, Keating-Owen Child Labor Act,
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair)
____ (triple wall of privilege, Sussex/Arabic Pledges, Food Administration, Zimmerman Note (Telegram)
____ (Underwood-Simmons Tariff, Bull Moose Party, Federal Reserve Act, “he kept us out of war”, Triangle
Shirtwaist fire)
____ (Volstead Act, Woodrow Wilson, reservationists, Fourteen Points, insurgents revolt)
____ (Voting Rights Act, Barry Goldwater, Rachel Carson (Silent Spring), Cuban Missile Crisis,
Vietnamization (Guam/Nixon Doctrine)
____ (War Powers Act, Equal Rights Amendment, OPEC, Helsinki Accords, Kent State)
____ (Whigs/2nd American Party Sys., Apologist's view of slavery, Force Act, Independent Treasury, Specie
Circular)
____ (William Randolph Hearst, Pullman Strike, J.P. Morgan, Cross of Gold speech, Plessy v Ferguson)
____(Works Progress Administration (WPA), cash and carry, sit-down strike, John Steinbeck (Grapes of
Wrath), Social Security)
____(indentured servants, Mayflower Compact, Roger Williams, Great Puritan Migration, House of
Burgesses)
____(Seward's Folly, sharecropping, Tenure of Office Act, redemption (redeemers), scalawags)
N0te Taking guide/outline for WOMEN’S HISTORY
I.
Women in Colonial Society
a. Reasons for coming to North America: Virginia vs. New
England
b. Describe the life of a typical woman in British North
America (BNA): Virginia vs. New England
c. What was the legal status of women in BNA? How did it
compare to women in Great Britain?
d. Describe the working role of women
e. Describe women and childbirth (number of children,
expectations)
f. Describe the impact women had on colonial society
⇒list women mentioned in your text book and in HOWIA
II.
Women during the American Revolution
a. Describe the contribution of women during the
Revolution: economic and political contributions
b. List and identify women who made contributions to the
Revolution cause
III.
Women’s roles in the 19th-century
a. Describe and assess the changing role of women between
the 1700s and 1800s
b. Why did the status of women change, particularly toward
the middle of the 19th-century
c. How did early industrialization alter the role of women?
1. Identify the Lowell Girl
2. Describe the role of the immigrant woman in the
early 19th-century
d. Assess the differences between the social classes:
1. wealthy
2. middle class
3. poverty
4. frontier women
5. slave women
e. Identify the cult of domesticity
f. Identify women reformers and assess their role in various
reform movements (1830s-1840s)
g. Describe the role of women during the Civil War –
identify significant women from the War era
h. How did the role of women change as a result of the Civil
War and impending development of industrialization?
1. Why did women have to work outside of the
home?
2. What types of jobs were given to women? How
were they treated differently than men?
i. describe the women’s movement of the late 19th-century –
identify key leaders and organizations in the women’s
movement
IV.
Women in the 20th-century
a. Identify women and their roles in the Progressive Era
b. Describe the women’s suffrage movement – identify key
leaders
c. What was the role of women during the Great War
(WWI)?
d. Roles of women in the 1920s
1. changing values/roles: Victorian Age to Flappers
2. changes in the work place
e. Roles of women in the 1930s (Great Depression) – how
were women’s lives changed?
f. Roles of women in the 1940s (during World War II)
1. changes influenced by the war effort
2. women in the war
3. women in the factory
g. Roles of women in the 1950s
1. family life in the 1950s (traditional roles –
accuracy?)
2. Civil Rights movement – role of white and black
women
h. Roles of women in the 1960s & 1970s
1. protest – The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
2. NOW and ERA
3. abortion issue Roe v. Wade
Note Taking Guide for BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY
I.
Africans in Colonial Era
a. first arrival at Jamestown
b. Middle Passage
c. transition from indentured servitude to slavery
d. Southern colonies
e. Middle colonies
f. New England colonies
II.
Blacks in the American Revolution
a. Slavery during the American Revolution
b. British policy towards American slaves
c. American policy towards slavery (North vs. South colonies)
d. Slaves after the American Revolution – change in status
(North vs. South)
III.
Blacks addressed in the Constitution
a. Three-fifths Compromise
b. Importation of slaves (ending of practice)
c. Fugitive slaves
IV.
Blacks in the ante bellum years
a. slavery and the development of industrialization (cotton gin)
b. Free Blacks (North and South)
c. End of slave trade in 1808
d. Slave codes, plantation life, slave social hierarchy – The
Peculiar Institution
e. Manumission movement
f. “Back to Africa Movement” – American Colonization Society
and Liberia
g. Abolitionism (people, organization, and events) & the
Underground Railroad
h. Slavery and American expansion
1. Missouri Compromise (1820)
2. Wilmot Proviso (1846)
3. Compromise of 1850
4. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
5. “Bleeding Kansas” (1854-1861)
6. Dred Scott Case (1857)
V.
Blacks during the Civil War & Reconstruction
a. Blacks during the War (military action)
b.
c.
d.
e.
The South immediately after the War – Black Codes
Post war results: the Reconstruction Acts
Freedmen and the Constitution
The Freedmen’s Bureau
VI.
Post Reconstruction Years
a. the Compromise of 1877
b. “Jim Crow” Laws
c. the First Great Migration
d. Exodusters
e. Debate within the Black Community: Booker T. Washington
(Atlanta Compromise) vs. W.E.B. DuBois (Niagara Movment)
VII.
Changing Role of Black Americans in the 20th-century
a. Blacks in the Progressive Movement
b. Blacks and the Great War (World War I)
c. Post-war disillusion
1. Second Great Migration
2. racism and violence
3. re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan
4. lynching
d. Harlem Renaissance
e. Black Americans and the Great Depression
1. switch in political alignment
2. “Black Cabinet”
3. Black relief under the New Deal
f. Black Americans in World War II
g. Third Great Migration
h. Civil Rights movement
1. 1940s: integrated military bases and work places
2. 1950s: integrated military units, Brown v. Board of
Education, et al and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
3. 1960s: legislation, Martin Luther King, Jr., rise of
Black militants, riots
4. 1970s
5. 1980s
Note taking Guide for IMMIGRATION
Note reasons for immigration:
“PUSH” Factors (Why did the people leave their native country?)
“PULL” Factors (Why did the people come to British North America/
the United States?)
Topics for factors: Economic, Political, Social
Time periods of immigration:
Early Colonial Era (1607-c.1700)
Later Colonial Era (c.1700-1776)
Federalist Period (1776-1800)
Early 19th-century (1800-1840)
1840s-1850s
Post Civil War (1865-1890)
Turn of the 20th- century (1890-1914)
Post Great War (1914-1939)
Post World War II (1945-1960)
Modern Times (1960-2006)
Know major national groups that arrived in different time periods
and where they settled (especially from the Colonial Era through the
turn of the 20th-century.
American reaction to immigrants:
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Nativism: American Party/Know-Nothings
American Protective Association
Chinese Exclusion Act (and background)
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Literacy Test Act
First Immigration Quota Law (1921) / National Origins Act
Second Immigration Quota Law (1924) / Emergency Quota Act
Note taking guide on NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY
I.
Pre-Columbian Indians
A. Origins
B. Destination
C. Settlements
1. South America (Incas)
2. Central America (Mayans, Aztecs)
3. North America (northeast, northwest, south,
southwest, Inuit)
II.
THE Encounter – The Columbian Exchange
A. Christopher Columbus
B. The Conquistadores
C. The Exchange: Western Hemisphere Natives, Europeans,
Africans
1. precious metals (gold and silver)
2. food
3. disease
4. slavery
III.
Europeans in North America
A. Spanish and Native Americans of the Southwest
1. architecture
2. religion
3. social relationships
B. French in Canada and the Mississippi Valley
1. cultural exchange
2. economic relationship
C. British on the east coast of North America
1. Social and economic relationship in the Southern
colonies
2. Social and economic relationship in the Middle
colonies
3. Social and economic relationship in the New England
colonies
IV.
Colonial Period
A. Pequot Wars
B. King Philip’s War
C. French and Indian War
D. Revolutionary War
E. War of 1812
F. Key Individuals
1. Powhatan
2. Pocahontas
3. King Philip
4. George Rogers Clark
5. “Mad” Anthony Wayne – Fallen Timbers, Treaty of
Greenville
6. Sacagawea
7. The Prophet
V.
Indian Policy under Andrew Jackson
A. Cherokee Nation v. Georgia; Worcester v. Georgia
B. Indian Removal Act
C. Trail of Tears
D. Black Hawk
E. Osceola
VI.
Post Civil War Policy - Plains Indians
A. Reservation Policy
B. Dawes Severalty Act – 1887
C. Horses and buffalo
D. Battle of Wounded Knee
VII.
Native Americans in the 20th-Century
A. The Great War
B. Snyder Act – 1924
C. Wheeler-Howard Act – 1934
D. Role in World War II (wind talkers)
E. Protest in the 1960s and 1970s: American Indian Movement
Note Taking Guide on LABOR HISTORY
I.
Labor
A. First settlement: compare/contrast Middle Colonies and New
England
B. Indentured Servitude – Headright System
C. Slave Labor
D. Factories – Samuel Slater
E. Lowell Girls
F. Guilds/craft unions
G. Commonwealth v. Hunt – Massachusetts
H. Labor Unions
1. National Labor Union
2. Knights of Labor
3. American Federation of Labor
4. Industrial Workers of the World (Wobblies)
5. Congress of Industrial Organization
6. AFL – CIO
II.
Labor Laws
A. Clayton Act
B. Wagner Act
C. Taft-Hartley Act
D. Minimum Wage laws
E. Unemployment Insurance
III.
Labor Unrest
A. Haymarket Square
B. Homestead Strike
C. Pullman Strike
D. Anthracite Coal Strike
E. Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire
F. Bonus Army March
IV.
Labor Leaders
A. Terence V. Powderly
B. Samuel Gompers
C. William “Big Bill” Haywood
D. John L. Lewis
E. George Meany
F. Cesar Chavez
COLONIAL ERA
The English Beginnings in North America—1606 to 1650
1.
Read carefully the following assessments of pre-colonial English Settlement. Identify
which statement is false?
A)
The concept of liberty and free agency was born in the Renaissance as a matter
of artistic creation and literary agency to express one’s ideas freely
B)
The concept of liberty, agency, and religious freedom were born during the
Reformation
C)
The ideas of civil liberty, religious freedom, and individual choice came into
adulthood during the Enlightenment
D)
The nineteenth century provided the right to leave and establish rights, liberties,
and freedom according to the will of the individual.
E)
The 20th century has not had to defend or protect the fundamental rights of
colonial liberty and agency
2.
English dissenters were voluntarily allowed to exit the British Empire in order to worship
God according to the dictates of their consciences. Which of the following groups does
the generalization not prove correct?
A)
Quakers
B)
Africans
C)
Separatists
D)
Anglicans
E)
Puritans
3.
Religion was a powerful motivating force in the settlement of the United States. Which of
the major European faiths were the most dynamic, the widest in terms of settlement, and
the one which came the earliest and remained the longest a major political and religious
force in American political, moral, and civil liberty?
A)
Anglicans
B)
Lutherans
C)
Calvinists
D)
Catholics
E)
Anabaptists
4.
Leadership is the key element in the success of religions in becoming colonizers. Which
of the following paired leaders and religions is INCORRECTLY identified below?
A)
Massachusetts Bay Puritans // John Winthrop
B)
English Roman Catholics // Lord Cecil Calvert
C)
Pennsylvania Dutch // William Penn
D)
Connecticut Congregationalists // Thomas Hooker
E)
Virginia Anglicans // James Blair
5.
Which of the following institutions used by Spain t colonize the New World?
A)
Establishing crown princes in the new world
B)
Successfully achieving the loyalty of Native American leaders
C)
Altering the economy of the New World to one of socialism
D)
Using missions, presidios, and pueblos to govern in the New World
E)
Using the principles of feudalism to control and dominate the Native Americans
The Colonial Era
1500-1736
DIRECTIONS: Read each question carefully, fully and analytically. Then choose ONE response
to mark as your answer.
1.
The primary reason for the early struggles that confronted the Jamestown colony was the
A. tyrannical rule of John Smith
B. hostility of nearby Indians
C. fact that colonizers were ill-equipped for survival
D. nomadic tribes had virtually wiped out the supply of fame in the area.
E. inter-tribal warfare going on like in Mexico
2.
The Iroquois were Indians that
A. generally allied themselves with Britain against the French
B. they were members of the Algonquin family of Indians
C. they were nomadic Indians of the high plains
D. they were peaceful agricultural partners of the Cherokees
E. they were vicious head hunters of woodlands
3.
Family life in the early Chesapeake Bay area differed from family life in England in that the
colonies...
A. women were freed from all male control and domination
B. families were more closely knit and remained together longer
C. husbands and fathers had greater control over their wives and children
D. children assumed more independence at an earlier age
E. the impact of social norms was greater
4.
Within a half century of their exodus from Europe, the Spanish had opened the New World and
had, as a result of the national policy,
A. virtually exterminated the Indians
B. were being serious challenged for the New World dominance by the English
C. had created the richest and most extensive European empire since the days of Rome.
D. were being seriously challenged for New World dominance by the French
E. rapidly pushing through western North America on their way to Alaska
5.
The joint-stock company
A. was not required to seek royal permission to colonize in the New World
B. held forth promise of immense wealth to investors
C. proved inadequate as a vehicle for properly financing colonization ventures
D. required investors to commit large amounts of capital.
E. was a development of Swiss bankers trying aid the British economy
6.
Women in the Chesapeake Bay were
A. much better off than English counterparts
B. were all married at extreme young ages because of high sex ratios
C. used the high sex ration as a means to prevent premarital sexual relations
D. usually married while they were still indenture servants
E. not, despite a high sex ratio, usually any better off than their English patriot sisters.
7.
Europeans who migrated to the Chesapeake as indentured servants were normally
A. older married men with families
B. males from 18 to 24 who were single
C. English farmers hoping to find a better future in the colonies
D. the dregs of English society
8.
Which European power was successful in the settling of New York
A. Spain
B. Italy
C. France
D. England
E. Holland
9.
Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of Virginia and Maryland?
A. Both were dependent upon tobacco
B. Both utilized the headlight system
C. Both relied heavily on indentured servants
D. Both extended legal freedom of religion to all Christians
E. Both economically affect by the Atlantic sea trade
10.
Freeman status was granted to adult males who
A. were church members
B. were no longer indentured servants
C. owned land
D. agreed to abide by the legal code of the colony
E. Blacks that were release from their slavery contract under the law of manumission
11.
John Winthrop’s ideal Puritan commonwealth was called “A City Upon A Hill” that claimed that
A. the separation of Church and State was necessary for survival
B. religious freedom for all citizens and residence would be practiced
C. the good of the whole would be placed above one’s private concerns
D. religious tolerance would be extended to all Christians but not to others
E. Jews could worship according to the dictates of their consciences
12.
Anne Hutchinson was formally charged with having
A. violated traditional Puritan sex codes of conduct
B. libeled the colony’s ministers
C. emphasized the covenant of grace
D. presumed to have the right to discuss the sermons of John Cotton
E. claimed to have received divine revelation directly from God
13.
New England Puritans are known for their introduction of written contractual government by all of
the following EXCEPT:
A. The Mayflower Compact
B. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
C. The Rhode Island Charter
D. The Pennsylvania Charter of Privileges
E. Development of town charters for the town councils and the citizens.
14.
Among the most ardent and zealous promoters of English colonization was
A. John Rolfe
B. John White
C. John Smith
D. Richard Hakluyt
E. Martin Frobisher
15.
All of the following fundamental ideas were preached by Martin Luther during the Reformation
EXCEPT:
A. the infallibility of the Pope
B. the popular right to rebel against unjust authority
C. the priesthood of all believers
D. the justification by faith alone
E. the evil of the sale of indulgences for the forgiveness of sin
16.
A major turning point for women in the history of the western world occurred when
which of the following English Monarchs took over the empire.
A. Queen Victoria
B. Queen Elizabeth II
C. Queen Elisabeth I
D. Mary Queen of Scots
E. Catherine of Aragon became the Queen
17.
Which of the following institutions were not used in the settlement and colonization of North
America from 1620-1740?
A. Encomienda system
B. Patroon system
C. Mission system
D. Cour de Bois
E. Joint stock company
18.
The colonies of Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Maryland had which of the following
characteristics in common?
A. They were founded by Quakers
B. They were settled primarily by non-Englishmen
C. They were settled by emigrants from other colonies
D. They were founded as refuges from religious persecution in England
E. They were strongly opposed to the institution of slavery
19.
The major and primary objective of 17th century mercantilism was to:
A. promote and build national self-sufficiency with a favorable balance of trade
B. develop industrialism in America
C. promote laissez-faire free trade policies for English merchants
D. encourage early textile industry in Europe
E. help England gain control of the Atlantic seas lanes to the New World
20.
Women in the 17th century Chesapeake:
A. were very close to slave status under the rule of Sir Edward Coke, England’s chief of Star
Chamber
B. generally worked alongside men and slaves in the tobacco fields
C. outlived men because of natural immunities derived from sex hormones
outnumber men
D. were significantly more prolific in child-bearing because of temperate climate
E. had a good chance to improve their social and economic status by marriage
21.
Geographic sectionalism in the American colonies affected all of the following EXCEPT:
A. cultural differences
B. social status of residents
C. political institutions and diplomacy of Spain
D. economic developments
E. intellectual ideas of government
22.
Principal institutions used by the Spanish to gain control of colonial society in the New World
included all EXCEPT:
A. the presidio
B. the hacienda
C. the control of indulgences
D. the vaquero
E. the mission
23.
Major political developments in the establishment effective government in America came with the…
A. the House of Burgess
B. the Puritan oligarchy in Massachusetts
C. the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
D. the Massachusetts General Court
E. the county
24.
The French shifted from Port Royal to Quebec because:
A. they intermarried with Indian women
B. they had given up on their search for a northwest passage
C. they became more interested in farming than fishing
D. the St. Lawrence Valley offered better access to the interior
E. the St. Lawrence Valley was easier to defend
25.
The European Jesuits (French) gradually enjoyed success with the Indians because:
A. they intermarried with them
B. they accepted and even appreciate the Indian cultures, especially the Algonkin
C. they displayed considerable prowess, bravery, and valor in the wilderness
D. they confined their missionary work to established missions
E. they were eager abandon their French culture and politics and become democrats like the
Indians.
26.
The Puritan proposals for reforming the Anglican Church included all EXCEPT:
A. purifying the English church of Catholic “corruption’s”
B. eliminating elaborate hierarchy and ritualistic pageantry
C. effecting a complete separation of church and state
D. improving the education of the clergy
E. forming an oligarchy to govern and rule the colony
27.
There has been a claimed that “history is geography in motion” Massachusetts Bay claimed:
A. Maine and New Hampshire
B. Connecticut and Rhode Island
C. Maine and Vermont
D. Vermont and New Hampshire
E. Connecticut and New York
28.
The basic unit of local government in the English colonies---but especially in Pennsylvania---was:
A. the county
B. the town or village
C. the General Court
D. the Quaker meeting
E. the mission
29.
Seventeenth century New York was known for its:
A. high crime rate
B. stable political order
C. ethnic and religious diversity
D. cordial relations with the Iroquois Indians
E. largely unbalanced ratio of men to women by about 12-1
30.
The Quakers came from England with all of the following beliefs EXCEPT:
A. that the land of America belonged to the Indians
B. that all men and women shared equality “within the light”
C. that an official clergy and sacraments were totally unnecessary for faith and salvation
D. that swearing oaths and making war was against Divine Law
E. that there should be rigid separation and segregation of men and women in public meetings
31.
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 were caused by:
A. Land quarrels
B. Bad blood
C. Fanaticism
D. Puritan doctrine
E. Gender discrimination
32.
One of the de jury reasons the Salem Witchcraft hysteria suddenly ended in 1692 was that:
A. the original accusers had become accused of being witches too including the governor
B. it became clear that some were attempting to use the hysteria for their political gains
C. the royal governor proclaimed it a crime to make unsubstantiated accusations of witchcraft
D. the implementation of a new royal charter ended a time of political uncertainty and stress
E. because of a decree in England banning all witchcraft in Europe and America
33.
Puritans most strongly opposed:
A. alcohol
B. tobacco
C. religious nonconformity
D. Protestantism
E. refraining from sex
34.
The greatest concentration of German immigrants came to ....
A. New Jersey with the Swedes
B. New York with the Dutch
C. Virginia with the English
D. Quebec with the French
E. Pennsylvania with the Quakers
35.
The colonial headright system:
A. was used in all of the colonies from Massachusetts to Georgia
B. gave land to slaves and indentured servants
C. parceled out land to each person who came to the colony
D. parceled out land to those who helped settle and establish towns
E. gave land to only those who were “freemen”
36.
Among Puritans their life long goal was to behave and the sign that they were:
A. among the saved “elect”
B. among non-elect
C. those with a healthy body
D. who were the most intelligent
E. who were the most wealthy
37.
The great Swiss theologian John Calvin contributed which of the following to the Puritans:
A. antinomianism
B. predestination
C. antidisestablishmentarianism
D. corpus delecti
E. papal infallibility
38.
The Mayflower Compact and its doctrine of majority rule was adopted by:
A. Puritans
B. Quakers
C. Virginians
D. New Yorkers
E. Pilgrim separatist
39.
In the Iroquois Indian nation, the older women:
A. controlled the finances of the tribe
B. had the power to either start or stop wars
C. were the religious leaders of their communities
D. were painlessly put to death when they became senile
E. train the young male warriors in military ethics
40.
Which of the following colonial industries was prohibited by England’s Parliament?
A. textile manufacturing
B. ship building
C. iron-making
D. had manufacturing
E. manufacture of glass & paint
41.
William Penn’s Frame of Government in (1682) provided substantial power to:
A. women voters
B. the native Americans
C. the governor appointed by the Crown
D. the colony’s legislature
E. the colonial court
42.
Anne Hutchinson, a separatist and antinomian, believed most in which of the following?
A. the laws of the Puritan oligarchy
B. practice of universal suffrage of all people
C. the spirit as opposed to the man’s laws
D. example of Roger Williams
E. example of John Winthrop
43.
The punishment metted out to most of those put to death in the Salem Witch Trials was:
A. crushed by stones
B. burned at the stake
C. beheaded
D. hanged
44.
The primary purpose of the famous Navigation Acts of 1660’s was to:
A. stimulate trade
B. encourage the colonials to conduct with other countries other than England
C. regulate trade within the empire
D. forbade colonial to engage in England’s monopoly of munitions trade
E. regulate the amount of cotton to be exported to Europe
45.
The theory that nations should increase their wealth, as measured in gold and silver, will insure
they will sell more than import is known as...
A. imperialism
B. laissez-faire
C. democracy
D. monetarism
E. mercantilism
46.
Which of the following major historical figures of the Colonial period is mis-matched with his/her
achievement:?
A. Benjamin Franklin - Inventor & printer
B. Anne Bradstreet - musician and composer
C. Samuel Sewell - New England diarist
D. John Peter Zenger - Freedom of the Press
E. Roger Williams - Separation of Church & State
47.
Which combination of immigrants provided the greatest number of immigrants to America:
A. Africans, Scots-Irish, Germans
B. Africans, Germans, French Huguenots
C. Scots-Irish, Swill, Italians
D. Germans, French Huguenots, & Italians
E. Italians, Dutch, & Portuguese
48.
The Stono Rebellion was:
A. a slave uprising in New York
B. a slave uprising in Georgia
C. a slave uprising in South Carolina
D. a slave uprising in Virginia
E. a slave uprising in Pennsylvania
49.
Which of the following was a non-violent event in Colonial America:
A. Leisler’s Rebellion
B. Shay’s Rebellion
C. Bacon’s Rebellion
D. Salem Witch Trials
E. Great Awakening
50.
Colonial governments feature all of the following EXCEPT:
A. a governor
B. a unicameral legislature
C. an independent Supreme Court
D. a unified national executive
E. the development of both city and county government
51.
Sir Edmund Andros was the leader of:
A. Dutch Patroon system
B. Dominion of New England
C. the Pennsylvania Dutch
D. colonial Supreme Court
E. the unified Carolinas before the Great Awakening
52.
Colonial leaders that made a major impact upon colonial society included all EXCEPT:
A. John Winthrop
B. Roger Williams
C. Alexander Hamilton
D. John Peter Zenger
E. Benjamin Franklin
53.
Leaders of the Enlightenment in America included all EXCEPT:
A. John Peter Zenger
B. George Whitefield
C. Jonathan Edwards
D. Benjamin Franklin
E. Anne Hutchinson
54.
The native peoples of New England were affected by all of the following EXCEPT:
A. They had little in common with White Europeans
B. They were alienated by Puritan messianic attempts at conversion
C. They suffered from the ravages of disease more than whites
D. The clashed with the settlers in periodic conflicts that threaten white survival
E. They were completely befriended by the White immigrants.
55.
In what manner did New Netherlands become New York?
A. It was traded by Sweden to France
B. It was abandoned by the Dutch, then England colonized it
C. It was geographically adjacent to Spanish territory
D. It was conquered as part of a larger European struggle
E. It was the result of the Zenger trial
56.
William Penn sought to do all of the following EXCEPT:
A. displace the savage Indians
B. provide a refuge ro Quakers from England
C. establish a model society based upon reform
D. generated rental revenue for himself
E. purchase land from the Indians
57.
Pennsylvania quickly prospered for all the following EXCEPT:
A. Penn’s planning and publicity efforts
B. Penn’s honest dealing with Indians
C. Pennsylvania’s favorable soil and climate
D. Penn’s liberality toward religious freedom
E. Parliament’s generated subsidy
58.
A rebellion that occurred in New York which fostered years of political strife was:
A. Nat Turner’s Rebellion
B. Stono Rebellion
C. Leisler’s Rebellion
D. Bacon’s Rebellion
E. Regulator Movement
59.
Which of the following was NOT a goal of the Spanish in the New World?
A. To seek for gold
B. To convert the Native Americans to Christianity
C. To establish presidios, missions, and pueblos
D. To reduce the Native American population
E. To seek for glory and adventure
60.
When the Europeans discovered the New World, the Native Americans they found:
A. lacked any form of religion
B. were as varied as the peoples of Europe
C. were mostly farmers
D. mostly lived in northeastern US
E. were violent, indolent, and uncultured savages
61.
All of the following helped bring about the voyages of discovery after 1450 EXCEPT:
A. the rise of nation states
B. the Renaissance
C. the Norse navigators
D. the Reformation
E. the Commercial Revolution
62.
The main goal of early French and English explorers was to:
A. develop large colonies in the New World
B. seize Native Americans for slaves
C. conquer all Native American tribes
D. Christianize the Native Americans
E. find a northwest passage to India
63.
The rise of kings was a major factor in the development of exploration because it:
A. centralized the power and stimulated trade
B. reduced the conflicting national claims over newly discovered land
C. reduced conflicts between European nations
D. helped to eliminate Papal claims to the New World
E. helped to develop world wide imperialism
64.
Which of the following did the Europeans bring to New World:
A. gold
B. tobacco
C. horses
D. dogs
E. potatoes, squash, and beans
65.
An unexpected result of the Treaty of Tordesillas was:
A. the loss of all Portuguese claims to the New World
B. a delay in Spanish exploration
C. division of English territory from that of France
D. unequal cultural division of South America
E. the planting of French culture in Brazil
66.
Which of the following is mis-matched?
A. Estaban - Negro slave and survivor of exploration
B. Cortez - conquerors of Mexico
C. Pizzaro - conqueror of the Mayans
D. Balboa - discovered the isthmus of Panama
E. Magellan - circumnavigated the globe
67.
Which Spanish explorer discover the Grand Canyon?
A. Cortez
B. Father Kino
C. Father Serra
D. Coronado
E. Vespucci
68.
The Native Americans probably came from:
A. Europe
B. Asia
C. Middle East
D. Africa
E. Australia
69.
Both the Pilgrims and the Puritans
A. had charters to settle Massachusetts
B. practiced self-government
C. believed in religious toleration in the colonies
D. showed favoritism toward the Church of England
E. off-shoots of Lutheranism
70.
The first elected legislative assembly in America was the:
A. House of Representatives
B. London Company
C. Massachusetts General Court
D. Parliament
E. House of Burgess
71.
In which of the following ways or policies were the British and the Spanish most similar?
A. Religious freedom
B. Inter-racial marriage with Native Americans
C. Mercantile policy
D. Democratic beliefs
E. Use of jury trials
72.
A religious dissenter would have been least tolerated in:
A. Rhode Island
B. Maryland
C. New Netherlands
D. New Sweden
E. Massachusetts Bay
73.
Which European nation established the first permanent settlement in Quebec?
A. The French
B. The English
C. The Spanish
D. The Dutch
E. The Germans
74.
The colony was best known as a haven for religious freedom and the safest place for Jews to settle
and congregate?
A. New York
B. Virginia
C. Rhode Island
D. Pennsylvania
E. Carolinas
75.
In order to help raise capital for American colony, Sir Walter Raleigh:
A. exported tobacco to Europe
B. formed a joint stock company
C. used Native Americans as slave labor
D. turned to the Spanish monarchy for help
E. formed the modern corporation
76.
The year 1619 is important because of the introduction of:
A. martial law
B. the end of martial law
C. beginning of the House of Burgesses
D. passage of Maryland Toleration Act
E. introduction of Black slavery
77.
The joint stock company was the forerunner of the:
A. House of Representatives
B. Senate
C. corporation
D. family farm
E. plantation
78.
A person who signs an agreement to work in exchange for passage or payment of debt is a(n):
A. indentured servant
B. slave
C. redemptioner
D. pioneer
E. mestizo
79.
Which of the American colonial sections was most closely akin to those of England:
A. New England
B. Southern Colonies
C. Middle Colonies
D. Massachusetts Bay Colony
E. New York & New Jersey
80.
Predestination was an important tenet of early:
A. Quakers
B. Anglicans
C. Puritans
D. Native Americans
E. Catholics
81.
The Salem Witch Trials of 1692 dealt with all except:
A. hanging of women
B. poverty of families
C. fanaticism
D. superstition
E. The Inquisition
The primary objective of mercantilism was:
A. to promote free trade policies
B. to develop industries in the Americas
C. to build national self-sufficiency through favorable balance of trade
D. to encourage the early textile industry in Europe
E. to develop good ports, harbors, and trading docks
82.
83.
Africa exported _____________as part of the triangular trade system:
A. slaves
B. rum
C. tobacco
D. woolen clothes
E. gold, diamonds, and silver
84.
Colonial colleges and universities were founded to study:
A. science
B. humanities
C. religion
D. medicine
E. business
85.
Who was the individual who challenged the King and Governor over the issue of freedom of the
press?
A. Paul Revere
B. Ben Franklin
C. John Winthrop
D. John Peter Zenger
E. Roger Williams
86.
A major difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans was:
A. the way in which they earned their living
B. the general areas in which they settled
C. the issue of reforming the Church of England or separating from it
D. the degree to which they practiced self-government
E. the attitudes they held toward the Native Americans
87.
Women in Seventeenth Century Chesapeake:
A. outnumbered men
B. generally worked alongside men in the tobacco fields
C. outlived the men
D. had a good chance of improving their status by marriage
E. were free and equal with men
88.
Ben Franklin’s attempt to unify the colonies was known as:
A. New England Confederation
B. Peace of Paris
C. Albany Plan of Union
D. Navigation Acts
E. Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
89.
The rise of nation-states was significant factor in the development of exploration because it:
A. centralized power and stimulated trade
B. diminished economic opportunity
C. reduced the conflicting national claims over newly discovered lands
D. reduced the sectional conflict between European nations
E. helped eliminate Papal claims to the New World
90.
The royal governor of the Dominion of New England was:
A. Jacob Leisler
B. Thomas Hutchinson
C. Duke of York
D. Sir Edmund Andros
E. Roger Williams
91.
Jesuits gradually enjoyed some success in converting the Indians because...
A. they intermarried with Indian women
B. they accepted and even appreciated much of Indian culture
C. they displayed considerable prowess in the wilderness
D. they were confined to the mission system
E. they were reclusive monks whose life style the Indians
92.
The fundamental causes of Bacon’s Rebellion included ALL EXCEPT:
A. white settlers fears of Indian attacks
B. diminished economic opportunity
C. popular opposition to the restoration of the monarchy
D. a contest for power within the Virginia elite
E. political rights for freed servants
93.
The English colonies faced all of the following problems EXCEPT:
A. labor shortages
B. high infant mortality rates
C. crowded conditions for living
D. communication problems with the mother country
E. Indian conflicts
94.
Massachusetts Bay produced two spin-off colonies:_____________ which wished to reproduce
Puritan culture, and ______________, which rejected it.
A. Connecticut and Rhode Island
B. Rhode Island and New Jersey
C. New Jersey and New York
D. New York and Virginia
E. Virginia and Pennsylvania
95.
Quakers were most unlike the Puritans in their:
A. commercial success with their American colony
B. opposition to the encumbrances of church ritual
C. having suffered persecution in England
D. advocacy of absolute freedom of conscience
E. peaceful relations with the Indians
96.
Those among the “elect” who, as Puritan church members, ruled Massachusetts Bay Colony,
justified their rule by invoking the:
A. doctrine of “grace.”
B. doctrine of the “covenant”
C. concept of predestination.
D. doctrine of good “works”
E. doctrine of transubstantiation
97.
Institutions of higher learning were eventually established in all the following colonies EXCEPT:
A. Virginia
B. North Carolina
C. New Hampshire
D. New Jersey
E. Pennsylvania
98.
Slaves endured the worst conditions in eighteenth-century:
A. Maryland
B. Virginia
C. North Carolina
D. South Carolina
E. Kentucky
99.
A Puritan who had been baptized by who could not receive communion or vote on church matters
probably joined the church under the terms dictate by:
A. colonial governor
B. legislature
C. Halfway Covenant
D. the Saybrook Platform
E. his own personal “calling”
100.
Benjamin Franklin pursued all of the following EXCEPT:
A. inventor
B. businessman
C. professional writer
D. educator
E. diplomatic statesman
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Dear Colleagues:
I wrote the test for you on the Presidential time periods and sent it out. Well, I was thinking about
the colonial era and talking to my daughter who is Vice Principal of Curriculum, and a history
major herself, and she just scolded me for leaving out the foundations of American government,
Character, economy, and rights of civil liberty. I started to write a test for you. I got five questions
done, and then I thought to look back at my own old Colonial Midterm exam. As I read through it,
I realized that I would just be redoing work already done and that is foolish to do. But there is a
hitch, there is a big gap between the end of this exam, and the beginning of the Washington
Administration where the other starts. I presume that you can fill in a few good questions of your
own for the students. But here is what lies in my computer memory, and for what it is worth, I
share it with you. My daughter feels better now that she has shamed me into “covering the whole
American Experience!” It was my privilege to teach her in AP some twenty years ago. Now she
is quoting me to my face saying, “I remember my AP teacher telling me that the colonial era was
1/3 of the total American Experience. Well, so be it. Here is the colonial period for you. Now
maybe she will stop the verbal and intellectual caning of me.
Review Exam for Students by
Presidential Administrations.
Comments and Directions: This type of review is interesting but excludes a
major part of the early and formative period in American History. Naturally, the
colonial era is included on the AP Exam and so a review of that 170 year period
(1620-1790) needs to take place by the students in addition to this review. One
might call this period of review, “The Constitutional Era of Review” since it
dates from the implementation of the American Constitution.
George Washington:
1.
Everything President Washington did set a precedent for later American
Presidents. Which area of presidential precedent have historians
determined to be his most significant precedent?
A)
Providing for civilian control of the military
B)
Nominations to the Supreme Court
C)
Exert effective control over organization of Congress
D)
Establishment of the presidential cabinet
E)
Establish the existence and function of political parties
2.
Which of the following presidential advisers to Washington is mismatched with the function he performed in the Washington
Administration?
A)
Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State
B)
Alexander Hamilton as Treasury Secretary
C)
Henry Knox as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
D)
Benjamin Franklin as Postmaster General
E)
John Adams as Vice President
3.
What major crop would radically affect the economy of the nation forever
after it was introduced during the Washington Administration in 1792?
A)
Soybeans
B)
Wheat
C)
Sugar
D)
Tobacco
E)
Cotton
4.
Alexander Hamilton became the financial wizard of the Washington
Administration by recommending several economic moves. Among these
was a bill of assumption to be paid by 8% tariff and…
A)
Raising the prices on western land sales
B)
Excise tax on whiskey production
C)
Income tax on the very wealthy
D)
Head tax on slaves sold at auction
E)
Selling surplus military equipment from the Revolution
5.
In Washington’s “Farewell Address to the Nation” he pointed warned
against the…
A)
Establishment of permanent alliances with foreign nations.
B)
Evils of society which provided for permanent slavery
C)
Right to vote for women and women and minorities
D)
Evils of revolution
E)
Establishment of sectionalism over national unity.
John Adams:
6.
John Adams played a major role in ALL OF THE FOLLOWING EVENTS
EXCEPT:
A)
Delegate to the Declaration of Independence
B)
Serving as cabinet member to George Washington
C)
Leader of the Constitutional Convention
D)
Vice President of the U.S.
E)
Signed the Alien & Seditions Acts into law during his
administration
7.
Which of the following treaties was the one in which the resolution of the
Revolution of 1800 was made under the leadership of John Adams?
A)
Treaty of Joinville
B)
Treaty of Boudreaux
C)
Treaty of Reims
D)
Treaty of Mortefontaine
E)
Treaty of Paris 1803
8.
John Adams held a firm, consistent, and almost blind proclivity for
which of the following nations of Europe?
A)
Great Britain
B)
Spain
C)
France
D)
Italy
E)
Germany
9.
Which of the following exclamations did John Adams give voice when he
heard about the XYZ Affair?
A)
“We will not be held with hoops of steel to the anarchy of the
French!”
B)
“These are times that try men’s souls!”
C)
“Caesar had his Brutus, and Napoleon may have his Robespierre!”
D)
“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country!”
E)
“We will spend millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute!”
10.
The two issues that faced John Adams during his Presidential
Administration were the Alien & Sedition Acts and…
A)
French Revolution
B)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
C)
Assassination of Alexander Hamilton
D)
Establishment of the Whiskey Tax
E)
The Embargo Act
Thomas Jefferson:
11.
Thomas Jefferson’s vision of the good society included ALL OF THE
FOLLOWING EXECPT:
A)
An agrarian society
B)
A citizenry of virtuous independent farmers
C)
A national government with limited powers
D)
An economy that relied on the national government to provide
subsidies
E)
A society based upon education, agriculture, and politics.
12.
The issue upon which Jefferson changed his view of strict construction of
the Constitution was:
A)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition and Louisiana Purchase
B)
The issues involving slavery in 1808
C)
The conflicts of opinions he had with Chief Justice John Marshall
D)
The destruction of the national bank by Albert Gallatin
E)
The writing of the Declaration of Independence
13.
According to Thomas Jefferson, which of the following was most vital to
the security of the United States in 1803?
A)
Cuba
B)
Nova Scotia
C)
New Orleans
D)
Florida
E)
Columbia River
14.
In his first inaugural address Jefferson was pledged to the task of
A)
Strengthening the military
B)
Jailing all subversives of the government of the U.S.
C)
Repudiating the debt of the United States
D)
Reconciling political differences with the Federalists
E)
Sponsoring the Lewis and Clark Expedition
15.
The unforeseen relocation of power within the Federal Government came
as the result of…
A)
Fletcher v. Peck
B)
Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
C)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
D)
Gibbons v. Ogden
E)
Marbury v. Madison
James Madison:
16.
In which of the following events does James Madison, NOT play a major
and determinative role?
A)
Participant in the Presidents cabinet
B)
A Justice of the Supreme Court
C)
Architect of the Constitution of 1787
D)
A major leader of Congress until the Revolution of 1800
E)
An author of the Federalist Papers
17.
A rising new young and dynamic group of men elected to Congress while
Madison was the President included ALL EXCEPT:
A)
Daniel Webster
B)
Henry Clay
C)
Andrew Jackson
D)
John C. Calhoun
E)
Felix Grundy
18.
which of the following was NOT a unique long range cause of the War of
1812?
A)
Rise of slavery
B)
Imperialism
C)
Indian relations on the frontier
D)
Impressment
E)
Anti-Spanish ethnicity
19.
What diplomatic conference ended the War of 1812 and thus achieved
American nationalism from Britain, once and for all.
A)
Treaty of Joinville
B)
Treaty of Ghent
C)
Treaty of San Idelfonso
D)
Treaty of Paris 1815
E)
Treaty of Chapultepec
20.
Which of the following events expressed dissatisfaction with the War of
1812, and can be called the first American anti-war movement?
A)
Treaty of Greenville
B)
Treaty of Paris – 1815
C)
Hartford Convention
D)
Seneca Falls Convention
E)
Port Huron Statement
James Monroe:
21.
Which of the following events or developments happen while James
Monroe was President, but, which he had very little to with their
development? Which is the lone EXCEPTION to this assertion?
A)
McCulloch v. Maryland
B)
Development of the American System
C)
Missouri Compromise
D)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward
E)
Recognition of Latin American Independence movements
22.
The Monroe Doctrine was issued in response to
A)
the threat of war with England
B)
the threat of war with Austria
C)
the purchase of Florida
D)
the invention of the cotton gin
E)
the threat of the Quadruple Alliance to reestablish Spanish Power
in the Americas
23.
The Monroe Doctrine, which has been the foundation of American foreign
policy, was brilliant bold step taken by which of the following secretaries
of state?
A)
Thomas Jefferson
B)
James Madison
C)
James Monroe
D)
John Quincy Adams
E)
Henry Clay
24.
The Monroe Administration was called “The Era of Good Feelings”
because of
A)
The absence of sectionalism
B)
The dominance of one major party
C)
The absence of political strife
D)
The lack of important national issues
E)
The disappearance of slavery on the national scene
25.
Thomas Jefferson, commenting on the Missouri Compromise under
James Monroe called it:
A)
The compromise to save the union
B)
A compact with the devil
C)
A fire-bell in the night
D)
Abolitionist propaganda
E)
An end to slave rebellions
John Quincy Adams:
26.
John
EXCEPT:
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
Quincy Adams had the distinction of being ALL of the following
The second one term President
The son of a former President
The first post—Revolutionary President
The first President to serve without an outright election of the
people or House of Representatives
The first pro-western politician on the national scene
27.
Which of the following is true of the John Q. Adams Administration?
A)
Adams cabinet was one of the most able and harmonious on
record
B)
The nationalistic goals were to provide—education,
industrialization, & transportation
C)
Adams was able to win over with personality that he could not
control politically
D)
Except of the “Corrupt Bargain” the Adams Administration was
absent of strife
E)
Adams refused to use the spoils systems and dismiss public
workers to fill their jobs with political supporters.
28.
It has been claimed that John Q. Adams:
A)
did his finest work for the American before and after he was
President
B)
was a week spineless politician prone to making political deals for
the federalists.
C)
fired John Marshall from the Supreme Court & appointed Roger
Taney.
D)
nationalist more than he was an internationalist.
E)
political conformist rather than a creative and idealistic diplomat.
29.
Which of the following historical issues did NOT occur under John Q.
Adams?
A)
Canal building begins spurred into reality by Henry Clay
B)
South Carolina Exposition & Protest was written by Calhoun
C)
Cherokee Nation vs Georgia was rendered under John Marshall
D)
James Fennimore Cooper’s Last of the Mohicans was published
E)
Joseph Smith establishes the Mormon religion in Kirtland, Ohio
30.
John Quincy Adams was President who dealt with revolutions of ALL but
which of the following?
A)
transportation revolution
B)
gender revolutionary issues
C)
social & religious revolutions
D)
diplomatic revolutions
E)
market revolution
Andrew Jackson
31.
Jackson was the forerunner of which late nineteenth century movement?
A)
Social Darwinism
B)
Imperialism
C)
Populism
D)
Industrialism
E)
Pragmatism
32.
During the Age of Jackson, democracy was characterized by which of the
following changes?
A)
Politicians emphasized a high education or strong qualification for
the job and boasted of their upper class status or wealth.
B)
The percentage of eligible voters casting ballots increased with
each election as mass
mass politics became a popular activity.
C)
Parties relied primarily upon mass communication tools,
especially the newspaper and pamphlets.
D)
Party bosses tried to clean up their acts; ridding the party of
corruption, kickbacks, and the spoils system.
E)
Political deals, congressional caucuses, behind the scenes
manipulation were common during this era.
33.
Which was the major item of debate in the election of 1828 which saw
the ascension of Andrew Jackson to the Presidency?
A)
InterventionistEuropean foreign policy
B)
Tariffs
C)
Personalities of the candidates
D)
Western land sales and prices
E)
Manufacturing
34.
The Tariff of 1828 provoked publication of a pamphlet called The South
Carolina Exposition & Protest. This pamphlet offered what solution to the
tariff dilemma?
A)
Secession
B)
Nullification
C)
Virtual representation
D)
Loose construction interpretation of the Constitution
E)
Doctrine of implied powers
35.
Considering the issue of government and economics, Andrew Jackson
was a(n)…
A)
soft money advocate
B)
defender of the national debt
C)
proponent of high tariffs
D)
hard money advocate
E)
advocate of a graduated income tax
Martin Van Buren:
36.
What democratic political bureaucrat was the leader of the New York
“Buck Tails?”
A)
John C. Calhoun
B)
Theodore Roosevelt
C)
Martin Van Buren
D)
Thurlow Weed
E)
Gouverner Morris
37.
The newly formed legislative caucus in New York led by Martin Van
Buren was known as:
A)
Democrats
B)
Federalists
C)
Loyalists
D)
Copperheads
E)
regency
38.
The consensus “great” Whig leader of the Van Buren era was?
A)
Henry Clay
B)
John Quincy Adams
C)
Daniel Webster
D)
James K. Polk
E)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39.
Which of the following events DID NOT TRANSPIRE UNDER Martin Van
Buren?
A)
Invention of the steel plow by John Deere
B)
Massachusetts establishes state board of education
C)
Whig Party organized
D)
Mormon migration to Illinois
E)
Independent Treasury Act was passed into law by Congress
40.
Which of the following events was considered by many to be Van Buren’s
major economic achievement?
A)
Gold Rush to California
B)
Mormon migration to Utah
C)
Samuel F.B. Morse invents the telegraph
D)
Large scale development of railroads
E)
Steam power manufacturing begins
William Henry Harrison:/John Tyler
41.
The distinguishing factors about William Henry Harrison as the President
of the US were ALL EXCEPT:
A)
He was a military hero//and a Congressional delegate from Ohio
B)
He was the oldest man to become President//lived the shortest
time in office
C)
He was known as “Old Hickory//and Billy Budd
D)
He was a Whig from Ohio//Governor of Indiana Territory
E)
He inaugural address was the longest on record//Director of US
Bank
James K. Polk:
42.
The primary advocate of “Manifest Destiny” as the public policy of the
United States Government was:
A)
Andrew Jackson
B)
James K. Polk
C)
John L. O’Sullivan
D)
Henry Clay
E)
Thomas Hart Benton
43.
James K. Polk, sent John Slidell to Mexico to:
A)
purchase Texas
B)
secure recognition of the Texas annexation
C)
purchase California
D)
end the Mexican War
E)
negotiate the purchase of the Oregon Territory
44.
The Oregon Treaty of 1846
A)
established a boundary on the Columbia River
B)
was on the whole a British victory
C)
was a colossal Russian defeat
D)
fulfilled Polk’s campaign slogans and promises
E)
was a reasonable compromise
45.
Which of the following movements did not occur in the 1844-1848 period
of US History?
A)
Gag Rule
B)
Split of the Baptist Church into Northern and Southern Churches
C)
Publication of The Essay on Civil Disobedience
D)
Hawthorne writes The Scarlet Letter
E)
George Morton discovers ether as anesthesia
Franklin Pierce:
46.
The cotton gin is to the South as ____ is to ____
A)
commerce ::New York
B)
railroad :: West
C)
fishing :: Alaska
D)
lumbering :: Northeast
E)
cattle raising :: Wyoming
47.
Mormons are to Utah as ____ is to ____
A)
Baptists :: Florida
B)
Catholics :: California
C)
Quakers :: Oregon
D)
Utopian Socialists :: Old Northwest
E)
Lutherans :: Mississippi Valley
48.
The aggressive administration of President Franklin Pierce sought to…
A)
engage Spain and England in a war over Mexico
B)
force Japan open to trade
C)
dig a Nicaraguan canal
D)
annex Canada
E)
acquire Cuba
49.
The election of 1852 was genuinely significant in US History because:
A)
It set back the Democratic Party
B)
It highlighted the achievements of the Whigs
C)
It doomed the Whig Party in national political culture of the future
D)
It spawned a compromise over slavery that avoided civil war
E)
It gave birth to the Republican Party
50.
Men who became giants and forerunners of the Civil War era included
ALL EXCEPT:
A)
Abraham Lincoln
B)
Stephen A. Douglass
C)
William H. Seward
D)
Henry Clay
E)
William Lloyd Garrison
James Buchanan:
51.
The election of 1856 is significant for a variety of reasons. Which of the
following is NOT an 1856 issue?
A)
This election brought forth the advent of the long awaited
sectional party—the Republicans.
B)
Buchanan failed to take strong measures against secession.
C)
Brooks attacked Sumner in one of the most appalling scenes of
modern democracy
D)
The waning of the American Party became a political reality
E)
The rendering of the Dred Scott case occurred
52.
James Buchanan openly sided with:
A)
advocates of Manifest Destiny
B)
provisions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
C)
southerners who were pro-slavery in Kansas over the Lecompton
Constitution
D)
anti-slavery prosecutors of the Dred Scott case
E)
anti-immigration advocates of European immigration
53.
The period 1856-1860 included ALL OF THE historical crises EXCEPT:
A)
Dred Scott v. Sanford
B)
Lincoln vs Douglas Debates
C)
Panic of 1857
D)
Buchanan accepted skillful aid of Thurlow Weed
E)
Sent Col. Albert Sidney Johnson against the Mormons in Utah
54.
Senator William H. Seward, labeled the national political crisis a(n)…
A)
blundering generation
B)
irrepressible conflict
C)
victory for republicanism
D)
age of permanent sectionalism
E)
the modern curse of urbanism vs rural agrarianism
55.
The single greatest impact of actions and events taken during the
Buchanan Administration was the
A)
political reemergence of Abraham Lincoln
B)
the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C)
the writing and distribution of Hinton R. Helper’s book, The
Impending Crisis.
D)
decisions by the Buchanan pro-Northern Supreme Court
E)
drafting of the Chrittendon Compromise on slavery
Abraham Lincoln:
56.
Which of the following combinations of rivals did Lincoln choose to
nominate as cabinet members upon his election 1860?
A)
Douglas, Bates, Jeff Davis, and Cameron
B)
Cameron, Stephens, Lee, and Seward
C)
Seward, Chase, Bates, and Cameron
D)
Weed, Grundy, Blair, and Andrew Johnson
E)
Blair, Douglas, Fremont, and Grant
57.
Which descriptive term most carefully identifies Abe Lincoln’s abolitionist
feelings?
A)
He was a fanatic abolitionist
B)
He was a liberal abolitionist on principle only
C)
He was undecided and unconcerned about abolitionism
D)
He was a moral or conscience abolitionist
E)
He was anti-abolitionist
58.
Which of the following men did NOT participate in the election of 1860 as
a candidate
A)
Lincoln
B)
Douglas
C)
Breckenridge
D)
Bell
E)
Buchanan
59.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the North had all of the following
advantages EXCEPT:
A)
more manpower
B)
more industry
C)
stronger consensus concerning war aims
D)
an established government recognized by all nations
E)
superiority in number of naval vessels
60.
Abraham Lincoln viewed the Civil War primarily as a…
A)
struggle in the economic interest of the northern bankers and
merchants
B)
crusade to abolish slavery
C)
test of the inviolability of the union
D)
struggle against the dominance of Southerner in national
government
E)
struggle to secure full citizenship for Negroes
Andrew Johnson:
61.
Andrew Johnson’s conception of what was to be done following the Civil
War is best described by the term:
A)
“Squatter sovereignty”
B)
“Restoration”
C)
“Scalawag supremacy”
D)
“Military reconstruction”
E)
“Distribution of forty acres and a mule”
62.
The remarkable characteristic of Johnson’s reconstruction policy was
that it was:
A)
arbitrary and suspicious
B)
mild and compromising
C)
a capitulation to the radical views in the North
D)
original and visionary
E)
vague but diplomatic
63.
Historians Thomas A. Bailey and David Kennedy have argued that
Reconstruction was…
A)
an effective and enduring revolution to advance political
democracy
B)
a movement of unintended consequences
C)
a static and reactionary move that set the US back a century in
progress
D)
a more bitter pill for the South to swallow than the War itself.
E)
to delay the effectiveness of women’s rights movement
64.
Which post-war President of Reconstruction signed the now powerful and
precedent setting 14th Amendment to the Constitution?
A)
Andrew Johnson
B)
Abraham Lincoln
C)
Ulysses S. Grant
D)
James A. Garfield
E)
Chester A. Arthur
65.
The Reconstruction Act of 1867 dealt specifically with:
A)
the economic reconstruction of southern agriculture
B)
the social conditions of the ex-slaves
C)
the establishment of military reconstruction in five districts under
Union generals
D)
the rebuilding of the rail system in the South
E)
the steps necessary to go from “conquered provinces” to member
of the republican union.
Ulysses S. Grant:
66.
The major achievement of the Grant Administration which was actually a
process out of it’s control concerned which of the following issues that
dramatically was beneficial to the whole American nation?
A)
Effective and peaceful completion of reconstruction
B)
Effectively dealing with the hoards of immigration coming from
Europe
C)
Efficient readjustment of southern agricultural problems
D)
Effective reestablishment of diplomatic relations with European
nations
E)
Allowing the rise of industrialism to go forward unregulated
67.
The most vital trans-continental development in railroad building
occurred when…
A)
The Great Northern railroad was completed
B)
The Northern Pacific railroad was completed
C)
The Central Pacific and Union Pacific was joined at Promontory
Point
D)
The Southern Pacific connected the North and South
E)
The Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe rail line began operations
68.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of the pre-Grant years of
Reconstruction?
A)
The war devastated southern society
B)
Every major southern city law in ruins
C)
The social structure of the South was weakened
D)
There were only minimal affects upon African Americans
E)
The per capita wealth was more than twice that of all eleven
Confederate states.
69.
Which of the following combination of events was clearly outside the
period of the Administration of President Ulysses S. Grant?
I.
Credit Mobilier Scandal
II.
Ku Klux Klan Act
III.
Publication of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
IV.
Glidden invent “Barbed Wire”
V.
Atlanta Compromise
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
70.
I & III
IV & II
III & V
II & V
IV & I
Which of the following massacres occurred during the presidential watch
of Ulysses S. Grant”?
A)
The Hauns Mill Massacre
B)
The Colfax Massacre
C)
The Fetterman Massacre
D)
Deerfield Massacre
E)
Wounded Knee Massacre
Rutherford B. Hayes:
71.
At the time of his inauguration, President Hayes was view by a great
majority of the American people as having been...
A)
elected by fraud
B)
considered to be a major reformer
C)
a political supporter of radicalism in reconstruction
D)
a pro-Western railroad magnate
E)
a New England conservative
72.
During Hayes’ Administration, he was able to gain recognition as
reformer and fighter against:
A)
radical reconstruction
B)
Indian massacres in the mid-West
C)
abusive pork barrel riders to essential appropriation bills
D)
abuse of workers in the burgeoning factories of America
E)
farm subsidies by Congressmen from the Midwest
73.
A common feature of southern agriculture under the Hayes
Administration was:
A)
homesteading
B)
government land grants
C)
subdividing plantations
D)
sharecropping
E)
introduction of the sugar industry into agriculture
James A. Garfield:
74.
Which of the late 19th century issues does NOT affect the administration
of James A.
Garfield?
A)
He was a compromise candidate for the nomination after the 34
ballot of the convention.
B)
Garfield had a deep-seated aversion to parading his own virtues.
C)
Indian massacres and battle on the Midwest frontier
D)
Democrats attempted to taint Garfield as a scandal monger
E)
James G. Blaine changed political parties after Garfield’s
nomination
75.
Who among the following became the colorful, magnetic, and powerful
Secretary of State, during Garfield’s presidency, in much the same
fashion William H. Seward did under Lincoln?
A)
Roscoe Conkling
B)
Rutherford B. Hayes
C)
James G. Blaine
D)
Grover Cleveland
E)
Chester A. Arthur
Chester A. Arthur:
76.
The presidential successor to Garfield, due to the assassin’s bullet,
Arthur is known for each of the following EXCEPT:
A)
Arthur signed the Pendleton Act
B)
Arthur was the product the most powerful patronage machine in
existence
C)
Arthur signed a tariff law noted for doing nothing
D)
Arthur was a major foreign policy expert
E)
Arthur was unique in that he was first incumbent President whose
party refused to re-nominate him for another term of office.
Grover Cleveland:
77.
Grover Cleveland became the first president after 1868 to
A)
secure a majority of both popular and electoral votes
B)
have a party majority in both houses of Congress
C)
take steps to end Reconstruction
D)
have been born in the South
E)
break Republican control of the White House
78.
The Cleveland-Blaine campaign of 1884 was aimed primarily at:
A)
lowering tariffs
B)
reviving the Bloody Shirt issue
C)
reforming the civil service
D)
exposing the personal shortcomings of the candidates
E)
regaining the European powers allegiance to avoid continental war
79.
Which combination of two laws was Grover Cleveland famous for
signing?
A)
Interstate Commerce Act // Dawes Severalty Act
B)
Pendleton Act // Pension Appropriations Act
C)
Tenure of Office Act // Sherman Tariff Act
D)
Gold Standards Act // Sherman Silver Purchase Act
E)
Reconstruction Acts // Forest Reserve Act
Benjamin Harrison:
80.
Benjamin Harrison is most commonly identified with and responsible
for…
A)
Dawes Severalty Act
B)
“Billion dollar” out of control Congress of 1890
C)
Rise of Knights of Labor
D)
Formation of United States Steel Corporation
E)
Formation of Standard Oil Trust
William J. McKinley:
81.
William J. McKinley was the first Gilded Age President to focus on
aggressive…
A)
Development of imperialism in foreign policy matters
B)
Rejection of insularism
C)
Approval of organized labor’s anti-immigrant socialism
D)
Domestic acceptance of William James ideas of pragmatism
E)
Development of the rise of populism
82.
Which member of Lincoln’s “Team of Rivals” was retained by McKinley to
run the foreign policy of the US?
A)
Salmon P. Chase
B)
Simon Cameron
C)
Francis Blair
D)
William Henry Seward
E)
William Jennings Bryan
83.
Men who made a major impact upon foreign affairs in the Gilded Age
included ALL EXCEPT:
A)
William H. Seward
B)
Hamilton Fish
C)
James G. Blaine
D)
Henry Cabot Lodge
E)
Samuel Gompers
84.
The weak and ineffective Presidents of the Gilded Age were complimented
by powerful
A)
Vice Presidents
B)
Secretaries of State
C)
Secretaries of the Treasury
D)
Powerful Democratic Senators
E)
Powerful industrial magnates that supported the Presidents
85.
The primary feature of American government during these years signaled
the development of:
A)
powerful standing armies
B)
of useful navies for imperial motives
C)
of powerful centralized government
D)
major powers and policies coming from the Supreme Court
E)
rapid settlement of western US into statehood
Theodore Roosevelt:
86.
Who was the first American President to draw popular attention to the
need for a national conservation policy?
A)
Theodore Roosevelt
B)
Woodrow Wilson
C)
Herbert Hoover
D)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
E)
John F. Kennedy
87.
Which of the following items of modern power structures would Theodore
Roosevelt have rejected as unacceptable?
A)
industrialism
B)
nationalism
C)
progressivism
D)
imperialism
E)
fanaticism
88.
Which of the following “Deals” did TR propose to the American People?
A)
Fair Deal
B)
Square Deal
C)
New Deal
D)
Raw Deal
E)
Vegas Deal
89.
Which of the following items was NOT an action of President TR?
A)
Pure Food & Drug Act
B)
Roosevelt Corollary
C)
Built the Panama Canal
D)
Newlands Reclamation Act
E)
Veto veterans pension bill
90.
Theodore Roosevelt would earn the Nobel Prize in 1906 for helping bring
to an end a war between which combination of two nations.
A)
France // Germany
B)
Spain // Italy
C)
Britain // Turkey
D)
Japan // Russia
E)
Mexico // Argentina
91.
Roosevelt’s victory in the Northern Securities Company case (1904) was
his first significant trust-busting effort; was aimed at the unpopular
railroad industry, and which of the following captains of industry?
A)
James J. Hill
B)
Andrew Carnegie
C)
John D. Rockefeller
D)
Leland Stanford
E)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
William Howard Taft:
92.
The economic oriented foreign policy of the man who succeeded Theodore
Roosevelt as President was known as:
A)
Manifest Destiny
B)
Dollar Diplomacy
C)
Social Darwinism
D)
Reciprocity with nations
E)
World safe for democracy
93.
“He graduated 2nd in his class at Yale, was an enviable lawyer, and
judicial scholar…” Which of the following progressives is Historian David
Kennedy talking about?
A)
Robert LaFollette
B)
Theodore Roosevelt
C)
Woodrow Wilson
D)
William Howard Taft
E)
John Hay
94.
Which of the following issues were not issues on which Taft had to deal
during his single term as President of the United States.
A)
trust-busting
B)
tariff
C)
inter-government agency fights
D)
impeachment crisis
E)
Senatorial insurgency
95.
What did Taft call the supporters of TR when he returned to oppose Taft
in 1912?
A)
feeble miscreants
B)
emotional and neurotic
C)
intellectual snobs
D)
naked thieves
E)
wishy-washy-turncoats
Woodrow Wilson:
96.
At the beginning of the 20th century Woodrow Wilson ascended to the
White House with a profound sense of…
A)
idealism
B)
realism
C)
pragmatism
D)
surrealism
E)
imperialism
97.
Wilson by any standard of judgment was a(n)_____ President in 1912 in
the first term of office.
A)
plurality
B)
minority
C)
majority
D)
super-majority
E)
compromised
98.
Which of the following trusts did Wilson “go after” upon his election to
the Presidency?
A)
railroad
B)
copper
C)
banking
D)
steel
E)
oil
99.
Woodrow Wilson was fundamentally opposite his two progressive
presidential predecessors in
that he hated which of the following
A)
nationalism
B)
dollar diplomacy
C)
insularism
D)
pluralism
E)
imperialism
100.
Wilson did not confront any of the basic causes of war that led to World
War I EXCEPT he did not approve of
A)
nationalism
B)
militarism
C)
imperialism
D)
alliance systems
E)
propaganda
101.
Wilson “pushed society’s envelope” by appointing a man to the Supreme
Court who he knew would be controversial. That person was…
A)
William Howard Taft
B)
Charles Evans Hughes
C)
Louis D. Brandeis
D)
Owen Roberts
E)
Robert Jackson
102.
The chief cause for the entry of the United States into World War I, was
Germany’s
A)
policy of peaceful penetration into Mexico
B)
invasion of Belgium
C)
resumption of submarine warfare
D)
campaign of sabotage in the United States
E)
air attack on the Atlantic coast of the US
103.
Which of the following tandem issues were not long range causes of
warfare in the first half of the 20th century?
A)
imperialism // racism
B)
nationalism // fanaticism
C)
militarism // alliance building
D)
propaganda // yellow journalism
E)
manifest destiny // neutrality
104.
Wilson’s avowed intentions in going to the Versailles Peace Conference
was to…
A)
make the world safe for democracy
B)
punish the Germans and Austrians
C)
achieve the provisions of the fourteen points
D)
halt Russian expansionism in eastern Europe
E)
create the United Nations
105. The battle in which the Americans took the primary role of halting the
Central Powers was
A)
Rock of the Marne
B)
Muese-Argonne Forest
C)
Cantigny
D)
Piave
E)
Verdun
Warren G. Harding:
106.
Under President Harding the U.S.
A)
ratified the Treaty of Versailles with reservations
B)
took no notice whatever of the League of Nations
C)
we sacrificed actual naval superiority
D)
we sacrificed potential naval superiority
E)
became over night the world’s only super-power
107.
The Washington Naval Conference of 1921-22
A)
actually achieved no arms reductions
B)
improved the tense atmosphere in the Pacific
C)
left the Philippines in a stronger position
D)
made a highly favorable impression on Japan
E)
protected Australia from invasion
108. The Ohio Gang included which pair of men appointed by Warren
Harding.
A)
Harry F. Sinclair // William Howard Taft
B)
Henry Ford // Charles Evans Hughes
C)
Harry M. Daugherty// Albert B. Fall
D)
Herbert C. Hoover // Andrew Mellon
E)
Calvin Coolidge // John Scopes
Calvin Coolidge:
109.
President Calvin Coolidge presided over a nation that was affected by ALL
OF THE FOLLOWING EXCEPT:
A)
a tremendous business boom cycle
B)
a cultural renaissance among both Black and White communities
C)
an economic age of affluence and change
D)
a blistering depression and war
E)
an age fundamentalism and prohibitionist
110.
Thomas Edison was to the Gilded Age as _____ was to _____
A)
Charles Evan Hughes :: World War I
B)
Wilbur Wright :: Progressive Era
C)
Herbert C. Hoover :: the Great Depression
D)
Al Jolson :: Sports Era
E)
Henry Ford :: was the Jazz Age
Herbert Clark Hoover:
111.
One of the great writers of the age who, in terms of the way he lived, and
the themes of his literary works, the author most representative of the
“Lost Generation” was:
A)
Ernest Hemingway
B)
Langston Hughes
C)
John Dos Passos
D)
John Steinbeck
E)
Sinclair Lewis
112.
Which of the following diplomatic treatises and attending doctrines was
written and applied during the Herbert Hoover Administration?
A)
Olney Doctrine—Platt Amendment
B)
Roosevelt Corollary—Dollar Diplomacy
C)
Clark Memorandum—Good Neighbor Policy
D)
Ostend Manifesto—Teller Amendment
E)
Alliance for Progress—Peace Corps
113.
Which of the following is NOT TRUE of Herbert Hoover?
A)
Born in Iowa and orphaned, but worked his way through Stanford
University
B)
He was a fabulously successful mining engineer who worked
abroad
C)
He was a gregarious out-going and social man who merged easily
in high society
D)
His real power lay in his integrity, humanitarianism, and loyalty.
He was known as “Chief!”
E)
He was the intellectual spirit behind the development of “Good
Neighbor Policy.”
114.
Which of the following issues was NOT a long-range cause of the Great
Depression which confronted Herbert Hoover?
A)
Over production by farmers
B)
Over speculation in the stock market
C)
Over extension of credit by banks
D)
Over spending on credit by consumers
E)
Over regulation of Securities & Exchange Commission
115.
Hoover’s presidential theme was:
A)
Manifest Destiny
B)
Rugged Individualism
C)
The Square Deal
D)
Scientific Management
E)
The Open Door Policy
Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
116.
Which of the following tandem events and statements is true of the 1932
Democratic Convention in Chicago?
A)
FDR smashed precedent by accepting nomination in person // “I
pledge to you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American
people.”
B)
The democratic platform supported prohibition // “Happy Days
are here again!”
C)
Al Smith proudly proclaimed… // “Out of the Red with Roosevelt”
D)
FDR rousingly shouted // “damn the deficit spenders!”
E)
FDR forebodingly warned that // “All we have to fear, is fear
itself!”
117.
FDR’s first “New Deal” aimed at a triad of prescriptural solutions to the
Depression. Which of the following combinations of programs is NOT
correct?
A)
Reform actions // Glass-Steagall Act, NRA, TVA,
B)
Recovery actions // Emergency Banking Relief, CCC, & FERA
C)
Reactionary actions // PWA, Beer & Wine Act, & RFC
D)
Relief actions // AAA, HOLC, & WPA
E)
Later reform actions // FHA, Wagner Act, & Fair Labor Standard
Act
118.
FDR made many historical decisions, but one of the first decisions was a
major issue involving women:
A)
Using his wife a goodwill ambassador
B)
Choosing a woman as Vice President
C)
Allowing Margaret Chase to become a US Senator
D)
Allowing Mary McLeod Bethune to become a director of minor
government agency
E)
Appointing Frances Perkins to serve as the Secretary of Labor and
first woman to serve in a President’s Cabinet
119.
Which of the following economic groups needed Roosevelt’s attention due
to natural disasters?
A)
Union workers in the cities
B)
Women across the America
C)
Students from the universities
D)
Farmers from the “Dust Bowl” states
E)
Eastern seaboard businessmen
120.
Which dual set of programs were declared “unconstitutional” by the
Supreme Court during the New Deal Years?
A)
NRA & AAA
B)
TVA & SEC
C)
NLRB & HOLC
D)
WPA & PWA
E)
FERA & CCC
121.
Which two crises enable FDR to bring the US into the modern world of
1945?
A)
Supreme Court crisis // Dust Bowl
B)
World War II // Great Depression
C)
Rise of Fascism // collapse of labor in 1930’s
D)
Changing his Vice Presidents// Organizing the CIO
E)
Suppressing civil liberties // mandating integration in Armed
Forces
122.
William H. Seward was to Abraham Lincoln as _____ was to _____
A)
James G. Blaine :: Benjamin Harrison
B)
Alexander Hamilton :: George Washington
C)
Henry Clay :: Andrew Jackson
D)
Cordell Hull :: Franklin D. Roosevelt
E)
Henry L. Stimson :: Woodrow Wilson
123.
The day “that will live in infamy!” is which of the following?
A)
Black Friday, Sept. 24, 1869
B)
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
C)
December 7 1941
D)
June 6, 1943
E)
April 12, 1945
124.
What presidential action of FDR did NOT move this nation toward World
War II?
A)
Lend-lease Act
B)
Einstein letter of August 2, 1939
C)
de facto isolation and neutrality during the 1930’s
D)
the Atlantic Charter covenant struck by Churchill and Roosevelt
E)
pre-1940 Japanese relocation movement
125.
A major, early set of naval battles that stopped Japanese aggression &
expansionism were:
A)
Pearl Harbor & Midway
B)
Midway & Coral Sea
C)
Leyte Gulf & Mariana Islands campaign
D)
Coral Sea & Invasion of the Philippines
E)
Gilbert Islands & Okinawa
Harry S. Truman:
126.
Harry
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
S. Truman aided the cause of civil liberty
denouncing Southern support in the 1948 presidential election
desegregation of the armed forces of the United States
integrating the public schools of Missouri & Arkansas
ordering non-discrimination clauses in all defense contracts
integrating restaurants, movie theaters, and interstate travel
127.
Truman’s twin decisions involving war in the modern world on a level
never before known are:
A)
Normandy Invasion and Battle of the Bulge
B)
Authorization to invade the Philippines and French Indochina
C)
Fire bombing of Tokyo and attack order for Iwo Jima
D)
Eisenhower’s authorization to cross the Rhine and invade the City
of Berlin
E)
The Korean police action of 1950 and the bombing of
Hiroshima/Nagasaki
128.
During the Second World War civil liberties in the US were most
conspicuously violated by the
A)
relocation of Japanese Americans
B)
jailing German and Japanese pacificists
C)
persecution of pro-Hitler German Americans
D)
persecution of Russian-American Communists
E)
crack-down on Jewish American press
129.
Truman’s action to remove Gen. Douglas MacArthur from command of
the United Nations forces during the Korean War exemplifies the
constitutional power of…
A)
separation of powers
B)
federal supremacy
C)
civilian control of the military
D)
concept of limited government
E)
checks and balances
130.
Which of the following World War II military figures became the architect
of Truman’s foreign policy?
A)
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
B)
Gen. George S. Patton
C)
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
D)
Adm. William F. Halsey
E)
Gen. George C. Marshall
Dwight David Eisenhower:
131.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s chief cold war problem was…
A)
Sputnik
B)
Ending the Korean War
C)
McCarthyism
D)
U-2 Incident
E)
death of Joseph Stalin
132.
Which Supreme Court case, rendered under the Eisenhower
Administration by a Chief Justice appointed by Eisenhower, mandated
racial integration?
A)
Muller v. Oregon
B)
Schenck v. United States
C)
Schecter Poultry v. US
D)
Dennis v. US
E)
Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS
133.
President Eisenhower’s economic and national unification program was
manifest in…
A)
Establish several trans-continental airlines
B)
Rebuilding the nations railroads
C)
Building the new freeway, parkway, and ribbons highways
D)
careful supervision of the stock market
E)
rebuilding the nations ports on both oceans
134.
The area of the world where the Cold War was most acutely focused was:
A)
Japan
B)
Germany
C)
Argentina
D)
Nigeria
E)
Philippines
135.
Nuclear weaponry has reached a colossal xenophobia of fear, because of
the creation of ALL EXCEPT:
A)
Hydrogen warheads
B)
Missiles for delivery
C)
Computers for programmed delivery
D)
Neutron bombs
E)
Defense mechanisms
John F. Kennedy:
136. Which of the following issues did NOT occur during the Kennedy
Administration
A)
Cuban Missile Crisis
B)
Berlin crisis—construction of Wall
C)
The Vietnam quagmire
D)
Serious labor union strikes
E)
Serious civil rights conflicts
137.
John F. Kennedy surrounded himself what he called; “The best & the
brightest”. Among them were included ALL EXCEPT:
A)
Mc George Bundy
B)
Thurgood Marshall
C)
Dean Rusk
D)
Robert F. McNamara
E)
Douglas Dillon
138.
There is an interesting and somewhat significant correlation between the
cabinet members of FDR and JFK, in that they
A)
were all New Englanders
B)
business executives of major national importance
C)
intellectuals from the major universities of the nation
D)
included several southerners and western figures
E)
nearly half of them were women, minorities, and bachelor’s
139.
The twin relics of national crisis and foreign shame that occurred during
the Kennedy Administration were:
A)
Vietnam and Civil Rights
B)
Collapse of the Common Market and social violence at home
C)
Betrayal of foreign leaders to help Kennedy and national failure of
the economy
D)
Alienation of young people against power and greed of world
leaders for imperialist power
E)
Development of drug culture and the unabashed greed of
corporate America.
140.
The single greatest tragedy of “Camelot”
A)
sky-rocketing crime rates
B)
appalling poverty
C)
assassinations
D)
sexual revolution
E)
emergence of the radical “New Left!”
Lyndon Baines Johnson:
141.
The years from 1963-1968 are a complete tragedy for a man who was
such a political idealist and moral pragmatist, that it has the plot of an
operatic tragedy. Which of the following was THE ONLY BRIGHT SPOT
in the Administration of Lyndon Johnson?
A)
Vietnamese war
B)
Civil Rights catastrophes
C)
Student revolts
D)
Black power vs White backlash
E)
War On Poverty
142.
What
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
was the single event that dealt Johnson’s credibility a fatal blow?
Danang Air strike
Tet Offensive
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
The bombing raids over the north
Dien Bien Phu attack
143.
Lyndon Johnson stunned the nation and the world in March of 1968,
with the announcement:
A)
that he would not run again
B)
that he was resigning immediately
C)
that he felt betrayed by those who were of his own party
D)
that Robert F. Kennedy had been assassinated
E)
that Martin Luther King had been assassinated
Richard M. Nixon:
144.
To whom did Richard Nixon appeal in political quest for the Presidency?
A)
The New Left
B)
The Radical Left
C)
The silent majority
D)
The John Birch Society
E)
The Conservative Fundamentalist Right
145.
Leading figures appointed by newly elected Presidents are always
historically significant in that they are the ones who will set the agenda,
formulate the policies, and execute the actions of the government looking
forward. Which of the list is generally considered to be the foreign policy
“master mind” of the Nixon Years?
A)
Robert Finch
B)
William J. Fulbright
C)
George McGovern
D)
Robert McNamara
E)
Henry Kissinger
146.
The fascinating term that came to characterize Nixon foreign policy was:
A)
“Open Door Policy
B)
“Détente”
C)
“Good Neighbor Policy”
D)
“Peace without victory policy”
E)
“Unilateral application of democracy”
147.
Which of the following TWO events occurred early in the Nixon
administration that both shocked and awed the world?
A)
Apollo 11 // Kent State murders
B)
Assassination of Martin Luther King // Congress passes ERA
C)
Nixon’s resignation // NOW founded
D)
Paris Peace Accords // Cuban Missile Crisis
E)
War Powers Act-73 // Roe v. Wade decided
148.
The resignation of Richard Nixon came as the result of the investigation
into the…
A)
Vietnam war
B)
Assassination of Malcolm X
C)
Kent State Massacre
D)
Watergate investigation
E)
The escalation of the Vietnam War into Cambodia and Laos
149.
Which pair of African American leaders wrote wholly contrasting views
about race relations in American?
A)
James Foreman // Jesse Jackson
B)
Stokley Carmichael // Thurgood Marshall
C)
Martin Luther King // Malcolm X
D)
Jackie Robinson // Willie Mays
E)
Jim Brown // Wilt Chamberlain
150.
What nineteenth century concept of politics did both Richard Nixon and
Henry Kissinger share in common?
A)
Détente
B)
Neo-Machiavellian idealism
C)
Gradual release of imperialistic motives
D)
Realpolitik
E)
National Socialism
Answer Key
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MAY MADNESS!!!!!
PRESIDENTIAL BRACKETOLOGY
Prior to the beginning of the annual NCAA basketball tournament, the 64 contenders are
matched in brackets to determine the order of play in the tournament. Typically, the
higher ranked teams play lower ranked teams in the early rounds.
Well, it’s time for Presidential Bracketology (the analysis, and completion, of the
competitive matchups to predict the winner). In this case, there are no college basketball
teams involved. There are just the 42 men who have served as President of the United
States.
Your task is to select the president who, in your opinion, did the better job as chief
executive than did his opponent. As you select a winner in each matchup, you advance
that winner to his next opponent who has also eliminated an opponent. Eventually,
through the process of elimination, you will be selecting the best president in American
history.
As you select each winner, you must provide a one-sentence (historically and
significantly factually valid) reason for your choice of the winner.
In the championship match, between the last two presidents, you must provide a oneparagraph elaboration as to why your choice for winner is superior to all of the others.
There is one other point about your validations. You may not repeat a reason for a
president’s victory in his next matches.
The nice part is this is all derived from your educated opinion. The better part is that you
must be accurate in your factual evidence for the victory.
PRESIDENTIAL BRACKETOLOGY
For each “game” in the brackets, you must pick a “winner” who was the better president. You
must also include a one sentence explanation of why the winner was a better president than the
man he defeated. This holds true for all of the matchups until you have a champion president. In
order to receive full credit for this assignment, you must attach your brackets showing all of your
matchups and winners.
Game
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Winner
Bracket #1 – Round 1
Explanation
Game
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Winner
Bracket #2 – Round 1
Explanation
Game
A
Winner
Bracket #3 – Round 1
Explanation
B
C
D
E
NO GAME
NO GAME
F
G
H
GAME
I
J
K
L
NO GAME
WINNER
Bracket #1 – Round 2
EXPLANATION
WINNER
Bracket #2 – Round 2
EXPLANATION
GAME
I
WINNER
Bracket #3 – Round 2
EXPLANATION
J
K
NO GAME
GAME
I
J
K
L
Game H winner automatically advances
L
Game
M
N
Winner
Bracket #1 Round 3
Explanation
Winner
Bracket #2 Round 3
Explanation
Game
M
N
Winner
Bracket #3 Round 3
Explanation
GAME
O
WINNER
Bracket #1-Round 4
EXPLANATION
GAME
O
WINNER
Bracket #2-Round 4
EXPLANATION
GAME
O
WINNER
Bracket #3-Round 4
EXPLANATION
Game
M
N
Game I winner automatically advances
“THE FINAL THREE”
Round 5
GAME
P
Bracket
#1
winner
versus
Bracket
#2
winner
P
WINNER
EXPLANATION
Bracket 3 winner automatically goes to the Final.
CHAMPIONSHIP
_________________________vs._________________________
Winner ______________________________________________
Explanation _____________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________
Your Name ______________________________________________
PRESIDENTIAL MATCHUPS
Bracket #1
Seed
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
President
Lincoln
Jackson
Reagan
Polk
Madison
J. Adams
Kennedy
Hayes
G. H. W. Bush
Coolidge
Carter
B. Harrison
Grant
Tyler
A. Johnson
Garfield
Bracket #2
Seed
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
President
FDR
TR
Truman
Polk
Monroe
McKinley
L. Johnson
Clinton
Van Buren
Arthur
Hoover
Ford
Taylor
Nixon
Pierce
Buchanan
Bracket #3
Seed
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
President
Washington
Jefferson
Eisenhower
X
X
Wilson
X
J. Q. Adams
Taft
X
G. W. Bush
X
X
Fillmore
Harding
W. H. Harrison
Games:
Round 1:
Game
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Opponents
1 vs. 16
8 vs. 9
5 vs. 12
4 vs. 13
6 vs. 11
3 vs. 14
7 vs. 10
2 vs. 15
Round 2:
Game
I
J
K
L
Opponents
Game A winner vs. Game B winner
Game C winner vs. Game D winner
Game E winner vs. Game F winner
Game G winner vs. Game H winner
Round 3:
Game
M
N
Opponents
Game I winner vs. Game J winner
Game K winner vs. Game L winner
Round 4:
Game
O
Opponents
Game M winner vs. Game N winner
Round 5:
Bracket #1 winner vs. Bracket #2 winner
Bracket # 3 winner automatically advances
Championship Matchup
Winner of Bracket #1 vs. #2 takes on the Bracket #3 winner.
REVIEW EXERCISE
Listed here are six time periods, most linked with a president. You need to
correctly match the events listed below with the time period in which it occurred
or began to occur.
Colonial Era George
John
Washington Adams
Thomas
Jefferson
Undeclared naval war with France
War of 1812
American Revolution
Neutrality Proclamation
Louisiana Purchase
“War” with Barbary Pirates
Purchase of Florida Treaty
Non-Intercourse Act
Panic of 1819
Bill of Rights adopted
“Revolution of 1800”
Hartford Convention
XYZ Affair
Rush-Bagot Treaty
Creation of First U.S. Bank
Declaration of Independence
Midnight Judges
“Era of Good Feeling”
Burr Conspiracy
“O Grab Me!”
“Millions for defense, not one cent for tribute”
Macon’s Bill No. 2
Genêt Affair
Intolerable Acts
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
Missouri Compromise
Convention of 1818
The Jay Treaty
James
Madison
James
Monroe
Chronology Review
Match the events below with the proper time period/presidential administration.
A)
B)
C)
D)
E)
F)
G)
H)
I)
J)
K)
Early Colonial era 1607-1700
Later Colonial era 1701-1764
Revolutionary era 1765-1783
Crisis Period 1783-1789
Washington Administration 1789-1797
John Adams Administration 1797-1801
Thomas Jefferson Administration 1801-1809
James Madison Administration 1809-1817
James Monroe Administration 1817-1825
John Quincy Adams Administration 1825-1829
Andrew Jackson Administration 1829-1837
Events:
___ Northwest Ordinance
___ Chesapeake-Leopard Affair
___ Jay Treaty
___ Undeclared Naval War (France)
___ Navigation Acts passed
___ Burr Conspiracy
___ French and Indian War starts
___ Specie Circular
___ Alien and Sedition Acts
___ Corrupt Bargain
___ Adams-Onís Treaty
___ Salutary Neglect begins
___ Panama Mission
___ King Philip’s War
___ Embargo Act
___ Transcontinental Treaty
___ Nullification Crisis
___ Indian Removal Act
___ Hartford Convention
___ Sugar Act
___ Tariff of Abominations
___ Macon’s Bill No. 2
___ Bacon’s Rebellion
___ Kentucky/Virginia Resolutions
___ Proclamation of Neutrality
___ Midnight Judges appointments
___ Era of Good Feeling
___ Pinckney Treaty
___ New England Confederation established
___ creation of Second U.S. Bank
Chronological Review – Student Sets
Know the chronological order of each set and the decade most associated with the term.
Set one
Set two
Declaration of Independence
Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions
Compromise of 1877
Embargo
Adams-Onis Treaty
Sumner-Brooks Affair
Interstate Commerce Act
Mexican American War
Nullification Crisis
Monroe Doctrine
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Halfway Covenant
Emancipation Proclamation
Alien and Sedition Acts
Compromise of 1850
Pinckney Treaty
French and Indian War
Gadsden Purchase
Northwest Ordinance
Salem Witch Trials
Set three
Set four
Marbury v Madison
Homestead Strike
Bacon’s Rebellion
Munn v Illinois
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Missouri Compromise
Corrupt Bargain
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Mr. Madison’s War
Battle of Saratoga
Whiskey Rebellion
Stamp Act
XYZ Affair
Great Awakening
The Dominion of New England
Military Reconstruction
City on a Hill
Founding of Jamestown
Annexation of Texas
Pacific Railway Act
Set five
Set six
Redeemer Governments formed
Pennsylvania Founded
Treaty of Paris 1783
Louisiana Purchase
Proclamation Act
Boston Tea Party
Populist Party formed
Lincoln’s Assassination
Bank War
Great Railway Strike
McCulloch v Maryland
Intolerable Acts
Pendleton Act
Battle of Gettysburg
Haymarket Square riot
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Indian Removal Act
Treaty of Ghent
Sharecropping begun
Headright System
Chronological Review
In the blank to the left of the items, place a number from 1 to 10 (1=earliest, 10=most recent), placing the items in the correct
chronological order. Then, in the blank to the right of the items, write the decade in which the event occurred.
Set one
Set two
_____ Bacon’s Rebellion
________
_____
Adams-Onis Treaty
________
_____ Intolerable Acts
________
_____
The Embargo
________
_____ Boston Tea Party
________
_____
Alien and Sedition Acts
________
_____ Stamp Act
________
_____
Quasi War with France
________
_____ French and Indian War
________
_____
Chesapeake Affair
________
_____ Declaration of Independence
________
_____
Midnight Appointments
________
_____ Battle of Saratoga
________
_____
Louisiana Purchase
________
_____ Great Awakening
________
_____
Pinckney Treaty
________
_____ Articles of Confederation
________
_____
Jay Treaty
________
_____ Halfway Covenant
________
_____
Establishment of the BUS
________
Set three
Set four
_____ Invention of the Cotton Gin
_______
_____
Manifest Destiny
_______
_____ Marbury v Madison
_______
_____
Ratification of the Constitution
_______
_____ Monroe Doctrine
_______
_____
Second Great Awakening
_______
_____ McCulloch v. Maryland
_______
_____
Compromise of 1850
_______
_____ Corrupt Bargain
_______
_____
The Dominion of New England
_______
_____ Missouri Compromise
_______
_____
Trail of Tears
_______
_____ Chartering of the Second BUS
_______
_____
Northwest Ordinance
_______
_____ Mr. Madison’s War
_______
_____
XYZ Affair
_______
_____ Tariff of Abominations
_______
_____
Bleeding Kansas
_______
_____ Treaty of Ghent
_______
_____
“City on a Hill”
_______
over
Set five
Set six
_____ Mexican-American War
_______
_____
Townshend Acts
_______
_____ Republican Party formed
_______
_____
First American Party System
_______
_____ Kansas-Nebraska Act
_______
_____
Articles of Confederation
_______
_____ Lincoln-Douglas Debates
_______
_____
Indian Removal Act
_______
_____ Dred Scott v Sandford
_______
_____
Northwest Ordinance
_______
_____ Harper’s Ferry
_______
_____
Compromise of 1850
_______
_____ California admission
_______
_____
Common Sense
_______
_____ Wilmot Proviso
_______
_____
Battle of Yorktown
_______
_____ Summer-Brooks Affair
_______
_____
Oregon acquired
_______
_____ Crittenden Compromise
_______
_____
Bank War
_______
Presidential Administration with Historical Significance
Write the last name of the presidential administration most associated with each of the following terms in
the blank to the left. In one clear, concise sentence give the historical significance of each term.
____________________________________A. Philip Randolph threatened March on Washington
____________________________________Whiskey Rebellion
____________________________________Bank War
____________________________________Pendleton Act
____________________________________Spanish-American War
____________________________________XYZ Affair
____________________________________Federal Reserve Act
____________________________________13 th amendment
____________________________________Fair Deal
____________________________________Economic Opportunity Act
____________________________________Integration of the Armed Forces
____________________________________Missouri Compromise
____________________________________Homestead Act
____________________________________Wounded Knee
____________________________________Interstate Highway Act
____________________________________National Defense Education Act
____________________________________South Carolina Exposition
____________________________________Embargo
____________________________________Acquisition of Oregon
____________________________________End of Reconstruction
____________________________________Washington Naval Conference
____________________________________Watergate
____________________________________Square Deal
____________________________________Panama Canal
____________________________________Panama Canal Treaty
____________________________________California admitted as a free state
____________________________________Corrupt Bargain
____________________________________Sherman Anti-Trust Act
____________________________________Marbury v Madison
____________________________________Antietam
____________________________________Open Door policy
____________________________________U-2 Incident
____________________________________Chesapeake Affair
____________________________________Teapot Dome
____________________________________War Powers Act
____________________________________McCarthyism
____________________________________Cross of Gold speech
____________________________________Erie Canal completed
____________________________________Pinckney Treaty
____________________________________Hartford Convention
____________________________________Battle of Little Big Horn
____________________________________16 th amendment
____________________________________Tenure of Office Act
____________________________________Monroe Doctrine
____________________________________Louisiana Purchase
____________________________________Montgomery Bus Boycott
____________________________________Interstate Commerce Act
____________________________________Fourteen Points
____________________________________New Frontier
____________________________________Dollar Diplomacy
____________________________________Annexation of Texas
____________________________________Nullification Crisis
____________________________________Treaty of Ghent
____________________________________Worcester v Georgia
____________________________________19th amendment
____________________________________New Deal
____________________________________New immigration surpasses old immigration
____________________________________Tet Offensive
____________________________________Jay Treaty
____________________________________American System
____________________________________John Brown’s Raid
____________________________________18 th Amendment
____________________________________Sputnik
____________________________________Camp David Accords
____________________________________Manifest Destiny
____________________________________Nat Turner’s Rebellion
____________________________________Korean War
____________________________________Three Mile Island
____________________________________Flappers
____________________________________Seneca Falls Convention
____________________________________CCC
____________________________________Iran-Contra Scandal
____________________________________New Freedom
____________________________________Homestead Strike
____________________________________Brinkmanship
____________________________________Massive Resistance
____________________________________Voting rights act
____________________________________Quasi war with France
____________________________________Irish Immigration
____________________________________First American Party System
____________________________________Dred Scott v Sandford
____________________________________Mexican Cession
____________________________________Dawes Act
____________________________________Plessy v Ferguson
____________________________________Brown v Board of Education
____________________________________Fair Labor Standards Act
____________________________________Battle of Midway
____________________________________Lend-Lease Act
____________________________________Baby Boom
____________________________________Affirmative Action
____________________________________Scopes Trial
____________________________________Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
____________________________________Creel Committee
____________________________________The Lost Generation
____________________________________Kansas-Nebraska Act
____________________________________Triple Wall of Privilege
____________________________________Bay of Pigs
____________________________________Cuban Missile Crisis
____________________________________Tennessee Valley Authority
____________________________________Pure Food and Drug Administration
____________________________________Log Cabin and Hard Cider Campaign
____________________________________NATO
____________________________________Northwest Ordinance
____________________________________Transcendentalism
____________________________________Sharecropping
____________________________________Free Soil Party
____________________________________Reservationists
____________________________________United Nations
____________________________________Bank Holiday
____________________________________Marshall Plan
Historical Terminology
Indentured servants
Mayflower compact
Halfway Covenant
William Penn
George Whitfield
Bacon’s Rebellion
House of Burgesses
Iroquois Confederacy
Salutary Neglect
James Oglethorpe
Olive Branch Petition
Stamp Act Congress
Coercive Acts
Non-importation Agreements
Sons of Liberty
Monroe Doctrine
Marbury v Madison
BUS
Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions
Pinckney Treaty
Shays’ Rebellion
Lowell System
War Hawks
American System
Seneca Falls Convention
Dorothea Dix
William Lloyd Garrison
Maine Laws
Free Soilers
Ostend Manifesto
Apologist View of Slavery
Nature of the Union
Bread and Butter Unionism
Populist Party
Sharecropping
Dawes Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Jim Crow Laws
Horizontal Integration
Battle of Wounded Knee
Grange
Injunction
Chinese Exclusion Act
Social Darwinism
Cross of Gold Speech
Thomas Nast
Trade and Navigation Acts
Roger Williams
Salem Witch Trials
Peter Zenger Trial
Mercantilism
Middle Passage
Anne Hutchinson
Headright System
Albany Plan
Proclamation of 1763
Pontiac’s Rebellion
Townshend Acts
Boston Tea Party
Virtual Representation
Tea Act
Corrupt Bargain
Embargo
Tecumseh
Jay Treaty
Whiskey Rebellion
Northwest Ordinance
Erie Canal
Hartford Convention
Assumption
Trail of Tears
Hinton Helper
Popular Sovereignty
Prigg v Pennsylvania
Cult of Domesticity
Removal of Deposits
Homestead Act
Black Codes
Plessy v Ferguson
AFL
Social Gospel
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Knight of Labor
Turner Thesis
Vertical Integration
Civil Service Act
Framer’s Alliances
Coxey’s Army
Redeemers
Carpetbaggers
J. P. Morgan
Historical Terminology
____Mayflower compact
1. secured the right of deposit at New Orleans
____Halfway Covenant
2. laws violating the equal protection clause of the 14 th amendment
____George Whitefield
3. it’s suppression demonstrated the government would enforce its laws
____Bacon’s Rebellion
4. established freedom of religion in Rhode Island
____Coercive Acts
5. major banker of the late 19th century
____Monroe Doctrine
6. notion that only the most fit businesses should survive
____Virginia-Kentucky Resolutions
7. made “separate but equal” constitutional
____Pinckney Treaty
8. Adams became president, Clay became Secretary of State
____Shays’ Rebellion
9. sought public works programs for unemployed during Panic of 1893
____Lowell System
10. made Virginians more fearful of freed indentured servants
____American System
11. its 160 acres encouraged western settlement on the Great plains
____Bread and butter unionism
12. factory system of the early industrial revolution
____Populist Party
13. caused by Jackson’s failure to honor Worcester v Georgia decision
____Dawes Act
14. major farm organization of “swing” states
____Interstate Commerce Act
15. Native American uprising following the French and Indian War
____Jim Crow Laws
16. British attempts to enforce mercantilistic system
____Horizontal integration
17. closed the Western Hemisphere to further European colonization
____Battle of Wounded Knee
18. philosophy of the American Federation of Labor
____Grange
19. secured British removal from the Northwest forts
____Social Darwinism
20. Pendleton Act resulting from Garfield’s assassination
____Trade and Navigation Acts
21. controlling all of the outlets for selling a given product
____Roger Williams
22. discredited the Federalist party
____Salem Witch Trials
23. 1880s enactment designed to breakdown tribal power
____Albany Plan
24. failed attempt at uniting the colonies prior to the American Revolution
____Proclamation of 1763
25. showed conflict between commercial/agrarian interest in Puritan town
____Pontiac’s Rebellion
26. British retaliation for Boston Tea Party
____Corrupt Bargain
27. Clay attempt to create a national market economy
____Jay Treaty
28. proposed the compact theory of government
____Whiskey Rebellion
29. established the principle of majority rule
____Northwest Ordinance
30. demonstrated the inability of the Arrt. of Con. to maintain order
____Hartford Convention
31. favored government ownership of railroads
____Trail of Tears
32. Great Awakening preacher
____Homestead Act
33. first attempt of the federal government to regulate railroads
____Plessy v Ferguson
34. believed American history is understood by looking at the frontier
____Social Gospel
35. indication that the “city on a hill” was breaking down
____Sherman Anti-Trust Act
36. middle class responsibility to uplift the poor
____Turner Thesis
37. established system by which territories become states
____Civil Service Act
38. used more against labor unions than big business
____Coxey’s Army
39. 1760s British attempt to end salutary neglect
____J.P Morgan
40. symbolic end of Indian resistance