What did many Americans fear would be the consequence if the United States were not to compete for international prestige and influence?

A) The country would be reconquered by Britain.
B) The United States would be overtaken by Canada.
C) The United States would be a second-rate power and inevitably decline.
D) American industry would be starved of the foreign raw materials on which it depended so heavily.

How did Americans respond to President Theodore Roosevelt's method of securing rights to an isthmian canal?

The founding voice of the social Gospel movement was

A) Josiah Strong.
B) Grover Cleveland.
C) William M Tweed.
D) Frances Willard.

In 1903, W.E.B. DuBois penned a powerful essay with this eloquent opening statement: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of

A) class inequality."
B) the color line."
C) the woman in the family."
D) public education."

As enclosure of land resulted in fewer farmers, many of these people moved to English cities, becoming jobless and causing vagrancy.

According to Gunnar Myrdal, America's dilemma was a conflict between

A) America's rhetoric at home and its foreign policy abroad.
B) American values and American racial policies.
C) American business ethos and American labor unions.
D) America's isolationism and Germany's aggression.
E) American liberalism and American conservatism.

Which of the following best describes how the United States understood its role in Central and Latin America early in the 20^th century?

A) teacher
B) policeman
C) father
D) judge

After the opening up of a second front with the success of the Normandy invasion on D-Day, British and American troops inflicted devastating damage upon the Germans, resulting in the Germans suffering over 80 percent casualties.

Which group of settlers in the New World originally held all land in common until 1627?

A) the Roanoke colony
B) supporters of Anne Hutchinson
C) Levellers
D) Pilgrims
E) the Virginia Company

What is the significance of the Mayflower Compact?

A) It was the first written frame of government in the American colonies.
B) It formally acknowledged Indian ownership of their ancestral territories.
C) It established the headright system.
D) It was only signed by the wealthiest of the colonists.
E) It acknowledged that women had the right to vote.

Puritans were

A) English settlers who advocated for the right of all religious dissenters in New England to freely practice their own religion.
B) English Catholics who wanted England to become Catholic again.
C) English Protestants who rejected the teachings of John Calvin.
D) English Protestants who believed that the Church of England was still too similar to the Catholic Church.
E) Catholic settlers in Maryland who sought to keep all Protestants out of the colony.

One of the most important consequences of late nineteenth century industrialization and global migrations was

A) urbanization.
B) the demise of racism.
C) the expansion of democratic principles.
D) the rise in food prices.

How does Henry Care differentiate France and England in his text English Liberties or The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance?

A) He describes the French people as subject to the Catholic Church, while the English are free to follow their own consciences and forgo religion.
B) He describes the French king as having unlimited power, while the English king is said to be constrained by laws and the rights of the people.
C) He describes the French people as simple and poor, while the English are prosperous and sophisticated in every respect.
D) He describes the French people as enjoying true liberties, while English subjects struggle with liberties that exist only in name.
E) He describes the French people as appropriately respectful of their king's decisions, while the English consistently create problems by challenging their monarchy.

Japanese propaganda depicted Americans as a self-indulgent people contaminated by ethnic and racial diversity, as opposed to the racially "pure" Japanese.

In Gibbons v. Ogden the Supreme Court

A) recognized workers' rights to organize by declaring that strikes are legal actions.
B) recognized that workers have the right to organize if their intent is to improve their working conditions.
C) expanded Congress's power by ruling that trade on the nation's waterways fell under the commerce clause of the Constitution.
D) protected the sanctity of contracts against state interference.

When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island

A) he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.
B) the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.
C) he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
D) he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.
E) the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.

Women working in defense industries during the war

A) were viewed as permanent workers after the war, so long as they did a good job.
B) made up one-third of the West Coast workers in aircraft manufacturing and shipbuilding.
C) had little impact on the war effort.
D) were small in number, as most women took clerical work or joined the military service as nurses.
E) were all young, single women who left their jobs once they got married.

Who was the translator and guide for the Lewis and Clark expedition?

A) Patrick Gass
B) Zebulon Pike
C) Sacagawea
D) York

The appearance of European traders in West Central Africa in the fifteenth,sixteenth,and seventeenth centuries encouraged all of the following developments EXCEPT

A) the spread of Catholicism in some kingdoms.
B) the centralization of political authority in many states.
C) the conquest and settlement of many African states by European settlers.
D) the intensification of internal conflicts over sovereignty and the legitimacy of rulers.

In his book The American Century, Luce argues that

A) Americans should embrace European hegemony.
B) Americans should stop thinking of themselves as better than the rest.
C) Americans should return to isolationism.
D) Americans should prepare to be the world leaders.
E) Americans should stop intervening in international conflicts.