This is what I have so far. Please do not print it out, but use it to help you study. If you really
want to print it out, just highlight the necessary chapters and then print “selection”. The
necessary additions and corrections will be made down the road.
Fast Track Answer Key for the questions at the end of every Chapter
Chapter 1:
1. (C) 2. (A) 3. (D) 4. (B) 5. (C)
13. (E) 14. (C) 15. (C) 16. (E)
Chapter 2:
1. (C) 2. (B) 3. (C) 4. (D) 5. (A)
13. (B) 14. (E) 15. (A) 16. (D)
Chapter 3:
1. (B) 2. (A) 3. (C) 4. (C) 5. (D)
13. (A) 14. (B) 15. (B) 16. (E)
Chapter 4:
1. (C) 2. (A) 3. (B) 4. (D) 5. (E)
13. (B) 14. (C) 15. (D) 16. (E)
Chapter 5:
1. (B) 2. (E) 3. (A) 4. (D) 5. (C)
13. (D) 14. (B) 15. (C) 16. (B)
6. (A) 7. (E) 8. (B) 9. (D) 10. (E) 11. (C) 12. (A)
6. (E) 7. (B) 8. (B) 9. (D) 10. (E) 11. (A) 12. (C)
6. (B) 7. (E) 8. (D) 9. (A) 10. (B) 11. (E) 12. (C)
6. (A) 7. (B) 8. (D) 9. (C) 10. (E) 11. (B) 12. (A)
6. (A) 7. (C) 8. (B) 9. (A) 10. (D) 11. (E) 12. (A)
Chapter 6:
1. C
2.B
3.A
4.E
5.E
6.A
7.B
8.C
9.B
10.A 11.D
12.A 13. E 14.C 15.A 16.C
Chapter 7:
1. A
2.D
3.A
4.B
5.B
6.E
7.C
8.C
9.D
10.B 11.E
12.C 13.A 14.E 15.D 16.B
Chapter 8:
1. C
2.C
3.B
4.E
5.C
6.A
7.B
8.D
9.E
10.B 11.C
12. A
13.E 14. A 15. B 16. E
Chapter 9:
1. D
2.C
3.B
4.E
5.C
6.A
7.B
8.D
9.C
10.A 11.E
12.D
13.B 14.D 15.C 16.A
Chapter 10:
1. B
2.D
3.C
4.D
5.A
6.E
7.C
8.C
9.D
10.B 11.A
12.B
13.D 14.E 15. A 16.E
Chapter 11: 1 (B); 2 (C); 3 (E); 4 (A); 5 (B); 6 (E); 7 (D); 8 (B); 9 (A); 10 (A); 11 (C); 12 (D);
13 (B); 14 (A); 15 (B); 16 (C)
Chapter 12: 1 (E); 2 (B); 3 (A); 4 (A); 5 (C); 6 (D); 7 (B); 8 (C); 9(E); 10 (E); 11 (B); 12 (D); 13
(C); 14 (A); 15 (D); 16 (A)
Chapter 13: 1 (C); 2 (A); 3 (B); 4 (E); 5 (C); 6 (D); 7 (B); 8 (B); 9 (C); 10 (E); 11 (A); 12 (B);
13 (C); 14 (C); 15 (E); 16 D)
Chapter 14: 1 (A); 2 (C); 3 (D); 4 (B); 5 (A); 6 (B); 7 (E); 8 (C); 9 (E); 10 (A); 11 (D); 12 (C);
13 (B); 14 (B); 15 (A); 16 (C)
Chapter 15: 1 (D); 2 (C); 3 (A); 4 (B); 5 (E); 6 (B); 7 (A); 8 (C); 9 (D); 10 (C); 11 (B); 12 (A);
13 (E); 14 (B); 15 (B), 16 (D)
Chapters 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
1. From the outset the US
government grappled
with the uncomfortable
question of slavery in
all of the following
legal measures
EXCEPT the
(A)Northwest Ordinance in
1787
D
(B)Constitutional ban on slave
imports beginning in 1801
(C)Missouri Compromise in
1820
(D)Nonimportation act of
1807
(E)Compromise of 1850
2. What single event
(A)The War of 1812
halted idealistic
discussions in the early (B)The Invention of the cotton
republic about the
gin
eventual end of slavery
(C)The election of
slaveholding presidents like
Washington and Jefferson
B
(D)The explosion of tobacco
as an export crop
3. Which of these
economic woes was
NOT associated with
cotton cultivation in
(E)The Congressional Gag
Order
(A)A concentration of wealth,
economic resources, and
power in fewer and fewer
hands
E
the south
(B)Excessive land cultivation
and soil depletion
(C)Over-speculation in land
and slaves
(D)Increasing vulnerability to
a volatile world market
4. Nearly three-quarters
of all white
southerners by 1860
(E)Rising numbers of new
immigrants seeking to profit
from the land
(A)Owned no slaves
A
(B)Owned slaves
(C)Cultivated cotton
(D)Were connected to the
plantation system
(E)Lived in or around the
Appalachian Mountains
5. Which of the following (A)Some owned slaves and
is NOT a true
property
statement free blacks
in Antebellum
(B)They shared the same
America
voting and other whites as
white men everywhere
B
(C)Some purchased their
freedom by working after
hours for extra money
(D)Southern freed-men were
at risk for being captured and
re-enslaved
6. The number one form
of wealth in the South
was
(E)They were often despised
more in the North than in the
South
(A)Land
(B)Slaves
B
(C)Cotton crops
(D)Tobacco crops
7. Considered one of the
most traumatic aspects
of slavery, forced
separations of loved
ones happened most
frequently on
(E)Inheritance
(A)Small plantations in the
upper south
A
(B)Large plantations in the
upper south
(C)Large plantations in the
deep south
(D)Small plantations in the
deep south
8. Slaves worked to
undermine masters
authority and regain
some small margin of
autonomy in all the
following ways
EXCEPT by
(E)Farms and plantations of
all sizes
(A)Slowing down the pace of
their work
C
(B)Taking food from their
masters kitchens and gardens
(C)Destroying homes and
crops
(D)Pilfering household and
other goods from masters
homes
9. What was the result of
the slave uprising
aboard the Amistad in
1839
(E)Sabotaging equipment
(A)Slaves commandeered the
ship and successfully returned
to Africa
(B)Slaves who rebelled were
sentenced to death
(C)Slave rebels ultimately
won their freedom in court
(D)It led to the passage of
slave codes in the south
C
(E)The conflict led to a fire
that claimed he lives of all
passengers and destroyed the
ship
10. The earliest antislavery (A)Immediate and complete
efforts focused mainly emancipation
on
(B)Gradually freeing the
slaves over a period of years
E
(C)Transporting slaves back to
their own colony in the region
that would become the United
States
(D)Aiding slave rebellions and
uprisings
11. How did the two great
abolitionists, former
slave Fredrick Douglas
and northern white
businessman William
Lloyd Garrison, differ
in their strategy for
ending slavery
(E)Exporting slaves back to
Africa
(A)Douglas believed that the
north should break away from
the slaveholding south,
Garrison did not
B
(B)Garrison renounced
political remedies, Douglas
embraced them
(C)Garrison sought the violent
overthrow of slavery,
Douglass did not
(D)Douglass made more
incendiary speeches, Garrison
appealed more to reason
integrity and principal
(E)Douglass was prone to
theatrics, Garrison was known
for his impassioned speeches
12. Nat Turner’s rebellion
produced all of the
following results
EXCEPT that it
(A)Made white southern
slaveholders more fearful of
slaves and hostile towards
them
D
(B)Fueled the passage of strict
slave codes
(C)Halted discussions about
ending slavery in southern
states
(D)Breathed new life into
abolitionist movement in the
south
13. Which of these was
NOT offered as a
defense of slavery
(E)Inspired pro slavery
advocates to defend slavery as
a positive good
(A)That it was a positive
good, supported by the bible
E
(B)That slaves were treated as
family members
(C)That it was good for the
Africans, who were inferior
people
(D)That slaves were better
treated and cared for than
northern factory workers
(E)That slavery provided
blacks with minimal education
in reading and writing
(A)The northern economy
was tightly bound to that of
the South
14. The main reason that
much of the North did
NOT initially embrace
abolitionism or support
it until the 1850s was
(B) Most northerners disliked
that
the lecturing, protests, and
other tactics employed by
abolitionists.
(C) Northerners were not yet
sure whether slave or paid
labor would drive
industrialization.
A
(D) Territorial expansion had
not yet become a major
concern for the North.
(E) Northerners considered
slavery a matter for the states
to decide.
15. How did the abolition
process in the united
states differ from the
process in other parts
in the Americas
(A) The united states
abolished slavery long before
most nations in Latin America
E
(B) Violent slave revolts in
other nations were integral to
the abolitionists cause
(C) Slavery was abolished in
Latin America before the
nations became independent
(D) The United States
promised emancipated land
and compensation
16. Southern society, more
than other parts of the
United States,
resembled British
society because
(E) Abolition in the United
States was the result of the
bloodiest war in American
history
(A) There was a small, distinct A
planter class
(B) State legislatures had one
house in which seats were
inherited
(C)Leading voices in the south
fought for abolition
(D) Elite southerners favored
the writing of Sir Walter Scott
1. What distinguished William
(E) Women controlled the
social activities in their
homes.
(A) It was plagued by tensions
B
Henry Harrison’s presidency?
between western settlers and
Native Americans.
(B) It was the shortest on
record.
(C) It was marked by hard
drinking.
(D) It was undermined by
venomous Whig party politics.
(E) It was the first time a
frontiersman held the United
States’ highest office.
2. What prompted fiercely
loyal Whigs to denounce their
leader, President John Tyler,
as “His Accidency”?
(A) His veto of bills to
A
establish a national bank
(B) His refusal to sign the
Tariff of 1842
(C) His height and natural
clumsiness
(D) His perceived ineptitude
as president
(E) His inability to keep his
entire cabinet from resigning
3. Tyler was considered by
(A) Supported states’ rights
C
contemporaries as a
over a nationalist agenda.
“Democrat in Whig clothing” (B) Disliked protective tariffs.
for all of the following reasons (C) Favored federal funding of
EXCEPT that he
internal improvements like
roads and canals.
(D) Opposed a national bank.
(E) Rejected the idea of
turning profits from the sale of
western lands over to the
states.
4. In the 1830s, America’s
relationship with Britain was
marked by all of the following
EXCEPT
(A) A borrower-lender status.
(B) Being constantly on the
brink of war.
(C) A series of compromises.
(D) Ongoing boundary
disputes.
(E) Tension over tariffs.
E
5. The U.S.-British tension
(B) Granting the entire area in
over the Maine-Canada
question to the British.
boundary that nearly sparked a (C) Dividing the area equally
D
war was finally settled in 1842
by
between the two nations.
(D) Adjusting the Canadian
border so that the United
States gained an additional
6,500 square miles.
(E) Adjusting the Canadian
border so that the British
gained thousands of square
miles of U.S. territory.
6. Which of the following did
NOT influence the decision to
annex Texas, the Lone Star
Republic, to the United States
in 1845?
(A) Fear that Texas’s
continued independence made
America vulnerable
(B) The belief that Mexico
would not be able to reclaim
its lost Texas territory
(C) Increasing British interest
in Texas
(D) Pressure from southern
states to annex Texas, ideally
as a slave territory
(E) Whig campaigning in the
1844 election on the promise
of annexing Texas
7. Manifest Destiny is best
described as
(A) A sense of mission to
C
ultimately eliminate slavery
from U.S. soil.
(B) The goal of expelling all
foreign influences from
American borders so that the
nation could fully develop as a
republic.
(C) The notion that America
was ordained by God to
spread its democratic
institutions beyond its existing
borders.
(D) America’s push toward
becoming a commercial nation
and a world power.
(E) A phrase coined by Henry
Clay to justify pushing the
British further back into
Canada.
E
8. How was the question of
the Oregon boundary finally
resolved between the United
States and Britain?
(A) Britain peacefully settled
for the proposed line of 49°.
(B) America threatened war
with England over setting the
boundary at the Columbia
River.
(C) Polk pushed his 1844
campaign promise of the 54°
40’ line until Britain agreed.
(D) The two nations agreed to
continue jointly occupying the
region, as they had done for
decades.
(E) American settlers in the
territory attacked small
clusters of British until they
withdrew into Canada.
A
9. All of the following fanned
the flames that led to the U.S.
war with Mexico EXCEPT
(A) Polk’s desire for
B
California.
(B) Britain’s offer to purchase
California from Mexico.
(C) A dispute over where the
Texas border with Mexico
actually lay.
(D) Mexico’s anger at the U.S.
annexation of its territory in
revolt, Texas.
(E) American bloodshed at the
hands of Mexican troops along
the Rio Grande.
10. What was Polk’s real goal
once the battle with Mexico
began?
(A) To end the fighting once
he had captured California
(B) To conquer all of
Mexico’s land claims north of
the Nueces River
(C) To use Santa Anna to
betray—and help the United
States annex—Mexico
(D) To keep Mexico from
regaining Texas and
advancing into the United
A
States
(E) To take Mexico City
11. The Treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, which ended the
U.S.war with Mexico,
included all of the following
terms EXCEPT that it
(A) Confirmed that Texas
D
belonged to the United States.
(B) Gave the United States all
of the territory to the Pacific,
including California.
(C) Required the United States
to assume the land claims
against Mexico made by U.S.
citizens.
(D) Required the United States
to pay $25 million for its land
acquisitions, primarily
California.
(E) Granted to the United
States nearly one-half of all
the land formerly held by
Mexico.
12. Who were the Californios?
(A) The original inhabitants of B
the land later called California
(B) The descendants of
Spanish and Mexican
conquerors who once ruled the
region
(C) Christian missionaries
who sought to convert local
Indians along the Pacific
Coast
(D) Mexican prisoners
released from jail and sent to
settle California
(E) U.S. settlers who moved
into the territory acquired after
the war with Mexico
13. From a domestic
standpoint, which of these was
NOT a product of the war with
Mexico?
(A) A significant loss of life
and a weakening of the
U.S.Army
(B) Training the military
officials who would
eventually become leaders in
the Civil War
(C) Pushing the slavery debate
A
into the foreground
(D) Weakening U.S. relations
with Latin America
(E) Increasing the geographic
size of the United States by
one-third
14. Symbolically important,
the 1846 Wilmot Proviso
stated that
(A) Slavery should never be
A
established in the territories
acquired from Mexico.
(B) Each new territory in the
land acquired from Mexico
should decide the slave issue
for itself.
(C) Slavery in the United
States should end by a
specified date.
(D) The number of slave and
free states should remain equal
and balanced.
(E) Southern states would
make no effort to influence the
further course of slavery in the
territories.
15. John C Calhoun stated
“Mexico to us is the forbidden
fruit….the penalty of eating it
would be to subject our
institutions to political death.”
How did this prove to be true?
(A) Northerners took control
of the newly acquired land,
limiting the South’s power
(B) European Nations
regarded the United States as
an aggressor
(C) The controversy resulting
from gaining new land led to
the Civil War
(D) The United States went
into debt after paying millions
of dollars for the Mexican
Cession
(E) The President gained too
much power with the addition
of new territories
(A)gaining land that would
become New Mexico and
Arizona from Mexico
(B) lowering tariff rates
(C) annexing Texas
16.All of the following are
accomplishments from the
1340s are examples of
America fulfilling its Manifest
Destiny except
C
B
(D) Formally acquiring land in
Oregon Country
(E) acquiring gold-rich
California
1. The doctrine of popular
sovereignty, as embraced in
the mid-nineteenth century, is
best defined as
(A) Placing the power of the
federal government above that
of the states.
(B) Giving the people of a
territory or state the right to
decide the slavery issue for
themselves.
(C) The notion that
government is subject to the
will of the people.
(D) Allowing Congress to
decide the issue of slavery
prior to admitting a new state.
(E) Putting the good of the
majority ahead of individual
desires.
B
2. Who were the Free-Soilers?
(A) A political faction in the
C
South that embraced slavery in
the territories
(B) A political group
supporting the rights of
squatters to keep the land they
developed in the West
(C) A northern-based political
party that supported the
Wilmot Proviso and banning
slavery in the territories
(D) An abolitionist political
party that sought the
immediate end of slavery and
the granting of land plots to
freedmen
(E) A political coalition of
farmers that sought to curb the
excesses of industrial
development
3. Which of these statements
is NOT true about the
(A) It made many “fortyniners” rich.
A
California
Gold rush of 1849?
(B) It fueled lawlessness in the
California territory.
(C) It led Californians to seek
rapid admission as a state.
(D) It sent tens of thousands of
people into the territory
And overwhelmed state
government and resources.
(E) It reignited the slavery
debate.
4. The Underground Railroad
is best defined as a
(A) Group of businessmen
D
seeking monopoly control
over the burgeoning railroad
industry.
(B) Secret network of slave
owners, banding together to
recapture runaway slaves.
(C) Black market for trade
goods designed to circumvent
protective tariffs.
(D) Network of safe places
that hid runaway slaves on
their journey north to freedom.
(E) System for illegally
smuggling slaves from Africa
into the United States after
1808.
5. Which of these agreements
was NOT part of the
Compromise of 1850, which
kept the Union together?
(A) California was admitted as E
a free state.
(B) New Mexico and Utah
were allowed to decide the
slave question independently.
(C) A more severe fugitive
slave law was enacted.
(D) Texas received $10
million from the federal
government for ceding some
of its land to New Mexico.
(E) Slavery was abolished in
the District of Columbia.
6. The Fugitive Slave Law of
(A) It denied slaves the right
C
1850 was hated in the North
to testify on their own behalf.
for all of the following reasons (B) Northerners who helped
EXCEPT
slaves escape could receive
heavy fines and jail terms.
(C) Southerners could require
compensation from the federal
government for runaway
slaves that were not found.
(D) Northerners could be
required to help recapture
runaway slaves.
(E) commissioners would
receive lower compensation
for declaring a runaway slave
“free” than they would
For declaring him or her a
“fugitive.”
7. What was the major
significance of the presidential
election of 1852?
(A) It proved a triumph for the
Compromise of 1850.
(B) It marked the beginning of
the end for the Whig party.
(C) It put America’s first
“dark horse” candidate in the
White House.
(D) It launched a new Era of
Good Feelings across the
nation.
(E) It pitted two war heroes
against each other as
candidates for America’s
highest office.
B
8. The United States and New
Grenada (Colombia) signed a
vital treaty in 1848 that
(A) Gave the United States the
right to travel across the
isthmus in exchange for its
military neutrality.
(B) provided the United States
with exclusive use of the
isthmus in exchange for
military defense of New
Grenada.
(C) Broke ground on what
would become the Panama
Canal.
A
(D) United the two countries
against incursions into Central
America by England and other
European powers.
(E) Welcomed U.S. expansion
into Central America in
exchange for assistance with
new transportation systems.
9. What made the Ostend
Manifesto so controversial?
(A) It represented an attempt
at U.S. expansion into Asian
territories.
(B) It demonstrated northern
interest in blocking the further
acquisition of slave territories.
(C) It was a secret plan by the
United States to buy or take
Cuba.
(D) It had the backing of
Spain, France, and England.
(E) It was a declaration of war
if Spain did not release the
captured American ship Black
Warrior.
C
10. The importance of the
Treaty of Wanghia (1844) was
that it
(A) Gave the United States
E
access to Japanese markets.
(B) Banned tariffs on U.S.
imports to Japan and China.
(C) Granted the United States
coaling rights in Japan.
(D) Gave China the right to try
Americans accused of crimes
in China in Chinese courts.
(E) Was the first formal treaty
and trade agreement between
China and the United States?
11. Why was the Gadsden
Purchase such a contentious
issue?
(A) The $5 million purchase
price was outrageously high.
(B) It furthered southern
designs for locating a
transcontinental railroad there.
(C) It would add a new slave
territory and ultimately tip the
B
balance between free and
slave states.
(D) It sparked a renewed
debate about the process for
admitting new territories and
states.
(E) It further eroded U.S.Mexico relations.
12. The main push behind the
discussions about building a
transcontinental railroad in the
mid-1800s was the
13. The Kansas-Nebraska Act
heightened sectional tensions
between the North and the
South in all of the following
ways EXCEPT that it
14. Which of the following is
NOT a true statement about
the rise of the Republican
party in the mid-1850s?
(A) Need to boost the southern C
economy.
(B) Need to create jobs and
pull the nation out of an
economic depression.
(C) Goal of connecting the
Pacific Coast territories with
the rest of the nation.
(D) Desire for new markets
for northern manufactured
goods.
(E) goal of stimulating
Midwestern development
(A) Repealed the revered
E
Missouri Compromise.
(B) Divided Nebraska into two
territories that would decide
the slavery question
independently.
(C) Heightened antislavery
fervor in the North.
(D) Led northerners to resist
further compromise with the
South.
(E) Led to further enforcement
of the Fugitive Slave Act in
the North.
(A) The bulwark of its support
was below the Mason-Dixon
line.
(B) It drew dissatisfied Whigs,
Democrats, Free-Soilers, and
Know-Nothings.
(C) It symbolized the
increasing sectionalism that
was leading the nation toward
A
civil war.
(D) The party first emerged in
the Midwest in protest against
the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
(E) Within two years, the
party held the position of
Speaker of the House of
Representatives.
15. All of the following
indicate that the idea of the
Manifest Destiny would
extend beyond the North
American continent EXCEPT
16. Why was the Compromise
of 1850 a great feat in
American Political history?
1. All of the following are true
statements about Harriet
Beecher Stowe’s novel
EXCEPT
(A) the secret offer to
E
purchase Cuba
(B) Trade agreements in China
(C) Commodore Perry
opening Japan
(D) conflict with Britain in
Central America
(E) The Gadsden Purchase
(A) It solved the nation’s
B
problems in a way that most of
the country accepted
(B) Great statesmen worked
within the system, creating
separate legislation that
together became a
compromise
(C) It preserved the Missouri
Compromise line and kept the
balance of power in the Senate
(D) it settled the nation’s
slavery issues in that area,
preventing the need for future
compromise
(E) Congress and President
Taylor worked together to
help the nation overcome a
potentially disastrous crisis
(A) It helped spark the Civil
E
War.
(B) It was inspired by the
passage of the Fugitive Slave
Act.
(C) Stowe claimed that God
wrote the book.
(D) It sold hundreds of
thousands of copies in the
United States and beyond.
(E) It relied on Stowe’s many
personal experiences and firsthand knowledge of slavery.
2. Why was the Lecompton
Constitution considered a sly
maneuver?
(A) It included provisions for
A
allowing slavery in Kansas
even if the people voted
against slavery.
(B) It was an attempt to make
Kansas a free state, despite
earlier agreements that Kansas
would be admitted as a slave
state.
(C) It resolved competing land
claims in favor of
slaveholders.
(D) It sought to bypass normal
preconditions for moving from
territory status to statehood.
(E) It led to the establishment
of two different governments
in Kansas—one supporting
slavery and the
Other supporting the
abolitionist cause.
3. What was Preston Brooks’s
claim to fame?
(A) He was a proslavery
congressman who staunchly
criticized his home state of
South Carolina’s position
concerning
Slavery in the new territories.
(B) He badly beat Senator
Charles Sumner over a
provocative speech against
popular sovereignty and
slavery.
(C) He challenged Sumner to
a duel for having insulted his
countrymen and a distant
cousin.
(D) He was expelled from the
House of Representatives for
his violent outbursts.
(E) He staged an attack on
Kansas that came to be known
B
as Bleeding Kansas.
4. The Know-Nothing party,
(A) Of its hard-line stand
which first appeared on the
supporting new immigrants.
political scene during the 1856 (B) Of the secretive nature of
election, was so named
the party.
because
(C) It chose as its presidential
candidate a man who many
joked did not know much
about politics.
(D) It was a band of armed
ruffians who secretly staged
violent attacks on groups it
disliked.
(E) it was known for planting
negative stories about
opposing candidates in
newspapers and slinging mud
5. Which of the following was
NOT part of the Supreme
Court’s ruling in the landmark
Dred Scott case of 1857?
B
(A) A slave could be taken
C
into any state and remain a
slave, regardless of whether
the state itself was slave or
free.
(B) The Compromise of 1820
was never constitutional.
(C) Northern states could be
held legally accountable and
required to offer compensation
to slaveholders for not
returning runaway slaves.
(D) Dred Scott and his wife
were to retain their slave
status for life, unless their
owner determined to set them
free.
(E) As a slave, Dred Scott
could not sue in federal courts.
6. The economic crash of 1857 (A) Inflated currency values.
was caused by all of the
(B) Feverish land speculation.
following EXCEPT
(C) Overproduction of grain.
(D) Rapid decline in cotton
prices overseas.
(E) The collapse of hundreds
of businesses.
D
7. Why was Abraham Lincoln
nicknamed “Honest Abe”?
(A) Because he emerged from C
humble circumstances to
champion the cause of the
common man
(B) Because he worked hard,
earned an education, and
achieved everything on his
own merits
(C) Because, as a lawyer, he
would decline cases that went
against his conscience
(D) Because of his
impassioned and eloquent
response to the KansasNebraska Act
(E) Because he offered simple,
humble statements of his
political principles when
running for office
8. The major significance of
the famed Lincoln-Douglas
Debate in 1858 was that it
(A) Led to Lincoln’s victory
against Douglas in the Illinois
senate race.
(B) Helped Lincoln’s star to
rise in the political arena,
while Douglas’s began to fall.
(C) Led to passage of the
Freemont Doctrine.
(D) Was the first time two
presidential candidates held a
public debate?
(E) Inspired Lincoln’s
nomination for vice president
on the ticket with John
Fremont.
B
9. Ultimately, how did John
Brown best serve the
antislavery cause?
(A) Through his execution
(B) Through his violent raid at
Harpers Ferry
(C) Through his support of
Kansas as a free state
(D) Through his efforts to arm
slaves and lead them in a
rebellion
(E) Through his antislavery
A
writings and financial support
of northern abolitionists
10. Which of the following is
NOT a true statement about
the election of Abraham
Lincoln in 1860?
(A) He was not the abolitionist B
the South thought him to be.
(B) He was a majority
president.
(C) His election gave South
Carolina the excuse it needed
to secede.
(D) His election was due to
northern voters.
(E) He was not the first choice
for the Republican party
candidate.
11. Lincoln’s victory should
not have caused fear in the
South over slavery because
(A) The Supreme Court was
E
evenly split in terms of NorthSouth political views.
(B) The nation remained so
politically divided that no
majority will could have
prevailed.
(C) There were more slave
states than free states.
(D) Southern Democrats’
control of the House would
offset Northern Republicans’
control of the Senate.
(E) It would require a
constitutional amendment to
end slavery in slave states, and
there were enough votes to
defeat this.
12. Which of these states was
NOT among the half-dozen
that joined South Carolina in
seceding within just six
weeks?
(A) Alabama
(B) Mississippi
(C) Florida
(D) Missouri
(E) Texas
D
13. Lame duck President
Buchanan did not move to
block Southern states from
seceding mainly because he
(A) Considered the move a
bluff.
(B) Hoped to negotiate a
peace with the South.
(C) Did not believe states
C
could secede.
(D) was a pacifist and did not
want to use force.
(E) Did not want the North
calling the shots.
14. Which of the following
were NOT among Southern
justifications for secession?
(A) They were exerting their
A
majority political status and
clout.
(B) They were inspired by
nationalist movements around
the globe.
(C) They thought they had
voluntarily entered the Union
and could voluntarily
withdraw.
(D) They saw parallels
between their own experience
and that of the colonists and
King George.
(E) They feared that the rise of
the Republican party signaled
their eventual domination by
the North.
15. Which of the following
events caused the other four?
(A) Kansas Nebraska Act
(B) Formation of the
Republican party
(C) Northern and Southern
migration to Kansas
(D) Bleeding Kansas
(E) Sacking of Lawrence
(A) Northerners voted for the
democratic candidate, and the
Southerners voted for the
Whig candidate.
(B) Third-parties like the
Know-Nothing Party had
Great success in national
elections
(C) Presidents took actions to
delay the war so it wouldn’t
start during their
administrations
(D) New parties like the
16. How did sectionalism
trump political parties in the
years leading up to the Civil
War?
A
E
Republican party were created
(E) Parties split along North
South lines, with two
candidates often running for
the same office
1. Lincoln feared all of the
following possible outcomes if
secession were to go
unchecked EXCEPT that it
would
(A) Raise questions of how to B
divide the national debt
between the North and the
South.
(B) Inhibit industrial
development.
(C) Mean splitting federally
owned territories.
(D) Lead to increased numbers
of fugitive slaves.
(E) Entice Europe to possibly
seize American territories.
2. Why is the exchange at Fort
Sumter so important?
(A) It is considered the start of
the Civil War.
(B) It was where South
Carolina officially seceded.
(C) It was the first Southern
victory of the Civil War.
(D) It marked an act of
Southern aggression against
the North.
(E) It is the site where the
Union Army first attempted to
retake the seceding state of
South Carolina and send a
message to other states that
disunion would not be
tolerated.
A
3. In his efforts to retain the
border states within the Union,
Lincoln focused his efforts
primarily on
(A) Maryland.
(B) Delaware.
(C) West Virginia.
(D) Kentucky.
(E) Missouri.
D
4. Which of these is NOT why
Lincoln initially said that he
(A) He did not want to
alienate the border states that
C
was not fighting a war to free
the slaves?
5. All of the following are true
statements about soldiers on
both sides of the Civil War
EXCEPT
would be vital to his cause.
(B) He feared he would upset
other allied states.
(C) Members of his family
were slaveholders who were
on the side of the South.
(D) His main objective was
keeping the Union together.
(E) He sought to negotiate a
peace and was willing to
compromise on the slavery
issue to make it happen, if
necessary.
(A) Northern soldiers were
C
more intellectual and practical,
whereas Southern soldiers
were more emotional.
(B) Southern soldiers had
more difficulty adjusting to
military authority than their
Northern counterparts.
(C) Northern troops were
more concerned with
defending hearth and home.
(D) Southern soldiers had the
advantage of fighting
defensively, whereas
Northerners had to attack on
unknown terrain.
(E) Northern soldiers tended
not to be the natural fighters
that Southerners were.
6. Which of the following was
the most serious hardship
encountered by soldiers on
both sides of the Civil War?
(A) Food shortages
(B) Uniform shortages
(C) Boredom
(D) Lack of discipline in the
camps
(E) Disease
E
7. The South’s greatest
weakness in the conflict was
(A) Poor military leadership
from the outset.
(B) Its economy.
(C) Its lack of arms/weaponry.
(D) Its minimal control of the
B
seas.
(E) Its relatively small
population.
8. What did the South count
on most in its bid to win the
Civil War?
(A) Foreign intervention
(B) The strength of its army
(C) Its military leadership
(D) World demand for its
cotton crops
(E) Its knowledge of potential
battlegrounds
A
9. The biggest challenge
Confederate president
Jefferson Davis faced was
(A) Creating a currency for his C
new nation.
(B) Balancing his roles as
military and political leader.
(C) Ongoing tension between
states’ rights and the need for
a unified central government.
(D) Amassing an army.
(E) His lack of popularity.
10. Facing war, Lincoln
played fast and loose with the
Constitution in all of the
following ways EXCEPT that
he
(A) Declared a blockade
without congressional
approval.
(B) Increased the size of the
army.
(C) Ordered a $2 million
payout to private citizens
aiding the military effort.
(D) Suspended freedom of the
press by insisting that editors
avoid publishing anti-Union
articles or editorials.
(E) Suspended the writ of
habeas corpus.
D
11. What was the major spark
that triggered the New York
draft riots in 1863?
(A) The beginning of
B
mandatory conscription
(B) The provision that allowed
the rich to hire a substitute
when drafted
(C) The disproportionate
number of upstate farmers in
the military
(D) White men’s anger at
fighting a war over slavery
(E) The use of bounty brokers
to staff the army
12. The North financed its war
effort in all of the following
ways EXCEPT
(A) Issuing paper money.
(B) Excise taxes.
(C) Tariffs.
(D) Government bonds.
(E) Property taxes.
E
13. The Homestead Act of
1862 promised
(A) Not to tax private
property.
(B) Free land to those settling
the West.
(C) Leniency to those who
fled west to escape the draft.
(D) Free gold to those who
mined California.
(E) Oil leases to those settling
Pennsylvania.
B
14. Which of the following
were NOT among the official
roles women played during the
Civil War?
(A) Soldiers
(B) Cooks, launderers, and
tailors
(C) Government workers
(D) Spies
(E) Nurses
A
15. The Northern Blockade of
the south took advantage of
the South’s shortcomings in
all the following ways except
(A) It prevented the south
D
from exporting cotton,
denying the confederacy badly
needed revenue.
(B) the South could not
receive war supplies from
other nations and did not have
the industry to support itself
16.The Emancipation
Proclamation was
(C) the blockade starved the
population because there were
no imports and Southern land
was badly damaged by battle
(D) It stopped the South from
building effective warships
(E) It stymied Southern naval
efforts as the North gained
control of the waterways
around the south
(A) Created to free slaves
C
thought the Union and
Confederacy
(B) widely criticized by the
Northern press
(C) A military tactic that
strengthened Union morale
(D) Celebrated by abolitionists
(E) unrecognized by Southern
slaves
Chapter 21
1) C 2) C 3) B 4) E
14) B 15) B 16) D
5) D
6) C
7) A
8) B
9) E
10) C 11) D 12) A 13) E
Chapter 22
1) E 2) B 3) C 4) D
14) C 15) C 16) E
5) D
6) A
7) C
8) B
9) C
10) E 11) D 12) B 13) A
Chapter 31
1 (C); 2 (B); 3 (B); 4 (C); 5 (A); 6 (E); 7 (E); 8 (C); 9 (B); 10 (A); 11 (B); 12 (C); 13 (D); 14 (A);
15 (D); 16 (C)
Chapter 32
1 (A); 2 (B); 3 (A); 4 (C); 5 (E); 6 (B); 7 (B); 8 (E); 9 (C); 10 (A); 11 (E); 12 (E); 13 (E); 14 (A);
15 (D); 16 (B)
Chapter 33
1 (D); 2 (A); 3 (D); 4 (A); 5 (E); 6 (B); 7 (A); 8 (D); 9 (E); 10 (B); 11 (E); 12 (B); 13 (A); 14 (E)
Chapter 34
1 (B); 2 (C); 3 (E); 4 (A); 5 (E); 6 (A); 7 (A); 8 (A); 9 (C); 10 (E); 11 (B); 12 (D); 13 (B); 14 (E)
Chapter 40
1) Which of the following issues was NOT an important concern that the New Right hoped to
constrict or eliminate through legal action?
A) Divorce
B) Pornography
C) Homosexuality
D) Abortion
E) Affirmative action
2) All of the following contributed ti Ronald Reagan’s landslide electoral victory over Presidet
Carter in 1980 EXCEPT
A) the Carter administrations inability to control double- digit inflation and sky- high
interest rates
B) a divided Democratic party, unhealed following the unsuccessful Democratic
nomination challenge of Senator Edward Kennedy
C) Ronald Reagan’s ability to employ his well-honed acting skills to communicate
effectively with the American public
D) President Carter’s decision to preserve some 100 million acres of Alaskan land for
national parks, forests and wildlife refuges during an energy crisis
E) Public frustration over President Carter’s suppose mismanagement of foreign affairs
such as the protracted Iranian hostage crisis
3) Which of the following was Ronald Reagan’s overall key domestic goal as president?
A) Dismantling the welfare state by reducing or eliminating entitlement and discretionary
social welfare programs in order to reduce the size of the government
B) Removing government interference in people’s private lives in such areas as abortion
and pornography
C) Reducing the growth of military spending in order to balance the federal budget
D) Developing and implementing a federally mandated reform of public education
E) Advancing big-business interests over organized labor in order to stimulate economic
growth and reduce wage inflation
4) What are the initial results in 1982 of President Reagan’s supply-side economic plan of deep
federal budget cuts and substantial tax reductions?
A) A sharp recession and rise in unemployment
B) A reduced federal budget deficit
C) An international trade surplus for the United States
D) An economic boom
E) Record of corporate profits for major industries like the automobile industry
5) Which of the following most accurately characterizes the economic results produced by
Reaganomics in the 1980s?
A) For the first time in the twentieth century, income widened between the richest and the
poorest Americans
B) Middle-class incomes rose
C) The poor was substantial economic gains
D) The economy was uniformly healthy
E) The majority of Americans were middle class
6) All of the following were examples of Ronald Reagan’s determination to renew the cold
during his first presidential term EXCPET
A) Denouncing the Soviet Union in political speeches as “The focus of evil on the
modern world”
B) President Reagan’s pursuit of a high- technology missile-defense system known as
Star Wars
C) President Reagan’s strong support for the political and economic efforts of the
independent Polish labor movement Solidarity
D) President Reagan spawning a new arms race with the Soviet Union by substantially
increasing America’s nuclear arms arsenal and military capabilities around the world
E) American military forces ousting from power an insurgent group of Marxists who had
taken over the tin Caribbean island of Grenada
7) What did the Iran-Contra affair essentially involve?
A) The United States hiring Iranian militants to fight for the right-wing Nicaraguan
contra rebels against the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaraguan
B) The United States selling arms to Iran In exchange of hostages and diverting the
profits to illegally fund he Nicaraguan contras
C) The United States selling arms to both sides in the Iran-Iraq war
D) The United States secretly recognizing the Iranian regime while claiming to be
boycotting it
E) The United States persuading the Iranian government to directly fund the contra rebels
by unfreezing Iranian assets in the United States and presenting Iranian leader Ayatollah
Khomeini with gifts such s birthday cakes
8) Which of the following demonstrations most vividly how President Reagan, during his second
term, departed from the militantly anti-Soviet stance of his first term?
A) President Reagan joining with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to end SovietAmericans political Countries
B) President Reagan acquiescing in Eastern Europe containing to be a legitimate sphere
of influence for the Soviet Union
C) President Reagan negotiating and signing arms control agreements with the new
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
D) President Reagan making the Soviet unions a majors trading partner of the United
States
E) President Reagan’s decision abandon his high-technology, antimissile defense system,
the Strategic Defense Initiative (DSI)
9) Which of the following most accurately describes the Supreme court decisions Webster v.
Reproductive health Services and planned Parenthood v. Casey?
A) The court severely restricted legal abortion to the first two months of pregnancy
B) Thee court permitted states to put some restrictions on abortion, while fundamentally
upholding the abortion rights decision of Roe v. Wade
C) The court overturned Roe v. Wade
D) The court declared that the issue of legalized abortion should be completely
determined by the states
E) The court declared that the constitutional rights to life trumped the constitutional right
of privacy and all abortions, except when the mother’s life is in danger, are illegal
10) All if the following were consequences of the end of the Cold War EXCEPT that
A) Long- suppressed ethnics hatreds flared in the former Soviet republics
B) Communist regimes were overthrown in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia,
and East Germany
C) Long- suppressed ethics hatreds flared in the former communist nations of eastern
Europe
D) The entire European Continent enjoyed an extended period of political stability
E) Unemployment increased in aerospace and defense industrial and community
dislocations occurred because of Pentagon budget cuts
11) Which of the following reasons prompted President George H. Bush to organize America’s
European and Arab allies into a political and military coalition that ultimately ousted Iraqi forces
from Kuwait in 1991?
A) President Bush feared that Iraqi that leader Saddam Hussein’s larger goal was to
assume control the entire oil- producing and economically vital Persian Gulf region
B) President Bush believed that re-establishing the sovereignty of Kuwait was critical
democracy throughout the Middle East.
C) President bush believed that ousting Iraq from Kuwait would guarantee Israel’s
security in the face of growing military threats from the Arab states
D) President Bush was confident rolling back the Iraqi forces from Kuwait would prompt
a successful Kurdish and Shi’ite uprising in Iraq leading to overthrow of Saddam Hussein
E) President Bush desired to use the Persian Gulf crisis as a way to guarantee permanent
military bases in the Middle East
12) What domestic achievement represented partial redemption of President George H. W.
Bush’s 1988 campaign pledge to work for a “kinder, gentle America”?
A) The nomination and confirmation of progressive African American judge Clarence
Thomas to succeed retiring liberal African American justice Thurgood Marshall on the
U.S. Supreme Court
B) The signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in 1990 to prohibit
discrimination against U.S. citizens with physical or mental disabilities
C) President Bush’s Department of Education challenging the legality of college
scholarships for racial minorities
D) President Bush signing into law a massive public works employment program to
reduce high unemployment inn the United States
E) President Bush agreeing in 1990 to a federal budget increase that include $133 million
in new taxes
13) Which statement about the Persian Gulf War is NOT true?
A) President George H. W. Bush declared that the United States “kicked the Vietnam
Syndrome”
B) Saddam Hussein was removed from power
C) The Persian Gulf War grew out of a unanimous Security Council resolution
D) The Persian Gulf War lasted less than two months
E) The Persian Gulf War was a response to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait
14) Reagan’s theory of “supply- side” economics, also referred to as “trickle- down” theory, is
most closely related to the policies of
A) George H. W. Bush
B) Richard Nixon
C) Lyndon Johnsons
D) Franklin Roosevelt
E) Herbert Hoover
Chapter 41
1) What prompted the first wave of heavy criticism and verbal abuse to be hurled at First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton during the onset of the Clinton administration?
A) Mrs. Clinton’s decision to run for the U.S. Senate in the state of New York
B) Mrs. Clinton not publicly criticizing her husband’s sexual affairs
C) Mrs. Clinton advocating too strongly for the role of women in the administration
D) Mrs. Clinton developing an excessively complex health-care that was quickly dropped
by Congress
E) Mrs. Clinton claiming that the political problems that she and her husband
encountered were the result of “a vast right-wing conspiracy”
2) Which of the following represented a significant political victory for President Clinton at the
beginning of the Clinton administration?
A) Congressional passage of the 1993 deficit-reduction bill
B) An end to the ban on gays and lesbians in the military
C) Congressional passage of health-care reform
D) Congressional approval of a campaign finance reform bill
E) Congressional passage of middle-class tax cut
3) Which of the following events is most indicative of a deep dissatisfaction with the
government?
A) The bombing of a federal office building in Oklahoma City
B) Appointing the second woman to the Supreme Court
C) Republicans creating the Contract with America
D) Repealing term limits for federal officials
E) Federal agents storming the Branch Davidian compound in Waco
4) Which of the following political decisions by President Clinton aroused the hostility and ire of
many liberals in his own party?
A) President Clinton’s signature of the welfare reform bill that included work
requirements and time limits for welfare benefits
B) President Clinton’s appointment of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to the U.S. Supreme Court
C) President Clinton signing a bill to restrict teenagers’ access to abortion
D) President Clinton’s support of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
with Canada and Mexico
E) President Clinton’s decision to put his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton in charge of
health-care reform
5) A
6) E
7) C
8) C
9) A
10) E
11) E
12) A
13) B
14) A
15) C
Chapter 42
1) D
2) C
3) C
4) E
5) E
6) C
7) E
8) B
9) C
10) C
11) E
12) B
13) D
14) C
15) D