test questions

1. Which of the following contributed most to the process described in the excerpt?

Answer: (D) Legislation that facilitated the distribution of western land

2. The settlement pattern described in the excerpt was most similar to earlier settlement patterns in that it was

Answer: (C) Accompanied by conflict with American Indians over land ownership

3. Which of the following was a long-term result of the developments described in the excerpt?

Answer: (D) The creation of farmers’ groups to resist corporate control of agricultural markets

4. Beveridge's speech was written in the context of

Answer: (C) Debates in the aftermath of war with Spain

5. Beveridge's ideas in the excerpt best support which of the following positions commonly expressed at the time?

Answer: (B) The right of the United States to assert power over foreign lands is God-given

6. Which of the following changes to the United States during the nineteenth century most directly contributed to the development depicted in the image?

Answer: (A) The rapid growth of cities

7. During the late nineteenth century, politicians such as the one depicted in the image most likely would have opposed which of the following?

Answer: (D) Calls for reforms to local and state governments

8. The image was created most directly in response to

Answer: (C) The power gained by urban political machines

9. Which of the following events best represents a continuity of the sentiments expressed by Senator Calhoun in the speech?

Answer: (C) The Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

10. Based on the excerpt, Calhoun would also be most likely to support which of the following?

Answer: (A) Proslavery arguments

11. During Reconstruction, which of the following was a change that took place in the South?

Answer: (D) African Americans were able to exercise political rights

12. The image most strongly supports the argument that Reconstruction

Answer: (D) Temporarily altered race relations in the South

13. The situation depicted in the image best serves as evidence of the

Answer: (A) Expansion of federal power

14. Which of the following most directly contributed to the conflict referred to in the excerpt?

Answer: (C) Disagreements over whether to allow slavery in new territories

15. After 1863, which of the following most fulfilled the “new birth of freedom” that the excerpt refers to?

Answer: (A) Ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments

16. Lincoln’s main purpose in the excerpt was to

Answer: (D) Gain continued support for the war effort

17. Which of the following late-nineteenth-century federal actions most directly supported the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

Answer: (B) The sale of land to settlers at low cost

18. The fulfillment of advice such as that in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following in the late nineteenth century?

Answer: (B) Competition for resources among White settlers and American Indians

19. Which of the following developments in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most directly represented a continuation of the pattern described in the excerpt?

Answer: (C) The consolidation of corporations into large trusts and holding companies

20. Which of the following ideas was most often used to justify the success and wealth of those like Vanderbilt?

Answer: (B) Social Darwinism

21. Historians could best use the excerpt as an example of which of the following?

Answer: (D) Political responses to changing demographics in the United States

22. Which of the following historical situations can best be used to explain how the excerpt would have been interpreted at the time?

Answer: (A) The rise in immigration to the United States

23. The cartoonist most likely supported

Answer: (A) Reform of local government

24. The People’s (Populist) Party emerged most directly in response to which of the following late-nineteenth-century trends?

Answer: (C) The growth of corporate power in agriculture and the economy

25. The cartoon suggests that the disparate groups that favored the People’s (Populist) Party typically shared which of the following?

Answer: (B) Belief in a stronger federal government role in the United States economic system

26. Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the Populist Party?

Answer: (A) Sharecroppers

27. Which of the following was a major United States foreign policy change in the Pacific region at the end of the nineteenth century?

Answer: (D) The United States acquired new colonial possessions such as the Philippines

28. The population trend described in the excerpt most directly reflected which of the following domestic developments in the nineteenth century?

Answer: (A) The belief that it was the Manifest Destiny of the United States to control territory across the continent

29. The excerpt best supports the conclusion that in the 1850s, the United States government

Answer: (B) Was willing to intimidate Asian countries like Japan to secure economic opportunities

30. The excerpts from Anne Hutchinson best represent which of the following developments in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s?

Answer: (A) Growing challenges by dissenters to civil authorities

31. The emphasis on personal salvation, which Hutchinson articulated in the 1630s, was most strongly echoed in which later movement?

Answer: (A) Second Great Awakening in the 1830s

32. Which of the following was a main purpose of Ateawanto in his speech?

Answer: (D) To protect his people’s land from English colonizers

33. The speech in the excerpt was delivered in which of the following historical situations during the mid-1700s?

Answer: (C) Competition between European empires for Native American allies

34. Which of the following groups would have most opposed the goals of the speech?

Answer: (A) British settlers

35. Based on the excerpt, the most likely purpose of Dickinson’s letters was to

Answer: (A) Use Enlightenment rhetoric to encourage American autonomy

36. To which of the following was Dickinson responding in his letters?

Answer: (B) Increased taxation and imperial oversight following the Seven Years’ War

37. Which of the following would have been most likely to agree with the sentiments expressed in the excerpt?

Answer: (D) Merchants in New England

38. The ideas expressed in the image contributed most directly to which of the following later political movements?

Answer: (B) Populism

39. The ideas expressed in the image are most likely a reaction to the

Answer: (C) Rise of big business

40. Supporters of the ideas expressed in the image would most likely have favored

Answer: (C) Government regulation of public utilities

41. Which of the following groups would have most likely opposed the perspective expressed in the image?

Answer: (D) Industrialists

42. Which of the following developments helps to explain the change in agriculture depicted in the graph?

Answer: (A) The extraction of western resources led to the growth of new towns and cities that demanded agricultural goods

43. Which of the following developments helps to explain the rise in exports from the West Coast depicted in the graph?

Answer: (A) An expansion in the railroad network led to greater access of western farmers to eastern markets

44. In the speech, Lease was reacting primarily to the problems faced by which of the following groups?

Answer: (C) Farmers

45. Lease’s views best reflect the influence of which of the following developments in social and political movements in the 1890s?

Answer: (B) Rising grassroots challenges to the dominant economic system