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Fast Track 5-1. 71.The power and strength of industrial unions in achieving their objectives in a dispute with management can be clearly seen in which of the following strikes? (A) Lawrence Textile Workers strike (B) Homestead strike (C) Ludlow massacre (D) Haymarket riot

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  1. Fast Track 5-1 71.The power and strength of industrial unions in achieving their objectives in a dispute with management can be clearly seen in which of the following strikes? (A) Lawrence Textile Workers strike (B) Homestead strike (C) Ludlow massacre (D) Haymarket riot (E) railroad strike of 1877

  2. 4. In the Supreme Court case United States v. E. C. Knight (1895), the court ruled that • (A) the actions of the E. C. Knight Company were unconstitutional given the wording of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act • (B) neither the E. C. Knight Company nor the American Sugar Refining Company could be considered a monopoly • (C) the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was unconstitutional • (D) the E. C. Knight Company was engaged in commerce, not manufacturing, and therefore could not be regulated by Congress • (E) child labor was unconstitutional in businesses that engaged in interstate commerce

  3. 5. A major reason why Al Smith lost the presidential election in 1928 was • (A) his allegiance to Hoover's economic programs • (B) his adherence to maintaining a balanced budget in the midst of a depression • (C) his opposition to the Nineteenth Amendment • (D) Franklin Roosevelt's lack of support for Smith's candidacy • (E) Smith's Catholicism, which cost him Protestant votes

  4. 6. Frances Perkins • (A) was a major Republican opponent of the New Deal • (B) was the Republican candidate for president in 1932 • (C) represented a radical challenge to FDR's New Deal • (D) was FDR's vice president during his first term in office • (E) was the first female cabinet member in U.S. history

  5. 7. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the Populists? • (A) abolishing the graduated income tax • (B) preventing the government from owning and operating the railroad • (C) placing term limits on the president and vice president • (D) placing limits on the mining and coining of silver • (E) an eight-hour workday for industrial workers

  6. 9. Which one of the following was a member of the Central Powers during World War I? • (A) France • (B) Britain • (C) United States • (D) Germany • (E) Russia

  7. 10. Which of the following was passed while Wilson was president? • (A) Mann-Elkins Act • (B) Pure Food and Drug Act • (C) Federal Reserve Act • (D) Meat Inspection Act • (E) Alien and Sedition Acts

  8. 11.Margaret Sanger was an important reformer who (A) campaigned to end child labor (B) sought to end racial segregation (C) attacked the abuses of trusts and monopolies (D) advocated for women's right to vote (E) advocated in favor of women's reproductive rights

  9. 12. "There is a common, widespread, and persistent stereotyped idea regarding the Negro and it is that he is here only to receive; to be shaped into something new and unquestionably better .... Through his artistic efforts the Negro is smashing this immemorial stereotype faster than he has ever done through any other method he has been able to use .... " This quote represents • (A) the primary reason the KKK had so many members in the 1920s • (B) the challenges made to prejudicial views by the Harlem Renaissance • (C) the divisions that existed in the 1920s between urban and rural black Americans • (D) FDR's crusade to improve the socioeconomic status of black Americans • (E) a major reason why some criticized the New Deal for not doing enough to better the lives of lack Americans

  10. 14. The Brain Trust was the name given to (A) President Franklin D. Roosevelt's political advisers • (B) The nation's first Supreme Court justices • (C) President Lyndon Johnson's advisers during the Vietnam War • (D) A nineteenth-century monopoly broken up by the government • (E) President Harding's political associates and advisers who were involved in the Teapot Dome scandal

  11. 19. All of the following are associated with economic and political corruption in the post-Civil War era EXCEPT • (A) Credit Mobilier • (B) Teapot Dome • (C) the attempt to corner the gold market by financiers Fisk and Gould • (D) Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall • (E) the Whiskey Ring

  12. 20. The precedent for using federal troops to break up a major strike was set by (A) Abraham Lincoln in 1862 • (B) Rutherford Hayes in 1877 • (C) Grover Cleveland in 1894 • (D) Theodore Roosevelt in 1901 • (E) Franklin D. Roosevelt ip 1945

  13. 25. Which New Deal agency gave legal protection to labor unions, set up the National Labor Relations Board, and gave workers the right to bargain collectively? • (A) FERA • (B) CCC • (C) Section 7 A of the NRA • (D) CWA • (E) REA

  14. 26. Britain's Proclamation of 1763 • (A) prevented the American colonies from trading with France • (B) prevented the American colonists from moving west of the Appalachian Mountains • (C) required the colonists to purchase tea from only the British East India Company • (D) subordinated American economic interests to those of British capitalists • (E) ended all hostilities between Britain and France

  15. 30. The "Revolution of 1800" refers to • (A) the industrialization of the United States • (B) the victory of the Americans over the British • (C) the election of Thomas Jefferson • (D) the abolition of the slave trade in the United States • (E) the election of Andrew Jackson

  16. 33. The Know-Nothings were • (A) Confederate spies during the Civil War • (B) a nativist movement in the mid­nineteenth century • (C) Americans who organized boycotts of British goods before the Revolution • (D) anarchists who were arrested by the government during the First Red Scare • (E) those who refused to testify when called to do so by the House Un­American Activities Committee

  17. 35. The Hartford Convention was convened (A) by New Englanders who opposed the War of 1812 • (B) in order to prevent the South from seceding • (C) by women's rights advocates in the mid-nineteenth century • (D) in order to organize a colonial response to the Coercive Acts • (E) by labor leaders in order to advocate for the eight-hour workday

  18. 36. Which of the following is NOT associated with the American System? • (A) It was developed by Henry Clay. • (B) It was strongly supported by Southern political leaders. • (C) It promoted funding for the Second Bank of the United States. • (D) It would allow for protective tariffs. (E) The federal government would fund canal and road construction.

  19. 37. The Fifteenth Amendment to the U.S. • Constitution • (A) gave eighteen-year-old citizens the right to vote • (B) gave women the right to vote • (C) made the sale, distribution, and consumption of liquor a federal offense • (D) abolished slavery • (E) guaranteed the right to vote for any American citizen regardless of race or color

  20. 43. Which of the following actions hurt President Wilson's efforts to win Senate approval for the League of Nations? • (A) his failure to take a Republican party leader on the treaty mission to France • (B) his refusal to meet with members of his own party who opposed ratification of the treaty • (C) his inability to travel to Europe to meet with the other Allied leaders • (D) his insistence that Germany and Austria not be admitted into the League • (E) his inability to convince the other world leaders to make New York City the headquarters of the League

  21. 45. The Anaconda Plan • (A) was the Democratic party's response to the Whig party's support for the American Plan • (B) was the Union's military strategy for defeating the Confederacy • (C) was designed during the Eisenhower administration to increase funding for atomic weapons research • (D) was designed by the federal government in the 1950s to integrate public schools • (E) was President Roosevelt's design for attacking the problems that caused the Great Depression

  22. 46.If one were to argue that the United States pursued a policy of neutrality from 1919 to 1933, which of the following would support that view? • (A) signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact • (B) the Open Door Policy • (C) the Dawes Plan (D) failure to join the League of Nations (E) the Washington Naval Conference

  23. 48. Which one of the following was an effect of the Revolutionary War? • (A) the establishment of a constitutional monarchy • (B) the confiscation of Loyalists' property • (C) the acquisition of Canada by the United States • (D) the recognition of the Second Continental Congress as the legitimate government of the United States • (E) the demand by all Americans for a strong central government

  24. 49. A weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that • (A) it had no legislative branch • (B) some states were not permitted to join as long as they maintained slavery • (C) it decided to form a military alliance with Great Britain • (D) too many amendments were ratified, diluting the power of the government • (E) nine of thirteen states were needed to pass legislation

  25. 51. The political cartoon above dealing with the Reagan administration expresses the view that • Reagan resented how large the defense budget had grown (B) Reagan expanded federal aid to cities but not for the environment or Social Security (C) under Reagan federal funding for social programs was significantly cut (D) Reagan believed in balancing the federal budget so that it addressed social needs and the needs of the military (E) Reagan increased defense funding against his better judgment

  26. 55. Which one of the following can be considered a radical trade union? (A) Industrial Workers of the World (B) American Federation of Labor (C) International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (D) Congress of Industrial Organizations (E) United Mine Workers Union

  27. 56. Which of the following dates best corresponds to the Gilded Age? • (A) 1776-1800 • (B) 1861-1865 • (C) 1870-1900 • (D) 1917-1929 • (E) 1945-1970

  28. 57. Which of the following occurred during the presidential administration of George Washington? (A) the nullification crisis (B) the War of 1812 (C) the Whiskey Rebellion (D) the Louisiana Purchase (E) the XYZ Affair

  29. 58. Which one of the following was NOT one of Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton's economic programs? (A) Report on Public Credit (B) Report on Manufactures (C) chartering a national bank (D) protective tariff (E) tax on exports

  30. 59. Jefferson's purchase of the Louisiana territory from France was unexpected in that • he was a strict constructionist (B) the United States had recently broken off diplomatic relations with France (C) he agreed to pay an outlandish sum for the territory (D) most Americans opposed the purchase (E) he was opposed to territorial expansion

  31. 61. The Dred Scott decision • (A) was a major factor in the U.S. government's decision to go to war against Mexico in 1846 • (B) weakened the fugitive slave laws • (C) reconfirmed that African Americans were not citizens • (D) freed all the slaves in the border states • (E) forbade the United States from trading with any nation that was at war

  32. 62. The radical Republicans are associated with which period in U.s. history? • (A) the American Revolution • (B) the Civil War • (C) Reconstruction • (D) the progressive era • (E) the Cold War

  33. 63. Because of a Soviet boycott of the United Nations in 1950 • (A) Communist China was refused membership in the U.N. • (B) the United States was able to convince the U.N. to establish the nation of Israel • (C) troops were sent to assist South Korea after it had been invaded by communist North Korea • (D) the United States and other Western nations refused to send their athletes to participate in the Olympics • (E) the U.N. could not prevent the outbreak of hostilities that led to the Chinese Civil War

  34. 65. The rags-to-riches stories of the Gilded Age were written by • (A) Upton Sinclair • (B) Mark Twain • (C) Horatio Alger • (D) Harriet Tubman • (E) F. Scott Fitzgerald

  35. 66. Ronald Reagan's military objectives included • (A) the construction of an extensive antimissile satellite system • (B) returning the Panama Canal to Panama • (C) allowing the Soviet Union to join NATO • (D) economic and military assistance to communist nations that ended their membership in the Warsaw Pact • (E) military assistance to the Sandinista government in Nicaragua

  36. 67. The Camp David Agreement is associated with the presidency of (A) Richard Nixon • (B) Gerald Ford • (C) Jimmy Carter • (D) Ronald Reagan • (E) George H. W. Bush

  37. 71. The power and strength of industrial unions in achieving their objectives in a dispute with management can be clearly seen in which of the following strikes? (A) Lawrence Textile Workers strike (B) Homestead strike (C) Ludlow massacre • (D) Haymarket riot • (E) railroad strike of 1877

  38. 72. Which of the following Supreme Court cases was heard by the Marshall Court? (A) McCulloch v. Maryland (B) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas • (C) Plessy v. Ferguson • (D) Dred Scott v. Sandford • (E) United States v. Butler

  39. 75. The Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 (A) placed strict limitations on immigration from Eastern and Southern Europe • (B) made it a federal offense to strike during wartime • (C) outlawed yellow-dog contracts • (D) provided billions of dollars for the construction of an interstate highway system • (E) established the eight-hour workday

  40. 78. The only Democrat elected president between 1861 and 1912 was • (A) Lyndon Johnson • (B) James Garfield • (C) Grover Cleveland • (D) William McKinley • (E) Chester Arthur

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  42. 4. The map above illustrates • (A) the Missouri Compromise • (B) the Military Reconstruction Acts • (C) the Wade-Davis Bill • (D) the Compromise of 1850 • (E) the Mexican Cession

  43. 8. Which of the following acts of President Ronald Reagan's administration could NOT be character­ized as a return to conservative political values? • (A) Cuts in the federal budget • (B) The appointment of Sandra Day O'Connor to the Supreme Court • (C) Tax cuts for corporations • (D) The loosening of government regulation • (E) Supply-side economics

  44. 15. Which of the following did NOT occur in the year 1968? • (A) The Tet Offensive • (B) The assassination of Martin Luther King • (C) The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy • (D) The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution • (E) Riots at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago

  45. 17. Which of the following was a result of the Albany Congress? • (A) The colonies began to unite and take action against the British. • (B) The Iroquois Nation signed a peace agreement with the Colonies. • (C) Benjamin Franklin convinced the Huron and Iroquois tribes to settle their differences. • (D) The Iroquois remained neutral and the colonists rejected Franklin's plan for unity. • (E) Benjamin Franklin was able to convince the colonists and the British of his plan for a united defense against France.

  46. 18. All of the following are associated with "loose constructionism" during the early years of the United States of America EXCEPT • (A) the Federalists • (B) Hamilton's Bank • (C) the "Elastic Clause" • (D) restrictions on federal legislative powers • (E) federal government assumption of state debts

  47. 25. The cartoon above served as • (A) Ben Franklin's exhortation to the colonies to unite against British authority • (B) Ben Franklin's exhortation to the colonies to unite against the French • (C) the Committee of Correspondence's warning of impending attack against the colonies • (D) the slogan of the Sons of Liberty after the Boston Tea Party • (E) Thomas Paine's warning against political repression

  48. 28. Which of the following was NOT a result of Reconstruction? • (A) An increase in membership in the Ku Klux Klan • (B) The passage of three Constitutional Amendments • (C) The election of black senators and representatives • (D) The emergence of two distinct factions within the Republican Party • (E) Government grants of forty acres and a mule to each freedman

  49. 29. Which of the following occurred during Taft's presidency? • (A) The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair • (B) The Federal Reserve Act • (C) The establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor • (D) Women's suffrage passed into law as the Nineteenth Amendment • (E) Coxey's Army marched on Washington

  50. 30. All of the following increased government power during World War I EXCEPT the • (A) War Industries Board • (B) Creel Committee • (C) Food Administration • (D) Espionage Act • (E) Dawes Plan

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