29 August 2011, 8:57 am
I have read through my book but i got a 55 on my test! Now im having to take a retest! I have to pass it or i fail the class. please help me!! 1. Which country lawyer from Ashtabula, Ohio, argued that criminals are not born, but are made by the unjust condition of human life? A. William Graham Sumner B. Washington Gladden C. Herbert Spencer D. Clarence Darrow 2. Which of the following statements about President Andrew Johnson is true? A. He was impeached and forced from office. B. He was well educated, but he was a poor stump speaker. C. He was raised under conditions of extreme poverty. D. He defended the planter aristocracy. 3. Which of the following is associated with the development of chain stores? A. R. H. Macy B. John Wanamaker C. F. W. Woolworth D. Marshall Field 4. If you were one of the new immigrants who arrived in America in the 1880s, it's most likely that you would have been A. Irish and Protestant. B. German and Lutheran. C. Italian and Catholic. D. Swedish and Protestant. 5. In the Battle of _______, a disastrous charge against forces holding Cemetery Ridge led to Confederate defeat. A. Gettysburg B. Cold Harbor C. Vicksburg D. Antietam 6. In 1866, the Sioux Chief Red Cloud ambushed and massacred Union soldiers in an incident that would be referred to as the _______ Massacre. A. Little Big Horn B. Wounded Knee C. Fetterman D. Chivrington 7. In the election of 1860, the _______ won the electoral votes of all the free states, except a fraction of the New Jersey votes. A. Whigs B. Republicans C. Constitutional Union Party D. Democrats 8. In the new cities of the 1800s, streetcars were to the suburbs and residential neighborhoods as glass and steel were to A. skyscrapers. B. palatial mansions of the rich. C. railroad stations. D. factories. 9. During the bitter struggle over reconstruction policy, Congress overrode Johnson's veto of the A. bill intended to nullify the South's black codes. B. bill extending the life of the Freedman's Bureau. C. Civil Rights Act. D. Radical Reconstruction Act. 10. In the first major pioneering movement, settlers made their way to Oregon and California by way of the _______ Trail. A. Oregon B. Overland C. Cumberland D. Kearny 11. The richest discovery in the history of mining occurred in 1873. This so-called "Big Bonanza" made _______ the richest man in the world. A. Henry Sutter B. John Mackay C. Henry Comstock D. John Placer 12. In 1876, the first separate graduate school was established A. at Harvard by Charles W. Eliot. B. by the Morrill Land Grant Act. C. at Radcliffe. D. at Johns Hopkins University. 13. If you were a reform-minded person who, above all, loathed the social problems associated with alcohol, you would have been especially sympathetic to the A. evangelical efforts of Dwight L. Moody. B. Mugwumps. C. WCTU. D. Comstock Law. 14. A series of legislative acts passed under the Grant administration in 1870 and 1871 authorized federal protection for black suffrage through the use of the Army against the Ku Klux Klan. Together, these were known as the _______ Acts. A. Reconciliation B. Force C. Grant D. Klan 15. After Lincoln "fired" George McClellan, his successor, General _______ proved himself an equally inept commander at the Battle of Fredericksburg. A. Meade B. Hooker C. Burnside D. Johnston 16. Which of the following statements is true regarding the construction of the transcontinental railway? A. The Sierra Nevadas were the most difficult obstacle for the Union Pacific Railroad. B. Construction began in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1863 and in Sacramento, California, in 1865. C. Most workers for the Union Pacific Railroad were Chinese. D. Most workers on the Central Pacific leg of the railway were Chinese. 17. The National _______ Act of 1902, provided proceeds from the sale of public lands for the construction of dams, canals, and irrigation systems in sixteen Western states. A. Land Grant B. Development C. Reclamation D. Recovery 18. Which of the following nineteenth-century inventors is associated with Menlo Park in New Jersey? A. Cyrus W. Field B. Gustavus F. Swift C. Alexander Graham Bell D. Thomas Alva Edison 19. Which of the following was true of the Know-Nothing party? A. It wanted to undermine immigrant voting strength. B. It rejected nativism. C. It gained the widespread support of new immigrants. D. It focused on containing the expansion of slavery 20. In the later phases of the Civil War, General __________, running for president against Lincoln, declared that he would not make emancipation a condition of reconstruction. A. Meade B. Sherman C. McClellan D. Longs... Read More »
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