EOC Practice Test: US History

What is the significance of Pinckney's Treaty (1795) with Spain?

Why did the U.S. Congress pass the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798?

The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions were based on which principle?

What right did most Caucasian women have in the United States during the Federalist period?

During Thomas Jefferson's presidency, which event challenged his strict constructionist philosophy?

What impact did the Battle of New Orleans have on the United States in 1815?

Which idea did Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet support before 1820?

Why did many Mormons migrate to the western United States?

Which part of the Compromise of 1850 received the greatest support from southern farmers?

Why can the Emancipation Proclamation be seen as a diplomatic document?

Which action abolished slavery in the United States?

Which of these is the strongest evidence of the federal government showing its power over state governments during the Reconstruction period?

Why did the House of Representatives impeach Andrew Johnson?

_______ _______ from the _______of 1877 {withdrawal of federal troops, funding for transportation improvements, president cabinet positions}

What impact did the transcontinental railroad have on the economy of the West during the mid-1800s?

Which invention made western farming more efficient in the mid-1800s?

During the mid to late 1800s, which major problem was more common for a farmer in the West than for a farmer living east of the Mississippi River?

Which issue led to the organization of the Populist Party?

Which factor contributed most to the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882?

Why were immigrants more likely to settle in urban, industrial centers rather than rural, agricultural regions?

What was the impact of westward expansion on American Indians during the Jacksonian era?

Which statement best explains the increase in sectionalism between 1820 and 1850?

How did the transcendental movement influence U.S. society during the mid to late 1800s?

Which of these activities had the greatest economic impact on the southeastern United States between 1800 and 1860?

In the 1830—1850 period, which section of the United States most opposed a protective tariff?

What was the effect of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Democracy in America: While society in the United States gives the example of the most extended liberty, the prisons of the same country offer the spectacle of the most complete [dictatorship]. - Beaumont and A. de Tocqueville 1831 Which 19th century reformer most likely agreed with de Tocqueville?

Susan B. Anthony is best known for which area of reform?

Which congressional act was passed to end the abuses of the spoils system?

Which event contributed most to the demise of the Knights of Labor?

Monopolists of the late 1800s: {Andrew Carnegie, _________ __________, and John Rockefeller}

Which business strategy would a late-1800s industrial leader use to establish a monopoly?

Why did the United States act as an imperial power during the late 1800s?

Which event is associated with the outbreak of war between the United States and Spain in 1898?

In 1898, William Randolph Hearst reportedly sent a message to his photographer in Cuba that said, "You provide the photographs and I'll furnish the war." Which technique was Hearst using?

How did the action of the U.S. government in the late 1800s impact Hawaii?

How did poll taxes limit citizens' rights to liberty in the late 1800s?

How did the role of journalism change during the Progressive Era?

Why did Theodore Roosevelt build the Great White Fleet?

What justification did President Taft use to support his use of dollar diplomacy in Latin America and Asia?

How did passing the Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to reform U.S. business practices in the late 1800s?

African American Responses to Jim Crow Laws During the Early 1900s: {Great Migration, National Association for Colored People, Militia Leagues, ___________ ___________ }

How did assembly line production affect the U.S. economy during the early twentieth century?

Which group benefited the most from reform legislation passed during the Progressive Era?

Which event was a reason for the United States' entry into the First World War?

How were the civil liberties of U.S. citizens threatened during World War I?

How did the United States help the Allies win World War I?

The Kellogg-Briand Pact represented the desire of the United States and European nations to follow which policy?

Roaring twenties: {MEDIA - Ballyhoo, Tabloids; ________ - Speakeasies, Gangsters; LITERATURE - Expatriates, Lost Generation; IMMIGRANTS - Nativism, Red Scare}

During the 1920s, which leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association advocated a return to Africa for African Americans?

What did the flapper image of the 1920s represent for U.S. women?

Which evidence showed that the prosperity of the 1920s was an illusion?

Which factor contributed to the stock market crash of 1929?

Which factor added to the hardships of midwestern farmers during the Great Depression?

Which economic policy did President Franklin D. Roosevelt use to respond to the Great Depression?

After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that several New Deal programs were unconstitutional, how did President Franklin Roosevelt try to influence future decisions of the Court?

Which term best describes the diplomacy followed by some European nations in their relations with Germany, Italy, and Japan between 1931 and 1939?

Which advertising campaign represents the expanding role of women in the workplace during World War II?

Why did President Truman decide to use the atomic bomb near the end of World War II?

Which development best reflects the economic prosperity of the United States after the Second World War?

What international organization was created immediately after the Second World War to promote world peace and cooperation among nations?

According to this excerpt, for what was President Truman arguing? Truman Doctrine I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted [conquest] by armed minorities or by outside pressures. - President Harry Truman, 1947

Which U.S. initiative was designed to provide financial aid for war-torn European countries after the Second World War?

Which policy did the U.S. government use to respond to the Cold War tensions of the 1950s?

Which political trend characterized the era of McCarthyism?

Which government agency was developed in response to Cold War confrontations?

How did many U.S. families respond to the threat of a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union as the Cold War intensified?

What was one purpose of President Kennedy's Alliance for Progress?

What precedent was established for U.S. presidents by the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

What strategy did both Martin Luther King Jr. and César Chávez use to achieve social change?

Which group represents the counterculture of the 1960s?

How did the war in Vietnam hinder President Lyndon B. Johnson's effort to create the Great Society?

Which statement best summarizes the decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice Earl Warren?

What impact did Title IX have on educational institutions in the United States?

What event during the 1970s resulted in the United States increasing its regulation of nuclear power plants?

Which U.S. president regarded universal health care as a major issue for the federal government to resolve?

The Watergate scandal is appropriately described by which statement?

What was the main purpose for Operation Desert Storm?

In which country did president Clinton use force in an attempt to bring an end to regional conflicts?

How has a revival of nativism in the late twentieth century affected recent immigration?