Sample Questions from CB Intro Book

Question 1

1. Which of the following best describes the pattern of immigration into Britain’s North American colonies during the years 1620 to 1770?
   (A) Largely English in the seventeenth century, non-English in the eighteenth century
   (B) Chiefly of English origin during the whole period
   (C) Largely non-English in the seventeenth century, English in the eighteenth century
   (D) Predominantly from southern and eastern Europe, especially after 1700
   (E) Predominantly from Asia, Africa, and Spanish America, especially after 1650

Answer 1

A 2

Question 2

2. George Grenville viewed the Stamp Act primarily as a means to
   (A) make the customs service more efficient
   (B) punish rebellious colonists
   (C) ) test the colonists’ will to resist England
   (D) create more patronage positions for the king’s courtiers
   (E) raise revenue for the crown

Answer 2

E 2

Question 3

3. Which of the following statements is generally true of the framers of the Constitution?
   (A) They believed in the supremacy of the executive branch of the federal government.
   (B) They had great faith in the goodness and rationality of people.
   (C) They were opposed to the development of political parties.
   (D) They incorporated into the Constitution the most democratic ideals of the Declaration of Independence.
   (E) They believed the new American republic would be stable because of the unanimity of public opinion in the country on major policy issues.

Answer 3

C 3

Question 4

4. “What is man born for but to be a reformer, a remaker of what man has made; a renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good, imitating that great Nature which embosoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding every morning a new day, and with every pulsation a new life?”
   These sentiments are most characteristic of
   (A) fundamentalism
   (B) Social Darwinism
   (C) pragmatism
   (D) neoorthodoxy
   (E) transcendentalism

Answer 4

E 5

Question 5

5.	From 1870 to 1930, the trend in industry was for hours to be generally reduced, while both money wages and real wages rose. What factor was primarily responsible for this trend?
(A)	A reduction in profit margins
(B)	Minimum-wage laws
(C)	)    Restriction of the labor supply
(D)	Increased output per hour of work
(E)	Right-to-work legislation

Answer 5

D4

Question 6

6. All of the following are true of the movement to prohibit alcoholic beverages in the United States EXCEPT:
   (A) It arose quite suddenly amid the hysteria surrounding the First World War.
   (B) It won the support of many progressive reformers.
   (C) It was often favored by people who disliked immigrants and their cultural practices.
   (D) It was a movement in which women played leading roles.
   (E) It gained strength from new scientific evidence that alcohol was harmful to health.

Answer 6

A4

Question 7

7. I. “I believe it is the duty of the Negro — as the greater part of the race is already doing — to deport himself modestly in regard to political claims, depending upon the slow but sure influences that proceed from the possession
   of property, intelligence, and high character for the full recognition of his political rights.”
   II. “The truth is that ‘integration’ is an image, it’s a foxy Northern liberal’s smoke-screen that confuses the true wants of the American black man.”
   III. “The talented tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
   . . . The Negro race, like all other races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men.”
   The most probable authors of statements I, II, and III, respectively, are
   (A) Malcolm X, Nat Turner, and Martin Luther King, Jr.
   (B) Booker T. Washington, Malcolm X, and W.E.B. Du Bois
   (C) Martin Luther King, Jr., Booker T. Washington, and
   W.E.B. Du Bois
   (D) Nat Turner, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Booker T.
   Washington
   (E) W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Answer 7

B5

Question 8

8. Which of the following was symbolic of the rise of American influence in the fine arts after the Second World War?
   (A) Mary Cassatt’s work in Impressionism
   (B) Thomas Eakin’s work in Realism
   (C) ) Grant Wood’s work in Regionalism
   (D) Jackson Pollock’s work in Abstract Expressionism
   (E) John S. Copley’s work of realistic portraiture

Answer 8

D 3

Question 9

9. Major population shifts between 1915 and 1980 included all of the following EXCEPT a movement from
   (A) the rural South to Northern cities
   (B) New England to the Midwest
   (C) the North to the Sun Belt
   (D) the inner cities to the suburbs
   (E) the Caribbean region to the American mainland

Answer 9

B 3

Question 10

10. Which of the following presidents is correctly paired with an event that took place during his administration?
    (A) Lyndon B. Johnson . . . the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People’s Republic of China
    (B) John F. Kennedy . . . resolution of the Suez Crisis
    (C) Richard M. Nixon . . . the reduction of United States forces in Vietnam
    (D) Gerald R. Ford . . . the signing of the Camp David Accords
    (E) Jimmy Carter . . . resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 10

C 3

Question 11

11. The Emancipation Proclamation declared slaves in which of the following areas “forever free”?
    (A) All areas of the United States
    (B) All areas of the Confederacy
    (C) Areas in border states loyal to the Union
    (D) Confederate areas still in rebellion
    (E) Areas in states controlled by Union forces

Answer 11

D 3

Question 12

12.	“The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion  is the individuality of each human soul; our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment; our republican idea, individual citizenship. . . . If we consider [a woman] as a citizen, as a member of a great nation, she must have the same rights as all other members, according to the fundamental principles of our government.”
The statement above was made by
(A)	Thomas Jefferson
(B)	Elizabeth Blackwell
(C)	Henry David Thoreau
(D)	Margaret Sanger
(E)	Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 12

E 3

Question 13

13.	The controversy with Great Britain over the northern boundary of the shaded section in the map above was
settled during the presidency of
(A)	John Quincy Adams
(B)	James K. Polk
(C)	Franklin Pierce
(D)	James Buchanan
(E)	Andrew Johnson

Answer 13

B2

Question 14

14. A major change brought about by Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, 1933–1939, was the
    (A) creation of machinery for maintaining full employment
    (B) transformation of a business-dominated society into a labor-dominated one
    (C) redistribution of population from urban centers to rural areas
    (D) development of new attitudes about the role and function of government
    (E) destruction of machine politics at the state and city levels

Answer 14

D 3

Question 15

15. The 1940s poster above referred to the
    (A) contribution of women to the defense industry
    (B) growing popularity of women movie stars
    (C) large number of women in the armed forces
    (D) large number of immigrants who supported the war effort
    (E) affection of Americans for their wartime president

Answer 15

A2