CLEP History of the U.S. II Practice
Test 2 Questions with Correct Answers
9. By 1890 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey controlled a virtual monopoly of oil
refining and distribution in the U.S. It was owned and operated by
a. Andrew Carnegie
b. John D. Rockefeller
c. J.P. Morgan
d. Jacob Schiff
e. Henry George - ANSWER-B
10. A general definition of Social Darwinism is
a. survival of the fittest is an outdated idea
b. the working masses have the most power
c. all citizens should be equal in every way
d. only superior people are able to gain wealth and power
e. the poor should receive charity - ANSWER-D
11. What general led the U.S. offensive in the Pacific theatre during World War II?
a. General George S. Patton
b. General Dwight Eisenhower
c. General Douglas MacArthur
d. General George Marshall
e. General Erwin Rommel - ANSWER-C
12. "Free and unlimited coinage of silver" was a key campaign issue in the platform
of which political party in 1892?
a. Republican
b. Democrat
c. Unionist
d. Bryanite
e. Populist - ANSWER-E
13. Who was Arthur Levitt?
a. Union leader
b. Revolutionizer of American religion
c. Son of Eisenhower and a leading businessman
d. Chicago politician
e. builder of planned communities - ANSWER-E
14. The heaviest casualties in the Spanish-American War came as a result of
a. the sinking of the Maine
b. Spanish bullets
c. hand-to-hand combat with Filipinos
d. tropical diseases
e. the battle of Manila Bay - ANSWER-D
,15. The description below is of which of the following events?
"A revolution was staged, it was bloodless, they declared independence in 1903. It
was then that the treaty was signed, the treaty later called outrageously unfair."
a. The building of the Panama Canal
b. The Sino-American war
c. The Alaskan purchase
d. The annexing of Hawaii
e. The expulsion of the Spanish from Cuba - ANSWER-A
16. Which of the following people was a spokesperson for the Niagara movement,
author of The Souls of Black Folk, and a founder of the NAACP?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Ida B. Wells
c. W. E. B. Du Bois
d. Frederick Douglass
e. Frederick Jackson Turner - ANSWER-C
17. Which of the following sponsored buffalo hunts in the mid-to late nineteenth
century?
a. railroads -- Indians and the buffalo that they depended on were seen as
hindrances to westward expansion
b. the Census Bureau -- it feared it could not reliably count all the existing buffalo
c. the Indian Rights Association -- the buffalo were sick and needed to be destroyed
d. pioneering farmers -- they were afraid roving buffalo herds would trample their
crops
e. the Earp brothers -- they were gamblers who enjoyed buffalo hunts as sport -
ANSWER-A
18. What is the name of Booker T. Washington's famous school for blacks in the
South?
a. Merced Institute
b. Atlanta University
c. Howard College
d. Tuskegee Institute
e. Hampton University - ANSWER-D
19. One of the accomplishments of President Theodore Roosevelt was
a. rescinding the pure food and drug laws
b. creating dozens of labor unions
c. halting the sale of Alaska
d. creating the Peace Corps
e. setting aside millions of acres for national parks - ANSWER-E
20. Which Republican won the presidential election of 1908?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William Howard Taft
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. Warren G. Harding
e. William Jennings Bryan - ANSWER-B
, 21. What did the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine state?
a. European militaries could not interfere in the Western Hemisphere
b. Latin America needed to stabilize or be policed by the U.S.
c. Cuba had to be capitalistic or be invaded by the U.S.
d. England had to stay out of India
e. African nations were warned to stabilize - ANSWER-B
22. The term "muckrakers" refers to
a. Native American civil rights advocates
b. "turn of the century" musicians
c. slum lords
d. journalists who exposed corruption
e. farmers - ANSWER-D
23. Why was the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 such a disaster for Native
Americans?
a. it mandated that all Native Americans convert to Christianity
b. it only gave land to individual families, thereby breaking up the tribal system
c. it disallowed ownership of land for any Native American
d. it allowed the killing of the buffalo
e. it granted statehood to North Dakota - ANSWER-B
24. What May 7, 1915 event pulled America into World War I?
a. the sinking of the Maine
b. the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
c. the death of President Wilson's wife, Ellen Wilson
d. the sinking of the Lusitania
e. the presidential election campaign of 1916 - ANSWER-D
25. When did the period known as Reconstruction officially end?
a. with the birth of the Ku Klux Klan
b. with the Thirteenth Amendment
c. when the confederates set the Alamo on fire
d. it never officially ended
e. when all federal troops left the South - ANSWER-E
26. What was the "Zimmerman telegram"?
a. an intercepted telegram from Germany offering Mexico much U.S. territory if
Mexico joined Germany against the U.S. in World War I
b. a telegram revealing the spy codes used by the Germans
c. an intercepted telegram from the British offering to switch sides of the war if
Germany would grant them additional territory
d. a telegram from the U.S. to the Italians giving secrets to new weapons
e. a telegram from Israel to the U.S. asking if they should join in the war - ANSWER-
A
27. What does the following statement refer to?
"About 150,000 WAC members and nearly as many WAVES served in World War
II."
Test 2 Questions with Correct Answers
9. By 1890 Standard Oil Company of New Jersey controlled a virtual monopoly of oil
refining and distribution in the U.S. It was owned and operated by
a. Andrew Carnegie
b. John D. Rockefeller
c. J.P. Morgan
d. Jacob Schiff
e. Henry George - ANSWER-B
10. A general definition of Social Darwinism is
a. survival of the fittest is an outdated idea
b. the working masses have the most power
c. all citizens should be equal in every way
d. only superior people are able to gain wealth and power
e. the poor should receive charity - ANSWER-D
11. What general led the U.S. offensive in the Pacific theatre during World War II?
a. General George S. Patton
b. General Dwight Eisenhower
c. General Douglas MacArthur
d. General George Marshall
e. General Erwin Rommel - ANSWER-C
12. "Free and unlimited coinage of silver" was a key campaign issue in the platform
of which political party in 1892?
a. Republican
b. Democrat
c. Unionist
d. Bryanite
e. Populist - ANSWER-E
13. Who was Arthur Levitt?
a. Union leader
b. Revolutionizer of American religion
c. Son of Eisenhower and a leading businessman
d. Chicago politician
e. builder of planned communities - ANSWER-E
14. The heaviest casualties in the Spanish-American War came as a result of
a. the sinking of the Maine
b. Spanish bullets
c. hand-to-hand combat with Filipinos
d. tropical diseases
e. the battle of Manila Bay - ANSWER-D
,15. The description below is of which of the following events?
"A revolution was staged, it was bloodless, they declared independence in 1903. It
was then that the treaty was signed, the treaty later called outrageously unfair."
a. The building of the Panama Canal
b. The Sino-American war
c. The Alaskan purchase
d. The annexing of Hawaii
e. The expulsion of the Spanish from Cuba - ANSWER-A
16. Which of the following people was a spokesperson for the Niagara movement,
author of The Souls of Black Folk, and a founder of the NAACP?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. Ida B. Wells
c. W. E. B. Du Bois
d. Frederick Douglass
e. Frederick Jackson Turner - ANSWER-C
17. Which of the following sponsored buffalo hunts in the mid-to late nineteenth
century?
a. railroads -- Indians and the buffalo that they depended on were seen as
hindrances to westward expansion
b. the Census Bureau -- it feared it could not reliably count all the existing buffalo
c. the Indian Rights Association -- the buffalo were sick and needed to be destroyed
d. pioneering farmers -- they were afraid roving buffalo herds would trample their
crops
e. the Earp brothers -- they were gamblers who enjoyed buffalo hunts as sport -
ANSWER-A
18. What is the name of Booker T. Washington's famous school for blacks in the
South?
a. Merced Institute
b. Atlanta University
c. Howard College
d. Tuskegee Institute
e. Hampton University - ANSWER-D
19. One of the accomplishments of President Theodore Roosevelt was
a. rescinding the pure food and drug laws
b. creating dozens of labor unions
c. halting the sale of Alaska
d. creating the Peace Corps
e. setting aside millions of acres for national parks - ANSWER-E
20. Which Republican won the presidential election of 1908?
a. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William Howard Taft
c. Woodrow Wilson
d. Warren G. Harding
e. William Jennings Bryan - ANSWER-B
, 21. What did the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine state?
a. European militaries could not interfere in the Western Hemisphere
b. Latin America needed to stabilize or be policed by the U.S.
c. Cuba had to be capitalistic or be invaded by the U.S.
d. England had to stay out of India
e. African nations were warned to stabilize - ANSWER-B
22. The term "muckrakers" refers to
a. Native American civil rights advocates
b. "turn of the century" musicians
c. slum lords
d. journalists who exposed corruption
e. farmers - ANSWER-D
23. Why was the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887 such a disaster for Native
Americans?
a. it mandated that all Native Americans convert to Christianity
b. it only gave land to individual families, thereby breaking up the tribal system
c. it disallowed ownership of land for any Native American
d. it allowed the killing of the buffalo
e. it granted statehood to North Dakota - ANSWER-B
24. What May 7, 1915 event pulled America into World War I?
a. the sinking of the Maine
b. the assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
c. the death of President Wilson's wife, Ellen Wilson
d. the sinking of the Lusitania
e. the presidential election campaign of 1916 - ANSWER-D
25. When did the period known as Reconstruction officially end?
a. with the birth of the Ku Klux Klan
b. with the Thirteenth Amendment
c. when the confederates set the Alamo on fire
d. it never officially ended
e. when all federal troops left the South - ANSWER-E
26. What was the "Zimmerman telegram"?
a. an intercepted telegram from Germany offering Mexico much U.S. territory if
Mexico joined Germany against the U.S. in World War I
b. a telegram revealing the spy codes used by the Germans
c. an intercepted telegram from the British offering to switch sides of the war if
Germany would grant them additional territory
d. a telegram from the U.S. to the Italians giving secrets to new weapons
e. a telegram from Israel to the U.S. asking if they should join in the war - ANSWER-
A
27. What does the following statement refer to?
"About 150,000 WAC members and nearly as many WAVES served in World War
II."
