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- In the essay "Factory Life as It Is by an Operative," how does the writer assess her world?
- From Abraham Lincoln's life, which would be an example from the old economy when compared to the newly transformed market economy?
- The idea of leveling the playing field between worker and management was best personified in the writings of which American?
- Which denomination enjoyed the largest membership in the United States by the 1840s?
- What physical geographical feature in the Old Northwest served as an internal borderland?
- The Workingman's Parties would praise what twenty-first-century activity?
- What sparked the rapid growth of Chicago from a small settlement in 1830 to America's fourth largest city by 1860?
- [Life of Mill Girls]Robinson's assertion that she and the other workers were "well off " would bechallenged during the second half of the nineteenth century by which of the following?(A) The growing corporate need for clerical workers that brought many women intooffice jobs(B) Declining household incomes of working families as a result of businesses'unwillingness to employ children(C) The expanded access to company-sponsored pensions and healthcare for mostemployees(D) Confrontations between unions and factory management over wages and workingconditions
- [FDR Quarantine]The excerpt best reflects an effort by Roosevelt to(A) encourage the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles(B) promote the acquisition of new territories abroad(C) contain the spread of Soviet-dominated communism(D) overcome opposition to participation in the impending Second World War
- "Excepting only Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy is the most attractive and wonderful valleywithin the bounds of the great Yosemite National Park and the best of all the campgrounds. People are now flocking to it in ever-increasing numbers for health andrecreation of body and mind. Though the walls are less sublime in height than thoseof Yosemite, its groves, gardens, and broad, spacious meadows are more beautiful andpicturesque. . . . Last year in October I visited the valley with Mr. William Keith, theartist. He wandered about from view to view, enchanted, made thirty-eight sketches,and enthusiastically declared that in varied picturesque beauty Hetch Hetchy greatlysurpassed Yosemite. It is one of God's best gifts, and ought to be faithfully guarded."John Muir, Century Magazine, 190922. Which of the following aspects of Muir's description expresses a major change inAmericans' views of the natural environment?(A) The idea that wilderness areas are worthy subjects for artistic works(B) The idea that wilderness areas serve as evidence of divine creation(C) The idea that government should preserve wilderness areas in a natural state(D) The idea that mountainous scenery is more picturesque and beautiful thanflat terrain
- [Life of Mill Girls]The developments described in the excerpt most directly reflect which of the followingchanges in the first half of the 1800s?(A) The sharp increase in the number of workers making goods for distant markets(B) Women's acquisition of new legal rights independent of their fathers and husbands(C) The emergence of a larger and more distinct middle class(D) Many women's embrace of the idea of separate spheres
- "[H]istory and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes ofrepublican government. . . . Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislikeof another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side and serve to veiland even second the arts of influence on the other. . . . The great rule of conduct for us,in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have with themas little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements,let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. Europe has a set of primaryinterests which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged infrequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns."George Washington, Farewell Address, 179624. The concerns expressed by Washington were a response to the(A) debate over the proper treatment of American Indian tribes in the trans-Appalachian West(B) dispute over the possibility of annexing Canada from Great Britain(C) controversy regarding support for the revolutionary government of France(D) conflict with Great Britain over the treatment of American Loyalists
- [Ben Franklin]Whitefield's open-air preaching contributed most directly to which of the following trends?(A) The growth of the ideology of republican motherhood(B) Greater independence and diversity of thought(C) Movement of settlers to the backcountry(D) The pursuit of social reform
- [Jacob Riis]Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the image would have most likelyagreed with which of the following perspectives?(A) The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson was justified.(B) Capitalism, free of government regulation, would improve social conditions.(C) Both wealth and poverty are the products of natural selection.(D) Government should act to eliminate the worst abuses of industrial society.
- [Clinton on Big Government]The ideas expressed by Clinton in the excerpt were most similar to those of whichtwentieth-century president?(A) Lyndon Johnson(B) Ronald Reagan(C) Franklin Roosevelt(D) Woodrow Wilson
- [Condition of the South]Efforts by Republicans such as Schurz to establish a base for their party in the Southafter the Civil War ultimately failed because(A) Republicans feared the South would secede again if the party became too successful(B) Republican opposition to African American rights alienated many WhiteSoutherners(C) Republicans grew weary of pressing their Reconstruction agenda in a hostileenvironment(D) Republicans believed it better to withdraw from the South than to becomecorrupted by Southern politics
- [Colonies, Atlantic Trade]The patterns described in the excerpt most directly foreshadowed which of thefollowing developments?(A) The spread of maize cultivation northward from present-day Mexico into theAmerican Southwest(B) The population decline in Native American societies(C) The gradual shift of European economies from feudalism to capitalism(D) The emergence of racially mixed populations in the Americas
- "My purpose is not to persuade children from their parents; men from their wives; norservants from their masters: only, such as with free consent may be spared: But that each[English] parish, or village, in city or country, that will but apparel their fatherless children,of thirteen or fourteen years of age, or young married people, that have small wealth tolive on; here by their labor may live exceeding well: provided always that first there besufficient power to command them, . . . and sufficient masters (as carpenters, masons,fishers, fowlers, gardeners, husbandmen, sawyers, smiths, spinsters, tailors, weavers, andsuch like) to take ten, twelve, or twenty, or as is their occasion, for apprentices. The mastersby this may quickly grow rich; these [apprentices] may learn their trades themselves, to dothe like; to a general and an incredible benefit for king, and country, master, and servant."John Smith, English adventurer, A Description of New England, 161638. The excerpt suggests that promoters such as Smith most typically presented migrationas a means for(A) workers to achieve social mobility and economic opportunity(B) people to earn wages to send home to their families(C) countries to acquire new sources of mineral wealth(D) joint-stock companies to generate profits
- [Washington Farewell]27. Most historians would argue that the recommendations of Washington's address ceasedto have a significant influence on United States foreign policy as a result of(A) westward expansion in the nineteenth century(B) support for Cuban revolutionaries in the Spanish-American War(C) Woodrow Wilson's support for international democratic principles during the FirstWorld War(D) involvement in the Second World War
- [She's a WOW]The poster most directly reflects the(A) wartime mobilization of United States society(B) emergence of the United States as a leading world power(C) expanded access to consumer goods during wartime(D) wartime repression of civil liberties