Questions 34 – 37 refer to the following excerpt. “To turn the administration of our civic affairs wholly over to men may mean that the American city will continue to push forward in its commercial and industrial development, and continue to lag behind in those things which make a city healthful and beautiful. . . . If women have in any sense been responsible for the gentler side of life which softens and blurs some of its harsher conditions, may they not have a duty to perform in our American cities? . . . [I]f woman would fulfill her traditional responsibility to her own children; if she would educate and protect from danger factory children who must find their recreation on the street . . . then she must bring herself to the use of the ballot—that latest implement for self-government.” – Jane Addams, “Why Women Should Vote,” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1910   Question: Which of the following would have been most likely to support the sentiments expressed by Addams in the excerpt?

Questions 24 – 27 refer to the following excerpt. “The question is simply this: can a negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold as slaves become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, and privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen, one of which rights is the privilege of suing in a court of the United States in the cases specified in the Constitution? . . . It is the judgment of this court that it appears . . . that the plaintiff in error is not a citizen . . . in the sense in which that word is used in the Constitution.” -United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857   Question: Which of the following invalidated the decision in the excerpt?

Questions 28 – 30 refer to the following excerpt. “Formerly the individual was the pioneer of civilization; now, the railroad is the pioneer, and the individual follows, or is only slightly in advance. . . . The wild roses are blooming today, and the sod is yet unturned. . . where, in a year or two will be heard the screech of the locomotive and the tramp of the approaching legions, another year will bring the beginning of the change; towns and cities will spring into existence, and the steam whistle and the noise of saws and hammers, and the click and clatter of machinery, the sound of industry will be heard. The prairies will be golden with the ripening harvest, and the field and the forest, the mine and the river, will all yield their abundance to the ever growing multitude.” – George A. Batchelder, A Sketch of the History and Resources of Dakota Territory, 1870   Question: Which of the following contributed most to the process described in the excerpt?

Questions 45 – 47 refer to the following excerpt. “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. “We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.” – President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell address, 1961   Question: Which of the following most directly contributed to the developments Eisenhower warned “we must guard against”?

Questions 51 – 53 refer to the following excerpt. “No thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack. This varies in scope, intensity, in the techniques employed, and in the level of visibility. “There always have been some who opposed the American system. . . . “But what now concerns us is quite new in the history of America. We are not dealing with sporadic or isolated attacks from a relatively few extremists or even from the minority socialist cadre. Rather, the assault on the enterprise system is broadly based and consistently pursued. . . . “The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism come from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians.” – Memorandum from Lewis F. Powell, Jr., attorney and future United States Supreme Court Justice, to Eugene B. Sydnor of the United States Chamber of Commerce, 1971   Question: The ideas expressed in the memo were most consistent with which of the following foreign policy beliefs after 1945 ?

Questions 41 – 44 refer to the following graph.   Question:  Which of the following groups was LEAST likely to have contributed to the trend in Chicago’s population from 1890 to 1940 ?

Questions 34 – 37 refer to the following excerpt. “To turn the administration of our civic affairs wholly over to men may mean that the American city will continue to push forward in its commercial and industrial development, and continue to lag behind in those things which make a city healthful and beautiful. . . . If women have in any sense been responsible for the gentler side of life which softens and blurs some of its harsher conditions, may they not have a duty to perform in our American cities? . . . [I]f woman would fulfill her traditional responsibility to her own children; if she would educate and protect from danger factory children who must find their recreation on the street . . . then she must bring herself to the use of the ballot—that latest implement for self-government.” – Jane Addams, “Why Women Should Vote,” Ladies’ Home Journal, 1910   Question: Addams’ ideas expressed in the excerpt have most in common with which of the following historical views about women?

Questions 5 – 7 refer to the following excerpt. “We . . . the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord, King James, . . . having undertaken for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic . . . and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet [proper] and convenient for the general good of the colony unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.” – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth colony, 1620   Question: The ideas introduced in the excerpt most directly contributed to which of the following patterns among the British North American colonies?

Questions 15 – 17 refer to the following excerpt. “Few wives in antebellum America enjoyed a life free from labor. Family life depended on the smooth performance of an extensive array of unpaid occupations in the household, and on the presence . . . of someone to provide that work—to supervise the children through the vicissitudes of a changing social and economic order; to make and mend clothes, quilts, pillows, and other household furnishings; to shop for items the household could afford . . . , and scavenge . . . for those it could not; to clean, cook, and bake; and, whenever necessary, to move from unpaid to paid labor to bolster the household income. The growth . . . of the cash [economy] of the Northeast had not rendered this labor superfluous. Nor had it reduced housework to unskilled labor.” – Jeanne Boydston, historian, Home and Work, 1990   Question: The growing number of women in the workforce in the second half of the twentieth century most directly contributed to

Questions 3 and 4 refer to the following map. Question:  Which of the following was a major difference between the Spanish colonies in the Americas in the 1500s and the English colonies in the Americas in the early 1600s?