The GI Bill is often credited for its   a.  universal health insurance.   b.  unemployment compensation program.   c.  impact on the rapid growth of higher education after World War II.   d.  high efficiency and lean bureaucracy.

What was not one of the primary reasons why people opposed the First and Second Banks of the United States?    a.  They printed too much money and triggered a substantial inflation.   b.  They had monopoly control over some banking activities.   c.  They were unconstitutional.   d.  They did not provide sufficiently generous lending policies.

Which region in the New World received the largest share of slaves brought to the New World?   a.  Brazil   b.  Colonial America   c.  Cuba   d.  Canada

By 1994, the percentage of the U.S. labor force employed in agriculture was   a.  less than 3 percent.   b.  between 5 and 7 percent.   c.  about 10 percent.   d.  15 percent.

The financial crisis that began in 2007   a.  was predicted in detail by Alan Greespan and Ben Bernanke.   b.  was centered on subprime lending and the complex financial instruments based on subprime loans.   c.  was caused by a downturn in the stock market.   d.  None of the above are correct.

Which of the following is most  accurate about Europe during World War I?   a.  Long-standing nationalistic and imperialistic rivalries produced a dangerous political situation.    b.  The continent had experienced several major wars in the preceding decades.    c.  Industrialization and a greater commitment to international trade had created rapidly rising standards of living.    d.  There was rising solidarity among the labor movements of different nations. 

Most historians today agree that   a.  Britain was right to demand reparations from Germany.   b.  trying to extract reparations from Germany was a mistake.   c.  Germany’s reckless spending in the 1920s was chiefly to blame for the Great Depression.   d.  U.S. loans to Germany merely postponed an otherwise inevitable Great Depression.

The Suffolk System   a.  operated similarly to the modern Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.   b.  led to lower discount rates on the notes of country banks in New England.   c.  was established by Nicholas Biddle.   d.  was used primarily prior to 1863 in Louisiana.

From which country came the fewest immigrants during the large wave of immigrants who arrived in the U.S. in the 1840s and 1850s?    a.  England.   b.  Germany.   c.  Ireland.   d.  Spain.

Under the system of “township planning”    a.  no one could own land that had not been previously surveyed.   b.  settlers chose their own plots of land, under the supervision of a county surveyor.   c.  legal descriptions of property made reference to permanent natural objects.   d.  gaps between unsettled and settled land were encouraged.