When Roger Williams established the colony of Rhode Island

A) he required voters there to be members of a Puritan church.
B) the king refused to give it a charter, and it remained a renegade colony until Williams died.
C) he made sure that it was more democratic than Massachusetts Bay.
D) he felt that too much democracy would be bad because it might interfere with religious freedom.
E) the colony became a haven for Protestants of all kinds, but it banned Jews.

Which states did the Constitutional Unionist candidate John Bell win in the 1860 election?

A) all of the New England states
B) four states of the Lower South
C) Texas and Louisiana
D) three states of the Upper South
E) only Missouri

How did Chief Dragging Canoe respond to the fighting between the British and the Americans?

A) He led an attack against white settlements along the western borders of the Carolinas and Virginia.
B) He formed a pan-Indian alliance aimed at ridding North America of all white settlers.
C) He sought an alliance with the British in hopes that he could regain Cherokee land lost to white settlers.
D) He decided that the best course of action was to remain neutral.

What share of women in America had jobs outside the home in 1960?

A) the same number as in 1950
B) less than in 1930
C) twice as many as in 1940
D) more than in any year since

The Free Soil idea in the West appealed to racist northerners who worried about competing against black laborers.

The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was

A) the platform of Louis Napoleon's party.
B) Louis Napoleon's call to the French people for support.
C) the official history of the events of the time.
D) Karl Marx's scathing account of Louis Napoleon's climb to power.
E) an anonymous pamphlet trying to equate Louis Napoleon with his more famous uncle.

Which of the following would be most likely to support the Federalists?

A) An urban artisan
B) A southern planter
C) A New England merchant
D) An American of Irish descent

Which of the following was a feature of the Virginia Plan?

A) Acts passed by Congress would also have to be approved by three-fourths of the state legislatures before becoming the law of the land.
B) The state legislatures would become advisory bodies to a national Congress, thereby losing their power to enact laws.
C) Proportional representation would be provided in both houses of a two-house legislature.
D) An independent chief executive would be elected by direct vote of the people.

In what year did Freedom's Journal,the first black-edited newspaper in the United States,first appear?

A) 1793
B) 1808
C) 1816
D) 1827

The "Tables of Ranks" emphasized that

A) the monarch had power over the nobles.
B) the middle-class merchants had the right to participate in government.
C) Jews could hold government offices throughout Europe.
D) all citizens had the right to present their grievances once a year.
E) nobles had the right to overthrow the king with a 2/3 vote.