What was the significance of the "Country Party"?

A) Their support for absolute monarchies inspired those who would remain Loyalists during the American Revolution.
B) Their criticism of Puritans resulted in Britain rescinding the original Massachusetts charter.
C) Their writings warned against the tendency of political power to threaten liberty and were popular in the American colonies.
D) Their promotion of British mercantilism influenced British economic policy throughout the eighteenth century.
E) Their attempts to seize the property of the landed gentry in England resulted in stricter rules of free assembly in the American colonies.

Which of the following is true of the Bush and Obama administrations' efforts to police the southwest border?

A) They publicly supported protests against illegal immigration.
B) They paid private militias through the Department of Homeland Security to provide extra enforcement at border crossings.
C) They increased the number of U.S. Border Patrol agents.
D) They denied the importance of illegal immigration.
E) They prohibited the use of regional unofficial militias to patrol the border.

Which of the following is true regarding women in the workforce during World War II?

A) The overwhelming majority of working women were employed in industrial professions.
B) The government believed that by employing women, they were expanding women's freedom.
C) Women were encouraged to keep their jobs even after the war had ended.
D) Women in 1944 made up more than one-third of the civilian labor force.
E) Single women made up the majority of working women.

Which of the following is accurate about immigrants in the early 21st century?

A) Immigrants make up 40 percent of PhD's in America.
B) Immigrants are older than the average American.
C) Immigrants are less likely to be married.
D) Immigrants are more likely to be male than female.

Why did Indian lands once thought worthless become appealing in the late nineteenth century?

A) Americans got to know Native Americans better as they got closer in touch with them.
B) The challenges farmers faced in the Great Plains prompted them to copy Indian practices.
C) The Homestead and Desert Lands Acts contributed to changing perceptions of "the Great American Desert."
D) The climate on Indian lands proved to be far more healthful and beneficial than that of the Northeast.

Which of the following best expresses the Supreme Court's decision in Charles River Bridge v. Warren Bridge?

A) State governments have final authority over transportation routes within their boundaries.
B) New enterprises cannot be restrained by privileges that were implied under old charters.
C) The original grant of power in a state contract is to be interpreted as broad and unlimited.
D) The federal government has final authority over transportation routes that cross state boundaries.

Toward the end of Elizabeth I's reign,army ranks were filled by

A) mercenaries.
B) impressment.
C) nobles who had lost their positions.
D) young boys who had been captured.
E) draft lotteries.

The "American System of manufactures"

A) owed a great deal to Eli Terry's development of interchangeable parts in clockmaking.
B) originated among entrepreneurs in the Old Northwest before spreading to New England.
C) referred to the production of specialty handmade goods by highly skilled artisans.
D) was centered on agricultural machinery.
E) was nearly derailed by Chief Justice John Marshall's hostility to economic development.