CLEP Exam - US History 1865 to Present 100 Questions and Answers 2023/2024 A Grade.

1. Which of the following best describes the experiences of most recently freed people following Reconstruction? (A) They obtained land from the Freedmen's Bureau. (B) They were forced back onto the plantations as sharecroppers. (C) They established large cooperative farms. (D) They migrated to Northern urban areas and worked as unskilled laborers. (E) They were forced to migrate to marginally fertile lands in the western territories - ANSWER>> B 2. The Reconstruction Acts of 1867 provided for (A) temporary Union military government in the former Confederacy (B) federal monetary support for the resettlement of African Americans in Africa (C) property-holding and voting rights for African Americans (D) implementation of anti-African American vagrancy laws in the South (E) lenient readmission of the formerly Confederate states to the Union - ANSWER>> A 3. The second Sioux war (1876-1877), in which Custer was defeated at the Battle of Little Bighorn, was caused by all of the following EXCEPT (A) the extension of the route of the Northern Pacific Railroad (B) a concentrated effort on the part of the major Protestant denominations to convert the Sioux to Christianity (C) the gold rush in the Black Hills (D) corruption within the Department of the Interior (E) overland migration of settlers to the Pacific Northwest - ANSWER>> B CLEP Exam - US History 1865 to Present 100 Questions and Answers 2023/2024 A Grade. 4. "This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: . . . to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community." The sentiments expressed above are most characteristic of (A) transcendentalism (B) pragmatism (C) the Gospel of Wealth (D) the Social Gospel (E) Social Darwinism - ANSWER>> C 5. Reformers of the Progressive Era proposed all of the following changes in city government and politics at the turn of the century EXCEPT (A) a large city council elected by wards (B) the establishment of civil service (C) home rule for cities (D) city manager and commission governments (E) nonpartisan elections - ANSWER>> A 6. The anti-combination laws passed by numerous states in the late 1880s were a response to which of the following organizational innovations? (A) The creation and growth of international cartels (B) The development of industry-wide trade associations (C) The joining of skilled and unskilled workers in industrial unions (D) The formation of agricultural marketing cooperatives (E) The use of stockholding trusts to create business monopolies - ANSWER>> E 7. Which of the following constituted a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century? (A) The beginning of negotiations with individual Indian tribal groups (B) The start of a removal policy (C) The abandonment of the reservation system (D) The admission of American Indians to United States citizenship (E) The division of lands traditionally owned by Indian tribal groups among individual members - ANSWER>> E 8. The late-nineteenth-century photograph shown above was intended to serve which of the following purposes? (A) To advocate social reform (B) To arouse anti-immigrant sentiments (C) To encourage the purchase of cameras (D) To document the need for prohibition (E) To encourage immigration to the cities - ANSWER>> A 9. Which of the following would have been most likely to vote for William Jennings Bryan in 1896 ? (A) A Kansas farmer (B) A Chicago industrial worker (C) A department store clerk (D) A university professor of economics (E) A New York Republican Party member - ANSWER>> A 10. Unionization efforts in the late-nineteenth century were countered by the (A) establishment of the eight-hour workday (B) passage of right-to-work laws (C) increasing use of skilled labor (D) use of federal troops to help end strikes (E) establishment of factories in foreign countries by United States corporations - ANSWER>> D 11. Which of the following best states the goals of the "pure and simple unionism" advocated by Samuel Gompers?