NAEP US History Grade 12 - Question List

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16. The struggle between President Andrew Johnson and the Radical Republicans was mainly over
  1. United States alliances with European nations
  2. the nature and control of Reconstruction
  3. the purchase of Alaska
  4. whether or not to have a tariff
17. The Progressive movement of 1890-1920 is best described as
  1. a broad-based reform movement that tried to reduce the abuses that had come with modernization and industrialization
  2. a loose coalition of groups primarily dedicated to passing a constitutional amendment prohibiting the consumption of alcohol
  3. an anti-tariff movement led by a federation of business owners and manufacturers who wanted to promote trade abroad
  4. a grass-roots movement that attempted to gather support for the establishment of an international organization such as the League of Nations
18. It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting . . . armed minorities or . . . outside pressures.- Harry S Truman, 1947The policy described was part of a larger policy of the Truman administration that was referred to as
  1. nativism
  2. massive retaliation
  3. isolationism
  4. containment
19. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's goal in supporting the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 was to
  1. encourage Japanese Americans to relocate voluntarily
  2. use foreign investment as a way of stimulating the American economy
  3. maintain an isolationist stance by providing only limited aid to both sides in the European conflict
  4. assist Britain's war effort without violating United States neutrality laws
20. The opening of diplomatic relations between the United States and China's communist government occurred during the presidential administration of
  1. Harry S Truman
  2. John F. Kennedy
  3. Lyndon B. Johnson
  4. Richard M. Nixon

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