21. The United States of America, with a population of 255.5 million in 1992, wasthe ______ most populous country in the world.

A. second                                                B. third

C. fourth                                                 D.fifth

22. Statistically ______ have been thefastest growing states in population for the last 20 years.

A. Arizona, Nevada and Florida

B. California, Nevada and Florida

C. Arizona, New Jersey and Nevada

D. Arizona, New Mexico and Florida

23. The war at ______ in Northern New York provedto be a great turning point of the War of Independence.

A. Lexington                                            B.Concord

C. Yorktown                                             D.Saratoga

24. The FederalistPapers written under the name of Publiuswere co-authored by ______.

A. Alexander Hamilton, John Locke and John Jay .

B. AlexanderHamilton, James Madison and John Jay

C. Andrew Jackson,James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

D. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson

25. The American expansionist movement produced a theory called ______.

A. New Frontier                                        B.New Darwinism

C. Manifest Destiny                                   D.Roosevelt Corollary

26. Whichof the following statements is NOT considered the valid reason for the disappearanceof black slavery in the American North in the early 1800s?

A. The price of slaves was too high.

B. Slavery was simply illegal in the North.

C. The Africans could not stand cold winters in the North.

D. As the North turned toward industry, mechanics and not farmhandswere needed.

27. In the political area, the Progressive Movement demanded ______.

A. the banning of child labor

B. improve living conditions

C. industrial accident insurance

D. reforming the city and state governments

28. The 19th Amendment of voting right for women was adopted during the______

Administration.

A. J.F.Kennedy’s                                       B.Woodrow Wilson’s

C. Franklin Roosevelt’s                              D.Theodore Roosevelt’s

29. Asa result of the Great Depression, many people lost their land and other propertiesbecause of ______.

A. bankruptcy                                           B.foreclosure

C. speculation                                           D.profiteering

30. The aim of measures in the New Deal, as President Roosevelt put it,was to _______.

A. “save American democracy”

B. “regulate and reform the banking system”

C. “strengthen government intervention in business”

D. “raise the role of labor in the relations of production”