In 1832, American physicians’ “doctrine of predisposing causes” alleged that those most likely to contract cholera were A) poor. B) southerners. C) farmers. D) children. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
During World War I, A) the reform effort to shorten the work week failed. B) membership in labor unions increased. C) the American Federation of Labor (AFL) opposed the war. D) the real income of American manufacturing workers declined. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assume the role of a freedman in 1865. Describe your hopes and fears. What is it that you expect of freedom? What do you want? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Hopes: land ownership; economic independence; education; mobility; legal marriage; suffrage. Fears: white supremacists; failing idealism of sympathetic whites; withdrawal of […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Place yourself in the United States Senate in 1867. You must vote on the impeachment charges brought against President Johnson. How will you vote? Explain how you will justify your vote to your constituents. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER One’s vote would depend on how one defined the constitutional standard of “high […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The controversial wartime Espionage Act of 1917 was A) upheld by Supreme Court decisions in 1919. B) repealed and replaced by the milder Sedition Act of 1918. C) found in violation of the “clear and present danger” doctrine. D) declared unconstitutional in Abrams v. United States. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The two new constitutional amendments related to World War I dealt with A) women’s suffrage and presidential succession. B) poll taxes and prohibition. C) prohibition and women’s suffrage. D) presidential succession and poll taxes. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The diverse elements that made up the new Republican Party in the mid-1850s all shared the common conviction that A) residents of a territory should determine the fate of slavery there by themselves. B) slavery should be abolished as soon as possible. C) all western territories must be closed to slavery. D) African Americans should […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Pilgrim colony of Plymouth Plantation ultimately A) was absorbed by its neighbor, Massachusetts. B) was abandoned because of hostility from Native Americans. C) became part of Connecticut. D) became one of the original thirteen states in the United States of America. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Among the “unsavory” and “radical” aspects of the farmers’ movement in the late nineteenth century were all the following EXCEPT A) anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. B) rhetoric of class division and animosity. C) socialistic ideas promoting government ownership. D) hate-mongering anti-black racism. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Tecumseh died from wounds he received at the Battle of A) Tippecanoe. B) Prophet’s Town. C) the Thames River. D) Fallen Timbers. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
