Of the following, evangelical revivals had the LEAST appeal to A) upwardly mobile businessmen in the North. B) young women. C) farm families in the southwestern and western frontier. D) social liberals. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the nation’s largest and fastest growing religious denomination by 1860? A) Catholic B) Methodist C) Presbyterian D) Baptist ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
At the Versailles Conference, President Wilson was unable to get the Allied leaders to agree to his position on A) the League of Nations. B) war reparations. C) national self-determination in Europe. D) a colonial “mandate” system. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In America in the late nineteenth century, the ________ industry pioneered both business consolidation and modern management styles. A) railroad B) steel C) petroleum D) meatpacking ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Early nineteenth-century reformers succeeded in getting some states to outlaw A) the insanity defense. B) the death penalty. C) plea bargaining. D) solitary confinement. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Although they were “public,” most early nineteenth-century public school enrollment policies discriminated against all of the following EXCEPT A) African Americans. B) women. C) Catholics. D) immigrants. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assess how well Americans remained “neutral in fact as well as in name” as President Wilson admonished them to do when World War I began in Europe. What factors worked in favor of neutrality? What factors worked against it? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER “Strict” neutrality never really existed. As Bryan charged, […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why it might be said that the “profit motive and the public’s sense of patriotism” were the keys to mobilizing the nation for war in 1917-1918. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER President Wilson’s administration offered incentives to American businesses to mobilize the economy for war. The primary incentive was the promise […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
It has been said that, “Truth is the first casualty of war.” What does this mean? Illustrate how this is reflected in the shaping of American public opinion during World War I. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The comment means that during war, the mobilization of the public’s mind in support of […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assess the achievements of the “freedom rides,” “sit-ins,” and desegregation of southern universities in the early 1960s. Had you been a young person at the time, would you have participated in these events? In what way? Why? Do you think they did more harm than good? Why? ANSWER Each of these tactics contributed to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
