The Shawnee prophet, Tenskwatawa, wanted his people to A) reject the militant leadership of Tecumseh. B) assimilate with whites. C) unite. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Who was the governor of the Ohio Country whose leadership eventually destroyed the efforts of the Prophet and Tecumseh? A) William Henry Harrison B) Anthony Wayne C) Andrew Jackson D) John Tyler ANSWER A
In the youth counterculture of the 1960s, the emphasis was on A) communal sharing. B) accepting social responsibility. C) rational problem-solving. D) glorifying individualism. ANSWER A
Through consolidation, late nineteenth-century business leaders like Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J. P. Morgan intended to bring more ________ to the national economy. A) free enterprise B) order C) equal opportunity D) competition ANSWER B
The first federal law to prohibit discrimination on the basis of gender was the ________ Act. A) Equal Employment Opportunity B) Equal Pay C) Civil Rights D) Voting Rights ANSWER B
Pre-Civil War reformers believed that crime was rooted in A) social conditions. B) human nature. C) original sin. D) the innate depravity of humankind. ANSWER A
In the late nineteenth century, large-scale businesses began adopting all the following EXCEPT A) divisions of responsibility. B) cost accounting systems. C) hierarchical administrative structures. D) decentralized management teams. ANSWER D
America’s poorest minority group in the 1960s was the ________ , while today’s fastest growing minority group in America is the ________ . A) African Americans; Mexican Americans B) Native Americans; Mexican Americans C) Mexican Americans; Asian Americans D) Asian Americans; African Americans ANSWER B
Describe the key terms of the Compromise of 1850 and trace the process by which it was enacted. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Terms: Fugitive Slave Law, California as a free state, Texas-New Mexico boundary settlement, slave trade banned in the District of Columbia, no restrictions against slavery in the cession territory. […]
The major resources of the West included all of the following EXCEPT A) cattle. B) grass. C) minerals. D) water. ANSWER D