One result of the Vesey Conspiracy was A) the freeing of about 125 slaves. B) more repressive laws from the state’s legislature. C) abolition of the slave codes. D) widespread destruction of white property, but little loss of white lives. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the provisions of the Monroe Doctrine. Indicate what American interests were served by its pronouncement and toward which specific nations it was directed. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Provisions: the Western hemisphere was closed to colonization and political intervention from Europe; the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg was a Confederate assault on Union lines along A) the “Devil’s Den.” B) Cemetery Ridge. C) the Gettysburg River. D) Seminary Ridge. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The enormous growth of European immigration into the United States between the Civil War and World War I was primarily the result of A) population growth in Europe. B) inducements offered by U.S. state governments and private corporations. C) the general refusal of other nations to accept European immigrants. D) a relaxation of U.S. immigration […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
As evidence that many who were “soft on Communism” were active in Truman’s administration, Republicans referred to all of the following EXCEPT A) President Truman’s response to North Korea’s attack on South Korea. B) the “fall of China.” C) the Soviet detonation of an atomic bomb. D) the Alger Hiss case. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Early nineteenth-century master craftsmen usually drew a sharp distinction between A) work and leisure. B) journeyman and apprentice. C) producer and seller. D) home and work. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other three? A) Pale of Settlement B) padrone C) pogroms D) Jews ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Of the following, early nineteenth-century American skilled workers protested LEAST against A) wage reductions. B) increasing use of unskilled workers. C) long hours. D) the use of machinery. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
England’s radical Whig pamphleteers A) were notable models of “differential” thinking. B) condemned the Enlightenment for questioning the power of God. C) condemned the policy of “salutary neglect” as dangerous to imperial stability. D) saw a fundamental threat to liberty from corrupt governmental tyrants. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the first ethnic group excluded by an American immigration restriction law? A) Italians B) Japanese C) Chinese D) Russian Jews ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
