Gilded Age politics was all the following EXCEPT A) a tool for promoting personal interests. B) a vehicle of upward social mobility. C) dull. D) mass entertainment. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most divisive element in the Compromise of 1850 was the provision regarding the A) admission of California. B) return of runaway slaves. C) Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute. D) slave trade in the District of Columbia. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did debtors hope to bring more justice to the nation’s monetary system? A) by passing the Resumption Act in 1875 B) by passing the Coinage Act of 1873 C) by adopting a bimetallic standard D) by retiring Civil War greenbacks ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Settlers to Virginia in the seventeenth century A) were about equally proportioned between male and female. B) usually came as bonded contract laborers. C) usually migrated in stable family units. D) lost their political rights under English common law. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What precipitated James I’s decision to make Virginia a royal colony? A) the granting of dictatorial powers to the colony’s governors in 1609 B) the Virginia Company’s decision to concentrate on tobacco production in 1617 C) the decision to begin the enslavement of blacks in 1619 D) the Indian massacre of 1622 ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Under the terms of ________ , the United States opened trade with France and closed trade with Britain. A) the Non-Intercourse Act B) the Continental System C) the Embargo Act D) Macon’s Bill No. 2 ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
To mobilize public support for World War I, President Wilson established the ________ , America’s first propaganda agency. A) United States Public Information Agency (USPIA) B) Committee on Public Information (CPI) C) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) D) Voice of America (VOA) ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Place yourself in the role of a southern white farmer in the period 1865-1877. Describe your reaction to the major events of Reconstruction in those years. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Southern white farmers suffered a loss in status and experienced frustration and fear. The disruption of the southern economy adversely affected […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The rise of basic industry in America in the late nineteenth century primarily depended on the use of A) water power. B) mineral resources. C) agricultural products. D) forest materials. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
At the turn of the twentieth century, industrialization in America depended LEAST on A) the growing availability of electrical power. B) labor-saving technology. C) the skilled craftsmanship of America’s workers. D) the heavy consumption of natural resources. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
