Why did Truman ask his advisers for a full reevaluation of the nation’s foreign policy in 1949? A) He fundamentally disagreed with Roosevelt’s views. B) The U.S. and Britain had broken off their alliance. C) The Soviet Union had acquired nuclear weapons. D) War had broken out in North Africa and the Middle East. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall used all of the following tactics in the courts to “chip away” at segregation EXCEPT A) force states to pay all teachers the same wage regardless of race. B) demonstrate that schools were not providing equal accommodations for black and white students as required under Plessy v. Ferguson. C) […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did South Carolinians protest the tariff of 1828? a. They feared its effect on the price of cotton. b. They saw it as an unfair “northern” law. c. They thought it threatened the institution of slavery. d. They disliked Andrew Jackson. e. Tariffs determined the prices that southerners paid for manufactured goods. ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 had all of the following consequences EXCEPT A) brutal police tactics were broadcast on television. B) the Soviet Union criticized the United States for its race relations problems. C) passage of the Voting Rights Act. D) black leaders A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin called for a March […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
John F. Kennedy played down civil rights legislation because he __________. a. feared the possibility of alienating southern Democrats b. did not think the country was ready to consider it c. did not want to offend conservative African American leaders d. thought it was unnecessary and should be left to the states e. thought there […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain the shift toward militancy among college students during the mid-1960s. Answer: ANSWER An ideal answer will: 1. Discuss the importance of how the baby boom and technology helped spur economic growth, middle-class suburbanization, and social mobility. 2. Discuss the importance of the rapid expansion of higher education and increased college enrollment post-World War […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
When President Johnson managed to get Congress to pass Kennedy’s proposed tax cut in 1964, the result was __________. a. huge budget deficits b. a sustained economic boom c. protests from welfare recipients d. a major recession e. cutbacks in certain social services ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic elected president. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 9th, 2020
What do we know about the sources of the witchcraft hysteria in Salem? a. They are known to have been primarily economic. b. They reflected the community’s underlying resistance to the teachings of Calvinism. c. They lay in the community’s dislike of English authority. d. They are a subject of debate among historians. e. They […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following women were involved in the growing women’s rights movement of the late 1960s EXCEPT A) Betty Friedan. B) Olympia Dukakis. C) Pauli Murray. D) Gloria Steinem. ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
