The postwar rumor among former slaves that they were to receive “forty acres and a mule” from the government was based on provisions of A) the Thirteenth Amendment. B) the surrender terms at Appomattox. C) Special Field Order 15. D) the Emancipation Proclamation. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Polk based the war message he delivered to Congress in 1846 on the claim that A) Mexico had refused to pay its debts. B) Mexican authorities were mistreating American settlers in Texas and California. C) Mexico and Great Britain were plotting to halt American expansion into the Southwest. D) Mexicans had invaded the United […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican War included A) Mexican payment of $15 million in damage claims to the United States. B) American assumption of $3.25 million of Mexican debts owed to citizens of the United States. C) annexation of Texas by the United States. D) the banning of slavery from all […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was one lesson learned from the attempt to colonize Roanoke Island? A) Funding these ventures was going to be too expensive for any single individual. B) France was going to be England’s greatest rival for control of North America. C) Native Americans were automatically going to be unfriendly toward the English. D) Colonization was […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Supreme Court acknowledged Congress’s power to reconstruct state governments in A) Ex parte Merryman. B) Texas v. White. C) Worcester v. Georgia. D) Ex parte Milligan. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What ultimately saved Jamestown from disaster? A) John Smith’s having to return to England after being accidentally injured B) the cultivation of tobacco as a trading commodity C) Chief Powhatan’s decision not to let the beleaguered settlers die off D) the determination and hard work of the first group of settlers ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why in the controversy over the annexation of Texas, “the issue was not Texas but slavery.” Tell how both pro- and anti-annexationists used the slavery question as a part of their argument. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Pro: Antislavery Britain would grab Texas if the United States didn’t, then use […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The prevailing view of government responsibility held by Gilded Age Americans tended to enhance the relative power of the A) Congress. B) president. C) courts. D) federal government. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Speculate on the importance of the Wilmot Proviso in the coming of the Civil War. What controversy did it generate? Why was this such a crucial subject for debate? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The Wilmot Proviso was a key to the coming of the Civil War. It generated a divisive debate […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Jefferson’s battle with the federal judiciary was provoked by A) questions about the Louisiana Purchase. B) foreign policy crises. C) the Marbury v. Madison case. D) the Judiciary Act of 1801. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
