In the North, the organization designed to improve medical services and treatment for the sick and wounded was called the A) Internal Revenue Service. B) American Red Cross. C) Freedmen’s Bureau. D) Sanitary Commission. ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Marco Polo’s Travels provided Europeans with information about __________. A) North America B) West Africa C) North Africa D) China ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Frederick Douglass fought for women’s rights all his life. Answer: ANSWER FALSE
Date: September 9th, 2020
Sumptuary laws __________. a. made excessive gluttony a crime b. prohibited the poor or underclass from wearing fine clothes c. criminalized frivolity on the Sabbath d. provided that only “visible saints” could be buried in a church cemetery e. made church attendance compulsory ANSWER B
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Literacy was a very strong symbol of freedom to former slaves. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most important reason for the difference between the New England and Chesapeake colonies was based on __________. a. the colonists’ country of origin b. the much higher mortality rate of the Chesapeake colonies c. the practice of slavery in the southern colonies d. contrasting economic systems e. varying degrees of ethnic diversity in the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Segregation laws were applied to every aspect of life. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 9th, 2020
__________Yazoo claim stretched west from the Chattahoochee River to the Mississippi River. A) Georgia’s B) Virginia’s C) Alabama’s D) South Carolina’s ANSWER A
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Immediately after the Civil War, Congress created the Indian Peace Commission to negotiate peace with which tribe? A) Comanche B) Sioux C) Plains Indians D) Navajo ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors assert that “the diplomacy of secrecy and intrigue attracted both [Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger].” Give specific examples of this style of diplomacy as practiced in the Nixon administration. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER That “intrigue and secrecy” were endemic to the two men’s style is illustrated by the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
