What was one of the effects of the Great Awakening in America? A) reunification of the colonial churches that had been divided by the Enlightenment B) declining respect for established authority C) renewed respect for the learned clergy D) lowered toleration of dissenting views ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why did James Oglethorpe establish the colony of Georgia? A) to rehabilitate English paupers B) to provide religious refuge for English Baptists C) to grant huge land tracts to his friends in court D) to take advantage of cheap slave labor ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Soviet Premier Gorbachev’s creation of the Soviet Union’s first working legislature and his allowing competitive elections in 1989 are examples of ________ ; his legalization of small private business corporations and leasing of land to individuals are examples of ________ . A) glasnost; perestroika B) perestroika, glasnost C) glasnost; detente D) detente; perestroika ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In his Progress and Poverty (1879), Henry George emphasized that the nation’s major problem was ________ , and he proposed a “single tax” on ________ to solve it. A) business monopolization; trusts B) the unequal distribution of wealth; land values C) unrestricted immigration; each new immigrant D) “conspicuous consumption”; incomes ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The provisions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) created by Congress in 1932 reflected President Hoover’s assumption that the depression was caused by A) an international trade deficit. B) uncontrollable economic forces. C) the stock market crash. D) tight credit. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Most Spanish colonists were __________. a. members of wealthy families b. more racially tolerant than their English counterparts c. unconcerned about economic opportunities d. unwilling to have contact with native groups e. incredibly racist ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Novelist Mark Twain was not much interested in writing about A) the corruption of life in industrial cities. B) southern racism. C) greed and violence. D) regional humor. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Social Gospel movement was committed to A) explaining the social status quo as “God’s will.” B) the view that social problems could not be legislated away. C) marshaling the Protestant churches to combat the rapid growth of Catholicism in America. D) using the tools of scientific inquiry to root out and solve human problems. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Demonstrate in what ways Benjamin Franklin’s complaint in the 1760s that the souring of relations between England and the American colonies was the fault of British trade policies. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Franklin probably exaggerated the “souring” effect of the trade policies before 1760, but the Navigation Acts did hamper the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What sixteenth-century European upheaval had a profound impact upon England’s settlement of the New World? a. the Crusades b. the War of the Roses c. the Reformation d. the Hundred Years’ War e. the experience of the Marian exiles ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
