Although they voted heavily for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, the members of the New Deal coalition that derived the LEAST benefit from the New Deal were A) African Americans. B) white southerners. C) union members. D) urban ethnics. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What do anthropologists believe about the Clovis spear point? A) They believe that the Clovis spear point was an invention that early Americans developed long after they had lost contact with Asia. B) They believe that the Clovis spear point was an invention first invented in Siberia and brought to North America during their trek […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the case of Schechter v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government–through the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)–had overstepped its constitutional authority to A) protect the civil rights of minorities. B) bust the trusts. C) regulate interstate commerce. D) encourage labor organization. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What innovative approach did the Iroquois nations develop to sustain themselves in their encounters with other tribes and the Europeans? A) hostage-taking of members of hostile tribes as well as Europeans B) a political alliance of the original five Iroquois nations to create a united front C) clans led by men governing the five nations […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Theodore Roosevelt requested that the 1912 Progressive Party platform omit a plank supporting A) racial equality. B) women’s suffrage. C) unemployment insurance. D) abolition of child labor. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What event in the mid-1400s caused Christian Europe to seek new ways to reach Asia for more direct and effective trading opportunities with Asia? A) a political revolution in China B) a massive earthquake in China C) the fall of Constantinople to the political control of the Muslim Ottoman Turks D) the decline of the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was one significant innovation in college football that was introduced after the turn-of-the-century? A) “V” formation B) “drop” kick C) forward pass D) mass play ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Africans were similar to American Indians in that A) they each thought of themselves as members of a tribe, not as members of a larger cultural group connected by geography or trading networks. B) enslaving members of another tribe distressed both Africans and American Indians. C) they disregarded the potential profitability of capturing and selling […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Tuskegee Study of syphilitic African Americans was A) supposed to document the damage of syphilis to African-American males. B) designed to test the effects of penicillin on syphilitic patients. C) based on the assumption that syphilis did not harm blacks as seriously as whites. D) conducted by African-American physicians at Tuskegee Institute. ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
European diseases had the most deadly impact on Indians in the Americas than any other harmful element including European arms during the 1500s. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 9th, 2020
