Greensboro, North Carolina, Nashville, Tennessee, and Atlanta, Georgia, were early sites of this particular strategy of the civil rights movement. A) freedom rides to test the Morgan v. Virginia ruling in interstate buses B) sit-ins at lunch counters and restaurants to protest discrimination C) violent occupation of segregated establishments D) voter registration drives to increase […]
The Bill of Rights guaranteed that the power of ________ could not infringe upon the rights of ________. A) the President; Congress B) the states; the national government C) Congress; the federal judiciary D) the national government; individuals ANSWER D
Prospects for successful worldwide exploration by Europeans in the mid-fifteenth century were heightened by new developments in all the following areas EXCEPT A) knowledge of New World geography. B) ship design. C) printing. D) navigational instruments. ANSWER A
The gathering at an annual meeting where fur trappers met to trade pelts for supplies was called the ________ system. A) rendezvous B) putting out C) factor D) caucus ANSWER A
The Spanish conquistadore Hernan Cortes was able to conquer the Aztec Empire for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) Cortes received the assistance of various tribes that had been subjugated by the Aztecs. B) a smallpox epidemic decimated the Aztec population. C) Cortes’s troops vastly outnumbered the Aztec warriors. D) the Aztec emperor Montezuma […]
What event precipitated an undeclared naval war between the United States and France? A) Convention of 1800 B) XYZ Affair C) Gen t Affair D) Fries Rebellion ANSWER B
Who led the Mormons west to the Great Salt Lake area? A) Marcus Whitman B) Brigham Young C) Jason Lee D) Joseph Smith, Jr. ANSWER B
In the Election of 1800, Federalists had reason to fear that if Thomas Jefferson were elected, his administration would A) return most political power to the states. B) impose heavy excise taxes. C) use the federal courts to suppress dissent. D) create a large standing army. ANSWER A
Which candidate in the 1824 presidential election received the largest number of popular and electoral college votes? A) William Crawford B) Andrew Jackson C) John Quincy Adams D) Henry Clay ANSWER B
The “Tariff of Abominations” was most strongly opposed by A) westerners. B) easterners. C) southerners. D) northerners. ANSWER C
