What was NSC-68 and how did it help produce the American national security state? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The ideal answer should include: 1. In 1949, China became a communist country and the Soviet Union acquired nuclear weapons. 2. In light of these developments, President Truman asked for a complete reevaluation […]
Over time, Indian communities in North America typically __________. A) remained socially and communally primitive B) feared the gods and refused to change C) had little knowledge of even the simplest forms of technology D) demonstrated increasing levels of complexity ANSWER Answer: D
Which of the following helped increase interest in English migration to North America in the first half of the seventeenth century? A) the discovery of gold B) religious conflict C) a famine D) the robust English economy ANSWER B
Why might native communities have resisted shifting to agriculture? A) They were ignorant about plants and cultivation. B) Farming offered few advantages in some areas. C) Merchant clans prevented their workers from adopting farming. D) Farming took so little work that it promoted laziness. ANSWER Answer: B
The outcome of debates over slavery at the Constitutional Convention suggests that the first priority of the delegates there was to A) perpetuate slavery. B) abolish slavery. C) create a strong union with a powerful central government. D) remove all barriers to the full practice of human rights. ANSWER C
Which of these societies had tens of thousands of communities in the Southwest? A) Inuit B) Mohawks C) Senecas D) Anasazi ANSWER Answer: C
The typical way for most slaves to express discontent was __________. a. political protest b. open, armed rebellion c. passive resistance d. participation in conspiracies e. organizing boycotts ANSWER C
Using either the Anasazi/Mississippian or the Iroquois/Algonquian, compare and describe their attitudes about community in such areas as sex roles, lines of descent, wealth and property, political structures, religion, and war. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: population; conflict; priorities; political structures; settlement patterns
At the time of the Civil War, __________. a. almost all southerners owned at least one slave b. most white southerners owned three or more slaves c. there were few slaves in the fields, but most white households had a house slave d. one-quarter of white southerners owned slaves e. one-half of white southerners owned […]
The multiracial Spanish colonial society is best described as a frontier of __________. A) inclusion B) exclusion C) equal opportunity D) dispersion ANSWER Answer: A
