Recognizing the long historical association Americans had with a rural environment and the late nineteenth-century fact of rapid urbanization, explain why baseball became the national sport. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Teams were identified with cities and players were usually from those cities. Fans identified easily with both. Baseball also used the […]
What new trade developed in the mid-late 1500s between Europeans and Native Americans in North America that fed a new economic interest among Europeans? A) cod B) beaver fur C) gold D) silver ANSWER Answer: B
The __________ Company was responsible for the settlement of Jamestown in Virginia. a. New England b. Royal African c. Virginia d. American e. New World ANSWER C
What was the Spanish response from 1769 through the 1790s to English explorations and Russian fur-trading activities on the Pacific coast? A) creating a string of Spanish missions, forts, and settlements from San Diego to San Francisco and develop the economy of California B) concluding a treaty with Russia permitting fur-trading activities across a wide […]
Imagine yourself in America in the 1950s. What would have been your actions in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision? Why would you have acted in this way? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER One’s actions would likely range from celebrating the end of constitutionally sanctioned segregation to taking to […]
Why was the Albany Plan of Union defeated resoundingly by the colonial legislatures in 1754? A) Individual colonial legislatures feared the unified government would give up too much political control to other colonies and to the British Crown, who would appoint the leader of the unified government. B) The plan for an intercolonial union did […]
Pretend you are a typical white middle-class teenager in the late 1950s. What is going on in your life? What do you like to do? What do you worry about? What is your view of national and world events? Who are your heroes? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER In the 1950s, […]
Whose words of resistance inspired Pontiac’s Rebellion against the British from 1763-1766? A) Hendrik, a chief of the Mohawk tribe B) Neolin, a Delaware Indian, living on the Ohio River C) Teedyuscung, leader of the Delaware tribe D) Lord Jeffrey Amherst of Great Britain ANSWER Answer: B
After 1815, the United States __________. a. grew rapidly in size and population b. was threatened by foreign invasion c. revised its form of government d. was unable to expand its economy e. invaded and occupied Canada ANSWER A
What was the MOST significant consequence of the Boston Massacre of March 1770? A) the creation of a committee of correspondence to encourage resistance in other colonies and mobilize Bostonian anger towards British rule B) a criminal trial of the British soldiers involved resulting in the soldiers being found guilty of murder C) a complete […]
