Opponents of the Equal Rights Amendment argued that A) it would force women to serve in combat. B) women’s rights were already secured by existing laws. C) it would endanger the protective legislation governing hours and wages for working women. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
One impact of the 1896 presidential election was A) a reaffirmation of rural values. B) the enactment of “free silver” laws. C) the demise of the Populist Party. D) tariff reduction. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The widespread enactment of Jim Crow laws that disfranchised and segregated African Americans began A) during World War I. B) in the 1920s. C) in the 1890s. D) during Reconstruction. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The “Era of Good Feelings” refers to A) Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. B) the years immediately following the American Revolution. C) the early years of James Monroe’s presidency. D) the time following the signing of the Jay Treaty. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors claim that “no important policy differences separated the two major parties” in the Gilded Age between Reconstruction and the Election of 1896. Use information from the text authors’ own account of politics in this period to demonstrate that their claim may be an exaggeration. ANSWER Democrats and Republicans did disagree over […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Compared to earlier decades, by 1675, Virginia was characterized by all the following EXCEPT A) longer marriages. B) a declining death rate. C) fading class lines. D) larger families. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The American military strategy in the Pacific during World War II can be described as A) “island hopping.” B) Blitzkrieg. C) divide and conquer. D) guerrilla warfare. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Through most of the seventeenth century, what was the primary source of labor in the Chesapeake colonies? A) black African slaves B) white indentured servants C) Irish and German immigrants D) Native Americans ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Supreme Court’s ruling in the Dartmouth v. Woodward case in 1819 A) expanded federal control over interstate commerce. B) legitimized the doctrine of implied powers. C) established the principle of sanctity of contract. D) established the principle of judicial review. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The best known black abolitionist of the nineteenth century was A) James Birney. B) Frederick Douglass. C) Paul Cuffe. D) Benjamin Banneker. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
