The victory in Brown v. Board of Education was limited by a follow-up 1955 ruling __________. A) accepting the idea of “interposition” as a legal argument B) allowing states “all deliberate speed” by which to comply with the decision C) establishing a “civil rights czar” to enforce the Supreme Court’s ruling D) allowing local communities […]
Historians generalize that by 1500 the Native-American peoples of North America were A) racially inferior. B) carelessly exploiting the continent’s natural resources. C) developing essentially similar economies. D) linguistically and culturally diverse. ANSWER D
Thomas Jefferson argued that the creation of a national bank was a violation of the A) strict construction of the Constitution. B) doctrine of implied powers. C) principle of executive privilege. D) “necessary and proper” clause of the Constitution. ANSWER A
Division into competing political parties first appeared over the controversy associated with A) the Whiskey Rebellion. B) Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality. C) ratification of the Jay Treaty. D) Hamilton’s financial program. ANSWER D
When Americans moved to Texas in the 1820s, the Mexican government required them to A) learn to speak Spanish. B) establish a public school system. C) become Mexican citizens. D) bring their slaves. ANSWER C
Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Giovanni da Verrazzano were all A) circumnavigators of the globe. B) lost at sea. C) “sea dogs.” D) native Italians. ANSWER D
The Alien and Sedition Acts did NOT A) allow the president to deport aliens in time of war. B) authorize the president to restrict immigration into the United States C) lengthen the period required of immigrants to become citizens of the United States D) make it a crime to attack the government with malicious statements. […]
Social and economic conditions that produced problems and tensions in sixteenth-century England included all of the following EXCEPT A) a population explosion. B) the enclosure movement. C) the collapse of the woolens industry. D) price inflation. ANSWER C
Unlike President Lincoln’s 10 percent plan, Congress’s Wade-Davis Bill A) required some former Confederates to take a loyalty oath. B) permanently barred a large number of former Confederates from holding public office. C) guaranteed freedmen the right to vote. D) required southern states to repudiate their Confederate debt. ANSWER D
Summarize the emergence of the two-party system. What events helped define the differences between Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The two parties emerged out of the need to organize support for and against administration policies in the 1790s. Partisan differences were defined by controversies over such public policies […]
