The South’s transportation network in the first half of the nineteenth century A) emphasized steamboats. B) was well developed. C) was primitive compared to that of the North. D) was characterized by an abundance of paved roads. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who determined the pattern of urban growth and development in the “private city” of late nineteenth-century America? A) profit-seeking businessmen B) zoning boards C) government planners D) professional experts ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the relationship between mercantilist assumptions, Parliament’s Navigation Acts, and the development of the colonial American economy. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Mercantilists assumed that national wealth (a favorable balance of trade) meant national power. The Navigation Acts were designed to produce that wealth for England (enumerated articles, etc.). The navigation system […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The progressive scholar, Lester Frank Ward, is identified with A) “sociological jurisprudence.” B) “conspicuous consumption.” C) the Social Gospel. D) Reform Darwinism. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Novelist Theodore Dreiser wrote in the genre known as A) the genteel tradition. B) local color. C) realism. D) naturalism. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In their relations with the Native Americans, the French __________. a. were as obsessed with Christian conversion as the Spanish b. tended to cultivate good relations because of the Native Americans’ knowledge of fur trapping c. were ruthless in their treatment of the Native Americans d. drove them from their land in order to set […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Slave families were generally A) weak because slave men were usually absent from the family. B) severely strained by the high instance of sale and family break-up in slavery. C) weak because extended kinship ties rarely developed in slavery. D) weak because slave codes provided no legal protection for slave marriages. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Among progressives, who were the most active organizers for moral reform and social justice? A) ethnic minorities B) Democrats C) Southerners D) middle-class women ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Suez Crisis in 1956 produced a sharp policy disagreement between ________ on the one hand, and ________ on the other. A) Great Britain, France, and the United States; Israel B) the United States and the Soviet Union; Egypt C) the United States; the Soviet Union D) Great Britain, France, and Israel; the United States […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The most popular New Deal program was the ________ , but the ________ was a public relations disaster. A) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC); Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) B) Civilian Conservation Corps; National Industrial Recovery Act C) National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA); Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) D) Agricultural Adjustment Act; National Industrial Recovery Act ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
