By 1850 southerners had reason to fear for the future of slavery for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) Congress had banned slavery from the territories ceded by Mexico in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. B) slavery was declining in the Upper South. C) slave ownership was increasingly concentrated in fewer and fewer hands […]
Who most benefitted from President Jackson’s policies? A) yeoman farmers B) urban workingmen C) Native Americans D) southern slaveowners ANSWER D
When he won reelection in 1916, President Wilson interpreted his victory as a popular vote for A) his sympathy toward the Allies. B) military preparedness for war. C) continuing American neutrality and seeking peace. D) United States intervention into World War I. ANSWER C
During the 1920s and much of the 1930s, American foreign policy concentrated most on improving the United states’ relations with A) the Soviet Union. B) western Europe. C) the Far East. D) Latin America. ANSWER D
In response to the Zimmermann telegram, President Wilson ordered A) the arming of American merchant ships. B) endorsing American loans to the Allies. C) the defeat of the Gore-McLemore resolutions. D) breaking diplomatic relations with Germany. ANSWER A
The Embargo Act A) was a general stimulus to American economic prosperity. B) assumed that American trade was vital to European industry. C) was the single most popular act of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. D) signaled the final demise of the Federalist Party. ANSWER B
Like Thomas Jefferson, President Madison was committed to a foreign policy of A) isolationism. B) pacifism. C) military preparedness. D) economic coercion. ANSWER D
In the 1880s, President Cleveland opposed the prevailing tariff rates because he thought they were A) too low. B) producing a treasury surplus. C) increasing the national debt. D) a threat to American industrial productivity. ANSWER B
In the politics of the 1850s, a northern man with southern principles was called a A) Know Nothing. B) nativist. C) fire-eater. D) doughface. ANSWER D
Advocates of Black Power A) ignored the plight of lower-class African Americans. B) attracted a relatively small following among African Americans. C) exerted little influence on the civil rights movement. D) All of the above. ANSWER B
