Describe how both religious and economic factors stimulated English expansion in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Religious: Protestant England challenged the New World hegemony of Spain; religious dissenters, persecuted in England, migrated to America. English monarchs viewed America as a convenient dumping ground for religious […]
The administration of Ulysses S. Grant was characterized by A) Republican domination of most southern states. B) economic prosperity. C) racial harmony. D) a succession of scandals. ANSWER D
During the Gilded Age, the roots and constituency of the Republican Party made it the “party of ________ ” that appealed to ________ religious sects. A) individual liberty; pietistic B) morality; ritualistic C) morality; pietistic D) individual liberty; ritualistic ANSWER C
President Jefferson’s conflict with the Barbary pirates concerned A) theft of treasure from American merchant ships. B) tribute paid to protect American shipping. C) interference with the trans-Atlantic slave trade to America. D) the blockading of America’s major shipping ports. ANSWER B
Which of the following was true of BOTH the Whigs and Jacksonian Democrats? A) They were always on guard against the influence of special privilege. B) They drew support from all parts of the country. C) They supported Henry Clay’s American System. D) They emphasized class conflict. ANSWER B
Apparently slaves were LEAST likely to hear of their emancipation from A) their masters. B) Union soldiers. C) Freedmen’s Bureau Agents. D) the slave grapevine. ANSWER A
For nearly two years as president, John F. Kennedy moved slowly on civil rights issues partly because he A) had not promised any civil rights legislation in his election campaign. B) needed congressional voting support from white southern Democrats. C) held a personal dislike of Martin Luther King, Jr. D) All of the above. […]
In 1832, American physicians’ “doctrine of predisposing causes” alleged that those most likely to contract cholera were A) poor. B) southerners. C) farmers. D) children. ANSWER A
During World War I, A) the reform effort to shorten the work week failed. B) membership in labor unions increased. C) the American Federation of Labor (AFL) opposed the war. D) the real income of American manufacturing workers declined. ANSWER B
Assume the role of a freedman in 1865. Describe your hopes and fears. What is it that you expect of freedom? What do you want? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Hopes: land ownership; economic independence; education; mobility; legal marriage; suffrage. Fears: white supremacists; failing idealism of sympathetic whites; withdrawal of […]
