President Grant wanted the United States to annex the Dominican Republic for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) annexation had strong public and congressional support. B) it had an important natural harbor. C) it was rich in mineral resources. D) it could be a safe haven for black Americans. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
General Motor’s Alfred Sloan’s major contribution to the automaking industry was A) adopting new approaches to advertising and marketing. B) refining the production process. C) demonstrating the logic of mass production. D) reducing production costs. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The availability of electric home appliances in the 1920s A) eased the physical drudgery of housework. B) began a trend toward centralizing such household chores as laundering and baking. C) shortened the average housewife’s work week. D) went far toward liberating women from their traditional social role. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why, when the United States had been attacked by Japan, and Britain was threatened by the possibility of a German invasion, did the Allied strategists decide to first commit American troops in North Africa? Assess the wisdom of this strategy as you see it. ANSWER When the United States joined the war, President Roosevelt […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Confederate artillery fired on Fort Sumter when news was received in Charleston that Lincoln had A) decided to resupply the fort. B) ordered the evacuation of federal troops from the fort. C) proclaimed that the South was in a state of insurrection against the federal government. D) decided to send troops and arms to the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who was the central figure in American Transcendentalism? A) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow B) Nathanial Hawthorne C) Herman Melville D) Ralph Waldo Emerson ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
At the end of World War II, Eastern Europe was liberated from Nazi control by the A) Soviet Red Army. B) Polish underground. C) United States Army. D) British Army. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
It might be said that the Cold War was declared in early 1946 when ________ announced that “from Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the [European] continent.” A) Franklin D. Roosevelt B) Dean Acheson C) Winston Churchill D) Harry S. Truman ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What industries were most financially important to the West by the 1970s? A) oil and mining B) lumbering and tourism C) farming and ranching D) electronics and service ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What kind of popular novels did early nineteenth-century middle-class Americans tend to prefer? A) urban crime stories B) sentimental family stories C) western sagas D) pirate adventure tales ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
