The fate of the “lost colonists” of Roanoke most likely involved A) escape to Jamestown. B) migration to the Mississippi Valley. C) absorption by local Native Americans. D) a return voyage to England. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the only state readmitted to the Union under President Johnson’s plan for Reconstruction? A) Arkansas B) Virginia C) Louisiana D) Tennessee ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the key features of trans-Mississippi Native Americans and the impact that the movement of whites into the area had on them. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Features: 300,000 Indians in over 200 tribes; both nomadic and sedentary; diverse in cultures and social organization; Plains Indians horse culture; Pueblo Indians agriculture; Great […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors suggest that when they first started to migrate into Texas, “Spain welcomed the Americans.” Explain why Americans were allowed to settle in Texas and why later the Mexican government decided to change this policy. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Americans were allowed into Mexico to create a buffer against […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why President Polk “had little desire to go to war with Britain” over the Oregon question but was accused by some of having “deliberately provoked Mexico into war”. Why was Polk’s action in the latter case more aggressive than in the former? ANSWER Consider: Why not Oregon? Polk feared a two-front war with […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Most Americans of the late nineteenth century A) supported full political rights for women. B) rejected the idea of an activist government. C) longed for racial integration. D) supported socialism. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Gilded Age, the Democratic party could usually count on the votes of all of the following EXCEPT A) southern whites. B) urban immigrants. C) New England. D) Catholics and Jews. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1915, President Wilson warned Germany that it would be held “strictly accountable” for A) loss of life incurred from submarine attacks. B) censoring the mail coming from Europe. C) mining the North Sea. D) the invasion of neutral Belgium. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In Gilded Age elections, the Democratic Party tended to rely on ________ to win and control votes. A) urban political machines B) strong state organizations C) independents D) reform factions ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of the following is NOT true of early seventeenth-century Virginia? A) Some blacks owned land and servants. B) The first-arriving persons of African heritage were sold as slaves. C) Blacks faced a deteriorating legal status. D) English law did not recognize human slavery. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
