Maryland’s Act of Religious Toleration A) guaranteed all males the right to vote as long as they were Christians. B) granted full religious toleration to all faiths. C) ended the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the colony. D) allowed freedom of worship only to Catholics. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In his first diplomatic initiative as president in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt A) extended U.S. diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union. B) spoke of need for the United States to “quarantine” European aggressor nations. C) urged Congress to pass a series of neutrality laws to protect American shipping. D) reversed President Hoover’s Latin American […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The basic problem of western and southern farmers in the late nineteenth century was caused by A) government regulation. B) droughts. C) overproduction. D) inflation. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
If you were a voter in the 1830s, would you be a Democrat or a Whig? Why? What is your attitude toward Andrew Jackson? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Whig: I hate Jackson; I believe in government by men of talent; I favor high tariffs, a national bank, federally-funded internal improvements, government-promoted […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The emergency atmosphere in World War I returned important benefits to all the following EXCEPT the A) prohibitionists. B) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). C) American Federation of Labor (AFL). D) women’s suffrage movement. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In response to the “sack of Lawrence,” Kansas, John Brown A) initiated a raid on a federal arsenal. B) attacked a pro-slavery senator. C) led a slave insurrection. D) executed five pro-slavery settlers at Pottawatomie Creek. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The immediate post-World War I environment in America was characterized by all of the following EXCEPT A) race riots. B) labor strikes. C) lower prices. D) political repression. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
One of the primary causes of the English Civil War of 1640 was A) conflict between King Charles I and English Puritans. B) reformers’ desires to establish pure democracy in England. C) economic depression. D) the king’s effort to restore Catholicism in England. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following were features of Massachusetts Bay politics EXCEPT A) only male church members could vote for delegates to the General Court. B) the General Court functioned as a colony-wide elected assembly. C) political participation was limited to stockholders in the Massachusetts Bay Company. D) church ministers were not eligible for political offices. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The settlement pattern of early Massachusetts Bay Puritans took the form of A) a handful of coastal trading villages. B) a few large plantations surrounded by small farms. C) several small townships. D) many widely-scattered, individually-owned small farms. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
