Buffalo Bill Cody’s “Wild West, Rocky Mountain, and Prairie Exhibition” was very successful. It gave citizens living in the eastern part of the country and in Europe the unrealistic, untrue, romanticized, spectacle of the West they wanted to see. All of the following statements provide reasons why any other type of show would NOT have […]
The mountain state of Franklin was __________. A) founded by some of North Carolina’s western landholders B) intended as a refuge for runaway slaves C) populated by discontented farmers D) formed by Spanish and French adventurers ANSWER A
How does the Gilded Age reflect both the positive and negative aspects of the economic changes in the late nineteenth century? Answer: ANSWER An ideal answer will include: 1. A discussion of the job and social opportunities that were a direct result of inventions and new corporations. 2. A discussion of the resulting depression/Black […]
The Battle of Bunker Hill is misnamed because it was actually fought on A) Dorchester Heights. B) Charleston peninsula. C) Breed’s Hill. D) King’s Mountain. ANSWER C
A “paper son” was A) an adopted child. B) a nephew. C) an immigrant claimed as a descendent to a “citizen”—citizenship could not be proven due to records being destroyed in the San Francisco earthquake and fire. D) a son that lived in the native country; the parent only had pictures of the child, but […]
Kennedy’s failed 1961 covert operation to overthrow Cuba’s Fidel Castro is called __________. a. the Monroe Affair b. the Cuban Missile Crisis c. the Bay of Pigs d. Operation Castro e. the Havana Project ANSWER C
An analysis of various states’ “grandfather clauses” shows that A) they were not aimed at freed blacks. B) they were mainly aimed at recent immigrants. C) the Reconstruction period had ended and equality now existed. D) legal efforts were instituted to keep blacks from voting. ANSWER Answer: D
__________ denied states the right to take Native American tribal lands. a. McCulloch v. Maryland b. Southern legislatures c. Worcester v. Georgia d. Fletcher v. Peck e. Wallace v. Tennessee ANSWER C
In his message to Congress in 1901, Teddy Roosevelt believed that the American people thought what entities were “in their certain features and tendencies hurtful to the general welfare” of the nation? A) corporations B) laborers C) politicians D) farmers ANSWER Answer: A
How do you suppose southern planters could lead a rebellion against an English government they feared was threatening their rights and liberties, and, at the same time, hold thousands of blacks as their slaves? Explain this apparent inconsistency. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The inconsistency was apparent to many and it bothered […]
