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
Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) he insisted on mandatory church attendance for all settlers. B) he believed the colony’s land patent was fraudulent. C) he challenged the limits of Puritan orthodoxy. D) he advocated separation of church and state. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Antinomians like Anne Hutchinson believed A) the revealed Word of God could only be found in the Bible. B) those who were in saving grace were no longer bound by civil or church laws. C) Puritans who led good and faithful lives were assured of saving grace. D) only Puritan ministers could determine who had […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
As a result of the presidential election of 1896, A) the Democratic Party became the majority party in American politics. B) farmers and wage laborers became political allies. C) the national currency was placed on the gold standard. D) tariff rates were lowered for the first time since the Civil War. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Compared to the early Chesapeake colonies in the seventeenth century, New England’s population had an unusually high A) death rate. B) immigration rate. C) life expectancy. D) ratio of males to females. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The code name for the Allied invasion of France in 1944 was Operation A) ANVIL. B) OVERLORD. C) HUSKY. D) TORCH. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
