Unlike most early nineteenth-century writers, ________ questioned society’s faith in progress and humanity’s essential goodness. A) Longfellow and Whitman B) Alcott and Fuller C) Emerson and Thoreau D) Hawthorne and Melville ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Truman Doctrine was announced in response to a British plea to have the United States provide aid to anticommunist forces in A) Afghanistan and Pakistan. B) Poland and Hungary. C) Greece and Turkey. D) Iran and Iraq. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) Europeans were dependent on Northern grain exports. B) the Confederacy made no serious diplomatic efforts to seek aid. C) England had moral qualms about recognizing a slave power. D) England found alternative sources of cotton. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Confederacy’s military planning was hindered by its A) failure to adopt a national taxation system. B) inability to diversify its economy. C) states’ rights philosophy. D) lack of good generalship. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Civil War the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislation to do all of the following EXCEPT A) lower tariff rates. B) provide a uniform national currency. C) grant public land to states that established agricultural colleges. D) make free homesteads available to individual settlers. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the late seventeenth century, the colony of Pennsylvania was particularly attractive to A) tobacco planters. B) wealthy landowners. C) dissenter religious groups. D) non-separatist Puritans. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the chief characteristics of “commercial agriculture” as it developed in America in the late nineteenth century. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Commercial agriculture was mechanized and specialized. It used new technology, scientific agriculture, and a focus on cash crop production to increase productivity and lower costs and prices. It relied heavily […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Denmark Vesey was a A) domestic servant in a plantation “Big House.” B) free black publisher. C) field slave. D) literate, free black artisan. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the spark that ignited the Vesey Conspiracy? A) a successful slave rebellion in Haiti B) the closing of the Hampstead Church C) the publication of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper, The Liberator D) the debate over the admission of Missouri ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Had you lived between 1820 and 1860, which reform movements would have been most attractive to you? Select three and tell why these seem to be of special importance to you. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider some of the following as criteria for making a choice: moral improvement of the individual […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
