In 1950, former New Dealer Alger Hiss was convicted of A) destroying government documents. B) espionage. C) perjury. D) being a communist. ANSWER C
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Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin’s postwar diplomatic style was NOT particularly A) suspicious. B) ruthless. C) irrational. D) self-interested. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What determined whether or not a community was for or against prohibition in the 1920s? A) its size B) its class, ethnic, and religious make-up C) its location in the South, North, or West D) whether it was rural or urban ANSWER B
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President Lincoln was convinced that the Union could win the Civil War by A) outmaneuvering Confederate armies. B) confronting Confederate armies on several fronts. C) intimidating Southerners. D) slowly squeezing the South into submission. ANSWER B
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The immigration restriction legislation of the 1920s established a system for regulating immigration on the basis of A) religious preference. B) national quotas. C) literacy in the English language. D) labor needs. ANSWER B
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When the Panic of 1819 struck, for the first time in American history the nation had to pay attention to A) bank failures. B) falling property values. C) mortgage foreclosures. D) urban poverty. ANSWER D
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What was usually the real cause of backcountry gouging fights? A) personal insult or slight of honor B) the abuse or misuse of punishment C) competition for female attention D) the need for spectator entertainment ANSWER A
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Marcus Garvey is best known as A) a poet of the Harlem Renaissance. B) the leader of a back-to-Africa movement. C) a supporter of accommodation in race relations. D) the leader of the “self-help” movement. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In response to criticism from Republicans and the China Lobby who blamed him for “losing” China, President Truman A) sent a scolding note to Stalin blaming the Soviet Union for the “fall of China.” B) fired Secretary of State Dean Acheson. C) began to question the wisdom of the containment policy. D) refused to extend […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the radical abolitionists’ rationale against slavery. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: slavery illegal, a violation of natural rights; slavery unjust; slavery sinful, places individual’s fate in the hands of another individual; slavery immoral, encourages sexual exploitation; slavery economically retrogressive, inhibits economic development of the South and encourages inefficiency of labor.
Date: September 9th, 2020
