The various factions in the Whig Party coalition were united by their common opposition to A) federal interference in the economy. B) slavery. C) Andrew Jackson. D) humanitarian reform. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In its final form, the Compromise of 1850 did NOT include a provision to have Congress A) require Texas to abandon its claim to New Mexico territory. B) admit California to the Union as a free state. C) abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia. D) deny itself the power to regulate the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The new Fugitive Slave Law enacted in 1850 A) required ordinary citizens to assist in the capture and return of runaway slaves. B) was carefully designed to protect the basic civil liberties of fugitive slaves and northern free African Americans. C) generally went unenforced. D) was ruled unconstitutional in Prigg v. Pennsylvania. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors state that for freedmen in the South, “emancipation had come piecemeal.” Describe the process of slave emancipation from 1861 to 1865. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Confiscation Acts; Emancipation Proclamation; actions of the Union Army; Thirteenth Amendment; notification of the slaves in the South.
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain on what basis Lincoln and Johnson justified their assumptions of Reconstruction policy and the basis on which Congress justified its takeover of Reconstruction. What specific events moved Congress to take Reconstruction out of the hands of the president? ANSWER Lincoln’s and Johnson’s policies rested on the president’s power to pardon. To them, states […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Early Maryland first served as a A) haven for persecuted Catholics. B) Dutch trading post. C) home for Puritan separatists. D) penal colony. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
During World War I, the United States government’s most coercive domestic actions were taken toward A) increasing industrial production. B) shaping public opinion. C) obtaining the cooperation of organized labor. D) financing the war. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The United States responded to the Panay incident in China in 1937 by A) calling upon the League of Nations to take punitive action against Japan. B) sending a sharply worded protest to Tokyo. C) stationing U.S. warships along the China coast. D) imposing economic sanction against Japan. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In its final form, the Kansas-Nebraska Act provided that slavery in these two territories would be decided A) by popular sovereignty. B) in accordance with the Missouri Compromise. C) by the Supreme Court. D) in keeping with the Dred Scott decision. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was one of the unique features of South Carolina as one of England’s mainland colonies in the seventeenth century? A) It used a headright system of land distribution. B) It outlawed indentured servitude. C) It was heavily populated by immigrants from Barbados. D) It produced a profitable cash crop for export. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
