Place yourself in the role of a white family farmer in the South in 1896. For which candidate will you vote for president: William McKinley (Republican), or William Jennings Bryan (Democrat)? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The farmer would probably vote for William Jennings Bryan, the advocate of “free silver.” Bryan […]
Assess the impact of World War II on America’s domestic economy. Consider corporations, labor, farmers, and consumers. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Corporations: high profits, cost-plus contracts, retooling loans, subsidies for construction, support for research and development, suspension of anti-trust prosecutions, government favors big business over small for war contracts. Labor: union […]
The introduction of the automobile to American life on a mass scale had all the following effects EXCEPT it A) reinforced American’s devotion to thrift. B) transformed the American landscape. C) altered family life. D) stimulated the national economy. ANSWER A
Had it been enacted, the Crittenden Compromise would have A) threatened slavery where it existed. B) let the South peacefully secede from the Union. C) banned slavery north of 36° 30′ latitude. D) repealed the Compromise of 1850. ANSWER C
All of the following endorsed American expansion in the 1870s and 1880s EXCEPT A) Social Darwinists. B) Congress. C) religious leaders. D) Anglo-Saxon supremacists. ANSWER B
After the firing on Fort Sumter, which one of these four border slave states did NOT join the Confederacy? A) North Carolina B) Tennessee C) Kentucky D) Arkansas ANSWER C
The Erie Canal was primarily financed by A) the federal government. B) private entrepreneurs. C) foreign investors. D) state and local governments. ANSWER D
Edgar Allen Poe produced noted works in all the following areas EXCEPT A) horror stories. B) frontier epics. C) literary criticism. D) detective novels. ANSWER B
American and Soviet Cold War attitudes were hardened by all of the following EXCEPT A) American foreign policy makers’ tendency to equate Stalin with Hitler. B) President Truman’s get-tough talk. C) America’s belief that Stalin was more concerned with the Soviet Union’s security than with its expansion. D) the exaggerated anti-Soviet views of Truman’s postwar […]
The Truman Doctrine A) reversed America’s traditional policy of extending diplomatic recognition to de facto governments. B) was later described by Churchill as “the most unsordid act in history.” C) formed the framework for a universal postwar American foreign policy. D) was a specific policy addressed to a specific set of circumstances. ANSWER C
