Membership in the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was limited to A) Jews. B) All non-Christians. C) Protestants. D) Catholics. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
By ________ , the majority of the U.S. population lived in the South and West. A) 1980 B) 1960 C) 1970 D) 1990 ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The letter from Ambassador Dupuy de L me to a friend in Cuba in 1898 A) demanded a declaration of war against the United States. B) contained insults of President McKinley. C) called for granting independence to Cuba. D) requested that the reconcentration policy be revoked. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Lincoln’s cautious approach to making the abolition of slavery a war goal of the Union A) disappointed most northerners and, for a time, demoralized the Union Army. B) reflected his own personal ambiguity about the morality of slavery. C) resulted from his concern about losing slaveholding border states to the Confederacy. D) made the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
When it went into effect in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in A) United States territories. B) the slave states that had remained in the Union. C) Confederate states and territories. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The scandals in President Harding’s administration produced A) vicious partisan attacks between leaders of the two parties. B) an outraged response from the general public. C) the first resignation of a president in American history. D) the criminal conviction of a cabinet member. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the Dominion of New England primarily intended to provide? A) greater self-government for the New England colonies B) more authoritarian administration of the New England colonies C) economic self-sufficiency for New England D) restoration of the Massachusetts Bay Charter ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Identify the causes of the Panic of 1819. Are they the same as what most people thought were the causes? How did public perception of the Panic affect public policy? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Causes: collapse of cotton prices; deflation of the currency (contracted bank credit and specie payment requirement for […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The 1946 Taft-Hartley Act A) signaled the end of the political resurgence of conservatism in American politics. B) was vetoed by President Truman. C) finally ended wage and price controls. D) gave a major boost to labor unionization. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the most distinguishing feature of the pre-Civil War South? A) Urbanization was increasing at a more rapid rate than in the North. B) Slavery was legal and widely used. C) Most southerners worked in agriculture. D) Its population was larger than the North’s. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
