Demonstrate in what ways Benjamin Franklin’s complaint in the 1760s that the souring of relations between England and the American colonies was the fault of British trade policies. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Franklin probably exaggerated the “souring” effect of the trade policies before 1760, but the Navigation Acts did hamper the […]
What sixteenth-century European upheaval had a profound impact upon England’s settlement of the New World? a. the Crusades b. the War of the Roses c. the Reformation d. the Hundred Years’ War e. the experience of the Marian exiles ANSWER C
All of the following led slave insurrections in the first half of the nineteenth century EXCEPT A) William Walker. B) Nat Turner. C) Gabriel. D) Denmark Vesey. ANSWER A
Hinton Rowan Helper’s book, The Impending Crisis of the South, dealt with the problem of the A) wasteful inefficiency of slave labor. B) need for southern independence. C) threat of slave insurrection to the social order of the South. D) rapidly growing free black population in the Upper South. ANSWER A
At the turn of the century, Texas-born Scott Joplin wrote several scores of popular music in the syncopated style called A) honky tonk. B) ragtime. C) the blues. D) jazz. ANSWER B
The 1960 planned summit meeting between President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was canceled in the aftermath of the A) Suez Crisis. B) U-2 Incident. C) Cuban Revolution. D) Hungarian Revolt. ANSWER B
The Sugar Act was NOT designed to A) raise the customs duty on foreign molasses imported into the American colonies. B) raise revenue in the colonies to help pay England’s increased costs of imperial administration. C) place new customs duties on foreign goods like sugar and wine that colonists regularly purchased in the West Indies. […]
During the era of the European slave trade, West Africans __________. a. were quite isolated from the rest of the world b. had a simple, self-sufficient economy c. had a single monolithic culture that covered most of the African continent d. were increasingly being converted by Muslim missionaries e. were united by a single language […]
Explain why the “article of faith among northerners that theirs was a society of unprecedented economic equality and opportunity, free of rigid class divisions and glaring extremes of wealth and poverty” is not entirely an accurate depiction of reality. ANSWER Consider: wealth highly concentrated at the top; wide class distinctions, social stratification; urban poverty; […]
Explain why, when compared to the Caribbean and Latin America, there was relative infrequency of slave rebellion in the southern United States. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: little chance of success; terrible consequences of failure; slaves greatly outnumbered; whites armed and united; no safe havens to escape to; hard to plan […]
