Cesar Chavez’s efforts at organizing farm workers resulted in A) pensions and benefits for farm workers. B) a significant increase in their wages. C) recognition of their right to collective bargaining. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why American historians usually rate the Gilded Age presidents among the “weak” presidents of our past. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The prevailing assumption of the day was that the federal government had a limited role to play in national life, and that Congress, not the president, should control national affairs. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
If “no important policy differences separated the two major parties” in the Gilded Age, as the text authors claim, why was there a continuously high voter turnout at elections? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Party leadership devoted its energies and skills to campaign electioneering–getting out the vote. Not issue oriented, the parties […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the bloodiest one-day battle of the Civil War? A) Vicksburg B) Shiloh C) Antietam D) First Bull Run ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
According to the 1920 census, for the first time in American history most A) American brides had engaged in premarital sex. B) Americans were non-Protestant. C) Americans lived in cities and towns. D) African Americans lived in the North. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Henry Ford introduced all the following innovations to the automobile industry EXCEPT A) the automated assembly line. B) cars affordable to the average family. C) higher minimum wages and shorter working hours for auto workers. D) an annual model change for his cars. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the most critical foreign policy issue facing the United States after the War of 1812? A) the war between Britain and France in Europe B) the decay of the Spanish Empire in the Western Hemisphere C) fulfilling the terms of the Treaty of Ghent D) Britain’s continued hostility toward American interests ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Industrialization and the factory system in the late nineteenth century produced an American labor force characterized by a A) low absentee rate. B) high level of job satisfaction. C) low annual turnover. D) high level of productivity. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1823, British Foreign Minister George Canning proposed that the United States and Great Britain issue a joint declaration announcing that A) neither nation would continue to pay tribute to the Barbary states. B) both nations would oppose any further European intervention in the Americas. C) the entire Pacific coast from Alaska to the Oregon […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
To transcendentalists, the fundamental mysteries of human existence were to be found A) through biblical study. B) in the structure of social and religious institutions. C) by intuition. D) by the application of sound logic and reason. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
