The first martyr of the abolitionist movement was A) Elijah Lovejoy. B) David Walker. C) William Lloyd Garrison. D) Frederick Douglass. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Chesapeake colonists adopted a slave-labor system for all of the following reasons EXCEPT A) compared to white servants, black Africans were more immune to tropical diseases and lived longer. B) fewer white indentured servants were available. C) unlike Indians, blacks did not resist their enslavement. D) black slaves were becoming cheaper to purchase. ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Chief Justice John Marshall and the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to a strict interpretation of the Constitution in A) McCulloch v. Maryland. B) Dartmouth v. Woodward. C) Marbury v. Madison. D) Gibbons v. Ogden. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Within the late nineteenth-century American labor force, important distinctions were based on A) skill. B) ethnicity. C) gender. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, most colonial women A) were given pain killers during delivery. B) were attended by a male doctor. C) gave birth at home. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
General Andrew Jackson’s actions during a punitive expedition in Florida in 1817 brought demands for his censure from all the following EXCEPT A) the Spanish government. B) Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. C) Speaker of the House Henry Clay. D) Secretary of War John C. Calhoun. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The foundation of “scientific management” methods was laid by A) Russell Conwell. B) Frederick W. Taylor. C) Horatio Alger. D) J.P. Morgan. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Compare and contrast the major demographic characteristics of colonial New England with the Chesapeake colonies. What evidence illustrates the text authors’ contention that “life in early New England was far more secure than in the South”? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Compared to New England, the Chesapeake had a high death rate, […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1950, former New Dealer Alger Hiss was convicted of A) destroying government documents. B) espionage. C) perjury. D) being a communist. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin’s postwar diplomatic style was NOT particularly A) suspicious. B) ruthless. C) irrational. D) self-interested. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
