In an 1846 agreement with Great Britain, the United States surrendered its claim to the Oregon territory between A) the 49th parallel and 54° 40′. B) the 45th parallel and Puget Sound. C) 36° 30′ and the 42nd parallel. D) the Willamette Valley and Vancouver Island. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Of the following, the Freedmen’s Bureau was most successful in providing freedmen with A) schools. B) land. C) the vote. D) economic independence. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Lincoln’s 10 percent plan for Reconstruction A) required each former Confederate state to produce a constitution outlawing slavery. B) demanded provisions for voting rights for African Americans. C) required former Confederates to admit to the illegality of secession. D) barred former Confederate high officials from future voting or officeholding. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Mexican War was most popular among A) Whigs. B) abolitionists. C) westerners. D) social reformers. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Mexican War and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo caused all of the following EXCEPT a A) discovery of gold in California. B) one-third increase in the size of the United States. C) breakdown of the political party system. D) new debate on the territorial expansion of slavery. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Most Tejanos fought in the Texas Revolution to A) establish the dictatorship of Santa Anna. B) prevent Texas from declaring its independence. C) restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824. D) drive the Anglos from Texas. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The person most responsible for keeping the Jamestown villagers alive during the initial years of settlement was A) Captain John Smith. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Edwin Sandys. D) Pocahontas. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Randolph Bourne did NOT believe that America’s entry into World War I A) would enormously enhance the power of the federal government. B) was inevitable and necessary. C) would lead to the suppression of civil liberties. D) would kill reform and leave the work of progressivism unfinished. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Historians now believe that A) Europeans learned the practice of scalping from Native Americans. B) while they scalped Europeans, Native Americans did not use the practice in their intertribal warfare. C) scalping originated as a Native-American substitute for the European practice of beheading a defeated foe. D) scalping was practiced primarily for the economic value […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Had you been there and been given the choice, which expedition would you have preferred to join: the Mormon trek to the Great Salt Lake, the Lewis and Clark expedition, or a pioneer migration to the Oregon country? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The Mormons were a religiously homogeneous group seeking […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
