For nearly two years as president, John F. Kennedy moved slowly on civil rights issues partly because he A) had not promised any civil rights legislation in his election campaign. B) needed congressional voting support from white southern Democrats. C) held a personal dislike of Martin Luther King, Jr. D) All of the above. […]
In 1832, American physicians’ “doctrine of predisposing causes” alleged that those most likely to contract cholera were A) poor. B) southerners. C) farmers. D) children. ANSWER A
During World War I, A) the reform effort to shorten the work week failed. B) membership in labor unions increased. C) the American Federation of Labor (AFL) opposed the war. D) the real income of American manufacturing workers declined. ANSWER B
Assume the role of a freedman in 1865. Describe your hopes and fears. What is it that you expect of freedom? What do you want? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: Hopes: land ownership; economic independence; education; mobility; legal marriage; suffrage. Fears: white supremacists; failing idealism of sympathetic whites; withdrawal of […]
Place yourself in the United States Senate in 1867. You must vote on the impeachment charges brought against President Johnson. How will you vote? Explain how you will justify your vote to your constituents. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER One’s vote would depend on how one defined the constitutional standard of “high […]
The controversial wartime Espionage Act of 1917 was A) upheld by Supreme Court decisions in 1919. B) repealed and replaced by the milder Sedition Act of 1918. C) found in violation of the “clear and present danger” doctrine. D) declared unconstitutional in Abrams v. United States. ANSWER A
The two new constitutional amendments related to World War I dealt with A) women’s suffrage and presidential succession. B) poll taxes and prohibition. C) prohibition and women’s suffrage. D) presidential succession and poll taxes. ANSWER C
The diverse elements that made up the new Republican Party in the mid-1850s all shared the common conviction that A) residents of a territory should determine the fate of slavery there by themselves. B) slavery should be abolished as soon as possible. C) all western territories must be closed to slavery. D) African Americans should […]
The Pilgrim colony of Plymouth Plantation ultimately A) was absorbed by its neighbor, Massachusetts. B) was abandoned because of hostility from Native Americans. C) became part of Connecticut. D) became one of the original thirteen states in the United States of America. ANSWER A
Among the “unsavory” and “radical” aspects of the farmers’ movement in the late nineteenth century were all the following EXCEPT A) anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. B) rhetoric of class division and animosity. C) socialistic ideas promoting government ownership. D) hate-mongering anti-black racism. ANSWER D
