In response to the Zimmermann telegram, President Wilson ordered A) the arming of American merchant ships. B) endorsing American loans to the Allies. C) the defeat of the Gore-McLemore resolutions. D) breaking diplomatic relations with Germany. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Embargo Act A) was a general stimulus to American economic prosperity. B) assumed that American trade was vital to European industry. C) was the single most popular act of Thomas Jefferson’s presidency. D) signaled the final demise of the Federalist Party. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Like Thomas Jefferson, President Madison was committed to a foreign policy of A) isolationism. B) pacifism. C) military preparedness. D) economic coercion. ANSWER D
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In the 1880s, President Cleveland opposed the prevailing tariff rates because he thought they were A) too low. B) producing a treasury surplus. C) increasing the national debt. D) a threat to American industrial productivity. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the politics of the 1850s, a northern man with southern principles was called a A) Know Nothing. B) nativist. C) fire-eater. D) doughface. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Advocates of Black Power A) ignored the plight of lower-class African Americans. B) attracted a relatively small following among African Americans. C) exerted little influence on the civil rights movement. D) All of the above. ANSWER B
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President Johnson’s Great Society programs provided federal aid to A) provide housing. B) promote education. C) combat poverty. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
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The Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT A) the Equal Pay Act. B) Medicare. C) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. D) the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following occurred during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency EXCEPT the A) proportion of African Americans living in poverty declined. B) median African-American family income increased. C) infant mortality rate among the poor declined. D) percent of whites living in poverty increased. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
For the first time in American history, during World War I, the United States A) used a conscription or draft system to raise military manpower. B) integrated black with white troops in American military units. C) enlisted black troops into its armed forces. D) administered psychological-intelligence tests to military recruits. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
