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
The farmers’ agenda included all of the following EXCEPT A) a graduated income tax. B) federally policed production controls. C) government operation of the railroads. D) inflation of the currency. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Senator Stephen A. Douglas declared that Kansas’s Lecompton constitution was A) a travesty of the principle of popular sovereignty. B) at odds with the Dred Scott decision. C) a proper basis for admitting Kansas as a slave state. D) a fraudulent product of free soil Kansans. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following were true of most Populists EXCEPT A) they owned little or no modern farm machinery. B) the relied on a single cash crop. C) they rented rather than owned the land they farmed. D) they were small scale family farmers in the South and West. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I, Germany did NOT A) promise to disarm. B) retain control of her colonies under a “mandate” system. C) lose territory in Europe. D) admit to having caused World War I. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The wartime bracero program was initiated to A) advance the civil rights of Mexican Americans living in the Southwest. B) reduce the level of juvenile delinquency in Southwestern cities. C) meet the demand for farm workers in the Southwest. D) remove illegal Mexican immigrants from defense industry employment. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Southern slaves often A) preferred home remedies to treatment by white physicians. B) concealed the fact that they were ill. C) feigned illness. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assess the achievement of Thomas Jefferson’s principles by 1815. Note especially ways in which his principles were compromised during the Jefferson and Madison administrations. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: attack on judiciary was incompatible with belief in meritocracy; Louisiana Purchase required implied powers; continuation of slavery violated assertion of equality; enforcement […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
