In the 1920s, Hollywood movies tended to A) be too expensive for working class patrons. B) reinforce racial stereotypes. C) present unsympathetic portraits of the poor. D) perpetuate Victorian moral values. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Do you think the adoption of a slave labor system in colonial America was inevitable? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: need for labor, declining availability of indentured servants, growing availability and lower price for black slaves, anti-black racial attitudes, no prohibition in law, established models for slavery […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
After 1815, America’s legal system began to promote the values of a market economy, especially the concept of A) economic stability. B) usurious interest rates. C) just price. D) supply and demand. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
English mercantilists believed A) to become wealthy, a nation needed to avoid government regulation of its economy. B) a favorable balance of trade would build a nation’s power. C) there was an infinite amount of wealth in the world. D) national wealth and national power were essentially unrelated. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Johnson County War was provoked by charges of A) Indian attack. B) highway robbery. C) claim jumping. D) cattle rustling. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the long run, President Cleveland’s handling of the Venezuela boundary dispute resulted in A) a mediated settlement giving Venezuela the larger share of the disputed territory. B) diminishing the power of the president over American foreign policy. C) the rapid deterioration of relations between the United States and Britain. D) an arbitrated settlement giving […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Civil War, England and the Union were most nearly provoked into war with each other by A) the Trent affair involving the Union’s seizure of southern diplomats from an English ship. B) English-made commerce raiders’ attacks on northern shipping. C) the incompetence of the American ambassador to England, Charles Francis Adams. D) England’s […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The major theme of the Harlem Renaissance was A) racial pride. B) “back to Africa.” C) building a culture of poverty. D) resentment of whites. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of the following did NOT favor negotiating an end to the Civil War and letting the South leave the Union? A) Radical Republicans B) Clement L. Vallandigham C) “Copperheads” D) Peace Democrats ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In public, President Lincoln justified his Emancipation Proclamation on grounds of A) its contributing to military victory for the Union. B) its being the most effective way to quiet Peace Democrats. C) the immorality of slavery. D) fulfilling the ideals of the American Revolution. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
