The United States would have supported Queen Liliuokalani’s efforts to restore Hawaiian rule if she had NOT threatened to execute all rebels. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Sacco and Vanzetti were convicted of murder primarily because they were __________. a. Russian immigrants b. anarchists c. atheists d. guilty e. black ANSWER B
In 1905, President Roosevelt managed to create a peace agreement between which nations? A) Russia and Japan B) Russia and Germany C) France and Japan D) China and Japan ANSWER Answer: A
After World War II, the Soviets considered which of the following part of their sphere of influence? A) Iran B) Italy C) Japan D) Thailand ANSWER A
Which group/individual was held responsible for the bombs that arrived in the mail at the homes of Postmaster General Albert Burleson, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, several members of the U.S. Senate, the mayor of Seattle, and federal immigration authorities and judges? A) The American Legion B) Victor Berger C) Industrial Workers of the World […]
The Ku Klux Klan collapsed after __________. a. several major leaders were convicted of sexual and financial crimes b. it was unmasked as a secret communist conspiracy c. new federal laws made membership a crime in 1927 d. evangelist Billy Sunday denounced it in a widely reprinted sermon e. southerners abandoned it as being unlike […]
The 1924 immigration restrictions created deep tensions between the United States and the countries of China and Japan. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
In 1675 and 1676, Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen in an uprising against Virginia’s Governor Berkeley. After Bacon was elected to the House of Burgesses, the assembly: a. passed resolutions demanding that England’s government be reformed b. outvoted the Piedmont delegates and upheld Berkeley’s program c. infected Bacon with the Bloody Flux, killing him d. enacted […]
In the spring of 1929, who reported that the economy was “absolutely sound”? A) outgoing President Calvin Coolidge B) incoming President Herbert Hoover C) future President Franklin D. Roosevelt D) Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon ANSWER Answer: A
The “natural aristocracy” of the new states rejected the view that A) traditional notions of hierarchy and deference had no place in the social and political relationships of the new nation. B) there should be no limits placed on the implementation of republican ideals. C) the governing authority of the new nation should be decentralized […]