In The Liberator, William Lloyd Garrison swore that he was committed to A) banning slavery from the nation’s territories. B) outlawing the African slave trade. C) immediately abolishing slavery in the South. D) transporting freed blacks back to Africa. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In his “Atlanta Compromise” speech, Booker T. Washington encouraged southern blacks to A) move to the North to seek greater economic opportunity. B) agitate for full political and economic rights. C) make themselves economically indispensable to southern whites. D) use civil disobedience as a weapon against southern racial discrimination. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The post-Civil War South’s economy remained “backward” because of all of the following EXCEPT A) it continued to espouse the ideology of white supremacy. B) it failed to establish a regional textile industry. C) it continued to rely on single-crop agriculture. D) it suffered a chronic shortage of investment capital. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
America’s Pacific war plan, DOWNFALL, called for A) ending the Pacific War before the Soviet Union declared war on and invaded Japan. B) using the atomic bomb to hasten the surrender of Japan. C) an American invasion of the Japanese home islands. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was usually the most important factor in determining the economic well-being of a working-class family in late nineteenth-century America? A) how many members of the family worked for wages B) the region of America in which the family lived C) the national origin of the family D) whether the head of the family belonged […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors observe that “Japan negotiated with the United States throughout 1941. Instead of compromising, however, the United States asked Japan to withdraw immediately from Indochina and China”. Why was the United States unwilling to compromise with Japan to avoid war? ANSWER Japan was demanding that the United States abandon Chiang Kai-shek, the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the poorest and most economically backward region of the United States at the end of World War II? A) Northeast B) Southwest C) Midwest D) South ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
America’s approach to foreign policy in the 1870s and 1880s was grounded in the concept of A) internationalism. B) isolationism. C) balance of power. D) collective security. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
While he awaited his inauguration, Abraham Lincoln expressed the view that A) he would accept the Crittenden Compromise. B) pro-Unionist sentiment in the South was dead and civil war was now inevitable. C) secession was unconstitutional. D) given the first opportunity as president, he would abolish slavery throughout the nation. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Secretary Benjamin Tracy’s most notable achievement was A) initiating the modernization of the American navy. B) negotiating reciprocal trade agreements with many Latin American countries. C) negotiating the acquisition of Midway Island. D) authoring The Influence of Sea Power upon History. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
