Had it been enacted, the Crittenden Compromise would have A) threatened slavery where it existed. B) let the South peacefully secede from the Union. C) banned slavery north of 36° 30′ latitude. D) repealed the Compromise of 1850. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following endorsed American expansion in the 1870s and 1880s EXCEPT A) Social Darwinists. B) Congress. C) religious leaders. D) Anglo-Saxon supremacists. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
After the firing on Fort Sumter, which one of these four border slave states did NOT join the Confederacy? A) North Carolina B) Tennessee C) Kentucky D) Arkansas ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Erie Canal was primarily financed by A) the federal government. B) private entrepreneurs. C) foreign investors. D) state and local governments. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Edgar Allen Poe produced noted works in all the following areas EXCEPT A) horror stories. B) frontier epics. C) literary criticism. D) detective novels. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
American and Soviet Cold War attitudes were hardened by all of the following EXCEPT A) American foreign policy makers’ tendency to equate Stalin with Hitler. B) President Truman’s get-tough talk. C) America’s belief that Stalin was more concerned with the Soviet Union’s security than with its expansion. D) the exaggerated anti-Soviet views of Truman’s postwar […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Truman Doctrine A) reversed America’s traditional policy of extending diplomatic recognition to de facto governments. B) was later described by Churchill as “the most unsordid act in history.” C) formed the framework for a universal postwar American foreign policy. D) was a specific policy addressed to a specific set of circumstances. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
English shipyards supplied the Confederates with commerce raiders including the A) Virginia. B) Alabama. C) Monitor. D) Merrimac. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The author of America’s containment doctrine based his views on all the following assumptions EXCEPT that A) the Soviet threat was essentially military in nature and had to be met by consistent application of military counterforce. B) held in check, Soviet communism could be brought to decay within the Soviet Union. C) the Soviets were […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
During the Cuban revolution, the New York newspapers’ “yellow journalism” concentrated on the A) millions of dollars of American capital in the Cuban sugar industry. B) establishment of a Cuban fund-raising junta in New York City. C) guerilla tactics used by the Cuban revolutionaries. D) atrocities that accompanied Spain’s reconcentration policy. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
