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 D) repealed the Compromise of 1850.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
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
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
The Erie Canal was primarily financed by A) the federal government. B) private entrepreneurs. C) foreign investors. D) state and local governments. ANSWER D
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
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 […]
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
English shipyards supplied the Confederates with commerce raiders including the A) Virginia. B) Alabama. C) Monitor. D) Merrimac. ANSWER B
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 […]
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