The message of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar” was for American artists to A) challenge Americans’ faith in progress, technology, and human goodness. B) stress the role of reason and intellect in the pursuit of the truth. C) create distinctly American forms of art rooted in the facts of American life. D) investigate the […]
In the 1940s, A) the federal government provided the South with the greatest infusion of money and jobs in the region’s history. B) World War II provided the South with its most spectacular growth rate in its history. C) the federal government stationed most troop training in the South. D) the federal government spent more […]
Which one of the following had the LEAST impact on the cost and speed of transportation in early nineteenth-century America? A) turnpikes B) canals C) railroads D) steamboats ANSWER A
transcendentalists attempted to apply their ideas to everyday life at ________ , a commune near Boston. A) Oneida B) Nashoba C) New Harmony D) Brook Farm ANSWER D
Unlike most early nineteenth-century writers, ________ questioned society’s faith in progress and humanity’s essential goodness. A) Longfellow and Whitman B) Alcott and Fuller C) Emerson and Thoreau D) Hawthorne and Melville ANSWER D
The Truman Doctrine was announced in response to a British plea to have the United States provide aid to anticommunist forces in A) Afghanistan and Pakistan. B) Poland and Hungary. C) Greece and Turkey. D) Iran and Iraq. ANSWER C
European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) Europeans were dependent on Northern grain exports. B) the Confederacy made no serious diplomatic efforts to seek aid. C) England had moral qualms about recognizing a slave power. D) England found alternative sources of cotton. ANSWER B
The Confederacy’s military planning was hindered by its A) failure to adopt a national taxation system. B) inability to diversify its economy. C) states’ rights philosophy. D) lack of good generalship. ANSWER C
During the Civil War the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislation to do all of the following EXCEPT A) lower tariff rates. B) provide a uniform national currency. C) grant public land to states that established agricultural colleges. D) make free homesteads available to individual settlers. ANSWER A
In the late seventeenth century, the colony of Pennsylvania was particularly attractive to A) tobacco planters. B) wealthy landowners. C) dissenter religious groups. D) non-separatist Puritans. ANSWER C
