By 1894, American railroads __________. a. had difficulty finding the capital to expand b. suffered from competition and overexpansion c. had consolidated into four major lines d. had eliminated competition e. were at the peak of their bargaining power ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Freedmen’s Bureau was also known as A) Freed Slaves’ Bureau. B) Bureau of former slaves and servants. C) Bureau of Freedmen, Refugees and Abandoned Lands. D) Bureau of Refugees and Slaves. ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The society created by Puritans in New England __________. a. copied the social order they had left behind in England b. was modeled on contemporary Dutch society c. represented a near-total rejection of traditional English ways d. was quite similar to that of the Chesapeake region e. adapted to include slavery ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Under the sharecropping system the A) owner supplied a place to stay, materials, and a piece of land to grow cotton. B) owner supplied nothing and charged rent. C) tenants supplied everything. D) tenants were paid per day. ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Montgomery bus boycott __________. a. moved Martin Luther King, Jr. away from his philosophy of passive resistance b. sparked an outburst of violence against blacks all over the South c. led to the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a black civil rights leader d. failed to change Montgomery’s strict segregation laws e. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Enforcement Act of 1870 made it a federal crime A) for a Southerner to carry a gun. B) to be a Klansman. C) to deny the right to vote because of race. D) to deny the right to conduct a financial transaction. ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Compared to New England, Chesapeake society __________. a. was more democratic b. was characterized by small farms c. possessed fewer families d. had a more demographically concentrated population e. had fewer slaves ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Medicine Lodge Creek Treaty gave what two provisions to the Comanche tribe? A) a Comanche reservation and the right to hunt on open plains below the Arkansas River in Oklahoma B) the right to hunt wherever they wanted and live wherever they chose C) the right to live on a reservation and the right […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
How was Wilson’s practice of foreign affairs similar to his evolution over social reforms? a. From the beginning of his presidency, he tried to follow his predecessors’ policies and managed to do so throughout most of his presidency. b. At the beginning of his presidency, he tried to change his predecessors’ policies and ended up […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What significant change did the appointment of Ely S. Parker as the first Native American Commissioner of Indian Affairs signal? What type of challenges do you think Parker faced in trying to promote the concept of reservation life to other Native Americans? Compare Grant’s Indian policy with the 1867 Medicine Lodge Creek proposal. How are […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
