The person most responsible for keeping the Jamestown villagers alive during the initial years of settlement was A) Captain John Smith. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Edwin Sandys. D) Pocahontas. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Randolph Bourne did NOT believe that America’s entry into World War I A) would enormously enhance the power of the federal government. B) was inevitable and necessary. C) would lead to the suppression of civil liberties. D) would kill reform and leave the work of progressivism unfinished. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Historians now believe that A) Europeans learned the practice of scalping from Native Americans. B) while they scalped Europeans, Native Americans did not use the practice in their intertribal warfare. C) scalping originated as a Native-American substitute for the European practice of beheading a defeated foe. D) scalping was practiced primarily for the economic value […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Had you been there and been given the choice, which expedition would you have preferred to join: the Mormon trek to the Great Salt Lake, the Lewis and Clark expedition, or a pioneer migration to the Oregon country? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The Mormons were a religiously homogeneous group seeking […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Gilded Age, party loyalty was frequently determined by any of the following EXCEPT A) religious affiliation. B) views on key issues. C) place of residence. D) ethnic origin. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The case of Marbury v. Madison established the precedent for A) judicial review. B) executive privilege. C) due process of law. D) implied powers. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Do you think that European expansion to the “New World” was primarily motivated by a concern for economic gain, religious conversion, or simple curiosity? Justify your choice. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER All three were involved, but the primary motive was economic. Consider: the Spanish monarchs’ excitement over Columbus’s report of gold; […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the major concern of the Washington Conference that was convened by Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes in 1921? A) outlawing war B) naval disarmament C) American interventions in Latin America D) freedom of the seas ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In three of the four presidential elections between 1840 and 1852, the Whig party nominated a ________ for president. A) U.S. senator B) southern slaveowner C) military hero D) former Federalist ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In early 1917, President Wilson labeled a group of senators “a little band of willful men” because they opposed A) making American loans to the Allies. B) the arming of American merchant ships. C) breaking diplomatic relations with Germany. D) the Gore-McLemore resolutions. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
