Who was the governor of Alabama who pledged “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever”? A) Medger Evers B) George Wallace C) Eugene “Bull” Connor D) James Meredith ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The ratio of males to females in early Virginia was such that A) females slightly outnumbered males. B) males and females were roughly equal in number. C) males greatly outnumbered females. D) females greatly outnumbered males. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The 1924 Dawes Plan A) linked Allied debt payments to Germany’s ability to pay reparations. B) extended credit to the Allies so they could pay off their war debts. C) reduced Germany’s reparations bill and provided it with American loans to help it make reparations payments. D) declared a moratorium on both German reparation and […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
America’s first federal regulatory agency was created by the A) Supreme Court’s ruling in the Wabash case. B) Interstate Commerce Act. C) Sherman Anti-Trust Act. D) Supreme Court’s ruling in Munn v. Illinois. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Americans did NOT fear that the large number of Irish and German immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s would A) ally with the southern slave power to expand and perpetuate slavery. B) control the politics of several large cities. C) increase the incidence of crime and poverty in America. D) lower wages of American workers. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The growing militancy of the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s was primarily a response to A) appeals from Black Muslims. B) the assassination of President Kennedy. C) white racist violence. D) the failure of nonviolent protest to make any real gains. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1890, congressional Republicans withdrew their support from a bill to ________ in return for gaining support for their bill to ________ . A) protect black suffrage rights; raise tariff rates B) raise tariff rates; deflate the currency C) limit government silver purchases; protect black suffrage rights D) inflate the currency; restrict immigration ANSWER […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The primary significance of the battles of the Thames and Horseshoe Bend is that they A) effectively destroyed the Indians’ ability to resist future American expansion. B) forced the British to begin negotiations to end the War of 1812. C) turned back the British attempt to invade the United States at Chesapeake Bay. D) completed […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
World War II began when ________ invaded ________ . A) Italy; Ethiopia B) Japan; China C) Germany; Poland D) Germany; the Soviet Union ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Unlike religious traditionalists, early nineteenth-century religious liberals stressed the A) essential goodness of human nature. B) concept of predestination. C) doctrine of original sin. D) orthodoxy of Calvinistic doctrine. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
