In the 1880s, President Cleveland opposed the prevailing tariff rates because he thought they were A) too low. B) producing a treasury surplus. C) increasing the national debt. D) a threat to American industrial productivity. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the politics of the 1850s, a northern man with southern principles was called a A) Know Nothing. B) nativist. C) fire-eater. D) doughface. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Advocates of Black Power A) ignored the plight of lower-class African Americans. B) attracted a relatively small following among African Americans. C) exerted little influence on the civil rights movement. D) All of the above. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
President Johnson’s Great Society programs provided federal aid to A) provide housing. B) promote education. C) combat poverty. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Great Society included all of the following EXCEPT A) the Equal Pay Act. B) Medicare. C) the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. D) the Department of Housing and Urban Development. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following occurred during Lyndon Johnson’s presidency EXCEPT the A) proportion of African Americans living in poverty declined. B) median African-American family income increased. C) infant mortality rate among the poor declined. D) percent of whites living in poverty increased. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
For the first time in American history, during World War I, the United States A) used a conscription or draft system to raise military manpower. B) integrated black with white troops in American military units. C) enlisted black troops into its armed forces. D) administered psychological-intelligence tests to military recruits. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The farmers’ agenda included all of the following EXCEPT A) a graduated income tax. B) federally policed production controls. C) government operation of the railroads. D) inflation of the currency. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Senator Stephen A. Douglas declared that Kansas’s Lecompton constitution was A) a travesty of the principle of popular sovereignty. B) at odds with the Dred Scott decision. C) a proper basis for admitting Kansas as a slave state. D) a fraudulent product of free soil Kansans. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following were true of most Populists EXCEPT A) they owned little or no modern farm machinery. B) the relied on a single cash crop. C) they rented rather than owned the land they farmed. D) they were small scale family farmers in the South and West. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
