Who benefited from the Housing Acts of 1949 and 1954? A) bankers and real estate developers B) the urban poor C) suburban families D) farmers and large landowners ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Reconquista was a struggle between Spanish Christians and __________. A) Spanish Muslims B) Spanish Jews C) English invaders D) Spanish Africans ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Nixon’s plan to end the war in Vietnam included __________. a. a surge in the deployment of American troops b. training South Vietnamese forces to take over combat c. the end of air strikes and a focus on ground maneuvers d. increased military spending e. giving in to most demands by Hanoi ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What do historians call the medieval European social system? A) feudalism B) socialism C) capitalism D) primitivism ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
As a young lawyer, what did Clarence Darrow believe? a. Aiding the poor would interfere with the evolutionary process. b. Capitalism must be overthrown. c. Without poverty, there would be no crime. d. Capital punishment is essential to the maintenance of civil order. e. A “single tax” on corporate profits would solve all social problems. […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did English economic and social conditions in the sixteenth century affect English expansion? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: inflation, enclosure; economic dislocation; wool trade
Date: September 9th, 2020
The leading figure at the Albany Congress, and designer of the Albany Plan, was __________. a. Thomas Jefferson b. George Washington c. William Pitt d. John Adams e. Benjamin Franklin ANSWER E
Date: September 9th, 2020
New Amsterdam became a part of the British empire because __________. A) Holland sold it to King Charles II B) English settlers overwhelmed Dutch merchants C) Britain conquered it in an Anglo-Dutch war D) Parliament passed an act claiming the colony ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Samuel Adams was a: a. Philadelphia merchant who sold tea smuggled from Holland b. Boston radical leader who organized the Sons of Liberty c. New York lawyer who supported the new British revenue acts d. Boston merchant who supported revived trade and compromise with Britain ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
One outcome of King William’s War was __________. A) all colonies lost their charters B) a tightening of royal rule over the colonies C) English conquest of most French settlements on the St. Lawrence D) greater religious freedom on the frontier ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
