Describe the key items on the Gilded Age farmer’s agenda for economic, political, and social reform. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Farmers hoped a more activist government would result from direct election of senators, direct primaries, secret ballots, and the initiative and referendum. They sought labor’s support by backing the eight-hour day […]
In colonial America, it was widely believed that a fetus would be adversely affected if the pregnant mother did any of the following EXCEPT A) look at the moon. B) work during pregnancy. C) get startled by a loud noise. D) have an ungratified desire. ANSWER B
In an 1818 agreement with the United States, Britain consented to all the following EXCEPT A) joint occupation of the Oregon region. B) giving American fishermen the right to fish in eastern Canadian waters. C) restricting the number of naval vessels the two nations could maintain on the Great Lakes. D) making the forty-ninth parallel […]
What were the distinguishing features of the Oneida community? A) common property and abolition of religion B) complex marriage and eugenics C) abolitionism and interracial living D) gender equality and sexual abstinence ANSWER B
Northern manufacturers have become attracted to relocating in the South because of all the following EXCEPT A) higher wages. B) lower taxes. C) weaker unions. D) cheaper land. ANSWER A
In the Monroe Doctrine, the United States did all of the following EXCEPT A) promise that the United States would not interfere in the affairs of Western hemispheric nations. B) close the Western Hemisphere to any further European colonization. C) warn Europeans not to interfere in the internal affairs of Western hemispheric nations. D) pledge […]
The 1920s saw the rise in popularity of all of the following EXCEPT A) pulp fiction. B) crossword puzzles. C) basketball. D) confession magazines. ANSWER C
Most of those who were outspoken advocates of American expansion in the late nineteenth century were A) second or third generation German-Americans. B) Democrats. C) Anglophiles. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
Proponents of the “large policy” advocated all the following EXCEPT A) controlling Cuba and the Caribbean. B) acquiring control of naval bases and coaling stations across the Pacific Ocean. C) acquiring a “sphere of influence” in China. D) building a canal through Central America. ANSWER C
Unlike other national labor unions in the late nineteenth century, the American Federation of Labor A) was well organized. B) was active in partisan politics. C) set broad goals to reform society. D) denounced industrial capitalism. ANSWER A
