European nations did not offer much help to the Confederacy for all the following reasons EXCEPT A) Europeans were dependent on Northern grain exports. B) the Confederacy made no serious diplomatic efforts to seek aid. C) England had moral qualms about recognizing a slave power. D) England found alternative sources of cotton. ANSWER B
The Confederacy’s military planning was hindered by its A) failure to adopt a national taxation system. B) inability to diversify its economy. C) states’ rights philosophy. D) lack of good generalship. ANSWER C
During the Civil War the Republican-dominated Congress passed legislation to do all of the following EXCEPT A) lower tariff rates. B) provide a uniform national currency. C) grant public land to states that established agricultural colleges. D) make free homesteads available to individual settlers. ANSWER A
In the late seventeenth century, the colony of Pennsylvania was particularly attractive to A) tobacco planters. B) wealthy landowners. C) dissenter religious groups. D) non-separatist Puritans. ANSWER C
Describe the chief characteristics of “commercial agriculture” as it developed in America in the late nineteenth century. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Commercial agriculture was mechanized and specialized. It used new technology, scientific agriculture, and a focus on cash crop production to increase productivity and lower costs and prices. It relied heavily […]
Denmark Vesey was a A) domestic servant in a plantation “Big House.” B) free black publisher. C) field slave. D) literate, free black artisan. ANSWER D
What was the spark that ignited the Vesey Conspiracy? A) a successful slave rebellion in Haiti B) the closing of the Hampstead Church C) the publication of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper, The Liberator D) the debate over the admission of Missouri ANSWER B
Had you lived between 1820 and 1860, which reform movements would have been most attractive to you? Select three and tell why these seem to be of special importance to you. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider some of the following as criteria for making a choice: moral improvement of the individual […]
Who among the following did NOT lead a violent rebellion against a royal governor in the late seventeenth century? A) William Berkeley B) Jacob Leisler C) Nathanial Bacon D) John Coode ANSWER A
Serious problems in the American economy by 1929 included all of the following EXCEPT A) underconsumption of consumer goods. B) Federal Reserve monetary policy. C) high unemployment. D) poor distribution of income. ANSWER C
