Opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act were primarily upset because it A) guaranteed that slavery would expand into the Kansas-Nebraska Territory. B) was incompatible with the Compromise of 1850. C) endorsed the Wilmot Proviso. D) repealed the Missouri Compromise. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Western and southern farmers were adversely affected by government ________ policies. A) tax B) currency C) tariff D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
All of the following were associated with the proslavery position in Kansas EXCEPT A) the Lecompton constitution. B) the “Pottawatomi killers.” C) the perpetrators of the “sack of Lawrence.” D) President Pierce. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Participants in the youth protest movement in the 1960s A) were success-oriented. B) were skeptical of bureaucratic authority. C) felt economically insecure. D) All of the above. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled all of the following EXCEPT that A) the due process clause of the Fifth Amendment did not apply to slave property. B) Congress had no right to exclude slavery from the federal territories. C) Dred Scott was not a citizen of the United States. D) Dred […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Government legislation on economic matters in the late nineteenth century did NOT provide A) land grants to railroads. B) consumer protection laws for the public. C) a homestead law for western settlers. D) protective tariffs for industry. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What were the key consequences of the War of 1812 for the United States? Would you say the United States won this war? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: demise of the Federalist Party; opening of the West to white settlement, strengthened position of the United States toward […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Why was the Louisiana Purchase both a great opportunity and a significant problem for Thomas Jefferson? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Opportunity: doubled the size of the United States; assured control of the Mississippi River and port of New Orleans; ended the threat of a powerful French presence on U.S. borders. Problem: […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Of the following, the strongest resistance to American membership in the League of Nations came from A) Democrats. B) the American public. C) the reservationists. D) the irreconcilables. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
As a member of Congress in 1812, will you vote for or against war with England? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER For: defend the nation’s honor; stop violations of neutral rights; end impressment; acquire Florida and Canada; end agricultural depression in the South and West. Against: war will […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
