The first impulse of many emancipated slaves was to __________. A) board the first train heading north B) lash out at their former masters C) stick to places and activities that were already familiar D) test their freedom ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Radical Republicans countered Lincoln’s Ten Percent Plan by calling for loyalty oaths to be taken by __________. A) all white Southerners B) all freedmen C) 50 percent of white male citizens D) all former Confederate officers ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1860s and 1870s is best described as a __________. A) conventional political organization B) terrorist organization C) religious organization D) social organization ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Sand Creek was the scene of __________. A) an unprovoked massacre of Cheyenne Indians by Colorado Volunteers B) a bloody battle between the Cheyenne and the Sioux C) a treaty of friendship between the Cheyenne and the citizens of Colorado D) an unprovoked massacre of white soldiers by the Sioux ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
European immigrants to the Great Plains tended to __________. A) form tight-knit, ethnically distinctive communities B) seek full assimilation into the American culture C) add to the violence and instability of the West D) settle as individual families isolated on solitary homesteads ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Army commanders encouraged the slaughter of buffalo herds because they thought __________. A) they could profit from the sale of buffalo hides B) it would be a good way to supplement Army food supplies C) it would lead to the total extermination of all Indian peoples D) it would break tribal resistance to the reservation […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
John D. Rockefeller’s horizontal combination was so successful that he controlled this percentage of the nation’s oil refining by 1882. A) 50 percent B) 75 percent C) 80 percent D) over 90 percent ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
By 1890, approximately what fraction of the population lived in cities? A) one-third B) one-half C) three-fifths D) two-thirds ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
New immigrants tended to __________. A) settle in cities where large numbers of their countrymen lived B) settle in the rural South C) blend together into a melting pot D) stay in one neighborhood once they settled there ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
How did middle-class and working-class leisure activities compare in the Gilded Age? How would you explain the differences you note? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: self-improvement; mass entertainment; professional sports; drinking; music
Date: September 9th, 2020
