What were the three main consequences of the near-extinction of the native West Indian population in the wake of contact with Europeans? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The ideal answer should include: 1. After the arrival of the Spanish, 95 percent of the West Indian population was wiped out within a generation. […]
One of the greatest impacts of the great migration was A) decrease in racial discrimination in the South. B) increased availability of home loans to African-American families. C) the expansion of racial discrimination as a national issue. D) the movement of large numbers of African-Americans from the South to the West. ANSWER Answer: C
Beneath the surface, the two candidates in the election of 1928 __________. a. were strikingly similar b. were radically different c. were somewhat alike d. had little in common e. despised each other ANSWER A
The Truman Doctrine, issued in 1947 in response to increasing communist influence in Greece and Turkey, was the first attempt by the United States to contain the spread of communism by assisting nations that were facing external pressure or internal revolution. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
Why did “tariff abominations” become a major campaign issue in the 1828 election? a. Adams’s campaigners used it to try to win reelection, suggesting that the tariff showed Jackson was an unfit candidate. b. Jackson campaigners used it to gain valuable farmer and merchant votes, knowing that southerners disagreed with it but were already for […]
The 1952 presidential election was the first in which A) a Republican and Democrat ran on the same ticket. B) the vice president was older than the president. C) presidential debates were televised. D) political television ads aired. ANSWER Answer: D
Why did Truman ask his advisers for a full reevaluation of the nation’s foreign policy in 1949? A) He fundamentally disagreed with Roosevelt’s views. B) The U.S. and Britain had broken off their alliance. C) The Soviet Union had acquired nuclear weapons. D) War had broken out in North Africa and the Middle East. […]
Charles Hamilton Houston and Thurgood Marshall used all of the following tactics in the courts to “chip away” at segregation EXCEPT A) force states to pay all teachers the same wage regardless of race. B) demonstrate that schools were not providing equal accommodations for black and white students as required under Plessy v. Ferguson. C) […]
Why did South Carolinians protest the tariff of 1828? a. They feared its effect on the price of cotton. b. They saw it as an unfair “northern” law. c. They thought it threatened the institution of slavery. d. They disliked Andrew Jackson. e. Tariffs determined the prices that southerners paid for manufactured goods. ANSWER […]
The protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963 had all of the following consequences EXCEPT A) brutal police tactics were broadcast on television. B) the Soviet Union criticized the United States for its race relations problems. C) passage of the Voting Rights Act. D) black leaders A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin called for a March […]
