Some historians argue that the South’s states’ rights philosophy helped defeat the South in the Civil War. Explain why there may be some substance to this claim. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER States’ rights hindered a centralized coordination of military planning and operation, and the mobilization and utilization of resources and manpower […]
The 1910 Mann Act A) allowed states the option of legalizing prostitution. B) made it a felony to transport women across state lines for immoral purposes. C) imposed tests for venereal disease prior to marriage. D) criminalized abortion. ANSWER B
Place yourself in the role of a border state resident in 1861. Would you be in favor of secession? Why? Would you fight for the Union or the Confederacy? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The decision might rest on one’s attitude toward, or investment in slavery.
The text authors say that “both [Truman and Stalin] knew exactly what they wanted, and what they wanted guaranteed future conflicts”. Describe what it was that each of these two postwar leaders wanted, and explain why conflict between them was “guaranteed.” ANSWER Truman wanted U.S. access to world markets and the success of democratic […]
In the 1890s nativists in America tried to get Congress to restrict immigration to America by using A) a non-white racial exclusion act. B) a contract labor law. C) a literacy test. D) an ethnic-quota system. ANSWER C
Describe Secretary of State John Hay’s rationale for his Open Door notes. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Hay feared that the imperial powers would dismember China and use their spheres of influence to freeze the United States out of the China market. The Open Door notes attempted to guarantee the United States […]
Do you think the United States had become an “Imperial America” (the text chapter’s title) by 1900? If so, what events persuade you that America had become imperialistic? If not, explain why imperialism is an unsuitable label for American fore policy in the late nineteenth century. ANSWER Imperial: Since 1865, the United States had […]
By 1810, one-fifth of the American population was made up of __________. a. Indians b. immigrants c. blacks d. women e. Catholics ANSWER C
In the pre-Civil War South, the ________ was much higher than in the North. A) level of taxation B) literacy rate C) level of government spending D) concentration of wealth ANSWER D
The South’s education system in the first half of the nineteenth century A) was heavily subsidized by state taxes. B) was advanced compared to that of the North. C) was not well supported by public funds. D) solved the problem of illiteracy. ANSWER C
