The Tuskegee Study of syphilitic African Americans became controversial because it A) was conducted without the approval of the Public Health Service. B) was conducted in secrecy. C) violated professional standards of experimental medicine. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
How would one BEST describe the interactions of Alvar Nàºñez Cabeza de Vaca with the Indians of southern Texas, the northern states of Mexico, and the Pacific coast? A) violent and deadly B) wary and dismissive C) peaceful and healing D) incomprehensible and confusing ANSWER Answer: C
How was the U.S. Embargo Act of 1807 ineffective? a. It gained public support only in the Northeast. b. It only resulted in England respecting American trade rights; France still did not. c. It caused severe economic depression in France but had little effect on England. d. It caused economic mayhem in the United States […]
By the 1580s, which of following had become the dominant role of the English who visited the Americas? A) building settlements B) warfare and piracy on the Atlantic C) converting American Indians to Protestantism D) exploiting North America and South America for gold and silver ANSWER Answer: B
Compare and contrast the major themes of the “genteel tradition,” local colorists, realists, and naturalists in late nineteenth-century American literature. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The genteel tradition treated the ideal, moral, and sentimental. Local colorists treated regional differences, rural America, humor, and innocence. Realists dealt with concrete ethical choices in realistic […]
What was the name of the group of religious settlers who founded the second permanent English colony in North America at Plymouth, Massachusetts? A) the Pilgrims B) the Dissenters C) the Anglicans D) the Strangers ANSWER Answer: A
English settlers in seventeenth-century America could be characterized best in terms of their __________. a. striking social diversity b. similarity to French and Spanish migrants of the same period c. unity of purpose and motivation d. desire to help each other e. homogeneity ANSWER A
Indentured servitude played a negligible role in securing the profitability of small farms of the Chesapeake. Answer: ANSWER FALSE
Recognizing the long historical association Americans had with a rural environment and the late nineteenth-century fact of rapid urbanization, explain why baseball became the national sport. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Teams were identified with cities and players were usually from those cities. Fans identified easily with both. Baseball also used the […]
What new trade developed in the mid-late 1500s between Europeans and Native Americans in North America that fed a new economic interest among Europeans? A) cod B) beaver fur C) gold D) silver ANSWER Answer: B