Most Tejanos fought in the Texas Revolution to A) establish the dictatorship of Santa Anna. B) prevent Texas from declaring its independence. C) restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824. D) drive the Anglos from Texas. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The person most responsible for keeping the Jamestown villagers alive during the initial years of settlement was A) Captain John Smith. B) Sir Walter Raleigh. C) Edwin Sandys. D) Pocahontas. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Randolph Bourne did NOT believe that America’s entry into World War I A) would enormously enhance the power of the federal government. B) was inevitable and necessary. C) would lead to the suppression of civil liberties. D) would kill reform and leave the work of progressivism unfinished. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Historians now believe that A) Europeans learned the practice of scalping from Native Americans. B) while they scalped Europeans, Native Americans did not use the practice in their intertribal warfare. C) scalping originated as a Native-American substitute for the European practice of beheading a defeated foe. D) scalping was practiced primarily for the economic value […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Had you been there and been given the choice, which expedition would you have preferred to join: the Mormon trek to the Great Salt Lake, the Lewis and Clark expedition, or a pioneer migration to the Oregon country? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The Mormons were a religiously homogeneous group seeking […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Gilded Age, party loyalty was frequently determined by any of the following EXCEPT A) religious affiliation. B) views on key issues. C) place of residence. D) ethnic origin. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why Indian-English contact quickly devolved into mutual hostility. Why were the French in America able to attain a more peaceful relationship with Native Americans? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The English had preformed negative racial and cultural views toward the native population whom they assumed were an inferior people. Also, English […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The 1887 Dawes Act was designed to promote all the following EXCEPT A) assimilation of Native Americans into the mainstream of white American culture. B) U.S. citizenship for landowning Native Americans. C) land ownership for individual Native Americans. D) reestablishment of the reservation system. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Aaron Burr was charged with treason because he was allegedly involved in A) a scheme with the Barbary pirates apparently designed to extract tribute from the United States government. B) the death of Alexander Hamilton. C) a conspiracy apparently designed to challenge America’s control of its southwestern border. D) a plan to create a “Northern […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Chesapeake incident resulted from the A) Continental System. B) impressment policy. C) sinking of an American naval vessel. D) British Orders in Council. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
