Considering both problems and opportunities in each case, explain why you would have rather lived either in Massachusetts Bay or Virginia in the early seventeenth century. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Virginia Problems: Indian hostility, harsh and unhealthy environment, forced labor, abuse from masters. Opportunities: eventual land ownership (freedom dues), potential great […]
Compared to other forms of transportation in the early nineteenth century, railroads were all of the following EXCEPT A) able to travel in all seasons. B) safer. C) faster. D) cheaper. ANSWER B
The backwardness in American technology in the first two decades of the nineteenth century can be accounted for by all of the following EXCEPT A) popular resistance toward technological innovation. B) an inadequate system of higher education. C) the absence of inventors who could transform ideas into practical technologies. D) a lack of skilled machinists. […]
Who wrote the novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta? A) a runaway slave B) a Cherokee Indian C) an Irish immigrant D) a California Mexican American ANSWER B
Probably the most controversial issue of the 1920s involved the murder conviction of Sacco and Vanzetti, two A) advocates of black nationalism. B) immigrant anarchists. C) radical feminists. D) members of the Ku Klux Klan. ANSWER B
Membership in the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was limited to A) Jews. B) All non-Christians. C) Protestants. D) Catholics. ANSWER C
By ________ , the majority of the U.S. population lived in the South and West. A) 1980 B) 1960 C) 1970 D) 1990 ANSWER A
The letter from Ambassador Dupuy de L me to a friend in Cuba in 1898 A) demanded a declaration of war against the United States. B) contained insults of President McKinley. C) called for granting independence to Cuba. D) requested that the reconcentration policy be revoked. ANSWER B
President Lincoln’s cautious approach to making the abolition of slavery a war goal of the Union A) disappointed most northerners and, for a time, demoralized the Union Army. B) reflected his own personal ambiguity about the morality of slavery. C) resulted from his concern about losing slaveholding border states to the Confederacy. D) made the […]
When it went into effect in 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves in A) United States territories. B) the slave states that had remained in the Union. C) Confederate states and territories. D) All of the above. ANSWER C
