What accounted for the formation and rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)? A) The desire in the American Federation of Labor to form an equal organization that catered to different workers. B) The success of communists in infiltrating the labor movement. C) The need for workers not admitted by the American Federation of […]
Those who dominated the first state constitutional conventions stressed all of the following EXCEPT A) deferential politics. B) popular sovereignty. C) states’ rights. D) expansion of the right to vote. ANSWER A
Which of the following was NOT one of Roosevelt’s four freedoms? A) freedom from oppression B) freedom of speech and expression C) freedom from fear D) freedom to worship God in one’s own way ANSWER Answer: A
Discuss the chief characteristics and accomplishments of the Mayan Empire. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The ideal answer should include: 1. Mayan culture flourished between 300 and 900. 2. They derived their calendar and many other aspects of their culture from the Olmec. 3. The Maya built huge stone temples and held […]
Which of the following gave American manufacturers an advantage over their counterparts in Germany? A) The United States was noted for its highly skilled laborers and the precision, high quality, and wide variety of its manufactured products. B) Americans made fewer models of the same item, settled for lower standards of precision and quality, but […]
Who wrote the 1963 book The Feminine Mystique? a. Jacqueline Kennedy b. Rosa Parks c. Ella Baker d. Betty Friedan e. Coretta Scott King ANSWER D
The first Allied troops to enter Berlin were A) U.S. tank forces. B) Russian. C) led by General Anthony C. McAuliffe. D) met by cheering crowds. ANSWER Answer: B
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
