The two new constitutional amendments related to World War I dealt with A) women’s suffrage and presidential succession. B) poll taxes and prohibition. C) prohibition and women’s suffrage. D) presidential succession and poll taxes. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The diverse elements that made up the new Republican Party in the mid-1850s all shared the common conviction that A) residents of a territory should determine the fate of slavery there by themselves. B) slavery should be abolished as soon as possible. C) all western territories must be closed to slavery. D) African Americans should […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Pilgrim colony of Plymouth Plantation ultimately A) was absorbed by its neighbor, Massachusetts. B) was abandoned because of hostility from Native Americans. C) became part of Connecticut. D) became one of the original thirteen states in the United States of America. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Among the “unsavory” and “radical” aspects of the farmers’ movement in the late nineteenth century were all the following EXCEPT A) anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. B) rhetoric of class division and animosity. C) socialistic ideas promoting government ownership. D) hate-mongering anti-black racism. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Tecumseh died from wounds he received at the Battle of A) Tippecanoe. B) Prophet’s Town. C) the Thames River. D) Fallen Timbers. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Of the following, evangelical revivals had the LEAST appeal to A) upwardly mobile businessmen in the North. B) young women. C) farm families in the southwestern and western frontier. D) social liberals. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the nation’s largest and fastest growing religious denomination by 1860? A) Catholic B) Methodist C) Presbyterian D) Baptist ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
At the Versailles Conference, President Wilson was unable to get the Allied leaders to agree to his position on A) the League of Nations. B) war reparations. C) national self-determination in Europe. D) a colonial “mandate” system. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In America in the late nineteenth century, the ________ industry pioneered both business consolidation and modern management styles. A) railroad B) steel C) petroleum D) meatpacking ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Early nineteenth-century reformers succeeded in getting some states to outlaw A) the insanity defense. B) the death penalty. C) plea bargaining. D) solitary confinement. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
