The Supreme Court cases of Fletcher v. Peck and Martin v. Hunter’s Lessee both dealt with A) states’ rights and slavery. B) federal versus state authority. C) voting rights. D) the constitutionality of the Second Bank of the United States. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The major position of the Free Soil Party’s 1848 platform was A) the exclusion of slavery from the federal territories. B) equal rights for African Americans. C) lower tariffs to encourage foreign trade. D) the abolition of slavery in the Deep South. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
It is commonplace that domestic politics influences American foreign policy. Illustrate this by showing how domestic considerations influenced major foreign policy decisions between 1920 and 1940. Consider especially the Good Neighbor Policy, recognition of the Soviet Union, and the Neutrality Acts. ANSWER Both presidents Hoover and Roosevelt believed friendlier relations with Latin American nations […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
For housewives, the new ideals of industrial America meant they would spend less time A) cooking meals. B) outside the home. C) cleaning, dusting, and scrubbing. D) laundering. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Describe the most significant changes World War II made in the lives of African Americans and American women. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: African Americans: mobility; economic opportunities; military service; rural to urban adjustments; discrimination and riots. Women: jobs; military service; higher marriage and birth rates; disruption of family and home; […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
New innovations brought to the national economy by the “New Era” economy of the 1920s included all the following EXCEPT A) families spending an increasing proportion of their income on necessities. B) buying on the installment plan. C) chain stores revolutionizing retailing. D) spending and borrowing were more emphasized and valued. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was best known for A) transcendentalism. B) his classic defense of civil disobedience. C) western fiction. D) narrative poems featuring scenes from American history. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The migration of industry to the South in the 1960s A) failed to keep up with the growth in southern agriculture. B) resulted in unprecedented general prosperity in the South. C) produced wages and benefits for southerners equal to the national averages. D) destroyed the regional distinctiveness of the South. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the earliest fiction western film? A) Stagecoach B) Gunfight at the OK Corral C) The Great Train Robbery D) The Ox-bow Incident ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Assume the role of an indentured servant in seventeenth-century Virginia. Describe what your life is like, what problems you have, what your routine is, and your relationships with others. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Consider: widespread poverty, harsh environment, hard labor, disease epidemics, abuse and sexual exploitation by masters, anticipation of “freedom […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
