In 1890, congressional Republicans withdrew their support from a bill to ________ in return for gaining support for their bill to ________ . A) protect black suffrage rights; raise tariff rates B) raise tariff rates; deflate the currency C) limit government silver purchases; protect black suffrage rights D) inflate the currency; restrict immigration ANSWER […]
The primary significance of the battles of the Thames and Horseshoe Bend is that they A) effectively destroyed the Indians’ ability to resist future American expansion. B) forced the British to begin negotiations to end the War of 1812. C) turned back the British attempt to invade the United States at Chesapeake Bay. D) completed […]
World War II began when ________ invaded ________ . A) Italy; Ethiopia B) Japan; China C) Germany; Poland D) Germany; the Soviet Union ANSWER C
Unlike religious traditionalists, early nineteenth-century religious liberals stressed the A) essential goodness of human nature. B) concept of predestination. C) doctrine of original sin. D) orthodoxy of Calvinistic doctrine. ANSWER A
What specific problem did farmers hope the subtreasury plan would solve? A) low tariffs B) high railroad rates C) low prices D) high taxes ANSWER C
Which one of the following concepts was NOT endorsed by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations? A) government regulation of the economy B) free enterprise C) individual action according to economic self-interest D) the law of supply and demand ANSWER A
Where was the center of the counterculture in the 1960s? A) Woodstock B) Greenwich Village C) Altamont D) Haight-Ashbury ANSWER D
During World War II all the following increased EXCEPT the A) divorce rate. B) average size of families. C) birth rate. D) marriage rate. ANSWER B
John D. Rockefeller’s most successful way of cutting costs and increasing the profitability of the oil refining business was by A) joining pools. B) promoting competition. C) organizing trusts. D) refusing rebates. ANSWER C
The “grandfather clauses” added to state constitutions in the late nineteenth century were specifically designed to A) unite southern poor whites and blacks on the basis of common class interests. B) deny African Americans the right to vote. C) help defeat Populist Party candidates in the South. D) protect southern blacks from white violence. […]
