Describe the key features of trans-Mississippi Native Americans and the impact that the movement of whites into the area had on them. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Features: 300,000 Indians in over 200 tribes; both nomadic and sedentary; diverse in cultures and social organization; Plains Indians horse culture; Pueblo Indians agriculture; Great […]
The text authors suggest that when they first started to migrate into Texas, “Spain welcomed the Americans.” Explain why Americans were allowed to settle in Texas and why later the Mexican government decided to change this policy. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Americans were allowed into Mexico to create a buffer against […]
Explain why President Polk “had little desire to go to war with Britain” over the Oregon question but was accused by some of having “deliberately provoked Mexico into war”. Why was Polk’s action in the latter case more aggressive than in the former? ANSWER Consider: Why not Oregon? Polk feared a two-front war with […]
Most Americans of the late nineteenth century A) supported full political rights for women. B) rejected the idea of an activist government. C) longed for racial integration. D) supported socialism. ANSWER B
During the Gilded Age, the Democratic party could usually count on the votes of all of the following EXCEPT A) southern whites. B) urban immigrants. C) New England. D) Catholics and Jews. ANSWER C
In 1915, President Wilson warned Germany that it would be held “strictly accountable” for A) loss of life incurred from submarine attacks. B) censoring the mail coming from Europe. C) mining the North Sea. D) the invasion of neutral Belgium. ANSWER A
In Gilded Age elections, the Democratic Party tended to rely on ________ to win and control votes. A) urban political machines B) strong state organizations C) independents D) reform factions ANSWER A
Which of the following is NOT true of early seventeenth-century Virginia? A) Some blacks owned land and servants. B) The first-arriving persons of African heritage were sold as slaves. C) Blacks faced a deteriorating legal status. D) English law did not recognize human slavery. ANSWER B
In the Minor case in 1874, the Supreme Court ruled against A) free silver. B) immigration restriction. C) the income tax. D) women’s suffrage. ANSWER D
Under the leadership of Sir Edwin Sandys, the Virginia Company attempted to encourage migration to Virginia by all of the following means EXCEPT A) providing settlers representation in a locally elected assembly. B) granting settlers private ownership of land to enhance their economic opportunity. C) initiating martial law to guarantee settlers social order and security. […]
