How did African Americans end up paying the heaviest price for the sectional reunion after Reconstruction? a. African Americans lost an enormous amount of wealth and property during Reconstruction and by the end were reduced to poverty. b. Congress made no efforts to address the rights of African Americans in their attempts to repair the […]
Who was the famous English pirate, or privateer, during the Elizabethan era whose expeditionary exploits also confirmed the contours of the Americas for the English? A) John Davis B) Walter Raleigh C) John Cabot D) Francis Drake ANSWER Answer: D
In 1865, the number of Native Americans living in the West was __________. a. 10,000 b. 250,000 c. 500,000 d. 750,000 e. 1,000,000 ANSWER B
Whose preaching and belief that he or she received direct revelations from God went beyond what the Puritans would tolerate and resulted in banishment from the Massachusetts Bay colony? A) Anne Hutchinson B) Richard Mather C) Increase Mather D) John Cotton ANSWER Answer: A
According to the text authors, “the celebration of ‘the people’ became the New Deal’s dominant cultural motif.” What evidence would support this assertion? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER The most obvious illustration of “the people” as the dominant cultural motif of the depression is in the work of the WPA. Its Federal […]
The Pequot War A) found the Mohegans and the Naragansetts in alliance with the English settlers against the Pequots in New England. B) horrified the Narragansetts because of the mass annihilation practices of the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay. C) was precipitated by a Pequot Indian attack on a western Massachusetts Bay town. D) arose partly […]
Upton Sinclair described the __________ as the “wage slaves of the Beef Trust.” a. consumers of unsanitary beef b. inhumanely treated cows c. poorly paid meat packers d. African American indentured servants e. politicians whom owners bribed ANSWER C
The fur trade in the Saint Lawrence River Valley and the Great Lakes contributed to all of the following EXCEPT A) annihilation of the Hurons as a recognizable Indian tribe by 1648. B) the establishment by of Quebec and Montreal as permanent settlements in Canada. C) the arrival of Jesuit missionaries intent on converting the […]
From the perspective of 1770, colonists believed that the troublesome events they had experienced in the 1760s were the consequences of A) poor communications between Parliament and colonial leaders. B) a deliberate plot by corrupt leaders of Parliament to rob the colonists of their rights. C) the insanity of King George III. D) the general […]
The Spanish imposition of harsh physical labor on Indians and Spain’s efforts to eliminate traditional Indian religious practices from 1598-1690 set the stage for the Pueblo Revolt in 1690. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
