Assess the role of the muckrakers in progressive reform. What valuable service did they provide? Why were they despised by people like Theodore Roosevelt? What do you think about their kind of journalism? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Muckrakers performed a public service by investigating corrupt practices, exposing them to public […]
American Revolutionary leaders borrowed philosophical ideas from all of the following philosophers and political rebels to justify the overthrow of unjust authorities EXCEPT A) John Locke. B) Rousseau. C) Montesquieu. D) Toussaint L’Overture. ANSWER Answer: D
The First Continental Congress took all of the following actions EXCEPT A) issuing the Suffolk Resolves. B) calling for a complete separation from Great Britain. C) committing to an economic boycott of British goods. D) issuing a “Declaration of Rights and Grievances.” ANSWER B
All of the following were key strategic developments that contributed to British General Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown to General Washington on October 17, 1781 EXCEPT A) General Washington’s successful march of his own army south from New York to Yorktown at surprising speed to engage Cornwallis’s troops. B) the French navy blockade the York River […]
Native Americans, who often expressed their religious feelings in ceremonies with dancing and songs, were: a. atheists, because they did not acknowledge any supreme being or God b. agnostics, since they were unsure about the identity of the supreme being c. deists who believed in an ultimate being, or God, but not necessarily Christ d. […]
What were the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation in governing the United States? Which weaknesses were the most important in spurring leading citizens in the young republic to call for a Constitutional Convention to address these shortcomings? Answer: ANSWER An ideal answer will: 1. Emphasize that the loose federation of states governed by […]
Which one of the following was NOT true of the CIA plan to overthrow Cuba’s government in 1961? A) It included an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro. B) It ultimately strengthened Castro’s position in Cuba. C) It was one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War. D) It entailed the United States training […]
All of the following were three of the four senior positions within the executive branch which constituted the first presidential cabinet EXCEPT A) secretary of state. B) secretary of war. C) secretary of the treasury. D) secretary of labor. ANSWER Answer: D
When Leif Ericsson sailed west from Greenland in the year 1000, he named the country he “discovered”: a. the West Indies b. Newfoundland c. Vinland the Good d. Norseland the Good ANSWER C
The Citizen Genàªt Affair did lasting harm to official Franco-American relations, inspiring hostility towards France among President Washington, Vice President Adams, and other Federalist officials. Answer: ANSWER TRUE
