Eisenhower’s housing policies did almost nothing to encourage __________. A) revitalizing existing urban communities B) road building C) suburbanization D) individual home ownership ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
William Levitt was a pioneer in postwar __________. A) television production B) popular music C) suburban housing D) sociological examination of American society ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
What two firsts raised African Americans’ expectations? A) Jackie Robinson winning baseball’s Rookie of the Year award and Ralph Bunche receiving the Nobel Peace Prize B) civil rights legislation and voluntary desegregation in Alabama C) antilynching legislation and a civil rights division in the Justice Department D) the election of Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell, […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
House Resolution 108, the Indian “termination” policy, was intended to __________. A) return to a policy of assimilation B) guarantee long-term government support for individual Indians C) protect tribes from government exploitation D) end all federal government involvement in the “Indian problem” ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
When LBJ became president in 1963, civil rights activists __________. A) expected immediate and aggressive action to advance their cause B) viewed him warily, doubtful of his commitment to their cause C) were outraged that an overt segregationist had become president D) held a March on Washington to pressure him for action ANSWER Answer: […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Alexander Hamilton believed that the future stability of the United States depended upon an alliance between ________ and ________ ; thus, in the jargon of the day, he was a ________. A) wealthy citizens, the federal government; nationalist B) ordinary people, state governments; democrat C) Protestants, Catholics; ecumenical D) the United States, France; Francophile […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Where was the home of the Indians who most effectively utilized the horse in America? A) Great Basin B) Great Plains C) Pacific Northwest D) Southwest ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Spain’s conquistadores were generally motivated by all the following EXCEPT A) achieving personal distinction and national greatness for Spain. B) stimulating the mass migration and settlement of Spanish colonists in the New World. C) acquiring great wealth for themselves and for Spain. D) converting New World peoples to Christianity. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who blocked U.S. annexation of Texas in 1838 with a 22-day filibuster in Congress? A) Andrew Jackson B) John Tyler C) John C. Calhoun D) John Quincy Adams ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
What completed the freeing of four million black slaves in the United States? A) Emancipation Proclamation B) Military Reconstruction Act C) Thirteenth Amendment D) surrender of Lee’s army at Appomattox ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
