The decline of Congressional Reconstruction in the South resulted from all of the following EXCEPT the A) revelation of corruption in the Grant administration. B) pervasive belief in white supremacy. C) return of general economic prosperity in the 1870s. D) waning of reforming idealism in the North. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Explain why the early Jamestown settlement nearly failed, and how it managed to survive. What will be an ideal response? ANSWER To explain its near failure, consider: poor location, unprepared settlers and their unwillingness to work, and sporadic difficulty with Native Americans. Contributing to its survival were: help from local natives, John Smith’s leadership, […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
In the Sussex pledge, Germany agreed to A) “visit and search” merchant and passenger ships for war contraband before any attack. B) pay an indemnity to survivors of the victims of submarine attacks. C) stop sinking all merchant ships without warning. D) suspend the use of submarine warfare. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Whig Party favored all of the following EXCEPT A) the Independent Treasury. B) rechartering the national bank. C) federally-funded internal improvements. D) high protective tariffs. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In 1961, “freedom riders” who set out to desegregate interstate buses and bus terminals met the LEAST amount of resistance in A) Mississippi. B) South Carolina. C) Alabama. D) Virginia. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Former slaves often tested their new freedom by A) legalizing their marriages. B) changing their names. C) moving from the plantation. D) All of the above. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin provoked northern outrage over the implications of A) the Fugitive Slave Law. B) the Dred Scott decision. C) personal liberty laws. D) the Wilmot Proviso. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Most physicians responded to the 1832 cholera epidemic by A) ordering the removal of trash and garbage from city streets. B) insisting on the cleaning of city water supplies. C) quarantining the victims. D) administering opium and mercury-based medications. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which one of the following is NOT related to the antiforeign, anti-Catholic sentiment that raged in the early 1850s? A) Young America B) nativists C) Know Nothings D) American party ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Like settlers in neighboring Virginia, settlers in Maryland A) were denied access to land patents. B) were granted some local self-government in a representative assembly. C) devoted their energies to trading cattle and Indian slaves to the West Indies. D) left England to escape religious persecution. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
