When he was elected president in 1852, Franklin Pierce attempted to rally the nation to support an aggressive policy of A) abolishing slavery. B) tariff revision. C) anti-Catholicism. D) territorial expansion. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
In an attempt to enforce loyalty during World War I, Congress A) Passed the Eighteenth Amendment. B) Passed the Sedition Act of 1918. C) created the Food Administration. D) created the War Industries Board. ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors state that “the transition from property qualifications to universal white manhood suffrage occurred . . . with surprisingly little dissension”. Why do you suppose that happened? Why wasn’t there more resistance to this fundamental political innovation? ANSWER The transition was long-term. It was the culmination of a trend dating back to […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
American isolationists who wanted to keep the United States out of another war were pleased by A) the public’s response to President Roosevelt’s “quarantine speech.” B) President Roosevelt’s position on the Selective Service (military draft) Act. C) the provisions of the Neutrality Act of 1939. D) the “destroyers-for-bases” deal. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Who founded the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange)? A) James B. Weaver B) Mary E. Lease C) Oliver Kelley D) Charles W. Macune ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
To alleviate their problems, farmers tried all of the following EXCEPT A) forming producer cooperatives. B) supporting laws to regulate railroads. C) organizing a third political party. D) reducing agricultural production. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
The Port Huron Statement called for A) an isolationist foreign policy. B) Black Power. C) “participatory democracy.” D) “law and order.” ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Student radicalism in the 1960s gained its support from those who opposed all of the following EXCEPT A) the impersonal nature of modern universities. B) racial discrimination. C) the Vietnam War. D) the literature of social criticism. ANSWER D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Abraham Lincoln served only one term as a congressman from Illinois because his stand against the ________ made him too unpopular to win reelection. A) Fugitive Slave Law B) Mexican War C) Wilmot Proviso D) Kansas-Nebraska Act ANSWER B
Date: September 9th, 2020
In his “House Divided” speech in 1858, Abraham Lincoln predicted that A) slavery would be either abolished or legalized throughout the Union. B) Republicans would win the presidency in 1860. C) Kansas would join the Union as a slave state. D) the controversy over slavery would destroy the Union. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
