During World War I, the heaviest burden of tax increases fell on the ________ through higher taxes on ________ . A) corporations; property B) working class; consumption C) wealthy; incomes D) middle class; sales ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
The text authors claim that the Fourteenth Amendment “was the South’s last chance for a lenient peace”. Make a judgment about the “leniency” of all the Reconstruction policies; Lincoln’s, Johnson’s, the Fourteenth Amendment, and the Military Reconstruction Acts. ANSWER Lincoln’s and Johnson’s plans did not require black suffrage, the Fourteenth Amendment encouraged it, and […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
By 1967, racial separation was endorsed by all of the following organizations EXCEPT the A) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). B) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). C) Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). D) Black Panthers. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
A unique feature of the Battle of New Orleans was that it A) occurred after the official peace treaty ending the War of 1812 had been signed. B) was the only battle of the War of 1812 that did not involve naval forces. C) did not involve Indian allies of either army. D) was the […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Express your views on the wisdom of Andrew Jackson’s war on the Second Bank of the United States. Was his veto of the recharter bill justifiable? Why or why not? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Justifiable: bank was too powerful; bank was a specially privileged institution, enriching the few at the expense […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Thomas Edison invented all of the following EXCEPT A) the telephone. B) motion pictures. C) the incandescent light bulb. D) the phonograph. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In Bakke vs. Regents of the University of California, the Supreme Court ruled that when screening applicants, educational institutions could NOT A) use rigid racial quotas. B) take sex into account. C) take race into account. D) use “affirmative action” plans. ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The so-called “Gospel of Wealth” asserted that an individual’s business success and accumulation of wealth were the outgrowth of A) divine sanction. B) free competition. C) the “survival of the fittest.” D) a process of “natural selection.” ANSWER A
Date: September 9th, 2020
What was the primary cause of the so-called “Red Scare” following World War I? A) the election of a large number of Socialists to Congress in 1918 B) the failure of the Senate to ratify the Treaty of Versailles C) the migration of black southerners to northern cities D) a wave of postwar labor violence […]
Date: September 9th, 2020
Aside from agricultural states, the Populist Party had strength in A) the Southwest. B) the West Coast. C) western mining states. D) New England states. ANSWER C
Date: September 9th, 2020
