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Many Mexicans migrated to the United States during the First World War because
revolution in Mexico had caused social upheaval and dislocation
Frederick Jackson Turner's "frontier hypothesis" focused on the importance of
the existence of cheap unsettled land
Alexander Hamilton's economic program was designed primarily to
) establish the financial stability and credit of the new government
Which of the following best characterizes the stance of the writers associated with the literary flowering of the 1920s, such as Sinclair Lewis and F . Scott Fitzgerald?
Advocacy of cultural isolationism
Which of the following has been viewed by some historians as an indication of strong anti-Catholic sentiment in the presidential election of 1928?
Alfred E . Smith's failure to carry a solidly Democratic South
Which of the following best describes the Harlem Renaissance
An outpouring of Black artistic and literary creativity
The idea of Manifest Destiny included all of the following beliefs EXCEPT
Commerce and industry would decline as the nation expanded its agricultural base
The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine did which of the following
Declared the United States to be the "policeman" of the Western Hemisphere .
The Embargo Act of 1807 had which of the following effects on the United States?
It disrupted American shipping .
Which of the following was true of the French-American Alliance formed in 1778
It influenced the British to offer generous peace terms in the Treaty of Paris in 1783 .
Which of the following colonies required each community of 50 or more families to provide a teacher of reading and writing
Massachusetts
Which of the following was true of a married woman in the colonial era?
She generally lost control of her property when she married .
In the period 1890-1915, all of the following were generally true about African Americans EXCEPT
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) endorsed the Back-to-Africa movement .
At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners expressed all of the following expectations EXCEPT:
The South's superior industrial resources would give it an advantage over the North .
Which of the following constitutes a significant change in the treatment of American Indians during the last half of the nineteenth century?
The division of the tribal lands among individual members
By the end of the seventeenth century, which of the following was true of women in New England?
They were a majority in many church congregations .
The development of the early nineteenth-century concept of "separate spheres" for the sexes encouraged all of the following EXCEPT
accepting women as intellectual equals of men
Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan were similar as presidential candidates in that both
capitalized on their status as Washington outsiders
The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded in 1966 in order to
challenge sex discrimination in the workplace
All of the following concerns were addressed during the "Hundred Days" of the New Deal eXcePT
court restructuring
Brown v . Board of Education of Topeka was a Supreme Court decision that
declared racially segregated public schools inherently unequal
The Battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, is considered pivotal to the outcome of the Civil War because it
forestalled the possibility of European intervention
One of the principal reasons the "noble experiment" of Prohibition failed was that it led to an enormous increase in
law enforcement challenges
Under the Articles of Confederation the United States central government had no power to
levy taxes
Conservative Republican opponents of the Treaty of Versailles argued that the League of Nations would
limit United States sovereignty
The National Road was constructed primarily for the purpose of
promoting trade and communication with the Old Northwest
During the closing decades of the nineteenth century, farmers complained about all of the following EXCEPT
rising commodity prices
The American Federation of Labor under the leadership of Samuel Gompers organized
skilled workers in craft unions in order to achieve economic gains
The high inflation rates of the late 1960s and early 1970s were due in part to
spending on social-welfare programs and the Vietnam War
Before 1492, many American Indian cultures were strongly influenced by the
spread of corn cultivation
The Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, the Hartford Convention, and the South Carolina Exposition and Protest were similar in that all involved a defense of
states' rights
"This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren .'' These sentiments are most characteristic of
the Gospel of Wealt
The Tet offensive of 1968 during the Vietnam War demonstrated that
the Vietcong could attack major cities throughout South Vietnam
Conscription policies in the First and Second World Wars differed significantly in that in the Second World War
the draft began before the United States entered the conflict
The First Great Awakening led to all of the following EXCEPT
the renewed persecution of witches
Liberty of conscience was defended by Roger Williams on the grounds tha
the state was an improper and ineffectual agency in matters of the spirit
Joseph McCarthy's investigative tactics found support among many Americans because
there was widespread fear of communist infiltration of the United States
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa