Unit 8/9/Midterm Multiple Choice

Which of the following generalizations best represents the assertion of Rockwell's poster as it applies to American rhetoric surrounding its involvement in conflicts from the Spanish-American War, the Great War, and World War II?

Americans fight to preserve liberty and democracy

Which of the following was a direct effect of the trend in immigration after 1845 shown on the graph?

An upsurge in nativist sentiment

Which of the following evidence would best support Ngai's argument in the excerpt?

Census data showing the changing percentages of the foreign-born populations from 1920 to 1930

Thomas Paine's pamphlet promoted similar political ideas to what other text of the American Revolution?

Declaration of Independence

Which of the following most directly contributed to the revolution described in the passage above?

Governmental efforts to support the growth of a unified, national economy

In which of the following ways does the above image express backlash to the changes in the 1920s?

Greater freedom and individuality for some minority groups led to a fundamentalist resurgence

Which of the following best explains public perception of Herbert Hoover during the Great Depression?

Hoover's statements on rugged individualism convinced people that he had no interest in helping struggling individuals

Many supporters of the declaration in 1848 broke ranks with which of the following groups by the 1870s?

Supporters of the Fifteenth Amendment (Granted voting rights regardless of race)

Which of the following Amendments to the Constitution is most directly an example of the sentiments expressed above?

The Twenty-first Amendment, which changed the Eighteenth Amendment by repealing the prohibition of alcohol

Which of the following movements help to spark the activism proposed by Johnson here?

The civil rights movement

Which of the following most plausibly influenced Garvey's argument in the excerpt?

The concept of self-determination debated at the Treaty of Versailles peace talks

Statistics on which of the following could best be used to support the argument made in the excerpt?

The incomes of African Americans as compared to those of White people by year

Which of the following movements in American history most closely parallels the call to action here issued by Johnson?

The progressive movement of the 1900's

Which of the following features of American Cold War policy most strongly led many to question whether America was truly fighting to protect democracy and freedom?

United States support of anti-communist military dictatorships in Latin America

The passage above most directly reveals the impact on colonial thinking of ideas based on

a republican form of government as celebrated by Enlightenment philosophers.

The "political realignment" described in the excerpt contributed most directly to the...

greater identification of working-class communities with the Democratic Party

By the 1980s and 1990s, the strength of the movement described in the excerpt was best illustrated by the

prominence of evangelical Christian organizations in politics

Consistent with the excerpt above, Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1636 for advocating

the separation of church and state