1302 reading quizzes

The 1996 presidential election saw

President Clinton find his greatest campaign strength in a strong economy.

In the time before mass white migration, the Plains Indians were

the most widespread Indian groups in the West.

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

the total failure of state and federal governments to pass legislation that would protect the rights of workers.

The Panic of 1873

was the nation's worst economic depression to that time.

In the late nineteenth century, "range wars" in the West were often between

white American ranchers and farmers.

In 1929, the base price of a Ford Model T was

$290.

The process of making steel developed by Henry Bessemer

-included blowing air through molten iron. -involved adding ingredients to molten iron. -was also developed by an American, William Kelly. -included both blowing air through and adding ingredients to molten iron. -All these answers are correct.

On the day of the 2000 election,

Al Gore won the popular vote.

In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached because he

All these answers are correct.

Which of the following statements about the new tension between Russia and the United States during the Obama and Trump administration is accurate?

American intelligence services concluded that Russian intelligence services interfered in the 2016 American election.

The Indian leader who said, "I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever," was

Chief Joseph.

Which of the following Indian tribes was NOT found on the Pacific Coast of the Far West?

Creek

In the late nineteenth century, most American business millionaires

had not begun their careers at the lowest rung of the economic ladder.

In the 1870s, the "internal combustion engine" was developed in

Europe.

All of the following are true of the Iraq War EXCEPT that

Iraq's rumored supply of "weapons of mass destruction" was uncovered by American troops in 2005.

Which of the following statements regarding Hispanic New Mexico is FALSE?

Taos Indians, allied with Navajos and Apaches, forced out Anglo-Americans until 1847.

At the time of its emergence into the open as a public organization, the Knights of Labor was led by

Terence V. Powderly.

In the first decade of the twenty-first century,

half of all African Americans were members of the middle class.

The World Wide Web, which helped establish an orderly system for both the distribution and retrieval of electronic information on the Internet, was introduced by British scientist

Tim Berners-Lee.

Edward Bellamy's 1888 book, Looking Backward,

imagined an ideal future in which all corporations were combined into one great trust.

Which tribe should NOT be included among the Plains Indians?

Yurok

The 1920 census of the United States revealed that

a majority of Americans lived in "urban" areas.

Which of the following was a shared experience of most immigrant groups in the late nineteenth century, regardless of ethnic or national origin?

age between fifteen and forty-five years

Prior to the Civil War, the steel industry in the United States

barely developed at all.

In the late nineteenth century, regarding agriculture in the West,

commercial farmers were not self-sufficient and made little effort to become so.

By the late 1890s, voting percentages in the South had

decreased for both whites and blacks.

In the 1860s, Black Codes were

designed to give whites control over newly freed African Americans.

Among other positions, Booker T. Washington

favored industrial over classical education.

In 1869, Princeton and Rutgers played the first intercollegiate game in America of

football.

In the 1890s, Florence Kelley and the National Consumers League sought to

force retailers and manufacturers to improve wages and working conditions for workers.

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities.

During the early decades of the twentieth century, most Americans began to view leisure time as

increasingly desirable.

In 1865, African Americans defined "freedom" as

independence from white control.

In his books, Horatio Alger

inspired readers with stories of Americans rising from "rags-to-riches."

The Sand Creek massacre of 1864

involved the killing of Indian women and children.

During the 1980s and 1990s, American corporations sought to become more competitive by reducing

labor costs.

During the mid-nineteenth century, Hispanics living in California

lost ownership of large areas of lands.

The open-hearth process of making steel

made the production of large-dimension pieces possible.

By the time Grant left office, Democrats had taken back control of the government in

most of the former Confederate states.

In which of the following ways was the right-to-life movement most successful in its fight against abortion rights?

new restrictions on access passed by state legislatures

As a result of the Supreme Court's ruling in Ex parte Milligan, some Radical Republicans

proposed abolishing the Court

In 1894, the Immigration Restriction League

proposed screening immigrants to allow only the "desirable" ones to enter.

In 2001, regarding an international treaty signed in Kyoto, Japan, to reduce emissions in the atmosphere, President George W. Bush

refused to support the agreement.

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the growth of newspapers

saw circulation increase much more rapidly than the general population.

In the late nineteenth century, the Tammany Hall political machine

saw its most famous boss, William M. Tweed, sent to prison.

According to the philosophy of pragmatism, society should be guided by

scientific inquiry.

The Freedmen's Bureau

secured food, clothing, education, and medical care for many former slaves.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

All of the following are true about the Affordable Care Act EXCEPT that

the Supreme Court ruled against the bill twice, in 2012 and 2015.

In the 1890s, the black journalist Ida B. Wells devoted her writing to attacking

the crime of lynching.