Comprehensive Quiz #3
Which of the following is not true of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
it rendered void the terms of the Compromise of 1850
At Fort Sumter,
the Confederates fired the first shot of the Civil War.
James Buchanan
Democratic president...
Which period was the peak of manifest destiny?
1842-1853
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is one way that World War II affected the American economy?
Factories ran twenty-four hours a day producing military supplies
Jefferson's statement "that the minority possesses their equal rights, which equal law must protect" was supported by his actions with regard to
The Ailie and sedation acts
The British Navy shelled Fort McHenry in an effort to take Baltimore. After the battle, a lawyer wrote a poem entitled "The Defence of Fort McHenry," later turned into a song. What song did "The Defence of Fort McHenry" eventually become? which
The Star Spangled Banner
Beat Back the Hun with Liberty Bonds During the war, a government agency named the Committee of Public Information, headed by George Creel, was
The producer of a vast number of protesters, pamphlets, and films
Why did Great Britain and France finally declare war on Germany in September 1939?
They had pledged to defend against Hitler, who attacked it from the west
waht role did women play in ww2
They served as nurses in battle areas
what happened in zoot-suit riots
White mobs atatcked Mexican-Americans
The policy of avoiding war with an aggressive nation by giving into its demand is called
appeasement
The Germans sank the Lusitania
as a part of unrestricted submarine warfare
In 1942 the War Production Board (WPS)
banned the production of cars so that auto plants could make military equipment
Victory at Vicksburg
gave The Union control of the Mississippi River
That it is now firmly settled by the decisions of the highest court in the state that Scott and his family, upon their return, were not free, but were, by the laws of Missouri, the property of the defendant; and that the Circuit Court of the United States has no jurisdiction when by the laws of the state, the plaintiff was a slave and not a citizen." Roger B. Taney, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 1857
the decision allowed slavery in the territories
Immediately following the attacks of December 7, 1941, Congress
voted to declare war on Japan and enter WW2
The U.S. Selective Training and Service Act of 1940
was the peacetime draft in the countrys history