Question: After encouraging Panamanian rebellion in favor of Panama’s independence from Colombia, Theodore Roosevelt ________.
Answer Choices:
A) paid Britain for the rights to the Canal Zone
B) let Panamanians own and control the Canal Zone
C) took the Canal Zone away from Panama
D) paid Colombia for the rights to the Canal Zone
Answer: C) took the Canal Zone away from Panama
Question: Anti-imperialists held various opinions on why the United States should not annex foreign territories. For example, the American Anti-Imperialist League believed that imperialism ________.
Answer Choices:
A) was subjugation and a violation of democratic principles
B) added large numbers of unskilled non-Whites to the nation
C) degraded the country’s Anglo-Saxon heritage
D) would move more immigrants to steal industrial jobs from Americans
Answer: A) was subjugation and a violation of democratic principles
Question: Which of the following actions were not associated with President Calvin Coolidge?
Answer Choices:
A) Limits on union organizing and strikes
B) Lower tariffs
C) Decreased regulation on businesses
D) Tax cuts
Answer: B) Lower tariffs
Question: From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice, a biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., written by Thomas F. Jackson, is an example of what kind of source?
Answer Choices:
Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
None of these
Answer: Secondary
Question: A poll tax was used to:
Answer Choices:
A. prevent northern immigrants from moving to the South and voting in local elections.
B. determine who was intelligent enough to vote.
C. dissuade African Americans and poor whites from voting.
D. force individuals to buy property in order to be eligible to vote.
E. raise funds for voter registration among the minority community.
Answer: C. dissuade African Americans and poor whites from voting.
Question: What elements were most responsible for the upward growth of buildings in 19th-century cities?
Answer Choices:
cast-iron construction and new zoning laws
new zoning laws and fire escapes
fire escapes and elevators
the elevator and structural steel
Answer: the elevator and structural steel
Question: All of the following are enumerated or expressed powers except the power to:
Answer Choices:
A. impose a variety of taxes.
B. coin money.
C. declare war.
D. create a national bank.
E. establish post offices.
Answer: D. create a national bank.
Question: Racism, the belief that there are a specific number of naturally distinct human races, arose among Europeans in which of the following ways?
Answer Choices:
A) When genetic differences among groups were finally able to be identified.
B) When racism came into question.
C) When European scientists finally collected enough evidence to identify what the natural human races are.
Answer: A) When genetic differences among groups were finally able to be identified.
Question: All of the following are true of emergency powers except:
Answer Choices:
A. they have allowed presidents to exercise their powers during times of crisis, particularly in foreign affairs.
B. they were used by President Truman when he authorized the seizure of steel plants during the Korean War.
C. Supreme Court ruled against President Truman’s use of emergency powers when he seized the steel plants during the Korean War.
D. the Supreme Court upheld Truman’s seizing of the steel plants in the Korean War.
E. emergency powers were not used by Lincoln during the Civil War.
Answer: D. the Supreme Court upheld Truman’s seizing of the steel plants in the Korean War.
Question: As commander in chief, the president is:
Answer Choices:
A. the ultimate decision maker in military matters.
B. only a symbolic leader of the military.
C. able to unilaterally declare war.
D. allowed to make military decisions, but only with the approval of the joint chiefs of staff.
E. not responsible for military decisions.
Answer: A. the ultimate decision maker in military matters.
Question: Which of the following was known as a radical suffragist?
Answer Choices:
A) Helen Kendrick Johnson
B) Emma Goldman
C) Edith Bolling Wilson
D) Alice Paul
Answer: D) Alice Paul
Question: Ida B. Wells is most associated with ________.
Answer Choices:
leading a national campaign for African American suffrage
founding the National Association of Colored Women
leading an international campaign to end lynching
starting schools for former slaves and their children
Answer: leading an international campaign to end lynching
Question: Anti-imperialists held various opinions on why the United States should not annex foreign territories. For example, the American Anti-Imperialist League believed that imperialism:
A) was subjugation and a violation of democratic principles.
B) added large numbers of unassimilated non-Whites to the nation.
C) degraded the country’s Anglo-Saxon heritage.
D) would move more immigrants to steal industrial jobs from Americans.
Answer: A) was subjugation and a violation of democratic principles.
Question: The major function of Congress is:
Answer Choices:
A. enforcing laws.
B. interpreting laws.
C. lawmaking.
D. using the impeachment power.
E. investigating other branches of government through oversight.
Answer: C. lawmaking.
Question: True or False? The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 created Part D of Medicare.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: True