How did the lumber industry typify the South’s economic development in the late
1800s?
A) It required advanced skills that were not available in the region.
B) It required little skilled work but devastated the environment.
C) It was an ongoing source of union and labor disputes.
D) It was dangerous work that put female workers in harm’s way.
In his book, The Souls of Black Folk, __________.
A) Washington laid out his plan of self-help
B) Du Bois attacked the stance of accommodation expressed by Washington
C) Washington expressed that blacks should not vote until they received proper
education
D) Du Bois stated that southern whites were not needed for blacks to make social gains
The __________ reaffirmed America’s trading relationships with its world partners but
prohibited the president from taking sides in the mounting European crisis.
A) Neutrality Acts
B) Kellogg-Briand Pacts
C) Munich agreements
D) Good Neighbor policies
In 1900, the largest city in the United States was __________.
A) Chicago
B) Philadelphia
C) Boston
D) New York
The federal bureaucracy in the nineteenth century was __________ and __________.
A) large; efficient
B) small; inefficient
C) small; efficient
D) large; inefficient
Which of the following allowed the Allies to win the Battle of the Atlantic?
A) Disruptions to the supply chain prevented German manufacturers from producing
new U-boats.
B) New sonar systems improved the tracking of German U-boats.
C) The United States threatened to use an atomic bomb.
D) The Soviet Union sent naval reinforcements.
Of the following, which is a true statement about southern farmers and their fight to
improve their circumstances from the 1870s to the 1890s?
A) They did not believe in bartering.
B) They marketed their cotton crops collectively.
C) They struggled to become better educated so they wouldn”t have to work the farm
forever.
D) They lobbied against debt-stay laws.
Which of the following generated the political crisis of the 1890s?
A) anger about increased immigration
B) discontent among women
C) anger about the suppression of wages
D) discontent among farmers
Which two men were assassinated within months of each other in 1968?
A) Malcolm X and Robert Kennedy
B) Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Kennedy
C) John Kennedy and Malcolm X
D) Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Which of the following was a member of SEATO?
A) Egypt
B) India
C) the Philippines
D) Laos