History - Survey Courses. Quiz Grade 2

Why did the Truman administration seek a gradual transfer of colonial rule into the hands of local pro-West elites?

In the _____, W.E.B. Du Bois drafted a Statement of Principles declaring that African Americans should fight for their rights rather than accept abuse and separation

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The wealthiest and longest lasting Hellenistic kingdom was the Antigonids

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What did the court decision in the 1805 case of Martin v. Commonwealth, which returned a Loyalist woman's confiscated property to her heir, reveal about women's roles in the decades immediately after the American Revolution?

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Proponents of popular sovereignty believed that __________

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Which of the following does NOT correctly describe the Soviet Union immediately after World War II?

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The Ottoman sultans ruled their empire through administrative units called ________

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Which term refers to the parent country in an empire?

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For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Serbia and the Black Hand

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How did the civil war following Julius Caesar's death finally end?

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What was included in the Declaration of Independence?

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Parliament's intent in passing the Quebec Act was to

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The Black Codes were laws enacted in most southern states that were intended to

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To be competent in self-disclosure, people should:

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Immediately after the Revolution, the United States began to have difficulties with Spain. The disputes related to the boundaries of Florida and

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On which of the following points are Mrs. Humphry Ward and the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies in agreement?

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Which state was carved out of the Louisiana Purchase?

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, two films that provided romanticized depictions of small town American people and values, were directed by ________.

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Louis XIV advertised himself as the Sun King

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When war broke out in Europe, __________.

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Which of the following improved access to credit for many Americans?

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As ardent Christians sought to establish a closer union with God, they sometimes

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When the Nile floodwaters receded each year, they left __________.

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The two leaders who ended the apartheid regime without major bloodshed in South Africa were

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During the industrial era, where did the population of Europe shift?

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Reagan's Strategic Defensive Initiative was a plan to:

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Unless rebellious states (or parts of states in rebellion) returned to the Union by January 1, 1863, the president would declare their slaves "forever free," according to the ________

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What was the goal of the Ku Klux Klan under the leadership of former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest in 1866?

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Under the __________ system, manufacturers provided raw materials to people in their own homes and then picked up the finished products for distribution