How did black voting patterns begin to change after the first election of Franklin Roosevelt?
A) Blacks continued to stay with the Republican Party, the party of Lincoln.
B) Blacks began to shift to the Democratic Party.
C) Blacks briefly formed their own separate party, just as they had formed separate churches and other institutions.
D) Blacks split over Roosevelt, with their support about evenly divided between him and Hoover in 1936.
Answer: B
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How did Andrew Johnson's becoming president affect blacks?
A) It did not affect them. Johnson followed all of Lincoln's plans and initiated none of his own. B) Johnson felt that blacks should not vote or have a role in government and were vastly inferior to whites. He destroyed many of their hopes. C) Johnson felt that blacks were the social and political equals of whites and that they should be given the same rights as whites. D) Johnson was president only for a few months and therefore had little effect.
Working for the Dutch East India Company, Henry Hudson led voyages in the early 1600s which accomplished all the following except:
a. increased Europe's geographical knowledge of the coast of North America b. resulted in a twenty-year-long war between Holland and England c. encouraged exploration of Cape Cod, Delaware Bay, and part of interior New York d. sailed from Newfoundland to Virginia
The author of Novum Organum, who contributed significantly to the theory of scientific methodology, was
A) Francis Bacon. B) René Descartes. C) William Gilbert. D) Isaac Newton. E) Henry Cavendish.
John C. Calhoun advocated nullification of a federal law in 1828, and again in 1832 to?:
a) please President Jackson. b) Defeat the re charting of the Bank of the United States. c) avoid secession. d) promote the formation of the Confederate States of America.