Lyndon Johnson's program to strengthen the United States internally was referred to as the
a. Strategic Initiative. c. Great Society.
b. New Deal. d. Great Leap Forward.
c
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Examine the engraving of blacks from about 1858 on the first page of the chapter. How do historians know that this is a photograph of a southern plantation?
A) It shows enslaved women tending children for whites in an urban area. B) It shows skilled slaves working on the docks of a city waterfront. C) It shows slave families picking cotton while whites supervise them. D) It shows sorrowful slaves being separated while angry whites glare at them.
How was American handling of the crises of World War One and the Great Depression similar?
a. Wilson's initial stance of neutrality in the war was similar to Roosevelt's initial inactivity at the beginning of the Great Depression. b. Just as the government, big business, and labor formed a strong alliance to concentrate efforts to win the war, so did they join together to combat the effects of the Depression. c. Just as the war provided women and minorities with job opportunities, so did the Great Depression offer more unskilled, typically female and minority jobs. d. The United States handled both crises with political unity; members of both political parties set aside their differences to work together. e. The U.S. government took unprecedented control of business, banking, labor, and agriculture, although it had to deny civil liberties, to solve both crises.
Incidents involving Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims demonstrated that the federal government:
A) had no desire to offend northern abolitionists. B) would vigorously enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. C) would only enforce the Fugitive Slave Law in the South. D) would use the Fugitive Slave Law to recover blacks who fled to Canada.
George W. Bush won the presidency in 2000 due to a Supreme Court decision
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false