Most southern African Americans who held political power during Reconstruction __________
A) alienated whites by pushing for massive land restriction
B) concentrated their efforts on educational and political reforms
C) used the Freedmen's Bureau to oppress ex-Confederates
D) pushed for educational integration
E) were more corrupt than their white counterparts
Answer: B
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President Hoover provided direct financial support to banks, insurance companies, farm mortgage associations, and railroads through the establishment of the __________
A) Reconstruction Finance Corporation B) Emergency Relief Act C) National Industrial Recovery Act D) Works Progress Administration
Which of the following statements about slavery in the North is accurate?
A. Enslaved populations in the North during the colonial era reached as many as 100,000. B. Northern states still technically allowed slavery through the antebellum period, though it had been eliminated in practice. C. By 1804, the practice of slavery had been outlawed and strictly ended in all northern states. D. The North indirectly supported slavery all the way through the first half of the nineteenth century. E. After 1787, the Northwest Territory became the last legal area for slavery in the North.
Dollar Diplomacy, the U.S. foreign policy that emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention, was the policy of
a. William McKinley. b. Theodore Roosevelt. c. William Howard Taft. d. Woodrow Wilson.
The primary motive for the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century European voyages of exploration and discovery was the desire to
A. spread Christianity around the world. B. verify the new scholarly theory that there were undiscovered continents. C. gain direct access to the goods of Africa and Asia. D. establish naval control of the seas.