Who wrote The History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880, the first historical study by an African American to be taken seriously by American scholars?
a. W. E. B. Du Bois
b. Booker T. Washington
c. Paul Laurence Dunbar
d. George Washington Williams
d. George Washington Williams
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Secretary of State Adams favored a U.S. approach to foreign affairs that __________.
a. continued the neutrality policy suggested by George Washington b. played one European power against another c. included a close alignment with Great Britain d. discouraged European intervention in the Americas
All of the following provided the Egyptians with a sense of security unknown in Mesopotamia EXCEPT
A) belief in a god-king. B) belief that the welfare of the people rested on devotion to the pharaoh. C) reliable flooding of the Nile. D) universal male military training. E) natural obstructions to invasion.
The United States refused to recognize Vietnamese independence in 1945 for which of the following reasons? a. France was guaranteed the return of its colonies at the Potsdam Conference. b. Ho Chi Minh had cooperated with the Japanese during the course of the Second World War. c. The United States believed support of its French ally in Vietnam would ensure French support in the ColdWar
d. The State Department warned that recognition would jeopardize negotiations to end the Chinese civil war.
In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
A. dramatized the plight of Midwestern farmers. B. criticized the American obsession with material success. C. satirized the inequalities in American politics. D. ridiculed the hypocritical behavior of some in evangelical religion. E. glorified wealthy Americans as examples of the "success ethic."