How did the Great Awakening shape American society?
What will be an ideal response?
Most students should be able to identify the shift in religious styles resulting from the movement. Stronger students will see the movement as creating institutions like colleges. But the strongest essays will point to the conflict engendered and to the way that the movement undermined traditional authority, helping to set the stage for the American Revolution.
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The case of Minor v. Happersett was a failure because it ruled that
A) gaining the right to vote did not grant citizenship. B) blacks could not vote. C) women could not vote. D) citizenship was not the same as the right to suffrage.
What best explains why the term total war was applicable to World War I?
A. It relied on the participation of all members of the population to mobilize and win the war. B. It involved all the nations of Europe. C. It was an all-inclusive war that killed both soldiers and civilians. D. It overlapped international and domestic civil wars. E. It involved every kind of military technology available.
Which of the following was true of the experience of African Americans serving in the Spanish- American War?
a. African Americans faced particularly harsh treatment if they were captured by the Spanish. b. African Americans were allowed to serve in auxiliary roles in the United States but were not allowed to travel overseas. c. Despite facing discrimination and racial violence, African Americans served with distinction in the war. d. African Americans were not permitted to fight in Cuba and were instead sent to the Philippines.
Union General George McClellan's 1861 letter to his wife stating that "I seem to have become the power of the land, I almost think that were I to win some small success now I could become Dictator or anything else that might please me,"
reveals that __________ was one of his greatest flaws and eventually led to his removal as general of the Army of the Potomac. A) procrastination B) arrogance C) poor decision making D) brutality