In the seventeenth century, the native Khoisan peoples of South Africa were devastated by
a. cholera.
b. smallpox.
c. syphilis.
d. influenza.
e. Bubonic plague.
b
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Manifest Destiny was the doctrine that
A) God intended the United States to extend westward to the Pacific. B) Indians that refused to assimilate should be exterminated. C) the United States was and should be a Christian nation. D) Americans had a duty to leave the comforts of the East to tame the West. E) the United States should become the most powerful nation in the Americas.
The city of Nineveh was part of which ancient civilization?
A) Sumerian B) Assyrian C) Akkadian D) Persian
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941,
a. it took nearly two years for the country to unite. b. the conflict soon became an idealistic crusade for democracy. c. the primary goal was to stop Hitler's massacre of European Jews. d. a majority of Americans had no clear idea of what the war was about. e. the idea of allying with the Communist Soviet Union was repugnant.
How did the Roosevelt administration finally deal with the problem of agricultural overproduction?
A) It used strategies that aided small farming operations more than large farming operations. B) The Agricultural Adjustment Administration convinced farmers to stop destroying their crops. C) It found new international markets for surplus American crops. D) It set production limits for leading crops and paid farmers subsidies. E) It increased demand by giving away surplus foods to the starving urban poor.