Which of the following examples reveals the nativism in the United States in the 1920s?
A) Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed as much for their ethnic origins as their crimes.
B) President Harding issued an executive order limiting the number of non-British immigrants.
C) Congress passed a law in 1924 that strictly limited immigration.
D) White Citizen Councils increased in membership by stressing anti-black and anti-foreigner messages.
E) President Calvin Coolidge publicly supported the lynching of immigrants in certain circumstances.
C
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The Treaty of Fort Jackson
A) ?gave the United States two-thirds of Creek territory. B) ?solidified an alliance between the United States and the Spanish. C) ?forced the United States to cede land to native peoples. D) ?was a treaty between the United States and the British. E) created an alliance between the United States and the Red Sticks.
Revolts in Latin America were facilitated by
a. massive slave revolts across South and Central America. b. the expansionist policies of the United States. c. Austrian policy in the Americas. d. British defeat in the Napoleonic Wars. e. the fall of the Bourbon monarchy in Spain.
In response to the overthrow of the Somoza government by revolutionaries in Nicaragua, the Reagan administration
a. endorsed the Contadora peace plan backed by other Latin American nations. b. relied on peaceful persuasion to encourage the Nicaraguan people to protest the new government's humanrights abuses. c. secured the support of European allies to cut off trade with Nicaragua. d. used the CIA to train and arm counterrevolutionaries whose goal it was to overthrow the Sandinistagovernment.
Which of the following American presidents was the most prominent proponent of the idealist viewpoint?
A) Woodrow Wilson B) William McKinley C) Howard Taft D) Harry S. Truman E) Franklin D. Roosevelt