Question 1
The leader of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe was __________.
A) George Creel
B) Alvin York
C) John J. Pershing
D) Herbert Hoover
Question 2
The image of Columbia on this cotton bond sold to raise cash for the Confederacy shows that, like Northerners, Southerners __________.
A) revered women for their contributions to the war effort
B) longed for the pre-war past
C) looked to Europe for ways to symbolize their hopes
D) associated their cause with liberty
Question 3
The Peace Corps' major goal was to __________.
A) organize formal resistance to the growing violence in the Civil Rights Movement
B) encourage volunteerism to work on humanitarian projects in developing nations
C) protest American escalation in the Vietnam War
D) send privileged young adults to work on community projects in domestic urban and rural
areas
Question 4
What view might have contributed most to Americans' continuation of slavery while also supporting liberty for themselves?
A) the belief that only property owners have a stake in government
B) distrust of powerful central governments
C) the notion that government rests on the consent of the governed
D) an understanding that abolition would ultimately be inevitable
Question 5
Which is the best inference that can be made from intelligence tests such as those pictured here that were given to soldiers in training camps during World War I?
A) Most American soldiers were not very intelligent.
B) The military hoped to exclude non-English speakers from leadership.
C) Methods of testing intelligence were crude at best.
D) Psychologists hoped to use such tests to sort citizens throughout society.