Question 1
What does this photograph, taken the morning after the Battle of Fort Sumter, indicate about the first armed conflict of the Civil War?
A) Both the Union and the Confederacy suffered huge losses in this first battle.
B) The raised Confederate flag showed that the South was victorious.
C) The Union held on to one of its last federal fortresses in the Confederacy.
D) The Confederacy submitted to federal authority.
Question 2
The boiling teapot shown in The Tea-Tax-Tempest suggests that __________.
A) France was unwilling to support the American colonies in their struggle against Britain
B) Americans were ready to reconcile with Britain
C) Americans felt it was still possible to remain within the British Empire and protect their rights
D) American and British soldiers were ready to go to war against each other
Question 3
What was Theodore Roosevelt referring to when he told Congress that no single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is of such consequence to the American people?
A) construction of the Panama Canal
B) discovering a vaccine for yellow fever and malaria
C) completion of a transcontinental railroad
D) passage of the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Question 4
In his first inaugural address, President Abraham Lincoln __________.
A) acknowledged the legality of secession
B) threatened total war against the rebel states
C) promised to enforce federal law in all of the states
D) offered to negotiate with the rebel states
Question 5
The National Liberation Front (NLF) that united factions in South Vietnam opposed to the Diem regime into a fighting coalition was derisively called __________ by President Diem.
A) Vietminh
B) tough little miracle men
C) Vietcong
D) Dien Bien Phu
Four cheetahs at Serengeti National Park, Tanzania