Question 1
One unresolved issue with Britain stemming from the Treaty of Paris (1783) that was finally attended to under Jay's Treaty of 1794 was Britain's agreement to __________.
A) set the Mississippi River as the western boundary of the United States
B) vacate its forts in the Northwest Territory
C) cede lands in Florida to the United States
D) compensate the United States for cargoes seized during the American Revolution
Question 2
Why was the mining industry able to use environmentally harmful methods such as open-pit mining in places like Minnesota's Mesabi Range as illustrated in this photograph?
A) The harmful effects of open-pit mining were limited to minimal scarring on the landscape.
B) An environmental movement had not yet been created in the United States.
C) Western states did not have the political power to regulate the mining industry.
D) Political officials in the West received kickbacks and bribes from the mining industry.
Question 3
What did this image of a Three Mile Island nuclear reactor tower and media coverage of Love Canal in New York come to represent to many Americans in the late 1970s?
A) the promise of a cleaner environment
B) the threat by industrialists to move their companies overseas
C) danger to the health of nearby residents
D) the overreach of government regulation
Question 4
How was partisan politics evident in the presidential election of 1792?
A) Republicans directly challenged George Washington by running Thomas Jefferson against
him.
B) Federalists carried the South but lost other regions of the United States.
C) Republicans launched a series of personal attacks against Washington in the press.
D) Republicans ran George Clinton for vice president against John Adams.
Question 5
How does the image of poverty in Dorothea Lange's photograph Breadline San Francisco, 1933, compare with that in Reginald Marsh's drawing Bread Line?
A) Only Marsh's drawing portrays the impulse toward collective action.
B) Both portray the anger of the poor.
C) Only Lange's photograph portrays true hunger.
D) Both portray the isolation of the poor.