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azncindy619 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

As can be seen in this photograph, what was significant about the setting in which speakers gave their speeches to the crowds at the March on Washington?

A) It accentuated the irony of a nation that would honor only white men.
B) It emphasized the comparative weakness of current presidents when compared to Lincoln.
C) It underscored that President Lincoln's legacy was still unfulfilled 100 years later.
D) It highlighted the great respect Martin Luther King Jr. had for Abraham Lincoln.

Question 2

In The Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson argued against ___________.

A) the inclusion of Catholics and Jews in government
B) public funding for religion
C) the failure to institute an established state church in Virginia
D) the taxing of religious institutions

Question 3

What was the key message about World War I that artist John Steuart Curry conveyed to the public in his 1938 painting Parade to War, Allegory?

A) The U.S. military was an honorable profession and encouraged young boys to consider future
enlistment.
B) Women played a key role on the home front and were recognized with the right to vote.
C) Americans remained highly patriotic after World War I and honored their veterans with
respect.
D) U.S. participation in World War I had been a mistake due to the high numbers of lost and
ruined lives.

Question 4

Why was Abraham Lincoln's Reconstruction policy called the Ten Percent Plan?

A) Former Confederate states could reestablish their governments once 10 percent of voters
pledged loyalty to the Union.
B) A 10 percent income tax would be levied on the residents of all former Confederate states.
C) It would forgive all Southerners except for high-ranking officials and military officers and the
top 10 percent of the population in terms of wealth.
D) It would set aside 10 percent of Southern land to be granted to freedmen.

Question 5

Why did civil rights activists in Birmingham approve the media's use of such violent pictures taken by Life photojournalist Charles Moore that depicted the mistreatment of women and young people during the Birmingham campaign of April 1963?

A) They wanted Northerners in particular to be outraged at the display of police brutality.
B) They were trying to persuade President Kennedy to send in federal troops for their protection.
C) They sought to condemn the Ku Klux Klan for participating in these violent actions.
D) They wanted to convince the public that they had no choice but to resort to violence in order
to achieve desegregation.