Question 1
What was reconcentration?
A) the investments of Americans in Cuban agriculture and industry
B) the practice of providing both real and fabricated stories of atrocities in Cuba to the yellow
press
C) the policy of removing Cuban peasants to camps and destroying their crops
D) the guerilla tactics employed by Cuban rebels to deprive Spain of revenue
Question 2
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe influenced Northerners in what way?
A) They became more hostile toward slavery.
B) They became impassioned abolitionists.
C) They accepted slavery as beneficial to African Americans.
D) They were moved to fight for racial equality.
Question 3
Although the first commercial television transmission occurred in 1939, why was it not until the early 1950s that television really took off with the American public?
A) American entrepreneurs were more concerned with containing communism.
B) The high rise in prices after World War II made it too expensive to afford televisions.
C) World War II slowed down the production of televisions.
D) The railroad strikes of the late 1940s hampered the growth of television production.
Question 4
The Great Awakening was a movement that reflected a renewed interest in __________.
A) Enlightenment ideals
B) trade with England
C) spirituality and religion
D) the abolition of slavery