Question 1
Why was the Wilmot Proviso so controversial?
A) It protected the property of western slaveholders.
B) It restored the gag rule in Congress.
C) It banned slavery in all territory acquired from Mexico.
D) It abolished slavery throughout the United States.
Question 2
This 1946 photograph of striking steel workers demonstrates that the __________.
A) strikers were focused on shortening the work week
B) strikers did not support returning U.S. veterans
C) labor movement had become more integrated
D) labor movement had been infiltrated by communists
Question 3
Puritan minister Increase Mather reported that after King Philip's War, the Massachusetts government promoted a Reformation of those Evils which hath provoked the Lord to bring the sword upon us.
This view along with the hysteria associated with witchcraft in Salem showed that colonial Puritans __________. A) had forgotten their vision of creating a city upon a hill
B) saw both God and Satan as active agents in their lives
C) believed God favored their religious endeavors
D) had begun to tolerate other Protestant denominations
Question 4
What was the general implication taken from the U.S. Supreme Court's statement as healthy mothers are essential to vigorous offspring, the physical well-being of a woman becomes the object of public interest and care in order to preserve the
strength and vigor of the race in its decision in the 1908 case of Muller v. Oregon? A) Working women were given paid maternity leave for six weeks.
B) Feminists who believed in total equality were satisfied with the Court's ruling.
C) Working women and Progressive women developed a blacklist of businesses that did not
support women's equality.
D) Women won shorter working hours because the Court believed they were biologically
inferior to men.