Question 1
What message from William Jennings Bryan, the presidential candidate for both the Democrats and the Populist Party, did this campaign poster from the election of 1896 send to farmers and industrial workers?
A) He promised universal suffrage to all low-skilled and uneducated workers and farmers.
B) He advocated for railroad reform offering cheaper shipping rates and higher working wages.
C) He sought to improve race relations between whites and African Americans.
D) He wanted currency reform through the free coinage of silver rather than gold.
Question 2
In committing American troops to combat in Korea, President Truman __________.
A) quickly unified a coalition of European powers against North Korea
B) requested that Congress declare war against North Korea
C) did not consult with Congress
D) worked through the United Nations
Question 3
What message about the English in Virginia does Theodore de Bry convey through this engraving of an Indian massacre?
A) The English were civilized people in the wilderness as shown by the walled city and
tablecloth.
B) The English were fierce warriors against neighboring Indians as illustrated by the hatchet in
the foreground.
C) The primary concern for the English was Christianizing the Indians as depicted by the church
within the walled city.
D) Virginia was a hospitable place for additional settlers as exemplified by the number of
women shown in the engraving.
Question 4
Why did Coxey's Army choose to pose as they did for this photograph in 1894 as they marched to Washington, D.C., to advocate for a public works project?
A) They wanted the public to know they were members of the middle class calling for reform.
B) They wanted to emphasize their patriotism and not appear to be violent radicals.
C) They wanted to intimidate law officials who threatened them with arrest and violence.
D) They wanted people to recognize them for their military service during the Civil War.
Question 5
Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton's statement that The White race alone received the divine command, to subdue and replenish the earth Civilization or extinction has been the fate of all people who have found themselves in the track of the
advancing Whites, contains concepts that are based on both __________. A) racism and industrialization
B) Christianity and the belief in the noble savage
C) Jacksonian democracy and Protestant millennialism
D) migration and geographical expansion
Question 6
What did President Truman believe regarding North Korea's invasion of South Korea?
A) that the Soviet Union was behind the attack
B) that the attack was not a serious foreign policy matter
C) that the Soviet Union had revealed its weakness through the attack
D) that the attack would be supported by the United Nations
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