Author Question: Christopher Columbus's attitude toward the inhabitants of the Indies was primarily one of ... (Read 96 times)

londonang · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

What was the primary purpose for requiring all students in American schools to recite the Pledge of Allegiance beginning in the 1890s?

A) It honored Columbus on the 400th anniversary of his arrival to the New World.
B) It Americanized the immigrant masses who were coming to the United States at this time.
C) It was part of a campaign to boost public education enrollment.
D) It advanced religious values by making students realize this was one nation, under God.

Question 2

How does the proslavery cartoon Slavery As It Exists in America affirm John C. Calhoun's apologist views on the peculiar institution of slavery?

A) Slavery was a harsher system than the factory system in the North.
B) Slavery was a positive good sanctioned by the Bible and ancient philosophers.
C) Slavery benefitted the entire nation due to its profitable success in commercialized farming.
D) Slavery improved both the physical and moral lives of African Americans.

Question 3

What generalization can be made from the 1944 Life magazine photograph A Wartime Souvenir, in which a young American woman writes her fianc a thank-you note for sending her a Japanese soldier's skull?

A) American soldiers collected both Japanese and German body parts as trophies.
B) American soldiers sent memento mori to loved ones to remind them of the danger they faced.
C) Collecting enemy Japanese body parts was common because they were considered subhuman.
D) Many American civilians wrote and reflected on the high death casualties from this war.

Question 4

Christopher Columbus's attitude toward the inhabitants of the Indies was primarily one of __________.

A) resentment
B) reverence
C) cooperation
D) superiority