EOC Review #3

For the first time in 16 years, the Presidential Election of 1992 saw

• a landslide victory.

• a Democrat win the election.

• a third-party candidate for President.

• a woman was a candidate for Vice-President.

"With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds: to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and all nations."

Abraham Lincoln

March 4, 1865

This excerpt expresses the view of the post-Civil War period held by

• "scalawags".

• "carpetbaggers".

• "cooperationists".

• Moderate Reconstructionists.

Which goods did Great Britain pass a direct tax on that led to boycotts and a group of delegates to meet to determine how to protest it?

• tea and syrup

• weapons and bullets

• sugar, rum, and molasses

• newspapers, wills, and licenses

Which of these BEST explains the reason for enslaved Africans being brought into the British colonies in Southern North America in the 17th century?

• The economy of Southern colonies sought non-wage labor.

• Northern colonial governments considered slavery immoral.

• Southern colonies refused to use Native Americans as forced labor.

• Industrial factories in the north did not need slave labor.

President Jimmy Carter offered amnesty in 1977 for

• draft evaders during the Vietnam War.

• “white-collar” business criminals.

• people who committed war crimes in the Vietnam War.

• those who were responsible for the Three Mile Island accident.

When President Eisenhower spoke of "the domino theory," the United States was involved in

• The Cold War.

• World War ll.

• The Korean War.

• The War on Terror.

Unions during the late 19th century did not enjoy great success or growth mainly because

• workers rights were as plentiful as they had ever been.

• unions and management enjoyed cooperation on all issues.

• the Sherman Anti-trust Act made joining a Union illegal.

• there was a great diversity of skill and cultures in the labor force, so there was little bargaining power to be won by unions.

Following the Treaty of 1783 that ended the American Revolution, the western-most boundary of the United States was set at the

• Pacific Ocean.

• Rocky Mountains

• Mississippi River.

• Appalachian Mountain.

Saddam Hussein was the leader of what country from 1979 to 2003?

• Afghanistan

• Iran

• Iraq

• Pakistan

Perhaps the most important political figure in early American history who was never elected president was this "Great Compromiser."

• Henry Clay

• Andrew Jackson

• James Madison

• Andrew Johnson