Reference no: EM132150117
1.) The first black baseball player in the Major Leagues was Jackie Robinson.
True
False
2.) Ponce de Leon went to Florida to seek the mythical fountain of youth.
True
False
3.) George Wallace was considered racist for saying, "I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is a physical difference between the two which . . . will probably forever forbid their living together, . . . and I am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."
True
False
4.) White Americans forced roaming Indians to settle down and farm.
True
False
5.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Richard Nixon
6.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "It is above all to be remembered that the war did not originate with the North, but with the South. The North finds itself on the defensive."
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Richard Nixon
7.) Who Said the Following Quotation: "Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and to tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth."
Abraham Lincoln
Karl Marx
Richard Nixon
8.) Who were the first non-Native settlers in what is now the United States?
Vikings
Africans
English
Asians
9.) Who were the first "pilgrims" (escaping religious persecution in Europe) in what is now the United States?
Puritans
Jews
Catholics
Hindus
10.) When was the term "Pilgrims" first used for the early British settlers of Massachusetts?
1600s
1700s
1800s
1900s
11.) What was the population of the Americas in 1492?
1 million
10 million
50 million
100 million
12.) What percentage of the Native Americans of coastal New England was killed by a disease transmitted by Europeans and Africans three years before the Pilgrims landed?
0-25%
25-50%
50-75%
75-100%
13.) Which of these wars cost the most American lives in combat, as a proportion of the total population?
King Phillip's War
French and Indian War
American Revolution
War of 1812
Mexican War
Spanish-American War
14.) Which war cost the most lives in total numbers?
King Phillip's War
French and Indian War
American Revolution
War of 1812
Mexican War
Spanish-American War
15.) What western hemisphere people were quick to aid George Washington's forces in the American Revolution?
Haitians
Native Americans
Canadians
Mexicans
Mexican War
Spanish-American War
16.) Who segregated the federal government?
No one - it had always been segregated.
Abraham Lincoln in 1861
Ulysses S. Grant in 1871
Woodrow Wilson in 1913
Harry S. Truman in 1947
17.) Woodrow Wilson sent American troops into which of the following countries?
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Mexico
Nicaragua
U.S.S.R.
Panama
All of the Above
18.) Which one statement about Christopher Columbus is true?
Most of his compatriots, like the scholars of the time, thought the world was flat.
He died never knowing he had "discovered" a new continent.
He and his men massacred and enslaved the Caribbean Indians.
He died alone and penniless.
19.) For how many years did the Norse visit North America?
1
2
6
50
350
20.) Which of these Americans could be considered a communist?
Helen Keller
Groucho Marx
John Brown
Henry David Thoreau
Rush Limbaugh
21.) Why did the Wilson Administration prosecute Robert Goldstein (and get him ten years in prison)?
For murder
For spying
For making a movie making the British look bad
For fraud
22.) How did Squanto learn English?
From White Settlers
As a slave in England
From a book he found
He didn't know English