SAT US HISTORY: U.S. Intellectual And Cultural History From 1790 To 1898

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How did Yellow Journalism most significantly contribute to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War?

Newspaper editors actively chastised the American public for their lack of ambition and created a support for Imperialist action Yellow Journalism did not actively contribute to the outbreak of the Spanish-American War Sensationalized accounts of major news stories angered the population and directed a shift in public opinion that favored war The treatment suffered by citizen journalists, at the hands of the Spanish, threatened American national rights The widespread use of photos, for the first time in print media, created a visceral reaction among the American population

Yellow journalism stoked American passions over the sinking of the U.S.S. Maine, which created support for which war?

French and Indian War None of the other answers American Civil War Mexican-American War Spanish-American War

Which of the following is NOT true about Joseph Smith?

Smith published the Book of Mormon from the tablets he found, and hoped it would replace the Bible. Smith practiced and preached polygamy. Smith claimed to have found tablets written by a lost tribe of Israel. Smith started Mormonism in New York. Smith was killed in the Illinois Mormon War after being jailed.

The principle of separate but equal was established by              .

Gibbons v. Ogden Wesbery v. Sanders Brown v. Board of Education Plessy v. Ferguson Freemen v. United States Government

The American inventor, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) is credited with the invention of what?

Morse Code The pulley block The assembly line The Breese-Morse interchangeable part The combustible engine

Who authored The Age of Reason?

James Madison Samuel Adams Thomas Paine Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States was known as what?

An abolitionist A prohibitionist A sectionalist An advocate A teetotaler

What did Francis Scott Key write as he watched the British attack Fort McHenry in Baltimore in 1814?

The Pledge of Allegiance Hail, Columbia America the Beautiful The Star-Spangled Banner My Country, 'Tis of Thee

What historical term is used to describe the period of United States history prior to the Civil War?

The Gilded Age The Era of Good Feelings The Reconstruction Era The Antebellum Era The Era of Manifest Destiny

In 1831, William Lloyd Garrison began publishing his weekly newspaper, The Liberator, which advocated what?

The abolition of slavery The dissolution of the American Republic for a more direct democracy The end of taxes The end of the British presence in Canada The secession of the South from the Union
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