Source: National Archives and Record Administration.After 72 years of campaigning and protest, women were granted the right to vote in 1920. Passed by Congress and ratified by 36 of the then 48 states, theNineteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states, "The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex."With which of the following statements would the photographer most likely agree?
When European settlers arrived on the North American continent at the end of the fifteenth century, they encountered diverse Native American cultures as many as 900,000 inhabitants with over 300 different languages. These people, whose ancestors crossed the land bridge from Asia in what may be considered the first North American immigration, were virtually destroyed by the subsequent immigration that created the United States. This tragedy is the direct result of treaties, written and broken by foreign governments, of warfare, and of forced assimilation.Source: The Library of Congress, American Memory.What does the author of this passage believe?
Paul Revere made and sold this engraving depicting the "Boston Massacre," a pre-Revolutionary encounter between British troops and American colonists, in which five colonists were killed.Which of the following messages did Paul Revere most likely want to convey in his engraving?
Paul Revere made and sold this engraving depicting the "Boston Massacre," a pre-Revolutionary encounter between British troops and American colonists, in which five colonists were killed.What can you infer was Reveres purpose in creating and selling the engraving?
Isolationism: a national policy of avoiding political alliances with other nationsNationalism: a sense of allegiance to the interests and culture of a nationJingoism: extreme nationalism characterized by a warring foreign policyPacifism: the belief that nations should settle their disputes peacefullyRegionalism: a political division between two regions within an areaRead the next items and identify which label best describes each of them."This whole nation of one hundred and thirty million free men, women, and children is becoming one great fighting force. Some of us are soldiers or sailors, some of us are civilians . . . A few of us are decorated with medals for heroic achievement, but all of us can have that deep and permanent inner satisfaction that comes from doing the best we know how—each of us playing an honorable part in the great struggle to save our democratic civilization."Radio address of President Franklin D. Roosevelt,October 12, 1942 -
Isolationism: a national policy of avoiding political alliances with other nationsNationalism: a sense of allegiance to the interests and culture of a nationJingoism: extreme nationalism characterized by a warring foreign policyPacifism: the belief that nations should settle their disputes peacefullyRegionalism: a political division between two regions within an areaRead the next items and identify which label best describes each of them."The . . . parties solemnly declare in the names of their respective peoples that they condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy in their relations with one another."Kellogg-Briand Pact, Article I, 1928
