The Manhattan Project

Most Progressives saw World War I as a golden opportunity because 

  By the end of the nineteenth century, African American men in the South

“The existence of chattel slavery in a nation that claimed to be Christian, and the use of Christianity to justify enslavement, confronted black Evangelicals [Protestants] with a basic dilemma, which may be most clearly formulated in two questions: What meaning did Christianity, if it were a white man’s religion, as it seemed, have for blacks; and, why did the Christian God, if he were just as claimed, permit blacks to suffer so?  In struggling to answer these questions, a significant number of Afro-Americans developed a distinctive evangelical tradition in which they established meaning and identity for themselves as individuals and as people.  Simultaneously, they made an indispensable contribution to the development of American Evangelicalism.”                                             Albert J. Raboteau, historian, African American Religion, 1997   The development described by Raboteau most directly illustrates which of the following trends in US history?  

As the West grew increasingly integrated with the national economy, the lives of Plains Indians permanently changed. How did the government respond to the conflict that arose from Indians who resisted these changes? 

  Which of the following is true about the Red Scare of 1919–1920?

President Johnson’s The Great Society

“A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection.”                                                                                                                                                                                                               Alexander Hamilton “I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people.”                                                                                                                                       Thomas Jefferson   Which of the following developments most strongly contradicted the ideas expressed in Jefferson’s statement?

“A firm union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the states, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection.”                                                                                                                                                                                                               Alexander Hamilton “I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. It places the governors indeed more at their ease, at the expense of the people.”                                                                                                                                       Thomas Jefferson   Which of the following was the most direct result of the ideas expressed in the quotes above?

“If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each.  So if a law be in opposition to the constitution…the constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature”                                                                            Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803   “The government of the US, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution form the supreme law of the land.  Among the enumerated powers [in the Constitution], we do not find that of establishing a bank or creating a corporation.  But there is no phrase in the instrument which excludes implied powers; and which requires that everything granted shall be expressly and minutely described…[A constitution’s] nature, therefore, requires that only its great outlines should be marked, its important objects designated, and the minor ingredients which compose those objects be deduced from the nature of the objects themselves.”                                                                       Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819   South Carolina’s Ordinance of Nullification most directly challenged which of the following ideas from McCulloch v. Maryland?