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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in History (BA History) .
| 101. |
............. became the President of the United States by defeating John C. Breckinridge - the nominee of the Southern faction, by a huge margin. |
| A. | abraham lincoln |
| B. | desmond tutu |
| C. | jefferson davis |
| D. | george w. randolph |
| Answer» A. abraham lincoln | |
| 102. |
The Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln became the President of the United States by defeating ............- the nominee of the Southern faction, by a huge margin. |
| A. | john c. breckinridge |
| B. | jefferson davis |
| C. | william wilber force |
| D. | abraham lincoln |
| Answer» A. john c. breckinridge | |
| 103. |
Soon after the War, American President ................under his capacity of being the Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy issued the Emancipation Proclamation which declared the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate States of America. |
| A. | abraham lincoln |
| B. | desmond tutu |
| C. | jefferson davis |
| D. | george w. randolph |
| Answer» A. abraham lincoln | |
| 104. |
The history of slavery in America dates back to the seventeenth century when slaves were brought to Virginia in............. |
| A. | 1519 |
| B. | 1609 |
| C. | 1619 |
| D. | 1648 |
| Answer» C. 1619 | |
| 105. |
Abraham Lincoln was elected the President of United States in.................. |
| A. | 1760 |
| B. | 1765 |
| C. | 1860 |
| D. | 1863 |
| Answer» C. 1860 | |
| 106. |
South Carolina was the first state to declare secession from the United States in ................. |
| A. | 1761 |
| B. | 1768 |
| C. | 1769 |
| D. | 1861 |
| Answer» D. 1861 | |
| 107. |
On September 22, ............, Abraham Lincoln issued what is known as the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. |
| A. | 1762 |
| B. | 1767 |
| C. | 1784 |
| D. | 1862 |
| Answer» D. 1862 | |
| 108. |
As promised, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on 1st January, ............... |
| A. | 1743 |
| B. | 1753 |
| C. | 1764 |
| D. | 1863 |
| Answer» D. 1863 | |
| 109. |
The American Civil War ended in ............. with the Northern forces under the Union defeating the southern states fighting under Confederacy. |
| A. | 1755 |
| B. | 1765 |
| C. | 1796 |
| D. | 1865 |
| Answer» D. 1865 | |
| 110. |
The Congress passed the 13th amendment which abolished slavery in the United States on January 31, 1865, and it was ratified by the states on December 6,................... |
| A. | 1755 |
| B. | 1765 |
| C. | 1768 |
| D. | 1865 |
| Answer» D. 1865 | |
| 111. |
The American Civil War was fought in the years 1861-1865 over the issue of ……………... |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | communism |
| C. | socialism |
| D. | mercantilism |
| Answer» D. mercantilism | |
| 112. |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi born in Porbandar,…………... |
| A. | delhi |
| B. | bombay |
| C. | haryana |
| D. | gujarat |
| Answer» D. gujarat | |
| 113. |
………………. adopted the policy of mass disobedience and non-violent resistance as weapons against the British Rule in India and followed a principle of Ahimsa (total Non-Violence). |
| A. | andrew johnson |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | gideon welles |
| D. | mahatma gandhi |
| Answer» D. mahatma gandhi | |
| 114. |
…………. birthday 2 October is commemorated as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday and as the International Non-Violence day across the world. |
| A. | mahatma gandhi’s |
| B. | abraham lincoln’s |
| C. | desmond tutu’s |
| D. | stonewall jackson’s |
| Answer» A. mahatma gandhi’s | |
| 115. |
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Porbandar, a town in Gujarat in western India on 2 October ……………. |
| A. | 1759 |
| B. | 1769 |
| C. | 1786 |
| D. | 1869 |
| Answer» D. 1869 | |
| 116. |
At the age of 13 …………was married to one year older kasturba. |
| A. | mahatma gandhi |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | desmond tutu |
| D. | stonewall jackson |
| Answer» A. mahatma gandhi | |
| 117. |
On 4th September……………., Mahatma Gandhi traveled to England to study law at the university College London and to train as a barrister, as his family wanted him to be a barrister. |
| A. | 1768 |
| B. | 1788 |
| C. | 1867 |
| D. | 1888 |
| Answer» D. 1888 | |
| 118. |
…………. had started and popularized the term ‘Harijan’ for the Untouchables (though many saw it as patronizing). |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | ambedkar |
| C. | martin luther king, jr. |
| D. | mahatma gandhi |
| Answer» D. mahatma gandhi | |
| 119. |
………… was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| A. | martin luther king, jr. |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | desmond tutu |
| Answer» A. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 120. |
While spending time in the Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, …………. learned all about Mahatma Gandhi's policy against non- violence, and finally earned a degree in Divinity in 1951. |
| A. | martin luther king, jr. |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | desmond tutu |
| Answer» A. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 121. |
…………….. went on to Boston University, to complete his dissertation on the subject, "A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman." |
| A. | desmond tutu |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | martin luther king, jr. |
| Answer» D. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 122. |
…………….. soon became a pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, after having married Coretta Scott in 1953, a singer he met while in Boston. |
| A. | martin luther king, jr. |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» A. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 123. |
In 1957, an organization called the Southern Christian Leadership Conference was formed, under the leadership of ……………., as a means of leading the upcoming civil rights movement in the country. |
| A. | martin luther king, jr. |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | nelson mandela |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» A. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 124. |
As part of the poor people's campaign, ……….. went to Memphis, Tennessee on 29 March, 1968, in order to show support for the black sanitation workers. |
| A. | martin luther king, jr. |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | nelson mandela |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» A. martin luther king, jr. | |
| 125. |
………….., is now leading the United States of America as its president. |
| A. | barrack obama |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | nelson mandela |
| D. | martin luther king, jr |
| Answer» A. barrack obama | |
| 126. |
The South African activist and former president …………….helped bring an end to apartheid and has been a global advocate for human rights. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | nelson mandela |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» B. nelson mandela | |
| 127. |
A member of the African National Congress party beginning in the 1940s, ……………. was a leader of both peaceful protests and armed resistance against the white minority’s oppressive regime in a racially divided South Africa. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 128. |
………….. became the first black president of South Africa in 1994. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | nelson mandela |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | edmund burke |
| Answer» B. nelson mandela | |
| 129. |
..................was born on July 18, 1918, into a royal family of the Xhosa- speaking Thimbu tribe in the South African village of Mvezo. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | olivia ball |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 130. |
...................mother, Nosekeni Fanny, was the third of Mphakanyiswa’s four wives, who together bore him nine daughters and four sons. |
| A. | nelson mandela’s |
| B. | f. w. de klerk’s |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | olivia ball’s |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela’s | |
| 131. |
.................. went on to attend the Clarkebury Boarding Institute and Healdton, a Methodist secondary school, where he excelled in boxing and track as well as academics. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | nelson mandela |
| C. | martin luther king, jr |
| D. | olivia ball |
| Answer» B. nelson mandela | |
| 132. |
In 1939 ...............entered the elite University of Fort Hare, the only Western-style higher learning institute for South African blacks at the time. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | paul gready |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 133. |
In 1940 .............and several other students, including his friend and future business partner Oliver Tambo were sent home for participating in a boycott against university policies. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | paul gready |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 134. |
After learning that his guardian had arranged a marriage for him, ............. fled to Johannesburg and worked first as a night watchman and then as a law clerk while completing his bachelor’s degree by correspondence. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | nelson mandela |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | paul gready |
| Answer» B. nelson mandela | |
| 135. |
..............studied law at the University of Witwatersrand, where he became involved in the movement against racial discrimination and forged key relationships with black and white activists. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | nelson mandela |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | karel vasak |
| Answer» B. nelson mandela | |
| 136. |
............... spent the first 18 of his 27 years in jail at the brutal Robben Island Prison, a former leper colony off the coast of Cape Town, where he was confined to a small cell without a bed or plumbing and compelled to do hard labour in a lime quarry. |
| A. | abraham lincoln |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | nelson mandela |
| D. | karel vasak |
| Answer» C. nelson mandela | |
| 137. |
While in confinement Mandela earned a bachelor of law degree from the University of .............. and served as a mentor to his fellow prisoners, encouraging them to seek better treatment through nonviolent resistance. |
| A. | london |
| B. | new delhi |
| C. | amritsar |
| D. | allahabad |
| Answer» A. london | |
| 138. |
.............. drafted his autobiography, “Long Walk to Freedom,” |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | mrs. dadabhoy |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 139. |
In 1980 ............ introduced a “Free Nelson Mandela” campaign that made the jailed leader a household name and fuelled the growing international outcry against South Africa’s racist regime. |
| A. | oliver tambo |
| B. | f. w. de klerk |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | mrs. ambujammal |
| Answer» A. oliver tambo | |
| 140. |
In ............. Mandela was moved to Polls moor Prison on the mainland. |
| A. | 1962 |
| B. | 1972 |
| C. | 1982 |
| D. | 1992 |
| Answer» C. 1982 | |
| 141. |
In 1983, newly elected president ............. lifted the ban on the ANC and called for a nonracist South Africa, breaking with the conservatives in his party. |
| A. | robert e. lee |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | f. w. de klerk |
| D. | ulysses s. grant |
| Answer» C. f. w. de klerk | |
| 142. |
On February 11, 1990, ................ ordered Mandela’s release. |
| A. | f. w. de klerk |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | winfield scott |
| D. | mandela |
| Answer» A. f. w. de klerk | |
| 143. |
..................was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa, with de Klerk serving as his first deputy. |
| A. | mandela |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | robert e. lee |
| D. | ulysses s. grant |
| Answer» A. mandela | |
| 144. |
As president, ........... established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate human rights and political violations committed by both supporters and opponents of apartheid between 1960 and 1994. |
| A. | mandela |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | winfield scott |
| D. | thabo mbeki |
| Answer» A. mandela | |
| 145. |
In 1996 ................. presided over the enactment of a new South African constitution, which established a strong central government based on majority rule and prohibited discrimination against minorities, including whites. |
| A. | abraham lincoln |
| B. | thabo mbeki |
| C. | makgatho |
| D. | mandela |
| Answer» D. mandela | |
| 146. |
Improving race relations, discouraging blacks from retaliating against the white minority and building a new international image of a united South Africa were central to President ......... agenda. |
| A. | mandela’s |
| B. | oliver tambo’s |
| C. | abraham lincoln’s |
| D. | winfield scott’s |
| Answer» A. mandela’s | |
| 147. |
In.............., the United Nations declared July 18 “Nelson Mandela International Day” in recognition of the South African leader’s contributions to democracy, freedom, peace and human rights around the world. |
| A. | 2001 |
| B. | 2002 |
| C. | 2004 |
| D. | 2009 |
| Answer» D. 2009 | |
| 148. |
Nelson Mandela was born July 18, 1918 in the royal lineage of the ..............dynasty. |
| A. | thimbu |
| B. | ulanova |
| C. | romanov |
| D. | mughal |
| Answer» A. thimbu | |
| 149. |
................ continued to study and practice the nonviolent resistance methods of Mahatma Gandhi until the ruling National Party began crushing all opposition. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | abraham lincoln |
| C. | robert e. lee |
| D. | ulysses s. grant |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
| 150. |
A few years later .................. was sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island for his actions against the government. |
| A. | nelson mandela |
| B. | desmond tutu |
| C. | abraham lincoln |
| D. | winfield scott |
| Answer» A. nelson mandela | |
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