Agrarian reform during the governments of Obregón and Calles was designed to
A) destroy the latifundio and radically redistribute land to the landless.
B) relieve peasant discontent without damaging the interests of large landowners.
C) promote the expansion of peasant subsistence agriculture.
D) satisfy the revolutionary demands of Emiliano Zapata.
B
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In objecting to the Sugar Act, James Otis was one of the first to use which phrase?
A) "Give me liberty or give me death!" B) "All men are created equal." C) "Taxation without representation is tyranny." D) "God helps those who help themselves."
Why did slavery emerge as a national political issue in the late 1840s?
What will be an ideal response?
The massacre at Rock Springs, Wyoming, in 1885 is evidence of which of the following? a. Miners and railway workers in the American West often reacted with violence against newly hired Hispanicworkers
b. Labor strikes often led to disorder and violence in mining communities in the American West in the latenineteenth century. c. Discrimination against African Americans was just as prevalent in the American West as in the South duringthe late nineteenth century. d. Racist attitudes against Chinese immigrants were prevalent in the American West in the late nineteenthcentury.
As a result of the Sedition Acts,
a. illegal immigrants were deported. b. newspaper editors critical of the Adams administration were indicted, tried, convicted, and sent to jail. c. many Americans, staging political protests, found their Constitutional right to peaceful assembly was violated. d. the nation implemented its first military draft. e. citizens' rights to trial by jury were suspended.