The samurai
a. were a hereditary warrior class in medieval Japan recruited in Manchuria and Siberia.
b. were similar medieval European knights.
c. were the oath-pledged military retainers of the shogun, constituting a formal national army.
d. took oaths of poverty, chastity and obedience before their formal investiture.
e. were recruited from the peasant class.
b
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a) railroads b) canals c) steamboats d) reapers
In 1830, the population per square mile had reached 18 in every east coast state or territory except:
A) Maine. B) Virginia. C) Georgia. D) Florida.
The consequences of the Cuban missile crisis included
a. a nuclear test-ban treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. b. a Vienna summit meeting between President Kennedy and Chairman Khrushchev. c. the installation of a Moscow-Washington hot line for crisis communication. d. a massive military arms-building program in the Soviet Union. e. the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.
The Ford Motor Company paid male workers $5.00 per day, considered a “family wage,” if their wives did not work for money inside or outside the family. What was the motivation for this economic arrangement?
a. Male-dominated unions negotiated this pay so their wives could stay home and take care of the family. b. The legislature passed a “family wage” for industry to improve the quality of life of factory workers. c. Ford enacted this policy to reduce this turnover and lessen the threat of unionization. d. Religious groups pressured Ford to protect the traditional family.