In order to fund irrigation projects in arid regions of the western United States, which federal law was passed in 1902?
a. the Aldrich-Vreeland Act
b. the Inland Waterways Act
c. the National Reclamations Act
Ans: c. the National Reclamations Act
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a. There were more jobs available, so more people had resources. b. Agricultural improvements led to a greater supply of food. c. Scientific advances in medicine resulted in a lower mortality rate from disease or infection. d. Life in cities was safer than in the countryside because of the lower rate of accidental deaths and the presence of policemen and fire departments.
How did the Sauk and Fox tribes respond to the planned eviction of Native Americans from their homelands under the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
a. They appealed to Congress to let them stay where they were. b. They resisted and were crushed by federal troops. c. They tried to assimilate into white society. d. They took their case to the state and later U.S. Supreme Court. e. They led a violent assault on Washington D.C.
As governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt
a. was one of the few governors to mobilize his state's limited resources to help the unemployed and poor. b. tended to withdraw from the public. c. followed a conservative budget policy that made any deficit impossible. d. transformed the state's and the states' residents economic and political outlook forever.
In 1860, the typical white male American of the Old Northwest (today's Midwest) was
A. the owner of a family farm. B. a farmhand who did not own his own land. C. a marginal farmer. D. an industrial worker. E. an urban artisan.