All of the following pre Civil War economic issues divided northern from southern interests except which one?
a. a homestead act which would offer free farms in the West
b. federal subsidies for higher education and agriculture
c. tariffs
d. the location of a transcontinental railroad to the Pacific
B
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What did the Jim Crow laws uphold?
a) racial segregation b) class equality c) women’s suffrage d) black civil rights
All of the following is true of Polish anti-Semitism between the wars EXCEPT:
A. Many political groups equated citizenship with Polish ethnicity. B. the Polish government nationalized the matches, salt, tobacco, and alcohol industries and then enacted legislation that discriminated against hiring Jews for these government monopolies. C. laws made it difficult for Jews to observe the Sabbath while keeping their jobs; requiring businesses to be closed on Sunday meant Jewish shops had to close two days of the week. D. government regulations required businesses to display their owners' names prominently, which made it easy for people to avoid Jewish shops. E. Jews were forced to wear distinctive badges on their clothing.
Which of the following enabled fifteenth-century C.E. mariners to routinely navigate roundtrip voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
A. European mariners figured out the wind patterns that govern the Atlantic and Pacific. B. Climatic changes made it safer to travel the Atlantic and Pacific in the fifteenth century C.E. C. Ship builders in the Americas designed and constructed ships capable of making the difficult journey. D. European rulers amassed enough wealth to finance the risky and expensive voyage.
Which of the following best describes Mesoamerica from the first millennium B.C.E.?
A. Though densely populated, the various communities of Mesoamerica interacted little with one another. B. As a result of constant warfare, the region's development was dramatically slowed. C. Though culturally, linguistically, and geographically diverse, Mesoamerica constituted a distinct zone of trade and exchange. D. A single culture prevailed in the region, and as a result, exchange did not lead to greater social complexity.