Who was the president of the Bank of the United States and Andrew Jackson’s chief opponent in the “bank war”?
A) Henry Clay
B) John C. Calhoun
C) Francis B. Blair
D) Nicholas Biddle
E) John Jacob Astor
Answer: D
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Why did some immigrants resist the settlement house movement?
a. They did not trust organizations that were headed by women. b. They felt that settlement houses kept them segregated from the rest of society. c. They did not want their children educated by Americans. d. They did not want other people to tell them how to live and act. e. They believed that living in a settlement house would never get them out of poverty.
Comparing and contrasting McKinley and Bryan in the election of 1896,
A) Bryan was pragmatic, while McKinley was an uncompromising idealist. B) McKinley looked toward an idealized rural past, but Bryan welcomed revolutionary forces of the next century. C) Bryan's approach was parochial, whereas McKinley's was national. D) Bryan's approach was national, whereas McKinley's was parochial.
By 1557, the Portuguese had wrested the first European colony from the Chinese at _________, and they held it until 1999.
a. Hong Kong. b. Guangzhou. c. Formosa. d. Macau.
During the early 1920s, the United States became the:
A) worst hit victim of the Great Depression. B) first nation to develop a nuclear weapon. C) largest producer of steel and iron. D) wealthiest nation in the world. E) only nation to provide citizenship to immigrants.