What enabled the immigrants to survive in the unfamiliar American environment?
What will be an ideal response?
Most students will see how the creation of an immigrant community was central to immigrants' survival. But they should also note two other factors discussed by the text. City bosses made it their business to look out for the poor at a time when the formal institutions of government did very little for them. Settlement houses were also a means for improving the life of immigrants.
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Which of the following statements about British attempts to turn slave rebelliousness into a strategic advantage is the most accurate?
A. British leaders successfully turned former slaves into a black army of 10,000. B. In attempts to gain loyalties, British leaders created a sanctuary for black loyalists on the southeastern coast. C. British leaders did not think that organizing support among African Americans would be effective. D. The British helped organize the largest slave revolt in history.
The attitudes and public behavior in America immediately after the end of the war have been given the label
A. the "Great Euphoria." B. the "Red Scare." C. the "New World Order." D. "normalcy."
One reason the American Federation of Labor (AFL) was successful was that this organization
(a) focused on the needs of skilled workers (b) rejected the use of strikes and boycotts (c) ended the use of blacklists by employers (d) called for government ownership of industry
Which of the following statements most appropriately describes the ideology of Manichaeism:
A. To achieve salvation, one must substitute action with rhetoric. B. To achieve salvation, humans must want to reach the realm of light and abandon all physical desires. C. The world exists in perfect harmony and it is only when we are in tune with this harmony that we are at peace. D. To achieve salvation, one must substitute contemplation with action. E. To consume oneself with that which is corporeal is to give meaning to one's existence.