The San Francisco Stock Exchange was established in 1862 in response to
a. the need to raise capital for mining companies.
b. the need for Americans to raise money to finance their court challenges to Californio land grant titles.
c. the increasing cost of the Civil War which Californians were helping to pay for.
d. Californians' large investments in the Nevada silver mining boom.
a
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The authors conclude that the new activism of women in the 1890s had not yet come to grips
with A) the Depression. B) the failure of the temperance movement. C) continuing racism. D) their newly acquired power.
Which of these countries was most divided by ethnic differences?
A) Germany B) Austria C) Britain D) Poland
Hideyoshi expelled missionaries from his domain in 1587 because the missionaries were
a. supportive of the emperor rather than the shogun. b. selling indulgences. c. destroying local Christian religious shrines. d. interfering in local Japanese political matters. e. from France, whose revolutionary tradition was a concern to the shogun.
The most noteworthy southern novelist before the Civil War who wrote works such as The Yemasee and The Cassique of Kiawah was
a. William Gilmore Simms. b. John C. Calhoun. c. James Russell Lowell. d. Dr Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. e. William Faulkner.