The two primary competing dynasties during the seventh and eighth centuries were the
a. Mu'awiya and the Abbasid.
b. ulama and the Umayyad.
c. Abbasid and the Umayyad.
d. Mu'awiya and the Umayyad.
c
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Columbus was obsessed with the idea of voyaging west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach __________.
a. Siam b. China c. Australia d. India
For which of the following reasons did many women face powerful pressures to leave the workforce and return to a domestic life?
A) to give up their jobs to veterans B) to give up their jobs to immigrants from Latin America C) to provide work for refugees from Europe D) to volunteer for postwar service organizations
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) attempted to solve the "farm problem" by
a. paying farmers to reduce their production and thus raise prices. b. providing federal loans based on crops held in storage. c. offering incentives for farmers to switch to more lucrative crops. d. encouraging poorer farmers to migrate to California and the West. e. creating farm marketing cooperatives.
In the 1820s and 1830s, railroads
A. saw their greatest development in the southern slave states. B. had not yet been constructed in America. C. became the dominant form of transportation in the nation. D. played a relatively small role in the nation's transportation system. E. standardized both the gauge of tracks and timetables.