A dramatic rise in __________ was the immediate result of advances in public education during the late nineteenth century.
A. literacy
B. income
C. life expectancy
D. the marriage age
Answer: A
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A. ships. B. wagons. C. iron rails. D. automobiles. E. mining.
What resulted from the violence of such groups as the Ku Klux Klan?
A) Alarmed Southerners kept the Republican Party in office. B) Wealthy Southerners were alienated from poor whites. C) African Americans were discouraged from voting. D) Carpetbaggers were inspired to move South to protect African Americans. E) The Supreme Court ruled that the suppression of such groups was unconstitutional.
What change took place in Rome after the Punic Wars?
A) The military commanders came to be elected rather than appointed. B) Rome began a military conquest to the East. C) The Senate took firmer control of Rome and its military. D) The plebeians began to join the military in large numbers. E) The members of the Senate took over military strategy.
An important consequence of Coronado's expedition was that __________
A) Spain established agricultural settlements in the Southwest B) Spanish cattle herders settled in Colorado C) Spain lost interest in settling the Southwest for fifty years D) Poor Spanish peasants were encouraged to settle in the Southwest