Reflecting the growing involvement of African Americans in wage labor jobs, Maggie Lena Walker opened the country’s first black __________ in Richmond
a) bank
b) school
c) railroad
d) factory
Answer: a
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A. isolationist B. imperialist C. interventionist D. economic import market
Which of the following is an accurate generalization about health and sanitation at the Civil War battlefront?
A) Neither the Union nor the Confederate government devoted much energy to sanitary measures in hospitals. B) Because of the large number of volunteer nurses in northern hospitals, army camps were free from typhoid, malaria, diarrhea, and dysentery. C) Although the ratio of disease to battle deaths was much better than during the Mexican War, two-thirds of deaths came from disease rather than battle wounds. D) Health conditions at the battlefront were so horrific that women were prohibited from coming within five miles of battlefields. E) None of these choices
After the British prohibited slavery in _______, Ashante merchants in West Africa switched to providing commodities that were in great demand in industrializing Britain.
a. 1863. b. 1796. c. 1807. d. 1832.
The British Calico Acts of 1720 and 1721
A. prohibited the importation of cotton cloth. B. restricted British importation of cotton cloth to the Americas. C. required that a corpse be buried in a cotton shroud. D. encouraged the importation of printed cotton cloth in an effort to boost British trade. E. showed favoritism to cotton producers over wool producers.