In the late nineteenth century, the railroads
a. employed more workers than any other industry.
b. established the four standard time zones still used in the United States today.
c. were the major means of transporting people and products across the country.
d. employed unfair pricing practices.
e. all of these choices
e
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Why did Marx?s prediction of world revolution NOT occur?
A) Conditions for workers by 1914 had dramatically improved through their use of the ballot. B) He failed to consider the flexibility of government to reform. C) He failed to recognize the importance of nationalism. D) The income gap between the rich and poor decreased. E) all of the above.
After the Persian Wars, more than 150 city-states organized a confederation known as the ____ to protect themselves against a renewed confrontation with Persia
a. Spartan League b. Delian League c. Hellenic League d. Peloponnesian League e. Periclian League
In the 1858 Abraham Lincoln-Stephen Douglas debates,
A. Lincoln made his case so strongly that he was elected to the Senate. B. Douglas asserted that slavery was legal but not immoral. C. the two men agreed that a civil war over slavery was inevitable. D. Lincoln called for a full and immediate abolition of slavery. E. Lincoln argued slavery was a threat to the growth of white free labor.
The Federalist Papers presented strong and convincing arguments in favor of
A. becoming a federated unit within the British Empire. B. creating a unitary form of government. C. keeping the Articles of Confederation. D. adopting the Constitution of 1787.