How accurate is the image of the West as a land free from the curse of eastern industrial technology?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Not accurate at all! Students should point to a wide variety of ways that technology enabled whites to settle the West. Without metallurgical techniques, there could not have been a mining industry. Farming came to rely on eastern technology (to say nothing of eastern financing). Without barbed wire and the railroad, there could not have been a cattle industry.
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A) nonexistent B) based on land monopoly C) based on economic rank D) similar to European aristocracy
Which of the following was the site of an American victory in the Revolutionary War?
a) Trenton b) Brandywine c) White Plains d) Quebec
The field of study required for government service in China?s Han Dynasty was based on
A) history. B) science. C) military science. D) Buddhism. E) Confucianism.
The first American medical school was established at
A. the University of North Carolina. B. Columbia. C. the University of Pennsylvania. D. William and Mary. E. Harvard.