President Grover Cleveland responded to the 1894 Pullman strike by _______________.
A. offering to serve as a mediator
B. remaining uninvolved and doing nothing
C. intervening on the side of labor
D. intervening on the side of management
Answer: D
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A. He wanted to focus on the civil war in Russia. B. He wanted to divest Russia of the capitalist means of production. C. He was sure that the revolution would eventually universalize all lands anyway. D. He believed it was the only means by which Socialists could survive in Russia. E. Trotsky said that it was the best Russia could do.
Under the leadership of Sir Edwin Sandys, the Virginia Company attempted to encourage migration to Virginia by all of the following means EXCEPT
A) providing settlers representation in a locally elected assembly. B) granting settlers private ownership of land to enhance their economic opportunity. C) initiating martial law to guarantee settlers social order and security. D) modifying the contract labor system.
The Ostend Manifesto
a. demanded that Spain sell Florida to the United States b. was the formal agreement handing over the Louisiana Territory to the United States c. set the boundary between Canada and the United States d. denounced the annexation of Texas e. threatened a U.S.-supported revolution in Cuba if Spain would not sell the island to the United States
When he ascended to the presidency in 1865, Andrew Johnson
a. extended pardons to thousands of Confederates. b. used his executive powers to punish the plantation elite whom he blamed for the Civil War. c. became a staunch champion of freedpeople’s political and civil rights. d. signed into law the Wade-Davis Bill which Lincoln had earlier rejected.