How did Rutherford B. Hayes demonstrate his sympathy for civil service reform?
A) He created the Civil Service Commission.
B) He fired Chester A. Arthur after charges of corruption.
C) He embraced the platform of the Mugwumps.
D) He refused to appoint people who had aided his campaign.
Answer: B
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When in 1619, John Rolfe, a Jamestown tobacco farmer, made a purchase of 20 African slaves in exchange for food supplies to the Dutch it marked
A) the actual introduction of slavery in what is now the United States. B) the beginning of a period until 1680 when slavery, though still difficult, was less harsh and hopeless than it became after 1680. C) the cessation of Virginia land owners using captured Indians as slaves. D) an anomaly of Dutch involvement in the slave trade.
The English founded colonies in North America for all of the following reasons except the desire
a. for religious liberty. b. to gain riches from farming and trade. c. to provide refuge for debtors. d. to convert Native Americans.
Which of the following statements is NOT true of Homo erectus?
A. They produced cleavers and hand axes. B. They walked upright on two legs. C. They knew how to control fire. D. They developed language skills that enabled them to communicate complex ideas. E. They had brains roughly the same size as those of modern humans.
The cold war came closest to becoming a nuclear war during the
A) Cuban Missile Crisis. B) erection of the Berlin Wall. C) Prague Spring. D) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. E) Hungarian Revolt.