While the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956 helped both the automobile and construction industries, it hurt __________
A) mass transit systems and older cities
B) the trucking industries
C) suburban development
D) farming communities
Answer: A
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What made the 1970 killings of four students who were protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia at Kent State University so ironic?
A) Americans feared that a war undertaken to protect American democracy was instead of destroying it. B) The four victims had just been drafted to go serve in Vietnam and Cambodia. C) Nixon had recently called the student protestors such as those at Kent State "bums blowing up campuses" while the public perceived them as martyrs. D) The Kent State shootings unmasked the "town and gown" divide that resulted in counterprotests to support the war.
This brief biography of the African American poet Phillis Wheatley, which was published by the Boston Tract Society, was mainly done to __________
A) instill pride in African American students by focusing on black achievements B) teach both white and black students about prominent African Americans C) show Southern black children that slavery was beneficial D) demonstrate that women also played an important role in history
For each historical identification question, define the term and briefly describe its historical significance. Renaissance humanism
What will be an ideal response?
The first example of the factory system in the United States was the work of
a. Samuel F.B Morse b. Eli Whitney c. Francis Cabot Lowell d. Samuel Colt e. Robert Fulton