During the war, minorities in the United States
A. avoided getting involved in the war effort as much as they could.
B. enlisted to become a part of the American mainstream.
C. overcame racial prejudice in the army, which was desegregated at the outset of the war.
D. enlisted in high numbers to avoid being sent to internment camps.
Answer: B
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a. American officials censored all television coverage of the war. b. the Republican Party overwhelmingly opposed the war. c. President Johnson decided to withdraw all American troops from Vietnam. d. advisers told Lyndon Johnson that the war was not winnable in traditional American terms.
What were the political positions and implications that emerged from the different reactions to industrialization?
What will be an ideal response?
The Morrill Land Grant Act, passed during the Civil War in 1862, was important in that it
a. set aside land in Kansas on which freed slaves could build a community b. provided the states with federal land on which they were to build public colleges c. provided land to widows of fallen Union soldiers d. granted railroad companies wide swaths of land on which they were to build new rail lines e. set aside of millions of acres in southern states for national forests and national parks
The "spoils system" refers to
A. giving out jobs as political rewards. B. giving away land taken from Indians to white settlers. C. parceling out federal land to the highest bidder. D. making illegal payoffs to political supporters. E. the destruction of land by overly aggressive settlement.