Southerners wanted a transcontinental railroad to travel a Southern route for all of the following reasons, EXCEPT:
a. The railroad would channel the flow of gold from California through their region.
b. The railroad would allow new settlement.
c. The railroad would spread cotton agriculture.
d. The railroad would bring badly needed industrial development to the South.
D
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What was one of the major preoccupations of Chinese philosophers of the late Zhou dynasty?
a. To determine the meaning of life b. To determine the finer arts of warfare c. To determine the essential quality of human nature d. To determine how to centralize the empire e. To understand the major tenets of the human consciousness.
Which of the following was an important consequence of the expansion of Turkic peoples throughout Afroeurasia?
A. As Turkic peoples spread across Afroeurasia, they lost much of their cultural distinctiveness and rapidly disappeared as an identifiable group. B. Turkic conquests resulted in an even greater spread of Islam. C. Turkic peoples readily converted to the religion of the lands they invaded and conquered, and as a result, they became an increasingly diverse group. D. The use of infantry again flourished across Afroeurasia as people witnessed the tremendous military victories infantry brought to Turkic clans.
Shortly after the battle of Gettysburg, hundreds of young white men in northern cities __________
A) rushed off to enlist in the Union military B) rioted to protest new draft laws C) rallied around black regiments leaving for war D) registered as Democrats to protest new draft laws
What was the pivotal role of religion in the 1928 election?
A) Most Americans voted for Hoover as the Protestant candidate. B) Most Americans were Catholic immigrants and identified with Smith. C) The Ku Klux Klan supported Hoover because he was Protestant. D) The Roman Catholic Church ordered its faithful to vote for Al Smith. E) Religiously active Protestants refused to participate in this election.