Farmers in the Ohio River valley gained the greatest economic benefit when the United States acquired the
(a) Oregon Territory
(b) Gadsden Purchase
(c) Louisiana Territory
(d) Mexican Cession
Answer: (c) Louisiana Territory
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a. Great Society b. New Deal c. Fair Deal d. New Frontier e. Camelot Era
Using the strategy of horizontal integration, ________ achieved a near monopoly of the oil industry in late nineteenth-century America
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The Inquisition found Galileo guilty of teaching condemned ideas and sentenced him
A) to be burned at the stake. B) to serve as a galley slave on a Mediterranean shipping vessel. C) to five years of hard labor in prison. D) to write a tract in support of the Ptolemaic conception of the universe. E) to house arrest.
Unlike the American Federation of Labor, the Knights of Labor:
A) proposed company unions. B) organized only skilled workers. C) embraced the American wage system. D) welcomed most workers into its ranks.