Which of the following statements best describes higher education in California during the Gilded Age?
a. The University of California was the first university in the state, funded under the 1862 Morrill Act.
b. In California, more of the early colleges admitted women than in the rest of the nation.
c. While religious organizations played an important role in starting colleges in the rest of the nation, they had very little role in the more secular California.
d. While private, Stanford University trained most of California's teachers in this era.
b
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A. called themselves the Babylonians. B. spoke the now-lost language of the Kassites. C. adopted the horse chariot from Harappan culture in Indus River valley. D. mocked the agricultural activities of the indigenous population in the Indus River valley as unfitting a person of honor. E. mastered the use of plows with iron blades, which transformed the agrarian base of South Asia.
________ was considered to be the ablest king in Macedonian history
Fill in the blank with correct word.
As suffrage was extended to working class males
a. the working classes in Europe organized political parties of their own. b. the working classes in the United States backed already existing parties. c. mainstream Marxist parties remained faithful to the goal of a socialist revolution. d. revisionist Marxist parties argued that the ballot box, not a violent revolution, will end capitalism. e. all of the above