Which of the following was true of the underground railroad?
A) It was operated by a single organization.
B) It was created in the 1790s.
C) It was run entirely by African Americans.
D) Most escaped slaves did not use it.
Answer: D
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a. a member of the social elite b. from an upwardly mobile family c. a religious freethinker d. fully committed to violent revolution
The Children's Bureau can be seen as a victory of
A) industrial organization. B) state legislation. C) strike action. D) maternalism.
What does this image of the western side of the Berlin Wall reveal about the residents of West Berlin?
A) their desire to maintain the wall B) their fear and desperation about the wall C) their playfulness with and acceptance of the wall D) their anger and irreverence toward the wall E) their attempts to fortify the wall
According to the principle of "popular sovereignty," the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by
a. the state legislature after a territory was admitted to the Union. b. a national referendum of the Electoral College. c. congressional legislation. d. the Supreme Court. e. the vote of the people in the given territory.