Describe the lives of most free blacks in the South and how they changed over the half-century leading up to the Civil War.
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Which of the following was true of the construction of the transcontinental railroad?
a. Chinese workers did some of the most difficult and dangerous work. b. One railroad company was responsible for the whole project. c. Private investors paid for the whole project. d. It was a financial failure.
By 2009, social welfare spending in France consumed what percent of the GDP?
a. 10 percent b. 20 percent c. 30 percent d. 40 percent e. 50 percent
White (Anglo) Texans justified slavery for all of the following reasons except one. Which argument did they not use?
A. Texas needed a large, dependent labor force in order to develop a prosperous economy. B. Since all of the northern states except Massachusetts also recognized slavery, there was nothing wrong with the institution. C. Slaves were an inferior, childlike people destined for servitude. D. The Bible upheld slavery. .
The first to speak in their own slang, which came and went out of circulation quickly, were
A. gangsters. B. middle-class people. C. African Americans. D. the new "youth" generation.