What two opposing issues were used by prosecutors and defenders of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in trying to prove their guilt or innocence regarding the robbery and murder of a Massachusetts payroll guard in 1920?
A) communism versus striking on the job
B) temperance versus alcoholism
C) terrorism versus xenophobia
D) organized crime versus anarchy
C
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President Lincoln's 10 percent plan for Reconstruction
A) required each former Confederate state to produce a constitution outlawing slavery. B) demanded provisions for voting rights for African Americans. C) required former Confederates to admit to the illegality of secession. D) barred former Confederate high officials from future voting or officeholding.
National elections between 1856 and 1912 were characterized by
A) close elections mostly won by the Democrats. B) close elections mostly won by the Republicans. C) contests easily won by the Democrats. D) close elections with an even balance of power.
The upper classes in the late nineteenth century included all of the following EXCEPT
A) the landed aristocracy. B) the professional classes, including lawyers, doctors, and engineers. C) the upper middle classes. D) wealthy upper middle classes. E) industrial plutocrats.
Erasmus Darwin and Charles Lyell both
a. demonstrated that the earth was far older than the Biblical account of creation suggested. b. provided funding for Charles Darwin's voyage on the Beagle. c. attempted to calculate the age of the earth based on radiocarbon dating. d. were Anglican clergymen. e. proved mathematically the circumference of the earth.