Which of the following is NOT true about muckraking journalists?
A) Teddy Roosevelt coined the term.
B) It referred to the job of raking through the filth at the bottom of American society.
C) It applied to newspaper journalists who were willing to investigate and expose scandal and corruption in society.
D) The journalists routinely focused on corruption with labor unions and amongst the poorest members of society.
Answer: D
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How did the white political and social elite of Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas respond to the issue of how to determine the status of mixed-race children?
A) They automatically classified these children as slaves, regardless of the gender identity of the mother. B) They considered these children of mixed-race parents to be slaves only if the mother was white. C) They exempted a child of mixed race from slavery, if the father of this child was a European slave-owner. D) They made stringent political and social efforts to prohibit sexual relations between white women and males of other races.
According to the text, in his synthesis, the law of universal gravitation brought together
a. the experimental successes of the new science, its mathematical sophistication, and its philosophical revolution. b. the ideas of Aristotle, Copernicus, and Galileo. c. the science of Kepler, Galileo, and Ptolemy. d. Descartes, Christian Neo-Platonism, Newton's mathematical genius, and Kepler. e. Christian Neo-Platonism, Aristotelianism, and Copernicus.
In his first term, President Thomas Jefferson
A. aggressively used the military to assert American interests abroad. B. argued for mandatory military service to mold and improve citizens. C. increased the size of the army. D. increased the size of the navy. E. helped establish a military academy at West Point.
Which of the following laws was passed first?
A) the Sugar Act B) the Townshend Duties C) the Stamp Act D) the Tea Act