The term "Great Migration" refers to the __________
A) thousands of Mexicans who entered the United States across the Rio Grande River
B) mass movement of American blacks from the rural South to the urban North
C) recruitment of Jewish workers by agents of American industrialists
D) westward expansion of ethnic workers from eastern and southern Europe
Answer: B
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A) battle line in eastern Europe and the Balkans. B) deadly territory between opposing trenches. C) killing field around Verdun. D) German route of invasion through Belgium. E) peninsula of Gallipoli.
By 1900, one of the three American territories in the contiguous United States that had NOT been granted statehood was
A. Nebraska. B. Arizona. C. South Dakota. D. Colorado. E. Utah.
The Bill of Rights ratified by the new United States guaranteed
A) freedom of religion. B) a prohibition of against firearms except by soldiers and officers of justice. C) the end of the slave trade but did not free slaves already in America. D) trials managed only by trained, professional judges, educated with a university degree. E) All of these are correct.
Le Bon's work on crowds had a political subtext, namely that
a. crowds could form the basis for an anarcho-syndicalist government. b. crowds could be manipulated to overthrow bourgeois governments. c. the masses were incapable of governing themselves. d. the behavior of crowds showed the power of reason. e. individualism needs to be revived.