Horace Greeley told New York City’s unemployed: “If you strike off into the broad, free West, and make yourself a farm from Uncle Sam’s generous domain, you will crowd nobody, starve nobody, and neither you nor your children need evermore beg for something to do.” Which of the following acts could Greeley cite to support his statement?
a) Homestead Act of 1862
b) Chinese Exclusion Act
c) Dawes Severalty Act
d) Newlands Act
a) Homestead Act of 1862
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What did workingmen's parties advocate during the antebellum era?
A) free schools B) tax-supported education C) free public lands in the West D) all of the above.
Teddy Roosevelt won the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1900 mainly because
a. his progressivism balanced McKinley's conservatism. b. New York political bosses wanted him out as governor. c. as a New Yorker he would balance the Midwestern McKinley. d. Mark Hanna thought his "cowboy" image would add excitement to the ticket. e. he would be able to hold his own in debates with William Jennings Bryan.
After the Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus was deposed, the
a. emphasis in western Europe was on local rule. b. gothic tribes formed a political alliance. c. former provinces of the Roman Empire were run by legion commanders. d. infrastructure was lost. e. church stepped in to rule instead of the imperial senate.
The "California lifestyle" that developed during the 1950s and 1960s
a. encouraged women to work outside of the home. b. envisioned racially integrated suburban housing developments. c. promoted consumption as leisure. d. developed from the growing environmental consciousness of postwar Californians.