The most significant technical innovation of the nineteenth century was __________
A) Kodak cameras
B) oil
C) automobiles
D) railroads
E) steamships
Answer: D
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Which of the following statements concerning the first transcontinental railroad is true?
A) It was financed entirely by private capital, with no government subsidy. B) It was built primarily with forced labor of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Comanche prisoners of war and black slaves. C) It was completed in 1869 with the joining of the Union Pacific and Central tracks in Utah. D) It was a patchwork of short state railroads, built with little thought to transcontinental connections. E) It was chartered originally by the Confederacy in its hopes to take over the West and then continued by the Union after the South's defeat.
Most southern farmers owned at least one slave
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
The Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson attracted
a. a coalition of wealthy merchants and landed gentry in all regions. b. former Federalists c. Free-Soilers d. those who favored a national government e. Southerners, Westerners, and Northern urban workers
In the late nineteenth century, leisure activities tended to be divided by
A. class. B. race. C. both race and gender. D. gender. E. All these answers are correct.