How would one BEST describe the greeting by the Native Americans on Manhattan after Giovanni da Verrazano sailed into New York harbor in 1524?
A) welcoming and admiring
B) hostile and violent
C) indifferent and stand-offish
D) fearful and wary
Answer: A
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During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following EXCEPT:
a. farmers. b. the white supremacist South. c. the business elite. d. industrial workers. e. northern African-Americans.
The ritual of singing songs such as Deutschland Über Alles ("Germany Over All") and Rule Britannia in schools suggests that the purpose of public education was to
A) encourage critical thinking B) provide vocational training C) foster an independent spirit D) cultivate loyalty to the nation
What debates emerged over gender identity and the environment?
What will be an ideal response?
In the context of the war with Mexico, leading intellectuals such as Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, and William Lloyd Garrison:
A) opposed the war on the grounds that it would perpetuate slavery. B) supported the war because they thought America would lose and the support for slavery in America would slowly die out. C) supported the war because they thought that America needed the land, but they feared that slavery would expand even further. D) opposed the war on strategic, political grounds. E) opposed the war because they believed the United States did not have the economic resources to sustain such a war.