Literacy rates among eighteenth-century colonists were __________.

A) high relative to the rest of the world
B) low relative to the rest of the world
C) lower than those witnessed during the seventeenth century
D) declining among women


Ans: A) high relative to the rest of the world

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In the 1928 presidential election, an American who voted for the Democratic candidate Al Smith most likely __________.

a)  opposed Prohibition b)  feared the pope c)  detested Tammany Hall d)  hated big-city politics

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The escaped slave had no rights and no guarantee of __________ (the legal requirement that a person be brought before a court and not imprisoned illegally)

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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In his bid for the presidency in 1912, Eugene Debs proposed

A) ?? collective ownership of large industries, banks and transportation systems. B) ?? a stronger Interstate Commerce Commission. C) ?? environmental conservation and reform. D) ?? the end of a graduated income tax. E) ?? All of these choices

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Compare and contrast the lives of women in the working class of the industrial Northeast with the lives of pioneer women of the Great Plains. If you had to choose, which life would you have preferred?

What will be an ideal response?

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