Before 1860, about three-fourths of all the money invested in railroads came from
A) private investors.
B) state governments.
C) municipal governments.
D) direct congressional appropriations.
A
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What two traditional "containers" of monarchy were put on the defensive after the Black Death?
A. the landed nobility and the church B. the church and the townspeople C. universities and landed nobility D. the peasantry and rural priests
In late nineteenth-century cities,
A) immigrants quickly abandoned their traditions for American customs. B) middle-class professionals lived alongside poor laborers. C) ethnic groups tended to live together in their own communities. D) the most successful immigrants were those who left their communities. E) people from different ethnic groups almost never encountered each other.
With regard to trade in the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ming government
A. opened all of its ports to Afroeurasian merchants. B. enforced policies that restricted Chinese participation in international trade. C. diverted public resources from defense of land to maritime defense. D. openly sought trade relationships, especially with the Japanese.
Advocating romantic and aggressive nationalism and trying to ignore slavery, which group claimed Franklin Pierce as their most prominent member?
a. Know-Nothings b. Cotton Whigs c. Young America d. Conscience Whigs