Discuss the expansion of America's railroad system in the late nineteenth century, and examine the impact of this expansion on the American economy and on American concepts of time and space.
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Margaret Sanger is most well-known as
A) an actress in the first "talking picture" show.
B) an advocate for birth control.
C) an author who described the hypocrisy of small town America.
D) one of the first suffragettes.
What does the graffiti-filled image of the western side of the Berlin Wall that is shown in the lower right corner reveal about the residents of West Berlin?
A) their desire to maintain the wall B) their anger and irreverence toward the wall C) their playfulness with and acceptance of the wall D) their fear and desperation about the wall
When, in April 1941, a black soldier was found hanging from a tree with his hands tied behind his back military authorities suggested it was:
A) the work of saboteurs. B) a suicide. C) the work of the Ku Klux Klan. D) deserved for insubordination.
By 5000 B.C.E. what was the major staple crop of south China south in the Yangzi Basin?
a. millet b. wheat c. pears d. apricots e. rice