A shortage of workers in california forced the central pacific railroad to hire about 10,000 workers from?
a. japan
b. ireland
c. mexico
d. china
Ans: d. china
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In the course of his campaign against Stephen Douglas in 1858, Abraham Lincoln declared all of the following except
A) Congress had no constitutional authority to abolish slavery in the South. B) Social and political equality between blacks and whites was not desirable. C) The Dred Scott decision rendered popular sovereignty "as thin as soup boiled from the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death." D) This nation cannot exist permanently half slave and half free. E) The best way to preserve the Union was to ensure that slavery was legal in all states, North and South.
Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations proved there were 205 communists in the State Department.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Which of the following best describes China's path to modernization before the May Fourth Movement?
a. China lacked key preconditions, such as high levels of literacy. b. China's Confucian ruling ideology blocked Westernization. c. China modernized more rapidly than Japan because of its capacity to assimilate. d. China followed a separate, non-Western path to modernization.
Do you believe slavery was the most important factor in shaping southern society? If so, explain why, especially since only one-third of southerners were African American and only one-quarter of southern whites owned slaves or were members of slave-owning families. If you do not believe slavery was the most important factor shaping southern society, what factor was (or factors were) more important?
What will be an ideal response?