Describe the effects of the growth of railroads on American industry, agriculture, and culture in the 1840s and 1850s.
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A) The English invaded New Amsterdam and defeated the troops led by Peter Stuyvesant. B) Dutch merchants decided to negotiate for favorable terms rather than resist the English. C) Greater English settlement in this region permitted settlers to vote out Dutch leadership. D) The Dutch lost to the English in a European war and turned over the colony in peace negotiations.
Who wrote The Other America, which was published in 1962?
A) John Kenneth Galbraith B) John F. Kennedy C) Michael Harrington D) David Riesman
How did the War Production Board support the war effort on the home front?
a. It seized factories of vital war goods, such as automobile pants. b. It outmaneuvered the army and navy’s attempts to negotiate directly with large corporations. c. It allowed business to claim huge tax credits for building new plants in needed industries. d. It encouraged Americans to indulge in pleasure drives to ease home front anxieties.
When property qualifications were removed from voting requirements in most states during the Jackson administration, elites __________
A) disfranchised black men B) continued to allow wealthy black men to vote C) opened the voting process up to black women as well D) allowed American Indians to vote, but not any other ethnic group