Britain's New Poor Law of 1834 established workhouses for the unemployed where the living conditions were designed to be intentionally miserable and cruel so that people would be encouraged to leave the workhouse and find employment
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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All of the following statements about American propaganda during the war are true EXCEPT which one?
a. The government was successful at soliciting participation in scrap drives. b. The Germans were uniformly portrayed as being more inherently evil than the Japanese. c. Fictional radio characters such as Hop Harrigan fought the Axis powers in their shows. d. The most successful war movies dramatized the courage of the Allies.
Examine Map 5-2. Why does it illustrate only battles east of the Mississippi River? What does the map indicate in general about the geographical nature of the War of 1812?
What will be an ideal response?
White hostility to Chinese immigrants was rooted in the perception that they were lazy.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
What advice did Secretary of State William H. Seward give Lincoln about emancipation?
A) to give up on the idea entirely B) to move toward emancipation as quickly as possible C) to wait until the Union had won an important military victory D) to wait until the 1864 election