Southerners responded to Preston Brooks's beating of Charles Sumner by:
a. threatening to pull their congressional delegation out of Washington if Brooks was not thrown out of Congress.
b. calling for his defeat in the next congressional election.
c. sending Brooks thousands of canes.
d. creating a fund to pay Brooks's legal expenses.
C
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A) Russia and the Ukraine. B) Serbia and Bosnia. C) Israel and the Palestinians. D) Iran and Iraq.
Unskilled workers were unaffected by the growth of unions during the New Deal
A) True B) False
Which of the following statements about upward mobility in the late nineteenth century is the most accurate?
A) Andrew Carnegie's rise from poverty to colossal wealth was typical of the opportunities open to immigrants in America. B) Few industrial leaders came from the privileged classes because they were too soft to make it in the world of competitive capitalism. C) Skilled workers had few opportunities to rise to the top in small companies. D) Immigrants who got ahead in the late nineteenth century were more likely to go from rags to respectability than from rags to riches. E) Middle class Americans tended to slide downward more often than rise upward in socio-economic rank.
Which one of the following is LEAST related to the other four?
a. scalawags b. Ku Klux Klan c. carpetbagger d. freedmen e. Union League