Which topic is likely to be stressed by a New Western historian such as Patricia Nelson Limerick in her 1987 book The Legacy of Conquest: The Unbroken Past of the American West?
A) the traditional frontier heroes
B) the savagery of Native Americans
C) the settlers' triumphs over obstacles in the West
D) the diversity of the West
D
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How does Jessie Willcox Smith's illustration from her 1909 book The Seven Ages of Childhood contradict what working-class children between the ages of 10 through 15 were experiencing in the early twentieth century?
A) Health rates for young children were essentially better than what is illustrated in this image. B) Children like the five-year-old in the picture actually spent more time in school than at home. C) Children had healthier dietary habits that went beyond eating bowls of porridge. D) Over 1.75 million children were working in factories, home sweatshops, or farms at this time.
By the end of the 1980s, all of the following were contributing to dissent in China except
a. fear of American nuclear attack. b. economic inflation which was reducing the real wages of salaried workers. c. student demands for greater democracy. d. concern about the Communist Party's aging leadership. e. widespread corruption and nepotism among Communist Party leaders.
The South was an important part of the national railroad network.
Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)
The first Americans who crossed the Bering Strait were ________ who had no fixed home and who continued to migrate southward and spread out through the continent.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).