Why did Walt Whitman write about American westward expansion?
A) He saw it as courageous progress.
B) He detested Native Americans.
C) He found it to be a huge injustice.
D) He felt the western lands should belong to Mexico.
A
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Compare and contrast the images of the Catholic baroque church with the open Bible and raised pulpit at the Protestant church. What explains the differences in style? What is the rationale behind each?
What will be an ideal response?
Emboldened by the election of President Ulysses Grant, who supported the Congressional Reconstruction agenda, Congress passed the Fifteenth Amendment that
A. extended voting rights to women and Native Americans. B. stated that the right to vote could not be denied on the basis of "race, color, or previous state of servitude." C. ordered the president to enforce the right to vote for all male citizens. D. allowed the federal government to limit the right to vote, but not the states.
Faced with a shortage of adult men, New England mill owners turned to __________
A) women and children B) the elderly C) slaves D) recent immigrants
How did the Constitution of 1791 address the grievances that the Third Estate had with the Old Regime? Which aspects of the constitution were revolutionary, and which preserved traditional Old Regime values?
What will be an ideal response?