The British had started building a canal across Panama before turning the job over to the United States.
a. true
b. false
Ans: b. false
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A) used in a free-labor experiment to grow cotton for the North. B) used to establish black communities. C) a model for the re-establishment of white control after the war. D) systematically destroyed by invading Union armies.
The Greek dramatist who was a realist and known for his portrayal of realistic characters in real life situations was
A) Aeschylus. B) Hesiod. C) Aristophanes. D) Sophocles. E) Euripides.
Women who worked in the early factories of the Industrial Revolution
A) were given the same pay as men. B) instigated dramatic change in pre-industrial kinship patterns. C) never represented a large percentage of the workers in textile factories. D) did not result in a significant transformation in female working patterns. E) increased their social status.
The Ottoman-Habsburg struggle of the sixteenth century can be seen as yet another chapter in the long history of competition that began when the _________Empire expanded into the Mediterranean and was resisted by the Greeks in the middle of the first millennium B.C.E.
a. Neo-Babylonian b. Neo-Assyrian c. Sasanid Persian d. Achaemenid Persian