The Hampton Roads Conference in 1865 failed because:
A) Lincoln refused to meet any Confederate representatives.
B) Davis would accept nothing short of Southern independence.
C) Lincoln refused compensation for slave owners after emancipation.
D) Lee's victory at Cold Harbor led Lincoln to cancel the conference.
Answer: B
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A. The United States repeatedly rebuffed British attempts to create a more cordial relationship. B. The two nations always seemed to be on the verge of war. C. Great Britain's bluff and bluster caused irreversible damage to the relationship between the two nations. D. The two nations slowly concluded that the interests of both could best be served by warmer relations.
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A) It forbade discrimination by race in defense industries. B) It forbade discrimination by gender in the armed forces. C) It officially desegregated the armed forces. D) It forbade discrimination by race or gender in defense industries.
For Sophist philosophers, the most important aspect of knowledge was
a. creating the strongest argument through rhetoric b. using analysis to understand the way the universe works. c. pay attention to higher issues of "right" and "wrong" d. being able to see the ideal form e. allowing due credit to the gods.
Rural America
A. saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than 2 percent in the 1950s. B. lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone. C. saw the South increase plantings of cotton as a cash crop in the 1950s. D. both lost 10 percent of its population in 1956 alone, and saw its percentage of the national income drop to less than two percent within the decade of the 1950s. E. All these answers are correct.