Which nineteenth-century novelist described the coal towns as a place "where the struggling vegetation sickened and sank under the hot breath of kiln and furnace"?
a. Gustav Flaubert
b. Emile Zola
c. Herman Melville
d. Charles Dickens
e. George Eliot
d
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The second Ku Klux Klan was joined by as many as __________________ men and women
A) ?1 million B) ?3 million C) ?5 million D) 10 million? E) ?20 million
In the postwar South
a. the economy and social structure was utterly devastated. b. the emancipation of slaves had surprisingly little economic consequence. c. the much-feared inflation never materialized. d. industry and transportation were damaged, but Southern agriculture continued to flourish. e. poorer whites benefited from the end of plantation slavery.
All of the following is true about the Eighteenth Amendment, EXCEPT:
a. It symbolized the effort to preserve white, old-stock, Protestant values. b. Prohibition led to a dramatic drop in alcohol consumption. c. Prohibition was never well enforced anywhere. d. In 1926, only 19 percent of Americans supported the ban on liquor.
Identify and describe forces opposed to abolition and how they fought the rise of the abolitionist movement
Please provide the best answer for the statement.