As part of his expansionist program, Secretary of State Seward purchased Alaska from Russia
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.
Answer: TRUE
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With black Americans often divided between their allegiances to the Republican Party and their attraction to Democratic Party policies towards wage-earners, the ________ began to make inroads among black working people in the 1920s
A) Communist Party B) Progressive Party C) Socialist Party D) Universal Negro Improvement Association
The terms ?utilization,? ?fashioning,? and ?standardization? describe stages of the
A) human invention of tools. B) growth of agriculture. C) evolution of the human brain. D) creation of an empire. E) development of specialization of labor.
The Directory was a political system that
a. used a five-member executive committee to choose a new ruler for France. b. oversaw the National Assembly while they reformed the constitution after the Thermidorian reaction. c. implemented two houses of government and five overseers. d. combined the political leanings of the Girondins, the pro-monarchists, the nonjurors, and the sans-culottes. e. utilized the departments established during the Reign of Terror as a centralist bureaucracy.
Early in the Civil War, President Lincoln hoped to end slavery by
a. immediately emancipating all slaves with no compensation to their owners b. emancipating the slaves in the border states and later freeing those in the rest of the South c. gradually emancipating slaves in the South, but allowing the owners to move west to reestablish slavery on their farms and plantations there d. gradually emancipating slaves, paying the owners, and colonizing the freed slaves e. gradually emancipating the slaves, paying the owners and establishing a bi-racial society in America