What enabled the immigrants to survive in the unfamiliar American environment?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Most students will see how the creation of an immigrant community was central to immigrants' survival. But they should also note two other factors discussed by the text. City bosses made it their business to look out for the poor at a time when the formal institutions of government did very little for them. Settlement houses were also a means for improving the life of immigrants.
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Although Zhu Xi criticized Buddhism, what aspect of Buddhism clearly influenced his understanding of the transmission of the Way?
a. Rejection of public cultivation b. Serving as impeccable civil servants c. Meditation d. Study of the classics e. Focusing on rituals
The term caesar was the imperial title given to
A) adopted sons of rulers, who were designated as their successors. B) adopted sons of rulers once they became the new ruler. C) Septimius Severus. D) a reigning emperor. E) a reigning emperor who had no sons by blood.
By the end of the nineteenth century, the king of Belgium had taken control of
a. Togoland. b. Cameroon. c. the Congo. d. East Africa.