One distinguishing characteristic of the new white collar workers was their
a. ambition.
b. willingness to work hard.
c. relative youth.
d. dislike for farmwork.
C
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How did the Eastern Woodland Indians differ from Mesoamerican Indians?
A) Their social structure was rigidly hierarchical. B) They did not divide labor according to gender. C) They never developed agriculture. D) Their outlook was more communal than individualistic. E) They did not engage in warfare.
The late-seventeenth-century rebellions in New York and Maryland partly reflected
a. the fear that whites might be enslaved alongside blacks. b. resentment against the English government. c. dissent against Puritan domination of government. d. the resentment of ordinary settlers against upper-class pretensions. e. ethnic conflict between English, Scottish, Dutch, and German settlers.
Why did disagreements over western lands delay the ratification of the Articles of Confederation?
A) Britain still held claims on the western lands, so the Americans had to negotiate with Britain before they could ratify. B) Some states claimed the land that Britain had given to Native Americans, and other states had no claim on the land. C) Native Americans protested the Articles of Confederation in an effort to secure their land in the West. D) A large percentage of Americans lived in the West, but travel and communication was poor, so it took a long time to receive their votes. E) Most of the land in the West belonged to Spain and France, so the impoverished new America had to wait to raise money to buy it.
In the late 1980s, drug use began to decline significantly among
A. poor inner-city Americans. B. rural Americans. C. white Americans. D. middle-class Americans. E. southern Americans.