The _______________ was Thomas Edison’s contribution to the search for cheap and efficient indoor lighting.

What was the primary difference between southern and northern areas in the 1920s?

A. The south did not experience the same level of urbanization that occurred in the north. B. The south remained dominated by Republican politics even as modernist thought became popular. C. The south embraced new ideas in religion and social and political reform on a greater scale than the north. D. The south did not have strong anti-union sentiments as flourished in the corporate communities of the north.

Which identifies an important effect of the violent slave rebellion of 1831?

a. White southerners became more committed to quashing antislavery ideas. b. Many slaves were freed because their masters were afraid to remain in the system. c. Organized, violent rebellions began happening with more frequency. d. White southerners began to question the legitimacy of slavery. e. Many slaves were sold to the West Indies to decrease the population in the South.

The Scopes Trial revealed fundamentalists' discomfort with __________

A) international communism B) nativism C) labor unions D) evolutionary science

In the 1948 presidential election, Henry Wallace of the Progressive Party

a. advocated friendship with the Soviet Union. b. advocated that Americans defy the desegregation order of the Supreme Court. c. advocated the passage of immigration-restriction laws. d. pledged to send troops to Europe to liberate Eastern Europe from Soviet domination.