The life experience of Harriet Tubman showed that slaves running away to the North could expect
A) to find eager support.
B) easy means of earning a living.
C) very little help and a difficult struggle to survive.
D) a population that expressed racial equality.
Answer: C
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Which of the following things did Andrew Jackson NOT say about the Indians in his first annual message to Congress?
a) It would be "cruel and unjust" to compel the Indians to abandon their native homes. b) Indians should not be allowed to retain vast amounts of tribal land "merely because they had seen them from a mountain or passed them in the chase." c) Indians who stayed on their own lands would "ere long become merged in the mass of our population." d) Whites should be allowed to possess Indian lands because "they were superior in civilization and therefore superior in rights." e) Contact with whites inevitably doomed them to "weakness and decay."
The Gadsden Purchase is historically significant because
A) It was the first land sale in the new Kansas Territory. B) The small strip of land in Arizona and New Mexico would become the lynchpin of a Southwest railroad line. C) Opposition to it showed that public attitudes about expansion were changing. D) It was the first U.S. attempt to purchase Cuba. E) It facilitated an unofficial military expedition to Honduras.
In the 2002 elections, Republicans
a. gained seats in the Senate but lost some in the House. b. lost seats in the Senate but gained some in the House. c. gained seats in the Senate and in the House. d. saw no change in seats in the Senate but gained some in the House. e. saw no changes in seats in either the Senate or the House.
What barbarian people were converted to Arian Christianity by the missionary Ulfilas?
A) Vandals B) Goths C) Persians D) Anglo-Saxons E) Irish