What type of agriculture had economic importance in Hawaii in the late 1800s?
A) fruit orchards
B) livestock
C) cotton plantations
D) sugar plantations
Answer: D
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Grover Cleveland's support for the gold standard resulted in __________
A) Republican and Populist calls for currency change B) a surge in support for Populists in the Northeast C) William Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech D) massive losses for congressional Democrats
Which of the following statements about free blacks in southern states is LEAST accurate?
a. Because of the conflation of race and slavery, all southern states required free blacks to carry on their persons evidence of their freedom at all times. b. Because racial slavery led people in the South to ascribe a racial stigma to labor, free blacks in the South found it easier to get jobs in professions like teaching, dentistry, and pharmacology than free blacks in the North. c. All southern states prohibited free blacks from elsewhere from settling in their borders, and even required black sailors from out of state to be jailed throughout the duration of their stay in southern seaports. d. Several states enacted laws to make it possible for free blacks who wanted to abandon their freedom and become slaves to choose their own masters.
A genre of poetry called ________ gave a comic-realistic depiction of daily life, turning the attention away from the weakened structure of the polis
A. Middle Comedy B. Old Comedy C. narrative D. haiku E. epic
Which of the following statements about the novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, is TRUE?
a. It became the most sensational and best-selling book of the 19th Century b. It was the only work Harriet Beecher Stowe published c. the hero of the story was a magnanimous slave owner named Simon Legree d. Its pro-slavery message maintained that Southern Slavery was more humane than the working conditions of the Industrialized North