Describe the Maya ball game. Why did the Maya play it? What role did it serve in society?
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a) Andrew Carnegie b) William Kelly c) Grenville M. Dodge d) Charles Crocker
Why did Theodore Roosevelt call Robert La Follette's Wisconsin Idea "the laboratory of democracy"?
a. The Wisconsin Idea improved voter education and participation. b. The Idea was voted on and approved by all citizens of Wisconsin. c. Voters gained power to directly elect officials, and the results democratized or equalized education, employment, and public resources. d. The Idea removed nearly all corrupt officials from local, state, and federal governments in Wisconsin. e. The Idea became the model for all other states and eventually the rest of the democratic world.
Marco Polo is an example of which of the following?
A. a western Christian who was awarded Mongol territory for his service to a Mongol khan B. a Christian merchant who had to convert to Islam in order to travel Mongol-controlled roads C. a Christian missionary who traveled to Mongol China in an attempt to convert the Mongol rulers to the Christian faith D. a Christian from western Europe whose journey to East Asia was enabled by the relative ease of travel under Mongol rule
What resulted from an 1847 strike by white workers at the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia?
A) The slaves and the white workers together formed a labor union. B) The enslaved African Americans who worked at the factory were all terminated. C) Having slaves and free whites working together at any Southern factory was outlawed. D) The only white workers remaining supervised an exclusively enslaved labor force.