Which captain of industry was born in poverty in Scotland but rose quickly after coming to America as a teenager?
a. Cornelius Vanderbilt
b. Andrew Carnegie
c. Jay Gould.
d. John D. Rockefeller
e. James Buchanan Duke
b
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Which statement about European forays into the New World is FALSE?
a. Christopher Columbus never sailed into Chesapeake Bay. b. John Cabot explored the coast of New England on a voyage sponsored by Henry VII. c. Christopher Columbus explored along the coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. d. Pedro Cabral discovered South America by accident. e. Vespucci's many published letters describing the geography of the New World caused people to call the area America.
The negative environmental effects of nineteenth-century industrialization included which of the following?
a. smoke and particulate matter polluting the air. b. large piles of waste product and slag left behind. c. chemical and dye materials dumped into the rivers. d. deforestation and reduction of agriculture for areas used for mining coal, iron, and limestone. e. all of the above
John F. Kennedy’s domestic program was known as the ________
A) Great Society B) New Deal C) Fair Deal D) New Frontier E) Camelot Era
President Richard Nixon believed U.S. foreign policy should work toward
A. leaving Europe to its own defense against the Soviet Union. B. a multipolar international structure. C. improving governments in less-developed nations. D. destruction of the government in the Soviet Union. E. a bipolar world dominated by the United States and the Soviet Union.