Frederick Jackson Turner argued that living in the wilderness had transformed European settlers into Americans
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
True
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To combat economic hard times, President Cleveland took a limited approach; he:
a. financed a public works program for the unemployed b. sought to pass a law providing for government ownership of the railroads c. refused to deal with international financiers d. pressured Congress to repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Contrast the views of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas as expressed in the Illinois debates of 1858 concerning slavery, abolitionism, and racial equality. Discuss the political impact of these debates
What will be an ideal response?
As part of the Freedom Summer, in June 1964 three young voting rights activists were murdered in Mississippi—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner.
a. true b. false
The southern planter John Hartwell Cocke’s Hopewell Plantation in Alabama was envisioned as __________
A) a penal colony for escaped slaves B) an experiment in reform that emphasized incentives and negotiated labor C) a Christian free labor alternative to slave-produced cotton D) a place to test new technology that would allow Southerners to own fewer slaves