Prior to 1860, prison reform in the United States
A. led to widespread calls to end capital punishment.
B. focused on punishment, not on rehabilitation.
C. included the practice of solitary confinement.
D. decried the racial bias of the judicial system.
E. began largely in the West and spread to the East.
Answer: C
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A. was forced to accept terms dictated by the victors. B. negotiated a few minor concessions. C. negotiated several major concessions. D. retained the right to station troops west of the Rhine River. E. gained about as much as it lost.
By the fall of 1894, a full-scale war over the fate of Korea and northeast Asia, called the _________War, was under way.
a. Russo-Japanese b. Tonghak c. Sino-Japanese d. Korean
By the early antebellum period, American slaves
a. became more conscious of their separate tribal and ethnic differences based on their African past. b. had cast off all cultural influences from their African past. c. saw themselves as a single group unified by race. d. had rejected Christianity as a white man's religion that encouraged cruelty and oppression.
The Report on Manufactures suggested ________
A) low tariffs on imported goods B) congressional taxes on industrial goods C) protective tariffs D) strict laissez faire E) a fluctuating tariff schedule