Progressive reformers believed the primary purpose of public education was to __________
A) assimilate new immigrants
B) create an aristocracy of the able
C) prepare immigrant children for college
D) allow the poor and the rich to mingle in a democratic manner
Answer: A
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The most difficult task facing the delegates to the First Continental Congress was
A. reaching an agreement about how best to resist the British. B. deciding who should write the Declaration of Rights and Grievances. C. reaching a consensus on the nature of the constitutional relationship between the colonies and England. D. deciding what to include in their list of grievances.
What city served as a major slave market for slaves moving through the Southwest?
A) New York B) St. Louis C) New Orleans D) Atlanta
Especially when contrasted with the portrait of the Royall family, the portrait of the Cadwalader family represents
A) companionate marriage. B) the equality of women with men. C) patriarchal authority. D) the supremacy of fatherhood. E) an unrealistic ideal of family life.
According to Pontiac, the Master of Life warned the prophet Neolin that the absence of wild animals was a result of
A) Commercial overhunting B) The evil environmental effects of European settlement C) A bad spirit who whispers to the Delaware and leads them to do evil D) Intermarriage between Indians and Europeans E) Medicine dances that used the wrong steps