Which of the following statements does not accurately describe railroad travel in the antebellum period?
A) Delays were frequent.
B) Trains often traveled at night to avoid bandit attacks.
C) Scheduling was a nightmare.
D) Passengers sometimes had to help stop the train.
E) Locomotives often showered passengers with sparks.
B
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The goal of the Montgomery bus boycott's planners was
A) the end of all Jim Crow segregation throughout the South. B) courteous treatment by the bus operators and the seating of passengers on a first-come, first-served basis. C) bankrupting the bus company. D) violent confrontations with bus operators.
The most important product of European industry in the eighteenth century was
A. spices. B. steel. C. coal. D. textiles. E. oil.
What did the seventeenth-century revolts of American colonial gentry represent?
A) an early rehearsal for the American Revolution B) confrontations between ordinary people and their rulers C) competition among local factions for control of their colonies D) ideological struggles over colonial rights E) a struggle between the planters and yeoman farmers
In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed
A. most of the frontier land was of little practical use for Americans. B. the western wars between whites and Indians were a national disgrace. C. that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life. D. the frontier had repressed individualism, nationalism, and democracy in America. E. the United States should expand its northern and southern borders into Canada and Mexico to create new frontier land.