Mining in the West
A. saw individual prospectors move in first, followed by corporations.
B. saw corporations move in first, followed by individual prospectors.
C. kept ranchers and farmers from establishing their own economic base.
D. flourished until the 1930s.
E. did not see any great mineral strikes until after the Civil War.
A
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A) led to the massacres of the Pueblo Indians. B) was quickly suppressed by the Spanish. C) was unsuccessful. D) gave the Pueblo Indians independence for a decade.
How did William Monroe Trotter feel about Booker T. Washington's efforts and views?
A) Trotter supported him wholeheartedly and accepted political appointments as a loyal aid to Washington. B) He thought Washington did not go far enough in championing accommodation with whites. C) He became a vocal, intense critic of Washington; he felt that Washington was yielding too much power to whites. D) Trotter, as an influential white man, appreciated Washington's efforts.
Kimpa Vita was captured by rivals and tried for heresy and burnt at the stake because she
a. was against the Jesuit missionaries. b. wanted the people of the Kongo to unite under a new king. c. attracted many Muslims to her doctrines. d. claimed that the capital San Salvador was evil and ordered it burned to the ground. e. claimed that Christ and the apostles were black men who had lived and died in the Kongo.
One impact of new legal restrictions on manumission was the decline of __________
a) free black communities in the South b) slavery in the South c) free black communities in the North d) the abolitionist movement