The development of which of the following made it easier for Europeans to travel to the inland regions of Africa in the nineteenth century?
A) steam power
B) silver salts
C) electric streetcar
D) rechargeable lead-acid battery
A) steam power
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Which of the following statements provides evidence of American's assessment of the first twenty months of Harry Truman's presidency?
A) Procommunist elements strengthened their influence in the Democratic party. B) In the November 1946 elections Republicans gained control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1928. C) John L. Lewis took the United Mine Workers out on strike twice, and Truman nationalized the mines twice. D) Truman was reelected in a landslide victory. E) The Democrats gained control of twenty-five governorships in the elections of 1946.
The Mingo Creek settlers were protesting:
A) the lack of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. B) increasing tobacco taxes. C) American support of the French Revolution. D) an internal consumption tax on whiskey.
Those who purported in late 1967 that the Vietnam war was about to be won had their hopes dashed in early 1968 with
a. the bombing of Cambodia. b. the resignation of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. c. the Tet offensive. d. the withdrawal of France from NATO. e. the revelation that the Tonkin Gulf attacks had been provoked by the United States.
Slavery's greatest psychological horror, and the theme of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, was
a. the enforced separation of slave families, whose members could be sold away from each other. b. slaveowners' frequent use of the whip. c. the breeding of slaves. d. having to do the most dangerous work on the plantation. e. forcible sexual assault by slaveowners.