The Salem witch trials reflected
a. a growth in mystic beliefs.
b. a struggle between Puritan farmers and town merchants.
c. a control for political patronage.
d. problems with growing crime.
B
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President Harding and Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes were willing to seize the initiative on the issue of international disarmament partly because
a. they feared renewed war in Europe. b. the United States could not likely win a naval arms race with Britain and Japan. c. businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger United States Navy. d. they did not want the League of Nations to become involved in East Asia. e. American public opinion supported peacemaking efforts.
Which of the following numbers is closest to the number of enslaved people living in the South in 1860?
a. 50,000 b. 400,000 c. 2 million d. 4 million
All of the following are true of the state of Wari EXCEPT:
a. It seems to have had less control over elites than most other empires in the Americas. b. It was centered on the Ayacucho Valley in the highlands of northern Peru. c. The valley’s relatively low elevation (about 8000 feet as opposed to an Andean average of about 13,000 feet) allowed for the cultivation of potatoes, cotton, and corn. d. The state employed architects for the construction of new towns.
Most immigrants before 1830 were
a. Irish, Catholic, and unskilled laborers. b. British, Protestant, and skilled workers. c. German, Protestant, and unskilled laborers. d. Italian, Catholic, and skilled workers. e. Russian, Jewish, and unskilled workers.