Who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard?
a. Booker T. Washington
b. George Washington Carver
c. Frank Norris
d. W.E.B. Du Bois
e. Ida B. Wells
d
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What difficulty limited what is now modern Italy in engaging in external overseas exploration during the 1400s?
A) Italy lacked competent sailors in its Italian city-states, principalities, and kingdoms. B) Italy was bitterly divided into many competing, independent free cities, principalities, and small kingdoms that were often at war with each other. C) The Italian city-states, principalities, and small kingdoms lacked sufficient economic resources to sponsor organized external explorations. D) Many Italian sailors preferred working for other European governments than for leaders of their own Italian city-states, principalities, and small kingdoms.
In the aftermath of the Declaration of Independence, the colonies began to call themselves states
A. due to the belief that each was a sovereign entity. B. as a deliberate means of undermining the formation of a single American nation. C. because that was how they were defined in the preamble. D. in response to the British custom of calling them provinces. E. None of these answers is correct.
What was the general difference between the Democrats and Republicans in the late 1800s?
A) Democrats felt that social reform was fundamental to the economic success of the nation, while Republicans felt that government regulation was more important. B) Democrats favored high inflation to boost business, while Republicans favored the free coinage of silver and gold. C) Democrats favored government control of all business, while Republicans wanted very little government regulation of business. D) Democrats tended to favor little federal government intervention, while Republicans believed that the federal government should promote economic and social reform. E) Democrats believed that the federal government should take an active role in economic and social reform, while Republicans favored little government intervention.
The first "big business" in America, at least in terms of finance, labor relations, and management, was the
A. railroad industry. B. oil refining industry. C. telephone industry. D. steel industry.