Who won the battle for the hearts and minds of the colonists during the Revolutionary War?
a. British soldiers tasked with the special assignment of "political" education
b. Colonial leaders in Philadelphia
c. Loyalist agitators who recruited huge numbers of slaves to serve in the British ranks
d. Newspaper editors like John Peter Zenger
e. Patriot militia
e
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A) Denis Diderot B) Voltaire C) Pierre Bayle D) Montesquieu E) Madame Pompadour
The young prominent U.S. representative from Illinois who played a major role in bringing about the Compromise of 1850 was Abraham Lincoln
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Eisenhower's hopes for U.S-Soviet reconciliation were dashed by __________
A) Stalin's death and the emergence of Khrushchev B) the Soviet launch of Sputnik C) an incident in which an American U-2 plane was shot down over the Soviet Union D) U.S. intervention in the East Berlin uprising
A call for post-war immigration restrictions resulted from:
A) racism directed at immigrants from eastern and southern Europe. B) dislike of northern and western Europeans. C) feelings that the U.S. population had reached its maximum capacity. D) fear that new immigrants would use up too much of the existing farm land.