Which of the following ended the Great Migration of Puritan settlers to the Massachusetts Bay colony in the first half of the seventeenth century?
a. religious tensions
b. economic distress in the homeland
c. a lack of interested migrants.
d. Oliver Cromwell's rise to power in England.
D
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The first American president to die in office was:
A) John Quincy Adams. B) Andrew Jackson. C) Martin Van Buren. D) William Henry Harrison.
The voice of white southern abolitionism fell silent at the beginning of the
a. 1810s. b. 1820s. c. 1830s. d. 1840s. e. 1850s.
Henry Ford showed that enormous revenues could be derived from __________
A) cheap, low-quality goods B) an emphasis on craft methods of production C) low-volume, high-quality production D) small unit profit on a large volume of sales E) high-priced, luxury goods
How did Grover Cleveland earn a reputation as an honest politician when he was mayor of Buffalo, New York?
A) He removed the entire city council from their positions because they had taken bribes. B) He rejected a street=cleaning contract that he saw as a scheme, despite the fact that the city council had approved the contract. C) He pledged to serve as mayor for several years in order to help clean up the city's corruptive nature. D) He sought the impeachment of corrupt judges who had been taking money in order to secure verdicts favorable to corporations.