The Paxton Boys were
a. an Irish gang in the slums of Philadelphia.
b. a militia organization in Western New York.
c. a vigilante group of Scots-Irish settlers killing Conestoga Indians in retaliation for Indian raids.
d. a group of German missionaries determined to convert the tribes of Western Pennsylvania.
C
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A) Quarantine B) Demilitarization C) War Preparedness D) Neutrality
In Democracy in America, _______________ discussed the strengths and weaknesses of American society
A) Ralph Waldo Emerson B) Mark Twain C) Charles Dickens D) Alexis de Tocqueville
Notably excluded from this photograph celebrating the completion of the transcontinental railroad were
A) the women who ran the camps where laborers resided. B) the Chinese laborers who helped build it. C) the gold-rush millionaires who paid for it. D) the Congressmen who voted for it. E) Union Pacific and Central Pacific officials.
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personal commentsabout political candidates. d. They are the first examples of sensationalist journalism in the early republic.