The massive transportation system completed in 1869 was the ________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
transcontinental railroad
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What accomplishments and controversies made the reign of Justinian an especially important era in Byzantine history?
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What was one reason that "dark horse" James K. Polk won the presidency in 1844?
A) ?? Polk came out strongly against a protective tariff. B) ?? The Whig party appeared to be the party of immigration and alcohol. C) ?? Polk convinced many northerners that the annexation of Texas would be in their best interest. D) ?? He received an overwhelming popular vote. E) ?? His running mate was a leading temperance crusader.
Between the mid-1930s and the end of World War II,
a. Chiang Kai-shek finally obtained a firm grip on all but northwest China, and implemented a "crash program" of modernization, which won peasant support. b. the Chinese Communists steadily increased their power so that by 1945 up to thirty million people were under their control. c. Japan made peace with Chiang in 1940, joining him in a war against Mao's Communists. d. Mao Zedong married Chiang's daughter, which reunited China until the late 1950s. e. the Chinese Communist party changed its focus from organizing peasants to winning over the middle class city dwellers and the large bankers in Shanghai.
Political conflict between the Federalist and Republican parties of the 1790s can best be described as the result of __________
A) a modern political two-party system B) a proto-party system not yet evolved into a modern political party system C) one dominant political party with a loyal opposition D) two political parties sharing power