The Pendleton Act did which of the following?
A) banned Chinese immigration to the United States
B) outlawed polygamy and appointed a federal commission to supervise elections in Utah
C) resumed the coinage of silver
D) established a merit system for federal job applicants
D
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Why did U.S. businesses grow larger and more quickly than their western European counterparts in the late nineteenth century?
A) The United States possessed a social and legal culture favorable to big business. B) The United States had a smaller and more homogenous population. C) The United stated had an entrenched, conservative elite. D) The United States government had an ownership stake in many industries.
Jean Jacques Rousseau's religion was ultimately
a. Catholic. b. Calvinist. c. deist. d. Lutheran. e. atheist.
The chapter introduction relates the story of the "World's Columbian Exposition" to make the point that
A. American society and the world had been transformed by the industrial revolution. B. by the 1890s, politicians from the South and the West were winning national office more regularly than easterners. C. a political revolution in the 1890s undermined the long-standing power of the Republican party. D. the 1890s marked a return to a more stable political and social order after the upheavals of the previous two decades.
Aristotle was the tutor of Alexander the great
Indicate whether the statement is true or false