Describe the ways that the U.S. Government encouraged the growth of Railroads

__________ founded a female academy in Troy, New York, in 1821

A) Catherine Beecher B) Emma Willard C) Elizabeth Cady Stanton D) Peggy Eaton

Which of the following does NOT support Darwin's evolutionary theory?

a. Food must be plentiful in order for a population to avoid survival. b. Special features in an individual or group determines the chance to survive a myriad of dangers. c. Exact duplications between generations guarantees survival. d. Over generations, some offspring will acquire special traits favorable to survival. e. Over time, natural selection causes the death of old and less adaptable species.

After organizing the government, the First Congress turned its attention to Alexander Hamilton's economic proposals and enacted all of them EXCEPT

A. a procedure whereby the national government could pay off both its own debt and the combined debt of the states. B. a national bank. C. a provision that the judiciary should decide the constitutionality of regulating the economy. D. a tariff.

In Europe, abortion and contraception

a. are legalized only in Protestant countries. b. are legal even in Catholic countries thanks to the support of sympathetic Catholic bishops. c. were long legal in Western Europe but forbidden in Communist Eastern Europe. d. have been widely and legally available all over Europe for several decades. e. are illegal because of the fear of declining populations.