Which of the following is true of women in the West?
a. Through the home mission movement many women helped sustain family and community life.
b. Virtually all of the women who moved to the West in the late nineteenth century were prostitutes.
c. They were usually single and moved to the West to establish their own economic independence.
d. Like most males, women who moved to the West were individual prospectors and received financial backingfrom eastern banks.
a
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Irwin Unger points out that President Reagan's tax cuts and welfare cuts had a negative result, notably that:
a) income distribution became more unequal and more people were living in poverty b) income distribution leveled off and the numbers of middle-class people increased c) fewer families earned over $80,000 but more people were living in poverty d) the wealthy had less capital available for investment
All of the following are true of the Embargo Act EXCEPT that
A) the law reinvigorated the Federalist Party. B) the law failed to cause Britain and France to change their policies toward the United States. C) the law represented President Jefferson's policy of "peaceable coercion." D) the law prohibited American merchants from trading with Europe. E) the law resulted in a vibrant economic boom in America.
The development of a Portuguese maritime empire encompassing Malacca and the Malay Peninsula was achieved, in part, through
A) ruthless and murderous attacks on Arab settlers in the region. B) the negotiation of four commercial treaties with Arab traders. C) the use of African warriors to defeat the local residents. D) massive bribery to local Arab overlords. E) peaceful diplomacy between Portuguese and Arab ambassadors.
In what way was Alfred E. Smith unique?
A) He was the first governor nominated for president by a major party. B) He was the first New Yorker nominated for president by a major party. C) He was the first clergyman nominated for president by a major party. D) He was the first Catholic nominated for president by a major party.