Which of the following statements is NOT accurate?
a. The French and the British engaged in major road construction in the eighteenth century.
b. A boom in canal construction occurred in Britain and the United States between 1760 and 1820.
c. Steam-powered railroads began to replace horse-powered railroad in the 1820s.
d. The telegraph industry was first developed in the 1840s.
e. Most European railroad construction and administration in the nineteenth century remained in private hands.
e
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The changes in tone and symbolism for the federal government instituted by President Thomas Jefferson were intended to convey to Americans all of the following EXCEPT
A) a visible rejection by Jefferson to the ideology of republicanism in personal styles and political beliefs. B) a visible commitment by Jefferson to uphold the ideology of direct democracy. C) a visible commitment by Jefferson to break with the personal styles and many of the beliefs of the Federalists. D) a visible commitment by Jefferson to uphold the ideas of the Democratic-Republican government.
What led to the creation of separate royal governments for North and South Carolina in 1729?
a) political factionalism b) religious differences c) war with Spain d) war with France
The worst living conditions in Homeric Greece were those of the __________.
A. slaves B. landless agricultural worker C. small farmer D. urban worker
The Ku Klux Klan could best be described as
a. an open political organization seeking to revive the Confederacy. b. the military arm of the southern Democratic party. c. a civic reform and service organization. d. a movement for openly protesting northern oppression. e. a secret terrorist organization seeking to subjugate and terrorize blacks in the South through violent means.