"Paper sons" were __________
A) Chinese boys whose families paid a fee to Chinese men already in the United States to
fraudulently claim to be their fathers.
B) Chinese boys who immigrated to Hawaii to work on the sugar plantations.
C) Chinese men who successfully claimed they were American-born after birth records were
destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
D) Chinese men who were detained at Angel Island and returned to China.
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The acquisition of __________ in the 1840s threatened to upset the balance between slave states and free states in the Union.
a) Texas, California, and New Mexico b) Arizona, Oregon, and Nevada c) Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin d) Oregon, Maine, and Montana
All of the following are true of the Hebrew conception of God EXCEPT
A) he was the creator of but not an inherent part of nature. B) all peoples of the world were subject to him. C) that he would punish those not following his will. D) there was no room for personal relationships with him, as his word was law. E) he was a just and good God.
How does Jessie Willcox Smith's illustration from her 1909 book The Seven Ages of Childhood contradict what working-class children between the ages of 10 through 15 were experiencing in the early twentieth century?
A) Health rates for young children were essentially better than what is illustrated in this image. B) Children like the five-year-old in the picture actually spent more time in school than at home. C) Children had healthier dietary habits that went beyond eating bowls of porridge. D) Over 1.75 million children were working in factories, home sweatshops, or farms at this time.
What important development allowed sub-Saharan peoples to become farmers in a heavily forested environments such as the Great Lakes region?
a. Copper tools. b. Knowledge of special plants and cultivation. c. Stone double-faced axes. d. Iron tools. e. Use of draft animals.