Why did photographers Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange primarily choose to portray Alabama farmer Floyd Burroughs and "Migrant Mother" Florence Thompson in such serious poses?
A) The photographers wanted to document how hard their subjects worked in order to support
their families despite their poverty during the Great Depression.
B) The solitary poses depicted their individualism that proved they were too proud to rely on
federal aid.
C) Their seriousness was meant to convey their hostility to the upper class that put them in this
situation.
D) They were depicted as neither smiling nor being angry to prove they were not responsible for
their poverty and misery.
D
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The Trail of Tears
A) involved the deadly forced march of 12,000 Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Georgia thousands of miles west to new territory in Oklahoma, resulting in the deaths of perhaps 4,000 Cherokee men, women, and children. B) did not involve the support of U.S. Army personnel, only state militias, because many army units refused to participate in such a coercive, deadly, and dubious legal military action against the Cherokees. C) prompted the Seminoles of Florida Territory to leave Florida and move west on their own in order to avoid extinction. D) occurred prior to the Second Creek War of 1836-37 when President Jackson's secretary of war ordered federal troops to expel all Creeks from land east of the Mississippi.
In the election of 1792, __________
A) Washington won narrowly despite factional opposition B) factions contested the vice presidency but not the presidency C) rival political factions had not yet formed D) Hamilton ran unsuccessfully against Washington
The first woman named to a presidential cabinet was Secretary of Labor
a. Molly Dewson. b. Frances Perkins. c. Mary McLeod Bethune. d. Jane Addams.
Nara and Heian Japan refers to an age in which Japan
a. made contact with China and adopted Chinese culture. b. became isolationist and turned away from the world. c. degenerated culturally amidst constant civil war. d. became isolationist and turned away from the world, and also degenerated culturally amidst constant civil war.